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Last time

"Go and be a princess Evlin." When he said that my defenses broke and I burst into tears. "Kai, I can't go, I don't want to go!" I sobbed. The man or should I say my father was still holding onto my shoulder but his grip was no longer possessive. Now it held pity.

Kai made a dismissive gesture to the man and he began to pull me way. By now people were looking at us but I didn't care. I didn't want to go, I didn't want to leave Kai but most of all I didn't want to leave Tala. God damn it I loved the stupid bugger! I always have.

As the crowd began to close around me Kai turned away, but not before I saw the tears in his eyes.

Chapter 4

Why Did I Have To Go?

As I was being dragged away a thought crossed my mind. 'This was hard for them, just as hard as it was for me.' I dug my heals in. the man looked at me as though he expected me to start struggling again. I looked him in the eye and shock my head.

"I'll with you without a struggle but I need to do something first." I told the man. The man let go of me and I began to run through the crowd searching for Kai. I herd the woman let out a shriek of disbelief at her husband's action but right now I didn't care. I kept running looking for Kai. I found him near the back exit, he was leaving. I ran faster and when I reached him I flung my arms around him from behind.

Kai spun around and looked at me. "Evi don't make me force you to go." Kai's voice held a pleading note that told me he would if he had to.

"I'm going okay, but just promise me one thing." I looked up into his beautiful eyes waiting for an answer.

"Anything!"

"Promise me that you will come and find me one day, all of you have to come and find me!" tears were welling in my eyes again as I awaited his response.

A smile crossed Kai's features. "We aren't far behind you Ev, we will all leave together but that will take a little more planning than it took to get you out. You were coming with us but when you got shot we had to do something Ev! Tala knows where you will be so you will be our first port of call. Oh and Tala wants you to check up on his dad for him, I forgot to tell you that before apparently he is still right next door."

"How long will you be?" I asked, needing to know the answer.

Kai shock his head, thinking. "A year at the most."

"Okay." I gave him another tight hug and he kissed me on the forehead. "I'll be waiting Kai." I let go of him and started towards the man and woman again. My mother and father, it was an odd feeling but I would get used to it.

I met up with them and we walked out into the parking lot. I stopped in the middle and waited for them to catch up to me. When the woman got to me she flung her arms around me and burst into tears, sobbing onto my bare shoulder.

"Evlin!" she repeated over and over again through her sobs.

"Now, now." The man, my father said trying to comfort. "Lets not make a scene, you will have all the time in the world to get reacquainted later but we have to go now!" I gave his a thankful smile. Even though this woman was my mother it still felt odd having her sobbing on me. My father took her hand and led her to a car on the far side of the lot. I took one last look at the building before I followed.

Kais' POV

"Did she go?" Tala asked as soon as I entered his room.

"Yeah she went." I said as he sat down on the edge of Tala's bed and loosened his tie. It felt like I was being chocked by the bloody thing.

"What did she do?" Tala wanted to know. On the out side he seem slightly sad but on the inside it was much worse. On the inside his heart was shattered and I felt the same way.

"She made me promise that when we get outa here we have to go and find her." I rubbed his eyes. I was tired, today had been both emotionally and physically exausting.

"And you said?"

"That we would see her within a year."

"Christ Kai, why the hell did you tell her that?" Tala demanded. "You know we can't leave."

"Tala, she wouldn't have gone if I didn't, besides don't you want to see her again? I don't intend on spending the rest of my life in here! Now this is how it is going to work. We will come up with an escape plan that will get all four of out of here and on a flight to America and then to where Evi is okay?"

Tala looked at me as if he was I were missing some screws. "And how do you propose we do this?" Tala asked.

"We all aced strategy and planning, this should be a peace of piss! I reckon we can be out of her by the end of, wait, what month is it?" that was the problem with a place like this, people lost track of time. First it was a few days the weeks then moths and even years.

"It's January Kai." Tala filled me in.

"Okay, I bet we can be out of her and knocking on Evi's door by the middle of April if not earlier."

Tala just stared at me, disbelief written all over his face.

"Tala, I won't brake my promise."

After the long flight back to the good ol' U S of A Evi was exhausted, the flight had been long and boring. She had been up for two straight days if you included international air time and the different time zones but she had been following the night so there had only been a few hours of sun light to brighten her miserable heart. Evlin had only been away for forty nine hours but it already felt like a lifetime. She wondered if they missed her as well. Probably too busy. Evlin had spent every waking minute with those four boys, well apart from bathroom time. She had never been truly alone. Well Evi wasn't really alone now but it felt like it. The taxi pulled up outside a house that looked vaguely familiar. The white picket fence and the rose bushes gave the place a homely feel, then it hit her. This place was home, her home. Her father paid the taxi fair from the airport and grabbed the bags from the boot. Evlin didn't have any cloths apart from the ones on her back but what she really needed now was a shower and a sleep.

Evi walked into the house after her parents and felt a wash of deja-vu crash over her. A lump caught in her throat as she tried to talk.

"May I please use the bathroom, I would like to have a shower and get out of these cloths." Evlins' mother broke down into tears again when she said that.

"This is your home, you don't have to ask to use anything." Her father told her.

"Thanks, do you think you could show me where it is?"

The older man smiled down at her. "I'll take you to your room first shall I? So you can choose your cloths."

