With so many cast members and interweaving plot lines, you may wonder what is up next with your favorite The Secret Circle character. Who finds love, whose family life gets complicated, and who will be around for awhile?

TV Guide has a fantastic run down on just about every character that they did with producer Andrew Miller. Miller has been great about filling in online fans, and he actively reads fan commentary all over the Internet. If you missed it, check out his interview from yesterday.

Melissa Glaser (Jessica Parker Kennedy)
Where We Were: She finally gained some sense of self when she began dating Nick, but then he was inhabited by a demon and killed by Dawn and Charles.
What’s Next? “Melissa had a taste of empowerment, and will continue to, but there’s a reason that she turned to a guy like Nick to begin with, and there’s a reason she’s been in Faye’s shadow for a long time,” he teases. “She has some demons in her, literally and figuratively, that she needs to figure out. We’re going to put her through a little more hell before she comes to terms with everything.”

Charles Meade and Dawn Chamberlain (Gale Harold and Natasha Henstridge)
Where We Were: Pulling the strings from the shadows, they finally reunited the circle, only to be forced to kill the inhabited Nick. To cover up their many misdeeds — including killing an elder — they had to tamper with Jane Blake’s memory.
What’s Next? “We’re going to find out that Dawn is a little bit more Machiavellian and diabolical than even Charles knows,” Miller says. “The consequences of their actions come calling in this next episode, ‘Darkness.’ The way they both react to that will redefine their relationship and force them into positions that they had never intended to be in. We love those two together — whether they’re fighting or the opposite of fighting — which I couldn’t speak to right now, but they’re just a fun couple together. We’re going to throw drunk Ethan [Adam Harrington] into the mix also because they were all part of the same circle when they were younger. The younger circle will find out a little more about what happened 16 years ago.”

Read up on the rest of your favorite characters on TV Guide.

After not hearing a lot about Melissa in the recent synopsis it’s refreshing to see that there is a vision for her character, and one that involves some mystery. Remember to tune in tonight for the show’s return!

Whose plot line did you find to be most surprising?