Chapter 5

Ethan's point of view

'I can't believe that my life has pretty much come undone in the last hour and a half.' I thought to myself as I laid in my bed staring at the ceiling till I heard a knock at the door and saw Grandma Weir standing there with her hand covering her eyes.

"Ethan something is wrong with you I need to see if you've been hit with a hex and if so I need to remove it right away." She said from the door way. "I need you to keep your eyes closed till I'm done though."

I did as she said. I heard her footsteps head toward my bed then felt the spot in the bed next to me sink as she sat down on it. She softly touched her hand to my heart and started chanting something in Latin. I heard her gasp she removed her hand while she whispered. "Just as I thought."

She moved her hand back to my heart but pressed much harder this time. She started chanting something in Latin again but kept increasing the pressure of her hand. All of a sudden my body shot up as it felt like a swarm of bees was being pulled out of my body and I let out a scream. My body went limp and I fell back on the bed.

I heard her get up and sit in the chair next to my bed."Okay you can open your eyes now." I was a bit hesitant but luckily when I made eye contact with her my mind wasn't filled with that fog I had felt with Rory and Benny. Her face showed a look of relief but slowly turned to one of worry and in a serious tone she asked me "Now that that's over I need you to tell me when you think you were hit with this? Also if there was anyone else around you?"

My mind went dead when the realization of what had happened struck me and all I could mutter was one word. "Rory."

She walked back over to the bed and sat next to me. "Just as I thought, Ethan you need to listen to me as carefully as you can. There is a great evil that we are all about to face and if my suspicions are true as of who is behind this. Every single one of our lives are in grave danger. I need you to gather everyone including Jane at my place and we need to fix the cracks in the group that I'm sure have been created. I can't stress enough that if we're going to survive this battle we'll need everyone together." She finished her grave explanation sitting up she walked over to the door and left without another word hopefully headed to Rory's.

I grabbed my phone and sent out a text to everyone that said 'Emergency meeting at Benny's house get there as soon as possible.' I nervously gulped as I got up and headed to what I'm sure will be one of the hardest conversations of my life.

Erica's POV ;

As soon as I heard the front door slam and Rory's parents were in side I jumped off Rory's roof flying as fast as I could to Sarah's house. I got there in less then two minutes and flew straight to her window knocking on it just as fast as my nerves were jumping through my body. Sarah's figure appeared in the window as her hands reached to open it. I climbed through and hugged her letting my tears get the best of me.

"Erica what's wrong?" She asked me.

"Sarah I don't know what came over me but I must have finally had enough and let my feelings for Rory come out and I kissed him and it was amazing." I cried to her. I heard her sigh and she let her arms drop from the hug as did I and she led me over to her bed.

"Erica listen I've always told you that you and Rory would never work right?" I just nodded my head yes. "Listen the only reason I have never told you this is because I'm not even supposed to know but about six months ago. I brought Ethan to his first party when we were walking home from the party Ethan had a little to much to drink. We walked past Benny's house and saw Rory and Benny talking on his porch Ethan started to giggle and said to me that he was shocked that the had already made it six months." Sarah dropped her head once my she saw that the tears started flowing more, the longer this story was.

After a few more minutes of tears my body started getting angry I sat up and looked at Sarah "Wait so I've been in love with Rory for two years now and you didn't think it was important to mention that he was in love with someone else."

I got up needing to get out of the room before I could say anymore of the pissed off thoughts running through my head to Sarah. I started to reach for the window when I heard both of our phones go off to the damned ring-tone if I ignore people could die. We both looked at our phone and read the text at the same time.

"I can't believe I have to go sit in a room with a boy I'm in love with and the boy that he's in love with." I said the tears starting again. Sarah came over and hugged me. "Don't worry about it we'll get through this together. I also promise no more secrets. Please promise me you won't tell anyone about Rory and Benny okay?" I agreed knowing that even though I couldn't have Rory I didn't want him to be miserable by telling people before he was ready.

Me and Sarah hugged again before I jumped out the window and started flying to Benny's house knowing that seeing Rory and Benny together was going to be even harder now that I knew this.

Rory's Point of view

I was running as fast as humanly possible but for some reason I couldn't fly and my super speed was gone as well. I looked back to see I was being chased by two men who had dark masks on so I couldn't see there faces. I turned back to see where I was running but stopped dead in my tracks when I saw I was at the edge of a cliff looking over an ocean. I turned back around and both men had stopped a few feet away from me. Before I knew what was happening one of the men reached into his pocket and pulled out a gun and pointed it at the other man. I looked in horror as the one man shot the other five times in the chest before walking over to him He leaned down and pulled off the man on the ground mask. My jaw dropped as I saw the face under the mask was Benny. The other man then pulled off his mask as well showing that it was Ethan who had just killed Benny right in front of me. I got up and started to run at Ethan when I heard someone yelling my name over and over again."Rory! Rory! Rory!"

I opened my eyes to see Grandma Weir standing over me shaking me awake. "Thank god you woke up Rory what were you thinking? You took enough of those herbs to put you to sleep for a few weeks. I had to cast a cleansing spell to make sure you would wake up today. Before I could remove the hex from you." She said with a look of relief and worry.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to take that much I just forgot how much would let me sleep." I said feeling bad for making another mistake that had hurt someone I cared about. "Why are yo... Wait did you just say you removed a hex from me?"

"Yes listen I don't know exactly what happened between you and Ethan but it wasn't either of your faults or anything you did until I just removed the hex."

I felt relived but at the same time no matter what she said my love for Benny should have been stronger then stupid hex. "Thank you very much for staying that." I said

"I'll talk to Benny to make sure he knows it's not you or Ethan's fault okay. I think someone is trying to hurt Benny and they somehow knew that you and Benny are in love."

I was taken back that she knew about me and Benny we had been so careful to hide it. "How long have you known?"

She laughed a bit before responding with. "Rory I can see very powerful casters are able to see when anyone is in love just like how I can read peoples auras. Before you can even ask I'm totally okay with it I just want my Benny to be happy. Also I'm a priestess of love and nature as long as it's pure love I'll never have an issue with it. That being said if you ever hurt him I will send down more lighting then Zeus on you." She stressed that last part.

She got up and started walking to the door. "If you don't mind please don't tell Benny I know I'd really like him to tell me when he's ready. Now let's get going and get the gang back!" We both walked to Benny's house as I thought about how I was about to learn how much each of my friends really did know about each other.