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Chapter One [12 Feb 2009|01:10pm]
The sun had started to rise just over the houses within the little gated community called Lakefront Estates, and it seemed to catch a bit of a warmth that peered through the slits of the blinds that seemed to filter through into the bedroom.

It was this morning sunshine that seemed to keep her from being able to sleep any longer. The young woman rolled over to look at the clock to see what time it was. Nine fifteen. Well, she slept longer then she expected to at any rate.

Sitting up in bed she stretched out her aches within her lower back when she heard a knock on the door, seeing her grandmother peek her head into the room. “Good Morning Jade.. You up for some Eggs?“ she asked her.

Jaden nodded a little, “If you feel like making them sure, thank you.” She thought for a moment before she looked back at her grandmother, “Jason had to work the early morning didn’t he.”

Her grandmother Aubrey nodded her head a bit, “He left you a note by your dresser, apparently he isn’t working too late so you guys could go and get the grocery shopping done today.” As she shut the door she said in a slightly louder voice, “Ill be right back with the eggs…”

Jaden shook her head a bit to get rid of the cobwebs in her brain as she got out of bed, running her fingers through her short dark brown tresses. She was not what you call super thin.. She was your average bodied woman. A lot of people used to tell her that she was absolutely beautiful, but she didn’t really believe it 99 percent of the time. Her high cheekbones were flushed with her sleepiness as she yawned, and went over towards the dresser to pick up the note from her twin brother:


Jewel-

Working from 5am-11am today, so I should be home in plenty of time to be able to go shopping with you for Grams. Sleep in and be ready when I get home, or I’ll find the ice again to get you out of bed.

Love,
Your other half



She rolled her eyes at the ice threat. “Oh please..that doesn’t work with me, its what I have to use on you brat…“ she mumbled out loud to herself as she folded the note and put it in the one box that she kept all her notes between her and her twin brother.

Going over to her closet, she picked out the simplest of outfits to wear today. Her favorite pair of jeans and her black smock like t-shirt. She was one for looking simplistic, but eclectic in her own way. It was just her style. She dressed how she wanted to dress.

“I probably should get a quick shower, it’d probably help to wake me up just a little…“ she mumbled aloud to herself again as she dropped the clothes on the closed toilet seat and prepared herself for her shower. Turning on the hot water, she stepped in, and let the waters warmth penetrate every aching section of her body. It was days like this she felt the way she was catching up on her age. Especially when she was prone to all the negative energy that seemed to permeate through her life.

After getting out of the shower and getting dressed, she was towel drying her hair as she looked at her computer screen that was up. It wasn’t but a few weeks ago that she had been given the advice by her councilor that she had been seeing that keeping a blog -- or some sort of journal would help her with sorting through her emotions when she needed to write down her thoughts. Jason had told her about half their friends out of state and from their old hometown were on this one particular blog site, so with much coercion, he got her to create a journal name of whistlerr -- based off of their favorite movie, Blade Trinity.

Taking a moment, she logged into her personal blog account, and sitting in front of the keyboard for a long moment, she stretched her fingers and began to let them play across the keys as she typed.


Let's see.... what or where should I start with my life and what I’m doing here within this new journal that I’m keeping? There's so much I could start with....

Well, for starters, my name is Jaden Allysa Hosten. But most people just call me Jade. I'm 26 years old, and i moved from Marian, New York to the sunny state of Florida in the City of Angels Haven. Trust me, living up north with your family then making the change is something that's hard to come by.

Now why do you ask why we made the change? Well let me tell you.....

My mother had lost her job, and our father decided to pack us up and just move everyone, including my grandmother to Florida. The benefit is that we'll be near my older brother Gabriel who is down here, the bad thing is my family and I were giving up all we had up here.

And my family? Well, it consists of my mother Angelica, whose one of the strongest women I’ve known in the world. I also have a great grandmother, named Aubrey Martin. And Aubrey is my mothers mother.


I mentioned about my older brother Gabe, he's four years older then I am -- I also have a twin brother named Jason. And in case you’re wondering, we are identical twins, though people say they cant tell. I guess you can say that we've got one of those classic bonds no one can break.

Now, the only other one I haven’t mentioned about is.....



A sudden sound of breaking glass was heard out in the hallway, followed by the sounds of a man screaming and bitching about things in the living room. Jade tensed like all hell as soon as she heard it, as she bit her lip hard. "Great..." she mumbled to herself, "He's here."

She debated on if she should be going out into the living room. When it came to her father carrying on like he was doing, she knew to stay away. Why? Because she was his guinea pig. She was always the one who found to be the whipping boy for him. It was nothing the boys did wrong, the boys were fine in his eyes. But with her, it was another story. Another story in general.

She heard another crash as she got up and crept out of her bedroom, hoping that she was going to avoid the Chernobyl.

"JADEN ALLYSA!"

Shit.

She turned her heel slowly as she saw the fuming face of her father stalking towards her, "Why the hell haven’t you done any sort of yard work for your grandmother?!?!" he screamed as he got up right in her face. "You are so useless and pointless, I don’t know how the hell your grandmother puts up with you!!"

