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"Now, why ain't you at your rich ass school?" Jack asked Erika while they were both sat back on the hood. He had just litted a cigarrett.

"I know what you're thinking" She grinned

"What?"

"I'm not skipping it. I actually got dismissed by the principal"

He laughed "What did you do?"

"I put a bomb in his office" She casually shrugged

"You kidding!"

"Yes" Erika laughed "Aparently I've beeing showing off a strange behavior"

"Isn't that like, normal for you?"

"Ha!" She slapped him "He also suggested me to take a freaking phsycollogical program" Jack laughed "It's not funny, damn Dracon is making me to look crazy on the eyes of other people"

"He talked to your principal?"

"Yeah. That means that now I'm the crazy bastard daughter, if I decide to go out there and tell them what he's doing, they won't believe me. After all, I'm disturbed"

"That man is fucking disturbed"

Erika snatched the cigarrett from his hand and took a drag of it. Jack was stunned by that and stared at her when she motioned to return the cancer stick.

"Oh please. Save your surprise to something else, you're not the only one has a bad habbit"

"So it shows" He took it back.

"I liked this place. It's peaceful" She stated and Jack only nodded at that before his cell phone started ringing.

"Yeah" He flipped it open

"Hey man, it's Charlie"

Jack glanced at Erika and then quickly turned his head to the other way "Hey. What's up?"

"So, I know that you saw Erika first, are you ok with me seeing her?"

"Seeing her?" Jack bolted from the hood and started walking around. Erika didn't really care, she simply lied on there, feeling the light breeze.

"Yeah, you know…"

"Yeah man" Why the fuck did he say that? He wasn't! "I meant what I said" Fuck no! He didn't! "But-"

"Great!" Charlie cut him off "Can you set her up for me man? I mean, I have no idea where to take her out"

"She's not like that dude… I can't set her up for you. Make your own moves, just don't rush over. Be careful"

"What the fuck Jackie-O? You're the one who says I'm too slow and now you tell me to not rush?!"

"Just sayin'…"

"Alright man, whatever! See ya"

"Yeah" Jack answered quickly before hunging up and exhaling hard. Charlie was such a pain in the ass! Damn. He had to help Erika to get away from her step father, there was no time to be emotionally involved with her… emotionally involved? Such a pussy thing! Right? Damn, he had to foccus on something else. "What you doing? Jack asked as he got near the car, Erika was inside of it, apparently waiting for him.

"Come on" She montioned with her head for him to get in. He did what he was told without questioning where they were going.

"Ain't you gonna ask who I was on the phone with?" Jack asked halfway to wherever Erika was driving them.

"Ain't you gonna ask where I'm taking you to?" He simply shrugged, she did the same move "I figured that if you wanted me to know, you'd have told me. Besides, it's not of my business" She said after a little while.

Jack nodded "It was Charlie"

She frowned "Charlie…? Ah! Your friend?"

"Yeah" Jack couldn't help but chuckle "I see he made quite an impression at you" She could barely remember his name.

Erika laughed. Charlie surely hadn't made as good impression as Jack. "I was distracted when we were talking" She mentioned without looking at him.

"Why's that?"

"Ah, we're here!" Erika giggled happily as she stopped the car.

"Fuck, you brought me to carry your bags?!" He asked with raised eyebrows as he realized they were in a mall parking lot.

"No asshole. Come on" Both jumped off the car and walked in.

"Die! Die!" Erika yelled as she shot the monsters coming towards her. Jack laughed amused.

They were at the mall's arcade, shooting intergalatical monsters after they finished snowboarding. Erika won that, because on Jack's turn, a kid disturbed him under Erika's secret command and in exchange, she gave the little boy a ticket to play basketball.

"Behind you!" Jack yelled just before he shot the monster who was 'chasing' Erika.

"Thanks"

He shrugged "You'd have done the same…" Erika smirked at him "Right?"

She laughed and shook her head "Yeah"

"Fuck! I'm dead!" Jack exclaimed as a monster ripped his head off. The same happened to Erika right after.

"Damn, me too… So, what's next?" She asked as both clipped they guns back where they belonged

"How many tickest we have left?"

"Four. We can do two things together or four separated…"

"Two together. My turn to pick" Jack quickly said as he started leading them to somewhere, Erika followed without objection. That was until when she saw where they were head to: the Guitar Hero game.

"Oh no! No, no, no!"

"What?! It's my turn to pick the game after all"

"Not a guitar one! That's unfair!"

He smirked "Deal with it"

"Asshole" She bitched loud enough for only him to hear.

