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Disclaimer is on the first page also Lyrics belong to the Artist Evanescence, "Taking over Me".

Sorry for the delay, moved schools this year and I have school mon-sat along with tons of homework! :) But I hope you enjoy this chapter, is Zoe being realistic and are Shane and Alexs relationship and interactions realistic?

Chapter 4

I sat on my bed silently looking at my photo album while waiting for Emma to arrive. My photo album started when I was in my moms stomach to a few weeks ago. While flipping mindlessly through the photos one caught my eye in particular I was around 5 years old, making my dad in his early 40's. We were lying on a couch, me snuggled up against his chest; we were looking at each other, my eyes were filled with such love and admiration in my eyes, and his with so much love it was heart breaking.

I sat there staring at the photo album speechless, I was overwhelmed with emotion, everything Zoe had said, the memories flooding in as I stared at the single photograph. I then felt sick to my stomach, I threw the album on the bed before leaving my room as quickly as possible, my palms were sweaty and the room felt as if it were spinning. I closed my eyes and breathed in deeply.

I heard a door open and a couple seconds later I heard my sisters voice which was sounded surprisingly concerned "Are you okay? I heard something...not that I care". My resolve weakened, the resolve in which to stay strong and be there for the family. Knowing that me trying to be there was making Zoe hate and resent me, I felt like breaking down and just have Zoe hold me for a few moments.

'NO!' I mentally scolded myself, 'I've come this far, they need me, I can't let them down'. I straightened up before stiffly saying "I'm fine".

"Fine, I was just trying to be nice!" Zoe snapped.

"Fine" I repeated calmly.

"Why are you always angry at me? I didn't do anything!" Zoe yelled angrily at me.

" I didn't do anything either, so why are you turning into a bitch just because you're still pissed about our argument from earlier, plus as I recall it's normally getting angry at me first" I growled. I was so frustrated, couldn't there be one day where Zoe and I didn't fight.

"I never start it, you always do! And you want a bitch, you haven't seen anything yet" Zoe said viciously taking a step towards me.

"Don't push you're luck, Zoe" I said in a low voice.

"Really? And what are you going to do about it Alexandria, huh?" Zoe taunted, but she had a fierce look in her eyes.

We stood facing each other, so much tension between us the room felt like it could've exploded. I opened my mouth about to retort when I heard my best friend Emma yell up the stairs "Hey Alex are you and Zoe arguing again?"

When everyone heard Emma's voice, a few things happened at once, first a huge grin crossed my face as I turned away from Zoe to face where my best friend would come up the stairs. Next Lulu and Peter emerged from their rooms screaming at the top of their lungs running to attack Emma with hugs.

"Hey guys" Emma stated finally reaching the top of the stairs, Lulu and Peter immediately threw themselves are Emma, Zoe muttered "freak" before going back into her room to talk to her boyfriend probably. As I saw Emma my whole world seemed to brighten. There she was, my best friend since 5th grade, she was pretty short around 5'3", she had shoulder length black hair with baby blue eyes. After she was bombarded with hugs (even from Seth!), I walked up to her before I picked her up and swung her around a fit of giggles escaping my lips. I was so happy to see her after all this craziness that seemed to happen in the matter of a couple hours.

"How are you?" Emma asked a grin on her face.

"Haha, funny you should ask, how are you?" I responded not in the mood to discuss my day at the moment.

"Pretty good, kinda dreading school on monday but you know" Emma joked, I burst out laughing "Already dreading monday? It's our 3-day weekend, we should try to enjoy it and not think about...school" I responded.

Emma and I had quite a few things in common the main ones being our love for music, being able to be ourselves no matter what, and our particular dislike for our high school. Don't get me wrong, Emma and I did well in school and enjoyed it but the people there, we could do without most of them.

At school we were the outsiders, the one's that stuck out like a sore thumb, not following what was in, not caring what people thought. My nasty temper and sometimes violent tendencies never really helped to much either. Emma being my other half was my exact opposite, she was out-going and bubbly but she was very real and could never go along with messed up version of society at our high school. We had other friends but we mainly stuck to ourselves. When my dad died, she was by my side constantly skipping classes with me if I need to go to the grocery store to pick up food, or run errands to ensure Lulu and Peter got home, or picking up and dropping Tyler at his different daycares. Emma was always there.

"Want to record another song?" Emma asked.

" Of course!" I exclaimed grinning. When we both discovered each others passion for music, I found out Emma was a skilled pianist and guitarist and as Emma always says my voice is a mix of Amy Lee's and Vanessa Carlton so this was the 2nd month we'd been working on covering some songs from Evanescence and our other favorite artists.

As we walked into my room, Emma saw the photo album lying on my bed and squeezed my shoulder, I shook her off before slamming the album shut and placing it under my bed.