Angelica bit her lip hard as she watched her husband start to wail off on their daughter, and she mouthed to Jaden He had a bad day... She hated to let a lot of this continue, but she knew that when it came to Michael blowing off steam it was better to let it just continue and not push it.

Jade felt a twinge of anger and frustration shoot through her system, "I'm sorry Father, I didn’t realize working 40 hours a week to help grandma get out of the debt we're stuck in at the moment with Jase counted as doing nothing." she said respectfully, but in an incline to sound like she was being defiant.

Michael Hosten glared at his daughter and with a swift motion of his hand, he smacked his daughter HARD across the face. And before he realized it, he had his eldest son tackling him and rolling him away from where Jade was.

Jaden literally fell back, trying to catch her footing just as she saw Gabriel tackling their father and holding him down. He could see the fury blazing in her elder brothers eyes as she bit her lip hard.

The room was abuzz now with all sorts of people yelling at each other, between Aubrey and Angelica yelling at Gabe to get off Michael, to Gabe and Michael having it out with words on the floor. Jaden stood at the back corner of the room, her hands over her ears, trying her best to block the screaming out of her head. She hated when her family got like this. She absolutely hated it.

Gabe held his father down, trying to force his entire being to not want to slug his father right there, "How many TIMES are you going to pull this same bullshit?!?!" he seethed through his gritted teeth. "I NEVER.....want to ever see you TRY...."

He was stopped short when he felt the slender hands of his baby sister grasping onto his shoulders, and the deadpan voice she had saying in a quiet tone, "Leave it Gabe.....let's just go...?" She asked, not wanting to see any more fighting happen in front of anyone right now. She was still feeling the stinging pain of the slap radiating through her now crimson flushed cheek. She wasn’t sure if he'd haul off and punch their father, but she prayed her touch would recoil him and make him get up and they could just leave.

Gabe thought for a long moment, before he finally climbed off their father, and got up and put his arm around Jade's shoulders and walked out of the house without so much as a word. He knew that he had to half respect his father, and in a small regretful way he regretted jumping on him.... but when it came to their fathers reaction to Jade, he couldn’t just sit there and let their father beat the hell out of her.

The moment Jade and Jason were born, they were his precious treasures. He became more of a parental father figure then their own father. He loved his baby siblings and teasingly called them treasure names. Jaden was his "Jewel" and Jason was the "killer shark".

As they started to walk away, Jaden thought she almost saw their mother silently chewing Michael out for what he did as she heard Gabe say to their grandmother, “When Jason gets home, have him call my cell and meet up with us okay?”

Aubrey nodded and kissed Gabe on the cheek, before lightly touching Jaden’s burning face, “Get her out of here for now Gabriel… get her mind off of it.” she whispered quietly.

Gabe nodded silently in understanding to her, and guided Jade out of the house. He put her in the passenger seat of his convertible, and just revved up the engine, pulling away. The two of them sat in silence for the longest of time, before Gabe reached over and took a hold of his baby sisters hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze - reminding her silently that he was right there with her, and he wasn’t going anywhere.

It had been at least a half an hour of them driving around before Gabe’s cell phone rang and he picked it up to answer it, "Hosten...."

"What the hell happened this time?!?!" the shouting voice of Jason came over the speaker phone, "I just drove by the house and grandma told me to call you. What's going on? Is Jade with you? Is she okay? He didn’t touch her did he?"

Gabe sighed, "Killer, calm the heck down okay? Before you get in an accident. Listen, just meet us at Lake Marsh near the benches, all right? and if I find out that you were driving recklessly in that Mustang, I’m taking away the damn keys. All right, later." he then looked back at Jade, and brushed a few careful bangs out of her face.

When they got to Lake Marsh, they parked the car and just sat there for a long moment before Jade got out and leaned against the door. Gabe got out as well and moved to go around to meet up with her, but was taken by surprise when he felt her silently just fling herself into his arms, and felt the wetness against his T-shirt.

Her tears.

Sighing quietly, he wrapped his strong arms around her and just held her, letting her cry as she had to. Seeing his baby sister shed any tears over the continuous bullshit that she had to put up with from her father was enough to make his heart break. There wasn’t much that got to Gabe, but seeing Jaden in any sort of pain, drove him up the wall.

"Jewel...." he muttered in a soothing tone as he ran his fingers through her hair, keeping her as close as he could. His other free hand ran up and down her back in a gentle manner- a little trick he used to use when she was little. "I’m sorry I snapped like that, but I told you... that fucker tries laying a hand on you...."

"I know..." she said as she sniffled, before leaning back to wipe her eyes, her voice between uneasy and okay. She looked up at Gabe as she sighed, "I've been doing good enough to just ignore him, but I cant take when he's just seeming to be getting progressively worse.... ripping on mom..... blaming ever single thing going wrong here, and I’m just trying to help Jase and Grams get the bills paid because that idiot keeps spending, so mom has to keep borrowing from us to survive...."

