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Hi guys, welcome to the sequel for Shy- Defeated !

Hope you enjoy it, and thank you for being patient for this to come out !

It will probably not make much sense to begin with, but bare with me and all will be explained in the upcoming chapters.

And please, do not moan at me about the events that happen in this book, I have have these planned for a long time and I'm not changing them or writing them just to please readers, what happens in this book has always been my idea and plan since writing the first book. Please respect that because the amount of hate I received on the ending of Shy was disgusting and put me off writing for a while.

But, hopefully those people that hated aren't here and it's only the people that liked the ending and want to find out what's going to happen !

Thanks for sticking around, and I hope you enjoy it !

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Updated 07.01.2022

Tai looked up at the mess of a house in front of her and turned to her twin, Raiden, raising her dark eyebrows at him. "Out of all the places, you chose this dump?" She said, clearly not impressed at her new home. The pain was peeling, a window shutter was hanging off and the grass had grown so long that they were surrounded by weeds.

"I didn't see the point of blowing all of our money on a fancy house, this has all we need," Raiden defended himself, not viewing the house as pessimistically as his sister. He was always the more positive one out of the two.

"I'm sure it has lots more than we need, such as rats," Tai frowned and crossed her arms over her chest, scowling at Raiden. "We've got a load of money, you could have bought somewhere a bit nicer!"

"We're here now," Raiden said, smiling hopefully, "let's make this work."

Tai pursed her lips and held her hand out. "Keys," she sighed and Raiden placed the keys to their new home in her palm. "Let's hope the inside is better than the out," she murmured and walked up the path and shoved the keys into the lock. The door creaked as she pushed it open and she walked into the sparsely furnished one-story house. "Home sweet home," she said un-enthusiastically, looking back at her brother in distaste. "Next time, leave it to me."

"There won't be a next time," Raiden said and kicked the door shut. "This is our home, our new town. This is where we are going to stay, Tai."

Tai glanced at her brother as she walked through the house, making her way into the kitchen and looking out of the window, nodding when she saw they backed onto the woods. "At least you got one thing right," she muttered and scrunched her face up when she looked at the dust-covered counter. "Are you sure this place hasn't got mould?"

"Stop being so miserable!" Raiden scolded and wrapped his arm around Tai's shoulder, smiling down at her. "This is what we've always wanted. We're out, it's just us two, we're out of the system, no one can tell us what to do anymore. We're free."

Tai pursed her lips, looking at her boot-clad feet. "The way we got here wasn't exactly... Pleasant."

"Forget about that, Tai," Raiden frowned. "It was an accident, it wasn't your fault, you know you didn't mean to hurt anyone."

"It was my fault," she argued. "If only I could learn to control it, then maybe we wouldn't be here in this tiny little town in this god awful house-"

"Hey, stop it," Raiden said softly, cutting his sister off. "None of this is your fault. You couldn't help what happened."

"Exactly!" Tai said, groaning in frustration and ran her fingers through her long dark hair. "I couldn't help it; it was my fault!"

"Oi, shut up," Raiden said suddenly.

"Hey! Don't tell me to shut up!" Tai exclaimed, glaring up at Raiden.

"This is a fresh start!" Raiden said sternly. "We're going to forget about what happened and move on with our lives. I'm not going to let you bring yourself down with your negative thoughts."

"What about when I lose control?" Tai asked quietly. She looked at Raiden with a vulnerability in her eyes that only Raiden had ever seen. He sighed and squeezed Tai's shoulder comfortingly.

"We'll cross that bridge when it comes to it."

*

The next Tai's mood had not improved. She crawled out of bed and scowled. "This bed feel like rocks!" She called, "literal rocks! I had the worst nights sleep ever!" She groaned and rubbed her back.

"That's exactly what I want to hear first thing in the morning, you moaning!" Raiden said chirpily as he walked past Tai's room, grinning at his sister as he stopped by her door.

"Ha ha," she said sarcastically and stuck her middle finger up at him, glaring.

"Rude!" Raiden tutted.

"Fuck off," Tai smiled. "So, brother, what's on the agenda today?"

"You are going shopping," Raiden told her.

"Sexist pig, why does the girl have to do that?" Tai wondered as she searched the cardboard boxes in her room for some clean clothes. Tai was the unorganised twin, she had dumped all of her boxes containing her belongings in her room where Raiden had already unpacked his and put everything away neatly. Tai's belongings would remain in their boxes for many weeks until she eventually got around to sorting them out.

"Because if I do you'll moan at me that I bought the wrong freaking cheese," Raiden chuckled and Tai raised an eyebrow at him.

"There is a difference," she said seriously.

"And that's why you're shopping, not me," Raiden shrugged.

"What are you doing then?" Tai wondered and smiled when located a pair of skinny jeans.

"I'm going to the high school."

Tai frowned and slowly turned to look at her brother. "And why the hell is that?"

"Because after all the crap that has happened to us, we're going to do one normal thing," Raiden explained.

"And that is?"

"Graduate high school," Raiden grinned and Tai looked at her brother with a blank look.

"I hate you," she said. "And if you were closer then I would punch you."

"I love you too," Raiden smiled. "Tai, please don't fight me with this. We both need to graduate."

"Me? Fight with you?" Tai gasped and held her hand to her heart, feigning a look of shock. "Raiden, you hurt me, really hurt me."

Raiden rolled his eyes. "You're the most argumentative person ever, Tai, I think I only put up with you because we're related."

"Raiden," Tai said as she grabbed a black shirt, "words hurt you know."

"You should remember that next time you're a bitch to me," Raiden pointed out and Tai smirked.

"I'll try," she said. "Now shoo, let me get changed."

Raiden nodded and reached for the door handle, but stopped and looked back at his sister. "Tai, are you okay?" He asked seriously.

"Nope," Tai said instantly and glanced over her shoulder at Raiden. "I'll let you know when I am."

Raiden gave his sister a look, but nodded and excited her room.

Tai sighed and rubbed her eyes. "If I ever am," she murmured.

After what she did... She didn't know how she could ever forgive herself.