AUTHOR'S NOTE PLEASE READ: So how many of you thought I died or fell off the earth? Let's be honest- IT HAS BEEN FOREVER! And I feel terrible. Now I do have an excuse. I am in the middle of my competition season for twirling and my coach has been working me to death. We a drawing towards an end (State is May 12th! SO EXCITED!) so hopefully I can get better about updating.
Anyways there were questions about last chapter. (Which was confusing.)Anywho. What is important is Mathew is a bad person. He turned to a gang/drugs/alcohol/other bad stuff and was unable to do his part in said gang. Ther3fore gang comes after his family, kill graces & Jaxon's parents and blame Jaxon. When Grace witnessed this from her hiding place she freaked and warped. She was never seen or heard of for three years. Therefore she lost a large part of her childhood, and her innocence was ruined. She blames Mathew for this and fears him above all else. Before Mathew went all bad and crazy he was a lot like Seth. (Kind, funny, caring, joyful, teasing and other important traits) This scares Grace into not wanting to be with him in fear of him hurting her like Mathew did. Hey! It would scare me too!
Now on to the chapter. A warning though, this is a T rated chapter for language and slight sexual references. It's not too bad, I am very paranoid and I want to make sure people are aware first. I hope you enjoy it!
One more thing. There is another important Author's note at the bottom, if you could be so kind to read it. Please do! I would love feedback.
Anyway now it is on to the story! Stop reading up here and enjoy the chapter already! Geez!

Disclaimer: I own the warpers and that is it!

A Family, of Sorts (Grace's POV)

"I cannot believe Jaxon stuck me with a furious geek and a temperamental bitch!" X exclaimed. He trudged down the stairs. I rolled my eyes and stripped my shirt. I was wearing my Nike shorts and a bright blue sports bra.

"Don't call me a bitch." I snapped at X. Torry laughed and opened his book. We (Torry and I) were on lockdown, meaning we could do basically nothing. No warping, no fighting, and no computer. Therefore I dragged Torry and X down to our basement so I could train.

Let me explain. Our basement is huge and has been converted into a gym. There are padded floors and equipment everywhere. There are treadmills, benches, and body bags. This is where we learn how to fight, and I love it down here.

"I mean honestly, why do I have to babysit?" X threw himself onto one of the benches. I snorted and walked over to one of the body bags. "Something you'd like to say Gra?" X leaned forward, onto his knees and folded his hands.

"Personally I think you are the whiney one tonight. Why do I have to babysit? Blah blah blah! I hate my life!" I impersonated him. He glared at me as Torry started to crack up. I turned my attention back to the bag and began to punch it. The guys began idle chit-chat and I ignored them to the best I could.

"So." Thwack. "What." Thwack. "Should. Thwack. "We." Thwack. "Do?" X asked in between punches.

"I don't" Thwack. "Know." Thwack. "Gra seems." Thwack. "To be. " Thwack. "Content." Torry shrugged.

"Give that." Thwack. "Girl A" Thwack. "Body bag." Thwack. "And she'll." Thwack. "Be happy." Thwack. "For hours!" X corrected. Up until that point, their voices were tiny buzzing in my ears. That however got my attention. I stopped punching and turned to the idiots. I crossed my arms and narrowed my eyes.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" I snapped at X. He smirked at me, with a smile that showed all of his teeth. I stuck my tongue back at him.

"Well, aren't we mature here?" Torry sarcastically said. He crossed his legs and struck up a conversation about, something. I don't know what. I wasn't paying attention. Grinning to myself, at my two nerds, I returned to beating the crap out of the punching bag.

Other than Kat and Danker, my other two best friends were X and Torry. I was the one who named X, X. It was back when I was like 7 and I don't even know how old X was. Back then, he went by Hank. And I hated it.

Long story short, when I first met him and I heard his name I scowled. Instead of politely responding with name, I snapped "I don't like Hank. I'll call you X." Then I walked away. In about three weeks the name stuck and he now also hates the name Hank.

Don't ask me why I choose the name X, I truly do not know. It just randomly popped into my head. Besides I was like 7! Do you know what goes on in a 7 year old's mind? I don't nor do I particularly want to.

As for Torry, it's another "I don't really know what happened then," story. At first I took pity on him and took him under my wing. I slowly learned that he could fend for himself; just in way's I didn't know of or thought of. While most of us prefer physical brute-ness to solve our problems, he hurts others in the electronic world. With all the social-networking and advance techno-stuff, it can really destroy a person.

"So, Gra, You're an imprint." X stated out of the blue. I tensed. I put the warp behind a round-house kick to the bag. It was so strong that the bag flew out of its hinges and hit the wall. There was now a huge hole in the wall. Brilliant.

"Sorry." I whispered. I turned to face the two of them. "It's whatever. I don't care."

"Well, judging by the hole in the wall, I'd say you care, a lot." Torry shrugged. I glared at him.

"Well, it doesn't matter! He can go ahead and un-imprint me now!" I snapped back.

"Gra, I don't think it really works that way. I mean from what I read, imprinting's really final. He's your soulmate." Torry recited. "Your other half. Your true love."

"Torry." X warned. Torry ignored him though.

"He's absolutely perfect for you in every way."

"Shut-up." I whispered again. It was barely audible.

"Torry." X warned, again.

"You two are meant to be together! It's perfect!"

"SHUT-UP!" I screamed. I grabbed my head and began to shake. I unleashed my anger in a form of the warp. Purple energy swelled up in an orb around me and lifted me off my feet. I screamed. The energy exploded and traveled to the corners of the room, throwing X and Torry of their feet. Benches were knocked over and the room quickly became a mess.

I was gently let down back onto my feet. I was shaking as I surveyed the room around me. It was a wreck and I caused it. I was powerful and I knew that. I used to warp to set the benches back up and give the room a slightly more clean look.