Gabe shushed her again as he held her closer, "Listen, I don’t want you to make yourself worry about what stupid things that jackass is doing, and Mom knows I’ll help her as much as I can. But I want you to just try to enjoy and make your life the best it can be, you hear me?" he cupped her face in his fingers, before brushing her eyes to get rid of any spare tears, he found himself smiling gently, "I want my little jewel to be able to do nothing but sparkle, all right?"

Jaden couldn’t help but weakly laugh as she bit her lip. Her big brother was the one she always turned to when she needed advice. When it came to simple questions, all the way down to guy issues, if Jase couldn’t help her, they called Gabe. Gabe was their knowledge and protector. "Gabe....." she tried to interject.

He put a finger up, "I mean it! that's an order." he then poked her chest teasingly, before cupping her chin in his hand, "You know you and Jase mean a lot to me... I love my two treasures."

Jaden smiled weakly through her misty eyes, "I know....and we love you brat." She muttered before she wrapped her arms tightly around him and hugged him as strong as she could, burying her face and drawing on his strength he gave her right then and there.

The moment between older brother and baby sister was cut short however just as , the nearby Black Mustang came to a park near Gabe's. Jason came out of the vehicle, jogging over with a look of pure anger and concern flashing in his eyes. "Okay, what the hell happened?" he exclaimed as he went over to Jaden, touching her face to see the red mark still visible there. He then turned to Gabe, "Okay, can I kill the bastard yet?"

Gabe shook his head, trying to give a very light smirk as he ruffled his little brother's hair, "Listen to me you little killer shark, get in your car, and we're heading to Jensen’s, to splurge on Jewel here. She's deserving of a little treatment by her two bodyguards."

He blinked in surprise at him, as he shook his head, "Yeah yeah okay. I'll meet you there." He looked over at Jaden for a long moment, caressing her good cheek as he said in a low quiet voice, “You up for it Jewel?”

Jaden nodded quietly as she held her brothers hand to her face for a quick moment, “Yeah.. I’ll see you over there.” she promised Jason, looking at him to reassure him she’d be fine on the ride there.

Nodding, Jason looked up at Gabe for a moment, “The one over on Sunrise?” he asked him, making sure he was sure of which Jensen’s coffee shop he was referring to.

Already in the drivers seat, he nodded to his baby brother, “That very same one. So hurry up and get your ass in the car and we’ll see you over there.”

Unable to hide a smile forming on his lips he started to jog back to his car, “Yeah yeah I’m going! I’m going!” he yelled as he hopped over the door into the drivers seat, just as the two cars pulled away.
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Chapter Two [12 Feb 2009|01:05pm]
Jensen’s was quite busy for that particular afternoon. More then likely it was the local college kids getting out of their classes for their afternoon fixes. Jade noticed that it was probably one of the many corporations that had to be doing really well for having such a monopoly in today's society. However the fact she was semi anti-corporations....she couldn’t fault the fact that she was in love with the flavor of their iced mint-mocha when she really needed one.

Gabe looked over at his two younger siblings as he worked into his back pocket to find his wallet. "Stay here with jewel killer, I’m going to go get what she wants." He then turned to Jade as he lightly tapped her under chin, "The usual, right?" he asked as he flashed her one of his million dollar grins.

Jade nodded slightly, her one side of her face still stung with the severity of how hard he smacked her. "Please." she said quietly as she leaned against Jason a little. "Gabe…?” she said as she looked up at their older brother, before she smiled weakly, but whispered, “Thank you….“

"Hey, what's a big brother for huh?" he said to her as he ruffled her hair a little bit before he got into position in line to get her drink.

After a long moment, Jade stopped where she was, as she felt her heart begin to seize up and felt her chest start to rise and fall in an almost sort of a panic attack. Jason, easily being able to sense this, he grabbed onto Jade with ease and supported her, knowing what was going on.

He looked over towards where their big brother was and shouted over, “Gabe!! P.A. -- I’m taking her outside!“ When he got the reassured nod out of his brother, he carefully helped Jade out into the cooler afternoon air.

Once they made it outside, and helping her lean up against the car, he moved his sisters legs apart to move between them before he took her chin in his fingers, and saying in the most gentlest of tones, "Jade, what are you feeling...?"

She shook her head, before giving him a weak half smile, "I’m fine Jase... I’m just really sensitive after getting worked up thanks to the asshole..." She felt the tears form in her eyes as she turned her head a little bit.

He shook his head slightly, as he held his other half’s face within the palms of his strong but gentle hands, “I ain’t buying it sis.. I feel it in you. What happened last night? I know you didn’t sleep at all…”

Jade bit her lip hard. She really didn’t want to be the one to say it now -- especially after what had happened.. But she knew that if she didn’t tell him, he’d get it out of her one way or another. “Jessandra IM’d me last night… “

This sparked curiosity within him. “Tony’s sister? What’d she have to say?”

