The Covenant - Uncovering Secrets -

Chapter Seven - Realisation

I rolled from my bed stumbling to the bathroom after blindly grabbing some clothes, locking the door as I waited for the water to warm. I sighed as I stepped under the hot water, feeling the warmth from the water easing the tension in my body and easing the nightmare I'd just experienced from my mind. This nightmare wasn't an old memory, it wasn't even one of my usual nightmares, this one was entirely new in a sense that it had started the night after I found out Chase was alive. This one felt all too real and the fact it involved Reid, Caleb, Pogue and Tyler didn't help the effect it was having on me. Ms Kale's words still floated around my head, making me doubt everything as I tried to figure out were they relevant or not. I jumped almost slipping as I pulled back the shower curtain looking to the door as someone thumped heavily on it.

"Hurry up in there! Don't fall asleep. I want hot water too!" Kate whined through the door making me laugh turning off the water and stepping out of the tub after washing my hair. Drying off I pulled on my underwear brushing my teeth before pulling on dark crimson jogging bottoms and a slightly too big t-shirt. I opened the door rubbing at my hair with a towel, grimacing as I caught Pogue and Kate kissing.

"Oh...gross. It's too early. Pogue detach yourself from my roommate, please." Pogue smiled letting Kate go, watching her go into the bathroom. "I would ask how are you but I think I can guess." I smirked throwing my towel into the wash basket, trying to get my brush through my curls.

"And I'd ask who you were thinking about in English yesterday, but I think I can guess." He teased and I looked at him in my mirror before snapping around to face him.

"I was not thinking about Reid!" I hissed. "I wasn't!" I insisted as he chuckled deeply.

"I never said Reid. You said Reid." I rolled my eyes turning from him as I pulled my hair into a messy ponytail, applying lip gloss and waterproof mascara a moment later. "Do you like him?"

"No!" I groaned blinking as I practically stabbed myself in the eye. "No!" I hissed again as I saw his smirk. "Stop it. Pogue!" I slipped on a pair of flats getting more irritated by the minute as he continued to look at me with a suspicion that I was lying.

"I'm not doing anything."

"You're trying to unnerve me and it's annoying."

"So you do?"

"No!" I huffed crossing my arms as I flopped down on the edge of my bed facing him.

"Do."

"Don't." I repeated slowly, his smirk growing as he realised he was getting to me.

"Do so."

"I...don't!" I hissed grabbing my pillow and hitting him with it, letting out a omphf as I was hit back with Kate's.

"Do so."

"DON'T." We argued, bickering like children as we continued to attack each other with pillows. I let out a groan as I hit the floor after a slightly too hard hit from the pillow, Pogue's face floating above me.

"You okay? I didn't mean to hit you so hard." I kicked out my leg smiling as he disappeared from view followed by a loud thud next to me.

"I win!" I announced pushing myself onto my elbows slowly looking behind me as chuckling filled the room.

"You got floored by a girl." Reid burst into laughter as he stood with Tyler and Caleb in the threshold while Kate stood frowning in the bathroom doorway.

"What the hell happened? I left for ten minutes." Kate asked raising an eyebrow. "I could hear you in the other room."

"He started it!" I hissed pointing at him as I jumped to my feet to find him standing and pointing at me. "You started it!" I argued as we stared at each other angrily.