That night was the first time that I had ever really, seriously wanted to punch my father. I couldn't even recall a time when my father had ever been so openly violent with my twin, at least not in front of me. And I really didn't know what happened behind closed doors, or when he was at soccer practice or just not home. Did my father beat Claudia up a lot? How would I know, she wore a hell of a lot of make up and I was fairly positive that she would cover something like that up. Still, the sight of him pulling my sister up off the floor by her hair, hearing him say those nasty things to her. It made my heart race and my hands ball up in fists. And then our poor mother, crying and apologizing like all of this was her fault, like she was scared. It was the first time I realized how bad our father really was. Don't even ask how I hadn't noticed it until then, I guess it was just my natural instinct to turn a blind eye to things. I didn't like conflict, never had. Just went along with whatever everyone said. But I remember very clearly that that night, I hadn't kept my mouth shut. Everything our father shouted at us was matched with an equal scream of my own. I hated him.
It wasn't long after that when both mother and father disappeared again, apparently too disgusted to look at us. Neither bothered to ask if Claudia was okay, and I tried but she wasn't very willing. I ended up curling up in bed and just lying there for hours, thinking about all the things that I still wanted to say to my father, and then eventually my thoughts strayed to Jesse. I wasn't sure if my friend would ever forgive me, all I could do was apologize really. And hopefully both he and Eden had gotten home safely the previous night, since I had driven them here.
Klaus woke up not long after Claudia did. Not realizing that there was two other people in his house that were not family, he only threw on a white tee before going downstairs in his black and green Monster boxers. Unfortunately, the first place he walked into was the kitchen, where he was immediately greeted by the sight of his sister and... Eden. His hand found the back of his neck and he looked away, coughing awkwardly as he began to back out of the room again. "Oh, um, sorry. I didn't mean to disrupt anything..." The teenager quickly left the room, escaping to the living room where he then found Jesse. If he had took a moment to think about it, he would have realized that Eden being here probably meant that Jesse was too. Of course he was still too busy mulling over the fact that Eden had just seen him in his boxers to think about anything else.
As soon as his eyes found the blonde, he froze. His mind immediately recalled the coppery taste of the other boys blood in his mouth from the previous night and he grimaced, disgusted and angry with himself. Hesitantly he took a step forward, unsure if the other boy was asleep or if he wasn't, if he had noticed him yet. "Jesse?.."