DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN AND OF THE COVENANT'S FORMER CHARACTERS. I ONLY OWN CAMERON DANVERS.

The wind blew through my hair as I leaned nervously in the open doorway. The wind from outside blew my straight, milk chocolate brown hair out of my face. Here I stood at 5'4", walking slowly on to the porch of this big mansion, looking at the frozen figures across the unkempt lawn. I saw the four boys look at each other, and look at me. I knew they must be in some sort of shock, too. I was having trouble keeping myself standing. I looked down at the brown flip flops I was wearing, and put my hands in the pockets of my form-fitting dark green sweater. I looked back up in the direction of the guys and the two girls with my clear blue eyes.

The guy that had gotten out of the back of the hummer was the first to start taking steps towards the house. Actually, he was the only one, at this point, who has moved at all. And suddenly he started sprinting towards where I was standing. I smiled, knowing it was Caleb, and ran towards him, too. I got about twenty feet from the house before we met in a collision that almost knocked me down, but my big brother wouldn't let me fall. He held me in an emotional embrace. I had longed for that simple hug for so long; I couldn't help but start to cry. I was here, this was now. There was nothing that could take this moment away from me. So I nuzzled there in my brother's arms for what seemed like forever, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't, so I guess it was probably like a minute, maybe less. It was great. Finally, we pulled away from each other. He smiled at me and reached both of his hands up and put them on the sides of my face. I just smiled as he wiped away my tears.

"God, you've changed." He said, looking me up and down. (Not in the bad way, of course! Sorry, no incest.) He brought his hands down to mine and took them. "You've grown up so much…"

"So have you!" I said, looking at the change. He had always been bigger than me. I mean, everyone was bigger than me. Now, he had at least a head on me. He had so much more muscle now, and his hair was actually short. I remembered when he tried to be all cool with his long hair when he was younger. I always thought he was such a dork, and here he was, looking all handsome. So, of course, I had to point it out to him. "Since when have you agreed with hair cuts?" I asked, laughing, and shook my hand around in his hair. He pulled away, laughing.

"I grew up, baby sis." He knew I hated it when he called me that.

"You know, I think I actually missed hearing that." I smiled. We hugged one more time before I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned my head and saw my brother from another mother, Pogue; and… I screamed and lunged at him. I couldn't help it. His hug was less emotional, and more playful. In fact, he spun me around a couple times.

"Pogue, I missed you!" I laughed when he put me down.

"Cami! I missed you, too!" He said in a funny voice, rocking me back and forth.

"And since when did Cami turn into such a babe?!" I heard a girls' voice from behind me. My eyes went wide when I saw Kate. I laughed and tried to go hug her, but Pogue wouldn't let me. I laughed.

"I'm not done with her yet!" Pogue said to Kate. I laughed. What a dork. So we hugged for a few more seconds.

"Are you good?" I asked, smiling.

"Yeah, for now." Pogue said, winking at me. I laughed. I knew he was a flirt. He couldn't help it. I definitely knew he didn't like me like that, though. He seriously was like my brother, or really more like a best guy friend… I don't know how to describe it, but I knew, after years of dealing with Pogue, that his little flirtations weren't anything to brag about. It's cool, though, because I don't like him like that, either. So, I ran over to Kate and gave her a huge hug!

"CAMII! I MISSED YOU!" Kate said, rocking me around in the hug. I laughed.

"I missed you too, Kate, like you don't even know!" I was holding back more tears as I hugged my old friend. I guess I really did miss these hugs. It's weird how you feel more wanted after you already leave.

"Hey now, don't try to steal my girlfriend!" I heard Pogue laughing behind us.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, baby, I'm just going to leave you for Cami," Kate giggled. Typical Kate. Gotta love her.

"Hey, now, that's not right." Pogue was trying to joke around, but I could hear fire in his voice. He gets jealous so easily. And protective. I remember clearly how many teenage boys were run off by my big brother-like figure. Good times, good times.

"Nah, Pogue... just, just leave them. I wanna see what happens." I gasped and immediately let go of Kate to turn to Tyler!! AHHHH! My best friend! He was the more sensitive one, of course. I could talk to him about any problems I ever had! I practically pushed Kate off me and flung my arms around the torso of Tyler! MY Tyler! I couldn't stop smiling at all. And since when had all these wimpy guys turned into studs?! I could just barely fit my petite arms around his abs. ABS?! And his huge muscular body practically consumed mine. Forgive me for being amazed. He had used to be pretty gangly. "Why'd you leave me, Cami?" This almost turned on my tears again.

"Tyler, I... I didn't want to leave you. I had too. Tyler, I missed you so much." I pushed away from him, looking him in the eyes. "I promise." He smiled a little. I could tell this was emotional for him; he's cool enough to be emotional.

"I know…" He hugged me again. "I know." I closed my eyes and let his warmth engulf me. He's really like my best friend ever.

"Cami, what's wrong?" Tyler had asked me. I was walking across the yard, trying to hide my tears, just to get into the house. I was 12.

"Don't worry about it." I tried to push past him to get to my house, to my room, where I could cry and write it out in my diary. But he didn't let me go around him.

"Cami, we've been friends our whole lives. There's no way you can't tell me." I looked in his eyes. I could tell him, but I'd be embarrassed. I was so weak. "Look at me." He lifted my chin and looked me in the eyes, wiping my tears from my cheeks. "You can tell me anything."

This made me cry even more.

