I sat in the lounge room by myself, not really knowing where to go since my room was no longer livable. I never got to see my dad again. He probably had to leave when the Prime Minister left.

I picked at my finger nails and pulled at the tight dress I was dying to get out of.

"Jessica?" I heard someone call in the hall. I looked in that direction not positive it was my name I had heard. "Jessica?" I heard it again. I got up and hurried to the door and ran straight into the one and only Joseph Copland.

"Woah sorry Mr. Copland, didn't know you were so close." I blushed.

He was gripping my forearms to keep me from falling, but dropped them when I called him Mr. Copland. "Don't call me that." He mumbled.

"What?" I asked confused.

"I don't want YOU to call me that. It's just Joseph." My eyebrows shot up in surprise. As long as I've known him he hasn't asked anyone to just call him Joseph. Then again I hadn't known him that long.

"Alright." I nodded the little voice in my head was screaming. "Joseph." I added a couple of seconds later. He smiled softly and nodded.

"Good. Now come with me." He lead me forward with a hand on my lower back.

"Where are we going?" I asked as I was guided to an unfamiliar part of the mansion.

"My room." He said calmly, meanwhile I was choking on the air. His room?! Why? For what? "Calm down Jessica." He chuckled. "I went by your room and it's absolutely ruined. There's no way you could stay in there. So you'll be staying with me tonight." He shrugged as if it was no big deal!

"With you. In your room?" I asked cautiously.

"Yes Jessica. With me, in my room." He looked bored with the conversation now. I was internally freaking out thinking about all the possibilities that could come from this.

I didn't say anything in return just stayed silent until we got to his room. The air was tense. At least it was to me. Joseph looked completely at ease. He pushed the door open, and surprised me how normal it looked. It wasn't huge, bigger than my room, but not as big as one would thing the owner of a mansion like this would have. The floor was dark hard wood and the bed spread and other decorations were blue. It looked like a typical teenage boys room to be honest. For some reason that made me slightly more at ease.

"You've been standing there awhile. What do you think of the room?" He asked while taking off his designer shoes and tux jacket.

"It's nice. Not what I expected it to be." I said and sat down beside him on the bed.

"Hmm and what were you expecting miss Jessica?" He asked smirking at me.

I blushed slightly under his stare and fiddled with my fingers nervously. " I dunno. I thought it would be like a kings bedroom or something. Bigger, with a chandelier, and multiple floors." I giggled and looked down at my hands.

"Would you like that better?" He asked with his head tilted slightly to the side.

I thought for a moment. "No." I concluded. "This is good. Simple. I like simple." I nodded and smiled up at him.

He nodded and smiled/smirked at me. "You know what I would like better?" He questioned with an eyebrow raised. I shook my head. "This." He whispered and pressed his lips down on mine.

I was frozen stiff. Sure this wasn't the first time this had happened but things were different now. I liked Joseph at this point. After a few moments I could tell that he was getting frustrated with my unresponsiveness by the way he pulled me closer and kissed harder.

"Kiss me back little one." He said breaking the kiss for a moment before rejoining our lips. He words seemed to make me unfreeze and melt into his arms. I moved my lips against his and wrapped my hands around his neck, molding my body to his. He smirked against my lips and mumbled. "That wasn't so hard was it?" He gripped the back of my neck and pulled me closer by the hip until I was straddling him.

He left my lips and moved down to explore my neck and jaw. I was breathing hard and panting, my lips swollen from his harsh kissing. He left firm wet kisses down the trail of my neck, sucking occasionally. He moved around everywhere like he was looking for something on my throat. And then he hit a spot right below my jaw, and I knew instantly this was what he was looking for. I moaned and pulled at the roots of his hair as he kept sucking on that one sensitive spot, driving me crazy.

"Holy hell." He growled and released my neck, flipping us over at the same time so that he was hovering above me. I stared at his face as his dark eyes roamed up and down my clothed body. He pulled me up so that my chest was against his and wrapped his arms around me. I thought it was odd he was hugging me at a time like this, but then quickly realized that he was unzipping my dress. Agonizingly slow. His fingers left a burning trail on my skin and I couldn't help but arch my back the farther down he got.

He finally reached the bottom of the zipper just below my butt. By now my skin had goosebumps all over it as he trailed his fingers all around my now bare back with one hand, and pulled my sleeves down with another hand. He pulled the dress completely off when it fell down to my waist and his eyes went back to memorizing my body. I felt a bit uncomfortable just laying there in nothing but my underwear and moved my hands slightly to cover myself from his wandering eyes.