Jack got 99 by the end, against Erika's 76. She actually did better than both expected her to. Sometimes she'd just glance at him, he was smiling while playing, he looked like a little boy having the time of his life. He moved his body slightly back and forth with the song's beat while he muttered the lyrics. Erika felt like if she could watch him doing that the whole day. Once her lapses where over, she'd concentrate back on the game, hoping he didn't see her staring at him. But then again, she didn't see him doing the same back when they were killing monsters.

Now it was Jack's turn to complain when he found himself in front of the dance game.

"You had that coming" She warned him with a chuckle.

Erika actually wasn't coordinated enough to do that good, but she was sure Jack would do worse and was willing to humiliate herself to see him trying to keep up with the colored steps, that'd be hilarious. And indeed it was, he was always late and ended up cursing the game like if it was a person. He got 38 while Erika got 83.

"That was fucking embarrassing" Jack stood in front of Erika while she rested her body against a wall corner.

"Aaw why? You looked so cute dancing" She chuckled

"Shut up"

"So, what we do now?" He asked casually, he really didn't feel like going home and watch crappy TV.

"Fuck!"

"What?" He frowned with a smirk. That wouldn't be a bad idea, he just didn't expect her to be so open about it.

"No, jerk! Nate's here" Erika was cautiously looking over Jack's shoulder.

"Who the hell is Nate?"

She signed "We have English classes together and his father is friends with Dracon. Damn, I forgot today classes usually end earlier"

"So?"

"So? Jack, if he sees us together, he's gonna tell his father and right after, we know what will happen"

"But he doesn't know who I am"

"Coming from Nate, he won't care if it's really you or not"

"Then let's-"

"Damn!" Erika cut him off "He's coming!" She looked around quickly, they were pretty much trapped. They were in a corner and Nate was probably heading to the bike game not too far from where they were. Erika grabbed Jack's jacket and quickly pulled him closer to her, crashing her lips against his.

Jack was totally taken aback by that, but he'd enjoy anyway. Their lips were only locked, she didn't seem to want to allow him to do something else and he didn't want to have her freaking out over him in front of everybody, so he was content at this merely contact. He was sure she could do a lot better though. Jack looked down at her, without moving his face away from hers, her eyes were also open, but they were staring at where he assumed the guy was. For a moment he wished she'd dedicate some of her attention to what was going on right there and not to the danger of beeing saw with him. She was still holding a grip of his jacket with both hands.

Jack was taller and heavilier build than Erika, that meant there wasn't much left of her to see. That was probably the best idea she had ever had. Nate was still there with two more friends and as time went by, this was getting rather uncomfortable. She pulled away from him, but not too much.

"They gone?" Jack started to turn but she grabbed his jacket again

"No!" Erika cleaned her throat, she had sounded too desperate "Not yet. He's there with two other friends" She said in a much calmer tone.

"Alright" He nodded and looked down at her.

Now what? Damn, why every impulsive action had on its trail an awkward moment afterwards? That was exactly what was going on now. Erika wasn't ashamed of what she had done, but Jack's stare was disturbing. Even though she thought he already knew why she did that harmless act, she felt like she should apologize or something.

"Look…" She looked up at him and met his eyes "I'm sorry fo-" Jack didn't let her to finish as this time, he crashed his lips against hers. Now it was what you could call a descent kiss. At first it was a bit shy but as both recognized that they really wanted to keep it, the kiss became passionate and hungrier as every move went by. With his hands around her waist, Jack tightened his hold around her. Erika's right hand was on the back of his head, playing with his hair, while the left one still had a grip on his jacket as if this wouldn't let him go away from her. After a long while, they finally pulled away, Erika started laughing.

"What?" Jack asked confused

She shook her head "Nothing" and smiled at him.

"You teased"

"Not my problem your lack of self control. Plus, I did that to hide myself"

"Alright then" He shrugged "I take what I did back"

Erika crossed her arms in front of her chest "And how are you ever gonna take this back?"

"Like this" He smirked before kissing her again in almost the very same way he had before, expect that this time, they skipped the shy part.

Erika shook her head when they broke apart "You are disturbed"

"Maybe…" Jack smirked.

She looked over his shoulder, Nate was nowhere to be seen.

"Let's get outta here. I gotta pee!"

Jack stood in front of a random store, waiting for Erika to get out of the bathroom. He couldn't help but have a slight smirk on his face, just like a loser, but he didn't feel like such, not at all. He couldn't forget what he had to do because of those kisses back there, he had to get out of her house. And maybe that meant having her father taking her away.

"Yo Jackie boy!" A voice disturbed his thoughts and he looked to where it had came from. It was Charlie. Damn!

"Hey"

"What ya doin' here?"

"You know, just passing by" Jack lied, not sure why. So what? He was with Erika now and Charlie would have to deal with it. But then again, they had been friends for a long while.