Jaden bit down hard on her lip to the point where she was close to drawing blood. Tony was the nickname for their close friend, Anthony Marcus. Anthony and Hannah Bonnewell had grown close to the two of them for four years.. Even to the point where Jaden and Tony were in item for a little while.

It wasn’t until right around the end of September, did she hear from Hannah Bonnewell that Tony had died on a train wreck, heading back out to Los Angeles to visit his family. It was the big thing that threw Jaden’s life into a tailspin. She probably wouldn’t be alive today, if it wasn’t for the constant support and love from her two brothers. She was in mourning for almost two months of that time.

But it wasn’t until just last night… did she know the honest truth to the mysterious silence from Hannah and Tony for the last few months then on.

Jason knew the thoughts were going through her eyes as he tried to gently coax the information out of her, “Jade… what did Jess have to say?” he asked again, this time a little more firmer tone of voice.

Turning her head to face her brother, she stared into his eyes before she mumbled, “Hannah is now seven months pregnant… with Tony’s child.”

There had to have been a million emotions that flashed through Jason’s face at that particular moment. Shock at the news that Hannah was pregnant… worry for Jaden and the news, hoping that it wasn’t going to throw her into another tailspin of depression, she really didn’t need that right now, and the purest of anger and rage. If he saw that bastard in hell, he’d be sure to give him what for.

Staying in between his sisters legs so that he could gaze at her, he kept her face in his strong hands, rubbing her jaw line with his thumbs as he gazed into those eyes as his voice spoke up with a gentle quiet, "Hey... He isn’t worth worrying about. Don’t even give that bastard a second thought again… even though I know how much you want to throttle him. Save that for me to do when I see the bastard in hell." He smiled ever so gently, before he leaned his forehead against hers, his eyes half closed before he whispered in a gentle tone, "I don’t like seeing our Jewel so dull.. especially not over a douche like him. He'll pay for making the other half of me so upset like this."

Jaden watched her brother as he tried to calm her down, and she just couldn't help but feel some part of the pain that resonated through her chest begin to ease. Jason just seemed to have that way about him, or perhaps it was just the bond they shared. There were times when she'd be limping for no reason and when He got home from work she'd find out he'd twisted his ankle. Or if she had banged up her arm rather well, he would rub out his arm for weeks till hers healed.

Resting her slender fingers against his chest, she splayed them out as she whispered in a nonsense type stanza, "Pain go away, plague like within my other heart need not resonate.."

He chuckled under his breath as he used his free fingers to wipe the tears out from her eyes, "I think you've been watching Serenity a little too much again I think." he muttered as he closed his eyes, feeling her own fingers brush a tear away from his face that seemed to slide out without his knowing.

She smiled weakly through the tears, "Two parts of a same River... with a Gabby Gabe for a Simon-protector...but you're more my Simon." She whispered as she buried her head against his shirt.

Just as they were slowly stopping, so did their big brother re-emerge with drinks in carrier, and passed them out as needed. "what are you two little troublemakers trying to plot against me now?" he asked with a teasing grin as he propped himself up against the car with them.

Jason grinned evilly as he gave the look of innocence, "Oh us? you must have us confused with two other twins Gabe...."

Gabe then rolled his own eyes before he leaned over to ruffle Jaden's hair, "Your choice Jewel, what do you want to do before we head back?"

Jaden thought about it for a long moment, before she looked up at them, "Can we go down near the beach? I wouldn’t mind walking along the water with you guys.. Kind of like we used to when we were younger….”

Jason shrugged, "I’m game, but its up to our chauffer if he's up to the busing."

Gabe laughed, "Whatever Jewel wants Jewel gets remember Killer? C’mon, get your ass in the car and lets go."


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As soon as they were down at the beachside, Gabe and Jason walked together to talk for a little bit while Jaden walked on ahead, using Gabe’s camera he always kept in the glove box to take random photos of different things down at the shore.

“Did it last that long?” Gabe asked Jason after a long moment of silence as they watched Jade kneel down farther ahead to pick up a seashell she found, turning it over in her fingers.

Jason looked over at their older brother for a moment, wondering what he was referring to before he finally caught on, “Her panic attack? Nah…” he looked over to the side as he flexed his fist out of unconscious rage.

Gabe easily picked up on this and looked over at Jason for a minute. “Killer, what’s going on with you?” he asked, knowing that not only did he have to keep track of his baby sister, but his baby brother was known for getting himself into trouble.

Jason’s head shot up real quick before he looked at Gabe and took a deep breath, just to try and calm his nerves. “Jade told me Marcus’ sister got in touch with her to tell her the truth to why those two had disappeared off our radar…”

This really intrigued Gabe now, “Oh really now? What was going on with all that?” He really was curious. It had seemed like for a while that Tony really was interested in their little sister, and to have him suddenly fall off the radar before his untimely death just seemed a little too… odd to him.

Jason wasn’t sure if he should say something about it, but he took the shot, since he knew Gabe needed to be made aware, “…Hannah’s seven months pregnant with Tony’s kid.”

