As the weeks passed by I started spending less and less time in my own room and more and more time in Tomos. He would often come get me in the middle of the night after Hiro fell asleep and the two of us would go to his room. The first time he came to get me in the night I was terrified, my mind was racing back to the that night where he tried to take off my clothes and my body began to shake violently against my will. Despite my fear, or perhaps because of it, Tomo never tried to do anything like that.

"We both made a promise." He told me that night when he laid me down in his bed. "Hiro and I both promised each other that we would never touch you inappropriately like that. You are too pure for those kinds of things." He said as he laid down next to me. He tucked me under his covers and laid next to me with his arms wrapped around my waist and my back to his chest. I still couldn't stop the shaking at first but as Tomo brushed his fingers through my hair and hummed quietly I couldn't help but relax slightly in his hold. That next morning he brought me back to my room before sun up so Hiro wouldn't know. I dont know why but he didnt want Hiro to know about our nights together. At first I thought it was weird and that Hiro probably wouldnt care but then again I didnt know him that well anymore, he was like a different person.

Slowly I started to become numb to the things around me. My emotions dulled and my senses faded. The only thing that brought me some sort of positive emotion was laying with Tomo in secret on cold nights. For my own well being I tried my hardest to sink into that feeling and desperatly cling onto it. I started to push away all negative thoughts of what he had done and in a way I slowly began to forget his deeds. Within only a few months I had come to completely forget about Abby and the days we spent together at school. I forgot about school in general and all my classmates and our prevoius house. Having spent so much time desperatly clingning to the warmth of my older brother, I began to experience withdrawal when he wasnt around. If Tomo left a room I would become distant and uncomfortable and if he locked me in my room wthout him I would cry. Hiro quickly took notice and tried to comfort me but in the end Tomo was the only person who brought me comfort.

Tomo pov.

"You broke our promise!"

I had just finished tucking Y/n into bed and had turned around to see Hiro glaring at me from the other end of the hall.

"No I didnt." I said simply as I walked past him and went back downstairs but the kid wouldnt leave me alone.

"You're lying!" He screamed. "You broke our promise! You defiled my Y/n!"

Anger was resonating off my brother as his hands balled up into fists and his eyes twitched as he glared at me. I looked him over once and quickly saw that if I didnt calm him down now he could get violent, then again that may be what I want.

"I'm not lying." I said calmly. "I didn't touch her."

"Then explain her behaviour!"

"What behaviour?"

"Her obvious behavior! The behavior where she clings to you and cant stand me! She used to love me! She used to like being with me and now she doesn't and its all your fault!"

Hiro was shaking with anger. Once he finished yelling he turned on his heel and ran up to his room. I didn't understand why until seconds later when he came back down with his old bloody baseball bat swung over his shoulder.

"What are you planning to do with that?" I said mockingly as he sized me up and stepped forward. He raised his bat to strike me and I swiftly moved out of the way as the wood smashed into the living room table, shattering the glass top.

"STOP MOVING!" Hiro shrieked as he raised his bat to hit me again, this time smashing a standing lamp and two hung pictures in the process. When he raised the weapon a third time I was able to grab it by the handle and hold it there. Hiro struggled to get it back from me as he screeched curses at me. His strength, however, was no use to mine especially after all the months he'd lazed around here without any excercise, so I was able to quickly snatch it away and throw it across the room where it hit the wall with a loud thud. Hiro quickly looked from me to his bat and tried to lunge across the room to grab it but I latched onto his arm before he could get close and threw him to the floor. It felt strange fighting my brother like this but at that moment he wasn't my brother, he was just a threat, a threat to the perfect happy life me and Y/n had. Hiros screams of anger quickly turned to ones of fear as I got on top of him and pushed him down by his throat. He began to wheeze slightly as he clawed at the hand holding him down.

"You know you really have a bad anger problem Hiro." I mutter as I move to hold him down with two hands instead of one. "That worries me. I would hate for you to accidentally hurt my Y/n with that anger of yours."

"I-I-I won-woul-dnt-" Hiro struggled to speak but I pressed down harder causing him to gasp and go silent.

"I'm sorry but I cant take the chance." I whispered as I continued to press down for what felt like hours but was probably only minutes until Hiro stopped struggling and went limp. His eyes were staring up at me as his whole body ceased movement. I would've taken time to greave but at that moment I heard Y/n stirring upstairs so I quickly swept up Hiro's body and placed it in his room before going to fetch Y/n.

"Tomo?Tomo?" I heard her calling me from the other end of the door. I unlocked her bedroom door and opened it to find her sprawled out on the floor with tears welling up in her beautiful eyes.

"Tomo please don't lock me up in here." She cried. "I want to be with you."

I smiled as I unchained her leg and picked her up to carry her to my room. I set her down in the sheets and crawled in next to her where she quickly huddled up next to my body. I chuckled as I held her closer and breathed in the smell of her hair.

"You don't have to go back there any more love. From now on you can stay here with me." I muttered.

"You'll never leave me again?" She asked.

"Of course not. From now on we will be together forever with nothing to stand in our way. I love you Y/n."

"I love you too Tomo."