Anna gasped at James's words and blushed. He never said a thing like that to her. Never and yet even in a joking matter, the thought of walking around him naked or caught while taking a bubble bath embarassed her to the core. James was her best friend and he had no right to even joke about that. He should know she did not joke about their genitals or wiggle her eye brows whenever one of them flashed a bit of skin. They were like her brothers and to see that made her feel a bit dirty. "Please do not joke about me walking around you two naked, sounds too incestous," she whispered, shaking her head at James. What was wrong with these two to be acting out of character. Even James kissed her on the forehead as she frowned wondering if these two were high on something. That must be it, she thought to herself.<br/><br/>Their friendship was sacred but yet it felt as if they could care less about her personal space. Anna never tried to invade their privacy nor force them to do things with her. She knew men had their own things to do and their reputations to protect if seen holding a female's purse while on a shopping trip. Maybe it was time to find some female friends to combat the icky feeling she had of these two seeing her naked. She was not sick at the thought per say moreso terrified of them seeing her body and snickering about it. Anna knew what she looked like and though she was not some high class model, she still tried to keep herself in somewhat of a shape. Now to hear them barreling over her need for privacy gnawed at her more than it should and she let them know about it.<br/><br/>"Please stop trying to guilt me into having some sort of bodyguard," she pleaded wanting to bite down on her lip in nervousness but remembering how her lip was she stopped herself. She wanted to be on her own even if she was a bit afraid Jace might come back but she did not want to have her life run over by other people. Her parents had tried that on her and when she found a friendship in James and Ethan, she was glad to see neither of time tried to push her to let them run her life. Now to hear them wanting to do so was a complete one eighty on how she thought their friendship was. They were suppose to support her and even be glad she was alive but the thought of encroaching on their space or them on her own bothered her more than usual. Once in a while the pair stayed over and slept in the living room but she kept her door closed and locked in case one of them were confused as to which door was the bathroom and take her own door for it.<br/><br/>"All I ask of you two is to be there for me and not bossing me around like my parents," she snapped, frowning and apologizing for her outburst. It pained her to feel like the little girl who was bossed into growing up faster than she wanted to be. By the time she was ten years old, she was off doing the shopping run while her parents went for another round of fighting. Most of the time she stayed in the supermarket long enough to feel as if it might be safe to go home with her bags of groceries. She could even remember one of the store managers, a female by the name of Sarah Wilkins, a nice old lady pushing a shopping cart of groceries with Anna to take back to her home. Sarah never said anything but she must have heard enough rumors about Anna's family to realize Anna was the product of a broken household who tried to make it seem as if nothing was wrong. She wondered if James and Ethan would realize their mistake in asking her to choose her personal freedom to have someone watch her every move until she was better and let it go.