Soon I was strong enough to step four steps without a walker, the boys had given me a walker from the local hospital where I had been entrapped just a few short weeks ago. Life with Sam was great. They were like family to me...and better still Carmen or Tony still had not found me.

Exactly a month after I had moved in with Sam, Jesse had gone to the Swiz Alps where he was going on a ski trip with his girlfriend Bridie, Jesse was going to propose. I had met Bridie on the odd occasion, she seemed nice, way to good for Jesse, but they loved each other and I would not step in between them and their future.

However, they would have no future when the police notified Quinn and Samson that Jesse and Bridie had been murdered, in their hotel room. The night Bridie and Jesse had died Bridie had been wearing red lipstick. When Jesse was found with red lipstick on his lips to it looked as if Bridie had killed Jesse kissed him and then killed herself. So the police ruled the case as a murder- suicide, even Bridie's parents protested saying Bridie wasn't a killer and that if she was she would never kill Jesse...her fiancé.

Samson and Quinn struggled after Jesse's death to pay for his funeral as he had no family and pay the rent for their place, so they got another lodger to come and live with them, his name was Ethan. Ethan kept to himself and was quiet most of the time, didn't ask any questions about me, or even Sam or Quinn in fact I would have been very surprised if Ethan knew Quinn's name.

After two months of living in that small house, I decided that I needed fresh air, and a place to just sit and eat in the fresh air. "Sam, I love it very much here and I'm so appreciative of how you like to care for me but I need fresh air! I can't stay couped up in here forever can I?" I told and explained to him, I had grown to love and trust Sam. Sometimes you would even catch me calling him bro. We made each other laugh now... he knew me by heart not by face... "I guess your right... Olive but I cannot take you on a picnic, well at least not today. I have to work...I'm sorry if I could get the time off, I would... it's just with you here I have another mouth to feed..." those last words stung me; I was just another mouth to feed to him... "I mean Olive..." but I had gone before he could finish his words. "Oh I see how it is!" I had told him... "No Olive I don't think you do!" he had argued, "Yes I do, alright if your done covering for me I'll leave! Okay that simple! I thought you were my friend... can't you even have a little sympathy if I could I would work, but I can't you know why, see these things you call legs, well yer I call them useless! Useless and pathetic!" "Come on Olive, you can't leave your only thirteen!"..."SO? What does my age have to do with it! Huh? Look Samson I know when I'm not welcome and right now I don't feel very welcome!" I turned and limped away, "Olive you can't leave..." he shook his head "Why? WHY! Why not? Why can't I leave?" I yelled "Because... Because I love you!"... No I thought, I cannot believe he is saying this, how am I going to tell him that I don't love him... "What...? This charity has it all been because you're in love with me?" "...No but the first time I saw you I knew I loved you, please tell me you feel the same way? Little Olive" he asked, "What did you call me?" "...Um I called you Olive..." "You called me Little Olive!"

Quinn had been listening and walked in... Just as I collapsed, he caught me. "Olive...can you hear me sweetie stay with me!" Quinn had whispered "Quinn, tell Sam I only love him... as a brother!" then I went into unconsciousness, when I woke up I could hear the waves of the sea, whoosh whoosh! I blinked my eyes. Quinn was next to me, we were at a picnic there was a wedding band on my finger, and I was crying out "NO! NO! I do not want to marry Samson! No! Quinn help me!" he rubbed my back and I looked into his arms, a tiny baby girl was asleep...I smiled "This is your daughter Olive, well our daughter!" he smiled and kissed her head. Then I woke up... it had all been a dream, the wedding ring, the kiss, the smile and the baby! All that was not real, the only thing real in that whole dream was Quinn and his smile, how I loved his smile.

