Author Note: Yay for Phantom by Susan Kay! Not! That is literally the most depressing book I've ever read! I was crying 5 minutes into reading it! Anyway, yay for smut and I put hints of that depressing ass novel in this chapter so enjoy~ (SH's next chapter is in the works sorry for the wait for this chapter too, I went on vacation and had no service well plus writers block yay.)

'Guys, guys, guys!' Erik and I looked over at Meg who was smiling. 'It's 10 seconds away.'

'Yay! I'm gonna keep eating my pizza.' I grabbed another piece from the box on the table and looked back at the TV when Erik poked my arm and was smiling. 'Wha?' I finished chewing my piece then he leaned down and kissed me.

I smiled and responded as Meg started dancing and screaming: 'Happy New Year!' like a loon. We pulled away when there was a thunk and Meg groaning.

'You alright?' I looked over the back of the couch and she was lying on the floor curled up in a ball. She nodded and grabbed her phone so I sat back down as I shook my head. 'She's so weird.'

'Just getting that now?' I looked over at him and glared at him as he smirked. 'What?'

'Smartass.' I smirked and nudged his shoulder with mine as he nodded, very proud of the fact. My phone started buzzing on the table, text message after text message probably wishing me a Happy New Years most likely. Meg started talking, but once I realized she was holding a one sided conversation with herself that she was probably talking to Nadir. 'So how are Meg and Nadir doing? Has he said anything?'

He pursed his lips and shook his head. 'Surprisingly not, I'll probably hear something in the next month or so. Why?' He looked over at me as I shrugged my shoulders and took another bite of pizza, forgetting I was having a conversation. I put my hand over my mouth as I kept chewing.

'Just curious, Meg hasn't said anything so just wondering if Nadir possibly did.'

'Yeah, no sorry, if he does I'll tell you the next time I see you.' I smiled and nodded.

'Alright, thank you.'

'You're very welcome, so do you have any New Years resolutions?' I giggled at the teasing tone he said it in.

'I do, I want to start dancing again at least every other day, maybe start doing better in Math, I'm terrible at math by the way-' He and I chuckled as I tried thinking of more. 'Uh, sing more, get better at cooking, try and get shorter, go up a cup size because bigger the better...' He nodded and I swatted at his arm as I smiled. 'Yeah that's it, what about you?' He sighed and started humming.

'Let's see… tutor you in math, remind you to dance every other day, maybe get a little muscular because my physique is pathetic-'

'Is not.'

'Is too, try and expand my reading list away from classics and yeah that's about it.' I nodded and put my head on his shoulder.

'Sounds good- wait you're good at math?' I lifted my head back up to look at him. He nodded and bit his lower lip which I started glaring at with the utmost contempt.

'I guess I am, I've gotten A plus in all my math classes so I can only be so bad.' My mouth dropped and I hugged his arm.

'Teach me your ways.'

'In good time.' He kissed my forehead and we looked back at the TV as Meg giggled.

January 3rd

'Noooooooooo.' I grabbed the door frame as Erik and Meg tried pulling me out.

'Chris we need to go!' I shook my head and pulled myself closer to the room as Meg grunted.

'Here Meg turn around I can get her to let go.'

'Yeah sure whatever.' She must have turned around because he slipped his hand between my legs.

'No stop not fair!' I was trying not to laugh as my grip loosened. I whimpered and let go just to get him to stop for the sake of my sanity since nothing would be happening today and with not doing anything in 5 days made me overly sensitive. I crossed my arms and started walking, leaving Meg and Erik behind me being completely done with his ass for making me let go.

'Christine.' I ignored Erik and turned around when he tugged on my dress.

'What was that for?'

'In your attempts to remain in the room your dress rode up.'

'Oh well thank you.' He nodded and we continued walking to the elevator.

4 Hours Later

I put my head on the window as we took off and sighed. 'Goodbye Toronto, hello Shit Stain.' Erik rubbed my hand and I looked over at him and smiled. 'I hate Phoenix.'

'I know you do, you'll be able to move in a year or so.' I nodded and my mind wandered to the texts I got from Raoul this morning asking me out on a date.

'So Raoul texted me today.'

'What'd he want?' I shrugged my shoulders.

'For me to go to the movie with him. Does he think I'm a flip flopper? He must.'

'Well you weren't single for that long after dating Raoul so I could see it.' I glared at Meg and she put her hands up defensively. 'I'm just saying. I'm glad you moved on and aren't with that dick anymore but still.'

'Well I'm not a flip flopper, I'm capable of being single and he needs to get the message that I'm not interested and I'm dating someone else.'

'All in good time.'

'You and that saying I swear.' Erik chuckled and nodded.

'I love it.'

'More than me?' I batted my eyelashes and Meg gagged making us laugh.

'Debatable.' I swatted his arm as I heard an oh shit from behind us. 'I'm kidding, you're always number one.' This man is going to kill me I swear.

'Alright I'll believe you for now.'

11 Hours Later

'Ugh it's not too late to go back.' I looked back at the direction to the tunnel as we walked through the airport to the exit.

'Yeah it is.' I glared at Meg as we continued walking.

I groaned: 'It's hot here.'

'It really is. We've been spoiled.' I smiled up at Erik, finally someone agreeing with me. I turned my phone on as we walked outside and over to the crosswalk. My phone started going off like an alarm at all the text messages I had coming in. I spotted at least one from Raoul, Sam, Norman, my dad and Anne so once it was done I put the phone back in my pocket as we hurried across the crosswalk.

'Chris I'm starving.' I shrugged my shoulders.

'You can eat when you get home Miss Negative It's Too Late To Go Back.' She looked completely offended making me laugh.

'Well can you be any more rude? Erik do you see what your girlfriend just said?' He shrugged his shoulders.

'Sorry Meg, I can't do much about what she just said. I'll punish her later if it makes ya feel better.' He winked and smiled at me as Meg gagged.

'Gross.'

'Aw what? You find sex disgusting now and fluff good? Miss Christine Is Such A Cockblock You Two Better Have Sex In The Other Room.'

'I don't need to know the details involving what you two do during sex.'

'That gave literally no information.' I grabbed my keys as I tried not to laugh and unlocked my car.

'Yeah! He's gonna punish you. If that isn't code for rough sex I don't know what is!' Erik started laughing as we started putting our bags in the back.

'For all you know it's really slow sex, you don't know what's torture to me.'

'Yeah!... Well whatever.' She went over to the backseat door and opened it to get in. Erik put his last suitcase in as I stood there watching him, smiling.

'Wha?' He looked over at me.

I shook my head and put my hands in my back pockets 'Nothing. You better be keeping that promise buddy.' I smiled when he nodded as he leaned down to kiss me.

'I never go back on a promise.' He smirked as I licked my lips.

'Well that's good to hear. Let's get Meg home, I wasn't kidding when I said she got to eat at home.' He shook his head while closing the trunk; I went around to the drivers seat and got in. 'Hello Mandy, miss mommy? I know you did.' I went to kiss the steering wheel when Meg and Erik were staring at me as wide eyed as a person could be. 'What? You don't have a name for your car?'

'Yeah but I don't think we kiss it.'

'Shut up Meg you don't count.' She sat back and crossed her arms as I waited for Erik to say something.

'I… it's a little weird.'

'You don't count either.' I smiled and turned the car on as he chuckled and looked out his window.

30 Minutes Later

'Bye Meg!' We waved as she walked up to her house and she was glaring at me, still mad I kept the promise of her eating at home. Once she was inside I pulled onto the road and started driving towards our houses. 'Who's house, yours or mine?' I glanced over at Erik and he sighed.

'Mine, I wanna get you to watch the Rob Zombie Halloween movies.' I smiled and nodded.

'Let's do it.'

