Once I make my way back home I open the door to be greeted with a huge hug from a crying Paul, I pat him on the back to reassure him that I am safe. When he pulls away all I can do is look at him with tired eyes, he hugs me again but this time when he lets go he crouches down and scoops me in his arms saying,
"I'll never let you go again" for the first time ever he takes me into his room and plops me down on his bed and starts to reach for my shirt but I pull away and he comes toward me anyway and starts to unbutton my shirt one by one. I scream
"What the hell are you doing?!" trying to pry his hands off me but have no luck. He looks at me with tears in his eyes and says,
"I'm going to make sure no one else can have you!" As soon as he says that I start flailing trying to get free from his grip but can't manage to escape. By the time he finished with my shirt he dives at my chest and furiously attacks it with kisses and slowly makes his way up to my mouth, when our lips touch i hear a loud knock at the door and try to tell him someone's here but stops me by devouring my lips. I quickly notice I can see through the door way into the living room and out the window, I start reaching around me trying to grab anything I can throw but just as I start to move around Paul's hand makes its way to my thigh and I let out a loud "Yeep" sound that seemed to echo through out the room. Soon I heard the front door slam open and hear Sam come rushing through the front door, knowing he had heard me throw the lamp next to Paul's bed into the living room and it made a loud clunk. Paul continues feeling and kissing me in various spots of my body as if he didn't notice anything going on around him, just then I hear a bunch more footprints come into the house. I scream once again and see Kye and Sam running up to the doorway of Paul's room and before I know what's happening I feel Paul getting yanked off me and I scoot into the corner as fast as I can. Not remembering my shirt was wide open I look to see Sam holding my dagger up to Paul and Kye comes running up to me and takes off his jacket to wrap around me so that I'm not exposed. Kye easily picks me up in his arms as I am trembling and the others finally come running into the room to see what's happened. Just as they head over to Paul Sam punches him square in the jaw and knocks him out cold, Kye walks out of the house with me in his arms and I can't help but bury my face into his chest as he brings me to a van with a pest control symbol on it. He sets me down in the passenger side seat and everyone piles into the back of the van, the whole way to the factory everyone stayed silent. I kept trying to think of something to say but couldn't get the words out, when we arrive at the factory everyone gets out of the van and Sam comes around to my side to open my door and gently slips his arms around to carry me inside, I do the same as before and nuzzle my face into his chest. When we enter I hear Spek whisper
"I knew that guy was nothing but a creep just from the way Sam talked about him" and continues to grumble to himself. When Sam goes to put me down on a new cot they had just bought for me I lay down trembling, as Sam goes to leave I reach out and grab onto his sleeve not letting go. He just looks at me and sits down beside the cot letting me hold onto his arm, I slowly drift to sleep once again but don't let go of his arm sleeve. The next day I wake up at about noon to see me still holding onto Sam's sleeve but don't feel Sam's arm in it and I start to panic and look around with frantic eyes. My eyes finally wander upon Kye walking up to me
"Hey, you've been out for a while" I look at him groggily and blink my eyes as I ask
"Why did you guys come? What made you stop by?" he sits down next to me and says in his normal quiet voice,
"You are one of us now so we got you your own cot and wanted to pick you up to show you" he stopped after saying that and just gazed at me with tender eyes. He went to take Sam's shirt away from me but I wouldn't let go
"Don't blame me if you see him without a shirt" I gave him a pouty face and held on tighter. When he finally got up he went over to his cot and laid down, just then the rest of them came into the factory and low and behold Sam had no shirt on just bare skin. I cover up my head so I don't see him and suddenly I feel something tugging the shirt again and I pull it under the covers with me and hear
"Hey now! I need that back" Sam said with a sarcastic voice so I drop it off the side of my cot onto the ground so he can pick it up and he grabs it "Thank you". I wind up staying in my cot the rest of the day but in the evening sometime the guys all leave to go to their homes and rest up. That night I hear the door open and see that Kye came back with a couple blankets and two chocolate bars in hand. I go to sit up and watch him make his way over to his cott and he lays down I whisper over to him,
"Hey what are you doing here? You have a comfy bed at home" he ignores me for a while so I get up to go poke him in the forehead but see him lying on his back nibbling on a chocolate bar then he casually holds up one to my face as I stare down at him from above
"Want one?" I just look at him for a moment and grab the chocolate bar out of his hand and return to my cot without a word. As I start to nibble on my chocolate bar I see the door open without a sound and Spek comes in being as quiet as a mouse so I decide to scare him and shout out "Hey there! Come to join the party?" and as expected he jumps three feet into the air dropping a purple comforter and a bag of cheddar chips. He looks over at me at and whispers,
"Is Kye here too?!" just then Kye speaks up practically yelling
"Yep! Didn't want to leave poor Max all alone!" I roll my eyes at that comment as Spek says "Ditto". Soon after their little chat Spek pulls his cot from the corner closer to me and Kye, I look over to see what all the noise is
"Heyyy what cha doing?" he looks at me and smiles then holds out a bag of chips for us to share "Can't have our newest recruit go to sleep on an empty stomach" I reach out and grab a handful of chips to start eating then lay back down and gaze at a nearby wall. Right before I fall asleep there is a loud BANG coming from the door, I rush over to open it and find Sam standing on the other side carrying at least four blankets and a canteen of something warm. I slap my face and let him in as he smiles a big fat grin of pride
"I hope you know you're not the first one here" and that big ol smile of his vanishes as he sees the other two laying down. I can't help but laugh at his reaction and everyone sits up to see what I'm laughing at and they quickly grow a smile too. He sets his stuff down in a neat pile near our huddle and pulls his cot over to us to make a circle, just as we're getting comfy I see a shadow come up from the window and let out a shriek only to find out Jax snuck into the factory hauling a whole feast behind him
"Ah I knew everyone would be here!" he says happily and throws the giant bag of tupperware in the middle of all of us. I race up to the bag and smell some home made goods, I take out one of the containers and hear Spek let out a gleeful noise,
"Yay Jax's homemade goodies!". As we all start digging through the sack of goods Jax kicks Kye in the leg and he moves his cot so that Jax can join our circle. As I grab a plastic fork from the box I look at what I think is cherry cobbler and dig in, Jax is just watching everyone intently seeming to enjoy watching us
"Hey Jax why don't you eat some?" I say with a full mouth and he just keeps watching everyone. After a little while Jax finally speaks up "Because I already ate number one and number two I enjoy cooking for people who actually like it" I give him a nod and roll over to sleep the night away.