Hi. It's been a while, hasn't it? Well I am here to write another chapter. Hehe. I thought if I waited a long time I would get people begging for me to update, but I guess that only happens to Matchmaker and people who are REALLY good!
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Here Be Da Story.
The house wasn't as small as his, but it wasn't like the Taj Mahal either. "Rae, you have a really big house. Well, at least compared to mine." He said as he walked around looking at everything in awe. "Can I see your room?"
'It's nice to have a big house, more places to hide from dad.' She nodded and signaled for him to follow her. "Ta Da! We are now entering the sleeping quarters of Raven Roth." As if in slow motion, Gar took one step into the dark room, then the world sped up. If it were in a movie the happy music would be playing and happy things would be happening.
"Do you ever feel the need for sunshine? Just wondering," he wondered aloud. Raven simply smirked and leaned on the doorframe.
"I like the darkness. It makes me feel safe," she replied solemnly.
"Don't I make you feel safe Raven?" Gar asked in a childish way. He cocked his head to the side and made a pouting face. He also stuck his arms out inviting her to a hug.
She let herself gracefully fall into a hug, for he was not very far away from where she was standing. "Of course you make me feel safe, but I am not around you all the time, am I?" she commented as they wrapped their arms around each other.
Gar acted as though he was thinking by putting a finger to his lips, keeping one arm locked around Raven's lower back. "I guess not. But . . . hey what's this?" he commented leading Raven over to her very black, and very gothic looking desk. "This is so cool! It looks like a medieval hand mirror! Where did you get this?" He asked excitedly letting his arm leave her waist and come admire the mirror.
Gazing, letting memories fill her mind as Gar admired her ancient mirror she spoke, "It was my mothers. She left me only that and one other thing when she died." Slowly she opened a drawer and pulled out a necklace with only a small, diamond shaped red jewel with a gold border on a gold chain. "This is the only other thing she left me," Raven explained, sadness appearing in her voice. Though Gar realized this, he didn't say anything.
"It's beautiful, it would look great on you I am sure." Gar gently took the treasure in his hands and unhooked the latch. Carefully he slid his arms around Raven's neck hooking the necklace and removing the one he had giving her. The necklace he removed from her neck, he placed on the desk. "There. That looks really nice, Rae." He spoke sincerely. A small smile fell upon her lips.
"Thank you, Gar." As the happiness grew, Raven heard the door open.
A loud booming voice sounded calling out her name. "Raven! Where are you! Where were you the past few days?" Raven heard his footsteps coming up the stairs.
She panicked. "Gar, get under the bed, FAST! Before he gets up here. Go now!" She whispered fiercely pushing him towards the bed. Quickly, she removed her mom's necklace and took it and the one Gar had given her that sat on her desk and placed them in a drawer in her desk.
"RAVEN!" yelled her father once again.
"What, dad?" she yelled back, but soon realized there was no reason to yell because he was standing in her door-way where she had been standing moments earlier.
"Where have you been? You have been gone for two days! Where were you, insolent Daughter?" he demanded.
"I was out with a friend, why do you care?" Quickly he slapped her across the face.
"What friend? You shouldn't be going out with these stupid people you call friends, you should be here making yourself useful! You weren't out with a boy were you?" he yelled ferociously. Forcefully he shoved her down to the floor with his fists.
Raven pulled herself back up to face him, "They are not stupid, they are my friends, and staying here with you is pointless. I would live with my friends if I could! And yes I was out with a boy, and there is nothing you can do about it!" (A.N.- I am not trying to encourage you to be disrespectful to your parents, they are the people who raised you and you should respect them more than anyone else besides God.)
"Oh yes there is! It was that boy you have known forever, wasn't it? That stupid boy has stupid parents! They are all idiots, and I think I'll send out Dr. Slade to kill the whole family! That will serve you right, woman!" Raven's eyes widened knowing that Gar was hearing all of this. In fact, Gar was wondering if anything bad was happening to Raven.
"Don't say bad things about my best friend and his family! They never did anything to you! They are the best thing I have ever had besides Mom and Azar, whom you murdered! You have taken away everything good in my life, but I am not about to let you take away my best friend and his family!" Raven yelled back standing her ground. This time Mr. Roth took a hard blow to Raven's stomach and one to her cheek. "AH!" Raven screamed.
Gar's anger was boiling inside just waiting to get out. Quickly he scrambled out from under the bed to face Raven's violent father. "You, stupid boy where did you come from! Why are you in my house? Get out of I'll make your death more painful than I planned it to be!" he threatened.