15 Minutes Later

I grabbed one of Erik's suitcases then closed the trunk and locked the car. We walked up to the front door and he opened it for me. 'Thank you.'

'You're welcome mi'lady.' I smiled and we walked over to the stairs when Ken stopped us.

'Hey guys, how was the trip?' Erik nodded and I smiled.

'It was amazing, I think Christine managed to become friends with Ramin in a way?' Ken was trying not to smile but was smiling.

'What? You're kidding right?' We shook our heads and he started laughing. 'You talked to him all three nights?' I grinned and nodded.

'And the evening before the show, I'm friends with one of his friends and so he's like not all like woah random fan with me.'

'She became friends with the girl the first day we went to see Les Mis.'

'Well kudos to you.'

'Why thank you!' I started smiling as Erik chuckled and climbed up to my step.

'We're gonna go watch Halloween.' Ken waved and walked into the kitchen as we started climbing the stairs again. We got up into his room and set his suitcase by his desk where he put his and he smiled. 'Thank you.' He leaned down and kissed me just enough to get me interested.

'So Halloween before I decide to do something else?'

'What would you decide to do?' He twisted a strand of my hair around his index finger.

'Hmm...' I smiled as he did. 'You.'

'Is that so? Flattering, but my dad is home.'

'True. Damn your good points.' I went over to his bed and sat down while he grabbed his laptop and then the two DVD's. He sat down next to me and smiled at me as he put the first one in.

'You know Scout Taylor Compton? She played in Triple Dog, this not half bad thriller.' I fished through my mind and the nodded when the name rung a bell.

'Yeah I think so, why?'

'She's in them.' I nodded and laid down on my back.

'Cool beans. Who else?'

'Rob Zombie's wife is in it for a second if I remember correctly.' I yawned and stretched out as he set the laptop down besides him.

'That's cool. I think I'm gonna go grab some pajamas. Can I crash here tonight? I'm too lazy to drive home tonight.' He smiled and nodded.

'Yep, don't want you falling asleep during the six house drive. Want a shirt to wear?' I looked over at his closet and nodded since it meant I didn't have to walk alll the way down stairs, to my car, go through my luggage and then walk back in and come back up. He got up and went over to his closet. He handed me his Korn shirt and I smiled.

'Thank you.' I set the shirt down so I could take my dress off and I smiled when Erik was staring. 'Your dads home.' I tried to sound as teasing as I could, but knowing me I sounded like a moron.

'I have no idea what you're talking about.'

'Eyes up then, bud.' He looked up at me and smirked… barely.

'But- they're preeeety.' He grinned putting his chompers to work.

'Well I'll do this for you.' I set the shirt down again and unclasped my bra and slid the straps off my arms letting it fall off onto the floor. Erik's hand moved up to my chest and I looked up at him. 'I'm going braless, I wasn't doing it so you could grope me.' He smiled, and it looks somewhat painful how big it was.

'Well can I? You haven't technically said no yet, nor have you swatted my hand away.' I looked down at his hand and took a deep breath as he rolled my nipple around between his fingers.

'Yeah why not.' I smiled as he went more to town. 'But this is it because like you said, your dads home.' Erik nodded and sat down on the bed then pulled me closer to him by my hips. Before stopping him I waited to see what he was doing which was smart since he started sucking on my right nipple. I whimpered and ran my hands through his hair when he pulled his head away while dragging his teeth along it. I glared at him when he smiled and laid back on the bed with no interest to continue. 'You don't do that! That is cruel and- and twisted and a big no!' He started laughing as he sat back up.

'What? Don't you want to watch Halloween?'

'Yeah I do but I was like I'm gonna put your shirt on and you're like no I'm gonna play with your tits instead and here I am really wanting to have sex when I didn't want to have as much sex as before you did it.'

'Well it hasn't been a week yet, I remember you liked that rule.' He grinned as I groaned.

'I think we broke that rule in Toronto.' I grabbed his shirt from under Erik's butt and put it on while he kicked his shoes off and undressed down to his boxers then stood up, he really didn't think that through did he?

'Shut up.' I looked over at him and smiled.

'I didn't say anything.'

'I know what you were saying, yes I realize that I just did the most retarded thing ever.' He grabbed some pants as I sat down on the bed.

'I'm not judging.' I smiled and got under the covers. Seriously he went through all that trouble just to get up? Someone had a blond moment. I giggled and stopped when Erik looked over at me.

'You totally are.'

'Totally not.' He smiled and turned back around as he put the pants on giving me time to slip my underwear off for him. I set them on his side as he turned around and I smiled as he walked over and pulled the cover back revealing them.

'Is this a gift or are you teasing me the way I did you even though I was the one who put the kibosh on not doing anything in the first place?' He is having a lot of blond moments today.

'You decide.' I smirked as he got in bed and set them in his nightstand drawer.

'Those are mine, thank you, I was running out of thongs.' I giggled and rolled over to I was looking at him.

'We should do it.'

'Dad is home.' I whimpered and put my head on his chest as he moved the laptop onto his lap. He patted my head and I bit at his hand making us laugh as it hung from my mouth. 'Does that taste good?' I let go if his hand and nodded.

'I wish I could ask you the same question.' I smirked as he smiled.

'Well you can silly.' He grabbed my hand and bit it, well that wasn't what I meant but okay. I stared at him and he dropped my hand and nodded. 'Tastes like lotion.'

'That would be because I'm wearing lotion. Can you bite somewhere else?' I smiled and he nodded- then grabbed my hand again and bit my wrist. I groaned and put my head back down on his chest.

'Want me to start the movie or do you want to pout? Ones adorable and the other is gory so I'm not complaining either way.' I looked up and over at him and glared. Of course his natural response is to smile. 'I love you if it makes it any better.'

'Oh it makes it so much better, emotionless sex just isn't the same.' He started chuckling as I started glaring at him again. 'What?'

'I meant the situation.' I pursed my lips and looked over at his window.

'Oh well I guess so. I love you too, by the way… I have a question for you.' I moved my hand under the comforter.

'What's that?'

'How big are you?' I moved my hand into his pants and grabbed ahold of his length. 'What is that? Like two inches?'

'What? No it's like 6 thank you very much.' I shook my head and moved the comforter back more so I could see his length once I pulled it out of his pants.

'Thickness.'

'Oh you mean the girth?' I looked up at him.

'I was a virgin until not even a month ago, it's thickness to me.' He and I laughed as he sat up onto his elbows.

'Well for future reference it's called the girth and and last time I checked, 6 inches.'

'What?' He pointed down.

'You measure around not across.' I nodded.

'Oh well that makes sense I guess? Is that big?'

'I guess it is? I don't know, guys who aren't cut tend to be bigger anyway so it might be small for all I know. Let's put my penis away please.' I frowned and looked down at it.

'But… I was gonna play with it. You only said no to sex.' I smiled as he sighed.

'True, well whatever floats your boat.' I smiled and moved my head down as I thought about what I was going for a moment but then I started kissing and licking it as a start, it couldn't that be hard… could it?

'I have no idea what I'm doing.' I started rubbing him and he sucked some air in so I assumed I was doing something right.

'You've never done this before?' I shook my head and put his tip in my mouth making sure to avoid using my teeth as I started moving my head, a bit scared to move down any further. 'You're doing good, don't be scared to move down.' I pulled him out of my mouth and went back to rubbing him.

'I don't want to hurt you.'

'Chris, I'll be fine, it's not made of glass.' I smiled and nodded, still a little nervous that I'll end up biting him as I put him back in my mouth. I continued with my slow pace as I moved my mouth down an inch or so, not sure about whether I was a gagger or not and didn't want to end up puking on his lap, I didn't try to go all the way down. This was a very stressful situation for me when it really shouldn't have been. He moved my hair from around my face and over to my right shoulder, I thought I had done something I wrong at first so my heart was now recovering from a small heart attack. He groaned making me ache between my legs. Stupid boys. I noticed he was starting to get hard so I smiled once he was out of my mouth.

