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~Anna's POV~

The following Friday night, I sat on the roof, unable to sleep. My mind was going blanker and blanker and my eyes were trying to keep themselves open. I almost drifted into a horrid sleep but Timothy's voice woke me up.

"Hey Anna! Huh? She's not here?" I heard him yell from inside the room.

Of course I wasn't in the room. I were on the roof and my brother realized that soon.

" There you are!"

" What do you want?" I asked a little in my kind tone. Since the past week when Max started shutting me out in revenge, I found myself not being able to be rude.

" I was wondering if you would like to go to the 24-convenience store? Huh? What do you say? Since you can't sleep and all?" He asked from the window.

" Nice way to kill time. Sure." I agreed and hopped in the room through the window and when Tim exited the room, I pulled on my jacket over my night clothes and some boots then went to rendezvous with my brother.

" Come on." He said and we both went to his car.

" What do you possible need at this hour?" I asked, curious as what did he want at midnight.

" Just get in the car."

" Sounds like you wanna kidnap me."

" I only kidnap pretty girls." He said getting in.

" Ya- HEY!"

" I only kidnap pretty girls who aren't my sister. Just listen to what I have to say first." He laughed a little.

" Whatever. I just need to get some fresh air."

" Of course you do. You've been confined in your room since the past month. Must be hard." Tim said starting the car.

" I just don't want anyone else to die on me." You sighed.

" Nobody will. Our safety is not your problem."

" It is if it involves a certain bastard."

" Language." I just stuck my tongue at him as he drove to the store.

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" You are kidding me. A razor? You came all this way for a freaking razor!" My eye twitched as my annoyance rose.

" I'm all out and Stella is visiting first thing in evening."

" Argh. Why do I even bother?" I mumbled.

" Why don't you go and pick some candy for yourself? I have other things to see as well."

" Fine." I strolled to the candy isle and looked at the variety of chocolates and sweets, thinking which one to pick.

" Anna?" Somebody called and I turned to look at the person who happened to be Sasuke.

" Yo." I said quietly, not really wanting to speak but thinking that what were the odds of Jacob being here...

" Haven't seen you in a while. What are you doing here this late?" He asked.

" I can ask the same question."

" I asked first."

" Picking candy while Tim gets his 'things'-"

" I heard that!" Tim yelled coming from behind.

" Hey Tim."

" Hey Sasuke. What are you doing here this late?" I rolled my eyes.

" Our parents are coming day after tomorrow so we have to refill things." Sasuke explained and right on cue Itachi appeared behind him.

The moment my eyes sat upon the older Uchiha,I tore my gaze away and stuffed my fists in my jacket pockets.

My whole mind was going berserk and my emotions were starting to boil again so I had no choice but to leave the place.

" I will be in the car." I told Tim and left with silent steps.

A few minutes later, Timothy arrived in the car and when he closed the door, the questioning started.

" Did something happen between you and Itachi?"

" No."

"Then you surely wouldn't mind giving them a lift home. Alright, lemme go tell them." He said all in one breath and exited the car, helping the brothers stuff the stuff in the trunk.

Why the....

"Sasuke wants the front seat Anna." Tim told me, peeking in from my window. I was about to protest but the little Uchiha looked at me with such innocent expectant eyes that I sighed and vacated my seat for him and went to share an awkward backseat with his big brother.

Soon we were on the road, Tim was driving slower than his usual, that is over the speed limit, speed. Nobody was talking so him being the eldest in the company decided to speak.

"Itachi what happened to your face? How did you get it all bruised up?" He asked. Since the car was dark so I risked glancing at my right to see how bad of a bruise it was. It was bad.

"I walked into a wall." Itachi replied with a sly undertone.

"That's unusual. How did that happen?"

"I thought I could dent it, turned out I couldn't." He laughed in the end.

"Really?" My brother was either thick or doing this on purpose.

"Though I would like to think that I did manage to soften it up a bit."

I looked out of the window and bit my lip to keep myself from tearing up. Right from the moment I saw him today I kept remembering what Jake showed me. It made me restless.

"Can't you drive any faster?" I finally complained.

"No. That's the speed limit on this road." I hit my head on the window with enough force that I could the bump rising.

"Anna don't-" Itachi made to touch my head, to hold it before I could repeat my self-harm. But, I punched him. Again.

"Don't fucking touch me again." I spat. It was necessary even though it broke my heart and also the seal on my kept-away emotions.

Tim was going to scold me but Sasuke said something that made him stop the car altogether.

"The wall hurt him again. But niisan is too much of an idiot to go headfirst at a wall as well."

"Anna you don't go punching people when they want to help you-" Timothy started. I opened the door and stepped out, shutting it close.

"Shut. Up."

It was done. I was done.

I just threw those words and started walking in the other direction. Sure I was chased but once I threw a stone at Tim and used my Taser on him, he decided to give me some space.

He thought I would stop at some distance from them for some time to cool my head. He was wrong. Soon I was going to some place from where I didn't know if I would ever return.

Tim called my phone. I threw it away. I was crying the whole way. I was going to my death anyways, so why not let loose a few tears. I couldn't keep doing this. I couldn't keep hurting my precious people over and over again.

Yesterday I thinking of ways to end it all. To ensure my family's and friends' safety. I didn't have to think hard. Because knowing me, Jacob knew that by having me a witness to his fake gunfire spectacle would be enough to have me succumb. So he sent me a text, telling me the address of the place where he would be most willing to negotiate with me. I just had to inform him about my arrival an hour earlier and not tell a soul about it. I threw my phone so I couldn't be tracked and it was password locked and I had set the auto-wipe limit to five wrong passwords.

Its going to be okay. Through this, everybody would get to live. Safely. Its alright.

I kept telling myself this as I walked and walked to the tower in the middle of the biggest lake in Konoha.

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