Part 5, I hope you like (:
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*Dream*

"Mom, please, stop." I cried, holding tightly to my stomach where she had just kicked me. She didn't listen of course, and the back of her hand collided with my head.

"You little shit, You'll take your punishment until I'm done."

"What am I even being punished for?!" I shouted at her. She kneed me, hard, in my stomach again.

"Being a little fuck up dyke." She growled at me, her eyes going red.

"Whore." I heard my dads voice from behind me, I didn't hear him come out of the bed room. My mom went and stood next to him, and the next thing I knew, I was pushed. I was falling, hitting my head on random objects that I couldn't see. I screamed from being scared.

*End dream*

"Mitchie!" I heard Alex call loudly from next to me. I quickly snapped my eyes open and sat up. I saw Alex sitting next to me looking worried, and a scared looking Keeli peeking through the door.

"Mitchie, are you okay? I heard you scream and came up, you were sweating and screaming in your sleep, and you were crying in your sleep when I came up." She said. I put my hand to my forehead and realised that I had little beads of sweat on there. I was really hot, my body temperature must've rose when I was dreaming/nightmaring. If that's even a word.

"Sorry." I mumbled quietly.

"It's okay. Do you wanna tell me what you were screaming for?" She asked, not trying to make me say it, just generally asking if I wanted to tell her.

"They were hitting me, then they pushed me, and I was falling, hitting my head on stuff. I wouldn't stop falling, I didn't know where I was falling either." I said. Alex nodded along with me as I told her, then smiled sympathetically. I felt like crying just at the thought of what they could've done, and suddenly was letting tears pour out. Alex noticed, and climbed onto the bed next to me, wrapping her arms around me tightly.

"It's okay, they can't hurt you again, they're gonna be in prison soon, and you'll never see them again, I promise." She said, lightly kissing the top of my head. It's funny how that one little comfort kiss made me feel like everything was gonna be okay, and it's funny how amazing it made me feel.

"T-Thanks." I stuttered. I heard her chuckle at my stuttering.

"It's okay, anyway, it's like 10.00, so I'm gonna order the Chinese, we normally get special rice, chips and them chicken balls wrapped in batter, is that okay for you?" She asked, and I nodded. "Okay, I'll go order it, you can just come down to us, we're gonna watch titanic if you wanna watch it with us." She said, and I nodded again, saying I'd be down in a bit. Alex left, Keeli had already run away from the door when she heard Alex coming, I'm guessing she wasn't supposed to be listening.

I threw the covers off me, and went down the stairs to find Alex sitting on the couch, with Keeli sitting on the single couch. I went and sat next to Alex, and without saying anything, she hit play.

It got to the bit where Rose was gonna jump, when the doorbell went and Alex got the Chinese set out onto plates and gave us both a plate each.

"Alex, I'm done, is it okay if I leave this?" I asked, hoping the answer would be yes.

"Mitchie, you've hardly eaten anything, and you're so skinny, come to think of it, I've never seen you eating lunch at school, will you just eat a bit more? For me?" She asked. I nodded, and poked one of my chicken balls.

Once I'd eaten another handful of chips, and two more chicken balls, she said I could leave the rest, and took her mostly empty plate, Keeli's empty plate (It was only a little plastic kids plate anyway), and my barely touched plate into the kitchen and put them in the dishwasher.

"Keeli, it's 1 o'clock, I think it's time to go to sleep." Alex said. Keeli yawned, and rubbed her eyes.

"I'm not *yawn* tired, momma." She said, still tiredly rubbing her eyes. I couldn't help but smile at the 7 year olds determination to stay awake.

"Okay, we'll make a deal, you can come and lie here with your head on my lap, or you can go up to bed and go to sleep." She said, pointing to the empty space in the middle of the couch, that was about big enough for Keeli to lie in.

