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So, here's Chapter 2! Enjoy!

Chapter 2

It was about 12:15 a.m. when Winter finally walked through the door of her three bedroom beachside apartment that she shared with her best friend, Ali, and occasionally her twin brother, Blayne. Tonight just so happened to be one of the nights that her brother was staying over. Winter wasn't in any mood to explain to Blayne why she was late or even why she hadn't called to tell him that she'd be home late. But, of course, Winter knew that she didn't really have a choice in that matter.

"Hold on a second, Winter just walked in the door," she heard her brother say as soon as she had closed and locked the door. "Where the hell have you been?" Blayne's voice boomed throughout the apartment as he held his cell phone to his chest.

Winter whirled around quickly to find her brother standing on the other side of the counter in the kitchen. Not only did his voice reveal his anger, but the look on his face did as well. Winter wondered if maybe Blayne had called Ryan and already knew about what had happened. Since she wasn't quite sure she decided she might as well tell him most of the truth.

"Ryan and I got into a stupid fight. I was just walking around to clear my head a bit," Winter confessed telling him only half of the truth and choosing her words wisely as she walked through the foyer door and rounded the corner, so that she was now standing in the kitchen facing her brother. Winter didn't want to tell Blayne about her and Ryan's encounter with Kendall if she didn't absolutely have to. If Blayne hadn't heard it from Ryan already, then he sure as hell wasn't going to hear it from her.

"What was the fight about?" Blayne asked sensing that Winter wasn't exactly telling him everything.

Winter shrugged her shoulders while picking up her dogs bowl and walking over to the sink to fill it. "I honestly don't know. It was just a spur of the moment fight, I guess," she lied straight through her teeth occupying herself with the dog bowl, so that she wouldn't look at him.

Blayne still wasn't buying it. He was the leader of the north side gang, so it didn't take a genius to realize that Blayne had excellent skills when it came to picking out liars from a crowd and such. Since he still didn't believe her he continued probing, "Where's your cell phone? I called you at least eleven times if not more and not once did you answer."

Winter's eyes suddenly widened. Oh no! He called her cell phone? What if Kendall had found her phone? He'd know who she is now. He would know that she was Blayne's sister. If that were in fact the case then she was so obviously screwed.

"Umm...what phone did you call from?" Winter asked nervously biting her lower lip still not making eye contact with him as she placed the dog bowl back in its place on the floor.

"The apartment phone," he answered with a raised eyebrow.

Winter sighed a huge sigh of relief, now feeling that it was okay to look at him. "Oh, ok. I must've dropped it when I stormed away from Ryan earlier after our fight. I'll go and look for it when I wake up later," Winter said answering his question from a few moments ago. "Well, I'm off to bed. It's been a really long night for me," Winter excused herself running to her room before Blayne even had the chance to say another word.

Blayne watched as his sister ran to her room and shook his head before returning to his phone call. He would never be able to understand his sister even if he tried his hardest to.

Winter quickly slammed her bedroom door shut and locked it. She really needed to get her cell phone back...as soon as possible. Looking out her balcony door she looked straight across to Ali's door and noticed that the lights were on. Maybe she could talk Ali into going with her later to look for her phone, so she wouldn't have to do it alone.

Not wanting her brother to see her Winter threw open the balcony door and bolted across to the door on the otherside that led into Ali's room. Twisting the door knob Winter was relieved to find that Ali had left the door unlocked.

"Ali!" she exclaimed in nothing above a whisper as she entered the room closing the door behind her quietly.

"Winter what are you..." Ali began asking loudly.

Winter was quick to cut her off. "Shhh! I don't want Blayne to know I'm in here," Winter told her taking a seat on the edge of Ali's bed.

Ali could tell by the look on Winter's face that something was a bit off about her best friend. "Are you alright, Winter?" Ali asked in a somewhat concerned tone of voice as she took a seat next to her.

Winter looked up at Ali and confessed to her, "Ryan and I had a run in with Kendall Knight earlier."

Ali's eyes widened in shock, and she leaped off of the bed. "What? No way!" she exclaimed in a whisper.

"Neither of us got hurt, but it was my fault since I'm the one who suggested and convinced Ryan to take a short cut that unbeknownst to the both of us took us straight through the south side of town. Then, Ryan and I got into a stupid fight, and now here I am explaining it all to you," Winter explained bluntly giving away very little details. "Oh, and I dropped my cell phone when we were running away after Kendall ordered us to leave," she added. "So, I was wondering if you'd go with me during the day to look for it," Winter smiled briefly with a hint of hope in her voice before putting on a fake puppy dog face.

"Seriously? You want me to to go to the south side to help you look for your phone?" Ali wondered pacing back and forth in front of her bed and Winter. There was a slight trace of fear in her voice.

"Come on, Ali! I need to get my cell phone back as soon as possible! If Kendall found my phone it's only a matter of time before he finds out that I'm Blayne's sister. I can't let that happen!" Winter said.

Ali gave her a "not gonna happen" look.

Winter sighed. "Do I have to beg you, Ali?" Winter asked rolling her eyes at the idea of even thinking about it.

Ali didn't answer, instead she just continued giving her the "not gonna happen" look.

"Please, Ali." Winter said in a simple voice.

Ali raised an eyebrow.

Winter shrugged and said, "You've knoen me long enough to know that that's how I beg."

Ali shook her head in sudden defeat. "Fine, but if something happens..."

Winter cut her off. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll kick my ass. Or at least you'll try," she laughed as she stood up and headed for the balcony door. "We'll leave her around 2:00ish. That way we can both sleep in until 1:00ish," Winter smiled before walking out anf closing the door behind her.

