I look to him and he quickly grabs the sides of my mouth, his nails cutting into my lips as he does and he brings his face close to mine, breathing the smoke slowly into my face. I hold my breath not wanting to breathe it in.

"Come on. It could be fun."

You're high.

"Get your hands off of me!" I say quickly pushing him away from me.

I unlock the door and quickly go to get out but I am suddenly pulled back to the car by my wrist. I turn back to him and I see him holding a gun beside him.

"Get back in the car."

I quickly go to yank away but he pulls me halfway back in the car as I do making me lose my balance as he swiftly sends a punch to my jaw, I pull away at the same time, he was going for knocking me out though. I send a punch of my own and twist my wrist and pull away.

I fall backward from the sudden force and him letting go. I fall on my butt and scramble to turn to my hands and feet and quickly take off. I kick up gravel and dirt as I sprint. 

I choke back tears and continue my sprint, not getting tired or out of breath while I do. I continue to run till making it to that gravel road that ends only when reaching my house.

I breathe heavily. Nothing happened just like last time. I got out of it before anything could happen. That (bleeping) son of a (bleep) (bleep)

I take a breath. (bleep) you, you (bleeping) piece of (bleep).

Does everyone just see me like a piece of trash they can use only to later throw out?

I begin my walk back to the house and notice the guys' cars are all there. They must have left after we did.

I fix my hair and clothes as I calm my racing heart and adrenaline. After all I have been through I would be insane to let this actually have any effect on me.

I walk up to the front door after walking down the long gravel road. Why do people even attempt to mess with me? He knows a lot of what I went through. Why even try?

I open the door to them all in the living room, they all stop mid-conversation to smile at me.

"Have some fun afterward Beth?" Willow asks.

I raise my eyebrow at her, confused. 

Gray smiles at me with a weird sort of fake face on and points to his bottom lip.

I quickly touch my bottom lip and realize how swollen part of it is as I look at my finger and see blood on my finger.

"No, actually. I ran into a car door. And he has a girlfriend," I say as I walk to the kitchen and they follow.

I roll my eyes at them as I reach the kitchen and grab a paper towel. I quickly get it wet as I ring it out and bring it to my bottom lip.

"You are a really awful liar," Gray says.

"How did you walk into a car door exactly?"

"He had got in the driver's seat first and went to reach across and open the door when I was standing right there and he swung it open, hitting me in the lip," I say as I turn to them as I hold the paper towel to my lip. 

Could I have come up with any worse of a lie?

I walk to the stairs and they follow.

"Stop following me, I gotta go change."

They stop and I go up to my room.

I quickly grab a pair of p.j. pants and a loose t-shirt. I change quickly and head back out, putting my laundry into my now overflowing laundry basket.

I head back out and go to the kitchen where they are all at.

"So you guys decided to make an appearance?"

"What? Us? Never!" L.J. says smirking at me.

"Wasn't worth it anyway, none of us know sign language."

"So you going on another date with him?" Gray asks curiously without a hint of joking around.

"First off it wasn't a date, second no. No, I am not."

"Yeesh, what did he do? Try to kiss you?" L.J. teases.

"He also does drugs," I say looking down and folding over the small paper towel to a less bloody spot.

"Oh. Wow. Not expecting that, that's why you have the bloody lip?" Gray asks.

"No, actually that was from the car door."

"You do realize that we used to smoke right?" A asks.

"You guys didn't do it around me often and ever since before going to foster care I haven't seen one of you touch a cigarette. Plus you didn't have packs of cocaine or marijuana in your cars."

"Whew. Yeah," Mason starts. "And we had stopped smoking a while ago."

I smile slightly at him as I lean over the counter, facing them. Soon a phone buzzes.

Willow quickly perks up and looks at her phone. We all watch her as her eyes scan her phone. She has met a guy and he just asked her out on a date tomorrow night. The powers of being a best friend.

"Who was that?" Alan asks.

"No one," she says playing it off well but I know better.

I look at her with a smirk and raised an eyebrow.

"Shut it, Beth. I gotta go. See you guys tomorrow," she says quickly picking up her jacket.

"I didn't say anything," I say smiling at her.

"I know you are going to say something so I'm telling you in advance to shush it," she says as she slides on her jacket and heads to the door.

"Have fun on your date tomorrow night at eight!" I scream after her.

"Shut your face, Beth!"

The door soon slams. The guys all turn to me as I smile and pick at my nails.

"A sweet guy asked her out in that text message and they are going on a date at The Queen's Lion at somewhere around eight," I say smiling at the fact that I can read her mind.

