LKESGDH[OQALIFKVHALE;DKJ I didn't get this out early I'M SORRY! But, schools over for me now and I should have more time to write, but I'm also trying to work on No More Heroes and the ideas for each story cancel each other out... But DANG IT I'M WORKING!

Anyway, have a chapter ;)

~Rachy~

The thunder crashed again, and as expected, I continued sobbing and screaming bloody murder...

Pookie meowed and continued to freak out with me. I felt a bit less alone, knowing I wasn't the only scared one, but still felt pretty pathetic because Pookie is a cat!

I screamed and called out. "A-a-a-a-ALEXANDER!" Like the back of my mind thought it would make him magically appear in front of me.

Sure, that could happen, and really, it'd be great if it did, but if there's one thing I've learned,

Nothing ever goes my way, and things like that will not happen to me.

I thought I was going crazy when I heard Alexander calling my name.

"Rosa! Rosa Yuki! God damn it! Yuki where are you!?"

I couldn't say anything, my throat was sore from screaming. Only when the lightning struck again, I cried out, which thankfully gave him an idea of where I was.

I felt bad, he looked like he'd been running in the rain for a while, probably looking for me...

His reddish-brown hair was practically sticking to his face, it was dripping wet.

He eventually found me cowering under the tin covering.

He looked at me sadly like I was some sick puppy. He knelt down next to me and tried sound comforting.

"Yuki, it's okay, I'm right here, it's just thu-" he was cut off as more lightning crashed. I dove into his chest and held a vice grip around his torso.

He sighed at my pathetic display. But he still must have felt pretty bad, so he wrapped his arms around me and cradled me.

He was treating me like a baby, rocking back and forth to try to make me too tired to cry or something.

"Shh... It's alright... Calm down... You're okay..."

He ran his fingers through my soaked brown hair.

Even though he was soaked, he felt really warm... Must have been his jacket!

"Yuki? Can you get up? Everyone's worried, we need to get you to the house." He tried to coax me into standing.

He tried to get up, and being as strong as he was, dragged me up with him.

The entire walk back to the farm, I was pretty much glued to him. He practically carried me there, while Pookie got a free ride in my coat...

He led me to the porch of a farmhouse where Ember was crying yet, staring at her cell phone.

Pookie jumped from my jacket at and scurried over to Ember. She looked up from her phone and grabbed the kitten.

"POOKIE! Thank god! Why did you run off?!" She began scolding the cat, not really acknowledging the fact that I was hyperventilating.

Not only did she not acknowledge my current mental state, she completely ignored me and went right back to her phone.

Her eyes wide, she looked very determined.

"What's wrong with her?" Alexander asked.

"... She downloaded some weird app on her phone and she's got an addiction to it now..." Kellin sighed.

Alexander rolled his eyes. "C'mon Yuki, lets get you inside."

We walked into the farmhouse and Alexander had me sit down on the couch in the entry room, Kellin brought over a blanket, which Alexander wrapped around me. Kellin threw a few towels as well.

I placed one on Alexander's head and tried to dry his hair.

Luciano had pulled Ember inside. I don't think she really noticed, she was pretty wrapped up in that game of hers...

"I'm sorry guys, the weathers not usually this crappy..." Kellin apologized.

He sighed and sat in a chair across the room. "Well, lets lighten the mood!"

He smirked at Alexander and I, then at Em and Luciano. "So, do you kids go on double dates a lot?"

I stopped trying to dry Alexander's hair and I blushed. "Uh w-we aren't-" I stammered.

"No, we aren't dating. We're just friends. That's it." Alexander stated very emotionlessly, with a blank, careless stare.

That, for whatever reason kinda hurt my heart.

Just friends... Oh... Okay...

Before I could even frown or say something Ember shouted.

"FUCKING DAMN IT! THIS GAME IS TOO HARD! ROSIE! SOLVE IT FOR ME!"

Ember shoved her phone into my face and started waving it around.

There was a puzzle game on her phone, it looked a bit complex, but not mind bending difficult. Ember was probably just too lazy to solve it.

I took the phone from her hands and quickly became absorbed in the puzzle. It was pretty simple once I had the first few pieces together. I almost didn't hear Ember yelling at Alexander.

"Dude! Don't sell yourself short! You like Rosie! That's no secret, and if it was, you are shitty at hiding it!" She pointed at Alexander and laughed.

Alexander seemed to have one of those total blank out on reality moments. It was out of character for him. And what he did next proved he was confused, because it was even odder. He looked Ember dead and the eye and replied with...

"... What?"

No swears or anything, just a straight up derpy "wat..?!... I no get cri errytim"

before anyone who's first language is not English gets really confused, I apologize, but I was just imitating every confused person on YouTube ever. Or just Internet trolls.

I don't really know what point in was trying to make when I say that. Ember is rubbing off on me...

