Chapter 4

October 2011. 

It had been days since I had last been to school, it was a week after the invasion. I was still slightly traumatized, Violet and I were sitting on the brick ledge in the garden, overlooking the plants and weeds growing all around. 

She was smoking a cigarette while I sat there playing with my fingers. A door closed from afar, I lifted my head to see my Dad walking towards us from the backdoor. 

Violet put out her cigarette on the brick as Dad walked up to us, he looked at Violet first since she had the cigarette still in her hand. 

"Relax. I'm not here to bust you." 

"Why not?" 

"What you guys went through last week..." he looked at me.

"Seriously Dad, we're fine. It'll make a great college essay one day." 

He nodded, "Okay. But if you guys wanna talk to somebody..." 

"Dad.." Violet interrupted.

"I mean, not me. I'm way too expensive." he chuckled, "We can find someone if you need it." he looked at both of us. 

"Thanks Dad, I'll think about it." I said. 

"Yeah." Violet agreed. 

He looked back and forth at us and patted Violet's knee and began walking away back towards the house. 

I felt someone beside me, but decided to ignore it since I've always felt that way since we moved in. 

I began picking at my nails again when I felt someone move my hair and give light kisses on my neck and nibbles on my earlobe. 

I laughed a bit and pushed them off, Tate was standing beside me looking at me with lust and want as he always did. 

"He's a great dad." he said as he leaned on the pillar and put his hand on my thigh, "He really cares. You guys are lucky like that." 

Violet picked out a new cigarette and leaned over so I could light it, I pulled out my lighter and stretched my arm out to light it. 

It lit and she took a hit of it, I leaned my back against the wall again and watched as she took hits of it. 

I felt breathing in my ear as I heard, "That's my girl." 

Blushing a bit, I looked over at him and he was smiling at me, a long, loving smile. 

"You two are disgusting." Violet said from the other side. 

"Yeah, whatever." I said back, picking at my nails again. 

"Stop doing that." Tate took my hand in his and covered it, stopping me from picking. 

I rolled my eyes, "I always do that when I'm anxious." 

"I know, but it's not good." he kissed each one of my fingers before looking up at me again, "Promise me you'll stop and find something else." 

I stared at him, I didn't know he cared this much, "Promise." 

"Thank you." he stared at me. 

I stared back until my phone started buzzing, he looked down at it, I looked at Violet but she was taking more hits of her cigarette. 

I answered and it was my mom; I put it on speaker as she spoke.

"Hi, Mom." 

"Hi, Honey. I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on selling the house." 

"We just moved here though." I looked at Violet as she rolled her eyes. 

"I know but your dad and I figured since the break in that it isn't safe; so I was wondering if you and Violet wanted to come with me to look at places to stay while we find a house to buy." 

I looked at Violet and she once again rolled her eyes, what else did we have to do?

"Uh, sure." 

"Okay, great. There's a ride that tours around town and shows all the haunted places so I'm gonna get on that and then we can leave." 

"Okay." 

"Okay. Bye, Honey." 

I hung up after saying bye and Violet groaned. 

"Seriously, she moves us out of our town to some rich haunted hippie town, then she says she doesn't like it, then moves us somewhere else. She's literally pregnant too." 

"I hate the way they think. Yes, it may not be safe anymore but still." 

"I think they're trying to do the best for you two." Tate chimed in. 

"Yeah, whatever." Violet took her bag and walked off toward the house. 

As Violet made her way towards the house, Tate grabbed my legs and moved them so they were dangling and he was standing between them.

"Maia?" 

"Yes, Tate?" 

"Don't leave me, please." he put his head on my chest while his hands were on the outside of my thighs, rubbing them up and down. 

My hand went to his blonde hair, playing with it gently, "Why would I leave you?" 

"If you move, we won't be together." 

"We won't move. My parents don't know what they want." 

"Promise me." he gave light kisses to my chest.

"I promise, Tate." 

"Okay..." he lifted his head from my chest and stared up at me with love in his brown eyes. 

"I gotta go." I said as I got down from the brick wall. 

"Okay." he said as I walked away and into the house. 

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Once Violet was gone, I grabbed her legs and moved her so I was standing between them. 

I put my head on her chest and gave light kisses right above her perfect tits. 

"Maia?" I asked, her name gave me so much ecstasy, but I had to control myself. 

"Yes, Tate?" God, I love it when she says my name. 

I buried my head in her chest right above her tits using them as pillows, "Don't leave me, please." 

I never wanted her to leave. I'd never felt this way about anyone else, she was the only thing keeping me alive. 

I had my head in her chest and my hands were rubbing her thighs up and down, there was so much I wanted to do with her perfect body. 

I wanted every inch of her. 

Her and only her. 

"Why would I leave you?" she asked, her voice was soft, she was playing with my hair, twirling it and rubbing my scalp with her fingers. 

Normally I was tough and nobody could see through me, but with her I was a baby, a vulnerable, little baby that just needed its mother. 

"If you move, we won't be together." I was so worried she was going to leave me, I had to know how she felt. 

"We won't move. My parents don't know what they want." 

"Promise me." I kissed her chest repeatedly, my lips going from the middle of her chest to the top of her tits. 