~BTR~

Winter and Ali left the apartment at around 1:50 that afternoon. All Winter wanted was to get her phone back and then run for the hills, basically. Once she had her phone and was back on the north side of the boundary line she'd be in her safe sone, and she could finally chill out and relax again.

"Are you sure that this is where you dropped it at?" Ali asked pushing a strand of her wavy black hair out of her face.

"I'm pretty sure it is. Yes," Winter answered with a nod of her head.

Ali sighed a frustrated sigh. "Well, I don't see it anywhere," she huffed quickly running out of patience.

"It has to be!" Winter exclaimed standing up straight with her hands on her hips. "I didn't hear it fall out of my pocket when Ryan and I were running this morning."

"Well, guess what? It's not here!" Ali exclaimed already beyond freaked out about being even a foot south of the boundary line rather than in the area of the safe north side. "Can we just go? I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere?"

Winter opened her mouth to protest, but someone beat her to it.

"Looking for this?" a very recognizable voice asked from behind the two girls.

Both girls spun around to find Kendall standing there. Though, this time instead of just his three right hand guys he had his whole gang with him. Talk about a weird case of sort of de ja vu. Both girls looked at each other and then to Kendall and the black and purple phone he was holding in his hand.

"I can't believe I let you talk me into coming here with you," Ali whispered to Winter without taking her eyes off of the guys standing in front of them. "I just knew that something like this would happen," she added muttering under her breath.

Winter rolled her eyes and ignored her best friend. "Yeah, that's what I'm looking for," Winter nodded taking a step forward.

Even though Kendall's whole gang was with him, Winter didn't feel even the least bit fearful. All she truly cared about right now was getting her cell phone back, and getting the hell up out of there, so that she could go ahead and move on with her life without having to worry about Kendall finding out who she really is. If only she realized how much that wasn't a possibility anymore.

Winter and Kendall locked eyes as she reached out and grabbed her cell phone from him. Just as they had earlier when Winter and Kendall's faces had been only inches apart, shivers ran up and down Winter's spine when her and Kendall's hands lightly touched. Quickly, Winter snatched her hand away, and dropped it to her side, clutching her cell phone tightly.

"What's your name?" Kendall asked all of a sudden breaking the awkward silence.

"I assumed you would've gotten that info from my phone," Winter said before she could stop herself.

"Open mouth, insert foot," Ali fake coughed from behind her.

Winter turned her head to glare at her friend for a quick second before turning back to make eye contact with Kendall again.

"What makes you think I looked through your phone?" Kendall asked raising a curious eyebrow.

"What wouldn't make me think that?" Winter countered with her own question.

"Fair enough," he said not once letting go of the smirk on his face. "But, I'll still ask you one more time. What's your name?" he asked slowly leaving space between each word of the question.

"Winter," she answered simply finding no more reasons to hold of the inevitable any longer. He'd find out her name one way or another, so she might as well tell him now and get it over with.

"As in the season?" Kendall asked with slight doubt in his voice.

Winter nodded and smiled. "Yes, exactly. As in Winter the season."

"Interesting," Kendall said eyeing her up and down as he had during their first run in.

The first time he had seen her she had been wearing jeans and a lose fitting blouse that had shown very little to go off of. This time; however, Winter was wearing a tight white tank top that fit her figure snugly along with a pair of black jean shorts that showed off her perfectly tan legs, and a pair of black wedged sandals thst showed off her legs as well.

Kendall was use to always getting what he wants, and now he wanted Winter. For some reason, though, things were different now. Usually when he wanted a girl he had her at that same exact moment, but he couldn't bring himself to do that with Winter. He didn't know what it was exactly, but he would make damn sure that he did, and then he'd move in for the kill, so to speak.

A frown suddenly appeared on his face when he heard the voice of Winter's friend.

"Winter, you have your cell phone now. Can we go?" she asked with slight fear in her voice as she anxiously tapped her foot on the ground.

Before Winter could say anything another one of Kendall's gang member came running into the alley. "Blayne is at the boundary line demanding to speak to you...now," the guy told Kendall.

Kendall growled at the sound of his biggest rivals name.

"Oh fuck!" Winter thought to herself. Her nerves began to take over as soon as she had heard her brother's name. How in the hell was she going to get past him without getting caught? "And, that's our que to leave," Winter said quickly turning around, grabbing Ali's hand, and running out of the alley, dragging her behind her.

Winter decided that the only way to have Blayne not find out what she was doing south of the boundary line was to make it back to the north side before Kendall and his gang met up with Blayne and his gang. That would ensure that her brother wouldn't know about either of her run in's with Kendall and Kendall wouldn't know that she was Blayne's sister. The only problem was that she and Ali had to go through her brother.

"Why are we running?" Ali asked breaking her hand free from Winter's grasp.

"I'm dead if either Blayne or Kendall find out the secrets I'm keeping from them. You fill in the rest!" she exclaimed looking behind her to make sure no one was coming yet.

Winter couldn't believe everything that had happened to her in the past 24 hours. If someone would've told her that she'd be running to save her ass right now, she would've laughed and called them crazy. Never in her life had she ever done something like this before. As much as she hated to admit it, Winter had a bad feeling that she was now a lot more involved in the war between Blayne and Kendall's gangs than she wanted to. The worst part of it...she was the only one who knew it.

...So, there y'all go! I'm not sure how I like the end of the chapter. But, it doesn't really matter what I think as long as you the readers liked it! So, that being said...what'd you all think?

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