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Anyway CHAPTER HADOUKEN! Asdfghjkl

I explained to Ember what she had missed, she sighed.

"Damn it! It must have been hilarious!" She crossed her arms and pouted. She dropped her grumpy face and looked at me curiously.

"Dude... Didn't you wear that yesterday...?" She asked sitting down next Luciano. "And what's with that bandage?"

"I-I-" I was interrupted.

"Em, she had a fucked up night and had to stay at my place, she didn't get to change, aright?" Alexander answered, quickly ending the conversations. I made a mental note to thank him later, I really didn't want to have to talk about that...

I was counting my blessings when I got a sudden chill.

I glanced across the street and saw a man. He had a poorly bandaged head, and a crooked and disturbingly large grin.

I took a deep, gasping, shaky breath as he waved to me sweetly.

I jumped up and screamed, attracting the attention of most of the people in the cafe. I clutched a hand over my heart. It hurt very badly.

Am I having a heart attack?!

It was a burning, aching sensation.

"Rosie?" Ember got up and put a hand on my shoulder.

I pointed to the man across the street.

"I-aahh... Aahhhhh... AHHHHH...!" I screamed again as he started crossing the road.

I was suddenly grabbed from behind.

"Yuki. Calm down." Alexander whispered to me.

"Ah... W-why... Is he... Ack-" I stuttered.

"It's alright." He responded, pushing me behind him.I gripped the back of his jacket.

Ember and Luciano looked back and forth between Alexander and the man. They nodded at each other and pulled out they're weapons, Luciano's pistol, and Embers knife.

"Don't worry Rosie, we'll protect you!" Ember proclaimed.

"E-em! D-don't! He's insane!"

"Bella..." Luciano sighed.

The man stood there in the window for a moment grinning. His smirk widened and he walked down the sidewalk, disappearing into the crowd.

"I-...ah... Sc...ared... Uh..."

I felt my legs collapse from under me, the holding thing holding me up was the Alexander.

The burning in my chest wasn't stopping.

Ember put a hand on my forehead.

"Christ! Rosie! You're on fire!"

"M...oh...Kay..." I moaned.

Ember dragged me into a seat.

"No. No you are not okay!" Ember Yelled at me. "Good god Rosie! If I didn't know any better I'd say you're dying!"

I took a deep breath. "N-no... I... I'm just... I'm alright." I told Ember waving her off.

Alexander hadn't moved. He stood by the window, watching everyone go by, glaring at anyone who stared at us, speaking of which...

We had a large crowd of onlookers in the cafe, Alexander turned to them.

"What the fuck are you all looking at?!" He yelled.

Several people murmured and carried on with their business.

My heart slowly cooled itself off, I held my head in my hands. Once I regained a normal breathing level I stood up.

"C-can I go home?" I asked on the verge of tears.

"I don't know Rosie? Can you stand?!" Ember ask me.

I stood up from the table and walked to the door.

"Does that answer your question?" Alexander asked her, walking out after me.

"... Yeah pretty much." Ember answered following us, Luciano close behind.

Alexander wrapped an arm around my shoulder.

"You see him too?" He asks glancing across the road.

I nod and start trembling again as the man grins.

Alexander's grip tightened around me. The man slowly lost his grin and it became a hateful scowl.

"A-Alexander... H-he's-"

"I know. Don't look at him." He cut me off. "Em, Luciano, don't look at the fucker."

My friends behind quickened their pace, and sparked a conversation, providing a distraction.

"I don't fuckin know Italian!"

"Ve, well you should learn some of you're going to be around my family."

"But I don't know any..."

"I'll teach you."

"BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY!"

"UGH."

I, despite my fright couldn't help but laugh. Even Alexander was snickering.

The man across the street looked furious, but I kept laughing.

We eventually made it back to my apartment, much to my dismay, the man followed us.

We ran up the stairs, then once again, using Andrews lock trick we closed up the door.

"A-Alexander...?" I asked tugging his sleeve to get his attention. "C-can I talk to you f-for a sec..?" I asked, my eyes welling up with tears.

He must of seen this and quickly nodded, "Em, Luciano, stay on guard. We'll be back in a bit."

We walked into the band room and closed the door behind us.

I took a deep breath...

... Then I flipped some shit and started crying hysterically into Alexander's chest.

"I-I-I- don't get it! What the hell does he want from me?!" I wailed.

Alexander ran his hand through my hair. "Just, calm down. I won't let him near ya... You're okay..." He soothed.

"B-but why does he-"

"He thinks you're cute. Guys like that go for the cute ones, because they think they can't fight back. What this dumbass didn't count on is that your friends are fuckin lunatics."

Speaking of my lunatic friends, we could hear Ember and Luciano screaming at each other.

"It's not difficult to learn Ve!"

"But I don't know any!"

"God damn it!"

