Blood. . . So much blood. It was everywhere; on the floor, on the walls, on the windows and doors. Even on the man and woman laying on the floor. It was their blood in the first place.

My little four-year-old eyes just couldn't look at it all at once.

"M-. . . M-Mommy? D-Daddy?" I whispered, but screamed when the man looked down at me through the crack in the door of the closet that my mother and father had hidden me in.

"Hello, child...come on out of there and I will help you," The man purred while his red luster eyes said something totally different.

His eyes were saying 'Come out, child, so I can eat you'.

But, before he could get to me, he froze as his face was lit up by lights coming in through the window. He looked up, making a 'tsk' sound and then running out of the room, disappearing from my sight.

Even after I thought he was gone, I kept shaking. But, when I heard the sound of the front door being forced open, I gasped, scared that it was the scary man again. There were footsteps leading into the room, but I found it difficult to see through the crack in the closet door. Had he come back?

"Oh, my."

"Cross, it doesn't look like we made it in time," I heard a male's voice tell another. I realized then that I could hear more footsteps in my house, people searching but, looking for what, I had no clue.

I couldn't see what they were doing as the two moved about the room, speaking to one another. As they were turning to leave, I accidentally hiccupped, about to start crying again. There was no noise after that and I thought everyone was gone, but that's when one man opened the closet door, looking in and finding me just sitting there, crying.

I didn't know what to do; I didn't know if he was good or bad. Was he here to hurt me like the first man did to my parents? Or, was he here to help me? Was he a cop?

'He doesn't look like the cops,' I thought while looking up into his light brown eyes which were shielded slightly by his glasses. He looked down at me with gentle eyes, then showed me a soft little smile.

"Hello, there...it's okay. I'm here to help you," He told me as he knelt down in front of me and started to reach out to me. But, before he could touch me, I bit him, hard enough with my little teeth to draw blood.

"Well, aren't you a cute little one," He whispered to me, wincing slightly from the pain but not pulling his hand from my mouth.

He looked back behind him at my parents' bodies, his attention drawn to them. When looked back at me, he reached his other hand out to me and gently set it on my cheek.

I just stared up at him, realizing that maybe he wasn't there to hurt me.

"See? I'm not going to hurt you, I'm here to help you," He whispered as his face softened even more than before. I released his hand and just started crying as I lunged towards him, hugging him. "There, there; it's okay. You're safe now."

He shifted, picking me up into his arms and carrying me from the room, from the bodies of my parents and out into the cold night.


"Okay, Class. . . Today I would like all of you to pay the most attention because tomorrow will be-"

"Um. . . Teacher? The Cross girls and Kiryu are asleep."

The Teacher got annoyed, once again, and started yelling at us.

"Yuki Cross! Zero Kiryu! Lexi Cross! Wake up now or I will make you stay after class!" He yelled. He knew that he was going to make us stay after class anyways because we do this everyday.

"I'm awake!" Yuki yelled as she sat up straight.

"Cross. You, your sister and Kiryu are staying after class, once again."

"Aw!" Yuki said as she pouted in her seat.

After class is when I finally woke up because Yuki and her friend, Yori, woke me up.

"Lexi, you should wake up because if you don't, then your going to get in huge trouble." Yuki told me. I just turned my head away from her and tried to go back to sleep until Yori whispered in my ear.

"Lexi. . . If you don't get up, then I bet Zero will get you because he's glaring at you."

I turned my head and glared at her. "Really. . . ?" I said as I sat up and stretched. "Fine. . . But why should I get up? It's not like we're doing anything fun."

"Lexi." I whipped my head around to look up behind me at Zero. He was looking down at me with that look that meant 'You better behave or else'.

I looked back down at my deck and pouted, but also blushed a little. We sat there for at least an hour, until the teacher didn't want to keep us any longer.

"Okay, you can go now." And as soon as those words left the teachers lips, I was out the door.

I ran to the Headmasters office and as soon as I saw him, I hugged him.

"Whoa, Lexi. . . Aw! My little girl loves me!" He exclaimed. He hugged me back, thinking that I was hugging him for the love.

Since he was like this, I didn't want to worry him about me. It wouldn't be the first time I've kept secrets from someone.

Someone came in and that's when I looked up at the door to see Zero. I looked at him and gave him a small smile. I knew that he wasn't going to return it, but it was still worth a try.

"Zero? What are you doing? And where is Yuki?" Cross ask. Zero went walking and hit the desk. That caused me to jump a mile.

"Headmaster! Yuki won't take this seriously! She was just zooming out on Kuran, again." Zero complained.

I couldn't help but giggle. He always says thing's like this about Yuki and Kaname. I stood up and stretched.

"Come on, Zero. . . I'll try to help out. . . But I don't know what all I can do." I said while he tried to pull away from me. He never liked me touching him. Maybe it's because for the first week, I acted as if he wasn't there. I didn't even start to talk, look and touch him until a whole month had pasted.