The Emptiness

Lying From You- Linkin Park

Axels POV

I stood up off the cold ground and balled my fists up. My first strike at the man who tried to kill me was a good one. I heard a satisfying crunch as my fist collided with his nose.

The man fell to the ground with a thump. I wasn't really sure why he tried to kill me. But he did. And right now my cheek wasn't feeling the greatest. Especially since those cult rings he had hurt like a bitch when the cut into your skin. My little sister Lexi emerged from the dark.

Her gaze flickered down to the man who I knocked out. Sighing and rolling her eyes, she said, "Does that mean we can go home now?" Lexi was used to being envolved with my gang fights. Well, maybe envolved wasn't the right word. She usually saw them, just didn't participate in them. Not usually.

I didn't encourage this behavior. Infact, I wish she would stay away from our gang and while I'm at it, any boys. Lexi was at that stage where she was starting to... Develope. And, well, she was noticing boys and boys were noticing her.

Lexi was gorgeous. Platinum blonde with big, blue eyes. She looked like a model, and fought like a trained cult member.

It was especially terrible when she

flirted with the members of the gang I'm in. Especially when she flirted with Andy, who found no limitations in touching and groping a child.

I tried to explain to her that our gang members are ranging from 18-20 years old and that they're plenty of 11-13 year olds that would go out with her, but with her stubborn attitude, the best I got was a huff and an eye roll.

She thought the fighting I did was amauter and that I hadn't lived until drinking and fighting.

I knew for a fact that she, in her own words, hadn't "lived." I was sure that she didn't know what a bottle of Patron looked like, much less drank it.

"No, sis, we have to go get some condoms." I gave her a devilish smirk. She rolled her eyes again and stomped out to my car. After kicking the man again, I followed her and drove to a near by pharmacy.

I heard a chime of a bell as I entered the pharmacy. I slapped ten dollars in my sister's hand. "Go get me a box of condoms." I heard her groan but she slipped the money in the back pocket of her pants and went to the condoms, tampons, and pregnancy test isle.

I started talkings to the guy behind the counter when a chime made me glance at the door. In stepped Andy's sexy girlfriend, Snow, and her hot-but-too-young-friend.

Snow looked troubled, her gorgeous blonde hair was tied in a messy bun and she was dressed in gray sweat pants and a white t-shirt that read: Lindsey's Dancing and Tumbling. I had no idea what tumbling was but I waved and pretended to continue my conversation with the cashier, Dave, while Snow pointed at me, whispered something in Amy's ear and then headed for the condoms, tampons, and pregnancy test isle.

My eyes widened and I looked back at Dave. "Hey, have you ever seen that girl before?" I pointed to the place where Snow was standing.

He quickly pointed to Amy. "Her? Nope. Never seen her." He shook his head and when she looked at us he winked. I stared at Amy for a moment before looking back at Dave.

"Not her, the platinum blonde girl. About 5'0". Pretty. Sweat Pants?" I said patiently. I heard Lexi's signature scowl and the sound of her shoes of the red carpeted floor coming our way.

"Oh. Yeah. She usually checks out with the southern girl at the back but she when I ring her up it's milk, tampons, bread, Advil. And that Australian accent of her's..." he made a moaning noise. "It's a killer. She's got a nice rack, too."

I gave him the thumbs up sign when I heard a 'I'm dispponted in you, young lady' dripping in a southern accent and a 'I'm sorry' coming from a familiar voice. I ignored it.

I grabbed the two boxes of condoms from my sister and rang them up. "Thanks, sis."

"No problem. But you see those two girls over there," she pointed to Snow, them to Amy. "They buy some pretty weird shit."

Snow clutched the plastic bag in her hand and scurried out the door with Amy behind her. "Like what?" I asked and grabbed the plastic bag off the counter. I nodded to Dave and walked to the door.

"Well," Lexi started. "The blonde one's hand lingered on the box of tampons for a second before grabbing a..." she trailed off.

I couldn't wait for her to say the next words. Snow buying box of condoms? Dare I say it- "A pregnancy test," Lexi finished.

My eyes widened. And I shoved myself into the drivers seat of my Camaro. Lexi sat beside me in the passenger's seat. "You know what that means?" Lexi knew Snow and Andy were dating. Infact, she knew about every little detail of their "love" life. The beatings. The forced sex (Really, if you want to get technical, rapings). The event that leaded to their dating.

"How do you know Andy got her pregnant. Sure everything points towards him but it could be someone else's...?" she suggested and raised an eyebrow. "Then again, if Andy treated me like he treated her, I wouldn't look at another boy."

I thought about it for a second. I couldn't believe how Andy could terrorize someone so beautiful, and fragile.

"I suppose..." I twisted my head into a chain of concentration. "Maybe she's not even pregnant. I mean, I made you get me condoms. What if she was getting them for Amy?"

"Who?"

"The girl that was standing next to her. Young, pretty, burnette?"

Lexi nodded her head. "Yeah. I guess. Maybe it was for herself and she's not pregnant...?"

"It's a possibilty. I'll call Andy when we get home. Now let's go." It was noticably getting darker.

and stars were starting to pop up.

"Hey, you're the one behind the wheel. Not me." She smirked.

I rolled my eyes and pushed the keys into the ignition.

We drove me my house, which I was letting her stay at for the week. It was big, about the size of a miniature mansion. A kitchen, a loft, my man cave, a gang room, a bedroom, a guest room, a basement, and two bathrooms. It was pretty awesome.

As soon as I walked through the door, I dialed Andy's number. Andy was on a gang trip to Florida and insisted on only having me call for an emergency.

"What the fuck do you want?" Andy's voice growled.

"Its an emergency, I swear. It has to do with Snow."

"What? Is she hurt, if she is, I swear to god... I'll beat the shit out of the motherfucker who did it!" I heard a loud bang as if something was being slammed. It may not look like it, but Andy cared for Snow, a lot.

"No," I said slowly. "It's something much worse."

"She's dead?" his voice was in a high pitch tone as if he was about to kill someone, or worse, cry.

"No...," I began. "She might be pregnant."

"What?!" I heard him scream and then he started breathing heavily. "What do you mean 'might be?'"

"Lexi saw her buying a pregnancy test and well... You put one and two together," I explained.

"Are you sure it wasn't tampons or something like that? Pads? Whatever the fuck they're called...?"

"Do tampons have a picture of a baby on the front and those stick things you piss on?"

Andy hung up. I didn't call him back. I knew he wanted time to think things over, I just felt bad for Snow and the bitch fit she was going to get now...

A.N.- Short? Well, fuck you. Just kidding!

John, we should go to the beach on Tuesday. Legit. Ask your father. Right now.