I peeked my head into the room, when suddenly, my apartment door flew open, and there stood the man, a large knife in hand.

Ember and Luciano whipped their heads towards him before he could say anything.

"HEY FUCK YOU! We're arguing! GTFO! I HOPE YOU GET STUCK IN A DARK ROOM FULL OF PEDOS AND LEGOS ALL OVER THE FLOOR!" Ember screamed.

"Ve! You tell him!" Luciano agreed.

"Aw, Luci... I'm sorry I don't get what you're trying to tell me."

"It's alright Bella..."

And they proceeded to make out...

ON MY COUCH!

I flew out of the room and a broom randomly flew into my hand, which I then proceeded to use to smash their heads with while screaming random nonsense such as...

"TWILIGHT IS NOT LITERATURE!"

And

"NOT MY COUCH!"

I guess I knocked them out.

Which I quickly realized was a really bad idea.

The man grabbed me from behind, and started dragging me out of the apartment and down the stairs.

I started screaming even louder than the first time this man grabbed me. He certainly wasn't taking his time, he must have known Alexander was chasing him.

He was two flights of stairs behind us.

"Let go of me!" I yelled, I kicked and squirm in his grip. It didn't really help me.

"Miss Rosie you should stop fighting." The man whispered to me.

I didn't listen to him a squirmed and struggled to escape his iron grip.

"Your choice." He smiled sickly and shoved me into a wall.

He raised his hand like he was going to smack me.

I closed my eyes and cringed until I heard Alexander call my name.

"..?!" I looked up, and saw him falling through the open area between the stair levels,

"Hit the deck!" He yelled. I immediately tuck and rolled to the corner of the flight.

He reached out to the beam sticking out from the stairs, he grabbed it and used it to swing onto the flight, he used his momentum to go into a baseball slide and kicked the man in the kneecap.

The man's knife clattered to the ground right next to Alexander's hand, he picked it up and walked over to the man.

"I won't let anyone hurt Yuki, not anyone, especially you." He raised the knife.

I knew what he was going to do.

I jumped up and grabbed his torso trying to pull him back.

"DON'T!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"Yuki... Let go. I'm going to make this fucker pay."

"No! You're gonna kill him!" I wailed, burying my face into the back of his jacket.

"Exactly. So let go." He stated, I could tell he was trying to keep calm and not point the knife at me.

"If you do that, you'll be no b-better than him! You'll be worse! I-I don't w-want that to happen y-you!" I stammered.

Alexander lowered his hand. "Fine." He hissed.

He turned to face me.

The coldness and irritation in his expression honestly scared me more than the man, who was now groaning on his back and rubbing his head.

Alexander said nothing and simply stared at me coldly.

That burning in my chest returned, but I ignored it as much as I could.

I grabbed the knife with both hands and gave a weak tug against Alexander's grip. He let go of the knife very slowly, still glaring.

I didn't look up, I kept my head bowed.

He eventually lost interest realizing I wasn't going to respond. He turned and faced the man.

"You have no fucking idea how lucky you are." He stated dryly. Alexander walked up to him and drove his foot into his stomach. Making the man cry out and cough, he smashed his foot into his stomach again. And again.

He turned to face me again. "Yuki. Give me the knife." He ordered.

I gasped for air and pulled the knife closer to me, I shook my head. "N-no.. You'll-"

"I'm not going to kill him, relax." He held one hand on my shoulder and grabbed the hilt of the blade with his other hand, giving it a strong tug.

I slowly released the blade, stepping back, fearing what Alexander might do.

He turned around and grabbed the coughing mans hand, I closed my eyes and covered them with my hands. I heard the man scream in agony, and again a second later. I dared to open my eyes, seeing Alexander use his remarkable strength.

He had driven the blade through both of the mans hands, then stabbed the blade into the wall as I opened my eyes.

"Don't you ever go near her again you fucking psycho." He hissed.

He turned back to me, I was frozen in absolute fear. He wrapped an arm around my waist.

"Lets go, now, before someone tries to figure out where the screaming came from." He began pulling me up the stairs, I only followed for several reasons.

1. My chest was on fire and I couldn't stand on my own.

2. I was too scared to even think about trying to run.

3. I didn't want to be held responsible for a guy with his hands stabbed through.

Not only would option three be unexplainable, it would also probably be my responsibility even though I'm so scrawny and can barely open a door, i will still be somehow portrayed as able to do that, because this towns justice system is screwed up.

IF I COULD DO THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE MY LIST OF ENDLESS PROBLEMS!

"Yuki, stop crying, someone's gonna hear you." Alexander informed me.

I suddenly became aware that I was sniffling and there were tears streaming down my face.

I rubbed my eyes. I began stumbling down the stairs as we climbed.

Alexander must have been really annoyed with me. He sighed and lifted me into a bridle style cradle, and he lugged me up the stairs.

