My life, Her life, Their lives.

Chpt 9: The Lock (Pov Taylor)

I shrugged off Cameron's attitude but decided to check on Ana anyway, I got up and began to walk up the spiral staircase to the third floor. "Nate?" I call out for him quietly, No answer. I turned on the hallway lights at their lowest setting, just enough for me to see. All the doors were open except for Cam and Ana's room. Assuming Nate must be in there with Ana I quietly opened the door and walked into the dark room. "Nathan?" I whispered into the darkness with again no answer.  I waited a bit longer for an answer but there  was no other sound than that of Ana's light breathing as she lay sound asleep on her bed. In fact it seemed that here seemed to be no one there but her. "You okay there babe?" Shawn yelled from downstairs I quickly went out of the room and leaned over the railing. "Yeah yeah just checking something" I yelled back

I turned away and back toward the hallway looking at the doors. "Nate are you up here?" I whispered walking back to the door slowly. Still No reply, I assumed he must've gone to bed in one of the room up here then, so i let it go. I opened Ana's door again, just enough to let me in but not wake her with the lamp light.  "Hey cookie " I smiled sitting down next to her on the bed. "Long day huh? well rest up cause theres more ahead!" I laughed to myself and got up to leave when out of the corner of my eye I notice a dim light escaping from the built in bathroom. She must've gotten up earlier to use it and left it on, I walked towards it to turn it off but the door was locked. "Nate are you in there?" i called out softly. The light turned off and  Nate stepped out into the room.  "Holy shit Taylor what are you doing here?" he whispers harshly, "You scared me!"  "Shh its ok I was just checking up on Ana." I whispered calmly, slightly annoyed by his reaction. " What you don't trust me now?" He glared at me and walked outside to the hall.

"Nate? I was just seeing how she was doing." I replied following him and closing the door behind me.  "What do you want Taylor?" he said, this time louder, he didn't seem happy about my going to supervise him.  "Calm down, What's going on with you?" I ask stepping toward him "Nothing." Nate turned from me and begins to walk to wards the stairs. Walking after him I grab his hand and try to talk to him "Nate listen to me." "What the fuck do you want Taylor, I'm a big boy I don't need you checking on me like a criminal!" He pulled away and stared down at me "Excuse me?" I stutter I was caught off guard. "Hey is everything alright?" Ana said groggily stepping out the room tired and half asleep "Nate what is wrong with you" i muttered under my breath "I heard yelling." Ana continues while running her hands through her messy brown curls like she dose from time to time.

"It's ok , no yelling just discussion over that movie, you missed a good one." I lied through my teeth. "just go back to sleep cookie, its been a long day." As soon as she goes back into her room i turn to Nathan again "Listen here Nate don't give me this fucking bad ass attitude" "See, whats wrong?" We hear from the hallway again, Ana had her head poking out and looked at us sadly "Why are u even fighting." "Don't worry. everything's fine. We are sorry" Nate said and walked to Ana forcing me to the side as he passed. "Relax, we can talk for a bit and just clear our heads, yeah?" He offered and she opened the bedroom door wider leaning on the door frame. "Anyways. Taylor's engaged. Let's leave the blushing bride to be happy. Congratulations." He said with a cruel sarcastic smile that almost seemed genuine.  Before I could answer he  brought Ana in the room and told her he wanted to talk shutting the door behind them. Frustrated at his rudeness i try to open the door. He locked it.. Asshole. Just as I was preparing to yell at him through the door Shawn walked upstairs. "Taylor? Is everything ok?" "Yeah everything's fine, just go back down." I say annoyed "I just want to get Ana "Isn't she asleep? C'mon let her sleep baby she's tired." He said grabbing my hand and tugging lightly "Lets go downstairs." I give up, fighting with Nathan isn't worth it.

After a couple minutes everyone decided to go to bed, we were all exhausted. We said out goodnights and headed to our rooms. Shawn and I stayed downstairs with Sam while Alex's went upstairs, Nathan hadn't lived with us before so he got his pick of three rooms, one up stairs or one of two downstairs. I hadn't seen him since our argument so I assumed he had already gone off to sleep, better for me. Cam made his way upstairs with Alex. The house was quiet for a bit until i heard my name. "Hey Taylor come here quick" Cam had called me from upstairs, I could hear a hint of anger, even panic in his voice. "Oh god" I say to myself as I run up the stairs, please don't let it still be locked.