'Am I doing alright?' He nodded as I noticed his chest rising and falling ridiculously fast. 'Are you sure?'

'Yep 100% sure.' I noticed he was a bit tense and I realized I stopped doing anything.

'Oh sorry.' He shook his head as I brought my mouth down over his length again. He moved my hair out of his view again except this time he bundled his fists in my hair as I moved down a bit, getting a bit more comfortable with my ability to not use my teeth. Once he was hard which only took another 5 minutes, I felt somewhat accomplished.

'Come up here.' I looked up at him and nodded once I took him out of my mouth. I crawled up to his chest where he patted and he put his hands on my hips. He pulled me up over his mouth and started rubbing my clit. 'Stay quiet.' I nodded and closed my eyes as he pushed down harder making me bite my lower lip. I whimpered when his tongue replaced his thumb and he started sucking on my clit. My stomach twitched and I felt him smile as he slipped two fingers into me and moved them slowly. I accidentally moaned and I put my hands over my mouth and looked over at the door for a moment but when nothing happened so I looked back down at Erik and realized he was still wearing his mask. I grabbed the top of it and pulled it off and smiled when he could get closer. I set his mask on the pillow next to him then started playing with his hair as I started breathing as if I had just run two miles straight. He pulled his fingers out and his hands back on my hips, put his tongue out and started pushing my hips back and forth. My body started twitching again when the pressure started building.

'Erik- p-please.'

'What?' I whimpered when he stopped to talk.

'I need you.' He nodded and I got off him and got on my arms and knees as he got off the bed and kicked his pants off and opened his nightstand. He pulled a condom out and I smiled once he had it on and was back on the bed, on his knees; he rubbed me with his tip before slowly sliding into me. My mouth fell and he slowly started pulling and pushing on my hips while he moved his.

'No screaming.'

'What? I don't scream.' I took a deep breath and put my head up to look at the ceiling.

'Oh yes you do, you were screaming Christmas Eve.' I blushed remembering that while I tried not to make any noise.

'Alright, I maybe I scream a little.' He stopped and gave me the bullshit face (I didn't even have to look at him to know.) as I whimpered. 'A lot?' He nodded and started moving again; I looked over my shoulder at him and bit my lower lip as he went all the way in, pulling back on my hips and making me moan as much as I could without anyone hearing. He smiled and sped up just a tad since he was trying not to make any noise. I put my head down into the comforter and moaned louder knowing it was muffled as the pressure returned and he squeezed my butt. He stopped and moved his hands up to my shirt and started pushing up on it so I sat up and pulled it off. He smiled and squeezed my breasts before I moved back down and he started going again. 'God you feel amazing.' He smiled and moved down to kiss the small of my back; as I licked my lips the door opened and I squealed as Erik and I scrambled to get under the covers. Nadir paid no attention to us and went over to his closet. I looked over at Erik and he was putting his mask on while staring at Nadir in disbelief.

'Dude have you heard of knocking?' Nadir looked over at us and realized what he did.

'Oh God I'm sorry, I just really need a shirt for tonight, I'll be out in a second.'

'What happened?' His dad ran into the room and had a gun.

'Family meeting I guess.' Erik looked around the room as I continued holding the sheet up to my chest and tried not to laugh through the mortification.

'Everyone's alright?' Erik's eyes stopped on his dad and he nodded.

'Yep doing great. Nadir just doesn't know how to knock.'

'Well you should have locked the door.' He pulled out a green polo and I scrunched my face up.

'Why do you own a green polo?' I looked up at Erik and he shrugged his shoulders. 'Nadir give me that shirt so I can burn it.' I held my hand out and he tossed me it and I caught it.

'What's Meg's favorite color again, Christine?'

'Blue, navy, despite what she says about not being picky.' Nadir nodded and grabbed a navy button up shirt, I saw Erik wanted to ask where he found that but didn't because he was too annoyed.

'So are we done in here yet or...' I giggled at his frustration as his dad made the face of just understanding what we were doing.

'Oh! Okay I'm going sorry be safe.' He left the room and Erik sighed and glared at Nadir who was holding the shirt up to his torso and looking at us.

'Does this look okay?' I nodded and Erik groaned.

'Yeah you look amazing she'll be drooling over you all night, she'll want to have her way with you, she will think you're handsome, sexy, whatever answer you're looking for there it is. Now leave.' I kept laughing at his testeyness as Nadir nodded and slowly walked out of the room. 'Lock the door!' Nadir nodded while looking at the shirt and locked the door before closing it. Erik looked down at me and I stopped laughing.

'That was interesting.'

'That was the most embarrassing, and annoying thing ever. Like what do we even do after that? Do we lay here in awkward silence or start having sex again?' I shrugged my shoulders and he sighed while I tossed the hideous shirt into my pile of clothes which was scattered around the room.

'I'm all for starting again, mostly because that was hilarious. You guys own guns?' Erik nodded as I crawled onto his lap and turned around so I was facing the door again. I slid down on him and smiled when he put his hands on my butt as I started grinding against his hips and he groaned. He put his thumb against the one place I draw the line at so I grabbed his hand and moved it. 'No touchy there.' He frowned and looked like I took away his candy.

'But it's just a thumb.'

'Yeah but your thumb leads to your penis which is a no.' I got up and turned around so I was facing him. 'I'm watching you.'

'So anal is a no?' I nodded and he nodded as he put his hands on my breasts and started squeezing them. I smiled and mewed when the pressure for the third time returned and went down to my toes, I went quicker as he groaned and almost- almost squeezed my breasts so hard they would be sore later as his face scrunched up and his mouth fell open. I smiled and started grinding against him as his hips moved on instinct. My body started twitching when the pressure spread over me and I stopped moving to fall over and put my face in his neck. He kept moving his hips making it harder to stay quiet through it all. Once my body calmed down I kissed his neck as my breathing slowly returned to its normal state and he pulled out by moving me up some. 'Better?' I nodded and he kissed my cheek and I felt him smile. 'Good. Shall we watch Halloween now?' I pulled the condom off before anything could leak out and tied it shut.

'Where do you want this?'

'Hm here I'll go throw it away.' He started to get up when I shook my head and got out of bed.

'I'll get it. In the bathroom or...' I grabbed his shirt and put it on.

'Bathroom. You know where it is, right?' I just then realized I'd never really been in Erik's house to the extent he had been in mine.

'I uh... Across the hall?' He nodded and I smiled over the fact that I got it right. I went out into the hall once it was hidden in my fist and went over to the bathroom. The door was closed so I knocked on it.

'Just a second!' It was Nadir so I turned around to go back to Erik's room.

'Don't worry just come get me when you're done please.' I went back into Erik's room, feeling less awkward now. 'Nadir was using it.' I set it in my clothes so I'd remember to throw it away as he scooter over for me.

'That's fine. Did you need to go to the bathroom?' I nodded and ran my hand through my hair.

'I probably should.' He moved the covers away and sat up.

'Its downstairs, then there's that hallway to the left of the stairs-' I nodded. 'Its the second door on the right. Want me to show you?' He handed me his pajama pants and I shook my head.

'No thank you, I think I'll be fine.' I put them on and they started to fall down so I took my ponytail holder from my wrist and tied the waistband so they'd stay up.

'Should we tie a string around your waist in case you get lost?' I smiled and shook my head as I leaned down to kiss him and his upper lip was stuck to mine for a second before I stood up and giggled. 'You're a good kisser.' I smiled and walked over to his door.