I was still absolutely terrified. He could drop me over the railing if he wanted to!

"P-please, p-put me d-down..." I stammered. Alexander placed me on my feet and shrugged. I gripped the railing and used that to move, my knuckles were pure white.

I'm scared... Alright Rosa, calm down... Alexander would never do anything to hurt you... Calm down...

I could still hear the man crying in pain. I cringed. This only made my fear level rise. I was clearly breathing heavily.

"Yuki, are you alright?" Alexander asked me.

I cleared my throat. "Uh... H-he's um... He's still screaming..."

He glanced back like it wasn't unusual at all.

"Hm. I guess he is... But seriously, are you okay?"

I answered as we got to my door. "I-I'm not feeling a-any better..." I sighed. "Y-you r-really scared me...!"

At that moment. I more or less collapsed into Alexander, my fingers curled into the fabric of his shirt. I shuddered and gasped. "Y-you scared me a lot! I-I thought you w-were going to kill him..!"

He once again held an arm around my waist and kept me standing. "Honestly Yuki. If you didn't stop me, I probably would have." He stated, carelessly.

Eep...

Alexander held me with one arm and opened the door with the other. We opened the door I find Luciano and Ember doing what they always do.

"Not on my cou-" I was interrupted.

"Hey! We're in the chair! Not on the couch!" Ember yelled.

"...fine." I sighed in defeat. "B-but you're fifteen... C-control yourselves!"

"No promises."

"...broom."

"We'll be good."

I smirked despite my fear.

I then remembered where I was, wrapped in Alexander's arms.

Oh...

I saw the look Ember was giving me, my face must have been very red. I jumped back and looked down.

"Uh...um... S-sorry...!" I stammered.

He looked down at me like he didn't quite know what I was apologizing for. "Uh... It's... Okay? I guess.." He glanced at Luciano, with a 'wtf' look.

Luciano shrugged. 'Idk'

I'm really good at reading expressions I suppose...

I was about to go to sit on my couch, when I coughed. I didn't let it bother me as I sat down, but then I coughed again. I cleared my throat and tried to relax. But again, I coughed.

Ember looked at me. "Uh, Rosie... Bro, are you okay...?"

I nodded, but coughed again.

"Ack- maybe n-not..." I choked.

She got up and slapped a hand on my forehead. "Yup. You're still burning."

I pushed her hand away and took a deep breath. "N-no worries, I'm fine..."

I was holding back wheezes.

Olivier busted through the door. "ROSIE-POO~~ we need to change the bandage on your... Oh, hello Rosie's friends~! How are you all?!"

"Eek! Cupcake man!" Ember shrieked. She grabbed Luciano's hand and dragged him into the band room.

Alexander and I sat there for a moment. I turned to Oliver.

"T-there doing well..."

I let out a small cough as Oliver started untying my bandage.

"You know, Rosa, I was going to be a doctor, but I liked baking so much more...blah...blah..." I wasn't really paying attention, this was Oliver we're talking about, he probably wouldn't notice or care.

I was paying more attention to Alexander. I kept my head down and I glanced up at him through my hair. He just stood there staring at me with his lovely crimson eyes.

My face must have been turning very red. I couldn't contain my blush.

"Oh, Rosie dear? Are you alright you're turning red?" Oliver asked me.

Oh crap... ALIBI ALIBI!

I let out my pent up coughs and pretended to try to stop.

"Oh my! Rosie you need to lay down, you sound awful. Alie~ Bring her with us!" Oliver told him.

Alexander wordlessly scooped me up again and followed Oliver out my door, he called to Ember and Luciano. "We're leavin, taking Rosie with us, don't make out on her couch!"

Heh... if I wasn't coughing I'd thank him for saying that...

Once again I was going to stay in Alexanders room for the night, falling in and out of conscience much like I had earlier in the day.

At one point later in the night, in my delusion Alexander walked in to check on me, seeing me somewhat awake.

"Hey, Yuki, How ya holdin up?" He asked, sitting at the edge of the bed.

"So...Tired..." I moaned.

He snickered. "Yeah, I can tell. Well, go back to sleep." He said, getting up.

I grabbed the sleeve of his jacket, which he was still wearing.

"N-No... Stay here..!"

"...Seriously...?" He asked.

I nodded, tugging his arm.

He sighed and layed down next to me, staying over the covers, while I remained under the blanket.

Eventually he must have gotten tired waiting for me to fall asleep so he could leave, and he fell asleep as well.

In his sleep he wrapped an arm around me. Not that I could really blame him, his room was cold, I'd probably move towards the nearest heat source as well.

I eventually fell asleep as well, feeling too scared to risk waking alexander up, to scared to leave his arms incase that guy got out of the wall, and feeling too damn comfy and safe there to want to leave.

END CHAPTER

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