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"…How am I gonna do this?"

"Do what?" Loren asked as the front door opened. Erika placed her index finger on her lips and Loren nodded, she wouldn't say a word.

"Good morning sweetie" Her mom greeted as she walked in the kitchen and looked for water. Just like she did every Saturday morning. Helen and Dracon always took the morning to walk around and talk about whatever they talked about in a quiet place, it was usually a park near the building where they lived and they didn't get home until almost lunch time.

"Morning mom"

After drinking water, Helen cleaned her mouth and kissed her daughter's cheek.

"Good morning Erikan" Dracon said with a damn fake smile and Erika rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, hi"

"Get down from the balcony. How many times do I have tell you that the chair is the right place to sit? Loren, why do you let her sit up there?"

"She didn't see me, ok? Look" Erika jumped off "I'm already down. Alright?"

Dracon shook his head and Erika wished she could just break his neck.

"Honey, what do you think about having lunch just you and me today? Dracon has a meeting"

"On a Saturday?" Erika suspiciously asked while raising an eyebrow. Not that she really cared about having his presence during lunch.

"On the contrary of what many people might think, I work hard" Dracon answered

"Good for you" Erika answered and turned to go to her room to get changed, trying hard to hide a smile and swallow a laugh at his shocked face.

"Helen, did you hear that?" He bitched and Erika covered her mouth while she was on the hall, she couldn't laugh there.

"Oh honey, she's just a teen, you know how rebel they can be"

Whoa, my mom is standing up for me! Miraculous day!

"Yes, but that's not how a Winters must behave"

"Whoa!" Erika yelled from the hall, where she still was, and ran back to the kitchen "My advantage is that I'm NO Winters, right? SO, I can behave as a Winters wouldn't because I'm a Dellrance… lucky me!"

Dacron glared at her and she smiled. He wouldn't do anything to her in front of her mother. The thing is that she was still too inexpedient, she totally forgot that anytime she could be alone with him.

"Erika, go take a shower so we can go eat somewhere"

"Ok!" She answered happily. An extra meal without Dracon's company was everything she wanted today. Helen loved Evelyn back when they were neighbors, it'd be easy to convince her mother to let her go and visit them without Dragon's dark company.

"You really met Jack again?" Helen asked surprised after Erika told her mother what happened last night.

"I'm telling you mom! And Evelyn invited me to have dinner with them tonight, can I go?" Erika asked with an innocent smile, anyone would think she was an angel on Earth.

"Sure" Her mother smiled "I'll make sure to take you myself"

"Fine" Erika smiled "I'll be right back" Erika excused herself and went to the restaurant's bathroom. There, she dialed the last number who called her.

"Yeah?"

By the answering and the voice, she already knew who it was "Please don't tell me that you've been waiting by the side of the phone"

"Damn, you noticed! But it's ok, I won't disappoint you: I wasn't"

"Good" She laughed

"Talked to mommy yet?"

"Yup, she's actually taking me herself"

"How cute"

"Shut up, she wants to meet Evelyn"

"Now you hurt my feelings, what about the sons? We don't get anything?"

"You're such a cry baby Cracker Jack! I gotta go"

"Ok, see ya tonight"

"See ya"

"Is everything alright, honey?"

"Yeah mom, just had to pee"

"Shush Erika! You're in a restaurant"

"So what? I bet five hundred bucks that everybody here pees"

"But that's not the right place for a subject like this! And nice girls don't make bets"

"Gee… you and Dracon's shit"

"Honey… There's a reason behind our lunch"

"Oh! Of course there is, you can't just spend some quality time with your daughter with no reason, can you?" Erika said acidly

"Erika! Why is it so hard to talk to you?"

"Sometimes I think the same about you!"

"Look, I know you might be upset about the baby" Erika sighed and Helen ignored it "But this is going to be fun! Dracon and I are so happy, why can't you be?"

"Because he's Dracon's baby!"

"Why do you attack him so much? Erika, he adores you!"

"Jesus Christ! Did the pregnancy make you blind or something?" Erika lifted her sleeve up to show the purple bruise his extremely tight hold made on her "Look how much he adores me!"

"Erika, you're crossing the edge to call attention to yourself! Drac would never do that!"

