I was woken up by my phone ringing, I took it from my bedside table and Greyson's face appeared on the screen. I almost forgot we exchanged numbers.

"Good morning, beautiful." Greyson said.

"Stop calling me that." I said groggily.

"Did I wake you up?" Greyson asked.

"Obviously, yes." I replied.

"Oh well I'm sorry. I just wanted to check on you." Greyson said.

"I'm fine don't worry." I said.

"Go back to sleep now. Love you... I mean... Just go back to sleep." He said.

I chuckled then said, "I heard that. Love you too." Then I hung up.

I got back to sleep and after a few hours I felt someone jumping on my bed. I opened my eyes and saw Janine.

"Finally you're awake. Come on, you've got some work to do." She dragged me off my bed, out of my room, down the stairs and into the living room.

"Finally you're up. Come here." Desiree said.

"Where's dad?" I asked while following her.

"He's gone for the weekend." She replied.

That explains it.

She opened the door leading to the basement.

"What does this have to do with me?" I asked.

"Well, you are going to clean the basement and you're not getting out until I say so." She said.

"Here." Janine said throwing me a bucket full of cleaning things.

I looked down the bucket and see a brush, feather duster, gloves, sponge and soap.

"This is not enough." I said.

"Well, I guess you'll just have to live with it." Desiree said before pushing me into the door.

I fell down the stairs and landed to the ground. Suddenly I felt something sharp in my hands. I stood up carefully and turned on the light. I saw broken glass in my now bleeding hands. I looked around and found a faucet. I washed my hands and I carefully took the broken glass pieces of my hands. After that I started cleaning the tables. Then I moved on to the shelves. After a couple of hours of cleaning I rested for a bit and went back to work.

I dusted all the things in there then started cleaning the walls. After a couple of hours the door opened.

"Doofus! Here's your lunch." Then she threw me a ziplock full of grub.

"What the hell is this?" I asked.

"Lunch." She replied.

"This is not food." I said.

"Either way you're still gonna eat it." She replied.

"I'm not that desperate." I snapped back.

"Well, that's your problem." She said before closing and locking the door.

I threw the Ziplock into the trash bin and got back to working. After cleaning the floor I started cleaning the walls.

After five hours, I finished cleaning the whole basement. I walked up the stairs and knocked on the door.

"I'm done!" I shouted.

"Good!" Desiree shouted back.

"Won't you open the door? You said I can leave after cleaning the basement." I said.

"Nope." Desiree replied.

I banged on the door and kept on shouting, "Get me out of here!"

Desiree kicked the door to silence me.

"Shut up!" She shouted.

I went down and looked around.

"Bingo!" I said as I look at the small window.

I pushed the table near the small window and stood on it. I opened it and popped my head out. I looked up and see Janine.

I'm dead.

"Going somewhere?" She asked.

I got down from the table and she squeezed herself in the window. She jumped down and turned around.

"What do you want from me? You've already made me suffer a lot. What do you want me to do?" I asked.

"I know there's something between you and Grey. I saw you yesterday holding hands while running, then I saw him carry you home." 

"So, what's the problem with that? I don't even know him that much and you say there's something going on with us? I just got here Janine!" 

"That's the problem Cameron! You just got here and you're already flirting with everybody! He's mine Cameron! He's mine! He doesn't even like you! I'm the only girl he likes! Only me!" She shouted.

"I'm not flirting with him! Janine why can't you understand that I'm not getting him from you! Use your brain Janine." I said trying to keep calm.

"Don't lie to me you slut!" Then she lunged towards me and knocked me down to the floor. She slapped me and then she pulled my hair. I kept on pushing her off of me but she was just too strong. She kept on slapping me hard until my cheeks turned red.

Then the door opened.

"Girls! Girls! Stop that." Desiree said as she was rushing to us.

She pulls Janine off of me and we stand up.

"Did you get hurt?" Desiree asked Janine.

"Yeah. Cameron kept on pushing and pulling my hair." She said.

"That was just because you kept on pulling my hair and slapping me." I said.

"Shut up! This is all your fault. How dare you hurt my daughter."

I rolled my eyes and she slapped me.

"You do this again and you're getting more than a slap." She said.

"I wasn't doing anything! Your daughter was the one who started this." I said.

"I don't care." She pushed me and then left.

