Kestrel's POV

After the... creepy neighbor chick woman left, I start my pot of water again. Because I am fucking hungry.

I hear a knock at the door as I put the two packs of ramen noodles in the water. Because I am fucking hungry. I jump back as I put the noodles in the water, making it boil over. My parents always got mad when I made these because I didn't clean up after myself. Much. I, of course, clean up the water on the floor. Because I don't wanna step in water when I'm wearing socks. Which is always. I hear another knock. Rolling my eyes I walk to the door.

Heaving it open I stare at the woman in front of me. short red hair, gorgeous... Okay, Kestrel. Get cool. I tell myself and I quickly lean against the door frame and smirk at the woman.

"How may I help you?" I ask, looking the woman over completely. She's dressed in a maid outfit that clings to body perfectly, and her legs seem endless. She smirks back at me and leans against the door frame, her face getting close to mine.

"My name's Moira," She starts in a flirtatiously airy tone. "I was the maid for the past owners, and I really need the money. I'd hate to have to sell myself to men. So I was wondering if You'd like me to stick around? Clean up any messes you make..." At this, her eyes flick up and down my body.

"Well... there is a mess I've already made... Perhaps I could see how good you can clean?" I suggest. She smirks again and follows me through the house. When we reach the kitchen I hand Moira a towel and show her where the water was spilt, taking the pot off the burner and turning it off.

I sit on top of the kitchen table and watch Moira wipe the water up. She bends over the stove, sticking her perfect ass out towards me, every so often looking back at me with lust in her eyes.

eventually I can't take it anymore and hop off the table. She immediately stands up straight as I wrap my arms around her waist, pressing my chest to her back. I plant quick kisses on her neck and make my way to her shoulders. She turns around and our lips crash together. I start backing up until I feel my ass hit the table, then I turn us around and Moira sits on it. She wraps her legs around me, pulling me closer, and I faintly register that Valentine's band starts to play.

Sliding my hand under the skirt of Moira's dress I rub her slightly, making her gasp. I smirk at her. Letting go of my neck she shimmies out of her underwear and kisses me fiercely again. I pull her to the edge of the table and enter her with two fingers. Gasping again she stops kissing me and rests her forehead on my shoulder, letting out small whimpers as I pump inside of her, curling my fingers sometimes. Kissing her neck I start marking her, making a small "K" with hickeys. I feel her tighten around me and hear her breathing become heavy. With one last curl of my fingers Moira lets out a small whimper and moans into my shoulder.

We stay like that, holding each other and trying to catch our breath, until we hear the door open. Jumping away from Moira I check to see who it is.

"Valerie!" A woman yells. I feel my stomach drop. It's at least our mother. Turning the corner I see her and Ally covered in cat scratches, with Alex standing next to them. I guess they learned Hellfire doesn't like to be away from his mom. Mother's holding a black bag.

"Hey, Kestrel." Alex growls. He finds something about me disgusting, so he leaves me alone. Mom turns and looks at me.

"Who was that we saw you whoring around with?" She spits out at me. I glare at her. Making a show of licking Moira's juices off my fingers, I then turn around and leave the room. I go back into the kitchen. Moira's disappeared, and my noodles are back on the burner. Testing them, I add the broth to the water and stir.

"Reign!" I hear Valentine scream. I roll my eyes. Reign, Reign, Reign. I only tolerate him for Valentine's sake. I eat my noodles in silence, thinking of what to do in my next video.

"That bitch came out of nowhere!" I shout into my mic. My gaming friends laughing. We're playing Minecraft.

"Did you make it?" Christian ask me.

"Did my name show up at the bottom of the screen?" I reply. "I had half health, too! He had surprise and full health, And I still beat him!"

"Where are you?"Mairi asks me.

"Somewhere. Stuffing my face with cake."

"Tell me! Please?"

"No. You'll kill me."

"Pfft! As if!" Insert bad poker face.

"Oh! Person's coming." Christian hushes us. There's normally four of us, but Emily isn't on tonight. Even though this is our normal night we always record. "Got him." Christian states. I find Mairi and take out my bow. She stops and starts eating something. Pressing shift I smirk as I power up my bow. Lining it up, I let go.

"What the fuck?!" Mairi shouts. Smirking again I ask what happened. "Somebody just shot me, and I don't know where they are!" I hit her again. "Oh my god!"

"Where's Emily, anyway?" I ask. I hear Christian take a breath to talk, but Mairi interrupts.

"I'm being sniped, fearing for my life, and you're asking where Emily is?!"

"I'm curious!"

"She said she needed a break." Christian answers. I shoot Mairi again.

"This person needs to just stop." Mairi squeaks. I line up the shot, and let go. Everybody's silent as Mairi finds out who her killer is.

"You bitch!" Me and Christian laugh.

"I'm gonna go to bed after this."

"I remember when you'd stay up all night. Now it's like you're tired all the time." I hear the sadness in Christian's voice.

