Chapter 12

In the morning Sora wakes up to find Nick on once of her couches asleep. She smiles and grabs her clothes and gets dressed. She leaves her room and walks downstairs to the kitchen to see Lux sitting there eating some toast.

"Good morning Lux." Smiles Sora as she walks to the fridge.

"Morning. Listen I'm sorry about the whole woods thing. I just thought I had to follow orders." Says Lux as she watches Sora get a glass of grapefruit juice.

"It's ok. Say how about we do some shopping today?"

Lux shakes her head, "Nope can't. The house is locked up tight."

"What?" gasps Sora as she puts her glass on the counter and walks to the door leading outside to only find it tightly locked and barred closed. "I can't believe it. He's grounding the whole gang."

"Who is?"

"My dad, he's grounding the Black Hearts, we can't leave without permission and that is very hard to get. Have you seen another girl around here, who looks like Meilin and Ka?"

"You mean Lexus? Nope and she won't be back for some time. I heard Meilin and Nick talking about it when they got home this morning. I was up before dawn. They said she was in Hong Kong for some reason that they don't know about."

"DAD!" screams Sora as she runs into the hall. Lux follows Sora and sees Li walk calmly out of the games room with Sakura and the others.

"What do you want Sora? Don't wake up the whole house." Says Li as he looks at his daughter.

"Why is Lexus in Hong Kong?" snaps Sora.

All the leaders stop in their tracks and look at Sora wondering how she could have known. Lux steps out from behind Sora and looks at the leaders, "I told her. I heard Meilin and Nick when they came home this morning. I don't sleep much so I'm pretty much always awake."

"You were spying on Nick and myself?" snaps Meilin as she glares at Lux.

"No I wasn't spying, like I said I was awake and overheard you. You were both talking loud enough even if I tried not hear I heard it." States Lux as she glares right back at Meilin and sees the hurt in her eyes, "You miss her don't you."

Taken back by the last thing Lux says Meilin walks away heading for her room, a look of shock on her face. Ka looks at Li and heads off after Meilin.

"Lux you didn't need to say that." Says Sakura.

"But I saw it in her eyes, she misses her daughter. No matter how tough someone is on the outside they show their emotions through their eyes except for my mother, Yelen, Li and you Sora. I didn't mean to offend her." Says Lux before she walks away not wanting to get in a fight.

"Why the lock down? Why ground the gang?" asks Sora after Lux has gone back into the kitchen.

"If Lux was sent after Bobby then who's to say that the elders won't send someone after you or Nick or us. Sora we are just looking out for the safety of us all." Says Madison softly.

"I don't want to be on lock down. I want to go outside these walls. You all know very well that I can get out if I wish to do so. What if we compromise?"

"What do you mean?" asks Li as he watches his daughter try and argue her way out of the house.

"What about if we don't leave the house in a group smaller than four? Bobby, Nick, Lux and I can all go out together and we know how to fight. Bobby is good, better than I thought he would have been."

"We'll think about it." Says Sakura as she smiles softly.

Sora smiles brightly, "Thank you." With that she turns around and heads back into the kitchen to talk with Lux.

"Do you think that Bobby will be a problem in the future?" asks Eli after Sora had gone back into the kitchen.

"Who's knows. We don't know much about this boy and we don't know if he is on our side or not. He does have to go out and get his tattoo today and then we will test him, find out where his heart lies." Says Li as they walk down the hall to the study. None of them saw Bobby sitting at the top of the steps watching and listening to them.

Nick wakes up to the sound of his cell phone ringing, he grumbles and grabs it off the table and answers with a rough, "Hello?"

"Nick? Did I wake you up?"

Nick sits up and rubs his eyes, "Oh hey Tima, yeah you woke me up but it's ok. What's sup?"

"I wanted to know if you wanted to get some coffee with me? You know hang out for awhile."

"Let me go ask my mom and then I will call you back ok."

"Sure. You know my number right?"

"Yeah. I'll call back in a few minutes."

"Ok." Says Tima before she hangs up the phone.

Nick hangs up his phone and he runs downstairs to see Madison and Eli both coming out of the study. "Hey I got to ask you guys something."

They both look up and smile at their son, "What is it?" asks Madison softly.

"Well I know we are on lock down and everything but this girl I like Tima she just called and asked if I wanted to go out for coffee and hang out. Can I?"

Eli and Madison both look at each other and they turn around and go back into the study leaving Nick in the hallway. A few minutes later Madison opens the door and motions for Nick to come in. The second Nick gets into the study Li says, "You can go out, but keep at least three guns on you and your cell. And please be careful."

Nick smiles, "I will thanks." He turns around and starts dialing Tima's number as he heads for the key rack.

"Hey Nick can you go out?" asks Tima as she answers the phone.

"Yeah I can, where do you wanna meet?"

"How about at the Starlight Café?"

"Great that is actually down the street from my place. I'll meet you there in ten?"

"Sure thing. Bye Tima."

"Bye Nick."

Nick hangs up the phone and turns around to head for the garage to see Sora standing there with her arms crossed over her chest and she has a death glare. "Don't look at me like that Sora."

"Your going out aren't you. We are all on lock down and you get to go out on a date."

"I went to the leaders and asked Sora, besides you get to go out today Bobby has to go get his tattoo. I have to go now bye." Replies Nick as he walks down the hall and to the garage.