The same type of emotions that had gone through Jason’s face went through Gabriel’s at the same type of rendition. Ending with the anger flashing through his eyes, he mumbled in pure anger under his breath, “That bitch..,,” he said, referring to Hannah.

“That bastard.” Jason added on top of that, referring to Marcus. He sighed, running his fingers through his tousled hair, “I don’t know Gabe, I swear to … something that if I see that bastard in hell, I’ll make it the worst one he ever imagined for.”

Gabe nodded in agreement, at least the two of them were very protective when it came to Jaden. “But.. You have to respect his sister for at least coming clean about it. Hopefully this will be something else that will help her get over that prick…”

Jason thought about it for a moment, and he had to agree with him. “You tend to think so much more grown-up then I do at times.” he said as he gave his older brother his childish, devilish grin.

Gabe grinned a bit and grabbed Jason from around his neck and roughly rubbed his top of the head, “That’s because I am older then you Jason…” he said with a joking frustration before he finally let him go. He cast his eyes over towards Jaden as he heard what almost sounded like a light laugh coming from the direction of their Jewel. He then smiled slightly, “I want you to keep your eye on her Jason, she’s going to need us more then ever, especially if he’s going to be getting worse now..”

Jason looked at his older brother with a look that read Come on… “You know I always will Gabe…I just…” he then stopped when he saw Jaden coming over towards them as he changed his serious look to a grin. “What’s up Jewel?”

Jaden grinned a bit as she held up the camera and snuck in between the two of them as she held the camera out in front of them, “Photo op! Cmon pouters, we need some grins!” she declared.

The two boys shared a look with each other before they smiled. Gabe put on his goofy grin type face while Jason gave his sister Bunny ears from behind as the flash went off.


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The siblings spent the entire afternoon into the evening, until they got a phone call from their grandmother that it was safe for the twins to come home.

Gabe got out of his car as the twins got out of Jason’s Mustang, he went over to them and stood in front of Jaden for a moment, gazing down at her, “If he tries this shit again… you call me all right?” he said in a serious but gentle tone.

Jaden stood next to Jason as she nodded up at her older brother, “…thanks again Gabe…for getting me out of the house.”

Gabe smiled as he leaned forward, and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead, “I love you Jewel.” he looked at Jason before the two of them did their secret handshake, “Take care tonight killer all right?”

Jason nodded as he then moved over to half hug his older brother, “You got it, drive safe home all right?”

Gabe got into his car again before flashing his million dollar grin, “You know it.. Behave you two!” he called out as he drove away.

Watching their brother drive off down the road, Jason wrapped his arm around his twin sisters shoulder as he said in a quiet voice, “C’mon pain in my ass, lets go inside.”

Jaden looked up at him with a nod, as he led her back into their house.
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Chapter Three [12 Feb 2009|12:55pm]



Sometimes I wonder what I'm going to do to keep my mind focused and going strong........

Its so hard to keep smiling when I’m trying to work as many hours as I am, and trying to keep our house going with Grandma and Jase. I just cant seem to keep us going.

We just barely get through everything and keep above water. The main reason why is because we've been trying to help mom out. She just cant seem to get through things that were happening.

Granted, I was eternally grateful for Gabe and Jason taking me out to try and get my mind off of everything that transpired today. And I have to admit for a moment there it was working just a little.

I still find myself cursing the fact that I even let myself worry so much about the situation with Tony.. I mean, I should have realized that something like this was going to happen. Its just enough to put a blow to a girl’s ego without even thinking about it…

I guess it’s good that I chose the journal name Whistlerr. I really loved Abigail’s name. I always associated it with strength and willpower. And I guess perhaps deep down I have that somewhere. I know that our faith in God (meaning what my brothers and I try to hold onto) is a part of it, but sometimes I wonder where this strength I have comes from, especially when all it seems is like I’m getting stepped on by idiots and trashed by the asshole that is our sperm donor…



She stopped writing in her journal as she rubbed her face. She looked at the time to see what time it was. 12:59 am. She couldn’t sleep at all, not after what had happened earlier that day. She hadn’t even taken her pills yet.

Climbing out of her bed, the sounds of the recent popular ventriloquist comedic act coming up over her laptop from a previous screen, she crept into the bathroom to go grab all her different pills, popping them in her mouth and swallowing it with a swig of her raspberry lemonade flavored water.

She stared at herself in the mirror of her bathroom for a long moment, before she splashed her face with some cold water and patted it with a towel. She just stared at the reflection staring right back at her before she let out a tiny sigh. "I don’t know about you Jade...." she muttered aloud to herself, keeping mindful of her grandmother and her twin brother sleeping elsewhere in the house.

No sooner did she mutter to herself, did she feel a pair of arms reach from behind, wrapping around her waist firmly and a head falling gently against her shoulder. She shook her head slightly as she smiled a little. "Sorry if I woke you." she muttered to her twin as she leaned her head back, and rested it lightly on his shoulder.

