"Vanessa! Where are you?! It's fucking freezing! She was wearing practically nothing!" Angelou's voice was angry.

I made him mad.

I was hiding behind the alleyway closest to me, and I was only 10 meters away from the house so I could hear everything clearly.

"Call her phone" a much calmer voice reasoned with him, Adrien.

"I apologize sincerely, I had no idea what was going on"

"Don't worry Natalie, it's not your fault" Natalie? What is she doing here? Oh god. I even got the staff involved. I knew I shouldn't have come here. Curse you Geoffrey for telling Angelou, why did he bother? Ugh, no, worry about that later, right now I need to leave.

"She's not picking up!" Angelou was having an emotional fit.

I take that as my queue and high tail away, I ran as fast as I could, and tried to stay in the shadows, but, I guess Plagg saw me.

"Hey!" Adrien shouted, "Did you see that?!" I hear Adrien run after me. I speed up and wish that Eli was here.

"Right here doll" I hear a voice next to me. I turn my head a little and see Eli in kwami form on my shoulder.

"Eli! Fangs out!"

It took a few seconds too long, when I just finished transforming I felt a hand on my shoulder, its grip was enough to keep me in place.

"Where do you," Adrien panted "think your going?" He faces me and immediately takes his hand off.

"Who-"

"Shush!" I say loudly at him.

"Adrien!" Angelou's voice wasn't very far.

While Adrien was momentarily distracted I ran and hid in the shadows.

"Adrien," Angelou was panting hard " did you lose her?"

"Y-yeah"

"Shit!" Angelou shouts.

Why is he so worked up? It's not like he cared this much when we met before, on the 30th of October, the day before our parents...

"She always does this!" He keeps on shouting "She always runs away when someone tries to talk emotions with her! Just like when our parents died!" I guess he was thinking the same thing as me.

"Calm down-" Adrien tries to console him.

"Don't tell me to-" Angelou cuts himself off "Look, I'm sorry, really just, I-I love her Adrien"

"Well yeah, you told me you were brother and sister"

"We aren't actually related, she was adopted by my mom, she left her relationship with Vanessa's and Christian's dad, he went to find her and-"

"Stop talking" I'm surprised to hear an angry voice, my voice.

"What? Did you hear that?"

"Eli, out" I whisper.

I'm transformed back into my black jean shorts and electric blue off shoulder top my yellow eyes reverted to dark brown and I was back to what I was before. I step out of the shadows.

"Boo!" I shout. I smile to hide my conflicted emotions.

"Oh for gods sake!" Angelou shouts, then freezes, "Wait, how long have you been standing there?"

"Not long" I lie.

"Oh" he says with a relaxed sigh. "Good, good"

"Uh, is anyone there?" A new voice startles us all.

I turn to the right, where the voice came from, a cocasian girl who looked about our age was peering at us in the darkness.

"Oh sorry Marinette!" Adrien shouts at her, and starts walking towards her door, which I then realised was a bakery.

"A-A-Adrien? W-What are y-y-you doing here so l-late at night?"

"Just having a family spat"

"What? That's what your calling it? Really?" I ask.

"Who was that?" Marinette's voice was so obviously heartbroken. This girl needed help.

"I'm here too you know!" Angelou says.

"Where's Natalie?" I ask

"Back at the house" Adrien replies.

"Um, I'm gonna go back inside, this time, Angelou, don't wake me up"

"S-sorry" he stammers.

"Well" I clap my hands, "I'm going to find the Keeper's Paris Holiday house and sleep there. I have to go to a school admission tomorrow"

"Which school? Geoffrey never told me about that."

"Geoffrey didn't know" I reply.

"Um, Vanessa, do you want help to find this holiday house?"

"No, I think Eli can help me"

"Who?"

Oh shit, I forgot, Angelou doesn't know who Eli is.

"He's my boyfriend" I say quickly.

"Really?" A small whisper in my ear showed that Eli approved.

"What?!"

"Don't wake up Marinette!" I whisper shout.

"You have a boyfriend and never told me!?" He also whisper shouts.

"I think that you should stay over Vanessa" Adrien pipes in.

"She isn't staying alone with you" Angelou argues.

"Then you stay over too" Adrien reasons.

"Guys!" I get their attention, " I'm leaving, I can take care of myself"

"But what about when you were 8, that man almost-"

"I thought we agreed to NEVER talk about that again" I say coldly. I see him flinch.

"I'm going to go inside, Angelou I think you should let Vanessa go, she can take care of herself"

"Bye!" I wave and power walk away.

"Wait! You never said what school your going to!"

"I'll call you tomorrow!" I shout back.

When I was a good distance away, I told Eli to get out.

"Okay doggie, do your thing" he floats to my face.

"Before that, I'd like to talk"

"About what?" I ask

"About me being your boyfriend" I roll my eyes, that's what he wants to talk about?

"Well yeah, I was thinking, if we should have a date? You know, like a walk on the beach or some dinner at a res-"

"Enough, just get me to the freaking house before I shave your hair off"

"Geez, fine"

He floats to a path on my left and I follow him, I quickly lose where we were, although I trust Eli. I know he won't get us lost.

- After a few minutes of aimlessly wandering around -

"Okay we're here" Eli finally says.

