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The room was an old wooden one with the white painting cracking and falling in some places. Melissa was sitting in a couch in the middle of the room with one of Faye's arms surrounding her. Jake was in his knees trying to talk to her but her gaze was somewhere far away from the room. The place was dimly illuminated by a single lamp on the ceiling which combined with the horror show on the wall and the sad scene on the couch, made the environment much more terrifying.

Witches will burn was written on the back wall with a horrible red color. The smell that still lingered there told what it had been written with, blood.

"It is a very serious threat what they did according to the book of shadows" Diana whispered to me, her eyes fixed on Melissa who was still unresponsive. I turned to look at her.

"When a witch hunter writes a threat on the practice spot and with the blood of one of the witch's dear living things"

"What do you mean?" and although I didn't want to know, I still asked, "With the blood of what was that written?"

"Faye's dog" she simply stated.

"Jesus!" I could see from the corner of my eye that Nick and Adam were looking at me, but I didn't care. "How is she doing?"

"Bad of course, but she will never show it or will want to talk about it, believe me we've tried"

She let go a long sigh, "I know, and now Melissa" she grabbed my hand and we both moved closer to Melissa. At that moment I thought I saw her lifting her gaze and meeting my eyes, but the movement was so fast that I wasn't sure it had really happened.

"How is she doing?" Diana spoke up.

"I.. don't know. Maybe it's the shock but ever since she got here she hasn't said a word nor has she moved" Jake said while standing up.

"So how do you know it was witch hunters?"

"She was two blocks away from the Boat House when it happened so she found me and told me that a guy took her by surprise and told her…" he hesitated, uncomfortable but Diana gestured for him to continue, so he did "you disgusting witch are going to die, hit her on the head and she passed out. When she woke up she was alone. The pain was visible in the faces of everybody.

Diana grabbed Melissa's hand and softly swiped her thumb over her palm. Now it wasn't an illusion, Melissa turned her head to Diana and her gaze was no longer lost. Everybody frozen, including me.

"Guys?" she said as she quickly moved her head to see us all there. "What happened?"

"Witch hunters attacked you sweetie, remember?" Faye hugged Melissa even tighter.

"Yeah, two blocks from the boat house and there I told Adam, but then… I don't remember anything" she searched, confused for somebody to answer what was going on, but nobody had the slightest idea. "Jees I'm thirsty!" she sounded surprised.

"I'll go to look for water" Diana said about to get up but I stopped her. "I'll go, where is it?" It was silly, but I was afraid that if Diana stopped touching Melissa she would go back on being lost again, I looked at their hands together and Diana understood right away. "Sure, it's on the room downstairs, it's a pump, there are glasses on the sink" she pointed the way and smiled. She smiled to me a lot.

"I'll help you sometimes it gets stocked" Adam said as he stood up. Jake gave me a worried look but I reassured him with a smile. There was no way in hell I would let him make a move again.

We went downstairs and he led the way to the pump. It was strange I thought, why anybody would place a pump inside a house, but yet again it was an old house.

"I'm sorry" he said as I picked up a glass from the small counter.

"What?" He started pumping.

"I'm sorry for what I did the day I met you" His eyes met mine and they were full of shame " I.. I really am" He sounded sincere but I was too mad as to listen.

"Well you should be!" water started to come out of the pump, I closed the space between us when I put the glass under it to fill it. My face was inches from his and when I lifted my gaze I met his eyes once more; they almost had the same intensity they had had before he kissed me. I realized that if none of this had happened I would had found him attractive, but now all I could feel was a slight repulse, " It creeped the hell out of me" I whispered being completely honest. When the glass was full I took two steps back.

"I know, I am sorry!" He tried to reach me but stopped when I took another step away from him out of instinct. "I really don't know what happened, why I did that. I have been digging my brains out trying to figure out what happened but I end up with nothing. I love Diana, I do, and the last thing I want is for you not to feel safe with me, I really want us to be friends" he assured me. "What a lame piece of excuse" I thought with disdain, it was ridiculous that he didn't know what had happened or why he had done it. On the other hand I was sick and tired to feel bad every time I was with him or Diana. The best thing I could do was forgive but not forget.

"Look I'm sick of this, so I'll give you a chance, but make another mistake and it's over" I said with the most threatening voice I had.

"Thank you, I promise nothing will happen again, I want us to be friends nothing more" I gave him a hard stare and extended my hand. "Ok" he grabbed mine and agreed with a small smile "Ok"

We went upstairs and just like Adam and me, things were better with Melissa. She was talking with Faye and Diana whilst Jake and Nick were going through the book of shadows.

"Here it is" I handed her the glass of water which she received with a smile, "Thank you Cassie"

"No problem" I returned the smile.

After that things went easily. We spent most of the time talking about school, spells, even the movie we didn't get to see but that Faye and Melissa had. Nobody wanted to talk about witch hunters. I laughed like I hadn't done it ever since I left my friends, and it felt good being as comfortable as I was but it wasn't perfect however, since I had the nagging feeling that I was being watched but whenever I tried to see something, there was nothing.

I was talking with Diana about the upcoming chemistry test when Melissa's voice made me turn. "The Essay!" her eyes were wide and full of alarm, "Damn it! I haven't written a single word and it's for Monday" It was Saturday. "Shit! I forgot about it too!" Faye said while hitting the floor with the palm of her hand. "Cassie you got a good grade on the last one, could you help us?" Melissa's watched me with puppy eyes and Faye imitated her. "Alright! Alright! Stop doing that!" I tried to sound mad but failed when I started to chuckle. Melissa smiled a huge toothy grin and Faye a more devious one "Thank you Cass!"

"I haven't done too much of it either, why don't we do it and make a sleep over?" Diana said smiling and raising her eyebrow suggestively.

"I like what you said" Faye shouted, "Especially when you said buzz"

" I never said buzz"

"You will" she told her and winked.

We decided to go to my house since nobody would probably be there. My mom had lots of work and she was never home and Jane had so much work in the hospital and the community association that she couldn't even go home to sleep. We said the boys goodbye and got into my car. Adam had to go back to the Boat House and Jake said he and Nick would stay to look for something else in the book. It was estrange since Jake hadn't let go of the book since we got there.

The whole drive we spend it singing songs from the radio and laughing whenever Faye would whistle to guys on the streets. Once we got home we saw the lights were on. "Mom must be home" I said turning the engine off.

"Great! Lets meet mama Cass!" Faye said and we all got out of the car. The door was locked so I ringed the bell. "Mom it's me!" things hitting the floor were heard and then my mom's rushed steps "Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" I smiled and the girls started to giggle.

My mom opened the door a second after. She was wearing a pink t-shirt with a pair of jeans and a embellished pair of sandals, she would probably leave again. Her eyes settled first on me and she smiled but when she saw the girls her faced dropped a little; her eyes changed into something I couldn't put my finger on "Fear?" and a single word came from her lips, so low that I must to have been the only one who heard it.

"Shit"