"I have cloths here?"

"Yes, the last time Tala wrote to us he told us your dress and shoe sizes so we could get you some clothes. He said all you had was army fatigues and tank tops. Here we are." They had been walking as he spoke.

Evlin walked into her old room and everything was the same as the day she had left, minus the toys on the floor. The same bed spread on the bed and everything. "Tomorrow your mother will take you shopping for new furniture, you're too old for a twin bed now. Your cloths are in there." He pointed to a built in wardrobe. "Thanks."

He waited while she picked out a pair of faded blue jeans and baby pink tank top. She rummaged around in her underpants draw until she found a bra and bikini set she liked. Gathering all the cloths in her arms Evi turned to her father.

"Lead the way." She smiled as she followed him to the bathroom.

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Fifteen minutes later Evi walked into the kitchen fully dressed, her hair pulled back into a high ponytail.

"I bet that feels much better." Her mother smiled at her from where she was making a cup of coffee at the bench. "Would you like a coffee or hot chocolate, we have tea?" she asked.

"Ah, a coffee would be great thanks. Milk no sugar." She smiled back. Her mother placed two cups of coffee down on the table and pushed one towards Evi. "Thanks." She smiled warmly at her mother. She could get used to this.

There was an uncomfortable silence between the two women before her mother spoke.

"W- what was it like… were you were?" Evi just stared in amazement for a moment.

"It was bad at times but I was always safe. I always had Tala, Kai, Bryan and Spencer to look after me." She smiled at the memories.

"And this Kai boy, is he your boyfriend?"

"Kai? Oh god no! No we are just really close, nearly as close as me and Tala." Evi thought it was time for her to ask some questions.

"So, do I have and brothers or sisters?" her mother paused.

"Well yes and no. about a year after you ran away we adopted a little boy about your age. He's older by three months though."

"Where is he?"

"He stayed with a friend while your father and I went to Russia to get you. Your dad has just gone to get him."

"Oh."

Evlin went to put her coffee cup in the sink, her mother came up behind her.

"Did it hurt?" She asked with concern on her face.

"Ha, what, sorry?"

"Getting shot. Did it hurt?" she asked again.

"No, not that much. It was only a flesh wound. Joey was worse off than me."

"Ah, the little boy who sprained his ankle?" Evlin nodded. She missed Joey.

Her mother reached out and ran a hand over the bandage, she caught sight of something marring her daughters soft skin.

"What is that?" she asked pointing to the ink on her shoulder.

"That, that's my tattoo. Tala and Kai have the same one."

"Can I see it?" her mother asked. Evi looked at her for a moment before answering. "Sure." Evi pulled off her top so her mother could get a better look at the tattoo of a phoenix in her shoulder blade. With it's wings spread out it was roughly the size of a bread and butter plate. Her mother traced the tattoo with her finger. "It's very good isn't it?" she smile "Do you have any others?"

"Yeah, I've got one more."

"Can I see that one?"

"Ah…. Sure. If you want." She undid the top two buttons in her jeans and slid then down her hips. Her mother watched on in amusement.

"We're home!" her father called out from the front door.

"In here!" her mother called back in a nervous voice.

One thought ran through Evi's mind. 'Well isn't this going to make a great first impression.'

Two figures stood in the door looking at her.

"Evi was just showing me her tattoos." She told her husband and son.

"She has tattoos?" her father asked.

"Yep, she was just about to show me the other one when you came home. If it isn't inappropriate maybe she will show you." She turned to Evi. Evi turned a slight shade of pink.

"No it's okay, you can see them if you want."

"Cool." Her brother said with a smile as he walked over to her. "So where are they?"

Evi turned around so he could see the phoenix on her shoulder blade. "Sweet, dad I want a tat! Where is the other one?" Evi ran her hand over her eyes and shock her head before pealing back the top part of her jeans to reveal a black widow spider in her right pelvic bone. "Nice!" he nodded his head. She laughed at his response.

"Hi, I'm Evi." She smiled to him as she stuck out her hand to shake his.

"Bret, nice to meet you." Evi gave him a once over. He had golden brown hair that was cut into a funky style, blue eyes and his eyebrow was pierced. He wore a pair of baggy jeans with chains and white and grey Herley shirt.

"So what are you into?" he asked her once she had finished giving him a once over.

"Ah, stuff?" that was a really hard question!

"Okay well can you skateboard?" he asked.

"Well I can snowboard, is there much of a difference?"

"A bit, but you will pick it up easily enough, com'n my friends are waiting for me at the park." He grabbed her hand and began to pull her to the door.

"WAIT!" Evi said. "I need to do up my jeans and get some shoes."

"Sorry, my bad? I'll meet you at the bottom of the stairs." Evi ran up to her room after a moment where she just stared at her parents. Rummaging through her wardrobe she found a pair of skate shoes. They were black and check with a smiley face on one side with crosses for eyes. CUTE!

She ran down the stairs to where Bret was waiting. He chuckled. "I should have probably asked you if you actually wanted to come ha?"

"No it's fine, it was getting a little intense in there anyway." She smiled.

"Okay then, lets roll!" he handed her a skateboard and headed out the door with Evi on his heals.

There you go, personally I like this chapter I had fun writing it. Hope you all enjoyed it.

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