A/N: Chapter three done. Read and review please and thank you.

October came and it has been four months since Lexi moved in. All was forgotten between Ty and Lexi and the guitar lessons. However, he never heard her sing. On the first day of October Ty heard a beautiful noise coming from the fire escape. He stuck his head out of his window and saw Lexi leaning on the rain. He stepped onto the fire escape and silently walked up the steps.

"Hi Lexi," Ty said shyly.

"Oh hi Ty," Lexi said turning around and wiping the tears off of her face but more kept coming down.

Ty saw her shiver at the cold October air and he noticed how she was only wearing a tanktop and before he ran down the stairs his eyes quickly scanned her curves. In record time he returned with his favorite pullover sweater and put it on her without a word.

"Thank you," she said sniffling.

"Are you okay."

"Ehh."

"Is there a blanket in your room we can sit on?"

She nodded and he retrieved the blanket setting it down on the fire escape and they sat down with Lexi looking at Ty.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ty asked.

"You wouldn't understand you have a great family."

"I mean I have my sister and my mom and we rarely fight."

"I have my older brother Daniel who is twenty-two, my older sister Maria who is nineteen, my younger sister Catherine who is twelve, and my younger brother Michael who is ten. What happened to your dad?"

"My dad and mom got a divorce when I was ten but I see him every other week."

Lexi sniffled, "My mom divorced my dad when I was seven, and I didn't see him for three years. Turns out he was cheating on my mom for two years and for half of their marriage he was also a father to another family in Puerto Rico. However, he started paying child welfare and I see him every time he comes by. In those three years he managed to become stinking rich. My mom has a really good job now and she also makes money but she hasn't gotten into a relationship in a while."

Ty was about to pull her closer when more rain started to pour down and they had to stand up. Lexi was about to pull off the sweater.

"Keep it, and if you want to talk you can just come down the fire escape," Ty said smiling and jumping into his room.

Later that night Ty put on some plaid pajama bottoms and jumped into his bed. Earlier that afternoon after they parted ways there were sounds of slamming doors, stomping feet, and incoherent yelling. Now the soft pitter patter of feet was heard above and Ty fell asleep.

That didn't last long because Ty was woken up by a knocking at his window. He quickly looked at the clock and saw that it was three in the morning. Half asleep he made his way to the window tripping over something and that woke him up. He opened the window and found a tearful Lexi and at the sight of a shirtless Ty she couldn't hide the blush creeping onto her face. Ty moved aside and Lexi entered the room.

"Is everything okay Lexi?"

"I had a nightmare," she said sitting onto the couch.

Ty shut the window and walked over sitting down next to her forgetting he was shirtless.

"About what?"

"My brother."

"Daniel or Michael?"

"Neither."

Ty raised an eyebrow and Lexi took a deep breath.

"I had an older brother, well he was only a year older but he was older. His name was James, and uh he died a few months ago."

Ty watched as her bottom lip trembles and tears rolled down her face like a waterfall.

"In New York he got involved with a lot of the wrong people and he often got in a lot of fights and he was arrested. Our mom decided to move so we can get away from all of this. She chose Chicago because she grew up here before she moved to New York. So a week before we were about to move he goes missing. Umm we thought the worst at first but we tried to gain as much hope as possible. So the police searched for him and umm a day before we were going to move we got a phone call.

"I'll never forget it. It was late afternoon and my mom answered the phone. It was four of us. Daniel and Maria were at collage and they had finals so they couldn't come home. So I was the oldest child there. Umm my mom turned ghostly white and dropped the phone, picked it up said something into it and was taking us to the police station. We were taken to the city morgue and while I waited with my brother and sister while my mother went into the back room.

"A few minutes later a police officer told me to come with him and another police officer stayed with my younger siblings. I followed and I saw my mom crying on the floor. At first I couldn't recognize him. He had multiple bruises on his face but it was him. The scariest thing was the gunshot wound. It was in the middle of his forehead, and then there were the two stab wounds in his gut. It was a gruesome sight and I'm happy the little ones didn't see that. But I can't get that sight out of my head."

Ty pulled Lexi closer and le her cry until he realized she was asleep. He slowly lifted her up and placed her in his bed, pulling the blanket halfway up. He jumped onto his couch and fell asleep.

The next day Lexi woke up to an unfamiliar sight and she looked around the room. She got up slowly and walked towards the door. She opened it and tiptoed out of the room and into the kitchen. Lexi saw Ty setting the table with breakfast on it. Lexi seemed to preoccupied with the fact that Ty didn't have a shirt on that she bumped into the table in the hall. Ty looked up and to smile at Lexi but his boyish mind made him look down at her exposed legs and he turned away before she realized it. Lexi sat down at the table and tried to remember last night's events but her mind came up blank. Ty sat down diagonal to Lexi and was about to take a bite of scrambles eggs when Lexi spoke.

"Umm did we umm ya know," Lexi said eyeing Ty's torso and her exposed legs.

Ty chuckled and before he took a sip of his orange juice said, "No you're still pure."

"Oh. I wasn't pure to start with," Lexi said taking a bite of her scrambled eggs.

Ty swallowed his orange down the wrong pipe and he started coughing and when he recovered he looked at Lexi.

"What? Seriously?"

"Ty I was kidding," Lexi said with a smile on her face.

"Ok so we still on for the mall later?"

Lexi nodded her head but looked at the clock and noticed she had to get ready. She kissed Ty on the cheek and ran out of the room.