On the way into the cave, Dwayne wouldn't stop glancing behind us every few seconds, the rest of the boys didn't seem too bothered by it, however. I trust Dwayne's instincts and move Laddie in front of me but continue walking in. Letting Paul help him down from the ledge, hesitating on following him as Dwayne put a hand on Marko's arm gesturing behind us with his head, they both leave the cave once more.

"Not interrupting anything, I hope," David said, as Paul put his hands on my hips and forced me down into the hotel. It's only then that I notice Michael and Star sitting close together.

Star gestured to Michael's ear, "Look."

I quickly moved towards my brother. "You're almost one of us now, Michael," I looked behind me at David while he spoke, and walked into my brother.

"I'm my own man." Michael sneered, his attention quickly going back to only Star.

I had to hold my Michael's head still so I could look at his new piercing, "Mom's gonna kill you," I muttered. "Weren't you supposed to be watching Sam?" I poke his new piercing, and he swats my hand away, "You are trying to hard."

He just ignores me, looking behind me at the entrance. Where Sam is being pulled into the cave by both Marko and Dwayne. "Hey, arms off," He wiggles in attempt to get free. I'm too shocked to move, never expecting Sam to ever see him here.

"Sam," Michael softly speaks, knocking me out of my shocked state I start to walk towards him, Michael standing up from where he was seated.

"Sam?" I question, "Let him go he's fine," I walk closer to him, Laddie grabbing my hand stopped me in my tracks, pulling me back.

Sam looking at me guiltily. "Sorry?" He shrugged, Dwayne and Marko letting go of him, and he quickly gets from the entrance to behind me, staring at the lost boys from over my shoulder. Laddie looking at him in wonder.

"Family reunion," David smiled, before looking at Michael "Get your bike. We're going somewhere." Michael looked over at Star. Laddie grabbed my hand and dragged me away, but I could hear David say, "Don't worry... She'll be here when you get back."

I shake my head, "No, no, no, Michael you are taking Sam home, where he should be and one of the others are going to bring me home too, and then the tree of us are going to have a talk," I told them sternly, taking pointers from when my mother would speak when we did something wrong.

My brothers stare at me wide-eyed, Laddie attempting to get my attention by jumping up and down next to me with his hand in mine, "brother?" I nod and he runs to Sam to show him around the cave. Talking animatedly about every little thing in the room, my annoyance dropping instantly, a smile gracing my face at how cute he was being.

David coughs in a fake way to get our attention, "Or," He smirked, "They can go home and you stay here," My eyebrow raising at him before my attention goes straight back to Sam and Laddie. As the two of them got closer to the ground Dwayne lowered down to Laddie's level and spoke lowly of him, Laddie nodded and he ran back up to be grabbing my arm once more. "Clearly, someone would rather you be here."

I look between my brothers and Laddie before Laddie pulls me away from them and towards the couches. "And, the choice has been made," Marko says sassily, my mouth opening and closing in shock, confusion. Marko and Paul quickly shooing my brothers out of the hotel, before I could gather words. Star following them to the entrance, David watching her closely.

"Uh," I say to break the silence as Laddie pushes me onto the couch before walking to where they keep their drinks. The Lost Boys taking their seats shortly after I did, the only difference from the last time is that this time Marko and Paul switched. "How's life?" I awkwardly question. Laddie shoved the jeweled bottle into David's arms before leaping onto the couch next to me laying with his head on my lap.

The boys all looked to David, "How would you feel about becoming one of us." David raised an eyebrow, Star coming up behind him and whispering something into his ear, he raised his arm, "Her choice," He stared straight into my eyes, wheeling himself closer and wagged the bottle in front of me. "How about it?" I looked at Star as she shook her head, Marko and Paul started chanting 'do it, do it." I hesitated before grabbing it.

Laddie stopped laying down and stared at me with an unreadable expression, as I slowly brought the bottle to my lips. Dwayne and David joining the chanting. As the liquid flowed down my throat I shivered with my eyes closed, feeling Laddie lay back down I handed Marko the bottle. That is when the whoops, hollers and the music started up, and I drifted off to sleep.

I wake up in my own bed, to my mother shaking me. "Up, up," she whipped my covers off of me, "Elizabeth, get up," opening my blinds, making me wince.

"Why?" I groan, putting my arm over my eyes to shield them. "Bright."

Lucy nudged me, "You're brothers disturbed my date night and you and Sam are coming with me to apologize," making me groan once more. "Pancakes are downstairs," she sang at me as she left the room.