'Well that's a relief. You're pretty good too if I may say so myself.' He licked his lips and smiled as I opened the door and closed it behind me so he didn't flash anyone. I hurried down the stairs and went left and then right so I was in the hallway. I walked down the hall to the second door on the right and went into the bathroom. I closed the door behind me and noticed there was a door to the right. Curious, and having watched too many horror movies I cracked the door open and was semi- disappointed when there was just a guest room in it. I crept over to the closet, opened the door and it was empty. Lame. I closed everything and went back into the bathroom to take care of my business.

As I was walking back over to the stairs I was stopped by Ken. What'd I do now? 'Christine.'

'Erik started it.' I grinned and tried to look innocent over having sex in his house.

'Started what?' He looked confused, this guy must be new.

'Whatever you're about to yell at me for?' I smiled when he shook his head.

'I'm not going to yell at you. I just wanted to talk to you about Erik.'

'Oh well alright. What'd you want to talk about?' I put my arms over my chest since I was braless, thankfully I had the chestage of a 12 year old boy so you couldn't tell besides the fact that I had no breasts at the moment.

'Can we move to the living room?' I nodded and we walked past the kitchen and into the living room where I sat down in the chair I sat the morning I came to invite Erik to Toronto across from where he was sitting. 'Erik, as you know, isn't normal.' I did the duckface and slowly nodded.

'Yep I've noticed.'

'Which comes with a lot of issues, lost friends and trust issues.' I narrowed my eyes and continued my slow nodding.

'Yeah I can imagine that he'd have all of them.' I started tapping my fingers on my knees.

'So be easy on him if he's not fully into the relationship and if he doesn't seem to trust you, because he does, I know he does but he has a hard time showing it, and don't be offended if he takes a while to show you his right side- if he ever does.' I smiled and kept my slow nodding going.

'Yeeeah about that- he may have shown me his right side?' I think I may have given him a heart attack, wasn't too sure. 'Ken?' I waved my hand in front of his face. 'Hello? Habla en Espanol?' I sat back and sighed. 'Well if I've broken you I'm sorry about that.' I stood up and started walking over to the stairs.

'He's shown you?' The disbelief in Ken's voice was beyond normal.

'Yeah? The first night we were in Toronto.'

His mouth dropped even further down. 'It took him 3 years to show me.'

'Huh. I dunno. All I know is he showed me, he slept without it on every night after I'd take it off and he seemed as comfortable as he could be.'

'What about your friend?' He stood up from the couch.

'He and I fell asleep the night he showed me and she saw when she woke up. She was fine with it... Obviously.' He nodded and looked over towards the kitchen.

'Right... Well good talk... I'm glad he trusts you that much.' I smiled and began climbing the stairs. 'Oh and Christine-' I stopped and looked back at him. 'Be safe. I don't want a grandkid for at least another 8 years.'

'We are.' I smiled and finished climbing the stairs and went into Erik's room.

'Are you alright?' I nodded and took his pants off.

'Yeah your dad wanted to talk to me.' His eyes widened and he groaned.

'What'd he say?' I smiled and sat down on the bed.

'That if you don't put 100% into the relationship it's not because you're not interested it's because you have trust issues, not to be surprised if I never see your face, you trust me even if you don't show it annnd to be safe because he doesn't want grandchildren for at least another 8 years.' He chuckled and shook his head.

'Oh did you tell him?' I nodded. 'How'd he react?'

'I think he had a heart attack and fainted once I was out of sight.' He chuckled again.

'Yeah I could see that happening. So you ready?'

'Yep!' I brought my feet onto the bed and he put the blanket over me as I put my arm and cheek on his chest as he started the movie. 'I love you.' I kissed his chest and he smiled as he ran his fingers through my hair.

'I love you too.'

5 Hours Later

'Well those were really good.'

'You really liked them?' I nodded and he smiled. 'I'm glad.'

'I mean her character development was a bit cheesy but it didn't ruin the movies.' He pursed his lips and nodded.

'I could see it being cheesy, but she was almost murdered.' I sat up on my elbows.

'What and does being murdered and the side effects of it seem cooler when dressed in 60's and 70's metal band shirts?' He shrugged his shoulders as he closed the laptop.

'I don't know, does it?' I shook my head as he laughed. 'Well as long as we've gotten that clear we'll be able to sleep soundly tonight.' I rolled over so my arm was hanging off the edge of the bed and groaned.

'I'm not tired. What time is it anyway? Like 4 am? We should have sex.' I grinned and he shook his head.

'Nah I'm tired. Maybe tomorrow before you go back home.' My stomach dropped when I realized I forgot to call my dad back from a couple hours ago.

'Oh God I'm going to be so busted.' I hurried out of bed and went over to my purse and grabbed my phone. I dialed his number as Erik got down on the floor with me. I smiled as the phone rung when he crawled over and started kissing me. 'I thought you were tired.' I glared at him and he shrugged his shoulders.

'One can only remain so tired when you're showing it all off.' I looked down and realized I was sitting so everything was there for the world to see so I moved to stretch my legs out in front of me. 'Aw.'

'Christine I called you three hours ago. Where are you?'

'I'm at Erik's, we were watching a movie I'm sorry I didn't call you.'

'Just watching movies?' Why did he think we're dating? I mean we are but still we've been careful.

'Yes dad, just watching movies. Why do you have this insane notion that we're dating? And even if we were his family his home so we couldn't do anything.'

'That didn't stop me as a teenager. Right well-' He yawned. 'As long as you're alright. Did you have a good trip?' I smiled and nodded even though he couldn't see me.

'We met Ramin all three nights. plus the evening before our first show. It was amazing! And then our last night seeing it we all walked and talked back to his hotel and he didn't seem creeped out! He invited us to walk with him, by the way so it's not like we followed him.' Erik laughed as I bit my index finger nail.

'Well that's pretty cool. Well you can tell me more about it when you get back, hopefully you didn't slack on getting your audition stuff ready.'

'Yup! We're all ready, I need to run through my dance routine more with my pointe shoes but besides that I'm good.'

'Alright good. Love you Christine, night.'

'Night dad, love you.' I hung the phone up and Erik immediately started kissing me again. I started responding as I wrapped my arms around his neck.

The Next Afternoon

'You are on my murder list right now.' I glared at Erik as he looked caught off guard.

'What'd I do?' I moved my hair from around my neck and pointed at my neck.

'You gave me hickeys! What am I supposed to say if my dad see's them? He knows I've been with you for the past week and a half so if he see's them he's going to find out about us.' He walked over to me and sat down.

'Then let him find out, I don't see why you insist keeping that we're dating from him.' I put my head on his shoulder as he wrapped his arm around waist.

'Because he'll never let you spend the night or let me spend the night here.'

'You can sneak out, he doesn't sound like the most diligent father.' I giggled and nodded.

'Ain't that the truth.' I stopped laughing so I could sigh as he rubbed my side with his thumb. 'I guess I should get going. Homework to do and clothes to unpack and wash. Oh and pictures to upload.' He smiled and nodded then stood up. He offered me his hand which I gladly took as I grabbed my purse from next to my feet.

'I'll walk you down to your car- unless you'd like me to join you.' I shook my head while walking out to the stairs along side him then down them.

'Nah, to my car is good enough for me.' He smiled and I waved at Ken and Nadir as we walked over to the door. He opened it for me which I happily thanked him for then I skipped down the driveway next to him while he watched in amusement. 'What?' I grabbed my keys and smiled as he walked up to me and backed me up against my car.

'Nothing. You're just so beautiful.' I blushed and looked down at my keys until he lifted my head up and kissed me gently before kissing my cheek. 'I'll see you on Monday. I love you.'

