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"AGAIN!?" he yelled at both of us. "IT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR OUR MOTHER TO CATCH YOU AT IT, WAS IT NICK?! NO!! YOU DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH UNTIL I SAW YOU MYSELF!"

"Aaron, be quiet! My mom!" I rushed towards him, trying to get him quiet.

"You're a goddamn liar!" he whispered at me harshly. "You were lying the entire time!! You and Nick didn't fuck, my ass!!"

"Woah! Wait a minute!" Nick said, stepping in. "What did you just say?"

Aaron didn't respond with words, but with a fist to Nick's face. "That's for screwing my girlfriend," he then kneed Nick in the balls saying, "and that's for letting me catch you..."

"AARON!" Nick hollared from the floor after I'd sat down on the landing and began to sob.

"DON'T! THIS IS IT!!!" he stormed off.

Nick stood up and looked down at me, I was still sobbing. "I'll go talk to him." I nodded, and he rushed across the street.


"Do you have ANY idea how much of an asshole you're acting like right now??!?" Nick exclaimed, running into the living room after his brother.

"I'M THE ASSHOLE????" Aaron jumped off the couch. "MY GIRLFRIEND WAS HANGING ALL OVER YOU!!"

"SHE WAS THANKING ME!"

"YEAH I'M SURE-"

"SHE WAS THANKING ME 'CAUSE I OFFERED TO HELP HER FAMILY OUT!"

"What the HELL is going on in here??" Angel asked, extremely pissed off after having been home for no more than a second. Kanden, in Angel's arms, began to cry, and Leslie - who had just come down the stairs - took him out of her arms and brought him upstairs.

"HE AND AMY WERE HANGING ALL OVER EACH OTHER!!!" Aaron yelled, pointing his finger at Nick.

"I TOLD YOU," Nick shouted, "SHE WAS THANKING ME FOR OFFERING TO HELP HER FAMILY!"

"HOW? HOW WERE YOU GONNA HELP HER FAMILY? GET WITH HER MOM NEXT??"

"Okay," Angel interrupted before Nick could reply, "Thats going a little too far. Aaron," she turned to her brother, "What exactly did you see?"

"SHE WAS-" he paused. "She was hanging all over him."

"Hugging me is hanging all over me??" Nick interjected.

"When you made out with her the other night it is!"

"Okay!" Angel once again spoke before Nick had the chance. "Why were you offering to help her family? What happened?"

"Her dad left them-" Nick started.

"I know, she told me." Aaron interrupted.

"And her mom is piss drunk right now. She was scared that her father would stop paying the mortgage on her house, and I offered to help her and her mom out." he looked to his brother. "I offered for both of us to help them out."

The anger disappeared from Aaron's face. "Really?"

Nick nodded, deciding then to check and see if his nose was bleeding; it still hurt like hell. "Yeah. Really. And for the record we didn't fuck."

"Now don't you feel really fucking stupid." Angel said, hands on her hips - she was anything but relieved.

Aaron sat down on the couch. "No!" Nick exclaimed. "No, you get your dumb ass off that damn couch," he pointed to the door, "You go to your girlfriend," he walked over and stood next to his sister, "And you apologize for treating her like shit." Angel nodded in agreement. She might have been a little mad at Amy, but not anymore.

"Fine." Aaron stated, walking past his siblings and out the door.

~Meanwhile~

I'd managed to get myself upstairs, and began sobbing in my bed. It only got worse when I realized the last time I'd been laying in this bed was with Aaron, just after we'd-

No. Don't do this. Why not? Nothing happened! You hugged Nick 'cause he said he'd help you keep your home! He had a reason to not trust me... What did he see? Two friends hugging? Is that really something to flip out over? To call you a whore over? Be real, Amy.

I slowly walked downstairs, trying to calm down - not succeeding, might I add - to see if the scuffle had woken up Mom. She was thankfully still sleeping. I put a blanket over her and carefully took the bottle out from her hand. I was tempted to take a swig, but decided against it. Liquor won't solve my problems.

