~Magnolia~

I slip back inside the house, exhaustion flooding over me all at once. I look at my phone to see that it's already 5:30am, so hopefully my brothers wouldn't be up yet, because if there is something I learned one of them is always up at unbelievable hours.

"Magnolia ?" I hear a voice behind me as I start walking up the stairs on my tippy toes.

Fucking shit. Told you.

"Why on the earth are you up at this time ?" Leo scolds me in a hushed voice to prevent walking up anyone else.

I turn around to face him an innocent smile on my face.

"I could ask you the same question brother." I slightly grin, but stop when I see not even a hint of amusement on his face.

"Answer the question Magnolia." He orders, not leaving space for any discussion.

"I couldn't sleep okay ? I needed fresh air, so I went outside."

"You didn't go outside though. I was in the living room when I heard your tinny little steps going towards the stairs." He states firmly. "There is no other way out, except for the front door, which is guarded. So ? What did you do."

"I- I got fresh air in the house." You dumb ass, did you really just say that ? "By fresh air I meant, not the same air as I my room, it was suffocating me..." I start fidgeting with my fingers as I look down on the floor, thoughts of fear of what Leo could do to me creeping in my head.

"Go to sleep, I will speak with Damon tomorrow." Are the last words Leo says before I watch him disappear somewhere in the darkness of the house.

I didn't even noticed I held my breath the entire time of the conversation with my brother until he left my sight. Slowly walking up the stairs with shaky legs, I finally reach my room and shut the door quietly. Once I plop down on my bed, sleeps consummates me for a very few hours.

—

"Magnolia !" Greyson's cheering voice wakes me up from my dreamless sleep. Note the word dreamless. I didn't have a dream, instead it was a joyful nightmare.

I slowly rise my head up from my cushion, my sweaty hair sticking to the fabric as I look at Greyson whose head was picking out of my bedroom door.

"It's too early Grey." I mumble as my head falls back on my cushion, exhaustion weighting on me.

"It's 10 Mags, come on !" I watch him fully open the door to enter my room and to sit his butt down on my bed. "What's up with you ? You are always up early."

I simply groan in response and grab my phone, and to my astonishment I have a message waiting for me.

Abigail : Hi Magi ! I was wondering if you wanted to come over to my house later on tis afternoon. We could watch a movie and chill out at my place if you'd like.

Abigail actually send me a message. I actually got invited.

"Who is Abigail ?" I jump at Grey's interruption, I completely forgot he was still with me.

"It's a friend from my class, she was asking if I wanted to come over to her house." I explain to Greyson, to which he gives me a smile.

"And would you like to go ?" My brother questions me and it takes me a moment to think if I actually want that. I never had a girlfriend before.

"I think so...do you believe Damon would let me go ?"

"Well I can make sure he lets you go to your friend. Come on, let's ask him right now." Greyson stands up and nods his head towards the door to indicate me that we should leave my room. I follow him down the stairs to the kitchen, where Leo and Damon are drinking their cup of coffee while working. Leo grumbles a small good morning as I enter the kitchen, but doesn't bother to take his eyes off his computer. When Damon approaches me I notice that he is on the phone with someone, but it doesn't stop him form giving me a small kiss of the top of my head. Greyson gives him a look, probably communicating in their foreign telepathic language, which I still haven't leaned to understand, and soon enough Damon interrupt the person to whom he was talking to.

"I have to call you back." and then he hangs up and his eyes fall on me. I gulp down at that sudden attention, because now Damon is waiting for me to say something.

"Go on, tell him Mags." Greyson encourages me to tell Damon why we originally came her to do.

"Do you think I can go see my friend Abigail today ? She send me a message this morning asking if I wanted to come over." My voice is little compared to Damon's who speaks up to answer my question seconds later.

"Sure." he simply states and I intend to jump up to him and thank him, but sadly he wasn't finished. " You can go after you tell me what you were doing up at 5.35 this morning."

I groan internally, and give a death glare to Leo who obviously snitched on me to him about this morning.

"I already told Leo." I sight and roll my eyes, but stop and straighten my posture as soon as I see Damon's hard look. I know he doesn't want me to roll my eyes and especially not towards him. "I couldn't sleep, so I walked around the house to clear my head, it's really not a big deal Damon."

