Hi people! Here is the next chapter. Now the poll decided by...a million(actually 5) votes to 1. So Gill and Hikari won't break up Don't worry ^_^!!! I've got a bunch of ideas all set up now for the rest of the story. So please enjoy!

When we finally got to the house I smiled.

"Glad to be back?" Daisuke asked.

"You know I am!" I hopped out of the car.

I walked in to see mom with her back turned to the oven.

"Hi mom!" I waved.

She jumped and turned around her expression brightened "Hikari!" She went over and hugged me.

"How have you been?" She said.

"Pretty good!" I grinned. Diasuke came in with a few bags and behind him the others came in.

"Ah, these must be your friends!" She said.

"Yep this is Kathy, Mai , Chelsea, Gill, Owen, Mark, Luke, and Chihaya."

"It is nice to meet you all! Please make yourselves at home!"

I guess they already kinda did, Mai was staring in a dazed expression at all the bread and pastries, Luke also was but in a "I'm starving!" way. Owen, Kathy, and Chelsea were looking around, so Gill and Chihaya were the only ones listening.

When mom closed the store we all went to the backyard. My dog, Lilia, ran up to me and licked me like crazy.

Mom came out with some mini cakes, some home made doughnuts, and hot chocolate.

"So how long have you been here?" Kathy asked.

"Well Daisuke and I got married and moved here about twelve years ago. Hikari came to live with us when she was seven.

"You are adopted?" Luke asked. Gill, Chihaya, Kathy, and Owen seemed surprised too.

I looked up from playing with Lilia "Yeah, it isn't something I share with the world though. I consider them my parents...though sometimes I call them by their real names."

"How come you didn't tell us?" Luke asked.

"Like I said, it isn't something I like to share with the world."

"Why did you get adopted?" I wanted to punch Luke now.

I sighed "That's kind of a personal thing--"

"Can you please tell us?" Mai pleaded.

"No." I mumbled.

"Why not?" Luke asked.

"Because it is none of your business!" I snapped. When I realized I snapped I blushed in embarrassment.

"Sorry Sheesh!" Luke mumbled.

"Anyway will you guys like to unpack. I will show you upstairs." Mom got up and we all followed. I was relieved she changed the subject.

"The boy's room is on the left and the girls room is on the right, Hikari you know where your room is." She joked and smiled.

I smiled back "Alright."

When the others went into their room I went into mine. I opened the door to find everything as I left it almost two years ago when I left to attend high school at Castanet. The walls were painted a bright blue and white. Pictures of the ocean that I took. The white bed with the frilly pillows was neatly made. The best part about living here was that we lived right by the ocean. My room had a balcony so I could sit out there and look at the ocean. The chair and table were still out there and mom put a pot of flowers out there and a candle on the table.

"This is your room huh?" I heard a voice behind me.

I jumped and turned around "Oh um yeah..."

Gill made a face "Sorry if I scared you..."

"No it's fine, I'm just daydreaming."

"Ah." He was busy looking at the stuff in my room.

"So were you alright?"

"What do you mean?"

"Back down stairs. You seemed mad or something."

"Well, you get mad when Luke bugs you." I said.

He gave me a look "Are you sure nothing bugged you?"

"No I'm fine." I smiled, though I'm pretty sure he wasn't buying anything."

"Alright..." He said, the look still on his face. It was hard to read. I couldn't tell if it was "I don't believe you!" or something else. The few seconds of awkward silence was torture.

"So, are my parents okay?"

"Yeah, they seem nice. I thought it was interesting that your step dad is a cop."

"Well, I consider him my actual dad."

"Who was your real dad?" He asked.

"Well my real dad lives in America, Yuki used to live with him. I also had another dad but..." I stopped.

"But what?" He asked.

I was quiet for a few seconds, I looked up and tried to manage a smile "I just never considered him my dad, he wasn't very nice."

A look of concern came on his face "What happened."

"Nothing." I said I looked back outside then he caught my chin and made me make eye contact with him.

"I hate when you do that." He said.

"What?" I said blushing.

"When you try and get out of a situation you break eye contact and look somewhere else."

I tried to break eye contact, then he smirked "Like that. So why don't you tell me what happened? You know you can't get out of this with me here."

