“Whoa! It’s a babe!” Sara heard, still in her sleep.
“Back off Bane! I saw her first!” another voice said.
“I say that I get first dibs, not you Ray.” Spoke a third voice.
“Hey, you got the babe in Dallas, Don, and Ray, you got the chick in New York City. I get this one.” Said Bane.
“I did not get the New York chick!” Don said.
“Yeah he got the Dallas gift basket.” Ray said.
Sara’s eyes finally blinked open to see three muscled up men standing by the couch. There was a Japanese-looking man with a dragon tattoo going up his bare back. He was only wearing a pair of pants. The other two wore t-shirts, each with a different logo, and shorts. They were both Caucasians, but one had such a dark tan, you would think he was an Indian. The tanless man was bald and had a half foot long beard that was braided. The man with the tan had blonde spiky hair and looked like a surfer dude.
The blonde looked at her. “Bane, Ray, she’s awake.”
The bald guy got a mischievous grin on his face. “Sweet. Don, Ray, you two back off. I call dibs.”
“You can’t call dibs on a girl I saw first!” the Japanese man said.
Sara started to curl up in a ball at the corner of the couch, wide-eyed. “W-wait a minute.”
“You three butt off!” Crow’s voice boomed from outside. The door slammed open as he stomped over to them. “I told Rem not to tell you three about her! Thank god that I got here before you had the chance to rape her!”
“Hold it!” Don said. “We don’t rape!”
“Much.” Crow said with a yeah right look. “Yeah, I know you don’t rape, but still you would’ve had your grimy hands all over her!”
“Yeah.” Ray said with a look like he was daydreaming.
Sara sunk deeper into the corner.
“Hey, Crow, you can’t call dibs on a girl either.” Bane said, turning and putting his hand under her chin. “I say may the best man win.”
Crow punched him in the face. “That would be a very bad mistake, Bane. Touch her again, I’ll slice your body up and place the pieces across the globe, and a nice little other piece of you body will go straight into a volcano.”
Bane covered his privates. “Sheesh. Don’t even joke.”
“Then go!” Crow said, pointing to the door.
They all walked out the door with their heads down.
“Spoil sport.” Don mumbled.
“Go!” Crow said glaring. They all scrambled out the door. Crow walked over and sat down beside me. “I’m sorry about that.” He put his head down and sighed. “They’re awful, but promise me that if I’m drunk you’ll stay away from me.” His head rose as he looked at me concerned. “They would be the least of your worries if I’m drunk. If I’m drunk, they’d probably have to hold me back, so if you see me hitting the bottle, run to Rem. Night would be better, but I highly doubt he’ll be any help.” He sighed again. “He acts so tough, but he’s more torn than any of us. He’s suffered through so much more.”
“Like what?” Sara said, finally coming out from the corner of the couch.
“Sorry, Sara, but that would be his story to tell, not ours. Maybe he’ll tell you.” Crow paused for a second then started to fight back a laugh. “Screw that last sentence. Night won’t even tell us the whole story. We’d ask him while he was drunk if we weren’t so drunk ourselves. If he’s drunk though, I’d stay back. He’d probably kill you.” He stood up. “The bathroom is upstairs, second door on the left. I figured that you’d like a bath.” He held out a big t-shirt and some boxer shorts. “The shirt is Bane’s. I stole it from him.” He whispered. “The boxer shorts are Rem’s. Don’t worry. They haven’t been used. I opened a nice new package of his for you. They’re yours to wear to bed.” Then he whispered. “Keep the shirt too. It’s his favorite, and he’ll get pissed off. He won’t do anything to you though. This is just pay back for messing with you.”
“But you had it before you knew that they were messing with me.” Sara said.
“Actually, Bear gave me a heads up. I know how Bane is. He’s the worst out of the three of them, plus, I have a friendly rivalry with Bane.”
“Oh yeah. It sounded very friendly when you threatened to throw his privates in a volcano.” Sara said. She couldn’t help but smile.
Crow’s booming laugh filled the house.
“You’re my first real friend.” Sara said as she reached out and hugged Crow. “Thank you.” Then she pulled back seeing his red face. “Even though you’re all evil and whatnot.”
Crow laughed again and stood up. “No one is truly evil or good. It’s only how people see one another. To some, we may be evil; to other’s we may be good. It’s all how you see it.” He started to walk off.
“You’re really smart Crow, and really good too.” Sara said.
He looked back with an evil grin. “Your mind may change.”
Sara’s eyes grew wide.
Crow smiled a normal smile. “I was just kidding with the evil grin.” His face grew serious. “But, you really could change your mind in time.” He walked out the door.
Sara looked down at the clothes in her hand. “What about underwear?” she thought. She wished that there was another girl here. Sighing, she walked upstairs to the bathroom, hoping that Crow would take her to buy some new clothes.

“Ah.” She said as she sunk into the steaming bath water. “So relaxing.” She sat there for almost a minute with a clear mind until she remembered her mother’s laugh…the last laugh she ever heard from her mother. Her home played back in her mind.
“Go get me some milk.” Her mother had said from the kitchen. “I can’t make cookies without them.”
“Okay mom.” Sara said. It had always bugged her how 50’s sitcom her family seemed.
“I go!” A little boy said reaching up at Sara holding on to his stuffed dinosaur.
“No kiddo. You stay here with Mommy and Daddy, okay?” Her father said from the living room chair, and you wouldn’t believe what he was doing. Smoking one of those old pipes and reading the newspaper while sitting in front of a perfectly cozy fireplace.
“Otay! Seh-wa go bye-bye!” Her brother said as he hugged her.
“I’ll be back in a few minutes.” Sara said. After all, the store was only a block away.
