Talking

"Welcome to home sweet home." I said, throwing open the door to my house. The first thing I saw was the blinking red light on the answering machine. I let it play.

Hey April. My mom's voice said, It's now three AM and I'm guessing you have your music on and didn't hear the phone. I won't be home tonight, I'm staying at Tony's. I'll see you tomorrow.

I stared at the phone angrily. I heard Tom walk over to me and pull me into a hug. "You OK?" He asked. I only nodded in response. This is the first time she's done that. I thought. They must be getting serious. I fell into Tom's warm body. "How about I stay with you until your mom gets here?" I nodded again and he just held me.

After a while I looked up. "Thanks Tom."

He gently gave my body a squeeze. "It's no problem, really."

I started to explain. "I guess it's just that she's never done that before. Like, I know it has been six years since dad died but it's weird thinking about her being serious with another guy."

Tom shushed me. "I understand. Bill and I went through that when our mom met Gordon." All of a sudden his stomach rumbled. "Can I have something to eat?"

I giggled. "Follow me." We walked into the spacious kitchen and I pointed, "There's the fridge, help yourself."

He helped himself to leftover steak and potatoes. We sat down and watched some TV. It was a few hours later when my mom walked in. "Hey April!" Her smile faltered for less than a second when she saw Tom. "Hello?"

He stood and mom's eyes followed him up. He stood a good six inches above her small body. "Hello Mrs. Jackson, I'm Tom Kaulitz."

I swore my mom was about to faint dead away. "Please, call me Cynthia." They shook hands. "So, what brings you to my house?"

He looked towards me and I nodded. He turned back to my mom. "Do you know that April climbed two stories into my hotel room?" She nodded. "Well I knew her from that experience. We were getting back from clubbing last night and there was a person in the street, it turned out to be April, and a car was coming. I shouted but it was to late, the car hit her. She was a little intoxicated," Mom glared at me. "And hurt so I wouldn't let her come home until this morning. I bought her a hotel room instead."

"Thank you so much, but it still doesn't explain why you're sitting on my couch with you arm around my daughter."

"Mom!" I jumped up. "We've become friends. Just relax, OK?"

Mom sighed. "I'm sorry. It's just, you're famous. I don't want April hurt."

"No problem," Tom smiled at her. "I should probably be getting back before Bill sends out a search party anyway. Goodbye Cynthia."

I followed him to the door. I stood on tip-toe and kissed his cheek. "Thanks again Tom. Bye."

I walked back into the living room and mom quickly closed the distance between us. "You became friends?!" I nodded. She smiled then her face changed once again to a look of worry. "Are you OK? Tom said you were hit by a car." She ran a finger over the bruise on my forehead and the scrape on my cheek. I winced slightly. "Where else do you hurt baby?"

"My ribs hurt a little."

"I'm taking you to the doctor right away."

She whipped out her cell and I tried to protest. "But mom, I'm fine!"

"No, you're not. Just listen to me for once OK?" She looked like she was about to cry so I nodded.

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"Well Ms. Jackson, you have a couple cracked ribs plus some scrapes and bruises. You should be fine. Just make sure you take it easy for a couple of weeks." He smiled as mom sighed. "That means no sports, no partying, and no sex." I blushed at the last part and mom coughed slightly.

"OK, thank you." I had been going to this doctor since I was a little kid. He knew that I haven't been a virgin since I was fourteen. We said one last goodbye and walked out of the clinic.

XXX

"I'm coming, hold your horses!" I screamed over my music. I ran to the door and flung it open. "Sammy." I started and stopped, all of a sudden a lot more weary of my outfit. I was wearing a sports bra and a pair of shorts. "Tom! What are you doing here?!"

He looked me over. "I came to visit. The guys are boring and I wasn't doing anything else."

"Well come in then."

He walked to the living room. "Well, you probably know we have a few weeks off." I nodded. "Since your stunt, we decided to buy our own place here because we spend so much time in L.A. anyway. I wanted to come over and give you instructions on how to get there considering I want you to come over." I raised an eyebrow at this and he continued. "So will you come over tonight?"

"Sure." I smiled at him.

He looked at me and something changed. "What happened? It's been two months since I last saw you, your bruises should be gone." He gently touched the big bruise on my left side. Then he grabbed my arm and lightly traced the bruises along my arm. "Who did this to you?"

I tried to pull away. "It's nothing."

"April." His voice was soft. "Will you please tell me what's been going on here?"

A single tear escaped my eyes as I nodded. I needed to tell someone, somebody who wasn't Sammy, Danny, or Jessica. Tom sat down and gently pulled me to sit on him and I started to explain the last two months since I had visited the doctor. "Mom's boyfriend, Tony, moved in with us about two weeks after the partying incident. He was super nice but about three weeks ago, that changed. He never hit mom, but he'd hit and kick me and he even tried to force himself on me." I paused for a second and listened to Tom breathe. "I told Sam one day and he told my mom. Tony got arrested and it turns out, he had beat his ex-wife until she was hospitalized and was on probation. That was two days ago. The bruises just haven't disappeared yet."

Tom's breath hitched. We sat like that for along time. The next time I opened my eyes, I was lying slightly on top of Tom. The guitarist wasn't asleep and he kissed my forehead. "Would you like to go for supper with me before we go to my place?"

I nodded. "I need to get ready." I stood up and Tom followed. "What are you doing?"

"I'm coming with you. Don't worry, I won't peek." I just laughed and let him come along.

XXX

Tom slowly opened the door to the house that was illuminated in light. Wee walked up to his room, hand in hand. We met Georg on the stairs. "Bill was looking for you." He told Tom, who nodded.

Tom opened a door that I assumed to be his. Boy was I surprised when we came face to face with Bill. "Hey Bill!" I exclaimed, smiling.

