You guys this is my first try at one of these things….let me know what you think…I hope you like it…more to come. PG13

The Secret Circle: Legendary Power

It's over. It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over. Cassie thought standing outside of her late grandmother's Victorian home waiting on Adam to arrive. She'd been thinking of Black John- John Blake- Jack Brunswick- her father, whatever you want to call him- a lot since last week. It dismayed Cassie that she'd never gotten to know the man as any of his names, but she quickly pushed any thoughts that led towards carrying for that vile man aside.

How could anyone be that evil, Cassie wondered? I know I've seen evil, but they were only false impressions of evil, like Faye who keeps up her, 'I can hurt the world, because I'm a bitch, but the world can't hurt me' routine, but that was all a mask, a bad habit like Nick's smoking, something she'd practice for a long time. But like Diana said, there is good in Faye and I believe she's right. Faye's soften and she's even trustworthy now. And the old Deb. Deb used to frighten me with her tall goddess frame and unfriendly facial expressions, but now she's probably one of my best friends next to Diana, Laurel and Melanie, and Nick….

No, I can't think of Nick anymore, Cassie thought. I know he told me that it was all right, but I still hate that I hurt him. I knew, before he asked, before I agreed, that Adam was the only one for me. I shouldn't have accepted Nick's dating proposal.

Adam pulled up in his jeep while Cassie quickly tried to remove Nick from her thoughts. When the lightest pressure touched her cheek she flushed and almost as instantly as Nick had appeared he'd vanished. "Good morning." Adam greeted, wrapping his arms around Cassie's waist. She relaxed instantly, melting into his frame. "You seem worried." Adam observed.

Cassie quickly came up with a lie. She didn't want to tell Adam that she was still thinking of Nick. "I was thinking about the end."

"The end?" Adam asked skeptically, but very interested. Cassie nodded, her face rubbing against his navy blue-wool- turtle neck. "The end of what, Cassie?"

As Cassie thought of what she was about to say she realized that she wasn't lying and that excited her, even though her mood was still grim. She hated lying to Adam, and even when she did lie to him he seemed to know she was doing it.

"Your graduating soon, most of you are. What happens then? Do you guys leave, does the circle… break-up." Both she and Adam knew what was really coming out of her mouth. Cassie hated thinking of graduation. At night she'd secretly scream at the moon for only giving her Adam now. Why not when I was ten? Or even my freshmen year of high school. I would have loved him then too. Adam pulled away from her just slightly. He'd tried to remove some of the salt water crystals from her cheek, but he knew when she got like this these days there was only one way to make her forget about being sad. He lifted his left hand, sliding it under her chin, and then with the same light pressure he'd used on her cheek, he touched her lips with his own.

This, Adams kisses, made Cassie instantly stop crying. She had to, all coherent thought was lost. She was ambushed by a sweet wave of sheer feeling. It was like being locked in a sugar factory, trapped in, being tempted and helplessly taking the bait. She was dying, but oh so sweetly. It was like our first kiss on the beach; the night he told me he loved me, Cassie thought dizzily. Only this one isn't wrong. Adam is hers, forever.

Cassie was as dizzy as one could get. If he hadn't been holding her she would have fallen. It was intoxicating; the sheer feeling of it, the wild scent of it and still, they were kissing, and kissing, and kissing. Cassie knew she was flushed. She knew she was wildly flushed; she could feel that same heat from that first kiss being made now, but being intensified times one hundred.

She never knew how long they stood that way, locked in an embrace that should have torched the house behind them. She only knew that somehow they both ended up in his jeep gasping for air. Her breath slowing, she turned to gaze at him. She noticed those blue-gray eyes of his shone with an excited silver edge. Cassie was surprised and enjoying the fact that she received that kind of reaction from Adam. She'd never gotten that from anyone, yet again; she'd never kissed anyone but Nick and Adam. And now that she had Adam she didn't plan on kissing anyone ever again, but him, of course.

Cassie stared at Adams breath returned to normal. He took her hand, closing it in his own.

Cassie looked down at their intertwined fingers, and it seemed that she could see the silver card again, wrapping around their two hands, connecting them. It glowed even in the sunlight. This is it, Cassie thought again. I've always belonged in this town, on this street, with him.

Adam let go of her hand for the briefest second to start the car then picked it back up. He hadn't given anything away about where he was taking her. She'd only know that it was going to be amazing, because he'd promised that. As Cassie and Adam drove pass the houses on Crowhaven road Cassie couldn't help but notice Number one, at the end on the street, Diana's yellow Victorian home. Cassie felt a small pain in her gut for the sunshine beauty. And the pain only intensified, because Cassie knew it was her fault, she caused the pain that Dianna was feeling. Adam had been hers and if it weren't for me he would still be hers. Cassie turned sharply away from the house only to encounter Adams sparkling blue-gray gaze, like sun glinting off clear crystal. "Cassie, what is it? Cassie? Do you not want to go? Yeah? Then what is it?"

She didn't want to tell him. She didn't want to bring up things that would ruin their day, but she already knew she wouldn't be enjoying this day anymore. She'd let herself think of Diana and Nick too much already.

Now, that she'd gotten everything she'd ever wanted; a family, a place she belonged, strong arms to hold her when she felt weak or lost, she found herself unable to enjoy it. She just knew that her best friend was in pain and it was all her fault. "Cassie!"

"It's-its Diana." Cassie whispered.

"What about Diana?" Adam asked, instantly alarmed. "Cassie, is there something going on your not telling me?"

"No, of course not, Adam, it's just-don't you think about her? Don't you think about what we're doing to her? I feel just horrible, but-but-" Adam could only smile at her and that confused Cassie. Why was he laughing? Cassie wondered.

"But you love me and you want to be selfish. You don't want to give me up." She squeezed his hand. He understands, he really understands. "Cassie, even if you were willing to give me up I wouldn't leave you, because I'm not willing to give you up. I know you worry about Diana…and Nick for that matter, but- well I've never told anyone this, of course I didn't, I couldn't, but when I saw you with Nick; when I saw his arms around you, when I saw him hold your hand, when I thought about him kissing you, your lips on his. I nearly lost it. I couldn't do it, Cassie, not anymore. I knew I didn't have any right, I mean I stayed with Diana, but I was in love with you. I am in love with you. I will always love Diana, in away, but it's you, Cassie. It drove me crazy that it was Nick who got to comfort you, and save you, and be there for you when I wanted to be there for you. That day at the beach, that day black John came after you, I felt you, not him. We're connected, Cassie. Our souls are meant to be together. I want to be with you, so even though we have to think of Diana and Nick's feelings we also have to concentrate on us. Do you understand?" Cassie nodded helplessly. 'Us' sounded just fine to her.