I was sitting on the bed laughing so hard.

"W-What's so funny?" Angelou asked, with make up caking his entire face.

Wait.

"You, look-" I start to reply.

"Adorable!" finishes Adrien. And then we all laugh.

The boys finished their science stuff a while ago so we have been bumbling around for a few hours.

I stop laughing.

I was supposed to tell him.

"Vanessa, Vanessa. What's wrong? Hey what's..." their concerned voices drift away.

"He's dead" I mutter.

"What?" asks Adrien.

"I said, he's DEAD"

"Who?" Angelou asks.

"Christian, he's... HE'S DEAD!" I start at a whisper but quickly turn into a shriek. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME?! I SAID HE'S DEAD AND HE'S NEVER COMING BACK!" I burst into tears and choked on sobs.

"What?" his voice was small voice.

"I'm going to get tissues" Adrien says quietly and then quickly exits his enormous bedroom.

I was unaware of my surroundings then. Everything was blurry. Last thing I remember was Angelou's arms around me, then, black.

- 4 hours later... Now 12:37am -

I open my eyes, and blink a few times to get rid of the sleep. I felt a heavy lump on my belly, I look down and see I was on the bed and there was a baby blue comforter tucked around my chin and Angelou's head was the heavy lump on my belly button. I could see patches of darker blue material of the blanket, he must have cried. I slowly reach down and lift his head and stand up. I put him where I was and tucked the blanket around him. I look around, and see a door slightly ajar with light pouring out of it. I press my face close to the opening and hear hushed voices.

"So let me get this straight," Adrien? "Vanessa, and this "Christian" were unexpected twins, and are equally heirs to the Keeper family? And when Christian was murdered, Vanessa now has to hold all of the Keeper traditions, on her own?"

"That is how it has always been" says Eli.

"But what about Kou?" asks Plagg. Silence answered for him.

I push the door open completely and it bumps against the wall, inside was a walk in closet with Adrien on an orange bean bag and Eli (human form) lying on the ground with many different clothes strewn around him, he must be wearing Adrien's clothes, I think. Plagg was sitting on Adrien's head cross-legged. Adrien suddenly gets up and walks up to me abruptly and Plagg tumbles off and Eli catches him before he hits the ground. I'm enveloped in a tight hug where I can barely breathe.

"Im sorry," Adrien says, with his voice cracking, "I'm sorry you have to go through all of this"

I pat him on the back awkwardly and say, with rapid tears blurring my vision, "Its not your fault" He lets me go and holds my face with both of my hands and looks into my eyes.

"You can cry you know, right?" he says in a soft voice.

Just then, as the tears start to pile up, a hand slices between our faces, which were only inches apart. This movement also put me off balance and I started to fall backwards. Two hands, one pale one tan, reach for my wrists but I dodge them and do my own ariel (cartwheel with no hands) backwards and stand straight and tall. I see that Eli and Adrien were pushing each other on their foreheads.

"You were trying to take advantage of her weren't you?!" Eli screams at Adrien.

"What the fuck?! Why would I do something as vile as that!?" Replies Adrien.

I huffed at their pathetic quarrel. "Idiots" I mutter. I turn and walk towards the bedroom with Plagg trailing me, he shuts the door quietly, the squabble noise disappeared behind the thick door.

"I'm sorry too" Plagg says quietly while sitting on my shoulder as I walk to the bed.

"It's not your fault either" I reply. "It was mine, I could've been faster. I could have-" my voice broke. I slapped myself hard. I was being a wuss. Plagg looks at me with surprise. The slap echoed back and forth in the room and woke Angelou up.

"What?" He says sitting up, then looks at the blanket on him. And then spins his face to see us looking at him. He quickly gets up, and walks towards me with arms out.

"Vanessa, Nessie, I'm sorry" Then, I broke.

"SHUT UP! ITS NOT ANYONE'S FAULT BUT MINE SO PLEASE STOP APOLOGIZING, BEFORE I PUNCH YOUR FACES IN!" I screech at him.

Silence.

Everyone looks at me.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry" I managed to stammer out, "I'm just going to go home now. H-have a good d-day" I pick up my bags and walk towards the exit of the two level bedroom.

"Hey Vanessa! Wait!" I ignore Angelou and walk onwards. And, just because I have the best luck. I run into Natalie.

"Oh, and who might you be?" She eyes the entrance to Adrien's bedroom. Then she notices the tears in my eyes.

"Oh, oh, I will talk with him immediately. I apologise for any bluntness he has-"

She thinks he broke up with me, as if I would ever be in a relationship with him. Ew.

"Oh no it's not that, I was here with my brother and they were doing their science project and I just tagged along" I just need to hold my bearings for a few more minutes. I can't get them in trouble. I get everyone in trouble over my sake. I'm useless.

"Well, that is alright, are you on your way h-"

"Yes" I say, then quickly exit before I make a fool of myself.

"That is one odd girl" I hear a mutter thanks to my extensive hearing. Well, I guess I'm weird now.

Oh shit. I forgot Eli, that's ok, he can find me. I open the grand doors, the light from the lobby lot up the staircase. I run down them and think with dry humour, now I guess I understand Cinderella now. I run as fast as my legs would take me, I had no idea where I was. Where the hell does Adrien live?