“Get away from me,” she pushed hair out of her face but it fell down again.

“Spencer….we have pizza and movies, come upstairs and hang out.”

“Hang out with you after what you did, why is it going to make you feel better?” she put emphasis on the word you as if I was doing this for my own pleasure but she didn’t know the full extent of danger she was in and I was sworn not to tell.

“I don’t want to fight,”

“Now,” she cut me off.

“Ever!” I barked causing her to tense and lean further back, grinding my teeth trying not to lose my patience I tried again, “Please….please just come up and eat dinner and watch movies with us…with me?” as I finished I tucked the loose hair behind her ear where it stayed in place.

Swallowing she licked her lips as her blue eyes flickered up to mine and we held the stare for a moment before she glanced down again, I pray one day she’ll be able to look me in the eyes with as much love and happiness as she did before today.

“I’ am hungry,” she said quietly.

“Good, come on,” I stood up and held my hand out for her but she refused and got up on her own. Sighing we all made our way upstairs to the kitchen for the food and to the living room to watch the movies.

“What did you get?” Max wondered as he plopped down in a chair.

“Comedy, animation, horror and comedy romance.”

“Right wouldn’t just want romance now would we?”

”No way plain romance is for chicks, a comedy romance has something for guys to,” John nodded as if that explained everything. We all decided on animation, comedy romance, comedy and last but not least horror.

John and Max got up and sat in the love seat where Paula and Arthur usually sit and Lucy took one of the chairs while I sat on the couch and Spencer not wanting to be near any of us sat on the floor.

The atmosphere lightened considerable as we all enjoyed the movies, the time on the clock ticked by nine o’ clock but I said nothing of Spencer’s bed time as we continued to watch. By ten Lucy put in the horror movie and turned off all side table lights making the room go pitch black until the images started showing up. I watched Spencer more than anything, the way her eyes bugged out and she scooted further away as it got scarier and scarier, how the flicker of the lights danced on her creamy white skin and the side view gave her lips the perfect kissable look.

“Spencer come up here with,” I called for her but she only shook her head no with out looking at me. A few minutes later and she scooted back even further, “Spencer come on…please I’m getting scared,” I told her which was far from the truth as this movie was B rated and had horrible effects but when you don’t get to watch to many like her these things tend to scary the crap out of you.

“Fine,” she relented crawling on the floor so she didn’t disturb anyone’s view and cuddled into me like normal, “Just because you’re scared,” she breathed in.

“Fine by me,” I smiled loving the feeling of her body pressed against mine. Soon her soft breathing notified me that she was asleep, safe and warm in my arms where she had no cares in the world. Kissing the top of her head I whispered in her ear, “I really am sorry Spence, I’ll make it up to you soon I promise baby,” I kissed her cheek this time relishing the feeling of her heated skin upon my lips. Glancing around I saw Max asleep in John’s arms, John stroking his fingers thru the boy’s hair, he was asleep as well. Lucy got up and turned on a side lamp…shut the television off and we all fell into a deep sleep. Hoping tomorrow things would be better.

TBC.