A/N: Wow! A new chapter! Now, I need you guys to HELP ME. Who should Mia end up with, Tamaki or Hikaru? I can't decide, so its up to you followers and fans out there! VOTE IN YOUR REVIEWS PEOPLE. VOTE VOTE VOTE.

Also, sorry this was so late. I babysat friday and had two parties yesterdays. So I've been a busy girl. (But I am still the reigning champion or Just Dance. My title.)

Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out

I woke up that night by my own screams, which, thankfully, had been muffled into the pillow. I rubbed my hands on my fuzzy zebra print pants after I finished crying. Enjoying the feel of something soft between my fingers, like it could somehow become some type of magical genie who could bring my family back.

I had walked over to my bag and pulled out a picture of my sister and me. I missed her a lot, but not the most. She was just my best friend, always going shopping and taking me to concerts, I practically lived at her house in the summer. And she was so beautiful, her hair was blonde and to her shoulders, and her green eyes always sparkled with some kind of hidden mischief. I was so lost without her.

In the picture, we had just had a cake war, her nice white dress had blue frosting on it, and my light peach colored tank top was all purple. We were hugging each other and laughing in the way that sisters do.

I padded down to Kyoya kitchen with the picture clutched in my hand like it was some type of life line, where I quietly made some peach tea and sat at the table, sipping it and staring at the picture.

The nightmare was the same as it usually was. Picking up from the moment I got into my house. And like every other time I woke up, my body hurt and ached as if it had just happened and my heart ached with the incredible sense of loss that you get when you realize that you are, completely alone.

I mean, who could you really tell, someone that would understand? A therapist? I wasn't one for therapy. And I didn't need it much, I wasn't self destructing, I just had nightmares. Awful nightmares that had left my body aching and my eyes wet with salty tears. But Therapy wasn't an option. And any person on the street that you could tell would just say 'That's awful, I'm so sorry.' Without really caring.

At my family's funeral in Georgia, the whole town came, with their sorrys and their food. While me and Toretto were thankful for the food I couldn't take their sorrys. I did not want their pity, or their sympathy. I just wanted them to understand. To be left alone.

In the following months of investigation had the whole town whispering, everything from I had killed them to that my mom and sister were both sleeping with other people. None of it was true. And the only one who stood by me was Toretto. He was my brother through marriage but he was such a brother to me. Always sticking up for our family and for me.

When we left Georgia in Witness Protection, the only person who had come to say goodbye was Beau, the same Beau who taught me how to eat oysters. The only friend I'd had in all of my school years. But we couldn't stay in Georgia and Beau knew that, so he was OK with the move.

"Who is that?"

A voice startled me out of my thoughts, and I turned to meet Hikarus amber gaze.

"That its my sister." I stated, sipping my tea.

Hikaru sat across from me and gave me this level, intense gaze.

"Where is she?" He asked, with a kind of uncharacteristic softness.

"She's...dead" I admitted, slowly. I avoided his gaze and stared into my tea.

Hikaru reached out and grabbed my hand, and when my gaze moved over to him, I saw he was watching me intently. It gave me this weird feeling in my stomach, I wasn't used to getting looked at like that.

"What happened?" He asked.

I opened my mouth to tell him some kind of lie. That she died in a car accident or she died in childbirth or something, and my stupid, big mouth spilled everything. And when I was finished, he didn't say anything. Anything at all.

I got up, collected my things, and went back into my room. Where I laid on my bed, and looked out the window until the sun rose over the horizon.

(magical like break)

When I showered and dressed, I saw my eyes were black from tiredness, and after cleverly covering them, I put on a mint green dress with lace on it and walked down stairs for breakfast.

You ever get that feeling that someone was just talking about you when you walk into a room? When all the eyes turn to you and a silence falls over the conversation? It was happening to me.

All of the hosts had their eyes on my while I sat down. They made me so uncomfortable that I sat a little ways away from them and poured myself some tea, and had some toast before I got up and left.

I went back into my room and took my white leather bag and left the mansion, I wet and walked around town, though I had the curious feeling of eyes on me. I went at a nice cafe and had a big burger and fries, which made me unbelievably happy, I also bought a soda, a rare treat for me, which I was sipping while I was looking at the shops.

I bought some books, Inferno The latest book in a series I was reading. And The Selection, A book I had been wanting to read for a long time. I was a beautiful day again, a few more clouds were dotting the sky, and as I was leaving the book store to go and get some more fries, and hand caught my wrist and stopped me.

I turned and met Tamakis violet eyes.

"Hey, fancy meeting you here." I said, a little shy from Tamakis intense gaze.

Man, what was with these boys and giving me that weird, intense look? It made my stomach feel weird and my body feel all hot. I certainly wasn't sure if I liked it or not.

"I wanted some fresh air." Tamaki shrugged.

"Well, I was just about to go get fries, do you want to join me?" I offered sweetly. Tamaki nodded and we walked and got a large fry.

"Hikaru told me about what you told him last night.'" Tamaki admitted, we had wound up on the cliff where the incident had occurred yesterday. Our feet were dangling over the edge and we were enjoying our fries and soda.

"I figured he did. Kyoya already knew knew about it though." I said, I wasn't looking at him, stead I was watching the water.

"I want to say that I'm sorry for your loss, but I don't think that is what you want to her or is even remotely close to how sorry I really am." I glanced at Tamaki out of the corner of my eye, he was looking at the water as well.

I turned back to the water and shook my head. "I'm so tired of I'm sorrys." I admitted, my Georgia drawl came out, softly at first, then stronger as I continued. "I just want to move on. But I have nightmares. Every night." I blinked. "And I just miss them, and I'm scared." I turned to look at Tamaki.

"I'm scared he is going to come back like he said. I'm scared he's going to get the the kids or to my brother and not just me." I inhaled, then exhaled slowly. "I'm scared that if he does come back, that I won't win the fight that would happen." I pulled my knees up to my chin and looked at him. "And I have to fight him, for my brother, and my sister kids. I can't leave them."

Tamakis arm wrapped around me and pulled me into his shoulder, where I sat for a long while, and he didn't say anything. Neither did I. We just looked at the water.

"Oh my gosh, look at the dolphins!" I jumped up and pulled Tamakis hand up.

"Tamaki, seriously, look at them!" Tamaki was laughing at me and my excitement, but I didn't care, they were the first dolphins I'd ever seen.