I woke up, Quinn was beside me, "Hey Beautiful" he greeted me. "Hey" I smiled "You have a beautiful smile Ollie..." he told me... "I had a weird dream... you were in it" I chuckled when he replied with "Yeah weird right, if I was in it it wouldn't have been weird... it would have been a dream come true!" for some reason, I lied "That would be funny, but nah we were just having a picnic, nothing out of the ordinary that friends wouldn't do" I told him..."Hey that`s what I was waiting to tell you, when you were going to wake up I was going to say "Do you want to go on a picnic?" So do you want to go on a picnic?" he asked me. "Yeah, did you hear what Samson and I were arguing about? He is so stubborn!" "Yeah I heard, I can believe him, it's like he used you just because he liked you" "Yeah, well Quinn I'll be fourteen soon and I`m way to young for love, what does that even mean?" I asked him "Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, you may be nearly fourteen but we both know that you know what love is... love is when all you can think about is that one person, it's when all you want to do is be around them, they make you laugh and smile and everything. I'm only fifteen but I think that I have found my soul mate..." he chuckled... "She is beautiful, smart and funny. I guess she was independent before I met her. She and I, I reckon were for life..." I smiled what a lucky girl Quinn had... "Why haven't I met her?" I asked I wanted to meet her; maybe we could be best friends. What was her name Lindsay, Claire, Ainslie? Something radiant... A person came through the door... it was Samson... "You can't be that dumb Olive... Quinn is talking about you!" "What... No he`s not!" I exclaimed I was two years younger than Quinn "Sam, just leave! That is all you know! I met this girl – Alexandra online and we have met five times, and now I am thinking of moving up to Palm Springs to live with her... I think I love her!" that was a stab in my heart. There was one bit inside of me that wanted that girl that Quinn was talking about to me...

Quinn stormed out... "Just because I'm not in love with you, doesn't mean you have to ruin everything!" "Olive, you know I just want the best for you..." "Well I don't need your help!" "Are you going leave?" he asked "YES! I hate it here your just like my family. Won't let me out or go anywhere I haven't seen my friends in months..." "Well... I'm just looking out for you!" "WELL I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP! ... okay I don't need you chasing after me and pretending to like me when you're just in love with me!" "Come on Olive..." "No! I am not listening to you anymore! You are driving everyone away! I might as well be still in the hospital, with people who are trying to kill me! Cause that is what you are doing! YOU'RE KILLING ME!" I got outside and Quinn was sitting in his car I ran passed him. Samson ran after me, "WAIT! Olive! WAIT! I don't want you to leave!"

"WELL I DO!" I cried... I ran across the street to a yellow house knocking on the door, while Samson ran after me... "HELP ME SOMEONE!" I yelled, Samson grabbed my arm... and dragged me back to his house. He tied me in a chair. I glanced out the window to where Quinn's car was Quinn was not in it anymore. I turned around; Samson was there with a knife in hand. I screamed but they were muffled by the cloth that was digging deep into my throat... "Help!" I yelled but I sounded like "FELP!"

"Now Little Olive, we have some things to talk about!" All I could do was cry... "I could have helped Carmen kill you right then and there but I had other plans for you!" he pulled the cloth down from my face. "So all that bullshit about you being in love with me was that even true?" I asked, "Well... you'll never know!" he leapt forward with the knife and I screamed Quinn was behind Samson with a 44 in his hand, "Drop the knife... Lover boy!" I secretly laughed at those two last words "What are you going to do Quinn?" Samson asked, "I'm not going to kill her like you!" Sam edged the knife forward towards my smooth neck "Quinn... h elp me..." I cried, "Quinny can't help you now!" Samson cried. I thought he was going to stab me, but he turned around with an evil grin and stabbed Quinn in the stomach, he screamed out with pain and fell forward, as Samson watched Quinn fall forward, I was grabbed from behind by someone, I smelled her hair. Raspberries, it was Carmen.

"Hello Little Olive thought you could run!" Carmen had bright red lipstick on. Carmen kissed Samson on the lips and then I knew he was going to die. She slit his throat his blood pelted onto my face. "Aughh!" came from his lips. "Now that that is all done, let's go!" Carmen bent over and kissed Quinn too but I knew Quinn was too strong and he wouldn't die..

Quinn's eyes were opened just a touch and he watched as I was dragged away by my murder sister Carmen Louise Carney aka The Lipstick Killer. "Quinn..." I yelled tears in my eyes, his eyes dropped down as he murmured my name "Ollie!" I thought for sure he was dead... but he was not.

I was back where I started two and a half months ago, running! I was shoved into a car, well the boot of the car... this was pain for me as Carmen knew I was claustrophobic, I banged on the boot..."HELP!" after awhile I stopped no one could hear me and my ears were become deaf from the sound of Jon Bon Jovi blaring through the speakers...

Then after what seemed like a life time, the car stopped and the light blinded me. Where were we? I thought it was as if she could read my mind "Were home, Olive! Missouri home!" she smiled "Why?" "Because where can I have all my memories stored? Missouri and this will be the best one... killing you!" she smiled, she was no longer Carmen Louise Carney the Gentle, as I had known her. The one who had defended me, the one who had argued with Mum over my middle name. Now she was going to kill me. Carmen Louise Carney the cold-blooded killer!

