[Chapter 12]~Dirty Maid~ [Important A/N at the end. Please read it!] Cole seems scarred. He gave me a few chores to do around the house, no more questions or sly remarks were thrown my way. Which I was very grateful for. I'm busy sorting out the tiny cabinet underneath their TV. It's filled to the brim with CDs and a few vinyls here and there. As I was bending down to get another CD box to dust off, I hear someone shuffle behind me. My position on the floor is slightly compromising. My ass is in the air and my hands are in front of me by the cabinet. I didn't really care about Cole being downstairs because he said he'd stay upstairs for the most part. Well until now... Turning around I can see Cole standing there awkwardly. Looking at everything but me, he's bending down in front of the couch. So that the only thing in sight is his torso and chest, which is still bare mig

[Chapter 14]~Bloody Truth~ Blood everywhere. Blood on the porch. Blood on the floor. Blood on me. But it's not mine, it's his. The man laying in my bathtub, he's practically drowning in his blood. I can't see a definite wound, but there's blood. A lot of blood. If it weren't for his eyes I probably wouldn't have recognised him. Him and I being the only ones out of our 4 siblings to inherit our fathers dark, almost black looking, eyes. Our sister and other brother having their mothers eyes. My brother, Raúl , lay semi unconscious in the bath. Blood seeping all around. I grab the detachable shower head by the bath (not in the shower); and slowly try washing the blood off. I take his shirt off slowly trying not to hurt him. But when he lifts his arm he winces softly. I pull the remainder of his sweater over his head, and toss it to the basin.  

[Chapter 16]~Time Skip~ Life has been so uneventful for the last few weeks it's probably safe to say that everything is normal again. I've gone to school, I've come home from school, I've spoken to Lucius. He's finalizing something's I think and then he'll tell me when we're needed. Cole and his obnoxious goonies have made the teachers lives difficult and the cops a couple times too. Cole and Jackson got arrested for vandalism which I'm not sure how it went down because they're still both in school. And Michael was being charged for harassment to some football player. I'm pretty sure it was an argument that escalated. Quickly. It's my

 [Chapter 18]~Luck is loaned, not owned... But I got a bucket full... SIKE~ "Hey new girl! Want some help?!"  Zack has some fucking nerve. He either really doesn't know it's me or he's being a fucktard and knows it's me so he's deliberately making a fool of me. "Hey wait up!" I'm sure it's the former now because from the amount of heavy steps he's running to me; which he wouldn't do for me. Should I tell him or let him find out on his own? I think if I leave him he might just attract more attention to us. More than we already have at least, everyone in the hallway is staring and I'm not even in the senior corridor yet.  I stop walking and spin slowly on my heel, this time keeping my head up instead of down. He's still barreling through the corridor like there no tomorrow. When he's about a metre away from me he actually

[Chapter 20]~Zooweemama & Drugs~20 minutes ago, was when my parents left and when I was forced to come here.This place... It's not bad but Cole being here just makes it like hell. He's such an arrogant, cocky bastard. Always making me feel self conscious and anxious, the way he makes me feel in a single conversation is equivalent to how I feel in a crowd.My heart bearing fast. The sweaty palms, erratic breaths. Too much. That's what it fucking is, just too much.Not that Lora isn't nice, she's great. Offered me food, got to love that. But I know she knows exactly what Cole is like; the criminal record, the weeks in juvie – I mean of course she knows she's had to bail him out every time.Yet she's still as oblivious as ever to the way he speaks to me, acts around me, she just doesn't see it.