I'm sooo sorry, I had finals and I couldn't update. I'll do my best to update at least once a month from now on. My schedule's real tight because I have dance, tennis, badminton and singing throughout the summer and that keeps me busy form morning 6 to night 9. I'll try and update as much as I can. Love you. Mwah! Enjoy!

Maxon's POV

I sighed as I sunk down outside Talia's room. Oh my god, my little sister - shush Talia, I don't care if it was only by 12 minutes - just got shot. How did this happen? I loved my parents, yes, but Talia was and will always be the most important person in my life, no matter what. Not even America could take her place. I don't even know what I'm going to do if she doesn't survive this. She has to, she cannot leave me alone. I turned to look at Liv and Ian. I could read her by now and the guilt is killing her and Ian loves her. Oh lord, if she doesn't make it, I don't think he will either. No, I cannot lose my sister or my best friend.

My mind decided to go back to the day we got Ro and Juli.

"Max come on! I wanna go see what mom and dad have for us!" A six year old Natalia said as she ran towards the stables, pulling me with her.

"Coming, coming." I chuckled at my excited sister.

Deciding I was running too slow, Natalia started running even faster, leaving me running after her. We had reached the stables in record time.

"Mom? Daddy?" Natalia called out as she stepped into the stables.

"In the paddock sweetheart" Dad called out and we looked at each other, shrugged and followed our father's voice.

"Well, your dad and I have a present for you." Mom said as we entered the paddock.

"What is it?" I asked and Mom stepped aside to reveal two beautiful foals. One was black and one was white.

"They're yours." Dad said from where he was, next to Mom.

"Really?" Natalia asked excitedly.

"Yeah, really. The white one is a boy and the black one is a girl. You choose which one you want" He said in a soft voice, smiling at the way Talia's face lit up like the sun.

She was watching the two foals like they were the greatest thing on the Earth but my attention was on her. I hadn't seen her smile like that in forever because she got sick and had just now recovered. As she went up to the two foals, MaxonI turned to my parents.

"Mom, she just got better, what if she gets sick again?" I asked, keeping my voice low so that Talia doesn't hear.

"She'll be fine Max. Why don't you go join her?" Mom said.

I nodded and ran over to the two foals. Talia was already sitting on the fence and the black foal was next to her, content as Talia petted her. I walked over to the white foal. "Guess it's you and me huh boy?"

The foal just whined and nudged me, making me chuckle. I led him over to where Talia was sitting and leaned against the fence.

"What are you going to name them?" Dad asked as he walked over to us.

I looked at Talia. "You name them both. Your better at it than me." I said with a soft smile. She grinned at me before looking at the two foals. She reached out and petted the white foal and he immediately went to her, putting his head on her lap. She giggled.

I looked over at my parents, and grabbed the camera that I had brought with me on a n impulse. I quickly took a picture of my sister with the two horses before setting it aside. Releasing the foal, she put her hand under her chin, and tapped her index finger to her cheek.

"I got it!" She exclaimed sitting straighter.

I turned to her, eyebrow raised.

"Romeo" She said pointing to the white foal. "And Juliet" She finished pointing to the black foal next to her.

Mom laughed softly under her breath and I chuckled at her. Dad just ruffled her hair.

"Stop laughing at me!" She said mock-indignantly. She sent dad a glare before fixing her hair, crossing her arms and huffing.

"Well, we have to get back, we still have some paperwork to finish." Mom said before her and dad left.

"Max, I'm gonna go get carrots and sugar cubes. I'll be back" She said hopping from the fence. The second she took a step, Juliet followed her.

She stopped and Juliet copied. She jumped and laughed when Juliet did the same.

I hopped on the fence and was petting Romeo, while watching her. Talia began running and was followed by Juliet. Half an hour later, they were still at it. Laughing she came to sit next to me and Juliet followed her.

"You know, you got the reckless horse, I got the well obedient one." I told her with a cheeky smile and she just stuck her tongue out at me in response.

"Well, we'll have more fun than you" She retorted.

"Mhmm. Come on sis, let's go get those sugar cubes, and see if anyone'll take us shopping for stuff." I said hopping off the fence only for Romeo to gently nudge me as I tried to leave. I was caught off balance and fell. I heard laughter and looked up to see Talia with the camera in her hand. She quickly snapped a picture before leaning on Juliet for support since she was laughing too hard. Juliet herself snorted and I got the distinct feeling that she was laughing at me. Ro leaned down to nudge me gently as if to say sorry and I got up.

"It's alright Ro. I'm fine." I said stroking the horse.

"What was that about reckless and obedient?" Talia asked me through her laughs and I didn't even need to look at her to know she was smirking at me.

"I hate you" I replied.

"Love you too big brother" She replied cheekily. We lead both horses to the stables attached to the paddocks and got them set up before leaving. I ruffled Talia's hair as we left and she glared at me. I laughed as I ran away from her and she chased me all the way to the palace and up to our rooms. Laughing I jumped on my bed and she jumped on me.

"You little devil" I said as she got up and sat next to me. I was still lying on my bed.

"Proud of it" She replied and I shoved her lightly. She had no such reservations and proceeded to shove me right off the bed and I ended up on the floor with her sitting in the middle of my bed, looking like a damn queen.

I was brought back to the present and looked at Ian. I'm pretty sure he was too far in his mind to even register what was going on around us. It was a good thing, the palace was hectic. The circles in under his eyes probably matched mine and I could see Liv look similar.

It was then that the door opened and the doctor came out, his face grim and blood on him. My heart sank. No, it couldn't possibly be. There was no way she was dead. It was impossible.