I frowned and his face turned serious again. Part of me was yelling "Tell him! He will understand! He is your boyfriend for God's sake!"

I ignored it "Nothing happened Gill!" My gut twisted as I snapped at him.

His expression didn't change but the concern in his eyes grew. He took his hand away from my face "Alright..." He mumbled.

He turned around and started heading for the door "Oh and your mom said dinner will be ready soon so I suggest after you are done unpacking you go downstairs."

"...Alright." I said. After that, he walked out. For some reason I started to feel scared and sad. The same feeling I felt when I was with my old mom and that guy. I shuttered. I quickly unpacked then went downstairs. While we ate, Kathy and Owen were talking, Mark and Chelsea were talking about farming, Chihaya and Mai were talking with my parents, and Gill ate quietly. He didn't make eye contact which made the feelings increase. After we ate and finished talking it was already late. All of us went upstairs and I said night to Mai, Chelsea, and Kathy and went into my room. I had a slight hard time going to sleep. I was thinking about Gill, I was now regretting not telling Gill. I wanted to tell him now more than anything because I never told anyone before besides Akina. Only my step parents knew now, they never talked about it because they were afraid I wouldn't feel comfortable. Yuki didn't even really know what he did to me. I moved around in the bed to see if I could find a comfortable spot so I could sleep. Suddenly I heard a boom and I yelped. I jumped up and looked outside I could hear the wind make the house creak. The waves in the ocean were increasing in size and a flash came out of nowhere. The huge boom came again. I yelped again and looked for my ipod.

"No..." I mumbled, I forgot it back on the island "No no no no!"

Another roar of thunder and I huddled on the ground, covering my ears. The noise still didn't go away. My body started to shake uncontrollably as I tried to block out the noise.

Gill's POV

I woke up from a huge noise that sounded like a crash. My eyes snapped open and I looked outside. Lightning flashed and the wind roared. I sighed and got up. There was no point of going to sleep now because of the noise. I went downstairs to see if I could get something to drink. I didn't have any water during dinner so I was thirsty. When I went downstairs, Hikari's mother was down there looking outside, she glanced at me.

"Um...sorry...I was just going to get a drink."

She smiled "It's fine, go ahead."

I grabbed a glass "Why are you up so late?"

"I like watching the storms hear. I always like to watch them, ever since Hikari was little."

"Both of you like thunderstorms."

She laughed "I do, Hikari on the other hand hated thunderstorms when she was little."

"Why is that?"

"Daisuke and I never knew for sure. One night she came into our room and said she was afraid. It got kind of worse as time when on. We decided to go downstairs with her and watch it a few times. Other times we decided to give her something to take her mind off of the storm."

"Is she over it?" I asked.

"I'm sure she is, as she got older she didn't seem to ask us to help her when a storm would happen. Plus she never seems to be bugged by it in the day...when she was little it was always a storm at night. But I'm sure she is over it, she had a lot of things happen when she was little so it was probably a phase."

"Alright..." I thought for a second "What did happen to Hikari when she was little? She never told me."

She sighed "She will hate me...when she was little, she and Yuki had a hard childhood. Her mom and dad got a divorce and her mom right away married a new man. The man treated Yuki and Hikari very badly. Yuki ran away to try and find their real dad but didn't take Hikari, leaving her to deal with her new father."

"What did he do?"

She looked at the ground then back at me "Let's just say he was arrested for sexual harassment."

I got wide eyed "Seriously?"

"Yes. She ran away after a year of it and lived on the streets for a couple of weeks. She was close to dying but a friend of ours found her...which by logical explanation, the women was your mother."

I remembered Hikari saying that my mother helped her when she was little.

She continued "She took care of her and nursed her back to physical and mental health. When Hikari told your mother what the man did to her, she took Hikari here. She told us about it considering Daisuke is a cop. Hikari's real mom signed Hikari in our custody without even really thinking that Hikari was her child."

I clenched my fists "How come she didn't want to tell us?"

"Her past is difficult to talk about..."

I stared at the ground.

"You care about her a lot don't you?"

I nodded, she continued "She really likes you, I can tell."

"I still don't understand why she wouldn't tell me, it isn't that hard."

"Well, have you told her about your mom, like just what you used to do with her?"

