I woke up gasping for air. Sweat trickled down my forehead. I pushed myself resting my back on the headboard of the bed. Placing my head on my knees which were very close to my chest I took a deep breath. I knew he wasn't here. I knew he couldn't hurt me. Not Anymore.

But why? Why then did I not feel safe? Why did the memory still disturb me to my core? I took in a few deep breaths and wiped the sweat off my forehead. I searched for my phone and looked at the time. 3 am. I sighed. I can't call Kyle and tell him now. I will have to wait until tomorrow.

The rain was still falling heavily and I could feel the thunder that was going to follow. I immediately closed my eyes, swiftly placing my hands over my ears. When there was a thunder. My door opened and a tall figure stood there. I couldn't recognize him due to the lack of light in the room.

He walked closer and then I was met with the familiar green eyes. I heard him sigh and he moved closer to me. "Why didn't you wake me up?" he asked sitting on the bed beside me. "It's 3 am, Ash. Why would I wake you up?" I asked still crouching on the bed. "Fu*king idiot," he muttered.

Before he pulled me close to him. I immediately pulled back. "You are hurt!" I said to him. He just glared at me before pulling me close to him. There was a rumble of thunder and I immediately put my arms around his neck, not caring if it hurt him anymore. My eyes were closed my head resting perfectly between his shoulder and his neck.

The smell of vanilla hit me. Shivers ran down my spine. Goosebumps on my hands with an unsettling feeling in my stomach. I felt his hand stroking my head while his other hand rested on my back holding me close.

I opened my eyes and looked up at him. He was staring at the ceiling I grabbed his face and turned it to look at me. His eyes met mine and all I could see was a softness. Hurt?

His hand moved from my head to my neck bringing me close. My hand was on his sharp jaw. My eyes are still on his. My face slowly being brought to close his. My heart was beating at an abnormal rate. His eyes fell on my lips and mine on his. Our faces are just an inch away from each other.

My breath became uneven. "Asher," it was a mere whisper I don't even know if it was audible or just in my head. "Angel," he whispered back. Our lips almost touching. The way he said that name. I moved forward. For the first time, I was going to make the first move.

I felt safe with him. This close to him. It felt like home. I would never be in danger. He would always protect me. Just as our lips were about to touch there was a thunder again and I closed my eyes burying my face in his chest.

But this time he didn't hug me. I looked back up at him to see his eyes distant. To see him regret it. He quickly got up from the bed. "Ash," I whispered loud enough for him to stop. "Stay away from me, Kiara," he said without looking at me and walked out. At sat there on the bed confused, frustrated, and Hurt.

What just happened? Was I going to Kiss him?! It was just a spur of the moment. Right? I held my head. Great! Now I have confused feelings for him! Do I? I just need rest. I am overthinking again. Yeah, that's all. I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. Immediately going to sleep. I needed to rest.

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I woke up with the sun shining on my face. I groaned waking up why are my curtains open? I sat up and looked around. Then it hit me. Where I was. Stay Away from me. His voice rang on my forehead. I quickly grabbed my phone and dialed Kyle's number.

"Tell me why the freak are you calling me so early in the morning!" He groaned. "Ky, please come to pick me up," I said softly. As if he remembered about the thunderstorm he said, "Kia, Please be safe I will be there in 5 minutes," he said and I heard shuffling on his way. I hung upon him. I wanted to be alone. I did not plan on having feelings anytime soon.

I didn't want to be with anyone. No one could no about the past and if they did they would run away. I knew that. I sighed as I walked out only to be met by Lilia who was walking towards me.

"Hey! Good morning! How are you feeling?" she asked sweetly. "Lilia I am so sorry but I have to leave immediately. My brother is coming to pick me up. I'll wash these and send them over with Christian or Blake. Could you please let them know I am leaving?" I asked. She looked alarmed.

"Is Everything okay?" she asked. "Yes, Also please make sure Asher has bed rest for the weekend," I said she nodded as I rushed downstairs only to be bumped into the bad boy himself. "I am sorry," I whispered without looking up at him. Just as I was about to leave he pulled me back.

"Where the fu*k are you going?" He asked angrily. "Umm, Home?" I said though it sounded like a question. "And how?" he asked. "Asher, you don't need to care about me. I know you hate making friends. I know you hate me for being up and in your business. And you made it very clear last night that you didn't want anything to do with me. So If I am leaving I don't think you should be worried about how I go," I said.