Everyone beware! Ember Quinn syndrome is contagious!

To be fair to Alexander, Embers declaration really threw everyone in the room for a loop.

So, because I felt bad for my dear Alexander, I decided to force a smile and reply with.

"Ember... D-don't be silly... Alexander and I are just friends!... Nothing more!"

Because the world hates me and everything I say or do, life just needed to prove me wrong, countering all points I make, such as me not being in a relationship with Alexander.

Thunder crashed outside, and my natural instinct was to go to the nearest source of comfort and or thing I care about, so, Alexander fit the description quite well. I dove at him and screamed. I held my normal death grip on him, and I cried into his chest.

"Oh! So she really isn't afraid of windows!" Ember exclaimed.

If I wasn't freaking out, I probably would have tried to explain to Ember that she was being ridiculous. I'm pretty sure a fear of windows isn't an actual thing. Or, it certainly isn't a phobia.

Alexander sighed, he pat my head and looked at Ember.

"... Ember, where the hell do you come up with a fear of windows?"

"... Bro, c'mon, I'm a genius. A physiatrist doctor wizard unicorn ninja. Trust me, I have a phd in life!" Ember reasoned.

Everyone in the room shook their heads at her. Ember is my friend, and she's a very nice good hearted person, but sometimes, she gives me headaches... And even I question how I survive being around her.

I released Alexander. I went back to Embers puzzle and quickly finished it. The sooner she had it back, the sooner she'd be too distracted.

I handed her the phone.

"How the hell did you do that?!" She exclaimed.

"...I don't know... I just did..." I murmured. Sitting back and almost burrowing into the couch.

Ember went right back into her complete block on life. That game might just allow the world to have a moment of silence.

Meanwhile I was so far into the couch you could hardly see me. Other than my little feet hanging off the edge.

"Rosie! You're a friggin genius!" Ember exclaimed.

I smiled a little. "T-Thanks Em, if you need any more... help just a-a-a-ACHOO!" I sneezed, which compared to a normal person might as well have been a squeak.

Kellin started laughing hysterically. "Dude that is the cutest sneeze I've ever heard! Oh my god how is that even possible?!"

Ember had poked the side of my head. "Cuz Wosie is so wittle! She has a baby squeak sneeze!"

Luciano picked up Pookie and stared at him for awhile, which went completely unnoticed for a bit due to Ember and Kellin being loud, when Luciano spoke up.

"I wonder how Venice is doing..?"

"Isn't that a place in Italy?" Alexander asked.

"Yes, ve, but my mother named her cat after the city... I almost miss the damn furball right now..." He sighed and mumbled "ve" over a few times.

"GIMME MAH KITTEH!" Ember ran Luciano and grabbed her cat. "We got here like an hour ago, you can't be homesick already!"

I sneezed again and I shivered. Call me crazy, but I thought I saw Alexander smirk when I did.

Kellin studied the group of teenagers before him, myself included.

"So, you kids wanna know where you're staying?"

Ember held her cat like a baby. "Hell yeah man!"

"Alright then! Ladies and gentlemen! Follow me!" He started leading us towards the door, the storm now dying down.

He was leading us out to the barn.

"KELLIN!" Ember yelled. "Are you seriously going to make us sleep in a barn?!"

The young man chuckled. "I think you kids might enjoy this barn..."

He pulled open the doors and we all looked into the building with aw.

It was lit by several strings of white and red flower patterned paper lanterns, there were several beds up in the loft, one that was rose patterned, one fire patterned, one American flag patterned and one like an Italian flag.

On the floor below, which is where we were standing, had three leather couches in a half circle shape before a fireplace, above that was a large flat screen TV with just about every gaming console I could name hooked up to it, on the opposite wall was a collection of six shotguns. Which I was quickly drawn towards.

You meet a lot of people when you play poker in a black market area for extra money. Some of those people often showed off guns, so I knew a surprisingly large amount of facts on artillery.

I picked up one of them. "H-hey! T-this is an M6 Scout! This is an A-Air Force issued rifle! They b-been out of production for years!"

Ember looked at me like i was crazy. "Since when are you a weapon expert?!"

"... Since I-I started playing i-in black market poker leagues...?" I answered, knowing Ember would think that was a joke.

"That rifle was my dads, there's a range a few miles down the road, maybe we'll go up sometime in the next few days." Kellin answered. "But that'll be for later, you kids can get settled in."

And with that he left us to temporarily move in.

IM AN AWFUL PERSON! I'm so sorry this is up so late! You guys can punch me okay? Does that make it better?! I'm sorry! I have so many ideas but so much writers block! And when I do manage to write all I can do is write in slang terms and then I get worried that my readers who's first language isn't English get confused and then I try to go back and change things and AHHHHHH! I'll try to get it up sooner! WHAAAA! I'm sorry!- Rachy.