He smiled only just a little as he ran his fingers through her hair as he mumbled lightly against her neck as his face buried there. "Nah, you didn’t wake me." he assured her as he then propped his chin up on her shoulder, staring at her as they looked into the mirror, "So....are you trying to put off sleeping so you can avoid the asshole and life all in one shot?" he teased, his voice taking that joking tone as he smirked lightly, trying in a vain attempt to get his twin to grin a little.

"How did you guess?" she mumbled back in a teasing yet mild sarcastic tone as she found herself unable but to smile just a little bit as she let one arm slip around behind her twin brother's waist, just as the other arm came up over and around them so she could tousle his hair just a little bit.

There was something just so calming when she was with Jason. It went along with their close bond that they shared. A bond such as this was quite typical with identical twins. And due to all the stress and other travesties that the two of them had been through, their bond was greater then most.

True, sometimes drastic changes tended to make connections like that stronger, and for the two of them it just was exactly that way. Especially, when they were in Marian and hung out with some local college students. When Jade was the one who had gotten yelled at for them being out late, Jason always came to her rescue; stopping their mother from yelling then staying up with Jade when the tears finally fell after their parents left her alone.

Jade looked in the mirror and turned her cheek for a moment, observing the redness that was there a little and shook her head with a sigh, "Bastard hit me harder this time..." she mumbled as she sighed, "Broke grandma's one glass too when he slammed the cabinet door." She looked down at the sink for a moment, before leaning back and rested her head against Jason's shoulder again, enveloping her chill of the negative thoughts into the warmth her twin brought for her, "I don’t know Jase.. I'm just getting so tired of this bullshit."

He sighed, his lips touching lightly against her neckline as he took in a deep breath. He was just as frustrated and pissed off at the person that apparently they shared half of the alleles in common with -- the sperm donor as he liked to call him. He never really started acting like a father when they became of age. Gabe was the one who took care of them more then their own father did so. "I know Jay...I know." he whispered soothingly to his twin as he let go of her, and grabbed her hand. "C’mon..." he mumbled to her as he pulled her gently towards her bedroom.

It wasn’t uncommon that the two of them shared a bed at times. They used to do it all the time when they were children, because they felt more comfortable with each other then anyone else. It was one of those many quirks of having the connection of being identical twins. There were times when so many hardships took over their family, they drew on each other for strength. When their grandfather passed away years ago, the two of them shared the same bed for almost a year.

Jase fell on top of Jaden's bed but not before he then gently tugged her back into the bed with him. Wrapping his arms securely around his other half, feeling her weight fall lightly against his chest, his body instantly tightened his hold on her. It was funny how sometimes he instinctively treated her as if she was a fragile vase that if he let go of it, it would shatter into a million pieces. He wasn’t about to let that happen to his other half. No way in hell.

Jaden bit her lip and let out a little bit of a squeak as she felt Jase drag her down on top of him before she finally adjusted her body, leaning her entire form into the strong warmth that Jason offered to her. She leaned her head down against his neck, breathing in that familiar smell she grew so accustomed to. "You're wearing Calvin Klein again aren’t you..." she mumbled a little as she buried her head more against his chest, her dark tresses covering her face from his own. Jason always knew the right way to try and take her mind off the deeper darker pains that she was dealing with. “I wish you didn’t have to go out of town for a few days for work, couldn’t they find someone else to go for the new store opening?”

He smirked a little as he gently stroked her hair, whispering in a gentle voice, "Yeah....yeah I am.” he told her before he sighed inwardly. He didn’t really want to get away from her too far for too long. But, they both knew the aspects of the new jobs they took. “Hey… you know as well as I do that they need all the help they can get.”

Jade groaned inwardly as she shifted her head so her ear was able to listen to his heart beat from inside his chest. “I know…” she grumbled as she looked down at his free hand playing a little with her own against their sides. “But it still doesn’t mean that I have to like it just isn’t the same not having you there to back me up, you know?”

He shifted his head slightly so that his lips could lightly touch against his sisters forehead a little, “I know Jewel.. Believe me I wish I could stay too.“ he told her then he thought of something to tell her, “…Would you believe that I picked up my guitar again?“

Jade sat up a little so she could prop herself up on her brothers chest to look at him with an incredulous look spreading in her eyes, “No way… who or how the hell did this happen?“

Jason chuckled as he made her put her head back down against his chest, letting his fingers slide through the dark strands as he explained, “A friend of mine at the college heard me playing a guitar for the hell of it at that local music shop, and started to pester me here and there to just play with him with some random duets.“ he thought back a little as he continued to play with Jaden’s hair, “Actually… when I was frustrated at what I couldn’t or wasn’t able to do to help you… he was always there to talk me through it.“

“Which friend was this again?” Jade asked him as she poked at his open palm a little that laid face up on her bed. She was indeed very curious to find out which of his friends had been the one to get him to start doing one of the few things he enjoyed doing the most.