I did not raise my voice. My voice held no venom nor any anger. If I grew close to him romantically I would have to tell him about it or he would find out. And I wanted neither of that. I slowly removed my hand from his. Before starting to walk out. Just as I was about to reach the door and open it. A hand grabbed my waist turning me around and gently placing me against the door.

His green eyes bore into mine. "What the fu*k do you mean that I hate you?" He asked. I looked at him confused. "Exactly that Asher," I said as if it was obvious. But not. "Listen here, you little angel. Whatever happened last night was a mistake. It shouldn't have happened. We are opposites and we don't belong together," he said his face inches away from mine. Skin burning with desire where his hand held my waist.

This! This is what I didn't want to happen. These butterflies! This Desire! His touch! But all of this couldn't distract me from what he had just said. It was a mistake. We are opposites. We don't belong together. Why did it feel like he just ripped my heart out? I didn't even know him that well. Yet it felt like I was losing someone so close to me.

I gulped in all the tears. "Yeah, you are right," I said as I turned my face away from his not able to look at him anymore. "You didn't let me finish little angel," he said making me look up at him again. "But now you know too much and my stupid brain cares if you live or not."

Leave it to him to show his concern for someone while talking about their death! A small smile made its way up to my lips. "So, You want to be friends?" I asked. He just shrugged. But something was still eating me from the inside.

"But whatever happened last night was a mistake?" I asked. I didn't want to hear the answer. But I needed to. "Yeah," He said his eyes darker than usual. I looked into his eyes to find out if he was lying. But no he was honest about it. I nodded in return.

There was a clearing of a throat behind him and we broke out of the trance. "If you guys are done doing whatever you were doing Ash, we have a problem," Blake said smirking. My eyes widened at his implications.

"Blake you idiot nothing was going on! He was just confronting me!" I said defensively. "Okay! Bye!!" I said rushing out as my cheeks heated up like a tomato. Just as I walked out of the gate Ky's car came into view and he stopped just in front of me and got out of the car pulling me in a hug.

"Are you okay, Kia?" he asked. I hugged him back. I needed this. He was the only person I trusted with anything and everything. "I'm fine," I said to him as we pulled away. "I am so sorry I wasn't awake and calling you when you needed it! I didn't even know when you left! When I woke up from my nap you were already gone and it had started raining! I am so sorry!" He started ranting.

"Ky, It's fine! And you didn't take a nap. You slept!" I laughed at him. "Wow, You seem in a good mood usually you aren't this cheery," he said giving me a weird look. "Oh Kyle, she had her cuddling machine yesterday!" said a voice. My eyes almost popped out when Blake came into view and stood beside me.

I glared at him! He just did not! "What the fu*k do you mean?" Kyle asked pissed off. "He meant that I borrowed their friend Lilia's teddy bear when I slept so I didn't feel alone! Right, Blake?" I said elbowing him in the ribs. Blake groaned, "Sure," he said.

"Who the hell is Lilia?" Kyle asked. "Oh she is their childhood friend who lives here with them," I explained. Kyle nodded still skeptical looking at Blake. That reminded me, "What are you doing here? Wasn't there a problem you and Ash needed to handle?" I asked. Blake looked at me.

"Oh, there was! But Asher asked me to make sure HIS ANGE-" I stomped on his foot. "- I mean to make sure you had a ride," he said smiling at me. "Oh, I guess it's time to go," Kyle said getting in the driver's seat. "If you try to tease me or Ash in front of anyone I swear to god I will make sure you can't make any Junior Blake's," I threatened him.

"Ash has got himself a feisty one," he muttered. I raised my elbow to hit him again but he took a few steps back. I laughed at him before getting into the car and waving at him.

As we started to drive back home Kyle said, "Why were you there in the first place?" Kyle asked. "Oh to help Christian bake some cookies for his fundraiser," I said remembering what we told Mom yesterday. He nodded. "I don't trust them, Kiara. I mean they might be good people but we don't know anything about them. I mean there is no trace of them. No social media. I couldn't find anything on them.

Other than the fact that Asher owns a company there are no details about it anywhere about what they do. Their parents aren't even around. Something is wrong," He said. I know what he said made sense. But I am pretty sure there was a reasonable explanation for that.

"Kyle, do you think the school would accept them without a background check? And also they live with their caretaker and they said their family lives in Europe. And they haven't done anything to prove they are not good," I reasoned. "I suppose," He said dropping the topic.

"So you had the nightmares?" He asked cautiously. "Yeah and a panic attack," I said sighing. "What?" He asked. "Chill I was fine. I could control it!" I said calmly. Lie. A complete and utter lie. I couldn't have controlled it if my life depended on it. It kinda did. Not the point though. If Asher hadn't controlled me and comforted me. I was a gone case.