Her brother let go and went to go play with the dinosaur in the living room.
“Later.” Sara said as she walked out of the door, never to expect that it would be the last thing she ever said to them.
She walked into the store and grabbed the milk…then…blank…nothing. “Wait…Why can’t I remember…I thought...I walked home and saw my home burning...but...” Sara thought as she realized that after her family died in the fire, she hadn’t took the time to remember what happened. “Did…I forget….Was it that bad?” She thought. Sara strained to remember what happened after she grabbed the milk only to be interrupted by voices outside the room trying to whisper.
“I can pick the lock faster, Bane.” Don whispered.
“So. Why should you be the first to see her?” Ray asked.
“I say that I get first glance.” Bane whispered. “After all, I do have a nice little rivalry with Crow.”
Sara wanted to grab a towel, but was afraid that if she left the safety of the shower curtain, they’d see her. She settled on wrapping the shower curtain around her as she curled up into a ball, something she always did when she was scared half to death.
The door knob started to turn, as she closed her eyes, waiting for the horror to unleash, but she sighed in relief as a familiar voice yelled at the three men.
“You three won’t be immortal once I’m through with you perverts!” Crow’s voice echoed through the halls.
“Crap.” Bane said.
Sara listened as they ran off.
“Sorry about that Sara. I’ll whoop their sorry asses for you! I promise.” Crow’s voice said outside the door then died away as he ran in the direction of the other’s footsteps.
Sara sighed then realized that her head hurt. She rubbed her forehead. When that didn’t help, she tried putting her head underwater for a second, only to have the pain get worse, so much worse that it knocked her out, with her head still under the water.

Sara jumped up. She was in a bed, dressed in the t-shirt and shorts. “What…”
“You passed out in the bathtub.”
She turned to see Night sitting in a chair beside the bed. “I had to use the restroom. I didn’t have the slightest idea that they let you use my bathtub. I figured you were with Crow, so what do I see when I enter? I see you, passed out, under the water, dieing. The last thing I want is a damn corpse in my bathtub!” He glared at Sara who was glaring at him. He hadn’t noticed before and jumped when he saw that anger in her eyes.
“YOU SAW ME NAKED!?” She screamed, furious.
“No. I saw you wearing a couple of censored bars. No shit I saw your naked body! Maybe next time I’ll let you drown, and make sure that no one ever enters that bathroom so your naked corpse can float in your bathwater in peace!” Night looked furious. “Stupid girl! I saved your life, was nice enough to even dress you incase anyone else decided to come in, and THIS is the thanks I get!? This is why I don’t save the innocents!”
Sara, realizing that she was wrong for yelling at him, apologized. “I’m sorry.” She said. “I’m just…embarrassed.” Looking up, she noticed that Night was slightly pink. “Are you…blushing?”
Night glared at her again. “I don’t blush.” He stood up. “I need some beer. You’re driving me insane.” He stormed out of the room.
“Fine then alcoholic!” Sara yelled at him. She turned and noticed that she’d been passed out for 6 hours. “He stayed beside me for 6 hours?” She asked to herself out loud.
“Yep.”
She turned to see Rem.
“He told Crow that you went to bed and not to bug you. He waited up here all night to make sure you’d be okay, even though I already told him repeatedly that you were.” He said.
Sara rolled his eyes. “He only saved me so he wouldn’t have a corpse in his bathtub.”
“Not true, just like how he told you that he needed to use the bathroom and saw you. He came to the door to apologize. After the 5th time you didn’t answer, he broke the door down and yanked you up out of the water.” Rem was grinning.
Sara was stunned. “What?”
“It’s true. He was already embarrassed about apologizing to you, so I figured that since he saved your life, he though that was good enough.” Rem said.
She was speechless. “Um…I need clothes.”
“Yeah.” Rem blushed. “We kinda forgot that none of us carried around ladies underwear and bras, seeing as we’re not girls. I realized that one of us would have to take you shopping. Unfortunately, everyone, except Night, wants to go get some new clothes, so the troublesome trio is coming along too.”
“Oh…peachy.” Sara said.
“Until then,” He tossed her some clothes, “wear these. They’ll fit better.”
“But she looks so hot in my shirt.” Bane said, causing Sara to jump. He was standing inside the door, grinning at Sara. “You don’t have to go shopping. I have plenty of ladies underwear from some old friends.”
“Eww!” Sara said, disgusted. “I’m not wearing underwear some perverted hag you did it with wore.”
Bane’s jaw dropped. “Hag? For your information, every girl I get it between 18 and 25. Say, you’re 18, right?” He said, grinning.
Sara started to curl up into a ball, but stopped, grabbed the pillow, and threw it at him instead. Bane caught it.
“Oh, so you’d rather play a sexy pillow fight with me?” Bane was grinning.
Sara blinked. She never imagined she’d actually miss something from blinking, but when her eyes opened, Bane had a bloody nose and was pinned to the wall by Crow.
“Volcano.” Crow said as he threw Bane into the hallway. He turned and looked at Sara, frowning. “He was the nicest guy until him and his buddies found a porno in the trash.”
Rem handed Sara the clothes, then grabbed the collar of Crow’s jacket. “Come on. You can tell her anything you want after she’s dressed and we get something to eat.”
Crow smiled and held out his hands. “Sara!” He yelled drawing it out as Rem pulled him away and closed the door.
Sara paused, knowing that a trip to the mall with those five would be like entering Hell for a day. “Well…Rem and Crow shouldn’t be too bad.” She thought. All she was dreading was Bane, Don, and Ray. “I’d rather do without underwear than have Bane, Don, and Ray with me as I’m buying some new underwear.” Suddenly she wished she did drown in that bathtub. She’ll have to remember to thank Night later.