She stands up. Stretching a little. Emily and I take a huge step back. I can't take anymore of these surprises.
"Cassie"? I ask. Unsure of her. She smiles. "Not happy to see your old bestie"? She asks. Smile falling. I shake my head "not happy to see you covered in blood" I say. "Yea.. remind me to kill that haylie chick. Bitch doesn't play far" she says. I stare at her.
"What is going on"? I asks. "It is such a long story Storie" she says. I haven't heard her nick name for me in forever. She puts my first name and middle together. Stormie tori. "We've got time" Emily says crossing her arms. "Let's go somewhere private. Were we can relax and talk" she says. "I know the place" Jake says. We head to the place he took me the other night. So much for feeling special. We get out. "Wow" Emily says. I nod. " I know" I say
We sit at a picnic table. I just noticed Katie came with and was sitting beside Jake. I glare at them. He notices. His eyes looking emotionless. I have got to get over him. I think to my self.
"So when I moved I had come across your mom's files on supernatural beings. She was wanting to find one. I don't know why.. so I decided to help her but she made me promise not to tell y'all. So I moved into a apartment her and I shared. We did a lot of research. I found a guy with answers and was going to go meet him. All the sudden she wanted to stop looking. She had gotten a phone call that scared her. She wouldn't tell me who or what.. than she died. I still think the car wreck was on purpose. She was getting close to something. They didn't like it." She stops taking a breath in.
"I still wanting answers. Met with the guy. He did awful things and turned me. I then made it my mission to hunt him down and kill him. I check on yall a lot. I was at the festival." She says glaring at Katie. "I had decided to confront haylie. I met her a year ago. Learned all about there dear jake.. but when I told her I was going to see you. She didn't like it and snapped my neck" she says sounding angry.
I just stare at her. She never left me. She kept things from me. Everyone seems to do that a lot. "This is to much" I say. I get up and walk towards the water. Staring at it. My mom was obsessed with supernatural? Why? Is that why my dad hates them? Is that what ended them? My head hurts. I close my eyes fighting the tears that are trying to escape. "Hey. I know this is a lot. But your not alone" em says. Standing beside me. I smile at her and nod. She rest her head on my shoulder.
"She's been through a lot" Katie says. They stare at her. "What? I am capable of compassion" she says. "You are capable of a lot of things and that isn't one of them" Jake snaps at her. Em and I make are way back to them. "Your selfish,a liar. A heartless whore" he says so much anger and hurt behind his words. She sighs. "Yes. I.. I did awful things. Forcing you to turn was one but you should understand now more than ever why I did that" she says. She actually seems genuine.
"Don't compare what you did. To what I did. It isn't the same!" He says slamming his hands on the table. "Jake.. it is the same though. You didn't want Derek to die so you" I start.. before I can finish he is in my face. Eyes dark. He is pissed
"How fucking dare you. Are you defending what she did?!" He snaps at me. Before I can answer he storms off. "I'll go after him" Derek says. We nod. "Katie.. can I ask a question with out you playing games"i asks.
She sighs. "How did I know your brother"? She asks. I nod. "Part of the story is his to tell you stormie. You will get your brother back. I honestly didn't know my sister had him.. i..I thought he killed him self" she says looking down.
A smile forming on her face. I sit down in front of her. "When i met him. I was here looking for Jake. I truly wanted to make things right. I saw him with haylie.. they where making out.. it hurt. I went to a cafe. I was sitting there crying and he came in. Sat down and we talked. We talked for hours. I had never had anyone just sit and talk to me. Most guys wanted something from me" she says.
Jake and Derek walk over towards us. He has a Expression on his face I can't read. She glances at him. Than down. "We started dating. Really dating. I've never done that before. But he.. had a lot of demons he was fighting. God I tried so hard to be enough to make him happy. I wanted to be enough" she says voice breaking. Tears falling down her face.
"I had a feeling he was going to do something stupid. So I started feeding him my blood. It was selfish I know but God I couldn't loss him. I hate fucked up every other relationship but this one. It was everything I have ever wanted and waited for.. but my sister was jealous. Jake didn't actually want her.. he was just trying to move on from him and I. The things he had done. She saw how nick looked at me." She stops. A smile forming and falling as fast as it appeared.
"So she killed him. Made it look like a suicide. I went mad. I was devastated. She let me believe he was dead. All this time shes had him. I turned off my humanity because I couldn't understand why he'd leave me. I tried to find ways to kill my self so maybe I could be with him.. He promised he wouldn't. He was going to tell yall about us soon. I was so excited. None of it made sense" Katie finishing looking up at us. Tears falling down her face.
I had tears in my eyes. "He did tell me about you. I didn't know it was about you at the time obviously. He seemed so happy. I too was so confused on why he'd do that.. but why" I stop trying to figure out how to word the question.
"Why are you working with hayley" Jake asks. Katie nods. "I have to. To figure out where she is keeping him. She is ruthless. She doesn't care about anyone. Not even me.. I have to do whatever it takes to save him" she says glancing at Jake. He nods.
"I can't believe I am saying this but I think I believe you" he says. "I definitely do.. I can't believe this whole time hes been alive and I never knew"! I say feeling angry.
"You couldn't of known stormie. You saw his body.. why would you think he was alive" Katie says. I look at her and nod.
"I know I hurt you Jake but I promise. I am not against yall. I want you happy. No matter what has happened between us before. It doesn't matter. I'm not that girl anymore.. I only kissed him at the dance because Haylie was " she says.
"I dont think I'll ever be able to forgive you but I can look past it" he says. She smiles. "So I can't pretend to be ok with haylie. I just can't. Her betrayal.. I can't explain how I feel. But I know if I stay with her she'll want me to hurt yall and I can't. I just cant. He'd hate me if I did" Katie says.
"Welcome to the team" I say to her with a smile. She smiles at me. I can feel Jake staring at me. "Well I can" cassie says. My eyes snap towards her.