"I'm just going through a bit of a rough patch." I say quickly. "But I think it'll be over soon. And we'll be staying up all night again." The game quickly ends and we say our good nights, disconnecting.

I lay on my bed in boxers and a cami. I look over at my kindle through the darkness of my room. I sigh and grab it, pulling up YouTube. I watch me and Emily's first video together. It's only two minutes and awkward... When we first became friends. I watch a video about six months after that. When we were dating. She sneaks kisses an my cheeks and I do the same... I feel tears start to slide down my face.

After watching a few more videos of us together, I turn my kindle off. I can barely see the screen. Before the screen goes black and the sound cuts off I see her kiss me on the lips, and say three heartbreaking words: I love you.

I can barely breathe as I cry. Standing up I punch the wall repeatedly. I feel someone pull me into their arms and gently hush me. Collapsing onto them their perfume surrounds me. They pull me onto my bed and I curl into them, almost choking on my tears. I stay like that for what seems like forever, listening to them whisper sweet things into my ear. Finally, I drift off to sleep.

Valentine's POV

After I got in the band room I pretended nothing had happened. My face easily hid what I was really feeling with a mask of normality. I dropped Hellfire onto the ground and looked at the rest of the band. They gave me a look that asked 'What was that about?'

"My mother brought my cat back." I said leaning down and petting Hellfire softly. They hesitantly excepted that answer. After practice everyone went home, Except for Reign. Reign never liked going home. I already knew why he didn't want to go home, but one night I had asked him anyway.

"That house isn't a home. It's just four walls and a roof. A place to sleep when I need it, but it's not my home. A home is a place that I look forward to coming back to, a place where family greets me with joy. You are my home. You are my only family." I knew what he meant. Reign's family left him. When I say that they left him... I mean they left the planet without him. His mother hung herself in her bedroom, his dad swallowed a bullet three days later. Neither of them left a note. Reign was ten years old and found both of their bodies. He spent the rest of his life in foster care. House after house.

I looked over at him. His long beautiful eyelashes danced in the moonlight that came in through the window in the now empty bandroom. I reached over and grabbed his hand and started dragging with me out of the room.

"I haven't shown you my room yet." At that he stopped resisting and followed me into the attic. We stopped and I turned and looked at him. He looked around then turned to me and raised and eyebrow. I smiled at him, then I started to push the bookshelf that I had moved in front of the vent. Seeing what I was doing, Reign grabbed the other side of the bookshelf and pulled. I pulled the vent panel off and climbed in, Reign followed. When I reached the end I started climbing down the ladder. I turned on the light and turned to him. "Ta-da!" I said and raised my arms and gestured to my room.

"Cool." He said with almost no emotion.

"Cool?" I said mocking his tone. "Cool?"I said again. Suddenly I tackle him. He was expecting it but he let me push him to the ground anyway. "This room is amazing!" I say. Then I sit on top of him. "Say it or else!" I yell humourously.

"Do your worst!"He yelled back, laughing. A large grin makes its home on my face. We begin to wrestle, getting twisted in odd angles, dodging punches and Reign's attempt to kick me. Due to the fact that he was larger than me we ended up with him on top of me, holding me down. We were both panting and gasping for air. Sweat dripped down both of our necks. We both burst into laughter. But suddenly I realise how close he is. His face is only inches away from mine. I have the sudden urge to lean up and kiss him... He smiles down at me, it's enough to make my heart melt. Wait, when did I become such a girly girl, ughhhhhh. Damn hormones. Suddenly a look crosses his face as he realises how close we are.

I expect him to get up but he doesn't... Instead he closes the distance between us. His lips are on mine before I even knew what was happening. My body reacted to his almost immediately, my fingers snaked through his black hair. My other hand grabbed his neck. His hands, one was holding my cheek the other held me securely by my hip. Years of frustratingly loving him showed themselves in this one kiss. All my frustration came out now. I pull away in need for air, when I look up I don't see Reign's beautiful blue eyes. Instead I see green eyes the color of leaves in a forest, and white hair that falls in his face. My brother. I try to run away but my brother has me pinned to the ground. I kick him but he won't budge. Suddenly my bedroom melts away and I'm in my parents' house. Back in my old bed. He starts pulling off my clothes, I cry out for help. I scream. I jerk up to get away from him, even though I know it won't work, except, it did. I sit up and look around. He's gone. I'm in my bed but I'm not at my parents' house, I'm back at my house. Reign jolts awake and sees me crying.

"It was only a nightmare." he says soothingly but he makes no move to hug me, knowing I don't want to be touched. He knew exactly what I had dreamed about. I let out one sob then I wrap my arms around him. Almost immediately he gently puts his arm around me. I look up at him and see he's crying too. I wipe a tear away.

"I hate seeing you like this. I hate what he's done to you." He says as we both cry. I snuggle into his neck. "I love you." He whispers in my hair. I knew what he meant. He meant I love you in the best friend way.

"I love you too." I whispered back, but didn't mean it in a friend way. He layed back down and I curled up on his chest. Soon I felt myself drift to sleep.

