Chapter 12:

Sibling Bonding

Emma and Raye-Anne were both sitting on the couch at Matt and Jeff's house. They were both laughing at the boys play wrestling on the living room floor. It was the first time Raye had truly laughed since being released from the hospital. Their foster parents had been arrested and jailed and now they were living with their blood brothers.

"Dude, you gotta try harder than that! At this rate you ain't gonna win!" Matt yelled as he laughed at his brother.

"I will never submit!" Jeff yelled back as he reverses a sleeper hold into an ankle lock. The girls just laugh even more and they both shared a look because they can remember when they would play fight too.

"If I didn't have to take it easy, I would join in." Raye said. She is still healing from the abuse she suffered from her foster dad.

"And if I didn't want to leave you up here by yourself, then I would too." Emma said from her spot next to Raye. Raye held her sisters hand. She is still scared to be on her own. She had to be with someone she knew or she would freak.

The boys didn't seem to really hear them talking because they didn't stop play wrestling.

"Matty?" Raye said softly.

"What?" Matt panted slightly.

"Can we go out to eat tonight?" Raye asked. She is trying to test her boundaries around other people. It was the first time she wanted to go out since getting to Matt and Jeff's house two weeks earlier.

"Uh yeah. I mean that is if you really want to." Matt said. He wanted to make sure Raye wasn't pushing herself before she is ready. Raye exchanged a look with her sister and nodded her head.

"I am sure Matty. As long as you all go with me so I won't be alone." The second part almost sounded like she was begging them not to leave her alone. Matt saw the look on her face and nodded again.

"Where do y'all want to go?" Asked Jeff, once he had calmed down. He sat down next to Emma so Matt can sit next to Raye.

"Dude, we should totally go to Red Lobster." Emma said smiling at she looked at everyone else.

"You're addicted to that place Em." Raye said as she rolls her eyes.

"I am not!" Emma said as she looked at her sister. "Yes you are admit it." Raye said and starts to tickle her.

"No! Never!" Emma shouts as she laughs. Raye continues to tickle her. Even Matt and Jeff join in.

"Okay, okay! I give! I give! I can't breathe!" Emma shouts between bouts of laughter. They stop and Raye winches and hold her side. She was overdue for her dose of pain meds.

"Hey, you okay?" Jeff asks when he sees her winch.

"It hurts Jeffy, it hurts." Raye whimpers as tears roll down her cheeks. Emma hugs her sister and silently tries to tell the boys to get her meds.

Jeff gets the hint and runs upstairs to get the pills. Matt lays Raye on the sofa and comforts her. Jeff comes back with the right dose and some soda. Raye takes her pills and smiles softly.

"Awesome. You okay now?" Emma asks Raye as she sits on the floor next to her sister's head.

"I will be, give me a few moments. I am sorry." Ever since she was rescued, she always apologized if she thought she was in trouble. Emma just looked at her sister with sadness in her eyes. She wished that her sister would get better.

Raye relaxes as her pain meds kick in. "I am OK. Can we go eat now?" Raye is always thinking with her stomach. They all laugh at her and Matt nods his head at her again.

"Yeah, we can go now." Matt says. Raye smiles and leans on her sister as they go to Matt's truck.

"Hey Raye. You wanna listen?" Emma asks as she holds up one of her ear buds for her iPod touch.

"Sure sis. What's on the list today?" Raye said as she puts the bud in her ear.

"How 'bout some Three Days Grace?"

"Sure. Do you have Never too Late?" Raye asked. It had become her favorite as of late.

"Yup. You know I have every song by them on this thing." Emma said as she searched through her music. Raye watched her and smiles. She was making small strides in her healing process.

"Found it." Emma said as she pushed play.

Raye listens and smiles." Sis?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you and our brothers." She said with a smile.

"I love you too." Emma said smiling as she hugged her sister gently. Raye hugs her back as Matt drives. He smiles at the scene. He elbows Jeff gently and nods his head towards the back so he will look.

Raye's eyes light up as they pull into the parking lot of the red lobster. Matt parked the truck and came around back. Raye had a wheel chair for when she didn't want to walk around. He sets her in it and lets her wheel herself inside. Emma smiles and scratches her head as she watches her sister.

"What's wrong Em?" Jeff asks as Matt follows Raye to the restaurant.

"Raye is a dork." Emma smiles as she watches Raye trying to do a wheelie in the wheel chair.

Matt makes sure Raye doesn't fall over backwards. "I agree." Said Jeff as he walks over to Matt and Raye. Emma just laughs and follows him.

