I woke up with a shock when I heard my alarm going off at eight in the morning. Why the hell was my alarm going off? Shit, I have classes starting today. I jumped out of bed and sprinted into the shower. Afterwards I put my hair into a high ponytail and pulled on gray leggings and a blue over the shoulder tunic top before grabbing my keys and running to my car. Shit, I was totally gonna be late.

I was finally done for the day at three in the afternoon. What a long day. I arrived back at home to find Dom's car parked out front. Oh great, this should be good. I walked inside to see Dom, Brian, Mia and Vince all sitting in the living with Kip.

"Don't tell me ya stayed the night with you dinner party pall too." Kip smirked at me.

"No, I did not. I got home last night when you guys were gone. Then I had classes today." I sighed.

"Classes?" Brian asked me.

"Uh yea. For dance." I shrugged.

"Look Em, we need to talk about some stuff." Brian told me calmly.

"Why do I feel like I'm thirteen again all of sudden?" I tried to laugh off.

"How about I make ya some food while you talk it out or whatever." Kipp offered.

"You gonna start a fire again?" I asked him with a smirk.

"Smart ass." Kip mumbled as he walked off.

"So what's up?" I asked, plopping down in a bean bag, which only made me feel smaller.

"Be honest with me Em. Are you transporting drugs?" Brian asked finally.

"Excuse me?" I asked, shocked.

"Are you running drugs for Ace?!" Brian asked again.

"No! God, you think I'm into drug crimes now?" I questioned.

"In your journal you mentioned picking up drugs for him." Brian snapped.

"You read my fucking journal? What the hell?" I snapped back.

"With how you've been acting we were worried. We wanted to make sure you weren't in danger." Brian explained.

"That is still not okay. I'm not some twelve year old girl that you can spy on Brian. I'm an adult. If I need your help, which trust me I don't, I will let you know!" I went off on him.

"Why do you refuse to let me in Emery?!" Brian yelled at me.

"Because I don't want to! I do just fine on my own. I don't need any of you guys trying to play the hero because I'm not some damsel in distress." I shouted.

"We aren't saying you are. We just don't want to see anything happen to you." Mia stated calmly.

"Nothing is going to happen to me! Nothing that I don't already know how to deal with." I sighed.

"Why is it so hard for you to trust us?" Brian ran his hand over his face.

"Why is it so hard for you to just back off?" I replied.

"Emery, he is just trying to be there for his little sister. He doesn't wanna see anything happen to you." Dom told me.

"Don't worry. Nothing will." I shrugged.

"When are you gonna stop trying to feed us this bullshit?!" Brian snapped at me. "I know there is something going on with you, I know Ace has got you involved with something bad, I know something happened to you before and you refuse to tell me what and I know you lied about how you got that scar!"

"Brian!" Mia scolded.

"No, I'm tired of it. Tell us the truth Emery. What the hell is going on with you? And how about you tell me the truth about what happened to you and how you got that scar. I am sick of all these games." Brian continued.

"Get out." I told him quietly.

"What?" Brian asked, shocked.

"Get the fuck out!" I told him sternly. "NOW!"

"Em, please just..." Brian started before I cut him off.

"No Brian! I said get out so get out of my house!" I told him, trying to hold back tears. Mia got up and took Brian's arm, making him follow her while Dom got up and followed them.

"Emery..." Vince reached out towards me.

"Just stop." I sighed turning away. "Please just go away." I looked over my shoulder to see Vince following the others out and I slammed the door behind them before heading off to my room.

Vince's POV

"Yo, how'd it go?" Leon greeted as we walked inside.

"Fucking great." Brian snapped.

"Maybe if you hadn't have lost your head like that it would have gone better." Mia scoffed.

"I told you guys only like one or two of you should go. She probably felt ganged up on with all you there." Jesse shrugged.

"Well someone insisted on coming." Brian shot a glare at me.

"Back off buster. You are just pissed cause your sister refuses to talk to you." I snapped.

"Don't you say a damn thing about her." Brian hissed.

"Who Emery? Ya know she did get your blonde hair but man those green eyes." I provoked.

"Vince shut the hell up." Dom scolded.

"So you found out nothing?" Letty asked.

"Exactly." Mia sighed.

"We could always just pick the lock on that jewelry box. I mean if she won't talk we can figure a bit out from that." Jesse suggested.

"I'm not sure about that." Mia thought out loud.

" I say we do it." Brian decided.

"I'm with Jesse on this." I nodded. About ten minutes later we popped open the locked up box. We started pulling the contents out. The first thing was an old picture frame with a young Emery wearing pigtails and overalls along with her two brothers who were covered in mud.

"I remember this day. Our neighbors got go carts and since they were gone for the weekend the three of us snuck over and used them." Brian smiled. Brian pulled a golden locket out of the box and opened it to see a picture Emery and some boy. I watched Brian make a strange face before setting it down and pulling out a knife next.

"Whoa. That is one hell of a knife." Leon let out a whistle.

"It looks almost more like a small dagger." Jesse commented.

"Where would she get something like that?" I asked Brian.

"I don't know. Why would she hold on to it like this." Brian questioned.

"Brian...it looks like there is some blood on it." Mia pointed out.

"What the hell?" Brian shook his head. THe last thing in the box was a slip of paper with writing on both sides. The writing made no sense though. "Damn it. She always used to do this. Whenever she didn't want Tumbler or me to read something, she would write it in a code or some random language."

"Are you serious? She would write in other languages?" Leon asked with disbelief.

"She was a natural. It didn't take long for her to get at least the basics of a language down. She wasn't fluent in much but she learned the basic for writing and it was enough to get her by. She used it to her advantage too." Brian sighed.

"Jesse, see if you can figure out what it says." Dom ordered. Jesse grabbed the paper and ran down to his room, most likely to his computer.

"I don't like this. She wouldn't go through that if it wasn't something important. She doesn't want anyone to see this." Brian ran a hand through his hair. "And a little dagger that has some blood on it? What the hell is up with that?"

"We will figure it out man." Dom told him. Knowing the box was empty and that nothing else was going down I grabbed a beer and stepped outside. Emery wasn't even my girl but she might as well be. I couldn't stop worrying about her even though she didn't seem to want me around at all. Why was this girl so difficult? I have never been interested in simple girls though. I couldn't shake the feeling that Emery was getting herself into something worse.