"If only you knew what those words actually meant when I said them." I thought I heard him whisper right before I fell asleep.

When I woke up the next day Reign was still sleeping, his long slightly muscular arms help me by my hips. I tried to slowly worm my way out of his grip. His eyes snapped open.

"Ugh..." He wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me closer. "Don't leave..." He whined. I struggled to get out of his grip. His arms were just too strong.

"Let me goooo..." I said struggling more. I pushed against Reign's slightly muscular bare chest. He never wears a shirt when he sleeps. I am definitely not complaining though. I looked up and studied his face.

He looked beautiful like this. Calm. He has long dark eyelashes that frame his sleeping eyes perfectly. His eyes are beautiful, but his face is what makes every girl fall for him. His face is flawless. No pimples or lines. He's also got a face that's perfect in every place. His eyes aren't too far apart but not too close together. His nose wasn't too big or too small. Don't even get me started on his lips... but none of that was what made me love him. What easily stole my heart was his kindness and his humour. Suddenly realising where I am I begin to squirm trying to break free. I get an idea and send an evil grin toward his sleeping face.

I bring my mouth to his neck and stick my tounge out I lick his neck. He sits up fast than a speeding bullet ans grabs his neck.

"Ewwwwww! Gross!"He shouts.

"We have to get up." I say.

"Whyyy" He whines back at me.

"We have a party to plan." I say.

"Oh... Okay." I know what you're thinking -Valentine, you should be at school on a Thursday.- But, Reign and I dropped out after the band started getting really popular.

after setting up for the party all day, Reign went home. When Kes came home she went straight to her room then came out seconds later carrying a bag containing clothes. She held her kindle in one hand and her phone in the other.

"I'm spending the night at Mairi's house." She said as she walked out the house, slamming the door behind her. I sighed and sat down on the couch. I turned to a channel I liked and wasted a couple of hours watching that. When I look up it's already night. My stomach growls in hunger. I walk in the kitchen but then I decide I want pizza. I quickly find my phone and order.

Something in the speaker's tone changes when I tell her my address. If I didn't know better I would say it was fear... after the phone call I brush it off as a figment of my imagination. Thirty minutes later I hear a knock on the door. Pizza's here.

I lazily get up and grab my money off the table. I walk over to the door and open it. The man in front of me is not the pizza man, but he is holding a pizza box. I know this man isn't a pizzaman because I know his face too well, I know his white hair and green eyes too well. I know him from my nightmares that I have almost every night. I know him because he's my brother. My eyes widen. He opens his mouth to say something but doesn't get to because he's interrupted by me slamming the door in his face. In my terror I forgot to lock the door.

I run up the stairs. Seconds later the door opens and closes. His heavy feet give away his place in the house. He isn't far behind me. He chases me up the stairs. I only get halfway up when his hand tightens around my ankle and trips me. My head comes down and hits a step. I feel his hands grab my shoulders. I reach up and touch my head. It comes back wet. Blood. Alex flips me over and looks me in the eye.

"This wouldn't have happened if you wouldn't have ran." he said. He leans down and kisses me on the mouth. Suddenly I feel light-headed and lose consciousness. Black surrounds me and my body feels like lead.

When I wake up I'm in a completely different room. I'm lying on a bed. I move to sit up but find that two metal handcuffs were my hands to the headboard. My legs are spread apart and chained as well. I realise when I look down that I'm naked. It only takes a second for that information to click in my mind.

"No. No. No no no..." I whisper frantically. Tears start to cascade down my face as I yank at my chains. "No" I say in a defeated sob. The door opens and Alex stands in the doorway holding an object. I'm not sure of what it is, it's so small I can barely see it.

He's wearing pants but no shirt. He's muscular and he isn't really beautiful but he definitely isn't ugly. He could have any girl he wanted so... Why me? I feel myself blush as he looks up and down my body. I want to cover myself but I can't.

"How long have I been asleep?"I asked quietly.

"Two days. You hit your head really hard." He says. "I was worried. I thought you would die..." He continued with genuine concern.

"Two days?" Weren't Reign and Kestrel looking for me? He stepped closer and I could see what was in his hand. A razor blade."Where am I?"I asked.

"A completely different state."

"Why do you have that razor blade?" At that he smirked at me. he moved it in his fingers until he was holding it the way he would hold a pencil. He brought it to the bare skin directly under my stomach, but he didn't cut.

"Ask it." He told me.

"Ask what?" I questioned with a bitter tone.

"The question you've been dieing to ask me." He whispered in a seductive voice.

"Why me?" I asked, letting out a tear.

"That's simple." he said easily. "I love you." After answering he dug the blade in my skin. Not deep enough to damage anything important but deep enough to leave a scar. He seemed to be drawing something. At first it stung and burned but soon the pain changed to pleasure and I bit my lip to keep a moan from escaping. I looked down to see what he had carved into me. One word. One... Name.

Alex

Okay. So. That's fun. yay. (God I hate typing this thing...)