Dante's POV

I was just about to go to bed when a knock on my door stopped me, and in came Marco. He too had his face screwed up in confusion and an emotion that was almost close to guilt. "Hey." I responded with a nod of my head, taking a seat on the edge of my bed.

We were both pretty stunned by what had happened at the party tonight. Honestly I don't even know how to explain it, Luca lost control. "What happened tonight?" Marco asked the question that running in both our minds. "I honestly don't know. I mean something is going on man. And I get it Luca is pissed at her but that was going way overboard."

Marco nodded agreeing with me "its like now that I am actually thinking about it without Luca shouting over my head. I can't even really understand why we were so mad at her in the first place." he was right, I had felt that too. For the past month and a half it has mostly been Luca who was always pressuring us or telling us that we should hate her.

He kept on saying how she is the reason we grew up without mom, that she is the reason why I cant even remember how my mom sounded like, and I didn't agree at first but he kept on telling us how she used to be back at her old school, he kept on insisting that she wasn't worth any time or attention because even after getting all that from mom she still was in his words a bitch.

"Same. And so what if she slept around? Like we aren't like that. And maybe she did pick fights in her old school but at least she isn't in the mafia and hasn't fucking killed people like us." gesturing between the two of us.

"You're right. I just feel guilty for the past month, and ignoring her, some side remark was one thing but after tonight. I just.... we should have said something." Marco sat next to me, an exasperated look on his face. I knew how he felt I wanted to say something to luca too but the only reason I couldn't was because I knew he would loose control. Luca was like that, he didn't have any sort of condition but once he got really pissed of he would go out of control.

I remember one time how Marco had said something to him that got luca so riled up that he hit Marco until the guy passed out. Granted he realized what he did immediately after and couldn't stop apologizing. It still scared me to go up against him; Xavier was the only one who could actually get him under control.

There was one thought that just wouldn't leave my mind, no matter how hard I tried the image just kept repeating on loop inside my brain. "She's gonna be okay right? We will talk with her tomorrow morning and she will be all right. Nothing much can happen in just one night." I asked fearfully looking at Marco.

He must have sensed what I was insinuating because he immediately replied "no Dan, don't worry okay, Katherine is strong she is not going to turn to drugs. She is gonna need a night alone to actually mull over what happened and let her emotions out then she'll be the stone cold bitch she always is."

Although his words gave me little assurance that she wouldn't do anything, I couldn't help but chuckle at the last part. "Yeah, I kind of like that about her. She oddly reminds me of Sophia." Marco's eyes widened as he laughed too, "can you imagine what the house would be like when the two finally meet." one thing was for sure, that it would be pure chaos.

Elijah's POV

I had just taken a shower and was about to head to bed when I heard an insistent tapping near by when I looked around my room I almost had a heart attack when I saw Kate by my window. I rushed towards her and opened the window.

The girl came stumbling in, I was pretty sure that she must be drunk but the absence of a bottle and her hyperactive mood made me think otherwise. "Hey, you okay?" Kate turned abruptly facing me. She had a big smile plastered on her face one that looked like it might be hurting her jaw, but when I looked close I saw how it seemed to be vibrating, how her whole body was vibrating.

Now I wouldn't have jumped to conclusions but given how she should up at my house at almost 1 in the night, the first thought that came to mind was that she was high. I cautiously stepped closer to her, trying to hide the fear growing in me. I wasn't afraid of what she might do but more of what might happen to her if I took even a single wrong step.

"Hey, ohh I'm bored lets go the park, I wanna jam out." her voice was almost the equivalent of shouting. Thank fucking god my parents weren't home. Only jenny, my brother's girlfriend who I was sure would understand. "Its closed tonight. Maybe tomorrow." I tried to soothe her.

Stepping closer I took a good look at her and could see the signs that she must be using. Her pupils were dilated, body shaking, and when I reached around and placed my hand on her back it seemed abnormally stiff. These were all signs of using drugs, specifically cocaine.

My mind immediately went into panic mode, Kate was on drugs, and how the hell did this happen? And when? I could have never in a million years thought Kate would ever take drugs, especially hard ones like coke.

