Claude's POV

I step out of the shower, wrapping a towel around my waist and walking out of the bathroom to the bedroom. Raven was already sound asleep on her side of the bed. I smiled, she looked cute when she was asleep.

I slip on a pair of boxers and a plain white shirt, not bothering to do the bottoms yet since I can do them later anyway. But before I could put my jeans on, I could here my phone buzzing on my nightside table.

Quickly receiving it so that Raven doesn't wake up I here a 'Hello,' on the other end.

'So how's everything going?' The woman behind it asked.

'Everything's fine, Josie,' I reply, smiling a bit as I hold the phone up against my ear.

'Oh really? I heard you had a fever!!' She snaps and I laugh 'But you're better now, aren't you? Anyways, how's my Ravie doing??'

'She's asleep,' I state flatly.

'That's good! So, the reason I called you is to say that the cost is clear for you guys now. Dominic's brainwashed the police so the whole 'murder' case is closed.'

'That's so like Dominic to go brainwashing people,' I scoff. Dominic is another cousin of mine. Like Josie, he's from my mom's side. Except Josie is my uncle, my mother's twin brother's, daughter. And Dominic is my mother's sister, my aunt's, son.

Unlike my dad, who's an only child, my mom has a lot of siblings. So that means I have a lot of cousins. And somehow, their all older than me even if my mom is the oldest child in her family, older than Uncle Seth (Josie's dad) by five minutes. But Grandma says she married the latest. That really sucks because that means I'm the absolute baby of the entire Helston family.

There is Amber and Alex who are like 5 but their the next generation of Helstons.

Anyway, Dominic is my second favorite cousin, after Josie of course. He's the only one that doesn't treat me like a kid unlike all my other cousins. But sometimes he can be a real prick and make fun of me for being smaller than him. Dominic works out a lot and is really bulky and tall and compared to him I look like a blond broom.

Being a demon, Dominic has many supernatural abilities like pyrokenisis and healing powers just like me. But his trademark ability, one that's like really rare is the ability to change someone else's thoughts or make them forget something. Brainwashing.

He always used to boast about this power to us and even show it off at family parties and stuff. It gets on my nerves when he does that. But in this case, I'm glad he did.

'So, you want to come back home now?' Josie asks. 'Both of you are safe now.'

'Uh,' I think it over, glancing towards Raven who is still asleep 'Actually, Josie. I was wondering if Raven and I could just stay here. I mean, we have just settled in and we both seem to like it here,' I can't believe I'm lying to her 'I don't think we'll be coming back.'

'What?' She seems confused but I don't answer 'Hello? Hello?? Claude are you still ther-' I hang up.

I can't believe I just said that.

As much as I want Raven and me to go back and carry on with our life, I wanted to keep her for myself here too. That sounds selfish, I thought, I'm being so selfish right now.

Again, I can't believe I'm doing this.

Raven doesn't deserve to be locked up here, for my sake even. She doesn't even like it here. And I can't bare to see her unhappy.

But if we go back...what if she leaves me? What if she finds someone else? Someone better than me? Right now, she probably does deserve someone better. All I'm doing is tell ing her that everything is going to be better when it really isn't. And then suddenly everything does turn out better and here I am, about to tell her it's still the same.

I just don't want to lose her.

After all that painful thinking, I decide to sleep instead of my previous plan to just wander this huge house while Raven is sleeping.

I carefully lie down next to her, leaving a large space between us because I'm scared if I bet any closer she'll wake up and tell what a selfish decision I had made. Then she'd start hating me again.

I never want to live through that again. That time when every time she looked at me, it was with a bitter expression and every time she spoke it was to insult or cuss me. I'm glad those days are over now.

Carefully, I reach for the duvet and pull it over myself, making sure my actions are slow so that it doesn't wake her up.

I close my eyes only to open them again when I feel something nuzzle up close to me.

It was Raven.

She was still asleep, but she probably felt my presence and shuffled closer, putting her arm around me.

It made me feel the guilt build up in my body.

'I'm sorry, Simmons,' I whisper, slowly pushing her away while she still slept so that she was on the other side of the bed again 'I just don't deserve it,'

(A/N I haven't updated in like forever and you want to know why??? Huh??? HUH?????!!!!! Ok, I'll tell you why: The WiFi was out in my house this whole summer holiday!! And it just got back and guess what?? School starts on fricking Thursday, people! I swear to god sometimes the universe is pissing me off on purpose.
Anyway, I just thought that this story of mine was getting all too stereotypically 'happily ever after-y' for my liking so I decided to add BOOM!! Overpossessive Claude plot twist!!
Enjoy all that fluffiness while it lasts people because starting from next chapter, things'll get extreme!!!!)