A/N So here's another chapter for you guys. Again doing my best to keep up on updates. I haven't been as motivated, but suddenly found the motivation. So enjoy! :)
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Elisabeth's P.O.V
I woke up panting and sweating. "Shit.." I breathed out. I looked over at Zach who looked like he was passed out. Getting up out of the bed, I made my way down to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water from the fridge. As I was bending down to grab the bottle, I heard foot steps behind me. "Relax, I came to get some water." I said just as I was getting up. James was standing in the doorway without a shirt on. Damn he is atractive. My inner voice, you should shut up. He did kidnap me after all. "ELISABETH!" James raised his voice a bit to get my attention. "What? ?I didn't catch that." I said. "Yeah, I noticed. I said what's up? I wasn't asleep I heared u out of breath and also you say shit. By the looks of it you were sweating too. So what's going on?" "I-I dont think- you- uhm - should- should know." I said stuttering. He gave me a puzzled look then moved over to sit at the coffee table. "We have all night and I'm a great listener." He said motionning to the chair in front of him for me to take a seat. I did as e requested and sat in the chair. Opening the bottle of water i took a gulp and then started in on my story. "Ever since I was a kid, I've been having the same nightmare night after night. They kept getting worse, it became so bad that they eneded up being night terrors. I've been to many therapists and sleep consultants and even hipnotists to try to get rid of them. But no matter what I tried they would always come back and ten times stronger. One day the just dissapeared. Gone. Don't get me wrong, I mean I was happy but I don't know, it was weird. And tonight I had the same nightmare as I did when I was younger. It freaked me out and I would usually have my parents there. I mean they know how to calm me down without me getting over aggitated and start to hyperventalate and shit. I had anxiety for the longest time cause of this too. So know you know." I said then taking another big sip of my water. He then did something I never would have expected. He got up walked over to my side of the table and gave me a hug. "I'm so sorry. I had no idea. What did your parents usually do? That way I can be of some help if, and when it does happen again." He said with a look of sympathy in his eyes. "I don't want your pity. Let alone your help. I told you cause you wanted to know not cause I need some help. I can take care of myself, thank you very much." I said getting up and about to leave the kitchen, when I felt his arms around my waist and pulled me back into the kitchen, putting me back in the chair. "I didn't say you weren't capable of taking care of yourself, I'm just saying I would like to help you. It isn't pity it's just help." He said looking me in the eyes. "They used to just sing to me and sometimes, when its the worst case they would cuddle me." I explained to him. He nodded, got up and went to give me a hand up. This time I accepted it, witch surprised him, and we both went back up to bed. We split after returning upstairs. I went into the bedroom and he went to the bathroom. After I was comfortable in bed he emerged from the door way and climbed in bed, grabbed me by my waist and cuddled me until I was asleep. Before drifting off I remember thinking, This is a nice feeling, I think it might be a goodnight sleep for me tonight. And with that I drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
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James's P.O.V.
Waking up this morning was a drag. I hate waking up early and with the damned sun in my eyes. Slowly I got up and out of bed and made my way down the hallway to Dom's room. I walked in and saw a huge lump on the bed knowing the idiot had forgotten that him and I needed to run some errands before everyone else wakes up. "Yo, idiotic bastard! Get your lazy ass up! We have to go shopping!" I exclaimed trying to wake him up. "Mmmm. Go the fuck away, why don't ya. I'm tired." Dom said rolling to the other side so that he was facing away from me. I walked up to the bed and flipped his mattress over, in result he fell on the ground with a major thud. "What the fuck man! That's not even cool! We can go later today." I waited a few moments for what he said to sink in. "On second thought lets go now before she wakes up and makes our lives living hell." He finally said. "Good, now get your ass dressed so that we can leave as soon as possible." I said leaving him to it. I did a"routine check" making sure everyone was ok. I opened Vincent and Colton's room. Both had their own bed but just had to share the room. They had recieved the master, considering their circumstance. Both of them were sound asleep, so I let them be and went over to check on Elisabeth and Zach. I hadn't prepared myself for what I saw when I walked in the room. Elisabeth was sleeping on her side and Zach, Zach was holding her form behind against him. They were cuddiling. I went over to the bed and poked Zach, who turned over instantly. He looked at me curiously and whispered "Dude what are you doing in here at this time of the damn morning?" I gave him an are you serious look and he shrugged as if asking "what", I pointed to her and he looked down almost remembering just then that she was there. "Oh shit, yeah, sorry man, must have done that in the middle of the night." He said sitting up, removing the blankets from himself. "Dom and I are leaving for a food run. You good with her?" I asked walking back to the door. "Yeah, I'm good." He said following me. We went different directions, him to the bathroom and me downstairs to wait for Dom. He came down a few minutes later and we left for our food run.
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Zachary's P.O.V.
Once I got back in bed with Elisabeth and got comfortable, I was able to fall back asleep. Roughly an hour or two had passed when I feel the pressure on the other side of the bed start to rise. Luckily for me I had put myself back into the exact same position as I had been before fucking James came and woke me up, so I grabbed her tighter and pulled her back down and into my chest. "Zach, let me go. I need to piss." I heared her whisper. I chuckled but kept my hold on her. "Seriously. Imma piss the bed if you dont let me go." Regretfully, I let het go so she could piss. A few minutes later I felt the bed dip back as Elisabeth layed back down, I repeated the same thing as earlier and pulled her into my chest. It's not that I had feelings towards her, it's just that last night I slept better, and I know for a fact that she slept better than ever before. Don't get me wrong, she is gorgeous and funny and cute and all, but I couldn't be with her for many reasons. We drifted back into sleep and didn't wake up until Dom and James started putting things from their food run away witch caused a hell of a lot of noise to come from downstairs.
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Elisabeth's P.O.V.
I woke up in the arms of Zach for a second time today, after hearing tones of noise coming from the downstais area. I slept very well after my talk with him last night. It amazes me that he is so nice after what I did to him the other day. I sat up, removed the blankets from myself and walked to the bathroom to brush my hair and tee- Shit! I don't have anything with me. No clothes or toiletries. "Elisabeth? What's going on?" Zach asked slowly getting up. "I just realized that I don't have any toiletries nor clothes for myself here. And what the hell is with all that damned noise?" He started chuckling witch made me frown. "Awe hun, don't frown. It's not a good look for your pretty face." I looked away so he couldn't see my face. "You look cute blushing. And Dom and James are downstairs probably putting food away as they did their food run today. As for clothes for you, I will take you out later to a small little clothes boutique down the road, as long as you promise not to run away." He said getting up from the bed. "If I really wanted to run away I would have done it by now. I could have done it last night. Instead of going to get water, I could have ran out that front door." I told him honestly. "That's true. Why didn't you?" That question actually stped me. I don't know why I didn't try to run away. "I don't know. I guess... I- I don't even know why. I'm still trying to process what Dom and James said to me yesterday. And I don't want to do anything stupid that could put me or anyone I care a-" My eyes widen in realization of something. "If what Dom and James told me yesterday is true, than whta would my biological parents do to get me out of hiding, if they figure out that I am in hiding I mean? What about my friends and my parents? What happens to them?" The questions kept on coming out before he could even answer one of them. "And what about-" I was cut off by Zach grabbing my arms and pulling me into a hug. "Look, your friends will be fine. We have other people that we hired to look after them and your parents too. No ones going to get hurt. But our main focus is keeping you safe. That's why there is six of us looking out for you. Don't let the way some of these assholes treat you, fool you. We all care about you and your safety." He said still had me in his hold. "Well that's comforting, I guess."
