The Seventh Member - The Secret Circle

Chapter 39

This will probably be the last one for today.

Evie:

Somewhere along the line I had tossed my jacket, and was left in my long sleeve buttoned shirt. I was steaming. I paced around outside and found myself crying. All my life I never had anyone care for me. I was alone, besides my parents. The circle became my family, because I was left without one when Alaric and Lucy died. I love Jake so much, possibly more than anything, and it hurt so deeply what Cassie has done.
I sat in the field, facing the house but looking past it. The weeds and flowers barely covered my head. The sun was high, gleaming down from the pale blue sky.

I heard the door, and footsteps as they hit the wooden stairs. They got closer, and someone sat beside me.
"How are you holding up?" It was Diana.

"Other than the fact that my supposedly 'best friend' refuses to save my boyfriend's life, I'm just peachy."
I sniffled and wiped the tears from my face. She wrapped her arms around me and rested her head on my shoulder.

"I can't imagine what you're going through. The only way I can possibly relate is the breakup and even that doesn't compare to this. I'm so sorry Evie, you don't deserve that. Neither does Jake and I know I haven't liked him since the beginning but he deeply cares for you, and he loves you. So I guess I approve of him," she laughed as she said the last part.

"I don't understand it," I said. "Why does she hesitate to do what's right?"

"I can't answer that Evie."
We stayed there a little bit longer, taking in the peacefulness we got from the breeze. Of course my heart still ached and my blood boiled, but I wasn't angry at Diana. She had done nothing wrong, in fact, she was just another victim to Cassie's behavior. We went back inside, and I leaned against a wall.

"Cassie's agreed," Adam said to me. I knew she only did it because I went off on her, and I did have right to do so. Besides, she asked for it.

"Good," I replied shortly. "So, how do we make this elixir?"

"I've already made a list of the ingredients," Blackwell replied. "Cassie's already going to get some of them, the rest Adam and Melissa will get. Then they bring them back here to me and we make the potion."

"Sounds easy," I said.

"It is."
The three of them had left, and we sat around the abandoned house. Diana and I mostly stayed with Jake to avoid Blackwell, but occasionally went back down the stairs to ask him about progress. It's been five hours, why weren't they back yet? Sunset was getting closer now, which meant we didn't have very long.

"Why is it taking so long?" I asked. Diana and I sat on the floor in front of the couch Jake was resting on, peacefully sleeping.

"I don't know," she responded.

Another three hours. By now it was dark, and my patience was running low. Suddenly the door opened, I heard Cassie's voice loudly saying 'I got it!' Followed by Adam and Melissa's voices. Diana and I ran downstairs, joining the others. Blackwell already started making the potion. I pulled Cassie to the side as he worked on the elixir.
"Cassie I'm sorry for going off like that, I know you didn't intentionally do any of this. You couldn't have known."

"No, I get it Evie. You're angry, and if the roles were reversed I would be too. I'm incredibly sorry for what's happened to Jake," she said.

"Kiss and make up?" I asked jokingly.

"I'm not Diana," she responded. We both giggled and hugged. I was happy to have my friend back again, and not resenting her.
After a while, it was ready. Blackwell poured the substance into two glass vials, and handed them to Adam and Cassie.

"Can we have a moment?" Cassie asked. The rest of us nodded, and went out of the room.

"Are you okay?" Melissa asked.

"Yeah," I responded. "I'm glad she did the right thing, but I know it was hard."

"At least one of us was able to keep a good relationship," Diana said, referring to me and Jake. Her and Adam's relationship ended because she found out he had feelings for me, Melissa and Nick's relationship ended when he died, then Faye and Lee's relationship, which she found out he has a girlfriend and was stealing Faye's magic to wake her from her coma- jerk- and then Adam and Cassie's is being stripped.
Adam and Cassie walked out of the room. "It's done," Adam said.

I went up the stairs to Jake, he was alive and well. I wrapped my arms around him, and his snaked around my waist as he pulled me onto the couch above him.
"I'm so happy you're okay."
"What happened?"
I raised my head from his neck and looked at him. "Adam and Cassie slept together awakening a curse which almost killed you so they had to drink a potion to erase their feelings for each other, blah blah blah."

It was dark, so everyone went home. As I pulled up to my house after dropping Jake off, I got a text from Cassie asking to meet her at her house. I put the car in drive yet again and drove to Cassie's.
I got out of the car and went inside. Diana stood, and faced towards me. Cassie and Blackwell sat on the couch. She looked distraught.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I walked further into the room and stood by Diana.

"It didn't work," Cassie said, tears in her eyes. "I feel everything."
She began sobbing, and Blackwell wrapped his arms around his daughter. Diana hadn't had much time to register being Blackwell's other kid because of Jake earlier.

"I think her dark magic didn't allow the potion to take the effects it was supposed to," Blackwell told us.

"I'm sorry Cassie," I said.
Blackwell stayed with her, however I went to Diana's. She had asked me to be there when she told Charles about Elizabeth's affair with Blackwell, resulting in her.

"I'm scared," she said, looking over at me as we stood in front of her door. I took her hand in mine and smiled softly.

"Charles loves you Diana, he always has. I don't think this is going to change things. He's more your father than Blackwell is."
I held her hand as we enter the house.

"Dad?" She called. We walked into the kitchen where he stood.

"Hey sweetie," he said. "What's up?" Her hand trembled in mine.

"I-" tears lined Diana's eyes. My heart sank, I knew this was hard for her.

"Diana? Hey, what's wrong?" He asked.

Her voice was shaky as she talked. "Blackwell's my father."
His face dropped. The pain and shock in his eyes had tears in mine. His mouth opened like he wanted to say something, but he shut it.

Diana continued. "He and mom slept together and- and then she got pregnant. I'm so sorry." She was crying.

"Shh, it's okay. Come here," he said. He embraced her and stroked her hair as she cried.
"You too," he said to me. He opened his arm and I hugged him, I wrapped my other arm around Diana.

She stopped crying after a while, and I think Charles even shed a few tears.
He looked at her and smiled. "I don't care if he's your dad. You're still my daughter, you always have been. And I'm very, very proud of the woman you've become."

She sniffled and wiped a few tears. "I love you."

"I love you too, Diana."
They asked if I'd like to sleep over, but I declined. After everything the last couple days, I kind of needed the alone time.

I laid on my bed, reflecting on everything. I couldn't believe the rollercoaster it's been lately. We've learned so much, and we haven't had time to discuss what we plan on doing about Blackwell.
We figured we'd talk at the boathouse after school tomorrow, considering Blackwell lives at the abandoned house. On the bright side, Jane is returning to town and her memory is set straight again. She doesn't remember all that happened when her mind was being messed with, but she said that it may come back soon.

It was all still stressful, and as I took a deep breath, I fell into a deep sleep.

This chapter isn't as long as they usually are but I'm going to end it here for the night. Probably watch criminal minds for a few hours then go to sleep.