We were just about to reach the door when three people opened it and bumped into us. They immediately started to apologize but then suddenly stopped when they saw me. That was odd, I had never seen them before and yet their eyes widened in shock as if they recognized me.

Diana's words distracted them, "Guys! What are you doing?" Clearly she knew them.

"Hey Di, sorry we didn't see you" said the boy, he was all jumpy and nervous.

"That's ok, but what are you doing? Why are you in such a hurry?" She sounded a bit annoyed at first but her tone changed and I could tell she was worried.

"Who is your knew friend?" said one of the girls with a wide smile and staring at me.

"Oh, this is Cassie, Cassie this are the guys I was telling you about"

"Nice to meet you guys" I said trying to sound friendly. The girl who had spoken before hadn't stopped staring at me and now her smile was even wider, I kept staring at her for a while and she only looked away when Diana spoke again.

"So… what you doing?" Her patience had run out.

I hadn't realized, being staring at the girl who wouldn't look away like I was but now I saw that the three of them were staring.

The other girl faced Diana and said, "We gotta go, nick called something is not right"

Diana's face went pale and then turned to me panic set in her face, "Cassie!" she said and faced them "I brought her here she has no way to go back home"

"It's ok you live at Jane's right? I can take you, I'm going that way anyway" the boy offered.

They both looked at me, I didn't know what was going on but I was happy I wouldn't have to make small talk with strangers so I accepted and thanked him.

The two girls walked away eyes still locked on me; hasn't anyone told them that it was wrong to stare?

Diana snapped me out of my train of thought when she said, "Sorry we have to go so fast without even eating first…"

"Wait I'll be right back" the guy said and we watched him go.

"It's fine Diana really, we can do it any other time" I said with a reassuring smile.

She smiled and her phone rang, she read the text and told me "Sorry, I have to go, Adam will take you home… I am really sorry, again I'll see you tomorrow" She hugged me and left running.

I stood there and my mind started to wonder, what could have happened for them to take off so fast? If they were trying to blow me off that would have been too obvious; but still, they were scared, I could see that…

"Cassie" I heard and I came back to reality, a pair of big eyes were watching me closely, Adam's, his face was inches from mine and I instantly stepped back not too comfortable with the closeness. "Are you ok? You seem a little lost" he said worried, and I felt a little embarrassed.

"Yeah, sorry" I said and I felt myself blushing, I hate that, "I got a little lost in thought nothing more" Way to make a good first impression, he must think I am a nut job.

But instead he laughed "Happens to all of us" and he handed me a paper bag. I didn't need to open it to know what it was inside, fries. I love fries.

"You shouldn't have" I said while I put four in my mouth and he laughed again, "how much do I owe you?" I said mouth half full.

"Nothing, it's on the house, it's the least I can do"

Wait, he owned this place? "Wait, you own this place?" I said incredulously.

"My dad does, didn't Diana tell you?"

"He didn't tell much about you to be honest, I just know you are her friend" we walked to his car and hopped in.

"Ok, well I am her boyfriend" and he suddenly remembered something "and my name is Adam"

"She told me your name" I said laughing, "but not the boyfriend part", "How long have you been together?"

"Two years" he said innocently.

"Wow! That's great! And what can you tell me about the girls that were with you?"

"They are Melissa and Faye, Faye was the one who was staring at you and smiling and Melissa was the one who was staring at you without smiling" Well… at least it wasn't in my head.

"Right, why were they doing that?" I skip the part that he had also been staring.

"It's a small town, people have been talking about you" his tone was humorous but his eyes were serious. It was official, mom and I were the plague and we were going to corrupt all the good and saints in this town.

"Great"

"Sorry we had to go, our friend Nick has an aunt that is very sick and she just got worse" he explained "She is the closest thing to a mom he ever had"

No wonder they were so worried.

"It's ok Adam, you don't have to explain to me"

"Still, I thought you should know"

There was a silent in between us but I didn't mind, there was nothing left to say, I focused on watching where we were going since this was a different path from the one I knew; couldn't hurt getting to know the place where I was going to live.

I saw that we parked at my house so I turned to say goodbye only to discover adams eyes close to me, really close. I stood there unable to move and completely confused, what was he doing? His eyes were still on mine but the next thing I know are his lips touching mines. "What the h…!" I said as I backed away and looked at him with shock.

"Sorry" was all he said before I got the hell out of there.

I entered my new house and threw my things at the sofa. What the hell had just happened?! He kissed me and didn't even tried to hide it! Sorry! I was just trying to pick something from the seat; I wasn't trying to kiss you on the fricken lips. He just said sorry, he knew exactly what he was doing and how bad that was. What was his problem? He didn't even know me for Christ sake!

Should I tell Diana? Her boyfriend had just kissed me, and she deserved to know that, I should tell her, right?

Absolutely no.

Sure her high school sweetheart had just cheated on her and she deserved to know; but I had to be realistic, I didn't know her and she could easily blame me. Moreover, I was the NEW, the plague, the girl from the big city who just loved to steal people's boyfriends. I wasn't going to tell her, at least not yet.

I kept going through the moment for a while wondering, did I do something wrong? Had I given the wrong impression? But I hadn't done anything wrong, he had.

I heard a noise outside so I peeked out the window.

Adam was talking to a blonde guy, I guess that was Nick, they both were really upset and they were arguing but I couldn't hear about what, then somebody joined them and I felt butterflies fill my stomach.