"Kate did you take drugs?" I know it was stupid of me to ask when she clearly did but a small part of me was kind of hopping it was a lie, some weird cruel trick, but the sheepish smile on her face gave me the answer.

"Why?" my voice was barely above a whisper. "Because I want to feel good. I am done letting life making me suffer. And if I cant get happiness normally then I'm just gonna take it." Even when her eyes glossed over I could see the anger in them, something drove to do this, something happened that made resort to this.

I wanted to ask what, but I knew I wasn't going to get an honest answer when she is high I had to wait till tomorrow morning. But I also knew that I had to call someone, someone I could trust with this sort of thing, more importantly someone she could trust with this kind of thing. Eren. That's it.

I somehow got her distracted enough with music to swipe her phone and get it unlocked. It was totally unethical but I had no other choice right now. I looked through her contacts but I couldn't find Eren, why the hell doesn't she have his number.

Of course, she doesn't have his name saved under Eren, best friends are used to weird nicknames, the only people saved under nicknames were 'smalls' and 'devil' I knew smalls was me because Kate thought that would be the perfect fucking nickname.

The other most likely seemed to be Eren, unless she was actually friends with the devil. Which in hindsight is not that unbelievable. Clicking on the phone icon I placed the call. It was picked up within the first two rings. "Heya slayer. What's up?" Eren's cheery voice came from the other side.

"Hi, this is actually Elijah." I replied nervously, hoping he didn't think I was some sort of kidnapper. "Who the fuck are you? Why do you have Kate's phone?" his voice turning ice cold instantly. "I'm Elijah, I don't know if Kate told you about me, but I am kind of like her friend here."

After a beat of silence, he replied "Smalls?" I let out a deep sigh; of course she referred to me as smalls. "Yes, that's me? Five feet eleven and taller than her but I'm still smalls." "What's up?" seeming to ignore my rant. I didn't know how to bring this up to him, he might flip out. Oh no he will definitely flip out.

"So Kate is kind of at my house and she seems to be high." the next time Eren spoke, there was slight tremble in his voice and if I wasn't listening to it carefully I would surely have missed it. "You're lying." I had to hold back a grimace at the sound of his voice, the desperation behind his words that he tried to cover but ultimately failed.

"No, unfortunately I am not. She should up at my house, just 20 minutes ago. And she from the looks of it, she is showing signs of using. Your the first person I decided to call." he sniffled before he spoke.

"I need you to listen to me carefully okay? I need you to keep an eye on her, make sure she is with you and safe. Put her to bed as soon as you can and most importantly do not let her go near any more hard drugs. Especially meth."

"Hate to break it to you but I think she already is using hard drugs, and why meth specifically? Isn't coke more addictive?" I asked

"She has a complicated past with meth. I'm not gonna tell you the whole story but something happened a while back at her house and she had no other way of getting of the pain than drugs. If it wasn't for the connections we had she would have actually become addicted." this was some really heavy news all at once.

And I wanted to ask him more about it but before I could he had hung up the call. I turned back to Kate, watching jump around with the headphone on her ears. With a sigh I went up to her. Took of her headphone and made her sit on the bed. "What is going on?" she asked less hyper now, I was guessing the high was wearing down now. "I am going to get you changed into comfortable clothes and then we are going to sleep.

"But I don't want to sleep." she whined like a little kid, being forced to go to bed. "Well too bad but we don't have any other choice." I cam back in front of her, with a pair of sweatpants and one of my t-shirts. "Here you go now." grumpily she took them, I turned around to let her change, after a couple minutes I turned back to her pulling down the shirt.

I couldn't make it out in the dark but I could see the faint outline of a word, I could barely see it but I was sure it was there. I am going to have to ask her about this. But as of now I have to put her to bed.

After an agonizingly long 15 minutes, which included Kate, practically screaming at me, hitting me and me restraining her I finally got her to go to bed.

----------------------------------------------------- Hey! Another one up!! This is kind of a filler chapter.

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