Hey!!! Well, I had some time and thought to myself "Why not post another chapter?" So for anyone out there who actually cares to read my story I give you chapter 4.

Don't own anything.


Sleep doesn't come very naturally to me.

I get the strangest dreams of castles, Tamaran (which is weird because I've never been there before in my life, I've only seen pictures in textbooks), and a woman and her child and the dream always ends them same way the child boards a ship and dies. But, in a handful of my dreams I can see through the child's eyes and feel the grief she felt and tonight was one of those nights.

I awake with a start and look around the dark room with squinting eyes. I see the sun slightly beginning to raise out of April's window, April asleep in a ball on her princess sized bed, Jazz is holding onto her pillow for dear life, and Miki is snoring slightly. I smile to myself in one night I made two friends.

I get up out of my tattered beat up sleeping bag that I used to sleep in oh, so many times on the street before Hildreth (the orphanage lady with the mole) found me and brought me to the place I'll never call home. I open the door lightly so the creaking won't wake anybody and head down the hall to the bathroom to brush my teeth and comb my hair.

I go past Brendon's room and I have to take a quick peek. He's lying on his mattress snoring slightly. He looks like an adorable little child. I giggle as I make my way to the bathroom.

"Finally," I monologue myself. "Who knew April's house had so many doors?" I quickly brush my teeth and hair and open up the door to see none other then Brendon standing there in nothing but a pair of black silt pants with a white drawstring. I couldn't help but take in those muscles they were so perfect.

"So this morning I awoke to giggling" He smiles lazily, "Would you happen to know about that?"

"Me? What do you mean Mr. Logan? Why would I go near your room?" I smile wickedly, "Unless you wanted me too." I whisper in his ear and his body grows tense. I gently push him back so I can get out of the bathroom. And as I make my way own the hallway he grabs my arm.

"Go into my room and wait for me." He says sternly. I nod my head and go into his room. I know nothing bad will happen, Brendon's not that type of guy.

I sit in his very comfortable computer chair and wait for him to come back. I look on his walls. It's covered with posters of every band I like and a lot of the bands he likes that I don't. I notice a picture on his computer desk of three children. Himself, April, and that girl I keep seeing in my dreams. April is winking at the camera; Brendon's giving bunny ears to the girl who is hugging April around the neck.


FLASH BACK

"Ok guys, you ready?" a man's voice asks.

"Yes Daddy, I told you that about eight times already." The emerald eyed girl tells her father sternly, obviously having the temper of her mother.

"Alright, Alright. Don't bite my head off April." Her green haired father replies humorously.

"Brendon smile for once." An ocean eyed girl begs her forest haired companion.

"Fine." He mumbled. He forced a smile "Cheese..." he said sarcastically.

"I know lets make it a funny picture!" The violet haired girl suggested. The two nodded in agreement.

"CHEESE!" All three say, and in an instant their memory is recorded.

END FLASHBACK


"Do you want to know who she is?" a velvet voice reaches my ears I nod solemnly knowing who the voice belonged to.

"That's Mar'iander Grayson, the girl you did a report about if I'm not mistaken." He words put me in shock. I've been dreaming of the princess who was never found? But my question is why?

"You knew her?" stupid question. DUH! He knew her I mean he has a picture of her for peat's sake.

He walks over and grabs the picture from me. He looks at it fondly as if reminiscing and smiles sadly as he sets it down on the desk.

"Yeah. She was April's and my own best friend. I was there when the siege of Tamaran happened. When Blackfire, to my extent of knowledge, killed the Grand Ruler and apparently from what everybody say the princess as well." He's eyes gloss over looking like he's on the verge of tears.

"But I still hold hope that she's alive and is looking for her father…… God, I miss her so much. I feel so alone." Those last words came out as sobs and the man who stole my heart broke down in front of me and fell to the floor crying.

I walked over to him and snaked my skinny arms around him and let him cry on my shoulder.

"I understand the feeling." I cajoled him. "Before the orphanage, before I had friends, I used to sleep on the freezing cold streets, without any food in my stomach, or even a friend who would let me cry on their shoulder. I was alone for an entire year."

He looked up at me astonished. Apparently he never knew what I've only told April but hey, since we're all opening up I might as well too.

"I'm so sorry Marie. If I'd had known…" he trails off sympathy in his lavender eyes. I smile and stroke his cheek, drying the tears from his face.

"I don't really care anymore." I tell him and he kisses my lips softly, and leans into my ear afraid if anyone will hear besides me.

"I wanted to do more than that to you last night when I saw you blushing at me." I smacked him playfully in the arm and he just smiled and pulled me into his lap and wrapped his strong arms around my skinny waist.

"Oh, come on," he says dramatically, "When you saw me in that towel you thought it too." I blushed madly. 'How did he know that?' I think.