I breathed deeply and got the bucket and some vinyls I found for Greyson then went up the stairs.

I ran up the stairs and locked my door. I closed my curtains and laid down on my bed. I took my phone and saw ten text messages and fifteen missed calls, all from Greyson. Before I called him, I called dad.

"Dad?" I said with my voice shaking.

"Honey, what's the matter?" He said.

"Please come home. I can't take it anymore. I don't want you away from me. Dad please, just come home." I said while crying.

"Honey I can't, I'm on a business trip. I can't come home now. What's the matter anyway? Did they hurt you? What?" He said.

"When will you come home?" I asked.

"Don't avoid the question answer me. Did they hurt you?" He asked.

"No, they didn't hurt me. Just tell me when will you come home." 

"On Monday morning."

"Okay, I love you."

"I love you too." Then he hung up.

I buried my head into my pillow then cried. I was already numb, inside and out. I didn't feel anything anymore. I can't feel the wounds on my hands nor the bruise on my face from the slapping a while ago. I just wanted my dad.

Then my phone rang. Greyson.

"Hello?" I said with a stuffed nose.

"Have you been crying?" He asked.

"No." 

"Not to be rude but Cameron can you open your curtains? I'm getting worried. Is there something wrong?"

I chuckled and said, "Sure. No nothings wrong." I said.

I walked to my window and opened my curtains. There I see Greyson leaning on his window holding his phone.

"Opened." I said

Then he looked at me and smiled.

"Wait were you sleeping?" He asked.

"No." I said.

"Oh. So, are you free tomorrow?" He asked.

"Yeah why?" I asked.

"Wanna tour Edmond tomorrow? I thought you might wanna know the whereabouts here since you're new here." He replied.

"Well, sure. Hey can you do a favor?" I asked.

"Sure." He replied.

"Can we go somewhere not too far from here?" I said.

"Sure. I'll wait for you behind your house." He replied.

"Thanks." I said.

I grabbed my bag and I climbed down the ladder.

"Hey." Greyson called.

I followed him and we jumped over the fence. Then we walked towards a park.

"So why do you want to go somewhere at this time? Its already dark." He asked.

"I don't know." I replied.

When we reached the park we climbed up a tree and we sat on a branch. We looked at the moon while talking.

"So do you love cats?" Greyson asked.

"Well... Maybe..." I said.

I looked at him and his eyebrows were scrunched together.

"What? I just said maybe." I said.

"No No, it's not that. Cameron, how did you get that bruise?" Greyson asked.

"Oh, I-uh" I cover my cheek with my hand.

"And what happened to your hands?" He asked, taking my hand into his.

"This? This is nothing." I said.

"That is not nothing. Cameron, I won't tell anyone please. Just tell me. What happened did Janine hurt you?" He asked with clenched fists.

"Grey, calm down." I said, unclenching his fists. "She didn't do this. I just had a little accident. It's nothing." I said.

"Cameron. You should be more careful next time. I don't want seeing you hurt." He said while looking straight into my eyes.

"I know. I'm sorry." I said.

He took his bag and he opened it he put medicine all over the wounds then he put a gauze pad on both hands and put medical tape on them.

"Thanks."I said.

"No problem." He replied.

"So do you always bring that?" I asked.

"Yeah." He replied, still looking at my hands.

"Grey?" I tilted his head to keep his eyes off my hands.

"Yeah?" He looked into my eyes.

"I found something for you." I took the vinyls I found for him and gave it.

"How.. Where did you find these?" He asked in shock.

"In our basement, no one uses our turn table anymore so I thought I might give these to you."

"Thank you." He said hugging me.

"Its nothing." I reply, wrapping my arms around him.

He looked back again at the vinyls and smiled. "You're amazing."

"Its getting late," I looked at my watch. "Do you wanna go now?"

"Yeah."

Just as I was about climb down, Greyson stopped me.

"No. Let me first."

He climbed down and I followed. When he reached the ground he reached for me. I felt a surge of electrcity down my spine at his touch, I began to feel my cheeks tingle again. What was he doing to me?

We walked all the way home and when we got to our rooms we texted each other until we fell asleep.

Goodnight beautiful. He texted.

I told you to stop calling me that. I replied.

 Haha... Fine. Goodnight(:

Thank you :P Goodnight <3