I watch as the cops break the fight up. Dad's shirt, covered in blood, of his own. Sebastian, my not so little brother anymore, wipes the blood off his bruised fists.

"Hands behind your back." the officer tells dad, arresting him. Mom stares, blankly.

"You too," he mumbles to Sebastian.

"You're not putting that cheap material around my wrists," Sebastian mutters, walking away to the police car, hands behind his back.

"Hey Soph," he calls me.

"Can you get me out of there soon? I have a date," he says as if he wasn't going to the police station for getting in a fight with his dad.

"Uh, yea." I mumble, still shocked at what just happened.

"Mrs. Rivera?" the police officer walks up to us, directing his words to mom.

"We're gonna need you, all the witnesses, and your lawyer at the police station. Your husband will be transported in a different car." My mom simply nods.

"I'm going to-" she begins talking but is cut off as yells claim the air.

"Mrs. Rivera, what happened?"

"Sophia, why are your brother and father being escorted by police?"

"Is Sebastian being arrested?"

"Was anyone injured?"

Mom takes in a breath.

"Mom, Shyla and I will go to the police station, you go home." I tell her and she nods.

"I'll call Mr.Lee." Our lawyer.

Shyla and I walk out the seating area, paparazzi crowd us.

Their questions, repeating as if they're a record, stuck on replay.

Flashes from the camera blind us, even with the sun.

We make it to the car, getting in.

"Well, it finally happened." Shyla mumbles.

I didn't think she felt this way about dad, neither did I think Sebastian was so, outgoing. I guess I have been away from home a bit too much.

"How'd you find out about your savings?" I ask, intrigued by my eighteen-year-old sister.

"I was preparing to use it for a good cause when I checked the balance, all was gone, from my joint account with Seb. I didn't think dad was the reason why, but I overheard conversations I shouldn't have listened to. I had an investigator look through his financial details before you say I spent unnecessary money, he pays us for not being a dad." she explains and I felt so bad because I couldn't be there to talk through things with her.

"I'm sorry Shyla." I wrap my hands around her, pulling her into a hug.

"It's alright, how'd you find out about his," she gulps, "mistress."

I explain everything to her and she scowls in disgust.

"Who knew Seb was that brave huh?" I ask, chuckling. Trying to lighten the mood.

"I think being trapped in a house, spending most of his life with a dad who didn't care, he had to be brave," she mumbles and it's only then I realize how close they are.

The car stops outside the police station and before I can even get out, flashes from cameras and questions are thrown at me. Microphones are pushed into my face and I think for a minute I stop breathing.

"Sophia explain what happened!"

"Your dad beating his son in a restaurant, what do you have to say about that?" a reporter asks and I try so hard not to scream.

A hand grabs mines and immediately my skin is on fire, which means it could be only one person. Axton.

"Move out the way please," he tells them, they make two lines, clearing the way for Shyla and I to walk into the police station.

He holds the door open for me as I step in.

I see Sebastian sitting in a chair, hands behind his back. I see dad sitting a few chairs down from him, accompanied by an officer.

I quickly rush to Sebastian, but I'm stopped.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Rivera, you can't speak to either of them, yet." an officer tells me.

"You okay?" Axton turns me around to look at him.

"Yeah I'm fine, I just didn't expect this." I sigh.

"Did you tell her?" he asks and I give him a nod.

"She was more worried about her social status than filing divorce papers."

"That's just your mom Soph, you know her career is everything to her."

"I know," I tell him as a blonde walks up to us, her blue eyes holding worry and red rings, clearly telling the world she has been crying.

"Hi, um Sophia right?" she sniffles, talking to me.

"Hi, yes, that's me." I tell her, confused.

"I'm Amanda, Sebastian's girlfriend." she mumbles the last pat nervously.

Shyla walks up to us and gasps.

"Amanda as in, Seb's girlfriend!?" Amanda nods.

"Shyla right?" she asks.

"Yes that's me, it's nice to meet you!"

"I can say the same," Amanda says.