Jake

He said something and both guys watched him with comprehension. They talked a bit more and then the three of them got into Adam's car and drove away.

Diana's POV

I got to the car and looked through the mirror; Cassie was standing alone in the parking lot. God, I hated leaving her so fast. Sure, Adam would take her to her house and they would talk, maybe he would make something up to explain way we left her, but still.. I felt horrible. My phone rang again and I read Melissa's text saying that they had arrived to the abandoned house, where we practiced magic. I watched Cassie one more time and started driving; I had to be with the girls and if everything worked out fine Cassie would soon be one of them, one of us. That gave me comfort.

I drove through the city until I reached the dirt road and I took it. It wasn't an actual Dirt Road but a path in the grass made by cars as they drove by and it was conveniently surrounded by trees, that way no one could see us entering without having to expose themselves.

I followed the road and in a matter of seconds I could see the house and next to it Faye's car. I pulled over and called them, they were talking to each other lying to a side of the car.

"Girls!"

They both jumped and stared at me with fear.

"Jesus Diana you almost scared us to death!" Faye shouted.

"Sorry, I thought you had heard me coming" my car was pretty loud.

"We were doing the scan spell, the one to know if there was somebody inside there" Melissa explained to me.

"That's what happened? Somebody broke in?" I asked mad, "Girls, this is an abandoned house! People like to break into this things that's why the spell that we casted" That was a disadvantage on this place, although it was isolated most people knew that there was an abandoned house here and sometimes they got close, but nothing that we couldn't handle.

"I know that is why we tried the scan spell, you know to see if there was someone still there, but nothing happened"

That was estrange, it was an easy spell. I asked them to tell me what they had done and it was perfectly normal.

"Lets try it again" I suggested, if it didn't work…

We hold hands and chanted, reveal by a song what is odd between what is old three times and nothing happened, not the buzzing in our hears alarming us about the presence of someone, nor the warm sensation in our hands telling us everything was fine.

"That's a problem" I sighed.

"No shit" said an annoyed Faye.

"I'm gonna tell Jake" I announced. To this Faye's attention spiked as it always does when it comes about Jake. They dated for a few months until he put an end to it and she was still waiting for him to come around; she was the only who thought he would as we all knew he cared about her but as friend, just as he cared about all of us.

I took out my phone and started tipping, Something is wrong, we did the spell but nothing happened.

"We should go inside and see what's up" Faye told us.

"Don't be stupid. It could be a burglar mad about getting caught" Melissa reproved.

"Come on, we have been outside for ten minutes and talking, if there were someone inside they would surely know that we are here by now" She explained and I had to admit that she was right.

"Besides we are witches! We should go inside, kick his sorry ass and wipe his memory so he won't tell we are witches"

"Great idea" Melissa said sarcastically.

"Yeah, how do you plan to kick someone's ass?"

" And if there were even a spell of that kind we would surely end up with our brains fried" She added.

"Whatever" Faye said annoyed.

I got a text and read it. "Jake says he is coming with the guys"

"You are in luck Faye"

"Shut up" She tried to be angry but didn't make it and a little smile picked out, so she pushed Melissa. They started laughing and then we heard a car coming. As soon as they got out Jake asked,

"Are you ok?" concern was written all over his face and I felt myself melt; not because I liked him, I mean I loved him but like a brother, and how couldn't I? He wasn't part of our circle because he was older but he was the first to find out about magic and he didn't freak out about it, not like us. When we discovered it he helped us to understand and taught us everything he had learnt. Jake was always there for us either for magic or to just talk. Right now for example, the first thing he did was checking that were ok, it was easy to love him; he could make any girl really happy. And a little part of me noted the difference between Jake and Adam, Adam didn't try to make me happy the way Jake tried even when he was just my friend and that brought me a little bit down.

"Yeah" I answered "Just want to know what is happening"

"I think I know, but lets try again just to be safe" Jake said.

So we hold hands. I tried to get next to Adam but he avoided me and went with Melissa and Nick, that's odd. We did the chant but nothing happened. Again.

"What's wrong Jake?" Faye asked.

"Somebody broke in and broke the spell"

We stood silent. "How can that be?" Adam finally asked.

"Someone with magic broke the spell. It was someone with experience, it's not something amateurs would do" He explained.

"But no one besides us has magic, except Cassie" Melissa said wandering.

"It couldn't have been Cassie" I said firmly, I knew it couldn't be her "I'm sure her mom kept it from her like our parents did with us"

"But we can't know for sure, maybe she knows, maybe her mom took her away so she could teach her" Faye's tone was malicious.

"I don't think so Faye" Adam said, "She just doesn't seem like that kind of girl"

"And you know this because of the ten minutes that you spent with her? Right, you are into her that's what is happening" Faye accused him.

"Yes in the ten minutes like you say that I spent with her I fell completely for her and we planned this "conspiracy" " he said bitterly.

"Ok that's enough" Jake tried to calm them "It's a possibility but I don't think she did it, it had to be someone that knows you guys, you were the ones who casted the spell and to break it, it had to be someone who has an emotional connection with one of you".

"Who could that be?" I said and then thought "Why would they break in?"

"Well someone with knowledge of magic and an emotional connection with you would be your parents and grandparents, but I have no idea why they would do…" he stopped and then his eyes opened in alert, "Where is your book of shadows?" he asked me.

"It's… inside the house! Shit" But how could anyone know where it was? I had hidden it.

"We have to see if someone took it" Faye said.

And reluctantly we entered to the abandoned house.