Jason looked up at the ceiling as he replied, “Johnny Bannister. One damn talented musician if I do say so myself. I’ve watched that guy play the bass, the guitar and the piano. He could probably pick up any musical instrument and be able to play it almost flawlessly.”

Jaden listened to every word that her brother said, staring out into the darkness that seemed to surround them. “You know I’m glad you started playing again…” she told him honestly as she felt the tiniest of smiles creep across her lips. “You always were happier when you were sitting there, playing your guitar…”

Jason looked down at her a little, before he felt a gentle smile curl on the edge of his lips as he ran his thumb and forefinger down the side of her slender jaw line, “Just try to sleep Jewel... I'm not going anywhere tonight." he assured her before he accentuated that statement with a gentle kiss to the top of her head, reminding his twin sister that she was safe in his arms.

Jade did feel so exhausted. She hadn’t known what exhaustion was until after she had cried so many tears from their father, on top of the information overload regarding Tony and his disappearance. Her eyes began to drift closed as she mumbled a little incoherently. "Love you...know that brat...?"

Jason watched as she started to fall into a deep enough sleep that she wouldn’t wake up from as he kissed the top of her head one more time, "I know dork....and I promise you, that Gabe and I love you more then that." he whispered to her, before he closed his own eyes, his own frustration and exhaustion was able to take him off to slumber land, calmed by the mere fact that he protectively held Jade in his embrace.
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Chapter Four [12 Feb 2009|12:40pm]
A few days had passed, but to Jaden it felt like eons. She hated being alone. It was never her strong point to deal with her father without her brothers close by. Jason was away for a major store opening, Gabe went to Michigan with his new girlfriend for a vacation… and she was stuck alone.

Granted, they both were text messaging her every moment of the day, but it still wasn’t the same. She felt naked…alone. But that was pretty normal with how she felt when she didn’t have anyone around her that was at all familiar.

But its not like she wasn’t used to it despite how much pain she felt. She really was one of those good suffer in silence types. She knew how to hide the pain from her lips and her face…. But not always from her eyes. Some people, including her brothers all said her eyes were her definite gateway into her emotions and soul. One look and it always told you everything.

But she never would talk about it, or rather…she couldn’t. She was always finding it difficult to bring up her issues to anyone but her two brothers. This to a degree labeled her strange to most. So much the better. Most others didn’t understand her way of focusing on certain things as it was.

It was harder in Angels Haven. She felt that inner torture even more so. As if she reached out to touch something, it would either retreat or she would end up killing it by just touching it. The only thing she knew were a safe pair of arms around her and even now she didn’t have that….

Especially over the situation that happened with Tony. She had dealt with her grief of loosing him, from his death. Granted she knew she didn’t have to curse him in the afterlife. If her brothers had anything to say about it, they’d do it for her.

It was so hard when she felt so alone even more now…

She snapped out of her solitary reverie to hear her cell phone ringing. Confused at to who was calling her this late in the day, she glanced at her caller I.D. Smiling a little at seeing the name flashing across, she flipped it open and put the phone to her lips. “Well I’ll be damned, I thought you were working tonight Sash.”

The voice on the other end let out a cute half laugh/half noise, “Hah! You wish Jade. I skipped out just so that I could call and bother ya.” she said with a triumphant Grin.

Jaden couldn’t help but shake her head in half amusement, half disbelief. Doing that sounded like something Sasha Roberts would do. Sasha was a very close friend to both Jaden and Jason when they lived back in Marian. You would say that she always ended up being the mediator between them and anyone that seemed to cross their paths. She had a bit of a larger skeletal structure then Jade possessed, but that didn’t stop her “take charge” attitude and quiet personality at times.

Jaden sat back a little as she cradled the phone with her hand, “So what do I owe the pleasure of this phone call? Lemme guess.. You got back together with Stephanie didn’t you?”

“Close! That was one of the reasons why I was calling you back.” she said as her voice grew a little serious with a hint of concern, “I was actually calling to make sure that you were doing all right.”

She shook her head with a chuckle. Stephanie Meyers was Sasha’s on and off girlfriend, but the two of them were more suited to say “life mates”. “I swear you two better invite us to the wedding when it takes place…” she said with a chuckle as she then stopped, hearing the other thing she said. Then she put two and two together. “Jason sent you a text message didn’t he.”

“Of course he would! Otherwise I would have just called his phone repeatedly until he told me what the deal was.” She then heard the anxiousness within their friends voice, “You two really need to either come back home for a visit, or get me out there to the sunny state of Florida to come visit you two. Its so boring without you guys here in Marian anymore!” she whined.

Jade couldn’t help but feel a small smile curl onto her lips as she shook her head a little, “You know we miss you too babe, and maybe one of these days we’ll…” she stopped when she heard the beeping on the phone to show she had a missed call and a voice mail waiting. Seeing who the caller was, she groaned. “Fuck…” she mumbled.

Sasha instantly picked up on this, “Let me guess, was it the asshole? Can I strangle him? De-manhood him so that he’ll stop being a pompous prick?”