"How did you know all of that?" Trever asks.

"She and I are like sisters. I can pretty much read her mind at this point," I say smiling.

"So she can read your mind?" Alan asks intrigued.

"For the most part. I mean I can read your mind pretty easily too. It's not that hard when you know someone since you were a kid."

"Oh, really now?" Alan asks challenging me.

"You really wanna play this game? You guys are pretty easy to read. We have been through this."

"Alright, I'll say something to the guys and you have to guess it."

"Challenge accepted," I say smiling.

I turn my back and they all turn from me as he quickly says what he is thinking about.

"Alright," Gray says.

I turn around and they all look to me with smirks. Playboy you perves. So here is how this works. You look someone dead in the eyes and at least one of them will be thinking about that and their reaction to it is in their face. You can narrow it down from there to what it is. Thanks youtube.

"See you all need to get better lying faces. Your thinking about playboy you pervert's," I say with a small laugh

"You can't lie either," Gray says chuckling.

I knew I was right.

"Ask me three questions and call me out on what I lied on,"

"Are you allergic to anything? Do you have a crush on someone? Have you ever dyed your hair?"

"Yes, yes, and no."

"You have dyed your hair before," Gray says.

"Fair enough. It was temporary, this is all real," I say whipping my hair to fall off my shoulder.

"What are you allergic to?" Mason asks curiously.

"Garlic."

"Your somewhat pale, you can't seem to die and like the night along with being allergic to garlic?"

"No, as awesome as that would be I am not a vampire."

"What about who's your crush?"

"Yeah, like I am actually going to tell any of you."

We continue to talk and soon decide they should spend the night so I grab them all blankets and we all sit in the living room playing video games. Memories of tonight and what happened fade and slip from my mind as we all yell at each other and shove each other trying to make one or the other lose. Right now it's Gray, L.J., Mason and me all against one another.

As we shout and laugh at one another, gunshots sounding from the t.v., Rain and Asher walk in. 

"What are you guys doing?" Asher asks.

"Destroying these guys on kill points, you guys alright?" I say smiling at the screen.

"Yeah, can I play?" Asher asks.

"Come here," I say quickly looking at him and back to the screen.

"What about me? I wanna try!" Rain says.

"No, I get to try first," Asher says giving her an angry face.

"Here Rain, you can help me beat Beth," Mason says looking over at Rain.

"Hah!" Rain says to Asher as she comes and sits next to Mason. 

Asher sits next to me and I show him what to do as he presses the buttons and I work the controls.

Rain and Mason do the same and after a while of sneaking around and killing the enemies, we are all showed the same screen. Great. A boss fight.

"This is boring," Asher says getting up and leaving as a giant fire guy on a horse shows up.

"YAY! I can help Beth!" Rain screams, quickly ditching Mason and sitting on my lap.

"Oh, she just up and left you didn't she Mason?" Alan teases.

"He isn't very good at this game anyway," she says shrugging her shoulders.

"You just got owned by a nine-year-old!" L.J. says laughing.

The battle soon starts and Rain and I get second place, Gray coming in first. Mason in last with L.J. being third. Near the ending, though I take over the controls completely and Rain falls asleep.

"Well, the nine-year-old was right. Mason, your awful at this," Trever says with a chuckle.

"Here, one of you guys can have my controller," I say as Gray takes it from me and passes it to Alan.

I carefully re-position Rain in my arms and stand up with her resting on my hip and arms around my neck.

"I'll be right back."

I carefully make my way upstairs as she stays asleep, only moving once to better bury her face onto my neck. I head to her room and one-handedly move the blankets, setting her in the bed and covering her up carefully, trying not to wake her. As I cover her she curls into a ball and pulls the blanket tighter to her. I go to turn around.

"You're like a pro," Alan says from the doorway.

I flinch and sigh with my hand on my heart. JUST ABOUT DIED FROM FEAR OVER HERE. Note to everyone out there: Don't sneak up on people!

He smirks at me and my scared expression and I stick my tongue out at him.

I head out past him, leaving the door slightly shut behind me and going back to our video games. I sit on the floor, huddled into a small ball as they take all the seats and the floor is comfier. At one point or another, we end up turning it off and going to bed.

I quickly fall into a deep and comfortable sleep, too tired to go to my own bed. Everything was fine. Till a shriek suddenly comes from upstairs.

I quickly jolted up as the scream sounds.

Author's Note:

Hehehe...You all so sure about your ships now? >:)