"Because my love," he answers my thought. "I'm physic." I gasp loudly and look at him questionably.

"Ok, if your physic what are my thoughts right now?" I ask looking at those luscious lips of his.

"You're thinking..." his eyes glow white and turn back to those amethyst orbs I love so much. "You want to kiss me." He smiles knowingly.

"You got that right." I lean in and he does the same.

"So this is where we find you Marie." Miki says acting like a parent behind her are Jazz who's giggling madly and April who looks both disgusted and interested at the same time. "Smooching with you little boyfriend, girl you got it bad."

I look away blushing madly but, Brendon has that beautiful horrible smirk on his face.

"Yup you caught us," he says acting like he's giving up. "Now if you don't mind I'd like to finish what I started leaning in towards me enough to put his lips to mine, his toungue once agin probing my mouth open and his hands running everywhere as my own caressed his cheek as one touseled his hair then he lifted me back on my feet, lips still connected to my own, which was hard to do considering the fact that I was floating again( it happens each time we kiss for more than 3 seconds).

His beautiful wonderful lips leave mine and I almost whimpered at the loss of warmth. Brendon then turned me around and pushed me towards the door.

"Here you can have her back now, I'm done." He smiles at my shocked expression. The girls pull me away asking way to many questions to answer at one time.


"Girls, you're parents are here!" Mr. Logan yells from downstairs.

We had eaten gotten dressed and got ready to go home or, in my case, to the orphanage.

I waved goodbye to Miki and her family and Jazz and her family. And as I turned t leave there was a knock at the door. Mrs. Logan sighs and says something about hurting him for being late again. Whoever he is I had no clue. I answer the door and a man I've seen in one too many magazines appears in front of me.

"Mar'i? Is it really you?" Richard Grayson asks me. I shake my head.

"No. I apologize sir, nobody named Mar'i lives at this address." I go to close the door but he just walks right in like he had a right to be there. The rich snob.

"Rach? Gar? You guys here?" He calls out. Mrs. Logan calls him into the kitchen and for some reason I follow. 'They must be friends' I think to myself as I step on the linoleum floor.

"Marie this is your father Richard Grayson." Mr. Logan says calmly. I laugh.

"Mr. Logan, Mr. Grayson is in no way related to me. We don't even share the same last name." I reply.

"Where did you get that?" Richard points to my necklace sitting atop my Panic! At the disco light blue t-shirt.

"oh? This? I've had it since I can remember I just can't get it open." I tell the millionaire sheepishly.

"May I?" he asks. I nod politely and unhook the necklace from its resting place and hand it to him. He stares at it intently, only then do I realize how much we look alike. Midnight blue eyes and raven hair, the only difference between us is the fact that I'm tanner than him. I was so lost in my thoughts I didn't noticed him speak the inscriptions on the necklace and open it.

"Here." He speaks, I'm astonished. 'He opened it how?'

"It doesn't matter how I opened it just look inside." He says answering my thoughts.

I nod my head and look in a million voices and images flowing into my head making me extremely dizzy. Memories from my childhood. I relive my past and when it ends like a mini-movie theatre I look up at Mr. Grayson with a questionable look.

"Dad?" I ask afraid we both might be wrong. He smiles wildly tears in his eyes and hugs me tightly.

"Mar'iander…." he mumbles. "My 'Star of the night.' My NightStar." He translates my name into English.

"Dad, why didn't you come to Tamaran?" I ask a question I've wanted to know the answer to for years.

"I had a business to run. You see your grandfather, Bruce, had died before your other grandfather died in battle with the Gordaninans, thus, making me his apprentice. Plus I had my duties as NightWing and I couldn't turn the people down and—"

"Stop." I say my voice slightly below freezing. "Just stop with the lies. I'm not five anymore Dad, and after nine years you think you can just come back and make things right with more lies? I know why you stayed. It was for money. You had such a great job and you couldn't just give all that up to live with the woman of you dreams, who could be dead right now, and your own child? Just stay out of my life!" Tears now running down and evident my face.

I ran out of that kitchen, out of that house to get away from him and his lies. And of course it began to rain outside to match my attitude. I laugh bitterly at the sky "Is that the best you got up there? Haven't you tormented me enough?" I run to the only place I've ever felt at home under the big oak tree at the top of the hill at the park.


BRENDON POV

I run to go get her. Knowing she's, been through a lot and her father adding up she's bound to have a nervous breakdown soon. I just can't believe she's my princess. I'm so happy right now it's not funny.

Her dad tries to go get her but my mom (I love that woman) puts up a warning sign and tells him I'm better suited for this and he's bothered her enough.

I run out into the rain and head towards the park. Over the last few days she's told me that the hill with the big oak tree has always been one of her favorite places in this town. So I immediately head there hoping to find her.


Well that's all for now! Read and review I like that a lot!

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