Me: I don't claim My candy love. Just Lexus and my characters. Sorry for the OOC-ness. and I don't own the song! Happy reading!

"Really? He just showed up on your doorstep?" Iris asked surprised and I nodded.

"Yep, I had Castiel the badass on my doorstep." I said flatly as we walked to school.

"And the weird thing was," I said as I pulled out my sketchbook and showed her the picture I drew the night before.

"Wow, that's incredible." She said in awe and I blushed.

"I have no idea I suddenly drew that."

"That's weird."

"Yea." I said as I slipped it back into my bag. What I didn't know was that Amber and her friends were nearby listening in. I glanced over to see Amber shooting evil looks at me. I just brushed them off as Iris and I walked into the school.

"You actually did that?" Lysander asked Castiel who smirked.

"Yep." Lysander rolled his eyes.

"You are really a hopeless romantic aren't you, Castiel?"

"What are you talking about?" Lysander eyed his friend.

"It's clear that you really like Lexus and yet she's pulling away from you." Castiel shrugged.

"I'm trying to get her to talk but she keeps pushing away from me, I have no idea what to do."

"Find something that catches her interest. Maybe you can get her to open up that way." Castiel smirked.

"Thanks Lysander." He just nodded and smiled as the rebel walked off.

Amber smiled evilly as she slipped Lexus' sketch book from her bag. She peered inside to see that her drawings were really dark. There was a picture of a younger Lexus' face covered in blood and scars. She dropped the sketchbook in surprise and this caught Lexus' attention.

"Amber, what are you doing?" She asked walking up. Her eyes fell to the open sketchbook.

"You little witch." Lexus snatched her bag and her sketchbook from the ground and stormed out, her friends calling to her, but she didn't reply. She just had to get away.

Castiel was walking though the hallways when Lexus came running passed with tears in her eyes.

"Lexus!" She just dashed passed with tears in her eyes. Castiel watched her disappear into the courtyard. Not realizing what he was doing, he followed her.

I couldn't believe it. Amber had the balls to look in my bag and look at my sketch book, which was private! That little witch had no shame. I climbed up the tree in the courtyard and pulled my ipod from my bag and popped one earbud in. One of my favorite songs started to play and I gave a sad smile as I gazed over the courtyard and off into space.

"Prison gates won't open up for me.

On these hands and knees, I'm crawlin'

Oh, I reach for you.

Well I'm terrified for these four walls.

These iron bars can't hold my soul in.

All I need is you.

Come please, I'm callin'.

And oh, I scream for you.

Hurry...I'm fallin, I'm fallin'.

Show me what it's like, to be the last one standing.

And teach me wrong from right.

And I'll show you what I can be.

Say it for me... Say it to me.

And I'll leave this life behind me.

Say it if it's worth saving me..."

I was so trapped. Trapped by my past, it seemed like my future was bleak if someone didn't come to save me. I sighed. I knew deep down that was never going to happen. No one cared about me. I was completely alone and completely worthless.

"Hey!" I looked down to see Castiel on the ground looking up at me.

"You okay?" I didn't answer. I heard him sigh.

"I'm coming up." I shifted and watched as Castiel pulled himself into the tree with me.

"So what are you doing here?"

"Amber, she had the balls to look at my sketch book and that was private." Castiel frowned. We sat in silence as I stared out off in space. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a smirk on Castiel's face.

"What?"

"You don't like me, do you?" I was surprised by that question. It was totally out of the blue.

"What makes you think that?"

"Well you push me away, and you trust Nathaniel more then you trust me." I gave him a look.

"I do like you, it's just the last couple of times, you've been an ass."

"So what would have happened if I wasn't an ass?" I shrugged.

"I probably would have trusted you will more things."

"Like what?" My eyes fell to my arm where a very long white scar was hidden under my jacket.

"Lexus, if you want you can tell me."

"You won't tell?" I asked eying him warily.

"Sure."

"Promise?" He held up his pinkie. I held up mine and he locked our pinkies together. Warmth started to climb to my face at the simple touch.

"There, you happy?" He smirked and my lips twisted into a sad smile. I slowly pulled back my sleeve, revealing the long ugly scar that ran up the length of my arm.

"My dad would beat me senseless when I was little and he loved nothing more then to cut me with glass fragments. That's how I got this lovely thing." I couldn't stop the bitterness from filling my voice at the last statement. Castiel didn't say anything as he eyed my scar. He took a hold of my fingers to look at my scar better and he gently ran his fingers over the scar and I watched. I waited for him to say something.