"You sure?" he said eyeing me. "Of Course! How else could I have managed!" I snapped at him. "Geez, chill! Do you want ice cream?" He asked. I eagerly nodded a smile replacing my scowl. As he drove into the drive-thru in KFC. We both got ice cream and he parked the car to the side. "Ky, our house is not even two minutes away!" I said licking ice cream.

"Yeah, easy for you to say! Even I want to eat my ice cream!" he snapped as he ate his. A minute later there was a knock on my tinted black window and as soon as I opened the window my Dad's head popped in scaring the hell out of me!

"Dad!" I shouted as My ice cream almost slipped out of my hand while Kyle laughed at my misery. "Why are you two sitting here when our house is right there!" Dad pointed at the house just a few houses down. "Our Ice-Creams could have melted!" We both said at the same time.

"Stop saying what I am saying!" again at the same time. "SHUT UP!" We both snapped.

We both glared at each other. This was our daily routine. We would say things at the same time and they were the same. Twin Power I guess! But it was a pain in the butt!

The door opened and Dad got into the back seat. "If you two are done can we go?"He asked. We both looked at him. "What were you doing here?" I asked. "Oh, I came out of the door when I saw your car parked outside here! You two are such kids! I thought someone was stealing the car!" He snapped at us.

We just laughed at him. Once we finished our ice creams we drove back to the house and into the garage.

All three of us got out and Dad grabbed the keys from Kyle. "You will not be driving your car for a week!" We both looked at him. "But Dad!" we whined. But then looked at each other smirking. We still had my car! "Of course not! I know what your devil minds are thinking! Absolutely not! Both of you will not drive to school!" he said walking inside.

We both sulked before walking in. "MOM! DAD IS BEING MEAN!" we both shouted at the same time. Mom walked outside. "Wow, sometimes I hate that you are twins. You shout twice as loud!" she complained. We just laughed. "Mom come on! Dad just confiscated our car keys and Kyle can still go with his girlfriend! But what about me? I have to pick up Allisa!" I reasoned.

Kyle looked at me with betrayal. "You selfish person!" he shouted accusingly. I just gave Mom my puppy eyes. "They do not work on me, honey. The wrong parent," she said walking away. I scowled. Kyle snickered. "You know that Christian and Allisa come together right? Who will pick you up?" He said devilishly smirking.

I narrowed my eyes at him. "I have a best friend Elina Salvatore. Who owns a car and knows how to drive," I smirked. "And if you have forgotten she is my girlfriend. So... If I am driving her car I won't let you in. Take that sucker!" he said as he walked upstairs texting on his phone probably El.

I mean I didn't want to be in the car with Christian and Allisa I mean the s*xual tension was too much to handle. I smiled as an idea popped up in my mind.

To Blakey - Hey Best friend!

To Blakey - Can you please pick me up for the next week of school?

Blakey - You injured me thrice not even an hour ago!

Ignoring him I placed the phone back in the sweat pants and then walked into my room ready to sleep. I don't know why but I was really tired! I lay on the bed about to close my eyes when my phone rang. I looked at it to see Blake face-timing me.

As soon as I answered it Blake placed a finger on my mouth asking me to keep quiet and turned the camera around Asher was sitting in front of him doing some serious paperwork. I smiled. Dedication made him look hotter.

Nope, That did not just come out of my mouth. As if Asher felt my intense gaze he looked at the phone. "Do your fu*king work, Blake! I will fu*king smash that phone!" he said without looking up at him. "But someone is here to say hi!" he said and turned around the phone before I could protest giving me a weird angle of Blake's face. Idiot!

The camera was again turned to the front camera and Asher squinted his eyes at me. "What are you doing?" he asked raising his eyebrow. "Sleeping," I said gesturing to the bed. "Don't give me that fu*king attitude," he snapped. "Hey! He called me!" I retorted. As if to check if I was telling the truth he must have done something when he shouted at Blake.

"Why are there fu*king hearts with her name? What are you a teenage girl?" he snapped. "Excuse me?" I asked annoyed. "Hey! She texted me asking me to pick her up! I was showing her I was busy!" Blake answered. "Clearly," Asher snapped at him.

"You are rich enough, Get a fu*king TAXI or the BUS! Do not text here again we have work to do!" He said. "BY-" he ended the call. He was such a pain in the butt. His personality changed in the blink of an eye! I sighed closing my eyes. I will deal with him later.