Erika almost puked at the sound of 'Drac', it was ridiculous.

"Of course mom, your prince charming would NEVER do that. I must have hit somewhere"

"Yes, you just don't remember it"

Erika's eyes grew. She used the harshest of the sarcasm on her sentence and her mother bought it! She did whatever she could to open her mother's eyes but seemed like Helen had glued them together. She was alone on this.

"Can we go?"

"Yes"

"Before going home, can we pass at Alex's to pick my stuff up?"

"Sure"

"Neighbors?" Alexis asked shocked while Erika was getting her stuff and telling Alexis what happened while she was busy making out with Dan.

"Yup. Small world, huh?"

"Small world?! That's destiny Ka!"

"Oh God, here we go…"

"No! I'm serious! See?! SEE?! I TOLD you, we'd have fun there!"

"It's a pity though… I lost the Pitt poster"

"You know what? I'm so happy for you, that I'm gonna give this to you, anyway!"

"Really?"

"Yes!" Alexis squealed as she started taking the paper from her wall.

"If I tell you that I'm gonna have dinner at his house, do I get the Tom Welling's as well?"

Alexis' eyes grew "You are?"

Erika couldn't help but smile while nodding "Yeah"

"Isn't it too soon to meet the family?" Alexis joked and Erika lightly hit her with the baseball bat she was playing around with "Ouch!"

"Shut the fuck up! I've already MET his family! Ten years ago…"

"Things might be in a different way now. You know, ten years is a lot of time, you're both grown up"

"You say another crap like that and I won't go easy on you!" Erika raised the bat and Alexis put her hands up defensively.

"Oh My God! Erika!" Evelyn squealed before pulling the girl into her arms. A hug that Erika happily corresponded.

"It's been a long time Miss Mercer"

"Oh please, what happened to 'Eve'? You're grown up but there's no need to threat me differently"

"Sorry Eve" Erika smiled

"Helen, my dear, you look great" Evelyn smiled at Erika's mother before hugging her at the same way. Helen closed her eyes tightly as she hugged Evelyn back.

"So do you Evelyn!"

"Aww you're being too kind! But let's not keep you girls out here! Come in! Come in!"

Erika and Helen followed Evelyn inside the house. They found Jack laid on the couch while watching TV, when he realized he had company, he quickly got up, letting the remote to fall on the floor.

"Is this Jack?" Helen asked to Evelyn. She was impressed by how tall and good looking he was.

"Yeah, that's my Jackie" Evelyn said all proud. For a second, Erika wished that her mother could speak of her like that and not like she did when the went to those crappy fancy parties, like if Erika was just a beautiful accessory she had by her side.

"Hey" Jack said a bit awkward and shook hands with Helen. He winked at Erika with small a grin, and she shyly smiled back.

"You've done a pretty good job Evelyn. You should be proud"

"Thank you. I am" She smiled up at Jack "You should be proud as well. Erika's turned into a beautiful young lady"

"She really is. If just someone could put some good sense into her head…"

Erika bitted her lower lip and lowered her head. It'd probably kill her mother to compliment her in front of the others.

"Aww I'm sure she's just fine!" Evelyn smiled to Erika, though she didn't see it. "Would you like to stay for dinner?"

"Oh, I'd love too! But I just can't… Dracon should be home soon"

"Dracon?"

"My husband"

"Oh right! Why don't you call him and ask him to come too?"

"I'm sure he'd be thrilled about it" Erika quickly raised her head and frowned her eyebrows at the lie her mother was telling. Jack didn't miss that, since his eyes were analyzing the girl. "But he had a meeting today and must be really tired" Erika rolled her eyes.

"Oh, I understand. Make sure to pass by some other time then!"

"Certainly! Thank you so much for the invitation" Helen hugged Evelyn once more "Bye"

"Bye sweetie"

"Behave yourself Erika"

"Yeah mom bye to you too" Erika answered with no effort to smile and pretend to be nice.

"Ouch!" Jack laughed as Evelyn closed the door. "Something here tells me that you ain't havin' a good time with mommy"

"Will you just stop that Cracker Jack?" Erika asked annoyed. The 'mommy' thing really hit her nerves.

