The family was now again gathered to this some fancy hotel my new dad had found. All of my brothers were present except for Gideon.

'That bastard likes to hide himself.'

"Dad? Where's Gideon?" Faith voice out my concerns. New dad divert his eyes to us which made me elbow him on his side. He winced.

"Your older brother is on his way. He's just rather busy these days with the business."

Faith and I both nodded our head but I tensed when new dads gaze fell on me. I gulp audibly as I stare back at him dumbly.

"Are you okay now William?" My eyes widen as I stutter for words to reply.

"Oh! yeah... I'm f-fine...err." From the words that I'm grumbling, I think I want to smack my head on the table right now. Even if it wasn't that awkward for him, its really awkward and embarassing on my side. Dunno why, I just had that feeling.

The dinner went well. I looked around seeing that everyone in the table are on their own little world making conversations where as I, left to stare at my dessert dumbly.

I feel really uncomfortable when someone decides to ignore me. It wasn't Gideon's fault and he knows that. It wasn't like he activated my phobia there and curse me to death, then I would've gut his balls off if possible. If I really did happen to die then I would have been singing Lukas Grahams song in heaven now...

'Everybody welcome to my funeral, Everyone of you...'

"Children..."

"Dad, how many times have we told you, we're not a bunch of children. Stop calling us that." Diether voiced out, making the other boys snicker.

New dad just gave out a few words about my sisters wedding, but I was too preoccupied that I didn't bother to listen.

***

The dinner ended with no sign of Gideon's shadow. And that made me irritated to the point that it made me think of evil plans. I looked at Faith who was slumped on the other bed watching something on his phone.

'I bet you don't wanna know what he's watching. And I bet you already know it.'

"Hey Faith! Quit watching those immoral videos of yours and join me." I jumped off the bed and slip on my slippers.

"Where are we going?"

"Here."

"Here? Are you playing jokes with me?" I grinned widely.

"I've got a plan. And I want you to join me."

The door opened and revealed Kris who looked at me with raised brows when he felt Faith and I watched him intensely.

"What?" He asked confused.

"And I'll be needing you too Kris."

**

When Gideon came home, it was already well into the night. He guessed that the three others who shares a room with him were already asleep.

That accident concerning William took a huge impact on me. I felt guilty that I didn't save him, but I couldn't do anything with the situation we were on that moment. We were stuck, and all I could do was shout for help and look at William who seemed to be dying from panic. I couldn't get over it that I just stood there and howl like a damsel in distress. I tried to talk to him but I didn't have the guts. This was suppose to be a vacation but I only immerged myself with work to get away from the guilt I am feeling towards William.

With a tired sigh, I unlocked the door into our room, only to be greeted with darkness. I felt along the wall to turn on the light but was stop when I heared scrambling from somewhere. I turned the light on then closed the door. I threw my suitcase on the sofa and looked at the doors on the other side. They were close, so I bet they were all sleeping sou--

I woke up with a major headached immerging in my head. I didn't even finished my thoughts when something hard slammed right into my head.

I blinked multiple times to clear the bluriness. The only light present was the lamp on my side, the rest of the room was dark. I heared murmuring sounds from somewhere before footsteps could be heared.

"Gi..." The guy coughed when his voice caught on his throat, sounding like he just choke on his spit.

"Gideon Zixt, you have escape so many times, you must face your crimes and answer with nothing but truth." This guy who was speaking tried to sound like a man but failed to do so.

"Who are you people?!" I shouted.

"Did you rape Ana?! You rape my precious little girl!" Another idiot came and shouted at me.

'Who the hell is Ana? And why would I rape her?! I didn't even met someone with the name Ana.'

"Who the fucks hell are you people?! Once I get out of this, I will make sure to break your neck!" I cursed which made these two hooligans laughed.

The lights turned on, revealing William who was standing on the door with one of his brow raised. Both of his arms crossed at his chest as he stared at the two who was acting as some vicious kidnappers.

"I only told you to just tie him on a chair. Not for you to dress up as some bunch of lunatic kidnappers."

"Well it was fun to teased brother Gideon sometimes." Kris winked.

"He even cursed at us! That was the first time Gideon ever did that! I was so amaze." Faith hollered.

"Ok! done with your lunatic party! I need to talk to Gideon. Alone." Kris and Faith nodded, exiting without any word of compalint.

William turned to look at me with not much expression on his face. I shrugged at him and he raised his right brow.

"I told them to tie you incase you go sneaking around and avoid me again." William sat down on the bed and faced me. He place the tray of food on my lap which made me frown.

"I went out to fetch you food and this is what greeted me. Faith and Kris playing at you." he chuckled. "Eat."

"You probably know that both of my hands are tied on a chair right?"

"Oh sorry. I forgot." He stood up and untied me. He sat down again on the bed and watched me as he motioned me to eat.

"I'm not really hungry." I voiced out and he heaved a sigh.

"Then let's get down to business." he started. "I hope your not blaming yourself about what happened to me. I do not blame you Gideon..." He trailed before huffing an amount of air.

"And stop acting like a virgin ass girl who just had her first sex and goes off ignoring the guy who stole her virginity because of some shitty ass doubt. I don't take that shit coz I hate when someone do that fucking thing to me. So do not ignore me anymore!"

I looked at him dumbfounded. Who the hell knows, beside being a smart ass, having a sassy mouth, and an athletic dude, he knows how to fucking rap!

"Wow. Did you just rap?"

"No. I don't. I do not do rap."

"I think you just."

"You know we're getting out of topic."

"I think so too."

***

We have the whole unit to the four of us. Faith and William shares the room connected to ours, so when they got out of their room, they have to walk on our room before heading to the living room. Me and Kris get the main bedroom. The small living room only contains a huge sofa set and balcony to the sea. It was quiet peaceful.

I lay down on the bed looking at the white ceiling above. William, I couldn't freely describe him but I'm sure he has many things hidden in him that I need to explore.

Yes, he got that sassy attitude but that's what makes him funny and I like him for that. Even the rest of my brothers adores his spoilt and funny attitude.

"Bro, I'm turning the lights off." Kris voiced out from the door.

"Sure." Then the lights turned off and I heared Kris' bed shuffle before the room went silent.

My phone begun vibrating on my bedside drawer and I went to fetch it up. I unlocked the screen and found it was William who texted me.

"Good night. Don't stress out yourself, there's nothing you need to apologize in the first place."

I smiled. See? He's also considerate and kind. I'm glad he became my stepbrother and not some random badass gangster teen. And without any doubt, I texted him back.

"Let's go out tomorrow. My treat."

I hope he's smiling right now.