'I love you too, see you Monday. Practice your part!' He nodded and started walking up to his house as I got in and started the car. I pulled onto the road and drove the 45 seconds down to my house and turned my car off, my dad was home meaning I'd have to find my scarf from in my luggage before going in. I got out and went around to my trunk to get to work. Why do I own so much black fucking clothes?! Seriously, it all blended together making it hard as hell to find the damned scarf! Ugh I was so lazy. Once I found it I Sherlock tied it around my neck, zipped my luggage up and pulled the three bags out of the back. I closed the trunk and set them up so I could roll all three at the same time and started walking up to the door. I opened it and smiled as I walked in knowing my dad would be here any second.

'Christine.' I stopped moving and set my bags down when my dad walked out from the kitchen. 'Glad to have you back.' He ruffled my hair and I giggled as he hugged me.

'Gladish to be home.' I rubbed the top of his back before letting go.

'So how was Toronto? Did you like it?' I smiled as wide as I could.

'Oh I loved it there, they literally had to pry me off the door frame of the hotel room yesterday. I did not want to leave.' He chuckled and shook his head.

'You're definitely something else. Well I'm glad you enjoyed it up there, was Josh of any help?'

'We saw him when we arrived, and when we needed to check out, that was it.' He nodded.

'So Josh was of help then?'

'Yeah I guess so.' He grabbed my big bag so I grabbed my smaller ones and we walked over to the stairs and set them down.

'Well I'm glad. Hopefully you had no issues driving there?' I groaned and shook my head.

'Holy fuck, there were no left turn signs there, hundreds of pedestrians and- Downtown was just a cluster fuck, thankfully Erik is a good driver, because all that plus snow?' I shook my head. 'I'd be crashing.'

'Well I'm glad Erik drove then. I'd hate for you to crash and hurt yourselves and other people.' I nodded and sighed.

'Well I have some extra credit math homework I need to get done, I'll be in my room if you need me.' He nodded and hugged me one last time before I put all my bags the way they were when it was just me and started up the stairs, occasionally struggling because I'm weak and pathetic which I needed to fix. I got up to my room and smiled at being home even though Toronto was better and got to work on hanging my clothes up and starting the laundry.

3 Hours Later

'No come over. I'm bored.' I rolled onto my stomach so I didn't have to look at my half empty suitcase and the one I haven't touched.

'I'm not yo entertainment woman!' I giggled and started picking at the carpet.

'Pleasee, Erik, I'm bored.'

'Finish unpacking, you've probably not done much.' I looked over at them and nodded.

'I don't know what you're talking about, I'm done.'

'Oh well alright then, I'll be over as soon as I can, they better be put away like you said they are.' I sat up and realized what I just got myself into.

'Alright, see you in a little, love you bye.' I hung the phone up and stood up to start putting all the clothes away. Thankfully my big suitcase was dirty clothes so I only really had one big suitcase worth of clothes to put away.

20 Minutes Later

I hurried downstairs with my darks in my arms and went into the laundry room as the doorbell rang. 'You expecting someone, Chris?!'

'Yeah! It's Erik can you get the door?! I'm putting my load of laundry in!'

'Yep!'

'Thank you!' I added the soap and fabric softener before putting the lid down and starting it. I flipped the lights off and walked out to Erik standing there awkwardly while my dad stared at him. 'Stop staring dad sheesh.' I grabbed his hand and yanked on it so he would hurry over to the stairs. 'We're gonna watch a movie, I'll be in my room if you need me!'

'How's your math homework?'

'I finished it!' I smiled at him as we got up to the top step and I walked over to my room. I opened my door and Erik walked in.

'It sure does look like Monday to me, how'd we do at the audition?' I glared at him as we walked over to the bed.

'Well, are you done being a smartass? I missed you and I wanted to watch a movie.'

'I heard something about math homework?' He smirked and cocked his head to the side.

'I- uh… no you didn't.' I smiled when he sat down.

'You sure? I'd be willing to help you.'

'No thank you, maybe tomorrow so I have an excuse to see you. So what moooovie do you wanna watch? Your pick since I picked Book of Mormon.' He got up and walked over to my DVD drawer and squatted down to look through it.

'Anything that you don't want to watch?' I walked over and leaned down so my chin was on his shoulder.

'Hmm… no to Identity Theft and that's about it honestly.' He nodded and grabbed Anna Karenina.

'Is this any good? I liked the book but the movie I heard was iffy.' He looked over at me and I nodded.

'I liked it, but then again I'm not a whiny brat who hates nearly every movie adaptation because it's not the book word for word and refuse to fund it making the people who put hard work into it, not get paid and-'

'We'll watch this I think.' I nodded and stood up as he closed the drawer. 'So feisty.' I giggled as he pulled me over and up against him.

'The feistiest.' I batted my eyelashes and he nodded while leaning down to kiss me. 'Hm I'll go make popcorn or something... Do you want popcorn?'

'If you want some I'll have some, but don't make it just for me.' I nodded and walked over to the door. 'You might want to change into something less conspicuous.' I looked down at my choice of tank top and shorts.

'I'm fine.' He shrugged his shoulders and put the DVD in as I hurried over to the stairs. I slipped and fell on my butt near the bottom and yelped. 'Owch! Stupid steps.' I stood up and slowly finished the last three steps while rubbing my butt and went into the kitchen.

'You alright, Chris?' I nodded at my dad as I walked over to the pantry and grabbed two bags of popcorn and went over to the microwave and started working on opening them. 'You're going to put more clothes on, right?' I rolled my eyes and looked over at him.

'Why should I?'

'Because it's rude to wear that in front of company.'

'He hasn't complained.' I realized that wasn't helpful to my argument if anything it was counter productive which I kicked myself over as he gave me the d u h look.

'And you're expecting a 17 year old guy to complain about you wearing next to nothing around him?'

'Dad I'm wearing a tanktop and shorts, I'm fine, I'm comfortable and I'll be covered up with a blanket, please stop telling me what to wear.' I put the bags in the microwave and put the time in then got up onto the counter to wait. I starting swinging my legs and noticed my dad was glaring at me. 'What?'

'Change.'

'Nope. If you keep pestering me about an outfit I've worn out before I'm going to take my bra off and stay above the covers just to spite you.' I smiled and stopped when he gave me his you're poking a pissed lion off face so I looked back over to the microwave and ignored him. Once they were done I hopped off the counter and opened the microwave, dragged them onto the counter, grabbed a bowl big enough for the two bags, opened them nearly burning myself on the steam… nearly then dumped the two in there and tossed the empty bags away. I grabbed the bowl, smiled at my dad, grabbed two waters and headed over to the stairs. I skipped every other step getting up quicker and into my room. I locked the door and walked over to the bed. 'Hello.' I smiled and got into bed.

'Hey what's up?'

'Nothing much, I got popcorn and water, is that cool?' He nodded as I pointed my head towards to the door and he scrunched his face up. I leaned over to his ear and whispered: 'My dad had an issue about my outfit, I know shoulda listened to you, and so I think he might be outside my door.'

'Oh…' He laid back and nodded as I got under the covers. I sat up and set the bowl on his lap.

I continued whispering. 'Just to keep my word-' I moved my tanktop straps down so I could pull my sports bra off and tossed it over by the door and quickly pulled the straps back up. 'What better way than me dropping hints? If he's gonna find out I mean, which I think he will sooner or later because he's not stupid.' He smiled and shook his head as I grabbed the DVD remote and pressed play. 'I made two bags, is that okay?'

'Yeah, I think one bag would have sufficed.' I smiled and shrugged my shoulders.

'Oh well, we're gonna watch more than one movie, right?' He nodded and kissed my forehead. 'That's good because I'm only so good at avoiding responsibility by my onesie.'

'So dependant.' I giggled and shook my head as he smirked.