Emma walked to the bench in front of the keyboard and started playing a few notes. "What do you want to record today?" she asked, I shrugged not really caring.

"How about Everybody's fool? I've already done the piano and guitar part, all you'd have to do is the voice..." she trailed off looking at me hoping I'd change my mind.

"No" I said quickly, I shook my head, I couldn't the lyrics reminded them to much of myself and I wasn't ready to admit that to myself.

Emma sighed "You're going to have to do it eventually if..." I cut her off "I know!". We paused and it was deathly silent, "...I know" I continued calmly, "...I can't do it, not yet" I said this in a slightly defeated tone.

Emma nodded her head before suggesting we do 'Taking Over Me', I agreed immediately before turning on my laptop and setting up the recording equipment. I grabbed the microphone testing to see it was on and working.

I closed my eyes and breathed in deeply while I let Emmas' piano into wash over me, drown me in it. I heard the pre-recorded heavy guitar part come in and I bobbed my head to the music.

You don't remember me, but I remember you

I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you

But who can decide what they dream, and dream I do

I believe in you

I'll give up everything just to find you

I have to be with you

To live, to breathe

You're taking over me

Have you forgotten all I know, and all we had

You saw me mourning my love for you, and touched my hand

I knew you loved me then

When I sang, I belted it out and I put all my emotions, all my feelings and memories into what I sang letting it take over me when I sang.

I look in the mirror and see your face

If I look deep enough

So many fears inside that are

Just like you are taking over

I believe in you

I'll give up everything just to find you

I have to be with you

To live, to breathe

You're taking over me

At this moment it was just the piano and me, I felt so overpowered, lost in nothing and everything. I swayed my hips to the beat

I believe in you

(I believe in you)

I'll give up everything just to find you

At this point I was leaning against the wall.

I have to be with you

My eyes were closed, my head thrown back and my breathing was starting to become heavier.

To Live

I was lost in the music, nothing else mattered, I was singing this, I was blind to everything else going on around me.

To Breath

Somewhere in the back of my mind I heard the door open but I didn't comprehend it, I was to lost in the music.

You're taking Over Me

My body convulsed forward, nothing else mattered except the words I was singing and the feelings and memories they evoked.

You're taking over me

I was staring at the ceiling, all the emotions and pain I'd been feeling due to my dad and Zoey was gone in this moment, instead the pain was a dull buzzing in the back of my mind. I finished singing before slumping against the wall breathing heavily as I tried to control the raging emotions that flooded back.

I opened my eyes and turned my head only to see Shane standing there staring at Emma and I with a look of confusion and lust? As I regained control of my breathing an awkward silence fell throughout the room as the three of us stared at each other.

"What are you doing here?" I asked incredulously as I walked towards him, chest heaving slightly. Shane's eyes flicked down for a seconds before surveying the personal scene he'd just intruded on.

"I heard a noise so I came to investigate it" he stated in a voice that just screamed 'Now that I'm in charge I own this place'.

My blood boiled slightly and asked in a demanding tone giving him a look of disbelief " So every time you hear a noise you're going to investigate?".

He returned my look with a slight scowl gracing his handsome features " Look princess, it's my job to keep you safe and if I need to investigate every noise I hear to ensure that you stay safe that's exactly what I will do" he informed my in his deep rumbling voice, I open my mouth to protest but he cut me off. "... it's good I came up here anyways because you should always inform me if you're going to have someone come over to this house." He said pointing at Emma.

"That's Emma, my friend...I discussed this with you and my mom earlier about her coming over..." I shook my head thinking about how pointless this was getting. I walked over to where Shane was before giving him a slight push while I said "Can you go now?"

Apparently this was not the way to go about asking Shane to leave my room because before I knew what was happening by back was up against the wall and my arms were pinned above my head with Shanes face being mere inches from my own. I could feel heat radiating from his body and it made my stomach churn, but not in a bad way. His warm breath was lightly caressing my face as his dark chocolate eyes were glaring down into my forest green ones.

"Don't do that again" he demanded in a rough and almost deadly tone, but to me his voice sounded slightly dangerous, husky, seductive... At that moment I realized just how close my new protecter was to me and I felt my heart beat faster.

I looked at him now with a shy expression on my face and I let myself get lost in his eyes. His eyes began to change from the dark almost black brown to a lighter brown with golden specks in them. Never before had I ever seen eyes as beautiful as those " Sorry" I whispered in a husky voice which I'd never ever used before in my life. I was shocked by the tone in my voice but didn't have time to contemplate it as Shane responded.

"It's okay" he whispered back, his voice tantalizingly low and rough.

I couldn't help the set of shivers that ran up my spine after hearing his voice. He looked down at me a feral grin on his perfect, pink lips. His hands went from an almost painful grip on my wrists to a softer one as his hands gently caressed my arms.