"Don't do that." He said grabbing my arms and holding them on either side of my head. "Your body." He said kissing down the middle of my throat. "Is one of the best I've ever seen." He kissed between my breasts and went all the way to my stomach before he stopped.

At this point somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that this was wrong. That this man no matter how much I liked him had forced me from my home to come and live with him. But I just couldn't bring myself to care. Right now in this position the goods outweighed the bad. That was true at least until a loud knock came from the door.

I stopped breathing. Technically I wasn't doing anything bad, but the thought of someone catching us in such a compromising position was appalling. Joseph didn't seem to mind however as he continued his advances. The knock came again and still he didn't stop.

"Joseph!" I whisper yelled. "Someone's at the door." Even I could tell I sounded panicked.

"Just ignore it little one, they'll go away eventually." He came back up to my lips and rubbed my bare waist as he kissed me. His skilled tongue slipping into my mouth for the second time tonight. I was beginning to forget about the interruption and my hands slipped under his dress shirt to feel the toned muscles underneath. Then the person knocked again, and this time there was a voice that came with it.

"Joseph." A girly voice came through the door. "Joseph I can hear you in there." I could recognize the voice as Mandy's even hearing it muffled through the door.

I frowned and pushed his lips away. I looked at him and he just groaned. "Amanda go away!" He yelled. "There see problem solved." He smiled and captured my mouth with his again.

"Joseph are you in there with someone?" I could just picture her with her hands on her hips and that annoying pouty little frown she always had on when she didn't get her way.

"Amanda you're not the only whore in this mansion." He yelled. "Now go away!" Immediately my heart fell into my stomach. All the butterflies instantly died in my stomach, and it felt like the remains weighed 10 pounds. I was a whore. He thought of me as one of the whores. My eyes welled up and I looked away.

He sighed and looked back at me and I bit my lip to keep myself from crying. My whole body was tense and all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball. My heart hurt for a guy that didn't see me as anything but a quick meaningless bang.

"Jessica?" He asked me obviously noticing that I was in distress. "Jessica what's wrong?" He cupped my cheek and turned my face so he could look into my eyes.

"I'm a whore." I smiled bitterly and looked down. Realization crossed his face and I could see that he was conflicted about knowing what to say.

"No I- Jessica wait I," he said while I slipped out from under him and pulled my dress back on, zipping the dress up with some difficulty. "Let me help you." He sighed getting up from the bed and coming towards me.

"No!" I said louder than I intended. "I got it." I was facing away from him as the tears were welling up dangerously fast. "Umm thank you for offering to let me sleep in your room but I think I'll find somewhere else." I nodded my back still facing him.

He huffed and strode in front of me before I could get to the door. "I do expect you to face me when speaking." He said I kept my head down and my mouth shut. Not really knowing what to say anyway. He cupped my chin and lifted my head. I averted my eyes so I was looking at anything but his face. "Look at me." He said forcefully. I looked him in the eyes just as the first tear fell. His face softened.

"Oh darling don't cry. I never wanted to make you cry again." He wiped the tear away with his thumb. "I didn't mean to offend you in any way." He said honestly. "But you can't be anything more than that to me. You have to understand that I can't have any weaknesses. If you were anymore to me than a whore, you would be a target to get to me and I can't let anything happen to you." He explained still holding my face in his hands. "You can't mean more to me. You just can't." He whispered the last part.

I nodded and looked down pulling my head from his hands. His explanation made sense. I didn't want to be a target. But damn if it didn't still suck.

"Stay Jessica." His hand slid down to hold my hip.

"Joseph. If I'm going to just be one of your house sluts, then I can't stay with you. I can't stay and sleep with you in your bed because that's not what your sluts do. The have sex and then they leave. I've heard the rules. Plus I know you don't bring them to your room, that's why we have our own rooms." I said and moved to slip out the door.

"Jessica." He said before I could open the door. I paused my hand hovering over the knob. "Your different. Your not the same as everybody else I don't want you to-" I cut him off.

"Goodnight Joseph." With that I opened the door and left closing it lightly behind me. I took a trembling breath and moved away from the door.

I jumped when the door flung open again behind me. " Jessica." He didn't sound like he had before. More shut off and closed. "Find Matthias. He'll find you a place to sleep." Then he closed the door and I was again engulfed in darkness. I guess it was good to know he cared even after that.

It took me all the way to Matthias's office to notice that I wasn't wearing shoes. I must have left them in his room.