'Nope, just do better with someone else- so more like co-dependant?'

'Yeah that could work.' I put my head on his shoulder and looked at the screen.

An Hour Later

'Christine I'm going to the store, need anything?' I looked over at my door and nodded.

'Please! Can you grab me some-' I looked over at Erik. 'Are you grossed out by periods?' He shook his head. 'Alright good. I need some tampons!'

'I- but-' He sighed as I silently laughed. 'What brand?'

'Playtex sport, regular please!' I looked over at Erik. 'I'm starting soon so you're gonna have to be waiting 5 days to have sex.'

'I'm fine with that.' I waited until I heard the front door close to move under the covers and started unbuttoning his pants. 'What are you doing? We had sex yesterday.' I giggled and kept working at it, light would be useful. On queue he lifted the blanket up and I looked up at him and smiled.

'Hi.'

He returned it. 'Hey there.'

'We aren't going to have sex, I pinkie promise.' I gave him my pinkie and smiled even more revealing my teeth as he looped his around mine. I shook then started working on his pants again. 'Keep that up please because your jeans freggin' hate me!' I started yelling mid sentence so Erik moved my hands and undid them. He lifted his hips up after pulling his phone out and I pulled them down along with his boxers. I looked up at him accusingly when he was all ready to go if we were to be having sex. 'Does someone find Keira Knightley sexy?' He shook his head and I rolled my eyes.

'I mean she's not ugly but not sexy enough to cause this.'

'Then who is?' I smiled and bat my eyelashes at him.

'Well you obviously.' Ah there it is.

'Aw you're too sweet.' He shrugged his shoulders and smiled as I put my mouth over him and started moving my head; he put his head back and his mouth fell open. His hands let go of the comforter, bringing it back down making it dark which was pretty fun. I took him out of my mouth and started rubbing him quickly as I licked his tip making him groan, making me reconsider the no sex thing. I stopped my hand at his tip and pushed his length back so I could lick from top to bottom and all over. I continued rubbing him for another minute or so before putting him back in my mouth, pushing down another inch than I had before and smiled when I didn't gag. He tried moving his leg but I grabbed it, keeping it still.

'Chris stop and come up here.' I moved him out of my mouth.

'Why? I'm sure you taste fine and I'm having fun down here.' I rubbed him quickly and put my mouth over his tip.

'Chris I said stop Jesus your fucking dad is here.' Well that made sense as to why he was trying to stay silent.

'You kiddng rih?' He was still going- I didn't want it on my sheets- I was fucked and not in the way I prefered.

'Hello Christine Daae.' I moved him out of my mouth once he was finished and swallowed.

'Hey dad. What's up?'

'Come up from under the blanket please.'

'Yep one second.' I grabbed his pants and could only imagine the awkward air up there right now as he lifted his hips so I could put his pants back on. I buttoned and zipped them, took a deep breath and brought my head up from under the comforter. 'In our defense, we're being safe.' I smiled and he glared at me as he crossed his arms over his chest. '...Tampons?' I stopped smiling when he shook his head. 'Well that sucks because I really needed them.'

'I- Christine what is the one rule I've told you when it comes to this house besides alcohol?' I pursed my lips and thought… then smiled.

'No Monte Crue!'

'Okay the second rule?' I kept thinking… nothing rung a bell so I shrugged my shoulders. 'No sex in this house. Never not ever.'

'Well technically we weren't having sex? I was just…' He glared at me again so I stopped. 'We don't have sex here.' I ignored Christmas Eve and tried to think of a way out of this.

'So you've actually had sex?' I nodded and he did too. 'Well, what other places do you have? Surely Erik's father doesn't allow this type of activity in his house.' I looked over at Erik and then back at my dad.

'Well I mean… let's just talk possibilities here, what if he did and knew it was happening?' I copied his glare.

'Then I'd be having a long talk with him about allowing Erik to have sex with you under his roof.'

'What- just possibilities here again, but what if I were the one who was initiating everything?' I smiled and tried to keep the mood as light as I could.

'He should know better.'

'You know, Norman said the same thing as if having a penis makes him the decision maker and I'm just here, no say at all unless it's a no. Is that what you're getting here?'

'Norman knows about you two but I don't?!' He was starting to turn red which meant it wasn't going to end well.

'Sammi gave me a condom, Norman thought she was cheating, she told him where it went and he found out.'

'When did you two start-'

'December 15th, unless you meant dating then December 22nd.'

'Well that didn't help me at all. Thanks Chris.' I looked over at Erik who looked royally annoyed.

'Sorry… I don't think very much through.'

'Well obviously not, you decided to have sex with him! Raoul was so much better Christine, why date him?' My mouth dropped and I looked at my dad in disbelief.

'Well you couldn't have been any douchier right there. Why didn't you go to the store?!' I don't know why that was annoying me, but it was.

'Because I just wanted to find out what was going on between you two, and I knew I'd never find out if I relied on you telling me.'

'So you come into my room during a private moment?! Can you be any creepier, privacy invading..ey and rude? Jesus dad, there's a difference between curiosity, parental worry and creepy. You crossed all three.'

'Did not. I needed to know whether he was taking advantage of you and he obviously is.' Erik started laughing and we both looked up at him. 'What's so funny?'

'You wouldn't know what being taken advantaged of is even if it was dangling in your face with neon strobe lights on it.'

'And you do?' He nodded.

'Yeah I do actually, so don't fucking say I'm taking advantage of your daughter when I am doing nothing even close to that! She initiates and gives me consent, how does that equal rape and or being taken advantage of?' I sensed there was something Erik wasn't telling me, but I sense I shouldn't explore that subject unless he approached me about it.

'Well it doesn-'

'Exactly, so please shut the hell up and think before I break something.' My mouth dropped and I looked over at my dad to see what he'd do.

'Get out of my house Erik. You're no longer welcome here.'

'Well I don't want to be here if you're going to call me a rapist.' He got out of bed and I kept grabbing at him to stop him.

'Erik please don't go.'

'I'll call you once I've cooled down. Love you.' He kissed my forehead and went over to my door and shoved my dad with his shoulder as he passed by him. I climbed out of bed and hurried after him.

'Erik please stay. I'll lock him out- I'm sorry I didn't know he was there please don't be mad at me.' He turned around and he had tears in his eyes.

'Chris I really need to go.' His voice cracked and he was looking anywhere but at me. I let go of his arm and nodded.

'Right, I'm sorry, go ahead.'

'Wait just a second I'm not done here.'

'Fuck off Gustav I'm done. If you want me to give you the time to talk then treat me like a human who's done nothing wrong and not some pig who's raping your daughter pretty much daily.' I wasn't sure about that last part? But I kinda laughed either way.

'Er-'

'No! Go call Raoul, he's much better than me, gotta love a guy who holds your daughter against the wall with every intent to actually rape her because she refused to have sex with him and he believed it was his right to be able to have sex with her because they had been dating for a year. Oh yeah! He's so much better!' Erik went over to the door and opened it and I grabbed my dad's arm when he walked over to Erik but he ripped his arm away and grabbed Erik's arm. I didn't know about a lot that was happening at this moment, but I definitely knew that was a terrible idea. Erik turned around and I saw a murderous rage that even I shyed away from. 'Let go of me right now.'

'No! We're going to finish this conversation like adults!' Erik started laughing and looked over at me.

'He wants to talk like adults, how funny.' He stopped laughing and looked at my dad. 'Yeah no. By now I'm breaking windows so it shows that I'm showing massive self restraint, so please let me go. I won't rape your daughter, I won't even see her again if it makes you happy, just let me go for all that is fucking holy in this world!' The tears were back in his eyes as he gritted his teeth and his face turned red. My dad let go and my heart broke in two as my mouth dropped and I looked at Erik who was running down the yard to the sidewalk. I looked at my dad who was fuming which I could care less about.