"I promise, Tate." 

"Okay.." I lifted my head up and looked at her face. God, she was so beautiful. 

I don't know how to explain this feeling, the feeling where it's only you two, the feeling that you would do absolutely anything for that person. 

For her, I would die. 

I would give her absolutely anything she wanted, I would give her the world if I could. 

She was my whole heart, anything she did was so perfect, I remember her moans that night. 

She was so sexy, so loveable. 

There's so many dirty things going through my mind every time I look at her, I would tell her; but I want to wait till she's mine because I don't want to be disrespectful. 

Her body is just a bonus, though, it's her personalty and energy I'm attracted to. She makes me feel something I've never ever felt, not even with my family.

Loved.

I knew she had to go soon, so I held onto her tight for the last few seconds. 

"I gotta go." she said, those words hurt me, I never wanted her to go. 

"Okay.." I watched as she jumped off the brick wall and walked into the house. 

She's mine. 

Nobody else's. 

It hurts to imagine another guy loving her, touching her, kissing her, being with her. 

No, it has to be me, because she's mine. 

Forever. 

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Mom met Violet and I at the door, I'm assuming Violet was in her room or something, we all walked out to the car and piled in as Mom started the engine and pulled out of the driveway. 

She drove us to this cheap looking motel it seemed, the realtor lady met us at the front, greeting us with a fake smile. 

"Hi, are you Vivien?" 

"Yes, these are my daughters." 

"Hi," she said as she opened the door and walked in, weird. 

"So, as I mentioned on the phone, the carpet will be steam-cleaned before move-in. There's a dock there for your iPod or iWhatever." 

She walked around the table in the front room, her low waisted jeans going under her stomach, "Uh...well, I'll tell you what I do like. I like that security guy at the door." mom spoke. 

"Excuse me. Can my mom and I have a moment? Alone." Violet asked as the lady nodded, "Sure. I'll be in the rental office. Got someone else coming in 20 minutes." she put her clipboard down and walked out closing the door, leaving the three of us alone in the room. 

"Glad we moved all the way to California since we could be totally anywhere." 

"I think it has a certain..." mom was cut off by Violet. 

"You and Dad, both of you. You don't deal with anything. The affair, the miscarriage. For most people, that's just life and they deal. But you guys had to uproot everything. Drag everyone across the country to start all over." Violet ranted, I don't think she liked this idea. 

"Honey, I don't think you've quite processed what happened to us in that house. That was devastating. That was a nightmare." 

"This place is the nightmare." she scoffed, "I love our house. Its got soul. It's where we kicked ass, Mom. You say we're victims of something bad there. I say that's a place where we survived." 

"I love that you see it that way." she sighed, "I'm pregnant. I can't stay there. This is the decision that your father and I have made for our family together."

"Yeah, whatever." she looked down annoyed. 

"Violet, she has a point. It's for our safety." I added, it won't change how she feels but at least Mom will know I understand. 

"If you go ahead with this whacked-out plan, I'm out of here. I'll run away. And believe me, I know how to leave so you will never find me." Violet had no emotion, she walked out and slammed the door behind her. 

Mom and I looked at each other and sighed, she's always been the one to not understand what's right and wrong. Everything always had to be about her. 

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I laid in bed thinking about my life, we'll see how tomorrow goes. 

It's Halloween so it should be fine. 

I felt the bed sink from behind me and arms wrap around my waist. 

"Hi, Tate." I said as he was spooning me. 

"Hi, baby." he said as he buried his head in my neck. 

"I can't sleep." I mumbled, I then turned over so I was facing him. He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear and kissed my forehead. 

"What do you wanna do, princess?" he mumbled to me. 

"I have markers." I said randomly, I had organized all my markers, highlighters, pencils and crayons all in my drawers when we got back so that was the first thing I thought of. 

"Draw on me." 

I got up excitedly, I was wearing a long sleeve with short pyjama shorts, I got up and my shorts had been pulled up into my ass. I ignored it and got the markers, walking back over to the bed and standing in front, he was staring at me, biting his lip. 

"What?" I asked as he stared at me, he lifted his arms and pulled me onto his lap, palming my ass as he slid his hand under my underwear to feel it. 

I laughed, I was now straddling him with his hands under my ass in my underwear. He took one hand out from my left side and gave it to me to draw on. 

I drew a little heart on the top of his hand and drew little stars and other things on his forearm. I then drew a snake on the side with a flower coming out of it. 

"You're so beautiful." he said as I looked up to see him staring at me.

"How long have you been staring at me, Tate?" 

"Not long enough." he said as he kissed my lips, making my head jolt back a bit, he went from my lips, to my jaw, to my neck and down to my collarbone. The shirt I was wearing was a V neck so it was perfectly angled to show some cleavage. 

"Fuck.." he said as he went down to my tits, kissing and sucking on the top. I tilted my head back a bit and moaned lowly, he sucked until he left dark hickeys. 

He pulled away and stared at me, "You're mine." he whispered as he stared at me with his big brown eyes. 

I laughed as he kissed my lips one more time before laying me back down and spooning me. 

We both fell asleep together to the sounds of our breathing.