X got to his feet. "You okay?"

"Yeah," I murmured. Torry came over to me and gave me a squeeze on the arm.

"I'm sorry I provoked you. I wasn't thinking." He smiled sheepishly. I let out a small laugh.

"You're a guy, when are you ever thinking? I'm still positive all you have in your head is a giant air bubble to keep your head from collapsing." Both Torry and X shoved me. I threw an arm around either of my guys. "See I don't need Seth! I have to watch out for the two of you!"

"Who's watching out for who?" Danker asked. She had just warped and was closely followed by Kat. "Ah! Gra good to see you haven't killed anyone yet!" She paused and scanned across the room. Her eyes lingered on the wall for a moment.

"You just managed to put a huge hole in the wall!" Kat clapped her hands together. I shrugged my shoulders and pointed towards X. He glared at me. "Ah yes! You were supposed to be watching her X!" Kat berated. X playfully hid from her, ducking out of the way of some not aimed punches.

"I was too watching her! It's not my fault that her temper is about as long as your boy cut hair!" X yelled back. Oh no. One thing you do not do is insult Kat's hair. It's very short and the boys like to tease her about it. Naturally she gets pissed off beyond belief.

Kat gasped dramatically. Her hand flew up to her hair. "It's called a PIXIE CUT! At least I'm not an ass who can't get a girl."

"Well you're a whore!"

"And you're a bastard!"

"Bitch!"

"Is that the best you've got jack-ass?"

"AH-HA! You already used ass to describe me." X cheered. The entire time Danker, Torry, and I were standing towards the side, cracking up. Whenever Kat and X got like this, (Which was often, almost as often as Jaxon and I), no one dared to intervene. We all just laughed.

Kat now resulted to violence. She punched his gut and he responded with a jab to her shoulder. She scoffed and stepped on his toes. His mistake was made in trying to get her off of him. Kat then did a simple karate kick to his stomach. X fell to the floor but Kat rebounded with the warp. It was actually pretty impressive, considering the entire time Kat was in four inch heels.

"And you hit like a girl." Kat walked back to where we all were standing. I did my best to compose myself but I failed. "Oh stop laughing Gra!"

"I, I can't!" I giggled.

"So where is everyone else?" X asked. I shrugged and fell to the floor. "Real mature Gra!" X scolded.

"Still at the bonfire. We were banished to this place." Kat snorted.

"Don't be ridiculous. We volunteered. Personally I was sick of hearing lover boy ask about Gra. It was revolting how much he cared." Danker said. I looked up from the floor. She took this as a sign to continue. "He started asking all these weird questions. Like favorite winter activity. Favorite novel, favorite hiding place, if you were still growing, your favorite memory, and a whole bunch of random crao I did not care about." I could feel my eyes narrow.

"He obviously cares a lot about you! He really wants to get to know you!" Kat chimed. What was with these people and talking about Seth? Honestly! Could they not see I do not care?

I went to yell at them but Torry stopped me. "We already had Gra freak out once because we wouldn't shut up about the imprint. I don't particular want to add another tally to that activity." Everyone seemed too agreed. I smiled graciously at Torry who held out his hand to help me.

"So what do you want to do?" X asked.

I shrugged. "Workout?" Naturally everyone yelled no.

"Movie?" Lou-B appeared in our circle of people. "Fires done, but Jaxon and Jen are talking to Sam."

"It could be a while! They told me this was not their first stop. I don't want to think about what they are doing." Tolad grimaced. All our faces were pulled tight in disgust of Jaxon and Jen taking their time getting home.

"Movie could be cool!" Clyde smiled. Oh Clyde and his cheery attitude!

"As long as it's not Disney." Grumbled Josh. And then there was Josh and his never ending PMSing.

"I CHOOSE!" Kat screamed and disappeared. That sent the warpers in a frenzy trying to stop her from putting a chi-ck flick in. Even I don't like chick flicks. Kat is the only girly girl out of four girls and seven guys.

The basement was too soon deserted. I laughed and shook my head. I turned back to the punching bag content on spending the night beating the crap out of it. Of course no one else could have it because the next thing I know is X is sticking a five dollar bill down my sports bra and scooped me up bridle style.

"There I just paid for a night of you doing my bidding and I say you will watch a movie with us. You can't honestly expect us being okay with you down here and the rest of us up there having a good time? Besides if I have to sit through White Chicks so can you!"

I knew I lost this battle so instead of fighting I said, "You just can't keep your hands off my tits can you?"

"Yeah right! Those baby As don't have anything on Kat's Cs!" He began to climb the stairs and I laughed.

I whispered in his ear, "Kat stuffs." X almost fell over, he was laughing so hard. For a moment I could pretend everything was normal. That didn't last long. X sat down on the couch and I kept my legs over his lap. We normally sat like this.

Like I said X and I were close. We would never be together romantically but damn were we close. Could we still be this close? Could he carry me around, and stick money down my shirt to get me to have fun? Could he still make perverted passes at me? Or would Seth kill him if he tried to touch me? The entire fleet was mostly guys, so could I still be with them?

I was scared. They were my family and I couldn't leave them, no matter how "perfect" the guy is for me.

AN: I would like to apologise again for being such a bad updater. I actually have most the story planned out/written, which brings me to my next question!
***I AM LOOKIN G FOR A BETA****

I haven't actually gone onto the Beta forum thingy (I'm too scared to0 but I will soon) If you are interested PM me. I'm looking for someone to proofread/ write/ plan some chapters. If someone could help me this story would get out a lot faster! Please let me know!

I would also like to try to get another long story out. I love writing one shots, but I want a longer piece in the works. (Besides this one) Another reason for a beta because I have no idea where to start!

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