'You lied to me, Christine.'

'Yeah! Because I felt the need to! I freaking wonder why! Jesus Christ.' I walked over to the door and Erik was squatting down on the sidewalk, his head tucked down and he was visibly shaking. I went to walk out but my dad grabbed my wrist. 'Let go of me.' He shook his head.

'I forbid you to see him again.' I yanked my arm away and shook my head.

'Well don't you feel fucking special? He obviously needs to talk to someone.'

'Yeah a psychiatrist who's a professional and can help with events like that.' I was even starting to get pissed off.

'Yeah well I'm all he's got at the moment.' I ran outside and knelt down to Erik and wrapped my arms around his torso. 'Hey I'm here.'

'Go back inside, he'll be fine.' I furrowed my eyebrows and started rubbing his back.

'Who's gonna be fine?'

'Erik.' I nodded and sighed. Great. He's talking in third person.

'Well I'm glad to hear that but I'm gonna help anyway because I'm a stubborn brat. C'mon. Let's stand up and get you inside, alright?'

'He's not welcome.'

'Well you are because I say you are, so lets go in. It's kinda cold out here.' He looked up and over at me and his eyes were red making my heart break even more. He stood up and I did with him and I kept rubbing his back as he walked inside and I gave my dad my I'm PMSing don't say a God damn word or I'll bite your throat out look as we walked past him and over to my stairs. 'We have some water up there for you.'

'For Erik?' I smiled and nodded as we climbed up stairs and I sat him down on my bed. He was sitting straight up, looking at my closet and tapping his fingers on his knees. I was honestly afraid he was going to start climbing the walls and vomiting.

'Stay right here, I'll be right back.' He nodded and started looking around the room as I left to go down into the kitchen.

'He's insane!'

'No dad you obviously brought up a memory that he reverted to a natural defense of talking in third person!' I went to the spice cabinet and grabbed the salt. '...or he's possessed. Don't worry Supernatural has prepared me.' The last part was more for myself than him as I grabbed salt and iron skillet not sure how this was going to work and went back upstairs and he was gone. I looked up on the ceiling and he wasn't there which I don't know why I expected him to be.

'Boo.' I screamed and turned around to see him standing there smiling.

'I told you to stay there!' He flinched and frowned.

'Erik's sorry. He thought you'd laugh.' He went and sat down on the bed. I poked his arm with the pan and it did nothing so I set it down and put some salt in my hand.

'It's alright no need to apologize. Open your mouth, please, I'm not going to hurt you.' He showed obvious signs of distress and moved back on my bed.

'Erik apologized please don't hurt him.' I slowly walked over to the bed with my hands up not even caring about the salt falling to the floor.

'Erik, baby, it's me, Christine. I'm your girlfriend and I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm just trying to help you.' Good God what happened to him before his dad got him?

'Girlfriend... Christine... Erik doesn't have a girlfriend. Much too ugly... Too ugly.' His gaze moved down to the carpet.

'No you're not, will you just eat a little bit of this salt please? You can put it in your hand and everything I won't touch you.' I handed him the salt shaker and he examined it before putting some in his hand and eating it. Nothing. I call bullshit on you, Supernatural. Complete bullshit. 'Lets play a game, wanna do that?' He smiled and nodded.

'Erik likes games. He didn't get to play much as a kid but at least now he gets to!' I smiled weakly.

'Lets play a game, where you think of the most obscure words, and the craziest word wins... Ready set... Go! Cristo.'

'Happiness.' My heart broke into a million pieces and my lip started quivering. 'Erik likes yours better. You win! You're good at this game.'

'Why thank you. I'm gonna go get a board game does that sound fun?' He nodded.

'Erik likes monopoly, he likes the puppy. He loves puppies... He used to have one before she died...' I closed my eyes to fight the tears away and left the room. I went into the kitchen and grabbed the house phone to call Ken because I had no clue what to do.

'Hello?'

'H-hi Ken it's me Christine, I need your help I don't know what to do! It's like he's not even there anymore!'

'What's happening?'

'He's talking in third person, he doesn't know who I am he's saying the most depressing things and- he's acting like he's a little boy again. He's scared I'm going to hurt him and I don't know what to do!'

'Oh crap not this. What started it?'

'My dad found out that we were dating by me doing something for Erik and the argument got heated and my dad said Erik was taking advantage of me and Erik said not to accuse him of that, my dad grabbed his arm to stop him from leaving and I saw in his eyes an anger that even I was a little uneasy about, but then it switched to this pained and empty look and he started talking in third person after ranting a little more and he had calmed down.'

'Right I'm going to ignore the fact that your father accused my son of that. Anyway, he's either going to have to snap himself out of it, or you're going to have to keep talking to him. Don't worry he's not going to hurt you or himself, it's just his natural defense against some childhood memories of things that happened before I got him.'

'What happened to him?'

'That's for him to tell you. It's not my place. I've got to go and you should probably get back to him.'

'Right, thank you, Ken and I'm sorry about my fathers behaviour.'

'No need to apologize, if he hasn't apologized in a week I'll be talking to him.'

'Sounds fair enough. Alright I'll talk to you later, bye.'

'Bye.' I hung the phone up, grabbed some marshmallows from the pantry, went to the supply closet and grabbed the game, then went back upstairs.

'Will you do it?'

'Do what?' I set everything down on the floor and motioned for him to join me.

'Give Erik a kiss. Mommy wouldn't even give him one...' He must have noticed my distress from the news and thought it was towards his request. 'On the cheek! Don't worry he wouldn't force you to touch his lips. He knows they're gross.' My lower lip started shaking again as I leaned over and kissed his left cheek. He put his hand on his cheek and looked at me in awe.

'Want me to kiss your right cheek? I'd be happy to.' I smiled so he knew I wasn't lying.

'Y-you... no. Erik wouldn't make you look at his face.'

'I've seen your face before, I've even kissed your right cheek optionally.' I slowly moved my hand up to his mask and he flinched away. 'I'm not going to hurt you. Trust me.' I slowly took it off and smiled when I handed him the mask.

'How are you looking at Erik? He's re... Repuls... Repulsive… that's what mommy says and mommy knows best and she's always right.'

'Your mother is wrong, you're beautiful, you're loved and you, never, are repulsive to me and your friends and family. I need you to believe me.' I kissed his right cheek and I heard him choke back a sob. I kissed his forehead and nose. 'Please come back to me.' I started kissing his right cheek again repetitively.

'Erik doesn't deserve to be loved... He deserve to hate himself and to be alone until he dies looking exactly like he did when he was... Hatched yes mommy said he was hatched.'

'Christine?' I turned around to look at my dad while I finally started crying.

'What do you want? What could you possibly want from us now?!'

'Erik is sorry he didn't mean to upset you please don't yell at him.' He curled up into a ball and I glared back at my dad.

'Just leave us alone! I have more important issues to attend to than what you're wanting to address, Gustav.' I said his name with the utmost distaste as I looked back at Erik who was rocking in his ball and crying.

'Erik, what's happened to you? Why are you think you're always the one in trouble?' I slowly crawled over to him and spoke as gently as I could while crying.