She forced me into a house, that I remembered, it was our house, Well before Mum had died. On the other hand, before her own daughter and who had once been her husband. "Now before this ritual begins! I have a few truths to tell you!" "Hmm, just like sisters do!" I cheekily replied I wanted to lighten her up she was creeping me out, "Hmm, Olive if you don't remember you aren't my sister!" she yelled

"Well how about that game of secrets?" I asked her, she was a murderer but still my sister... sorry Carmen... half sister. "Okay, but first I'd like to tell you that I have a secret, that no one else not even my Dad knows about..." "By the way where is your dad?" I asked sarcastically "Places, not that you'll ever get out of here alive!" she laughed, "Wanna bet?" I asked all of a sudden this weird wave of power came over me, would you ever say "Wanna bet" to a person with the 98% chance that they really wanted to kill you?

"My secret is... oh I forgot someone left a message for you!" she read it aloud.

Dear Olive,

Trust her with what she says she may be a murderer but you should trust even if it could cause your own death...

A Friend

"Your pure evil, Samson was innocent, beside the fact he captured me and tried to kill me but besides that..." "Okay, I'm sorry about that!" "Really..." "NO!" "You're having his baby!" "Yeah I know, all the lovely stuff!" "Did he ever say he loved you?" "No! Olive of course not Samson is... well was gay!" "But what about all the stuff he said about how he loved me... he`s gay?" "Of course he is... but when you have a one night stand you have a one night stand..."

Carmen was standing behind me now, tying my hands behind my back. ''Little Olive, Little Olive, time to go to bed... the time is late for god's sake, the moon and is high and all is safe. It`s time to go to bed... because I it`s time for you to die, my dear Little Olive'' Carmen sung softly in my ear. I shivered involuntary, and she laughed at my reaction. ''Little Olive, Little Olive...'' She started again. ''Look Olive, the moon is rising, and this will be the last night you see...'' She said and started humming her song. ''You won't succeed.'' I said, trying to sound confident but she saw through it. ''My dear Little Olive, you are wrong. I will succeed because, well... Look at you, you are tied up and soon you will die, make sure you say hello to our dearest mother, won`t you?'' she laughed again and I saw he look out the window that was in the ceiling. ''Soon the moon will pour its silver light through that window, and when that happens your blood shall pour onto the ground.'' Carmen said. There was a video recorder in front of me. She wanted to remember this moment for as long as she lived. The red light was blinking on the side of the video recorder. ''Oh, so you`ve noticed have you?'' Carmen said. She walked behind me again and leaned down to put her chin on my shoulder, and she pulled my cheeks. ''Smile at the camera, dear little sister.'' She said and stood up again.

Carmen kept walking around me. ''Little Olive, Little Olive, time to go to bed'' She sung softly again. ''The time is late for god`s sake, the moon is high and all is safe. Time to go to bed... because it`s time to die, my dear Little Olive.'' She sung over and over again. Each time she finished she would laugh at me as I watched her walk around the room.

I was kneeling on the cold wooden floor. My knees were starting to hurt from staying on them forso long. It had been almost an hour since Carmen had brought me home... and I didn't even know that our house had a room like this. Yet another thing that had gone un-noticed by me as I was growing up...

''Carmen! Where are you...?'' I called down the hallway. My sister appeared from the stairway. ''What`s wrong Olive? I thought I told you to stay in the kitchen...'' She said. ''I know but I got bored. You were gone for a while.'' I said, Carmen walked closer to me and ruffled my short brown hair.'' I`m sorry, but Dad was talking to me.'' She said, a look of innocents shone in her big, blue eyes. ''Carmen... Why is it that we don`t look alike...?'' I asked my sister. She looked at me. ''We look alike. Just because my hair is black and I have blue eyes and you have brown hair and brown eyes doesn't mean we aren't alike. We are sisters...''

''We are sisters'' I whispered as I remembered that time when Carmen had disappeared and I had gone to find her. What had she been doing? ''What was that?'' Carmen said, breaking her song. ''I said, we are sisters. You said that once when I asked why we didn`t look alike... and now look at you! Your about to kill me!'' I yelled at her. ''We are still related, even if we aren`t whole sisters, we are still related by blood!'' I said. Carmen had a look of shock on her face for a moment then it was gone. ''And? Does that really matter? I helped my father kill our mother. I`m related to her by blood and yet I still helped get rid of her.'' Carmen said, and then smiled. ''My father will be here soon'' She said. ''And then, we can finally start with what we have planned.'' She said and kissed my cheek. ''Dear Little Olive is no longer going to exist after what we have planned for you.''