“Your offer is indeed tempting Sasha… but sadly I think my mother would miss it… maybe.” she then shuddered a little at the thought. “God, why did I even think about that just now? I’m going to be scarred for life….” she groaned.

“I was just going to say, don’t make me slap the sense back into you Jaden Allysa…” she heard Sasha say to her over the earpiece before another beep came over, “Oh shit -- that’s probably Stephanie, I should go. But DON’T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT GETTING DEPRESSED TILL I CALL YOU BACK AGAIN JEWEL.” she squeaked out the threat. “Just take it easy and ill forewarn Jason that the asshole needs to be de-man hooded.”

Jaden smiled a little sadly but nodded with a quiet laugh, “I’ll try not to think about it so much, and I’ll talk to you later hon. Take care. Miss you.”

“Miss you too! See ya!”

“Bye…” she hit the ‘End’ button on that phone call and stared at it for a long moment before she finally got the courage to dial into her voicemail.

It was after that she wished she hadn’t.

Michael was inaudible over the screaming, cussing and bad language that he was using on the phone to the point where Jaden had to just click the phone completely closed, pushing the tears that threatened to come at bay back.

Just as she was about to put her head in her hands to hide the silent sobs that pushed their way forward, she heard a voice that spoke right up above her head, “You wouldn’t happen to know a Jason Hosten would you?”

She happened to look up to see someone standing near her table, gazing a little at her with his head tilted to the side. By all means the guy wasn’t a body builder, but he was in the definite bracket of the “tall Dark and handsome” types. He had short black hair and dark eyes that for most girls, would be incredibly easy to get lost in if you stared within them.



Tilting her head in the same general direction, she gave as much of a good natured smile as she said back in return, “Actually yes…he’s my twin brother.”

He snapped his fingers right after she said that, as if he was hit with a rather enormous epiphany. “I thought you seemed familiar. You have a similar aura about you like Jase does.”

Her ears perked up at that, and she decided to possibly throw a name out there of someone that Jason always talked about at home from school. “You must be…Johnny Bannister.” she said, not wanting to accidentally get him mixed up with someone else. “The avid musician who got my brother to actually pick up his guitar and start playing again.”

Johnny grinned a little sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head, “Guilty as charged…” he then looked at her again, in a way staring into her eyes just a little bit, “…You all right Jaden?” he asked her as he slid into the empty chair across from her, somehow his eyes still transfixed against her dark hazel orbs.

Noticing his staring and trying to act as non-chalant as she possibly could ”Yeah...I’m all right…” she lied as she tucked a few strands of hair that began to fall in her eyes.

He shook his head with a half smile as he leaned in slightly, “You cant fool me Jade, your brother told me all about you.” he pointed with his finger to the side of her right eye, “And he was right, you may hide it, but those eyes of yours kind of speak for themselves.”

This kind of threw her for a loop. It figures that her twin brother would blab about her to someone… or was she just that easy to read sometimes? She looked away as she wrapped her arms around herself just a little as she leaned back, “I Guess I just….miss them is all.” she muttered slightly under her breath as she rubbed her sore arm to try and massage the tenderness that was built up within it.

He leaned back slightly as he looked at her with his eyes showing that he was paying an in depth attention to what she was saying, “Gabe and Jason?” he asked, making sure that he got it right. He had heard stories from Jason about how nasty their father could be. How the one person who took the brunt of all the negativity from the man, was the young woman sitting in front of him now.

She nodded slightly, before taking out her cell phone and accessing her voice mail, “Especially when this went to my phone when I was at work today…” she said as she let it play for Johnny to hear.

He took the phone out of the girls hand and listened to the man screaming obscenities in his ear about how much of a waste of life the girl sitting across from him was. Somehow though, he didn’t believe it. Not from the stories Jason gushed over the talent of his twin. It also, made him just as angry as he’d seen Jason get when he’d speak about it. How could this guy even call himself a man when he treats his own flesh and blood as if she’s dirt? Handing the phone back to her, his eyes held the look of pure anger and a mix of regret for her.

She smiled weakly and sarcastically as she shut her phone closed. “Nice huh…” she said as she pocketed it away. “So getting that hasn’t exactly made my night any easier when the two of them are out of the state at the moment…So yeah. I guess you can say I kind of miss them.”

Johnny seemed to nod a little as he listened to every word she said, “That’s totally understandable Jade…” he said quietly before he looked at the time, then back at her, “You got some time to kill?” he asked her out of the blue.

She blinked a little as he asked her that, “Well…I’m not planning on going home any particular time soon so I guess you can say yeah…I do have some time to kill. Why do you ask?”

He smiled a little and stood up, “I figured we could go for a bit of a walk, just to cool off some emotions if need be. You up for it?”

She thought about it for a long moment. The guy was a good friend of Jason’s…and if he was a good friend to Jase he wouldn’t really think of trying to do anything to her. Putting down the few dollars for her snack she had purchased, she stood up along with him. “Sure, why not?” she said as she put her purse over her shoulder.
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