It once again hits me that I'm missing my sibling's lives and it hurts so bad. I'm acting like dad, work work and more work. I rarely spend time with them anymore, makes sense that I don't even know Sebastian has a girlfriend. I'm becoming if not already a bad sister. If everything that happened didn't make me cry, this did.

"Hey, why are you crying?" Axton's arms wrap around me.

"I'm fine," I mumble turning back to Amanda.

"Where is he?" she asks, trying not to cry.

"Well, they said we-"

"I'm here." I hear his voice and turn around to see him walking towards us.

Amanda runs up to him and he wraps his arms around her.

"Axton," I mumble.

"Hm?" he asks me.

"My brother had a girlfriend and I didn't even k-know." I start crying. Why am I crying?

"It's alright Soph, you're not a bad sister, don't think so," he tells me exactly what I wanted to hear.

"Soph, where's mom, and why are you crying?" I look up at my brother, soon he'll grow up and I'll regret not helping him sneak out the house.

"Mom's home. Where's dad?"

"Sorry Soph, I don't have a dad. You need to make a statement though, I'll be here." he sits down.

Can I blame him? Other kids got their dads to go to games and wrestle with them, he had his dad tell him the importance of avoiding the paparazzi.

I nod, walking away, giving my statements and wrapping things up at the police station.

"Sophia!" I hear my dad call me, I turn around and he walks up to me.

"You're gonna regret this bitch." My heart sinks and my stomach has that, betrayed feeling. He has addressed me that way.

"I-" he walks away leaving me shocked and hurt. I stare at the floor until my phone rings, bringing me back to reality. I see Axton's mom calling me and several missed calls from Amyra.

"Hi, Eleanor." I try to act happy.

"Sophia, darling, I need you to come to our house, right now, please." She pleads and I feel bad for wanting to say no.

"Okay, sure." I tell her

"Thank you so much." she hangs up and I turn on my heel seeing Axton talking to Sebastian. Sebastian reminds me of Axton in a few ways. The whole daddy issues thing they got going.

My mind takes me back to the day Axton got arrested for fighting his uncle in the parking lot of his father's office. He was nineteen at the time.

Flashback.

" Myra your phone is ringing!" I yell at my best friend.

"Answer it bitch!" she yells back causing me to laugh.

I see Jace calling her.

"Hi Jacey." I answer the call.

"Shit. Soph. Uh, where's Amyra?"

"Bathroom, what's up?" I ask popping a grape into my mouth.

"Um, okay promise me you won't freak out." he says.

"Uh, okay I promise." I reply.

"Axton is getting arrested." I spit the grape out. What has he done?

"What?"

"Yeah, can you get here, his dad's office?" he asks me and I'm already throwing my jacket on.

"Yeah." I hang up.

"Myra! We have to leave!"

---

"Calm down Soph. He's getting arrested not murdered." Amyra says.

"He's getting arrested, what could he have possibly done?" I mumble.

"What if he's injured? Or worse, unconscious." I overthink every possible thought.

"Yet you two tell the media 'We're just friends.' " she makes a weird voice, trying to impersonate me? It couldn't be Axton that's for sure.

I glare at her as she pulls into the car park. Ambulance, police cars. Oh, God.

We get out, running up to Jace, I see Axton being arrested.

"Hands behind your back." the police officer says.

"Yeah I don't think so buddy, that cheap ass material isn't going on me," he tells the police officer, walking towards the police car.

As he passes us, he looks me up and down, I think I forgot to breathe. He winks at me getting into the car.

" You two are so getting married." Jace mumbles, walking towards the officers.

I see the paramedics observing a very, bruised Nigel. I gulp.

On our way to the police station, Jace explains the very physical fight between Axton and his Uncle Nigel.

We pull up to the police station, dodging paparazzi as we walk into the building.

There he was, sitting in a chair.

I walk up to him.

"Are you insane?" I ask him.

"Only for you darling." He smirks.

End of Flashback.

"Ready to leave?" he asks me and I nod.