A/N-I DO NOT OWN THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND!
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Before anyone could react to Alex's outburst, he bolted out of the living room and up the stairs.
"Alex! Alex, wait!" Nat called after his brother, sprinting after him. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs. "Sorry Cooper, but I don't think that's the best idea." With that, he took off running up the stairs.
I gave Cooper an apologetic smile. "Maybe now isn't the best time to talk about this."
"I get it," He said. "I'll see you at school, Rosalina."
I showed him out, quickly locked the door behind him, and ran up the stairs. When I got up there, I saw Nat knocking on the door of the guest room. "What's going on? What's wrong?" I asked, walking up to him.
"The door's locked," He said, looking at me. He pounded on the door. "Alex, c'mon, open the door!"
We both stood silently waiting for a response.
Nothing came.
Nat pounded again. "Alex, just open the door!"
"Nat, just calm down."
"No, I need to talk to him!"
"Nat, all you're going to do is scare him, calm down."
He took a deep breath, realizing what he was doing. "You're right."
I gently knocked on the door. "Alex? Could you open the door please?"
"C'mon buddy, we just want to talk to you," Nat said. "I'm sorry if I scared you."
We both stood silently again, and this time we heard the lock click. Nat opened the door and we both walked inside. "Alex, we need to talk," He said.
"There's nothing to talk about," He mumbled, sitting on the bed with his back to us.
"There's obviously something bothering you about the apartment."
"You wouldn't care."
"Alex," Nat said, sitting the bed next to his brother. "Do you honestly think that after everything I would stop caring?"
"Well…no…"
"Then talk to me, what's up?"
"We can't go back to the apartment. That's the first place he'll look Nat. The last time he looked there, he found us. I don't want him to find us again. I don't want to go through that again!"
"It's okay, Alex," Nat reassured his brother. "We're not going back there."
"I thought Rosalina and you were talking about moving back there earlier."
"We were," I spoke up. "But after you said what you did, Nat and I realized that you probably shouldn't go back there."
"And I suggested we find another place to live," Nat said.
"But I said that I wanted you guys to stay here," I said, sitting on the other side of Alex.
"Good. I don't want to leave," Alex said, looking back and forth at Nat and me. "I like it here. I feel safe here."
"I'm glad," I said smiling.
"We're not going anywhere Alex," Nat reassured him.
"Does this mean you're going to tell Cooper now?" Alex asked, looking at Nat.
I looked at Nat curiously.
"No Alex. I'm not going to tell Cooper or any of the guys," Nat said, looking at me.
"So you're okay now, right Alex?" I asked, looking at him.
The younger Wolff brother nodded. "Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks guys."
"Anytime little bro," Nat said, messing up his hair.
Nat and I got up from the bed and walked out of the bedroom and down the hallway. "Did Cooper leave?" Nat asked as we walked down the stairs.
"Yeah."
"Did he say anything?"
"He said he understands and that he'll see me at school."
"You know sometimes I sort of miss school," He said suddenly.
I stopped and looked at him. "Are you serious?"
"Yeah," He said, continuing walking down the stairs. "You'd probably miss it too if you'd been through what I have."
I followed him. "Nat–,"
"It's okay, Rosalina," He interrupted me. "Don't worry about it."
We walked downstairs and I walked into the kitchen and picked up my backpack. "Do you think you guys will ever go back to school?"
He took a deep breath and let it out. He shook his head. "I don't really think so."
"Okay, let me rephrase that. Do you ever want to go back to school?"
This time he shrugged. "I…really don't know. I don't know if it would be for the best anymore."
"What do you mean?" I asked worriedly.
"Well…if this guy is hanging around, going to Amigos would just put everyone in danger and I can't do that. It's bad enough that you're in danger."
"I'm not in danger," I said firmly. "And neither are you or Alex."
"Just because you keep saying that doesn't mean it's true," He blurted out. "We have to start facing reality."
"Nat, you said so yourself, your safe here. Maybe not the safest you ever could be, but you're safe."
"All we're doing is putting you in danger–,"
"Stop saying that. I'm not in any danger, you're not in any danger as long as you stay inside the house."
"But what kind of life is that?" He asked, looking right at me. "Sitting inside the house all the time, not being able to go out? It sucks, Rosalina. It really sucks."
"I know but–,"
"Nat? Rosalina?"
We both looked to the doorway of the kitchen and saw Alex standing there. "Alex, it's okay, we–,"
"How much of that did you hear?" Nat interrupted me, turning to face his brother.
Alex shrugged.
"Alex Wolff, how much of that did you hear?" Nat demanded this time, with his anger rising in his voice.
"Enough," Alex said quietly.
"Alex you can't keep spying on us–,"
"Nat, stop it," I interrupted him. I knew that he was getting angrier and I knew that it would only scare Alex and make everything worse in the long run.
"Alex, could you go wait upstairs for a few minutes?"
He nodded and quickly ran upstairs.
"Nat, you can't keep losing your temper like that," I said, as soon as I was sure Alex couldn't hear us.
"He can't keep listening in on stuff like that! First of all, it's rude and second of all, all it'll do is scare him!"
"You're the one scaring him!" I shouted at him. "He's more afraid of you and how you're saying it than anything else! Why don't you stop and think about that?"
"Why do you think I won't let him listen to what we're saying?"
"Nat, you need to calm down before you just start yelling at him. Not only that, but you shouldn't even be saying anything that Alex shouldn't hear. You shouldn't be saying stuff like you're in danger. That doesn't just scare Alex, it scares me."
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