Okay here it is, the 4th chapter. I have to say, I have fallen in love with this story. I have the whole thing writen up already.

Nate dragged me up to his room and sat down on his bed. I sat in his desk chair and pulled out my textbooks.

"You know, you could come sit over here next to me" Nate says, patting the spot next to him. I roll my eyes.

"No way.I have no idea what has gone on in that bed" I reply. Nate chuckles a bit.

"Okay, you got me there. But serously, you can't tutor me from all the way over there" he says.

I sigh loudly and go to sit next to him. We started off with algebra and finished with chemistry. For some reason, he picked up on everything pretty fast, except for algebra. In my opinion that boy is a lost cause when it comes to math. Before we knew it, Denise had called us down for dinner. I sat inbetween Shane and Nate.

It was really quiet until Shane decided to fling some food at Jason and have everyne in a laughing fit at the sight of Jason covered in spaghetti. It was nice to see a family actually sit down at dinner and have fun. I forgot what that was like. My family isn't exactly 'perfect'. My face fell at this thought but I quickly picked it up before anyone could see. Sadly for me Nate hit me in the arm letting me know that he saw. He knew my family wasn't great. He just didn't know what it had become.

After dinner was over, I ran to Nate's room and grabbed my books and my bag. Nate offered to walk me home right before I got to the door.

"Nate it's okay, you don't have to" I say. I really don't want Nate to walk me home. Not that I don't like being around him, hello I'm in love with him. I just don't want him seeing my family.

"Christina, let Nate walk you, it's getting late" Denise says. My mouth drops.

"But...fine" I say. I can't argue with Denise, she has no clue about anything that has gone on over the past few years so I didn't have an excuse.

As soon as we closed the door Nate started asking me questions.

"Okay Tin, what's wrong?"

"I thought we agreed that you weren't gonna call me Tin anymore"

"Fine then, Christina, what's wrong"

"I don't now what you are talking about"

"Come on Christina, I saw your face get sad at dinner. I know that something is wrong"

"and how do you know that?"

"Because I know you. Just because we haven't spoken to each other, doesn't mean that I forgot how you used to act"

"Whatever Nate" I say and walk ahead of him. It wasn't long before he caught up to me. I had tears coming out of my eyes by now. I didn't want Nate to know anything about my life or me, but he did. He grabbed my arm and turned me to face him.

"Tin look at me" he says. I keep my head down and shake my head. I don't want him to see me cry.

"Tin, I'm serious, look at me. You're scaring me" he says. I shake my head again.

"I've seen you cry before Tin. Why can't you just look at me?" I stay silent. He sounds like he really cares about me. I can't take it. I broke down and started letting all the tears I have been holding in out. Nate caught me before I fell to the ground.

"Tin, what's wrong?" he says softly.

"Nate, I don't wanna go home" I tell him between sobs.

"why not?" he asks me, looking me straight in the eyes. I couldn't hold it in. I used to always tell Nate everything. He makes me feel so safe. So I just told him what was wrong, one of the things he didn't know.

"Nate, my dad beats me"

Dun dun dun!! what will Nick do now? only I know haha...jk jk. But like I said, I have the whole story planned out. so trust me, it is FAR from over. Plz review, it makes me happy to know that you all like this one so much. I do to!! I have seriously fallen in love with it and I can't wait to post the next chapter.