The Circle In Trouble

Chapter 9

Adam and Cassie had a talk about what to do with the situation they were put in and how to re-act. They both smiled and stayed up till 3 in the morning, until they fell asleep on Cassie's bed. Adam's arms were wrapped around Cassie, as she had laid her head on his chest, snuggling comfortably in his arms, where she rightly belonged. Adam and Cassie wasn't just love, it was destiny.

Adam woke up early and was watching Cassie sleep. He felt happy just watching her and playing with her soft long blonde hair, Cassie looked peaceful when she slept, almost like an angel that had just drifted down to earth to capture the love of her life, Adam. But Cassie of course was no angel, she was innocent and pure at the heart, but her emotional tie to her powers was what consumed her and controlled her into darkness.

Cassie mumbled in her sleep, "It's cold in here. I don't like it. John, what did you do to me?"

Adam looked at Cassie, as his face drew with concern and confusion. "Cassie?" his voice was soft and gentle. "Babe?" When there was no response, he shook her shoulder very cautiously and watched her, as she turned away from him; her eyes were filling up with tears.

"You turned me into a monster, like you; I can't even control my powers anymore. If I get any distressing emotions, I end up nearly killing a town of people or anyone of my best friends, my boyfriend." She shivered violently, as Adam carefully leaned towards her, trying to wake her up, concern was growing and he started to get very anxious.

In Cassie's head a voice beamed out, "I'm not a monster Cassie and neither are you. I'm your father and I want to help you. I'm sorry I was not there for you, but I want to be there for you now. If I can't see you or speak to you when you're awake, well I will meet you in your dream state. I need to tell you something, it's urgent."

"Go on Father! What do you want to tell me?" Cassie started to see red, her anger was balling up inside her, she was about to explode. Adam touched her shoulder softly, trying to see her better to understand what was going on, his hand started to burn and a sizzling noise distracted him. He looked down at his hand, it was full of large red blisters which steam was rising off of. He pulled his hand away quickly, taking a deep sharp intake of breath.

"Ouch. Cassie? What's going on? Please wake up."

"Cassie, you can't take your relationship with Adam any further, you can't sleep with him." For the first time in the amount of time that she had seen him, his face was full of concern and seriousness. Cassie took a step back, shaking her head.

"What are you talking about Blackwell? Who says we haven't already?" Her voice was shaky and full of attitude. Blackwell laughed to himself and watched Cassie's every step.

"Because no-one has died yet, no crows are around. Obviously you haven't." His voice was straight to the point and factual, as Cassie would know what he was talking about.

Adam shook her with more concern, screaming her name. "Cassie?!" Cassie woke up with a jump, gasping for breath; she looked at Adam and turned away. "What happened Cassie? Was it a bad dream?"

Cassie nodded with an almost whisper, "Yes, just a bad dream." Adam pulled her close, making her look at him.

"Cassie, it wasn't a bad dream though was it. You were talking to someone, who was it. You said they turned you into the monster. Was it Blackwell and how did he reach you in your dreams." Cassie cried into his shoulder, her shoulders shaking, every muscle in her body went tight.

Through chocked up sobs, Cassie spoke to Adam, describing what had happened. "Yes, it was Blackwell. He said since he couldn't get to talk to me without everyone around, he would try to reach me in my dream state and he finally succeeded tonight. He told me that we can't sleep together. I asked him why and he said someone will die." Cassie reached out for Adam's hand and heard him moan in pain. She instinctively looked down at his hand and closed her eyes, looking back up to his face. "Adam, what happened to your hand? Did I do that?"

Adam, shook his head chuckling softly, "Don't try to change the subject. How can you trust Blackwell if he is as evil as he is? He could be trying to keep us apart." Cassie shook her head and looked down.

"Adam, he looked really serious."

Adam smiled and pulled her closer. "You can't take him seriously." He kissed her cheek and looked at her. "I love you so much." Cassie giggled and leaned into him and kissed him.

"You know, I have never slept next to you before, but I kind of like it and I could definitely get used to it." He smiled, kissed her softly and looked at her.

At Diana's house, which looked exactly like Cassie's grandmothers' house, Diana was curled up under her covers in her bed, her eyes red raw, not able to cry after crying too much. She looked around the room, thinking of how much of a state it was in; there were tissues all over the floor and all over her bed. She whispered to herself, "I'm over you and I am going to move on and get the best boyfriend possible, who would never cheat or do anything like you did to me." Diana picked up all the pictures of Cassie and Adam and chucked them in the bin, deleting all their pictures and their numbers, not like it helped, she knew Adam's off by heart.

The morning sun rose softly over the head of Nick's House, Nick and Melissa raised their head out of the bed they were laying in. The bed sheets were messy and crumbled up roughly at the end of the bed; Melissa's head was laid on Nick's muscular chest. Melissa giggled at Nick, as she sat up, grabbing the sheet, covering herself up. They were both naked from head to toe and were smiling at each other.

"Hey Gorgeous." Nick spoke quietly, his voice all croaky, like it usually is on a morning, when he hasn't had anything to drink. "You want a drink?"

"Hey Handsome." Melissa smiled looking at him and nodded. Nick stood up and chucked on a top and a pair of pyjama bottoms, he ran downstairs made Melissa and breakfast in bed and a drink of coffee.

Melissa was in the shower, when he returned and put the breakfast and coffee on the side. She walked in, as he turned around to knock on the door to tell her to hurry up. "Oh babe, I made you breakfast in bed, hope you like it." Melissa ran over and kissed him on the cheek, before getting dressed, sitting on the bed and eating her breakfast and taking a sip of coffee.

"Thank you so much. I love you so much."

Authors Note: Thanks Guys, I hope you like the new chapter and please review it. I know it's been a while since I last posted a chapter, I have been busy with sixthform.