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I was excited to see just what the other three looked like.
“Hey, do you know why my mom died? How?” I asked softly. Jack had popped up right after, so maybe he knew what had happened.
I’d always assumed that the doctors were right, it had been a brain aneurysm, and I’d just made up that man to help me deal with it all.
But it wasn’t something from my mind. It was real.
“Yes, but Dezikiel will explain everything to you. I promise, for now, just relax. Trust me, you’ll love breakfast. Much better than crummy cornflakes or that shit coffee you always made,” he snorted.
I smirked at this, and then my face dropped.
“Hold on… you guys have seen me naked on occasion,” I mumbled, the heat rushing to my face. Countless times my monsters had seen me waltz into the kitchen in just my underwear. I’d always believed they were a figment of my mind, why would I have cared?
Sure, I’d laughed when they’d all turned away, finding it utterly adorable. Except Creeper. He never seemed to care.
Now it was beyond embarrassing.
Jack choked and cleared his throat as he frowned down the hallway, avoiding my gaze.
But then his mouth curved upwards in amusement.
“It’s not funny. I thought you guys weren’t real,” I hissed.
“Yeah, I know,” he chuckled. “We didn’t look.”
“Bullshit. You guys have seen way too much of me. Hell, you know all my secrets. Oh God, some of the things I’ve told you all,” I groaned as I bit my lip.
I’d told them a lot of personal things. I remember telling them embarrassing stories from my childhood, loving how their growls sounded like laughter. I’d told them about my frustrations with periods, even thrown boxes of tampons at them when I was in moods. Hell, I’d even told them about the odd crush here and there from around the place, or pointed out hot men during our TV shows.
Hell, Creeper knew about my issues with virginity, how I was scared of what my first time would be like.
I felt my cheeks flush scarlet at all these memories.
“I won’t lie, watching over you has been an interesting experience,” Jack shrugged. “We’ve learned a lot about you.”
“And I know nothing about you guys,” I sighed, but my mind was onto something else now.
Something I’d forced from my mind for so long.
“You protected me that day on the streets,” I murmured as we came to a wooden door.
Jack paused midway through leaning forward to open it, his hand on the doorknob.
He just exhaled softly, those dark eyes falling on me. They swirled with anger and sadness, and I clenched my jaw at the emotions in them.
“I couldn’t let them hurt you,” he growled.
“You all helped me. I always wondered what really happened, because I thought you guys weren’t real so something else must have happened to stop it all. I don’t remember how I got to the hospital,” I said softly, my voice pitching. I didn’t want to remember it. But I did. And I hated it more than anything.
It was the reason I’d vowed never to end up back on the streets. That I’d do anything to avoid it.
I stared into those dark eyes, managing a small smile.
“Thank you.”