"So why did you keep this hidden?" I pulled my fingers from his hand and clutched my arm to my chest.

"I hide them because I don't like to talk about my past. I do a lot to keep the scars hidden." He grunted and I leaned against the tree and smiled as the sun shone down on me. I closed my eyes and listened to my music.

Lexus looked so peaceful as she sat in the sunlight. Castiel gave a rare smile as the wind gently made her hair dance. He noticed that her hair was growing out and it was falling over her shoulders. He heard the bell ring and he poked her and she stirred.

"W-What?" Castiel smirked.

"You fell asleep up here." She shifted and groaned. Castiel chuckled to himself.

"You just missed last block."

"Oh." She muttered as she slipped out of the tree and on the pavement. She turned and looked up at him.

"Remember not a word to anyone!" Castiel held up his pinkie and she smiled clearly satisfied. With the smile on her face, she walked off. Castiel watched her leave with a smirk on his face. She had let him in.

I smiled to myself as I robe my long-board over the cracked sidewalk to my apartment. I could see the white and red building in the distance. I was kinda surprised to see my Auntie's car parked in front of the complex. I skidded to a stop and picked up my board and walked up to my apartment and opened the door. The smell of meat cooking greeted me.

"Hi Auntie Mo!"

"Hi sweetie! I thought that I would drop by and spend time with my favorite niece!" I smiled as I dropped my bag and board by the door.

"I'm your only niece."

"That's besides the point."

"So what brought this on?"

"Oh, no reason." I lifted an eyebrow.

"You need any help?"

"No, just go and relax." I gave her a funny look.

"You find everything okay?"

"Yep!" I lifted my eyebrow higher. Then I remembered that Auntie Mo was the one that helped me put everything together when I first moved in. I leaned against the island and thought about what happened with Castiel earlier. A smile, a small one, but a smile no less curled my lips and my Auntie saw it.

"I haven't seen you smile in a long time you know."

"Yea, I was just thinking about something that happened today."

"What happened?" I gave her a look when she stretched that sentence.

"I don't really want to tell."

"Was it will a boy?" Heat rose in my cheeks and I dropped my gaze.

"So it was, who was it?" She playfully poked me in the arm and I waved her finger off with my hand.

"I would prefer not to tell."

"Come on, just between us girls?" I frowned and sighed in defeat.

"Fine, but I'm not telling you what happened, only his name." She looked at me with big eyes like a child and I snickered.

"His name is Castiel." She mockingly gasped.

"Lexus Hartwood!" She mockingly scolded me and I giggled. "You were flirting with Sweet Amoris' bad boy!?" I nodded with a grin.

"Yes, I was, and what are you going to do about it?"

"Absolutely nothing!" We both laughed at that. Auntie was the only one that could joke about being an overprotective mother. She kept me on a very long loose leash and I didn't mind. I kinda like the freedom that she gives me.

"Now, go look in your room, there's a surprise there." I looked at her suspiciously as I climbed the stairs to my room to, my surprise a cage with a ferret on my bed.

"Oh my gosh!" I exclaimed peering into the cage. The little guy was all white with big blue eyes that looked back at me. I slowly opened the cage and offered a hand, which the ferret climbed on to.

"Hey Bling!" I happily smiled as she curled around my neck and nuzzled my cheek lovingly. Bling was a ferret that I had as a kid and was my only friend. My dad took her away and I thought that he had sold her.

"I kept her and when you were sent to live with me, I thought that would want her back." Auntie said with a smile.

"Thank you so much, Auntie Mo!" I exclaimed hugging her. She smiled loving as she hugged me back. I watched her leave with a smile. I placed Bling back in her cage and flopped down on my bed when she closed my door. I started to drift off when my phone vibrated. I picked it up off my desk and looked at it to see it was an unknown number. I opened the file to find that it was a text.

'I'm coming to find you, Lia.' I almost dropped my phone in shock. No one knew my old name except my Aunt, unless...

'Oh god, he is coming. Shit!' I closed my phone, tossed it in a drawer and backed away like a poisonous snake was inside the drawer. My mind was spinning. How on earth did her find me? What will happen? I shuddered at the thought of what probably would happen if he did find me. I slid down my closet door and sat on my floor, still in shock. After a few moments of breathing, I stood, snatched my phone and dashed down the stairs.