I stand and look at the great mansion before me, it was a lot smaller than the main house in London.

"Oh fuck" Eli surprises me "we forgot your stuff"

"Oh yeah" I say in a daze. I look back at the house, no lights were on and it looked like anything but homely. I shiver. It was deathly cold, I felt Eli where my shoulder and neck meet, he felt like a warm pulse. He felt me shiver.

"I told you to where more suitable clothes, it's true this isn't London but that doesn't mean it won't get cold"

"Yeah yeah whatever, I can deal for one night, and there should be already made beds you know"

"Let's go" he says and floats toward the entrance.

I roundhouse kick the door, it falls of the hinges with a bang.

"Was that necessary?"

"Indefinitely" I say.

I walk forward into the house. It was cold, like, not lived in for a longtime cold. That was the worst kind.

"We can get the luggage in the morning" I say tightly "it's going to be a cold night Eli" I add.

"No, it won't" I felt arms slither around my waist, Eli was warm, very warm. I leaned into his touch.

"They have to have a bed here somewhere, I don't want to sleep on the frozen ground" he says.

"Let's have a look around, I can carry you if you want" he added, I slap his hands off me.

"Do I look like a helpless damsel in distress?" I say in frustration. Then walk forward quickly. My hands are fists by my side, I felt a glaze of warmth near my arm. A hand holds my fist. We end up in a hallway full of doors.

"Which one should we take?" I ask.

"Uhh, this one" he opens the door closest to him and it opens a door of pitch black. I get out a matchbox out of my pocket and flick it off the heel of my boot. I hold the flame into the room, it reveals a candle, I light it and the whole room is softly lighted. There was a king size bed and everything was a powder blue, the carpet was plush and soft, the bed was covered in warm looking sheets, I walk towards it and run my hand across the soft spread. Jump on it and lie on my back.

"So soft" I say dreamily as I create snow angles on the bed.

I feel Eli's stare.

"What?" I ask

"Your so beautiful" he says leaning toward me, tilting my chin up.

"W-what are you doing Eli?!" I whisper shout.

"Something I've wanted to do for a long time" he says, now hovering over my entire body.

Why am I acting so weak? And what does he mean 'for a long time'?!

Then he kisses me, very sweet and light at first but then he pushes me down pinning my wrists with his hands and my feet with his and deepens the kiss, I was frozen, why was Eli doing this? He was my best friend! Best friends don't do this! I try to tell myself to resist, but, a part of me wanted to see how far this would go. Unfortunately it was my devil against the angel, the devil won.

I kissed him back, this seemed to take him by surprise, his arms lost their grip, I took this opportunity to wrap my arms around his neck and pulled him closer, Eli wrapped him arms around my waist.

"Mw-wait" he says, getting up and looking at me.

"What?" I was panting.

"Do you want to..." He trails off but I know what he means.

I shake my head.

"Ok, let's just go to sleep, yeah?"

"Yeah, but stay in this form, your warmer" I say.

"No damsel in distress huh?" He asks teasingly. I push him off and he lands on a heap on the ground. I get up and strip down to my underwear and take off my earrings but keep my moon choker necklace on, and crawl into the covers. Eli was watching me the whole time, I saw his cheeks redden and I giggle to myself.

"What're you gigglin' over there to yourself about"

"How cute you look when you blush" I say shamelessly.

"Your too blunt"

"Ditto"

He crawls in the covers and spoons me.

"Goodnight beautiful" he says.

"Goodnight stupid" I reply.

I feel him chuckle behind me. After a few minutes I feel myself burning with embarrassment.

Omigosh! What did I do! I feel the annoying diva in me shriek. I try to calm down, I might wake up Eli. I even my breathing and drift off quietly.

- The morning at 4:13am -

"Vanessa! Wake up!" Eli whisper shouts.

"Mmm" I reply with a groan.

"I think there is someone inside" I woke up quickly.

"H-H-hello?" A voice from outside, "Is there anyone here?"

That was Angelou's voice what is he doing here?

"In here!" I shout, he opens the door and freezes, he sees me in my underwear sitting next to a naked beautiful man.

"Um" he says.

"Oh sorry" I say, holding the blanket to cover myself.

"I-is this Eli?" He says, pointing to my 'boyfriend'.

"The one and only" Eli says.

"Angelou, what are you doing here?" I ask

"I was coming to return these," he lifts up the suitcases,"Oh god, you are a life saver, ok everyone out. I'm changing"

"Nah" Eli says, he flops on his back on the bed.

"You are not staying here while I change" I say with finality.

He groans, "fine just let me get my clothes" and he gets up, the blanket falls and Angelou's eyes succumbed to Eli's dick.

"Oh for gods sake!" Angelou says "at least be a little modest!"

"Whatever" Eli replies as he walks to the suit cases on the ground, did Angelou drop them? Probably.

"Your clothes are in the smaller one" I say.

"Uh ok, Vanessa, can I ask you a question?"

"After I get changed" says Eli, putting on some black briefs that contrasted with his pure white skin.

"Mmnn" Angelou makes a disgusted noise.

"Eli" I say, a little pissed at both of them. Why aren't they getting along?

Oh.

Because of what Angelou said last night.

"I-I love her, not like a sister, but, more"

Is that how he said it? I don't remember, it was, an emotional night.