Gar didn't seem to care, as he just stood there looking very stern and very angry, "Why do you hurt Raven? You have no reason to hurt her. She is your daughter you are supposed to take care of her and love her, not abuse her!"
"Look, I don't need a 14 year old to tell me what to do! I don't need you telling me what to do with my daughter, she is mine and I can handle her." Gar looked down to the pained girl who was currently in a jumbled up mess on the floor.
"I am nineteen! And obviously you need some parenting tips, cause if you knew how to take care of her, you would know that hurting her isn't the right way to do it!" Gar yelled dropping to the floor to aid Raven. He leaned close to her and whispered softly, "Are you ok, Rae? Come on, I'm gonna get you out . . ." Trigon grabbed the back of the teenage boy's shirt and lifted him in the air turning his body to face himself.
"I need a new punching bag and you are just perfect." With that said, Trigon punched Gar really hard all over causing pain to take over his body. When Gar seemed unconscious or dead, he was dropped to the floor.
Raven lifted herself off of the ground using the bed as a crutch and made her way over next to Gar. "Gar, wake up! Get up Gar!" she begged shaking him as carefully as she could. He didn't look so good. His arms were bruised as was his face.
He opened his eyes painfully slow and threw an arm toward the voice he heard. "Raven?" he asked as he turned to look at her. She took his hand with both of hers and held it by her lips. "Can you stand? I am so sorry that this happened to you, I told you that you shouldn't come. You just had to make that stupid face didn't you?" she cried quietly.
Smiling slightly, he laughed and opened the hand that she was holding and placed it on her cheek as she still held onto it. It hurt her slightly, but she didn't mind. It gave her a warm feeling inside and she loved it. "You better be ok, Gar. I mean it. You have got to force yourself to get better!"
"I love your eyes, they are so beautiful just like your hair. And you. Don't worry about me, Rae. I am going to be fine. We just have to get to my house, fast." Gar dropped his hand from her soft cheek and tried to stand. He could stand alright, but it hurt. He just decided not to tell Raven that. Raven followed him in standing.
"Just one second, let me find out where dad is." Raven motioned for him to sit on the bed and poked her head out the door. He appeared to be on the couch asleep with the television on and a beer bottle in hand. She went back in the room and came to Gar's side as he stood once again. "He is asleep, but we still need to be really quite. Come on."
She took his hand and led him to the first floor of the house. Strangely, Raven still got the shivers whenever she held Gar's hand and it made her smile slightly. When they got downstairs, Raven glanced toward the kitchen looking at the clock on the oven. Twelve fifty-two it read. "Gar," she whispered quietly pointing to the clock with her free hand. He glanced and didn't seem to care as he just motioned her to keep going.
They got to the front door and opened it silently. Then their hands parted and they rushed out of the house but being careful of shutting the door silently. Raven dropped her head into Gar's chest and wrapped her arms around his back. "Can I leave forever?"
Gar rubbed her back and mumbled back, "I hope so." Then the two parted and made their way back to Gar's house.
"They are still here, they all fell asleep on the couch. That's strange. Your mom must have called all their parents and let them know that they were staying." Raven commented tiredly.
Gar yawned silently, "Ya. I like their idea. Good night Raven." He said wrapping his arms around her waist, closing his eyes, and leaning his head on her shoulder.
"I don't think so, Tofu Man. You should go upstairs and go to bed. I'll stay down here with them."
"HECK NO! If I go upstairs, you go upstairs, or if you stay here, I stay here! I don't wanna be alone, I am scared of the dark, Rae-Rae," he spoke in a very childish voice again.
"Fine, but if we all get into trouble, its not my fault." Raven plopped down on the very long couch and grabbed a pillow, but before she could use it, Gar took it from her and sat where her head would be.
"Allow me!" gesturing that she could lay her head on his lap. She rolled her eyes and gratefully accepted his offer. He took the pillow and put it behind his head for support. "Hey, Rae, whatever happened to my car?" he questioned.
"We'll show you tomorrow. Just go to sleep and dream of it being all pretty again." Raven spoke with closed eyes and a tired voice.
"I would rather dream of something better. Good Night, Rae-Rae."
"Call me that again and I will sick my father on you," she threatened evilly.
Gar stiffened and Raven noticed. "Yes, Ma'am!" With that the two drifted off into a nice peaceful sleep.
The End. Of that Chapter that is, it is not the end of the story, by far.