A/N: OMG. I feel awful for not writing for like months. You must be really mad at me. I wouldn't blame you if you refused to read my story anymore. I really wouldn't. I have been trying to figure out high school and balance my friends and boyfriend and family and still do my work. Plus have just had like total writers block type thing. Words don't wanna come out but I guess now there ready. So here goes nothing.
I walked down the hallway with Derek trailing behind me. I felt bad for giving him the cold shoulder especially sense what we were about to do will be difficult for him and his family.
I turned my head around to look back at him. He met my eyes with that same glum look in his eyes. I nodded my head to the side gesturing for him to come up beside me. The sadness in hi eyes lessened some but I knew it was going to take a lot more then forgiveness from some girl he knew a million years ago to make Derek truly happy. I wonder if he ever will be really happy.
When he came up beside me I got a small grateful smile. I could tell by something in his eyes that he wasn't used to smiling. He looked like he didn't know if he was doing it right and it seemed like it was a little awkward for him. Someday I'd like to see him smile naturally and honestly I'd like to be able to cause it.
Finally we made it to the door that held Derek's family. I stepped back knowing that this is a very personal thing to go through and it's not my place to be.
"Were are you going?" Derek said sounding slightly desperate.
"I'm going to stand over there" I said nodding a little farther down the hall sounding slightly confused.
"Oh okay" Derek said as he turned to the door and held the handle. He looked over at me. He tried to look calm, like he wasn't freaking out but I could see the panic in his eyes. I walked over to him and hesitantly put my hand over his.
I tried to ignore the butterflies in my stomach and how warm and soft his hands are. I counted quietly under my breath to three then we both pushed on the handle.
It swung open to reveal what looked like a normal house. It actually looked pretty cozy. I herd movement coming towards us. I froze in place. I didn't know what was going to happen next. Then a guy even bigger then Derek came through a door at the end of the room. He looked down right murderous. Then he stopped looking right at Derek. He looked at him like he couldn't believe his eyes.
"Denise, Andrea! Get in here!" He yelled sounding kind of frantic. He walked towards Derek slowly like he was scared Derek would disappear if he moved to quickly. Brian was tall and wide, built like Derek. The main difference between the two was that Brian had blonde hair and blue eyes.
When he got to Derek he stood there looking at him with a look of wonder.
"Derek?" He asked, his deep voice slightly shaking. He voice had the same quality I've noticed about Derek's. It's strong and is the voice of someone born to be a leader; when they talk, you listen.
Derek just nodded, looking guarded. Then a huge smile broke across Brain's face and he laughed and gave Derek this man-hug type thing. Not affectionate to make Derek uncomfortable but enough to show him how he feels.
Just then two women walked in the room quickly. They stopped in the door way. The older of the two had the same look on her face that Brain had but the younger girl just looked confused.
Denise looked at Derek for a minute and ran over to him. She was taller then me but surprisingly not by that much. She was about 5'3 and I could tell by her graceful movement that she had a lot of control over her body and even though she's thin she had good muscle tone to her. Derek got his amazing green eyes and dark hair from him mom. His skin tone is inbetween his mom's and his dad's. Her skin tone has a tan ness to it that I would kill for. His dad had a paler color then her's but definitely not like mine.
When she got to Derek she didn't stop. She hugged Derek so tight I thought she might break him. Then I saw something amazing. Derek hugged her back. From what little I've seen of him so far he seems to be very closed off.
"Look how big my little baby got" She said pulling back and looked him over. She looked at him and started to get emotional. She pulled him close again and I hear her whispering that she was so sorry, so so so sorry.
I looked over at Andrea so I wouldn't be staring at the two of them. Andrea was an attractive young woman. She was pretty tall at about 5'7 and was shaped like an hour glass. Her eyes were blue like her father's and her hair was dark like her mother's. Her skin tone was about the same as her mother's. Her hair and eyes really make her eyes pop.
"I'm guessing this is my long lost brother then" She said in a sweet voice. It was nice to listen to and I bet she's an excellent singer. She had a soft smile on her face as she walked over to Derek. She took Derek's hand and shook it.
"Nice to meet you bro" She said smiling at him. Then I finally looked at Derek for the first time sense right before his dad hugged him. He has a smile that was soft like Andrea's. You could definitely tell there were related.
"And who's this?" his mom asked in a cute little voice, looking at me. Then there all turned to me.
"H-h-hi. I'm C-c-c-Chloe" I said quietly and my face got red.
"Is she your girlfriend?" Andrea teased poking him in the side. Then I blushed harder and there was a slight pinkish tint to Derek's cheeks.
"NO!" We both yelled. Then we accidentally make eye contact and then we both turned away really fast.
"But your holding hands" Andrea said confused.
"No we're-" Derek started but then stopped when he looked down and our hands were intertwined.
We jumped apart and released hands. That's it; I'm never looking Derek in the face again. Through the whole conversation Brain and Denise watched in amusement, not saying a word.
"So you g-g-guy's want to get out of here?" I asked trying to get the attention away from me and Derek's…little incident.
"YES!" Andrea yelled. She started bouncing up and down on her toes. "Maybe we'll finally get out of this freakin place" Andrea said looking at her parents hopefully.
"How?" Brain asked looking at Derek. He looked in turn at me.
"Believe it or not if you have one of these" I held up the pass card "you can pretty much get anywhere and the only thing else standing in our way is a security guard and someone that was planted in our group as an informant. But we already took care of them. It should be sooth sailing from now on." I said and I realized I didn't stutter, I feel comfortable around them already.
"We?" Derek asked.
"Yeah, a couple of my friends" I said then I started walking out of the room. Then I stopped and turned to Derek.
"By the way I think you should know that Simon, Kit, and Tori sent me." I said
Derek's face showed what he was thinking at that moment in time. It said 'they didn't forget about me' and I know that I did the right thing by telling him.
Then together we all made our way to the others. Just as we were walking to them an alarm went off. We all stopped for a second but then we leaped into action. Everyone ran to the exit and out side. Luckily John and Clara pulled up in a huge van. I sent them out to get one sense I really didn't have a job for them.
We all climbed in and sat down. The seats go all around the wall of the square shaped van. Everyone could fit in the seats and the rectangle of space that wasn't used was large enough for all most all of us to lie down und we needed to sleep in here.
"I don't know how you guys found this thing but it's amazing" I said calling up to John and Clara. The front of the van was connected to the back through a window over part of the seats.
Just then I hear a shot. And another and another. We were being shot at. John yelled hold on and slammed the gas petal down. I almost flew out of my seat (that's why you should always wear a seatbelt, children). Everyone buckled up but I couldn't get mine to go in. Derek pushed my hands away gently and I focused on keeping in my butt in my seat. I heard the seatbelt snap into place and looked over at Derek thankfully. He nodded solemnly in response.
We made a quick sharp turn and then another and another and finally I didn't hear shots anymore. After a while we slowed down. We were finally in the clear.
"Chloe where are we going, Chloe?" Clara asked.
"I'm supposed to contact Kit when we got out but in order to do that we have to pull over." I said.
John started to pull the car over. I just hope that I do this right and we don't just end up stranded in the middle of no where with out a place to go.
A/N: again I'm so sorry about my crappy updating. I hope it won't happen again but I won't promise because when ever I promise it doesn't work. Sorry Derek's overly emotional for him but this chapter was kind of an emotional rollercoaster for him.