I walked into the kitchen and put the bottle down on the counter. The more I looked at it, the more I was tempted to get s**t faced. I knew I shouldn't but its not like anyone's gonna stop me. My friends weren't around, Dad's gone, now Aaron's gone... Every person I named that wouldn't stop me only made me want to forget more...

Knock, knock.

I sniffled as I walked through the living room and answered the door. Aaron... The second I opened the door he pulled me into his arms.

"Amy... I'm sorry." he kissed my neck. "I shouldn't have acted like that. Nick told me everything."

"You had a reason not to trust me-"

"No, not that much of a reason..."

I pushed him away, for some reason I still felt bad, but why? Aaron had just apologized, he admitted he was wrong... So why did I feel so depressed? Oh, right, my family was falling apart... Must've forgotten that little detail for a minute.

"That really hurt, Aaron..." I said, tears welling in my eyes again.

"I know..." he pulled me close to him again and rubbed my back. "I'm sorry. For everything."

"I forgive you..." I said. "But my family is still falling apart..." I sobbed. He picked up my chin and pressed his lips to mine.

"We'll get through this. Together." I wrapped my arms around him and he squeezed me tightly.

Aaron looked past me for a minute at my mom, who was mumbling in her sleep, and it was nothing nice. "Do you wanna spend the night with us?" he asked.

"I- I thought you were going to see your Dad tomorrow..."

"We can put off visiting my dad. I'm pretty sure he'll understand."

"Just let me go get a few things," I went upstairs to my room and got the bag I'd used when I'd slept at Gina's.

When I came downstairs, Aaron was looking over at my mom. "I'm ready to go now."

"Will she be okay?" he asked, nodding at my mom.

"Yeah... I just better let her know I'm going, and leave her a note... She might forget I told her..." I knelt down in front of her as she lay motionless on the couch. "Mom..."

She opened an eyelid and tried to sit up. "A- Amy? Wha..." she still sounded kinda hammered.

"Don't get up." I put my hand on her shoulder and she plopped back down on the couch. She glanced over and saw Aaron.

"Hey there..." Aaron - who stood behind me now - waved to her. "I told you he'd come back, didn't I?" she said to me, as if she'd suddenly forgotten he was right behind me.

"Yeah, you did." I looked back at him and he only grinned. "Listen, I'm gonna go stay at his house. Before you ask, his brother and sisters are home, nothing is gonna happen to me."

"My baby..." she ran a hand up and down my cheek. "You're all grown up, aren't you?" she smiled. I cringed as the smell of liquor from her breath began to really creep up on me. "Go. Be happy."

"Will you be okay?" I asked her. She nodded.

"Y-eah..." her eyelids began to close again.

I jumped up and grabbed the cordless home phone from its cradle and put it down on the floor by my mom's arm. "Heres the phone, press the button at the top(the first speed dial button, my cellphone number) if you need me, okay?"

"Aren't- *hic* Aren't I the mom?" she asked. "Go on." she said, waving her hand at me for a moment before letting it drop to her side and falling back to sleep.

Aaron and I went outside, I stole one last glance at my mom before I shut the door.

We went across the street and into Aaron's house, Nick, Leslie, BJ and Angel were all sitting on the couch when we walked in. Angel got up and walked over to me, surprising me with a hug.

"I'm sorry, Amy," she finally said. "I wasn't being fair before-"

"Trust me," I inturrupted. "You were being way more fair than I deserved..."

"Ang," Aaron said in a hushed voice next to us. He nodded towards the stairs and said, "I think we've all had a rough night, especially Amy." Angel took the hint and returned to the couch.

"Night guys," Aaron said as I followed him up the stiars. A chorus of 'G'night Amy's and 'Night AarHead's followed us as we went up to Aaron's room. Finally! SLEEP!