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Chapter 4 – Please Just Tell Me

The whole plane trip I ignored Matt the best I could and I plan on continuing to ignore him as long as I'm around my parents. I can already hear my Dad's anger in my mind and quite frankly I'm just not in the mood for his lectures.

The plane landed and I got my stuff out of the overhead locker. Matt was talking to the pilot and I quickly slipped out the door without him noticing. I walked down the steps and found my parents standing at the bottom, waiting.

"Nina, baby, I missed you!" Mum said pulling me close.
"Yeah mum I know, I missed you too. How is everyone?" I asked as I hugged Dad.
"Well there are some things we need to discuss, but we should go home first." Mum said taking my hand to pull me along.
"What kind of things?" I ask.
"Just some things that we will tell you when we get home."
"No, I want to know now. First of all I'm old enough to be told stuff and second whatever it is, it must be pretty important for you to have pulled me out of school, so please just tell me!" I demand.

"Nina this isn't the place to discuss this and besides there are others involved and your mother and I would like them to be there too. So please stop acting like a…"
Matt stepped out the door of the plane and stopped my dad mid sentence. I looked at my dad and his eyes were wide with what looks like shock and concern. I turn to my mum and she has the same but with pain and fear as well.

"Guardian Belikov, Guardian Hathaway, I'm Guardian Watson. I was sent here to look out for Nina until she goes back to the Academy." He said once he'd reached us.
"She's fine with us Guardian… um Watson. You should just go back to the Academy, you'll be needed a lot more there than here. Come on Nina."
She pulled me and practically shoved me into the care. Dad drove off before I could even blink.

"What the hell was that?" I ask them.
"Nina I want you to stay away from him." Dad says in a cold voice.
"What, why?" I ask.
"Nina please just stop asking questions and do what you are told for once."
"Jesus Christ will one of you please give me an answer. Why do I have to stay away from Matt?" I asking leaning forward between the two front seats .
"You're on a first name basis with that guy?" My mum looks at me appalled.

"Is that a problem?" I ask.
"Yes it's a problem Nina. That man is not to be trusted. I never want to see you with him again do you understand?" Dad yells.
"God, what is wrong with the two of you? First you tell me that there's some problem that we have to discuss with other people and you can't just tell me and then you tell me I can't go anywhere near the guardian that was sent here to look after me. Thanks guys, i feel so happy to be back home." I yell back.

There was silence the rest of the way to our house and I was thankful. I really wasn't in the mood to talk anymore, with all the secrets and everything. We pulled into the driveway and I opened the door before Dad had turned the car off. I slammed the door closed and walked to the front door that was held opened by Aunty Lissa. I walked straight past her and stomped upstairs to my room. I slammed that door behind me as well, threw my bag onto the ground and flopped face down on my bed. I'm mad, no I'm worse than mad, I'm furious. They don't even know Matt, so how can they tell me to stay away from him? And the looks on their faces, what was that about?

Someone knocked on my door.
"Go away!" I yelled.
"Nina, it's me." I got up and opened the door as soon as I did, hands wrapped around my waist.
"Hey Nina, I've missed you so much. Please you have to stay. Stuffs been going on with Mum and Dad and they won't tell me and Ivan. I'm really worried. I hear mum crying sometimes and I hear them arguing at night when I'm in bed. You don't think they're getting divorced do you? Do you think it's because of me? Will I have to go to St Vlads if it is? Is it you? Did you do something? Are you pregnant or taking drugs or…"
"Ell stop, breath!" I tell her. "No I'm not pregnant, or on drugs and no I don't think it's you and I don't think they are getting divorced. I don't know what it is either. But I am glad to see you." I tell my little sister.
"Nina, I…" She took a deep breath and looked up from the floor. "I don't know what to do."
"Neither do I. But I promise you one thing, I'm going to find out what the hell is going on and then I'm going to fix it." I tell her. "Just don't worry, I'm going to work it out.

Jelena and I stay in my room for three hours, just talking and catching up. She's ten and my brother Ivan is almost 14. They stay here at court with mum and dad while I got shipped off. It's not as bad, living at the academy, as I make it out to be. I have my friends, who may as well be family, and it puts distance between me and the really snotty, stuck ups at court who watch my every move to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong.

Ivan is exactly like dad. He's tall and very well… contained. He never puts a foot out of place and if he's not doing school work, he's training or training or maybe some more training. The gym may as well be his bedroom. Ell on the other hand is a perfect mix of mum and dad. She has mum's looks but has a bit of dad's height and mainly has dad's personality but with mum's quick wit.

Coming home always feels weird. I mean I grew up here and i know court like the back of my hand but it doesn't always feel like I belong here. Catching up with my family is really the only reason I come, that and the fact there's no curfew here. My favorite place in the world would be Baia. That's my real home, I was born there and I feel like I fit better as a Russian than an American.

Suddenly I hear the front door slam and Dad yelling in Russian. I tell Ell to stay in my room and I close the door quietly behind me. I sneak half way down the stairs and sit down, so that I can listen to the convocation.

"Dimitri please! Just calm down. It may not be as bad as it seems."Mum says in a soothing voice.
"As bad as it seems? Roza, do you not remember what it was like when she took Nina as a baby? If she is out, nothing is going to stop her from coming for her again. Coming for us. We should have had her executed when we had the chance."
"Dimitri, do you honestly think that if I had of known she would escape that I would have had her locked up in the first place. I know we agreed bringing Nina here would keep her safe but clearly it was a mistake. That guy is in Nina's life. God knows what he's told her."
"I know, I know. I promise I won't let anything happen to our daughter again, or to you. But please promise me you won't do anything stupid to try and fix it."
"Me, do something stupid? Comrade, I think you'd be the one to do something stupid, so you can play hero again."
"Oh Roza, you never change do you?"
"Nope!"

I heard their footsteps coming towards me, so I quickly got up and silently ran back to my room. I closed the door behind me.
"So what were they arguing about?" Jelena was sitting on my bed pretending to be going through a magazine.
"Um, well, I think someone is coming after me… again."

So, who's coming after Nina? Who has escaped? Why did Rose and Dimitri react like that to Matt? Let me know what you think. Please review!