Cassie watched Noah for a moment before she looked down at her hands.
"I always thought that I was just an average teenage girl. I went to school, participated in a few extracurricular activities and then went home. There was nothing in my life to even hint that things weren't the way I thought they were." She looked up and gave him a sad smile. "Then there was a fire in my house while I was out and my mom died."
She took a deep breath, drawing her own legs up so that she could rest her chin on her knees. "I went to live with my grandmother and found out that not only was I witch, I was a pretty powerful one because of my parents. My dad... he was not a good man and he did a lot to screw things up and leave me isolated from my friends. He killed my grandmother and tried to kill my coven circle." She let out a shaky breath. "I ended up having to kill him when he decided that he was going to kill every witch that didn't have the same bloodline as he and I did."
She looked over at him again. "The good thing was that I discovered that I had two sisters and three brothers and wasn't completely alone. My siblings -- the four I didn't know -- came for me and I've been with them ever since. We were even all brought here so we're still together."