"Hi." Was all he said and he turned to Tom. "Mom called today. She wanted me to tell you she's coming over here."

"Thanks for telling me. We're gonna go talk in my room." Bill rolled his eyes and shut the door in our faces. Tom shrugged, "Let's go." We went to the next door and walked into his room.

"Wow." The word escaped my lips. His room was just 'wow'.

He grinned, "Come sit down." He lad me to a couch. We sat there and talked. I told him about when my dad died and he told me about his parent's divorce. Gradually we opened up more and more to each other. We fell asleep on the huge couch.

"Wake up Tomi." I was leaning over him with a leg on either side of his waist. His eyes opened. "Morning." I smiled down at him.

He lifted his head and kissed me. We were making out with Tom on top of me when the door burst open. "Sorry." A girl blushed.

"Who the hell was that?" I asked, pulling away.

"The maid." He blushed. "I'm usually awake and eating breakfast by three PM." He laughed now.

"It's three?" I asked in amazement.

"Yeah. Do you need to get home?"

"No. Mom probably thinks I'm at a friends. I hardly stayed at home the last two months." He nodded. "Now let's get back to where we left off." We started kissing again.

XXX

Tom and I had gone to my house and grabbed some stuff. It had been a full week since then, and I had stayed at the boys house every night and even met their mom. "April," Georg called up the stairs. "You mom is on the phone!"

"Ok! I've got the extension!" I called back. "Hey mom." She sounded funny. "Mom, what's wrong?"

She sighed and I could here her fidgeting on the other line. "It's Tony. If we don't leave soon, I'm scared he'll come back to us."

"Mom, calm down. Why would he come back?"

"Because all of his things are at the house. Not to mention they told me he and his wife had separated two times before he beat her that night."

I ran a hand through my black hair, causing shafts of light to reflect in the neon blue streaks. "Want me to talk to Tom or Simone? Maybe we can find a place in Magdeburg."

"Sure. Hon, we need to be leaving as soon as possible." Was the last thing she said before hanging up.

"What's wrong April?" A quiet voice asked. I knew it wasn't Tom because he had gone out. I looked up from where I was sitting in the hallway to the tall dark-haired boy in front of me.

"Umm, Mom and I have a bit of a problem." He raised his eyebrows as he slid down the wall to settle next to me. "Tony's going to be looking for us. Mom wants to move."

He tried to comfort me when tom walked in. "I'm home!" He started climbing up the stairs. When he saw Bill and I he forgot to hold up his jeans and he tripped.

"Tom!" I scrambled to help him. "Are you OK?"

He smirked. "I got a booboo. Will you kiss it better?"

I grinned and nodded. "Where does it hurt?"

"Here." He pointed to his elbow and I gently placed my lips on it. "And here," Next he pointed to his shoulder. Finally he pointed to his lips. "And here." I kissed his lips gently before his tongue decided to do a dance. Bill gave a grunt of disgust and brushed past us. After a few minutes we were interrupted by a soft cough. "Yes?"

"Could you tow maybe get a room or something?" Gustav laughed. He had really opened up this last week the more we got to know each other.

"Okay." I grabbed Tom's hand and drug him to his room.

"So what's wrong April? You looked sad or something when I walked in." Tom pulled away from me.

"Yeah. I need to talk to you about something." We sat on his bed, he looked worried. "It's Tony, mom and I need to move away or else he may come for us again." He looked somewhat relieved before I had said sank in.

"So where are you going to go?"

"Mom actually was wondering if your mom know of any places in Magdeburg that we could move into. I have to ask her."

Tom got a look on his face. "You don't need to buy a place, you could probably stay with us. I mean, we just had a big house built for us guys. It has a lot of extra rooms that you could use." He was grinning like a fool now.

"Tom!" I was shocked that he had proposed that. "How much would we pay for rent?" I decided it was worth asking.

"Nothing."

"No, we'd pay. Otherwise mom won't stay."

"Well, we can talk to my mom later. Right now let's get back to where we left off."

XXX

"Mom," Tom pulled aside Simone before the three of them talked. "April and her mom have run into a problem. I told April that they could stay at our house in Germany. Please say it's OK then I only have to worry about the guys."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" She asked him.

"Mom, they need to get away. Cynthia's ex-boyfriend is a psycho. He beat on April and they think he'll come back." He begged his mom. "Please?"

She nodded. "Did you say he beat April?"

"Yeah, he also tried to rape her. He did the same thing with his ex-wife and her family."

"Of course they can stay with you. Will they be moving soon?"

"Now that we have your OK, I think the guys will agree and we'll start moving them as soon as possible."

"Ok Tom." She walked off.

XXX

"So it's OK with you?" I asked Simone in disbelief.

She nodded. "The boys could use some girls around to keep them proper. Not to mention the house is empty when they're gone on tour."

"Thank you so much!" I hugged the older lady. "Thank you too, Tom!" I hugged him also.

"Now we just have to convince the boys. I don't think it will be to hard though!" Tom stated.

The three of us walked into the game room where the other boys were. We all sat down and Tom and I explained what had happened. Finally I was the one to ask. "So, Tom said we could maybe stay at your place in Germany, is that OK with all of you?" They all nodded and I slumped in my seat. "Thank you so much." A tear slid down my cheek.

"Welcome to the Tokio Hotel family!" Georg exclaimed, giving me a hug.

I smiled a watery smile at all of them. "Thanks again." I hugged all of them. When I reached Bill, he held onto me tightly.

"You will always be welcome, don't think you wouldn't be." He whispered in my ear before he let go.

Author's Notes:

Hey guys! Thanks for reviews on all stories!! Hugglz! I hope u like where this is going... this chappy had more drama than humor.

I do not own Tokio Hotel, as much as I wish i did...

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