I rolled over to get out of the sun but ended up on the floor. Fake sobbing, I slowly sit up grabbing my sunglasses from my nightstand. Rubbing my eyes from under them I notice Sam looking worriedly at me from my door, Michael behind him. "You think-?" I heard him start to ask before I left them behind me to get at the food.

"So," Sam asked as they followed behind me. "What did you get up to after we left?" Michael pushed me into a chair before sitting beside me, motioning for Sam to get me pancakes.

I stared at the suspiciously, "Why?' They shared a look, Sam placed some food in front of me. "You two are being weird."

Lucy walked into the kitchen pulling my sunglasses off my head, "Want to have a girl's day, after we drop Sam at the boardwalk?" She asked, "I haven't seen much of you since we moved here?"

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"Uh, the word Damn comes to mind," I tell my mother and Sam after she tells us that the house we pulled up to is Max's.

Lucy gives me a look, before rolling her eyes playfully, "Hand me the bottle." She then turns to Sam once it's in her hand, "This is an apology for running out on him last night… One you should me making." She lightly scolded him as she got out of the Rover.

"What did you two do last night anyways?" I ask Sam as I lean forward into the gap between the front seats.

He looks back at me, "No, I should be asking what you did last night," He pulled the sunglasses off my face, making me close my eyes tightly to get away from the light, "No one heard you even get home, and now you're acting like Michael." He tossed my glasses onto the seat next to me. "Did you happen to drink anything last night?" He raised his eye brow in question.

I glare at him, "What are you on about now? The same crap as earlier? I'm not on drugs." I tell him, before flicking his ear and leaning back into my seat putting my sunglasses back on.

He turns to face me from his seat, "I just-"

"Sam! Elizabeth!" We heard our Mother scream. We rush out of the car towards the closed gate. "Sam!"

She barely makes it over the fence before Thorn crashes into it bending the bar to match the contours of his head and began to bark at us.

"You okay, Mom?" Sam asks before we both quickly helped her off the ground as Thorn tries to force his way through the gate.

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"Has he ever acted like that before?" I asked as we pulled away from the boardwalk. "That dog seemed pretty aggressive."

She shook her head from the passenger seat, "Thorn is a sweet boy, maybe he is just having an off day," Lucy sighed, "but enough about that, tell me about what's going on with you?"

I glance over to her quickly, "Okay, um," I think for a second, "I have some friends," I start.

"Boys?"

"Well…" I bite my lip, "most of them are boys, yes. But it's not like what you're thinking." I shake my head as she sighs in disappointment. "Um, one of them, Laddie, is so cute, and I just wanna hold him and protect him, and..."

She puts her hand on my arm, "Potential boyfriend?"

"He is like ten… so no." I roll my eyes at her, "Then their Paul, Dwayne, David, and Marko" I list, "They're great, um. Then there is Star, she is Michael's thing, I don't really know much about her, she normally glued to his side or just doesn't hang out with us."

She squeezes my arm, "is that who he is changing for? Is she nice? Would I like her? Do you like her? Does Sam like her? Are they dating? Are they…" She rushes through questions.

"For one, She seems nice, like I said she isn't really around me much." I pull the car over to the side of the road. "Look, he will get over whatever faze he is going through and become the Michael we know and love soon enough," I put my hands on her shoulders, "Maybe I'll invite them all over one night? She might come too? If you know her then he might not try to hide everything from you?" I tilt my head to the side, thinking it over. "That or just Laddie, you would love him."

She beams at me, "I'd love to meet him." I put the car back into drive, "And what about Sam? Is he a part of your group? Does he have friends?"

I press my head into the seat and rub my temples, "He met them, he seemed to like Laddie, or well, Laddie liked him." My head starts to ache, pounding. "Um, there are these boys, the… god, what was their last name? Doesn't matter, they work at the comic book store, they seem to be getting closer?" I tell her, before looking over at her once more, "Maybe you should drive the light is making my brain throb."

"Are you getting Michael syndrome?" She playfully questions, before motioning for me to get out of the car. "When we get home you should go nap it off."

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AN: My laptop deleted the folder I have everything I write. So everything I had written for this story is gone, so yeah. This chapter and the next are going to be the most annoying for me because they were finished and instead of posting them yesterday I decided to hold off for some reason and now they are gone. The rest isn't as bad because the initial writing process of mine makes everything illegible. I wish I still had both but I don't so.. hope you liked this one.