Ch17

Tyler had been a wreck all week. He failed three tests and hardly paid attention to the teacher, which probably means he's going to fail the next tests too. He hadn't seen Kay at all after the classroom incident and he was beginning to regret telling her he loved her at all. Yea, he felt it but he shouldn't have rushed it. He knew in his head she would push him away but he didn't think she would push him completely out of her life.

He couldn't take it anymore, he decided. He was going to look everywhere for her tonight. He had the game plan in his head. He was going to tell her he understood if she just needed time. He knew, or at least hoped, she felt the same but if time was what she needed then he would give it to her. He was in too deep to let her go.

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Tyler searched everywhere off campus he could think of and now he was exhausted. He trailed back to his room defeated. He opened the door to find Kay standing in the middle of his room.

"Kay?" He trailed into the room slowly. Something was off he felt it as soon as he entered.

"Think again," Tyler heard a deep voice as the image of Kay slowly vanished and revealed Chase Collins.

Tyler instantly threw his bag down and flashed his eyes. "Where's Kay?"

Chase clicked his tongue and pointed up. "Shh I think she's sleeping," he smirked. Tyler looked up to see Kay elevated toward the ceiling, hair fanned out much like when they were under water.

"Put her down," Tyler yelled.

"Imagine my surprise when I recently found out she," He pointed up "was one of us. I must say it makes me smile at the thought." Chase ignored his statement and started to circle him. "Kay, the girl I've known for practically my whole life is part of the covenant I wanted so badly to destroy." Chase eyes turned black as he lifted his hand in the air and Tyler smashed into the ceiling. He started to walk around the room dragging Tyler across the ceiling top.

"First you guys try to kill me and now you're trying to turn her away from me, feeding her occurrences of my past indiscretions." He growled as he threw Tyler into the drawers before elevating him again.

"You know I expected maybe Reid or, at least, Pogue. I mean with the way Kate flirts with the first guy that flashes a smile," he said pointing at himself. "I thought they would be broken up by now. But you Tyler, this must be the twilight zone. Never in a million years would I expect you to steal Kay away from me. It's just surreal." He said getting angrier with every word he spoke.

"Don't pretend you know us." Tyler said wincing, struggling to get up through the debris.

"Oh but I do, especially you. I've been watching you for a while now. I must admit I never took you for a cheater. Poor Cindy got traded in for a better model."

"It wasn't like that!"

"Oh but it was." He started, his amused grin slowly coming back. He slammed him into the wall again feeling a sense of déjà vu with his past confrontation with Caleb. But the end result, he promised himself, wouldn't be the same. He would destroy the brothers once and for all, if not, at least harm them immensely and then run away with Kay and never look back. She meant the world to him, his only weak spot, and now that she was within his reach again he wasn't going to let go. "What's Cindy been up to lately Tyler? Has she been in any of your classes? Or have you failed to notice that she transferred because you were too occupied looking at what's mine."

Tyler thought back to the last time he saw Cindy and he realized he hadn't seen her in about a month but he assumed she was just avoiding him.

"Finally, he finds clarity!" Chase laughs. "You guys pride yourselves on being the good guys but you all have faults. Golden boy is stubborn as hell. "Kay's not my sister, Kay's not my sister" He mimicked. "Pogue has the whole blind rage thing covered, Reid, well we all know Reid has problems, and then there's you, young and naïve Tyler." he said gesturing his hand toward him. "You have got to be the most gullible person I ever met. Do you really think she stopped talking to everyone else but you because she had feeling for you? She just needed a fix to get over the fact she thought she lost me."

"No," Tyler said refusing to believe a word that came out of Chase's mouth.

"Oh really, did she tell you I came to her in a dream?"

"You're lying!"

"You don't think it's a coincidence, do you? She stopped talking to you. And now I just told you I made it known in her dream I was coming back? I knew you were a little slow on the up keep but come on man, put two and two together." When Tyler didn't say anything he continued. "Think about it, now that I'm back she's not going to need any of you."

"Look at her!" Chase screamed as he levitated Tyler with her face to face. "You see what I had to do so I could make sure this was knocked into your head!" he said tapping his forehead.

Tyler looked at her face as if he was searching for anything that would confirm Chase was lying but all he saw was a girl he loved who would probably follow Chase to the pits of hell if she could.

"And you know, I suggest we keep this to ourselves. Because we both know that if Kay finds out about this how stubborn she will be. I'm going to have to lie again or force her to come with me and I know you wouldn't want that. So let's keep that mouth of yours shut, shall we. We wouldn't want things getting messy." Chase smirked dropping Tyler full speed to smash against the floor.

"Stay away form her!" Tyler said as loud as he could. His head was still spinning.

"Or what, you going to tell me you love me so I can run away from you, too." Chase walked up to Tyler bending down next to him.

"Shut up," Tyler whispered.

"Though I did love the little display in the classroom the other day, it was Oscar worthy, really."

"Shut up!" Tyler said again through gritted teeth.

Chase took his hand, gripped Tyler's face and lowered his head so his lips were right next to Tyler's ear. "You want to know why she can't say I love you to you. Do you Baby Boy? It's because she still loves me." He whispered harshly into his ear before dropping Tyler's head back to the ground.

Getting up he turned his head one more time towards Tyler. "Remember this is our little secret." he said before winking at Tyler and disappearing.

Tyler struggled to get up then flashed his eyes black to lower Kay's body into his arms. She stirred a bit before opening her eyes while Tyler laid her on his bed.

"What's going on? Why am I in your room?" she said looking at her surrounding before turning back to Tyler.

Tyler hesitated before answering. "Nothing" he answered. He looked down at her jeans and saw her library card sticking out of her pocket. It dawned on him that he never looked anywhere in the school for her, assuming she wouldn't be on campus since he hadn't seen her. "I found you sleeping in the library. You have dark circles under your eyes babe so I didn't want to wake you. So I flashed us over here. Everything's fine." He lied.

She slowly unwrapped his arms from her body. "You shouldn't use like that, its not good for you."

"Well look who Caleb is rubbing off on." He said trying to lighten up the mood even though his tense body showed other wise.

She shook her head lightly, still a little disoriented but still lightly chuckled. "Yeah, whatever, I'm going to get out of here and head to my room." She got up and turned towards him a longing but defeated look in her eyes. "I'll see you around, Tyler."

He just stood there and watch her leave his heart breaking with each step she took.