"Otay, I'll come lie with you." She said through a yawn, getting up and walking towards us. She lay in-between us, and rested her head on Alex's lap. Alex started running her fingers through Keeli's dark hair, and soon, the tired girl fell asleep.

"Mitchie, do you wanna go up to bed? It's 2.15, you can put the TV on, we have cable in all the bedrooms." She said. I nodded, and carefully got up from the couch, so that I didn't wake Keeli up. Alex gently lifted Keeli's head from her lap, and then picked her up bridal style, following me upstairs.

I went into the bedroom I was sleeping in, and lay in the bed, I didn't bother putting the TV on, I just lay down and attempted to get to sleep. Alex knocked the door after 5 minutes, and I called her in.

"Night, Mitchie." She said, walking over to me. She kissed my forehead, and I got butterflies in my stomach again.

"Night, Alex. And thanks… for everything." I whispered back to her. She smiled, and left the room, closing the door behind her. I lay in the bed, sleeplessly, for about half an hour, before my eyelids felt heavy, and I fell asleep.

I awoke to a quiet knocking on my door. I sat up and stretched, rubbing my eyes. I didn't have a nightmare that night, it was the best night sleep I'd had in ages, mostly because I hadn't been awoken by threats of being hung from the ceiling by my thumbs and glass breaking.

"Yeah?" I called quietly, followed by a loud yawn.

"Momma said bekfasts ready, Mitchie." Keeli said, quietly, chewing her thumb nail. I smiled at her, and nodded.

"Thank you, sweetie, I'll be down in a minute." I said. Keeli nodded, and skipped down the corridor to the stairs. I got up, and went downstairs to see Keeli sitting at the table, eating pancakes, and Alex standing by the stove, flipping a pancake.

"Hey, Mitchie, Your pancakes are on the table, you can just put however much Syrup and Sugar you want on them." She said, flipping the pancake again.

"Thanks, Alex." I said, sitting down on the stool in front of the pancakes. I sprinkled some sugar on them, then poured some syrup on. I began eating, and Oh my god, that's another thing added to my list of Alex's perfections; She's an amazing cook. At least of pancakes anyway. "Wow, Alex, this is amazing." I said, after swallowing my last mouthful of pancake.

"Thanks." She said, swallowing another mouthful of hers. I got up and took mine and Keeli's empty plates to put them in the dishwasher.

"Tank you, Mitchie." She said, missing out the 'h' in thank you, which made me want to aww at her.

"Keeli, I'm gonna take Mitchie shopping today, do you wanna go round to your uncle's?" She asked.

"Okay, but not Justin, he makes me play with his boring dollies what he keeps calling Action jigas, Can I go to max's? He takes me to the park with Chloe and Liam?" Keeli asked. Alex chuckled.

"So shall I call Max then?" She asked. Keeli nodded eagerly, and Alex whipped her phone out of her pocket.

"Hey, Max. Yeah, I'm good thanks, you?... That's good, anyway, I need to go out today, do you mind watching Keeli for a few hours?... Okay, Thanks, I'll bring her round in an hour… See you in a bit, bye." She said, before hanging up. "Okay, sweetie, run up stairs, get dressed, do your teeth and wash, and then bring your brush down and I'll do your hair for you." She said to Keeli, who nodded and ran out of the kitchen/dining room.

"You'd best go get dressed too, there's a spare toothbrush in the bathroom that you can use, it's the red one. My hair straighteners are in my room by my bed. Are you okay to wear what you wore yesterday until we're done shopping?" She asked, and I nodded. "Great, my make-up's in the box on my dresser, which you can use to cover up your bruises if you want." She said, and I nodded again.

"Okay, thanks, Alex." I said, getting up from the table and walking up the stairs to get ready.

I was ready after 45 minutes, I tied my hair back and just left my bangs down, and had heavy foundation on, because Alex's was paler than mine, so I needed more. I had dark eyeliner on, and some really nice mascara of Alex's.

