Chapter 16: A smirking Sasha

Luke's POV: (starts from last night)

I just got done with my conference with the Spanish when I see a little girl, more importantly Lidia, at my door, frozen in the position of knocking. What is she doing here?

"Lidia, what are you doing up this late?" I question, my face too tired to hide my worry.

"I um, I had a nightmare and I was wondering if , I could-could, maybe, sorta, just a thought, stay in your room with you?" My amusement evident on my face as I see her tired face turn pink.

" Of course you can Lidia. My room is always open for you" I tell her.

I walk into my room, her quickly following me. I've never had any of my siblings  come into my room because well, they're boys. The boys usually tough it out and tell one of the other boys in the morning. This is all new to me.

I lay down and pat the spot next to me.  "Do you want to talk about it?" I question. She shakes her head no. "Okay but I'm always here you to talk" I further explain, hoping she'll give in and tell me.

She almost sprints towards my bed and lays down. As if my chest were a trap door, waiting to trap her inside, she lays her head on my chest.

It's just like when she was a baby. Whenever she cried or got hurt I would always put her head on my chest and get her to calm down. I stroke her hair and whisper shh. She fell asleep almost instantly.

I wonder what made her so scared that she'd come into my room to sleep with me? What could be so scary that she would have to sleep with someone? Maybe it's because I haven't had a little sister in about twelve years, but I don't think nightmares are this bad.

What if someone made this happen? The thought of that makes my blood boil. How could someone hurt such an innocent little girl?

I keep thinking about her. What did she do when we were gone. Why didn't Sarah tell her we existed? Seems like all I'm doing these days is thinking.

I fall asleep, with a slight smile on my face.

It's around 5:00 when I wake up. I put a quick little note so when Lidia wakes up, she doesn't get worried. After I fix my tie I head out the door. Yay another boring day. The thought of seeing Lidia at dinner is what makes my life worth it.

Lidia's POV:

When I wake up I am met with an empty bed. Where did he go? As I'm looking around the room hurriedly, I see a note on the nightstand.

Don't worry, I just left for work. Zack should be in the kitchen. Go to him if you need anything. I hope you slept good- Luke

Huh. Someone hoped I slept good. I haven't had that said to me for about however many years. If you haven't guessed already I'm not sure how long I've been gone. All I know is that it's been long. If I were to guess it would be about nine-thirteen years. Very long indeed.

I got out of his bed and walked towards my own. I hate school with a passion. Although it helped me get away from Carl, it still hurt. The kids were not very nice. The teachers were okay but the lunch, ugh the lunch was horrid!

I did my normal routine, got in the shower, scrubbed myself till I bled. The norm'. I wore blue leggings, with a Tom and Jerry shirt. I put on some red rose-shaped earrings.

My makeup was terrific, as always, but something was missing. I inwardly gasped, my black cross necklace! I saw it sitting on my nightstand. I sighed in relief. If I had lost it I would've more than stressed out and panicky.

My way downstairs was interrupted as I heard something. "The bosses sister so fine. I just wanna handcuff her and-" by then I had silent tears streaming down my face. I ran toward my tree, my steps quiet.

"Chica, what're you doing?" Zack quizzed. His face morphed into one of concern. I ignored him and continued to hightail it outside.

I quickly ran to my tree. I can't believe people would say that! And about a fourteen year old girl! So many cruel people in this world. How? Have they no shame? I'm pretty sure he had a gold ring on his finger too!

I hopped into my tree and cried into my knees. I proceeded to cry when I heard a familiar voice.

"Lidia? Are you okay? What's wrong?" James inquired.

I slowly look up, afraid for him to see me like this. "Uh, um, erm nothing. Everything is fine." I cleared my voice and wiped my tears away.

"You don't look fine. Tell me what's wrong or I'll have no choice but to tell Luke" James stated, his voice firm. He sounded like he didn't care, his voice filled with boredom but I could see some worry in his eyes.

"No seriously I'm fine. You don't need to do that. Just- just leave me be for a little while" I tried to reason with him. Keyword: tried.

He planted his feet, much a toddler. "Tell me. Now." His voice held no room for excuses.

"Well actually- you know what. Forget it. I was walking downstairs because I had just got done getting ready for school when I heard a sound. There were these guys-" I stifled a sob "they um, they kept telling each other how much they" I whispered the last part "they said they wanted to handcuff me and bang me" I finally got out.

James face contorted into one of complete and utter anger. I'm pretty sure there was steam coming out of it.

"Where" is all he said. He tried to conceal his anger but it was obvious he wasn't good at it.

I sniffed and said "In the hallway by the staircase leading downstairs"

He nodded his head slowly and carefully walked to the house. I followed, wanting to see what he was doing. With his steps, anger in every single one, stopped by where I had told.

While we were heading up there Zack had asked why James' face looked like that. He looked over at me but when he saw my face, his hardened. He had his jaw clenched, and it ticked every minute.

The men who were talking about me stopped their conversation and glanced over at James, their faces turning fearful when they saw his face. "This them?" James wondered. Those two words meaning more to me than they should've . "Yes they are" I honestly answered.

James took one look at Zack before he turned and swung at the closest one. He grunted in pain. I gasped. James glanced towards the other one, grabbing his collar and punching him in the abdomen. He then, straddled the man and started to repeatedly punch him.

The man started to holler so in return, Sasha, Caden, and Jesse ran out of their rooms. "What the hell happened?!" Sasha exclaimed loudly. She turned and looked at Zack, as if asking him why in the world was James punching a guy. Zack, his jaw still clenched, shrugged.

She then turned to me and I also shrugged. What am I going to say? Hey these men just said they wanted to bang a child. No biggie.

The rest of us just stared at James, waiting for him to be done. I'm not going to lie, this kind of brought back some not-so-fond memories. Once he was finished Sasha asked what everyone else in the room was thinking. "What in the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ is happening?!"

James' just looked at her and said "These sick bastards just said they wanted to 'bang' her" his voice held no kidding. The room turned deathly silent. I looked around and saw all the boy's jaw clenched. Sasha looked as if she was going to pounce at any moment. She calmly walked over to the men, one of which was on his knees, and looked them straight in the eye and kicked them hard in the balls. All of the boys winced. Sasha held a triumphant smirk. She looked our way and shrugged, walking back to her and Caden's room.

I blinked. "Well this certainly has been an eventful morning, hasn't it?" Jesse stated still glaring at the pitiful excuse of men. We all nonchalantly nodded our heads, still engrossed in what Sasha had done.

"I'm going back to my room" Jesse said.

"Nuh uh uh mister. You have school." Zack told him sternly.

Zack huffed and headed down into the kitchen. I made my way to my bathroom to see if my makeup had run. Thankfully it didn't. My eyes were just puffy. I quickly splashed some cold water on them and headed to the kitchen.

"Who's ready for he-" Zack smacked him across the head "school. Yeah who's ready for school" he saved.

Certainly not me.

I hate those types of people. But I love Sasha! Should i do her POV sometime? I hope you like it and don't forget to vote, comment and obviously like :)