Ghost Bird The Academy: Jameson Addition.

Owen

"Other things may change us but we start and end with family."

                              Owens POV

The meeting hadn't gone down how he excepted. It had taken everything in him to try and keep a neutral stance.

As neutral as he could given the enigmas that were the birds his team had seemed to get wrapped up in.

Owen Blackbourne had never met girls just as elaborating and daunting as Sang Sorenson and Jameson Jones.

Unique didn't even begin to describe them.

The fact that they managed to capture the attention of every member of his team was a puzzlement of itself.

Each one of them was all so different. His team had managed to take their personalities and create this incredible bond between them.

It brought them closer together.

So bringing in new members so to speak was out of the question. They had tried once with Derek and it had failed.

One small rift and their whole team could come falling apart.

It's why they all tended to keep their relationships separate from the group. And why Owen had laid down a firm rule not to get close to anyone when they took the job for Ashley Waters.

The rule was quickly ignored before they even managed to have their first day.

These boys never did fail to keep him on his toes.

When Sean first called him saying Victor opened up about a pair of birds they'd gotten close to Owen was angry.

He wouldn't lie he was angry.

Or maybe disappointed was the right word.

He didn't want anything to come in between his team and girls? Owen knew that jealousy could be the knife that got between them.

He didn't want that for his brothers.

He had every intention to tell them to keep their distance. To step away before anyone got in too deep. To put an end to it.

But then he met them.

And Owen couldn't lie and say his curiosity wasn't spiked.

They both had their own beauty, which was easy to see. Beauty wasn't the only thing they had going for them. They were smart. They thought out of the box.

And they both held that same pain he witnessed in his brothers and his own eyes.

It was etched across their faces like a birthmark or an old wound.

Plain as day to see.

James tried to hide hers, and she did for the most part. Owen could see it though, that lingering loneliness and self-hatred that resides in her glance.

He knew easily that there was no pulling his team away.

They would never leave someone in need.

And the girl's history was not one he wished for anyone.

He just...hadn't expected his own attachments to form. Hadn't planned on enjoying their company.

The more he got to know them...the more he found himself being pulled in.

As much as he tried to deny it...he couldn't.

Ms. Sorenson was dainty. At first glance, she was shy, timid, scared of her own shadow. He instantly felt protective over her.