"Yeah Jackie, be nice and don't get into Erika's business" Evelyn slapped with a smile and Erika laughed after sticking her tongue out at Jack, who merely glared.

"Eve, may I use the bathroom?"

"Of course dear, you don't need to ask. You remember the way?"

"I think so" She answered before turning to go upstairs.

"Yell if you get lost" Jack said and she gave him the finger behind her back, what made him to laugh.

Erika headed upstairs and went to where she thought the bathroom was, the house was just like she very vaguely she remembered of it. On her way out, she stopped in front of a dark room, she knew there was Jack's room, the curiosity kicking in her brain kept telling her to come in and give it a quick check. But what would he think of her? After all, they weren't friends like they were in the past, maybe not yet, but she thought it was better to let it go.

Since she turned the bathroom's light off, the hall was dark, except for one single light coming from the middle of the wall, it was yellow-ish and only served to projected shadows. She knew that somewhere you could light a better one, but she had no idea where. Despite the cozy atmosphere the house had, this particular place was giving her the creeps, so she decided to soon get back downstairs. She turned and bumped into something dark, almost the same height as her. That was enough for her to scream on the top of her lungs.

"Holy shit! Shut the fuck up!" A voice shouted, which only served for her to freak out more and move back. As she did, she hit a little table with her back, what caused something that was on it to fall and crash on the floor, what made her to scream again. That all happened so fast that just then she noticed that she had been holding her breath.

The good light was quickly turned on by Jack, who came upstairs running with Evelyn behind him.

"Who the fuck are you?" Bobby asked to the girl not too far from him who had her hand on her chest.

"Bobby, watch your language!" Evelyn censured him. By the sound of his name, Erika lowered her hand and started breathing calmly, she even managed to give him a small smile.

"Sorry Ma. Who's she?" Evelyn and Jack smiled at him. Bobby looked at Jack and then back to the girl. "You know he's a fairy, right?" He pointed at Jack

"Fu-" He started but stopped as soon as Evelyn's slap met his stomach.

Erika chuckled "What's wrong? You don't remember me?" She asked with a smart ass smile on her face.

Bobby got closer of the girl and looked her right into her eyes, she smiled. He looked at the vase broken near her and then back at her, his features eased.

"What's your problem with the vases, Little Thunder?" He asked with a small smile

Erika giggled before impulsively throwing her arms around him, he laughed while hugging her back.

"How you doing girl? Damn, look at you!"

"It's nice to see you too Bobby" Erika smiled at him before turning and kneeling to catch the pieces of the broken vase.

"Old habits die hard, huh?"

"Hey, that was YOUR fault!"

"Mine?! Why?"

"Because you freaked the shit out of me!"

"What were you doing here anyway? Why didn't anyone let me know she was here?"

"We didn't even hear you coming in Bobby" Evelyn answered "Sweetie, don't mind with that. I can clean it"

"No way" Erika smiled "I'm big enough to clean my mess Eve, you don't need to do that for me anymore"

"Jackie, go get a plastic bag"

"I'll pay you back Eve, I promise!"

"Oh Erika, don't mind with it! It's just an old vase"

"Yeah, it was Ma's favorite and now you destroyed it. Way to go Thunder" He decided that 'little' clearly didn't fit on her anymore.

"Don't listen to him, honey"

"Thanks a lot Bobs!" She said sarcastically

Jack cracked a laugh at the sound of 'Bobs' as he kneeled to help Erika. She remembered that at first, by some reason she couldn't say Bobby right, she always ended up saying Bobbyz. After a while, she already could pronounce it right but it wasn't fun because everybody else called him like that, so she decided to stay with Bobs. She was the only one who he actually allowed to call him like that, because she was little, but now, she wasn't very sure.

"Shut up Fairy" He pointed at Erika "Don't call me like that in front of the others"

"Well, I'll finish the dinner" Evelyn excused herself and went downstairs. Bobby didn't say a thing and got in his room.

"That's my room, that's Bobby's room, that's the bathroom, that's mom's room and that's the guest room" Jack said while pointing at the rooms "And this is the hall" Erika shot him a puzzled look and he smiled "You yelled, now you ain't lost anymore"

"Damn Jack, never say a crap like that again! That was awful!"