"Yes it is Angel ! Lack of sleep affects your physical and mental health, we will have to fix that. I will set up a meeting with the best psychologist there is, I don't want that to happen again and if it does you have to tell me or one of your brothers. Am I clear Magnolia ?" He affirms and wait for me to answer him properly, before he continues. " Good. You can go to your friend, but first I want the address of her. Just for security. I will ask a chauffeur to escort you there safely." Damon finishes, but I don't hesitate to make a demand about one of the things he just told me.

"Euh Damon... Do you think I can drive ? I love to do so...you-you can just have a car follow me to make sure I arrive there safely." I try and find a way to not be under the watch of someone every time I want to go out. All of my brothers don't need that, so why should I ?

"I don't think it's a good idea Magnolia..."Damon starts, but to my astonishment he gets cut off by Grey who decided to come to my rescue again.

"Come on Damon ! She is sixteen nearly seventeen, let her live a bit. She has been behaving well since the day she arrived, it's not fair to her." Grey and I both wait eagerly for our eldest brother answer. I notice how he looks like he is having an internal debate with himself and I hold my breath, until he finally responds.

"Fine. But I do want text from you every 20 minutes and if you decide to do else than stay at her house call me." I jump in excitement and kiss my brothers on the cheeks, before disappearing in my bedroom again to answer to Abigail and to get ready.

An hour later I am already on my way to Abigail's house, who happens to be 15 minutes away from my home. When I arrive at her home, I smile at how cute it looks. It's an average size house, covered in a light pink paint with a small garden at the front of it. I don't even have the time to park the car that Abigail is already waiting for me on her doorstep, a wide grin plastered on her face.

"I am so happy you could come ! My parents aren't at home so we can do whatever we want." She exclaims after she greeted me and invited me to come inside. "Any ideas ?"

I don't give her a proper answer and wait for her to chose something, because I have never been to a girlfriend's house before.

"Fine, wanna bake something and watch TV, while it bakes ?" She proposes and I eagerly nod.

After 20 minutes we finally decided to make cinnamon rolls, we weren't able to decide and we happened to always end up talking about an other topic which had nothing to do with our baking. She told me how jalouse she was of my siblings, she doesn't have any and it pains her to always be alone. Having to move here a few months ago was also hard, knowing that she had to leave all of her friends behind. She happened to ask me a lot about my brothers and myself, but I managed to turn the conversation around each and every time. She didn't even notice it.

"Wanna watch the Maze Runner ?" She asks me after we sat down on her couch in the living room. I have no clue what kind of movie it is, but I just agree to not annoy her or anything.

Half way through the movie, which was actually amazing, especially with the actor Dylan O'Brian who is playing Thomas, I got a message from Damon saying that he and my brothers had to attend an unexpected meeting in the city. He also wanted me to be at home in not more then 30 minutes, which annoyed me to the highest point possible.

"Abi I have to leave in five minutes, I am sorry..." I trail off as I feel guilty for staying here for such a short time. "I'll make sure that next time I can stay longer."

Abigail pouts for a little, but convinces me to stay just two minutes longer so I could be able to take home some of the cinnamon rolls we made. I couldn't refuse.

As we head to the kitchen I watch as she texts someone, before quickly putting her phone back in her pocket. A small frown was set in between her eyebrows, leaving me questioning and thinking if I hurt her by leaving so early.

I promised her that we would finish the movie together this upcoming week and she happily agreed. I hugged her, before leaving and I watched as her eyes stayed focused on my necklace for a few seconds, before looking back at my face.

As I drove off, an uneasy feeling settled itself in my stomach and I thought about how impolite it was from me to leave the quickly. I was actually having fun.

But that feeling didn't last very long, especially when I noticed that on my way back to me house, I was getting followed by two fucking black cars. Fuck me.

Just to be sure I send a quick text to Damon asking him if he was the one responsible for these two cars trailing closer and closer to me by the minutes.

The blood in my veins runs cold when I read the text he send me just a couple of seconds after I messaged him.

No. Is someone following you ?