"It was… it was Cole." I sobbed. Cole had been this guy who was pretty much the school bully. Lucky for me, he thought I was hot. So when you've got a guy who wants a girl with as much aggression and carelessness as a bully, you pretty much get a rapist. And Tyler knew this, so he hugged me a while before putting his arm around my shoulder and leading me into the house and up to my room. We sat on my bed, and he looked at me seriously.

"So what did he do?" Tyler asked. Cole had never gone as far as he had that day.

"Well, I was in math class, and… I asked to go to the bathroom." Tyler closed his eyes and sighed. He knew what was coming. "I don't know, I guess he saw me in the hall, but… he, he followed me in, and when I came out of the stall, he…" I stopped for a second to let out a couple sobs. "He cornered me, and he kissed me…" This was an understatement... I guess I didn't have the strength to tell him exactly what happened.

I walked out of the stall to one of the sinks. I turned on the water and pumped out some soap. clank I spun around at the sound of a toilet seat slamming. I looked under the stalls, and didn't see anyone, so I walked back to the sink and started rinsing my hands. clank I dropped the ring I was wearing. Reid had gotten it for me for one of my birthdays. Who knew he could be sweet? And then there he was, right when I stood up from picking up the ring, in the mirror, smirking at me. Cole. He covered my mouth with one hand before I could scream, and put the other arm around my waist. Being little sucked sometimes.

"You wanna bend over again? I was enjoying that view, ya know." He laughed. I struggled to get away, but I was no match to him. I was in 7th grade and he was in 8th… plus he was huge, muscular-wise. He was pretty hot, but I hated him. I tried to push his hands off of me, but he didn't budge. "You know it kind of turns me on when they fight…" He whispered in my ear. I screamed under his hand and tried to kick and elbow him, and he just smirked. He spun me around and held me by my wrists, backing me up in a corner and holding both of my arms above my head with one hand, and holding my mouth shut with the other. He pushed his body up against mine, and I could feel his hardness on my waist because of our height difference. "Don't deny it, little Cameron. You know you want it." I gave him a nasty look and thrashed to break loose. He looked me up and down, and lowered myself so his face was closer to mine. "You're getting it either way, little girl." He whispered. I could feel his warm breath on my neck before he lowered his mouth onto it. I closed my eyes, trying to lose this feeling of hopelessness. He sucked and kissed on my neck, going up to behind my ear. He moved his mouth to my jaw, stopping just to look in my eyes. His hunger fed off my fear and he moved his hand away from my mouth to force his tongue into it. I could feel the tears coming on as he moved his free hand down to my waist and started to inch it up underneath my shirt. I screamed into his kiss and squirmed underneath his hot touch. I could feel a shiver going up my spine as he moved himself closer onto me and rubbed on my lower stomach. His kisses started getting lighter and I tried to use this as an advantage to beg for mercy.

"Please, don't do this…" I pleaded in between kisses through tears. He stopped kissing me and looked into my eyes, smiling. His hand was still on my stomach.

"Don't cry, babe." I looked up at my hands being held above my head.

"Please, let me go…" I stared at him, hoping for him to give in.

"I can't do that, little girl. I just want you too much…" He came closer to me. "Can you blame me? I mean, damn, look at you." He started to come in to kiss me.

"Please, don't…" I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth, trying to hold back tears. He laughed.

"Don't do what?" He said, looking me over again. "Do this?" He moved his hand down my pants, but not far enough to touch anything. Just on the edge of my underwear. It still scared me, though.

"No!!" I thrashed to get away, and he held me, smirking. All of his joy fled from his face when the bell rang. We both knew that there would be a flood of students coming in a second. I mean, it was after school. Who doesn't have to go to the bathroom at the end of the day? So he pretty much dropped me and ran. I fell to the floor hardly before standing up and washing off my face a little. And from there I went to my last period class, grabbed my things, and walked down the street to my house.

"Oh my God…" Tyler's eyes were wide when I looked back up at him… not to mention they were black as night.

"Tyler, you didn't…" I could feel more tears rolling down my cheeks.

"Cami, I'm…" His soft caring expression turned into complete hate. I guess it was stupid of me to flash back in front of him when he could read my mind… literally. He'd seen everything, and I could only imagine what was going to happen to Cole. I didn't really care, though.

"Cami, I'll kill him…" Tyler stood up off my bed and started to walk towards the door. A lot of people stormed out of my room around that time. Mostly Reid.

"Tyler," I stood up and he twirled around, scowling. "It's scary how you don't sound like your kidding…" His facial expression didn't change. "You can't kill someone over me."

"You're my best friend; I'll do what ever the hell I want to with anyone who hurts you… especially like that." I felt bad for him, like I could feel what I felt.

"Please, don't…"

"Wait 'til Caleb hears about this one…"

"Tyler, you can't do that!"

"Why not?!"

"I don't want to seem weak…" I choked on my words and felt like I was about to faint from crying. I fell on my knees just thinking about it. "I don't want to be weak…" I felt my best friends' arms around me.

"You're not, Cami. You're not." That was the last day I saw Cole.

"Tyler, since when did you get so big?!"

"Well I thought I was a little flabby but dang…" He said, trying to sound all hurt.

"You know I don't mean it like that," I laughed in his arms.

"Geeze, guys, get a room." That soft, yet harsh voice almost scared me. It was like all the breath was pushed out of me. Like that feeling you get when you take one extra step going up a staircase. I pulled away from Tyler slowly and turned to see that face I'd missed so much. He was all buffed up, way taller than me. His hip was slumped to one side and he had his arms crossed. His longer blonde hair was flipped to one side, and he smiled that genuine movie star smile. I remembered when he told me how the smirk was like his signature; his smile was for me.

It was Reid. My Reid. The love and the hate of my life.

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