"You ready to go?" Alex asked when she saw me walk into the living room. She was sitting on the couch with Keeli kneeling down on the floor in front of her. She spraying hairspray on Keeli's head to hold her 2 little plaits in place. I nodded, and so did Alex.

"Great, let's go then." She said, standing up. Keeli stood up as well, and we went to the car after Alex had locked the door and set the Alarm.

"You likes my plaits, Mitchie?" Keeli asked after I'd buckled her seatbelt.

"They're very pretty." I said with a smile. I climbed into the front seat next to Alex's, and she started the car. We drove for about 20 minutes, before she stopped outside a sandwich shop. It was fairly busy inside, about 15 of the tables had people sitting and eating at them.

"Uncy Max!" Keeli shouted, letting go of Alex's hand and running over to the man behind the counter. He smiled brightly and opened his arms just in time for her to jump into them.

"Hey little lady. Do you wanna go upstairs and find Chloe and Liam? They're playing with their toys in your mommy's old room with Auntie Megan" He said, putting Keeli down. She didn't say anything, just ran up the stairs.

"Hey, Alex. Who's this? New girlfriend?" He asked jokingly. 'Girlfriend?' I'll have to ask her about that later.

"No, Maxie, she's staying with me for a while, she's one of my students. Mitchie, this is my brother Max, Max, this is Mitchie." She said, I smiled at him shyly, and he put his hand out for me to shake, which I did.

"Hi." I said quietly.

"Hey." He said back.

"I'm gonna go and take Keeli's bag up, you coming, Mitchie?" Alex asked, breaking the silence between the 3 of us. I nodded, and followed Alex up some staires and into a living room.

"This is where you grew up?" I asked.

"Yep, I'll show you around." She said, before I had a chance to agree, she grabbed my wrist lightly and pulled me through a door into a big room with Keeli, 2 other kids, who I'm guessing were Chloe and Liam, and a woman with bright red hair.

"Hey Megan, Hey kids." Alex said, smiling at the three people, I'd never seen before, who were sitting on the floor playing with lego cars.

"Auntie Ayex!" Called both the two young kids, I'm guessing they were 3-ish.

"Hey kids, having fun?" She asked. They both nodded and went back to their lego. The woman, Megan, got up and stood opposite Alex.

"Hey, Who's this?" She asked, folding her arms across her chest. Alex didn't answer, she just looked at me expectantly.

"I'm Mitchie, Alex is my Art teacher." I said, Megan nodded and put her hand out to shake mine.

"I'm Megan, Alex's sister-in-law." She told me, smiling.

"This is their playroom, it used to be the spare room." She said. I nodded, then we went back into the living room, up some stairs, and into a big room with Gym equipment in it.

"This was my older brother Justin's room." She said, then pulled me to another room, which was twice the size of the last one. "This was my room, I got the biggest room in the house, it was bigger than my mom and dads room." She said with a proud smirk. "I had the bigger room anyway, but I would've gotten this room anyway once Keeli was born cause I needed the room. Now it's Max and Megan's room." She carried on.

"This was justin's room." She told me as we stepped into a room that was 3 times smaller than the first room she showed me. I giggled that the oldest kid got the smallest room.

"So how come Max lives here instead of you or Justin?" I asked once we were back in the living/dining/kitchen room. She'd shown me another room that was a little bigger then Max's old room, but smaller than her old one, telling me it was her parents room.

"The rest of us had already moved out when my parents decided to get divorced, so Max had this place and the sandwich shop downstairs." She said.

"Oh, your parents got divorced? How come?" I asked. She shrugged lazily.

"I dunno, something to do with my dads eating habits, Now my mom lives in England with her new husband, and my dad lives in Tennessee with his high school sweetheart." She told me. I nodded and then she got up.

"Right, lets go shopping!" She said happily. I smiled at her and followed her downstairs to her car, and we went to the mall.

Sorry for not updating, my laptop was being spazzy. I hope this was worth the wait :D x