And Then There Were Four

Cassie.

I hadn't expected to run into Silas on the way home, but now that I was faced with him, I was actually pleased. I had allowed myself to face a moment of weakness by letting my heart play tricks on my mind. To think the mate thing was actually possible with Lucas was a

stupid decision to begin with.

Pulling from Silas, I quickly wiped away my tears and pushed a smile on my face.

"God, I feel completely stupid," I whispered as I gazed up into his hazel eyes, "uh-so how are you?"

Silas gazed down at me, giving a small chuckle as he reached up, rubbing the back of his neck as if hesitant to speak. "I'm okay. I actually was coming to see you, but I can see that whatever I had to say can wait... what's going on? Why are you crying?" He was coming to see me? The thought was sweet, but I wasn't sure why he would have been going out of his way to see me. "Uh, nothing. I'm not sad, more angry than anything."

"Angry about what?"

Shrugging my shoulders, I turned and made my way toward a small bench that sat off the edge of the sidewalk. "Men-in more precise measures, Lucas. It's all stupid and not important, honestly."

Silas followed my movements as he came to sit next to me. He didn't bother to push for more information and instead nudged my shoulder with his own, causing me to smile.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

"Well, the topic of men was the reason why I was coming to see you. I wasn't sure if your brother had spoken with you yet, but I wanted to explain myself."

Confusion filled me as I furrowed my brow, staring at him, trying to figure out what exactly he was talking about. Taking a moment, I thought back to when my brother confronted me in the hallway at the school, and suddenly what he had said dawned on me.

"So when he said the guys were talking about me, that was you?" The sheepish grin that crossed Silas's face at my question let me know it was exactly what he was talking about.

Obviously, my brother had overheard a conversation between him and somebody else, which caused the entire scene in the hallway. Not only that, but the word had gotten out, leading to Lucas hearing what he had heard.

Words seemed to travel very quickly around this place, and that was something I did not like.

"It wasn't what you thought. I don't know what your brother told you, but I promise... Nothing was bad," Silas said quickly, causing me to halt and what I was going to say next.

Taking a deep breath, I closed my

eyes and allowed myself to think very thoroughly through all of this. Silas didn't come across as the kind of guy who would just say shit for no reason And, in fact, if he was the Playboy kind of guy. Why even bother to come here explain himself and then also

ould he

comfort me when I was at my

try to

weakest moment?

"What exactly was said?" I asked him as I opened my eyes and stared back into the bluish-green haziness of his own.

Rubbing the back of his neck, his eyes darted around before they finally met mine once again. "A few of the guys saw us talking the other night, and because of it, they assumed that we were hooking up, which of course, we didn't. And then, they saw Lucas act the way he did toward me. Guys are going to make assumptions."

Whatever his words as he spoke, and nodding my head, I followed along the best I could, trying to understand his point of view. However, if these guys have made assumptions, why had he not corrected them? Because obviously, they were letting people believe that more happened than actually did.

"Ok. And did you correct them to prevent them from spreading these ridiculous rumors over something that didn't even happen?" Silas gave me a meek smile, and that smile let me know he hadn't entirely told them the truth, which pissed me off even more.

Not only did I have to deal with the shit Lucas and my brother were putting me through, but on top of that, I had to deal with everything else in my life constantly spiraling out of control. And now this issues with Silas because people seem to think I'm a girl who likes to sleep around.

This place was supposed to be about growing into the person we were meant to be, and instead, it reminded me so much of high school, so much of the drama, I was glad to get rid of when I graduated.

Standing to my feet, I shook my head and quickly turned, heading back down the path toward the building we stayed in. The last thing I wanted to do was say something mean to Silas and cause even more drama.

My mom always told me if I didn't have anything nice to say, it was best not to say anything at all. So that was what I was going to do.

However, Silas had other plans because as soon as I started heading down the sidewalk, he was on his feet rushing after me, his hand gripping my upper arm as he stopped me in my tracks and turned me to face him. "Please don't walk away from me. I want to talk to you about this. In fact, there's a lot that I want to talk to you about," he said softly.