*****************Time Skip********************

Jeff drove them home. He watches Matt and Em trying to keep Raye calm. She had a panic attack in the middle of dinner because someone had touched her shoulder. "Is she OK Brother?" Jeff asked.

"Uh not yet." Matt answers.

"I have never seen her this panicked before." Jeff said in concern. He pulls the truck over and puts it in park and shuts off the engine. He then crawls into the back seat to help out.

"I have. And it gets really bad if you don't calm her down in time." Emma says.

Raye had her knees to her chest and was rocking herself back and forth. She is locked in her own world, like in a trance almost.

"How do we get her out?" Matt and Jeff asked together.

"We've gotta get her out of her own world. If we don't then she's gonna black out." Emma says as she shakes her head with tears in her eyes.

"Do you mean like pass out, or become another person?" Jeff had seen some medical shows about stuff like this.

"Like pass out." Emma answers back.

"How hard was it to get her back when she first started this?" Matt asks as he gently shakes Raye.

"I don't know about this time but last time it was really hard. That's why she passed out last time."

"You mean, back in the hospital when the press tried to get a statement from her?" Matt asked.

"Yeah."

"How do we bring her around?" Matt asked seriously. Jeff was listening as well.

"I don't remember exactly how. I think I just hugged her and tried to talk to her." Emma said.

Matt and Jeff hug Raye and open a space for Em. They tell Raye encouraging things. Emma watches them with worry in their eyes before she crawls over to help.

Raye is slowly starting to relax as their word slowly break down her wall. She seemed so helpless and scared. Emma sniffled slightly as her Raye started to relax. She really wanted her sister to get better.

Raye clings to Matt as she finally relaxes. She just wanted to go home. Jeff back into the driver's seat and drives them home.

*******************Time Skip****************

Raye wakes the next day and looks around. She is scared. She sees that Emma is lying asleep next to her.

Raye tries to shake her awake. Emma moans sleepily and tries to roll over so she can sleep.

"Emmy, please wakes up." Raye sounded really scared.

"What?" Emma asks as she opens her eyes groggily.

"I'm scared Emmy." Raye said.

"Why?"

"I don't want them to come get us."

"They're not gonna come get us Raye. They're in jail." Emma told her as she glanced at the clock.

The clock said four AM. Raye clings to her sister and whimpers.

"Raye it's really early. We gotta go back to sleep." Emma tells her as her eyes try to close.

Raye can't fall asleep that easily. She wanted Emma to check the closet and the window to make sure that no one had come in and hid in the closet. Emma gets out of bed and checks because she really wants her sister to feel like she's protected and safe.

Once Raye knew she is safe, she falls asleep. She holds onto her sister as she sleeps.

*******************Time Skip********************

Later on, Emma woke up and found that Raye had her arms around her waist and was holding onto her for dear life.

Jeff knocks on the door. "You guys OK?"

"Yeah we should be." Emma answers, not attempting to get up just because she didn't want to freak her sister out.

"Is she okay?" Jeff asks softly. He is very concerned for Raye. Emma nodded not saying anything, fearing that if she said anything, it would freak her sister out. Jeff still looked worried because Emma wasn't talking and she saw this.

"I don't wanna freak her out, so I'm not gonna move." Emma says, nodding to her sister slightly.

"I understand. Want me to bring you guys up something?" Jeff asked softly. He didn't want Raye to freak either.

"Uh yeah, I guess."

"What would you guys like for breakfast?" Jeff asked.

"Honestly, I don't really care. I know Raye won't care either because she'll eat anything that doesn't eat her first."

Jeff chuckles and goes to make them some breakfast. He sees Matt at the bottom of the stairs with a concerned look. "What's up man?" Jeff asked.

"What are we gonna do with the girls when we have to go back on the road man?"

"Can't we take them with us?" Jeff wasn't thinking if Raye would be up to it.

"What about Raye? You saw how much she freaked out when someone touched her shoulder. How do think she'll react when she's around a bunch of wrestlers?"

"They won't hurt her. They may act like blockheads in the ring, but you know they are really good. And Shan will be there along with Truth."

"Yeah but she doesn't know that. She's still dealing with relaxing around us dude." Matt told him.

"We have one week left before we have to go back on tour. We need to figure out how to help her before then."

"Yeah, if we can."

"What do you mean if? We can help her get better." Jeff seems to take the way Matt said If hard.

"Haven't you seen her flinch anytime anyone but Emma goes near her? She can't trust anyone but her sister."

"Then we keep the two of them together, along with at least one of us, or those we trust."