'Because everything is Erik's fault, mommy's boyfriend leaving, his puppy being shot, him being taken into random peoples home until his daddy came and saved him... Saved him from the man who would touch him and tell him it was okay and it was the only way to become a man.' He shook his head. 'Erik didn't become a man though, he just grew more and more afraid to come home from school because the man would be there waiting- waiting to try and help me turn into a man... Why did he lie to Erik? Erik was a good boy. He didn't lie, steal, break things and he even helped the lady clean the house up.' I was ready to punch every living soul who hurt him, I was- I couldn't even describe how angry and devastated I was. 'But- Erik lived with it for two months until daddy came- he found out what was happening and the man was arrested and he went to prison. The lady, she was nice to Erik, he was mean to her too. He would hit her, just like mommy used to do to Erik! Erik wanted so badly to help her but he knew it would just make the man angry and would take it out on her then Erik too, later once the lady went to sleep, and some nights he wouldn't, but would on her. Erik would hear her screams when he tried to sleep. What did she do to deserve that? She treated Erik like he was normal, she was nicer than mommy... She was beautiful too.' He smiled and started tapping the floor. 'She had blonde hair and blue eyes, was short, barely went got up to mans chest but he wasn't tall too. She would sing to Erik when the man wasn't around, sometimes she'd let Erik help bake! She was the greatest. Until one day she disappeared, the man said my face was too hard for her to tolerate and she left. Oh Erik would never forget that night. Erik was in bed for a week because of the pain. But only a week because that's when daddy came.' I couldn't handle hearing anymore.

'Erik, want to take a nap? Maybe a nap will make you feel better.'

'But you bright monopoly! Let's play monopoly!' He picked the game up as he smiled.

'We'll play when we wake up, I promise.' He pursed his lips then nodded.

'Okay. Pinkie promise?' I kissed my pinkie and he copied me and we touched pinkies.

'Pinkie promise. Want to get into bed?' He shook his head and laid down.

'Erik is used to the floor. You don't have to share with something like me.' I laid down next to him and smiled.

'I like sharing with you.' I kissed his forehead and he closed his eyes which cut off his tears. I laid there and watched him until I was sure he had fallen asleep then I got up off the floor and left my room needing to punch something. I started pacing the hallway when I screamed and grabbed my 10th grade class picture from the wall and threw it at the front door.

'Christine!'

'You! You have no idea how dead you are to me! Go away!' My dad flinched but stood up straight.

'I'm your father and you're going to treat me as such!'

'My father?! My father just made me listen to my boyfriends emotionally traumatizing past! You don't even want to begin to know what he went through! As long as I have anything to do with it you are not my father!'

'How was I supposed to know that he was going to blank out like a crazy person?!'

'He's not crazy you insensitive prick!' I pushed past him and he grabbed my arms. 'Let go of me!'

'You need to calm down!' I kept pulling away from him as I started getting hysterical as what Erik told me replayed through my head.

'I said let go!' I pulled away one last time as he let go and I stumbled back against the wall, hitting my head. A shooting pain went through my head and I groaned as I fell down onto the floor, tired all of the sudden. My dad hurried up to me and I pushed against him keeping him away from me. 'Stay away from me. This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't grabbed me.'

'We need to get you to the hospital.' I shook my head.

'No. I don't want your help.'

'Dammit, Christine! You're bleeding and now is not the time for you to be a stubborn brat!' He picked me up against my will and physical attempts to keep him off and grabbed his keys as he walked over to the front door. My eyes started getting heavy as I looked over at the staircase.

'Erik- I told him I'd be there when he woke up. I need to be there.'

'Yeah but I think he'd rather you be alive than dead or in a coma next to him when he wakes up.' I started crying again.

'I want Erik.'

'Well you're going to have to deal with me.' He opened the front door just as I heard my door open.

'Christine what the fuc-' My dad closed the door and I got even more hysterical.

'No Erik was awake take me back to him!'

'You've been together three weeks, don't be so dependent on him.' He set me down by the passenger side door so he could unlock the door and Erik opened the door.

'Erik!' I was a complete mess. I was crying like a two year old, it was honestly ridiculous. He ran over to me and my dad tried to get him off of me as he hugged me but Erik pushed my dad off.

'Don't touch me ever again.' I started crying into his chest and he started running his hands through my hair but I flinched the second he started. 'What's- why is there blood on my hand?'

'She hit her head against the wall- I was taking her to the hospital until you came out here.'

'How the hell did she hit her head against the wall hard enough that she's bleeding!?'

'I- it was an accident! She was freaking out and I grabbed her arm after she shoved me and as I let go she pulled away and stumbled back into the wall. I didn't know she was going to pull!'

'I suggest you stay away from Christine for a while.'

'Don't tell m-' I felt Erik growl so I knew he was glaring at him.

'Come on Christine let's get you to the hospital.' He picked me up as I started to calm down and carried me over to his car. He opened the passenger door and gently set me down and pulled down on my eyes since they were closed to open them. 'Stay awake.' He kissed me and I opened my eyes, pumped with a small adrenalin rush as he got out and closed the door. I looked out the window and my dad was pacing the driveway fuming, nothing new I guess. I should have known he wouldn't stay nice for very long.

'I'm getting blood on your seat.'

'I don't care.' I smiled weakly and looked at him.

'I missed you.'

'Yeah about that, what happened exactly?'

'You- you blanked out and were talking in third person a-and you said all these things about your mom saying you deserved to die alone a-and that you were hatched and not birthed and that... that one of the most obscure words you could think of was happiness then you started taking about the house you lived in before your dad got you and that the man hit you and touched you and that he probably killed his wife.' Tears started welling up as I thought about it. 'Erik don't tell me anything else about your childhood- I love you, but please don't.' My lower lip quivered as he sighed.

'I'm sorry I never planned to tell you any of that. Was I talking in third person?' I started to nod but decided against it when it made my head hurt even more.

'Yeah.'

'God I hate when that happens. How long did it last?'

'I don't know. Half an hour maybe? I couldn't handle hearing anymore of it so I told you to take a nap. You were like a little boy again, it was frightening seeing how you reacted to things… 'You asked me...' My voice was a hoarse whisper so I cleared my throat.

'What?'

'You asked me, for a kiss, on the cheek, and you reassured me that you meant your cheek and not your lips. And I gave it to you and you looked at me like I was magical or something, and then after reassuring you that I wasn't going to be grossed out I kissed your right cheek. You started crying and told me that not even your mom did that. You told me she called you repulsive and that when I suggested you take a nap and told you you could sleep on my bed you said you were used to the floor- you said I shouldn't have to share it with something like you, Erik you called yourself a thing. You aren't a thing. You're a living, breathing human being that deserves everything that any other human deserves.'

'I know, Christine… I know.' He put his hand on my knee and I closed my eyes and sighed until Erik poked my cheek waking me up. I grabbed at my ears irritated by the ringing then slapped the power button on the radio turning it on instead of off which I thought I was turning it off and not on. He turned it off when I grabbed at my ears in pain.

'What's wrong?'

'My ears won't stop ringing and the music didn't help with the migraine I have.' I put my hand over my mouth when I started getting nauseous. 'Pull over- I need to puke.'

'I-' He sped up and changed lanes until he got to the side of the freeway near a gore area and I climbed out and fell onto my knees as I started puking into the rock. Every time I puked a sharp pain went through my head.

'Erik-' I puked again as he knelt next to me. 'I'm scared. I j-' I puked once again. 'Just want to go to sleep and it be over.'

'Here let me see your eyes.' I looked up at him and he wiped my cheeks off while checking my eyes. 'You should be fine I don't think they're dilated. Are you good?'

'Yeah.' He helped me stand up and I took the step to get in the car. He got in and turned the emergency lights off and looked at me.

'Here sit up.' I did what he asked and he put my chair down and grabbed a blanket from the back seat and set it on his lap then put his hand on my back. 'I've got you so lay back and don't use your stomach muscles.' I let him lower me and then I turned to my side so I was facing him. He put the blanket over me and kissed my forehead. 'Better?'

'Yeah.' I closed my eyes as the car started moving. 'I love you.' He rubbed my hand that I put on his leg and sighed.

'I love you too.' I smiled faintly before falling asleep.