Hey everyone, this is my first fic so please review and give me tips and pointers on what I should add…. And maybe some constructive criticism anyways I hope you like it.

Max P.O.V.

We were on our way to the next foster home with Anne. I didn't think it would be any different than the rest, Anne said it would be, and Ari was trying to be positive about it, but I could see through the act. Anne said that she knew the mom, Valencia Martinez, personally and that she was a really good woman, but I knew not to trust anybody but Ari.

"Val has two sons, James and Zachary. They prefer to be called Iggy and Gazzy though." Said Anne.

"Okay" I said.

"Gazzy is a few months older than you Max. Ari, Iggy is just a little younger than you."

"Alright" we saidtogether.

It was weird, from the way that Anne had been talking about these people I was starting to feel better about going to the Martinez house. When I looked over at Ari, he had a smile on his face so I knew that he was thinking the same as me. Ari and I didn't have to talk to communicate, over the years we had built up this brotherly sisterly thing that allowed us to talk with our eyes and not our mouths. I thought it was pretty cool how well we could read each other.

A few minutes later Anne pulled up outside a giant and beautiful house that I supposed must have been the Martinez residence. It was a white building with three balconies in the front and stone pillars outside the door. There was the most amazing garden in the front with a little fountain in the middle. This was the most amazing house I had ever seen in my life! (pic of house on profile)

"Oh my god." Those were my only words.

Iggy P.O.V.

Right then we were all in the living room waiting for the two new kids that mom was adopting. I think she said that their names were Max and Ari. Yeah that's right Max and Ari. They had cool names; I wished that my real name was that cool so that I didn't have to use a nickname.

Anyways, I was getting off topic even in my head, so mom told us not to say anything rude or disrespectful because they had hard lives and she said that Max's life had been especially hard. I'm not sure why though, mom wouldn't tell us.

Mom was freaking out at the moment because she wanted things to be perfect when they get here.

"Iggy, you cleaned the bathroom right?" I thought that mom was going to need to sleep a lot once they had settled in, because she had already asked me this four times.

"Yes mom I cleaned the bathroom." I sighed.

"Good, I just wanted to make su…." DING DONG ! She was interrupted by the door bell ringing.

"Oh! That's them… okay come on guys! Gazzy, no farting, Fang, talk I little bit would you please, and Iggy, just try to be normal."

Mom was telling us what she did and didn't want us to do in front of Max and Ari while we were walking to the door.

The first thing that I saw when mom opened the door was the most beautiful girl in the world. I didn't think that girls could be that beautiful without even trying. But honestly this girl, I'm guessing she was Max, she pulled off the natural look of no makeup. "Ahheeeemmmm "

I was pulled out of my thoughts by a deep cough and I turned to see a guy who looked a lot like Max so I assumed that it was her brother Ari.

"Pick up your jaws and stop staring at my sister like that!" snapped Ari.

I looked around and noticed that Fang and Gazzy also were gaping at how beautiful she was.

"Sorry" I told Ari. "I'm Iggy by the way. This is Gazzy, my brother and this is Fang, my best friend."

"I'm Ari," he said, and then pointed to Max beside him, "and this is my baby sister Max."

"I'm not a baby and I can speak for myself" she pouted. Then she perked up and smiled. I swear her smile lit up the room.

"I'm Max, as this idiot already told you, but I figured I would tell you myself too."

"Boys, why don't you go hang out in Iggy's room for a little so that I can talk to Max and Ari." Mom cut in.

"Sure mom." I replied. "See ya later Max, Ari."

Max P.O.V.

Once the other boys left, Dr. Martinez went on to talk about ground rule, and how things worked around the house and just basically anything that needed to be covered.

"So I will be getting you two cell phones as soon as possible. We can go to the mall sometime soon to get completely new clothes if you would like. And then anything else that you need for school and stuff we can get."

"Okay, thank you Dr. Martinez." I smiled at her.