"We have to make sure she's safe. I'm pretty sure she still has nightmares about it." Matt said, referring to the time that Emma and Raye were locked up and abused at their foster parents' house.

"We have to keep someone watching over them at all times, when we can't. I know that much." Jeff said and started to cook. Matt nodded his head and watched his little brother.

Jeff makes pancakes, scrambled eggs and sausage with some biscuits. He fixes Raye and Emma a plate. He hands on to Matt.

"Help me." He heads upstairs. Matt shakes his head slightly and follows.

Raye was up by then. She is stretching. Emma was sitting next to her trying to get Don't Forget by Demi Lovato out of her head.

"You guys ready for food?" Jeff asks. Raye looks to Emma for the answer.

"Yeah." Emma answers.

Raye nods as well and takes her plate. She eats slowly. Emma watches her sister for a minute before taking a bite out of her food.

"You two do know that we have to go on the road again not next week, but the week after, right?" Matt asked.

"Uh yeah. We know." Emma said, nodding.

"Do you think Raye will be OK to go?" Jeff asked.

"Um I don't know." Emma replied, looking at Raye. "Will you be?" She asked her.

"I can try. I just don't want to be alone." Raye said softly as she stares at her plate. Emma see's her sister's discomfort, so she puts her plate on the nightstand next to the bed and scoots over so she can hug her.

Raye sets down her plate and hugs her sister. Matt and Jeff joined in the hug as well. Raye let them touch her without having a panic attack.

They all sit on the bed, doing the whole group hug thing without talking. After a half hour, they break the hug and clean up.

"Hey Raye?" Emma asked after they went back up to the bedroom.

"Yes Em?" Raye said as she follows her.

"Are you sure you wanna go with Matt and Jeff when they go back on the road?"

"I am sure. You and our brothers will be there."

"Okay. Well I'm just making sure. Listen, I gotta go to the bathroom and take a shower. Will you be okay in here for about ten minutes?" Emma asked as she went to get her stuff.

"I will Em." Raye said and goes into their room on her own.

Emma made sure her sister was in the bedroom before she walked into the bathroom and shut the door quietly behind her. She didn't want her sister to realize what she had been doing to herself for the last few weeks.

Raye hugs her teddy bear in their room. She seems lost in thought.

Back in the bathroom, Emma turns on the water and makes sure it is warm enough before she steps underneath the water coming out of the faucet thing. She stood there for a few minutes thinking about everything that had happened with her and her sister.

Raye had taken her sisters punishments and had her food limited. She had been locked away from her only family and it had scared Raye badly.

Emma didn't seem to realize that she had tears running down her cheeks. She just took a deep breath and started to wash her hair.

Meanwhile, Raye was crying in their room. She felt so scared.

Emma got done with her shower but she kept the water faucet running. She grabbed the razor that she left near the tub and put it to her wrist. She sighed slightly before she cut into her skin. After she had done that a couple of times on both wrists, she watched the blood run down her arms. Emma then cleaned off her arms and put on her long sleeved shirt so that her arms would be covered. She grabbed her shorts and pulled them on too before she walked out of the bathroom after she cleaned up all the blood and hid the razor.

Raye was sleeping in their room. Matt walks up the stairs. "Emma can we talk?"

"Uh yeah. What is it?" Emma asks as she puts her stuff away.

"Do you think Raye will be comfortable flying, or would it be better if we drive everywhere?"

"I don't know. Probably the driving cuz if I'm correct I think she has a fear of heights."

Matt runs a hand through his black hair and looks in on Raye. "I feel sorry for her."

"Yeah. I do too."

"No one deserves what happened to you and her sis. No one."

"Yeah, well no one knows it would've happened."

"On the outside, you guys seemed like a normal family. No problems at all"

"I think they were crazy or something. I don't really care because they're gone."

Matt hugs her. "I love you sis"

"Love you too." Emma smiles.

~Authors Note~

Finally *collapses into a chair*

Oh I know right? That took us a few days to do.

Not my fault. *Dresses up as an alien*

Really Heartbreakgirl? God you're a dork.

I am so not. Don't you know this the crazy dress up chapter?

No I did not.

Well it is. So what are you dressing as?

Hold on a minute. Let me get my costume. *Dresses up as Cat Women*

*Stares and blinks. The does a Ron Simmons* DAMN!

*Laughs* That's funny.

*Blinks and looks up as a UFO flies over and abducts her.* HELP!

God you're a dork! So, this is WWE-Little-Angel saying peace out so I can help Heartbreakgirl.

*Leaves a ransom note* Leave at least eight reviews and the aliens will return me. Heartbreakgirl has left the atmosphere.