"Ha! Me too… nothing on TV, huh?"

"Yeah"

"So we sh-"

"Hey!" Erika cut Charlie off. Jack watched his face iluminate by the sight of the girl near them.

"Erika! What a great surprise!"

"Surprise?" She looked up at Jack, who simply nodded at her. She gave Charlie a small smile. "Yeah. What you guys doing here?"

Jack opened his mouth to fake some answer but Charlie didn't let him to "Just hanging, you know. Maybe we could do it together?" He smirked.

Jack took a deep breath. Damn, Charlie was hitting on Erika right in front of his face and he didn't have the guts to say a word. And why? Why did he care so damn much? Luckily, Erika didn't depend on him to make her excuses.

"I'd love to, but I'm already on my way out"

"Maybe you can give me a ride?" Jack tried to hide a smile. That'd be the perfect excuse to get out of there with her.

"Sure" She casually answered.

"Oh, I won't pass that! I live near Jack, you can drop me there"

Erika nodded in agreement while mentally cursing him. Charlie was such a pain in the ass!

Charlie couldn't shut himself up, boring both Erika and Jack with his useless talk. The girl found a way to shut him up by turning on the radio. Jack was extremely grateful by that. The sucker had already made him to sit on the back seat by himself, listening to his voice non stop was too much for his patience to handle.

"Hello Erika"

"Hi Lilly" Erika answered to her mother's friend who was about to have dinner with them. Everything was under control, Dracon didn't seem to suspect of anything. Erika had came home on the right time and had enough time to make sure every trace of her afternoon was well hiden from the dragon's eyes.

"Do you think your little brother or sister will be born with the same eyes as you?"

"The same weird ones?" Dracon laughed and annoying Lilly joined him. As Erika kept shut, Dracon bothered her "Answer Lilly's question Erika"

"No, I don't think so"

"Of course he or she won't Lilly! It's my baby! It's gonna be a healthy and normal baby" He said with an evil smile and Lilly laughed at his statement. Helen walked in the room, that only motivated him to keep going. "Our son will be the closest of perfection possible. Smart and beautiful. That means, all that Erika isn't" The adults laughed at this hurting coment, Erika just looked down at her red ballet flats.

"I'll help Loren to serve" She said in a low voice as she got up from the couch.

"Stay where you are" Dracon cold voice said and she turned. He turned to Lilly "Now you know what I mean, don't you? Helping the maid to serve… what an absurd! Tell me Erika, the principal Johnson talked to you today, didn't he?"

"Yes"

"Sit down Erika" He comanded as the girl still stood, with no argument, she did what he said. "I'll make sure you follow the program myself. Don't worry sweetie, you'll be fine soon. It all depends on you" Only Erika noticed the irony and duble sense on this, she merely nodded. Erika never thought she could hate someone like she did him.

In the middle of the dinner, Erika got up from the chair and went to the kitchen, to grab another soda. As she closed the refrigerator's door, her look met Dracon's stare.

"What are you doing?"

"Just grabbing another soda" She showed him the can on her hand.

"You disgust me" He stated before, out of the blue, pushing her hard. Since she wasn't waiting for that at all, her body moved backwards and she ended up falling on her butt, carrying along one chair. Helen, Lilly and Loren came to the kitchen quickly, all scared by the loud noise.

"What happened?" Helen sounded horried but Erika knew better. She knew Dracon would make up a crappy excuse, blaming her for all the mess, and her mother would buy it without a second blink.

"Erika fell. I tried to catch her, but there wasn't time" He extended his hand to the girl, who simply ignored it and helped herself up before pulling up the chair on its place, ignoring the pain on her lower back.

"Aaww Dracon, it's so sweet to know how much you look after her" Lilly said with a white smile. Erika swore she must have been on drugs or something.

"I try my best. It's a pity she doesn't recognize it" And now he plays innocent!

"Erika, honey, you must thank Dracon"

"For what?" She frowned. Her mother was surely another junkie.

"For trying to help you!"

"It's ok, baby. She doesn't recognize what I do to her anyway, it's ok" Dracon walked out with his head down.

"Jesus Erika! Why can't you be nice for a change?!" Her mother complained before following her monster husband.

Lilly shook her head "You really need help" and walked away as well.

Loren stood by the door way, just looking at the poor girl. She really needed help, to walk out of there. She didn't make any attempt to reach for the teen, she'd flinch away and say she didn't need help anyway.

Erika gave Loren a half smile before walking to her room. She couldn't stand this anymore. Hours later, she walked around the apartment to make sure everyone was asleep, clear. She turned her laptop on and send her father a desperate email, he had to get her out of there, he was her last hope. Erika just hoped he would do it before it was too late.