"Who do you want me to meet?" She asked as I walked out of the room dragging her with me and too another door. The door wasn't locked so I opened it. The light made him wake up right away.

"Ever heard of knocking, Susannah?" He asked sitting up squinting from the light outside his door. Cranky much?

"Well yeah. But this is a kinda weird situation." I said. "Meet...Loria de Silva."

"You woke me up in the middle of the night for a ghost? Can't you see I was-Wait. Did you say de Silva?" I almost rolled my eyes at him.

"Yeah. Loria, meet Jesse de Silva." I said and Jesse finally got up.

"I have an uncle Jesse. Didn't meet him though, died before I was born. Well more like went missing, matre told me that." She didn't have a thick accent like Jesse did, but she did have an accent.

"Who's your mother?" Jesse asked her outting on a shirt. I leaned against the door still very tired.

"Mercedes de Silva. It's weird though, my brother is my second cousin." Jesse chuckeled at that.

"So she's my neice?" Mercedes was his sister.

"Yeah." Then I heard footsteps. "What was that?" I whispered and Loria peered out the door. "A guy," she told us. "Polo shirt, jeans, tanned skin, blue eyes, good looking..."

"Oh shit, Paul." I said.

"Suze, is that you?" He asked.

"I gotta hide. I'm going to be dead if he finds me."

"Join the club." Loria spat. She had a sort of sense of humor of being dead. I snuck out the door right by Paul. He didn't even see me. I ran down the breeze way and rested on a pillar to catch my breath. I really gotta stop running from him. What is it going to prove?

"Ow." I cried and I was pinned to the pillar. Paul's quick. I never even seen him. What was I saying? What was it going to prove? Nothing. Paul is Paul and no matter what he's always going to hurt me if he dosen't want to hear what he wants to. "Let me go." I gritted between my teeth. He had my legs inned with his knees and my arms pinned with this hands. It hurt. It's a difficult situation to try and explain. But it really did hurt.

"Now I know you never meant what you said earlier." Paul said only meer inches from my face.

"I meant every word of it, and now I'm thinking that we shouldn't even see eachother anymore. You're hurting me."

"Take it back." He pushed harder with his knees.

"No." I said my eyes starting to water from the pain. "I won't and I don't want to be with you anymore!" That just encouraged him more. He pushed with his arms and his knees and it felt like my leg broke.

"Take it back!" It's hard to picture Paul doing this to a girl, or anyone for that matter. Especially an ex.

"No! Let me go!" I yelled now tears streaming down my face. He pinned me as hard as I could and I was screaming for him to stop it.

"Let her go, Slater!" Someone said. I never turned my head to look, I couldn't. I had no energy to. Paul let me go right away with a fright. The worst thing was I was out of that much air and where Paul had pinned my legs so hard they just gave out and I fell. Passed out.

Jesse's POV

I walked over and picked her up. When I turned around Paul was gone. I brought her to the nurses office and bandaged the brusies. She was still unconcious. There were more bruises on her arms then what Paul have given her. She's either hitting alot of doors lately or she's lying to me.

I picked me up and brought her to her bed.

"Jesse." She said as I sat down on her bed with her in my arms.

"Yes, Susannah." I said.

"Am I dead?"

"No Susannah, you're not."

"Where's Paul?"

"I don't know, and neither do I care. I just care that you're going to be alright."

"I just want you to be ok." I whispered.

"And I just want to go to sleep." She said sitting up on the bed. "I'm on call."

"I don't think you should go to work like-"

"Shhh." Susannah said. "I have to make money some way, right?"

After she was asleep Loria came in.

"I seen the whole thing." She said glowing in the dark. "Is she going to be alright?"

"Some bruises, but she will be fine." I said. "What about you?"

"Me? Better then ever, well until the fact that I'm dead." Loria said. "Well I must go. See you later then, Uncle Jesse." She smiled and dematerialized. I stood up ready to leave and brushed some hair out of Susannah's face. I turned to leave.

"Don't."I heard a weak voice. "Stay." She had my hand.

"Ok." I sat back down.

"I don't want to be alone if he comes back." I smoothed her hair.

"You won't be." I lay down with her. "He won't hurt you anymore."