"Oh, please call me mom. Unless you are not comfortable with that,"

"Okay, mom." I smiled as I said this. It had been so long since I called someone mom.

"So when are we going to start school?" Ari jumped into the conversation.

"You are going to start tomorrow unless you feel you need more time to get settled." She answered.

"Okay, that's fine."

"Umm … there is just one thing." We nodded telling her to continue when she looked at us uncertainly. "Would you mind if I ask what has exactly happened in your lives to get you bounced around from foster home to foster home?"

My smile fell a little bit but not fully. I looked at Ari and I nodded, he knew that he would have to tell the story because it was worse for me to tell.

"Well," Ari started, "it began when our mom died, Max was five and I was six. Once mom died dad started to come home drunk out of his mind, then one day Max accidentally spilt her water on him and he snapped and hit her. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen. Then the hitting became more frequent and he was hitting both of us. The whole time I thought that he was only hitting us, but it turned out that from the time that Max was five to the time that she was ten he had been raping her almost every night." I shudder at the memories, "When he had his buddies over they would all get drunk and use her as their little sex toy. One day I had to talk to Max, so I went to her room and walked right in. what I saw was the worst thing in the world for me. Dad was there in Max's room on top of her and pounding into her, hard, harder than any ten year old girl should be able to take. I walked out of the room and called the cops who showed up right away."

While Ari had been telling the story I zoned out and slipped right into a horrible memory.

Memory

I was lying in bed enjoying my freedom while daddy was out. I had my music on and I was reading a really good book that my friend let me borrow. This was what I always did when daddy was out.

I had just gotten to a really good part in the book when I heard the front door slam. I quickly hid the book and turned off my music, just before daddy came into my room.

"Hey baby girl" he slurred, "daddy's had a rough day at work," he said while coming closer to me, "will you help me take away some of the stress please?"

I was still scared even though this was what he always did. I shook my head no and I saw his eyes go angry.

"Well you have to" he said right before tackling me to my bed and ripping my clothes off like he always did. He got undressed too, then as quickly as he could he pushed right into me. I tried to scream but he had his hand over my mouth so that I could not speak or scream.

"That's it baby." He moaned as he started going faster and faster, harder and harder. It hurt so much and the only thing that I could think was "how can he do this is his own daughter?"

After a while of him going on like that, I heard the door open, daddy didn't notice though. I looked over and there was Ari. He put a finger to his mouth telling me to be quite for a minute. Then he left, I knew he was going to call the cops.

Around 10 minutes later the police were pulling him off of me and Ari was pulling me into his arms and hugging me. But the only thing that I could think while Ari was hugging me was what daddy had said while they were pulling him off me, "I will come back for you. Just you wait. No one else can have you, you're mine."

End Memory

When I snapped out of that horrible memory I realised that Ari was hugging me close to him in his arms and everyone had come back downstairs and was staring at me.

"Are you okay?" Iggy tried to come over and put his hand on my shoulder in a comforting gesture but I moved away from him and closer to Ari.

"Max, it's okay, he won't hurt you. No one here will hurt you. You're safe now, it's okay." Ari tried to comfort me.

"It's not okay, it's not okay. I'm not safe, I'm not safe.!"

"Max you are safe. You're fine!" he was yelling then trying to get through to me.

"NO! He's going to come get me!" I was shrieking.

"Max calm down, please, can you do that for me?" Ari asked me. I nodded. "Okay, first of all, who is gonna come get you?"

I looked up into his eyes with my pained brown ones, "Daddy" the one word felt like bricks in my throat.

"What? No Max, he's gone forever. He can't come anywhere near you. What even makes you think that he would come after you? "

"He told me"

Okay, so I just reread this and realised how badly I switch from past and present tense, and how bad my spelling was. So I edited it and reposted it.

Also, I am typing out the next chapter right now, plus I will edit the second chapter before I post the third.

Thanks for staying with me guys even though I never update. 3