I stopped and looked up at her, she smiled "Some subjects can be painful to talk about, in your standards and hers. If you bond enough those subjects become less difficult because you have someone who understands that type of pain."

I smiled "Alright..."

"I suggest you get some sleep, it is really late."

"I should say the same to you."

She giggled "I'll be up in a bit."

I walked back upstairs then paused and stared at the door that opened to Hikari's room. Something didn't feel right. I put down my glass and opened the door slowly to Hikari's room. The bed was empty.

"Hikari?" I whispered. Another flash of lightning followed by another loud BAM came from outside. I heard a yelp and saw Hikari huddled in a corner besides her bed and the wall. Her knees were close to her chest, she covered her ears tightly with her hands. It was dark so I couldn't make it out exactly but I was sure she was shaking, but I wasn't sure if she was crying. She whimpered quietly. A shiver went down my spine, if she was still scared when all those storms that had happened... she had to endure them. I knew her, Hikari wasn't the type who liked to burden people. So she decided to hide the fact that she was still scared.

"Hikari?" I managed to whisper again.

Her eyes snapped open, the sky lit up again for a split second. For that second I could see the look in Hikari's eyes, absolute terror. The thunder came again and she let out another yelp...it was loud enough to almost be a small scream. She held her hands in front of her protectively, hands shaking.

"Please..." She whimpered "I...I didn't do anything bad...please don't."

I knew who she thought I was probably, she thought I was the guy her step mom was talking about. The thunder brought back memories of what he did to her, so now, to her it was like she was in a horrifying nightmare.

"Please..." She managed to say, now I knew she was crying. Sobs escaped her lips.

I knelt down and stroked her arm, her head snapped back up in alarm.

"It's okay." I whispered. I took her hand and intwined my fingers with hers.

"You are an idiot for doing something like this for this long you know." I smiled slightly.

She still shook, I could see her eyes glisten from tears. Another roar of thunder came and she flinched.

"But...you don't have to worry, all those things that happened to you won't happen again. I won't let it happen again, I'll protect you no matter what."

I squeezed her hand tighter. Her eyes stared into mine, then she lunged and wrapped her arms around me. Her sobs grew and she buried her face in my T-shirt. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her.

"It's okay." I whispered.

I ended up falling asleep with Hikari. When I woke up I had a huge pain in my neck. I slept a lot better than I thought I would sleeping upright. I groaned and rubbed my neck.

"Are you okay?"

My eyes snapped open and I was looking right at Hikari who was inches away.

I blushed slightly "Y-Yeah."

She smiled "Sorry, you didn't have to--"

"No it's fine," I smiled "I wanted to."

She blushed slightly "Thank you."

I got up "It's nothing, anyway would you like to go downstairs and eat?"

"Yep." I got up and noticed a case by her bed "You play the violin?"

She blinked a few times "Yep!"

"What can you play?"

She giggled and scratched her head "Pretty much anything."

I smiled "That's right you've met my mother. She would make me test her violin playing skills by making me pick a song. Any song she would be able to play. Though she kept asking me and it kept bugging me to no end."

She started laughing "She would name a song and I would have to play it for her."

I chuckled "She was weird sometimes."

We were quiet after that, I thought back to what her step mom said about Hikari and me.

"What is it?" She asked.

I looked up and smiled "Nothing, are we...?"

"Yeah!"

When we went downstairs, I was questioned.

"Hey where were you when we woke up Gill?" Owen asked.

"Oh, I was talking to Hikari...in her room." I don't think I really thought about what to say.

"Wait!" Luke said "Did you--"

"No! We were out on the balcony talking!"

"No you weren't! Admit it!"

Daisuke glared at me "Did you...?"

"Dad, we were hanging outside. I was reading a book out there and Gill came to talk. We haven't had time to ourselves in a while." Hikari said.

Chelsea looked confused "What else would Gill and Hikari be doing?"

We were all quiet Mark sighed "Chelsea, we were waiting till you were of a proper age to tell you about this."

We all started laughing.

I couldn't resist I thought this idea was soooo cute ^-^!!! Well anyway please leave ideas and comment. Comment is like candy ^-^ to me!!! hope you guys liked it!

-00Spirited Away00