CLASH

"Seth I'm GONNA KILL YOU!" we heard Zoe scream in the background. Immediately Shane recoiled from me as if I'd burned him. He glanced at me quickly before running out of the room to go investigate.

"Why did you hang up on my boyfriend on that?" Zoey shrieked at Seth.

"Why Wouldn't I? He's a JERK!" Seth yelled back at Zoe, the yells were muffled as Shane shut my door and had successfully left the room.

I stood there leaning against the wall frozen in place as I tried to dismiss what had just happened. I waited there feeling slightly dazed his masculine scent lingering where he was seconds ago, my senses on high alert. When I glanced to my left Emma was standing there mouth agape which soon transformed into a HUGE GRIN.

"Oh my god...Oh My God, OH MY GOD ALEX!" Emma squealed. I looked at her trying to play as if nothing had happened.

"Alexandria Natasha Plumber, don't you dare play dumb with me!" Emma screeched.

I let a small smile grace my lips and I then turned to face Emma who began freaking out "Okay, Alex want to explain why you have have a sexy older man living at your house but more importantly why didn't you tell me he was into you?"

I laughed when Emma said this before joining her on the bed offering her an explanation "Well, the military wanted to send someone to baby sit for us when my mom was gone and he is not into me, I just met him like 4 hours ago!". Emma snorted at the last bit "Not into you? So him having you pinned up against the wall looking at you like he wanted to fuck you right there is him not being into you?" she burst into a fit of giggles as I shushed her telling her Shane could probably hear her.

"It's nothing and keep your voice down, you know how thin these walls are!" I reprimanded but I couldn't help the playful grin that creeped onto my face.

"I don't care if he hears what I say..." She said indifferently "Infact..." a impish grin appeared on Emmas' face and I immediately knew what Emma was about to do.

"No, no, no, NO EMMA!" I screamed trying to drown out what she was about to yell, but her voice could be hear distinctly over mine as she yelled " ALEX'S SEXY BODYGUARD WANT TO FUCK H...". At that moment I pounced on her covering her mouth and effectively knocking us to the floor where we playfully wrestled for a couple minutes before giving up and lay on the floor giggling about what had just happened. I couldn't help but smile, I loved being with my best friend she always knew how to make me feel better, we talked for an hour about everything.

Somewhere in our conversation we circled back to Shane and all the sexual tension dying to explode between us...according to Emma.

"You know, he's like a predator and you're..." she licked her lips and raised her eyebrows "...his prey" she said in a husky voice. Emma continued with her charade by panting " Ohh...yess, Shane you're an Animal!" we both burst into a fit of giggles.

At that moment however the door burst open and a rather distressed looking Shane walked into the room. We all froze once again, my face flushed and I've never seen Emma look so embarrassed before, Shane glanced at us before pointing at Emma.

"Uh... You" he paused dropping his hand, "Me?" Emma said in a curious voice.

"Emma?" I offered helpfully.

"Yes!" Shane said his face brightening a bit " Yes, Emma your mother just called and said she's going to be here in the next ten minutes." We nodded our heads in understanding and after glancing over the room with calculating eyes Shane left my room.

As soon as the door closed I exploded into a fit of uncontrollable laughter while Emma glared at my furiously. She gave me a small shove which only made me laugh harder.

"You...you...you said.. and he...came..." I managed to gasp out before giving up and laughing so hard my tummy started to hurt. Emma joined my maniac-like laughter part way through and by the time Lulu came up to inform us that Emmas mother had arrived both Emma and I were both lying on my floor clutching out stomachs.

Emma and I walked downstairs giggling slightly as Shane came into sight. "Damn and he has a cute butt" Emma whispered to me nudging me slightly. My only response was to give her a slight push before I shook my head in agreement.

"I'll see you on monday" I told Emma before giving her a huge bear hug. "Behave yourself missy" She whisper in my ear as she pulled away, jokingly I responded "Oh I'll try my hardest but I might have some difficulty resisting". We grinned at each other before she left hoping in the car with her mom.

I turned around and was surprised to see my family and Shane facing me.

"What's for dinner?" Lulu asked and a feeling of dread wash over me as I realized the night had only just begun.

Any reviews would be helpful, I know Shane has acted impulsively and he'll continue to do so, so I'm sorry if that's not super realistic, I'm trying my hardest if that means anything! I really hope you guys enjoyed and I'm sorry it's taken me about two years to update there's no excuse for that! Hope you enjoy :)

Preview for next Chapter:

"I am sorry..." he said looking at me seriously his hot touch on my arms made butterflies explode in my stomach as I raised my eyes to meet his.

"Sorry" Seth said "It's just the looks he was giving you..." his eyebrows furrowed together "...I'm just looking out for you, I don't trust him, he seems like an ass"

"Something you want?" He asked walking towards me. I felt my body temperature spike as I watched his muscles bunch together and flex and I almost whimpered...almost.