stabbed in the back by your best friend.
“you’re gay?!” he exclaimed, turned back to the man who was sweating in front of him.
“I mean yeah man, I've been out since like 10 years now, everyone knows?”
“not us, how would we know all I knew was. Ugh never mind this. Valerie and Mila.” Vince called out our names like a drugged up drill sergeant.
“yes Vince?” we said together
“you're dead.”
“what us?” we shouted again together
“I'm sure Payton didn’t come up with this alone!” Vince said
“Chase” I whispered yelled at him for some type of help. And chase just gave him a look that made him go back to sit down next to Payton.
“hey man, I hope we’re cool.” Eric said hopelessly looking at me for help. I smiled back saying its ok.
“yeah Vince, it was all. Just a ploy which I'm sure Payton would love to fill you in later.” I said
“yeah man Eric, may bad” Vince said, “by the way who else knew here.”
Mila, Eric, Payton, Chase and I raised our hands.
“Chase?!” he yelled and slumped more on his chair. Payton patted his head and looked at her in defeat.
“man why am I never in on the fun.” Anderson whined. He looked better and lighter, I'm sure whatever I did today really helped him, his past was all clear and he had nothing to worry about anymore.
“it’s because you can’t keep your mouth shut.” Mila said from across the room. Davon had his hands around her shoulder and she was lowkey leaning in.
“yeah neither can Eric, we told him the second before we entered the party.” I added
“yeah I'm a tad bit of a loose cannon.” He said looking at Anderson. Huh. There is a vibe there we’ll have to do something about. By the way chase shifted next to me I'm sure he also caught it. That’s the first time that night chase looked at me.
“I think it’s getting pretty late and as much as I love you weirdos I need my rest. Like asap.” Payton said with a yawn and everyone got up to leave. But chase sat next to me all still. He put his hand on my leg indicating he’ll leave later.
“okay guys I'm just going to tell the help to clean this.” Chase and I hugged everyone goodbye and I sent a quick text the night cleaner.
Chase followed me to the main living room and we sat on the couch outside, but he sat across me.
“can you tell me what’s wring now? I thought I was yours but you’ve been acting like you’ve never touched me.” To this statement Chase smirked
“I just found out your parents and my dad are together at the deal. And it’s against Snitch Killers.”
“oh?” I looked at him confused, “what does that have to do with anything?”
“it has to do with everything. The fire I felt today, I feel with you” my heart skipped a beat and I told my mind to get a grip, “what will happen when we eventually take over? What will happen when out parents find out? they hated each other at one point. How will I reinstate my image in front of them? More importantly what if our enemies catch a hold of this and use the vulnerability against us. Both of us are trained so well that we don’t have flaws but with this… feeling anyone can use it. Especially that asshole who knows already.”
“okay. So what do you want to do? Stay away? Fake it?”
“absolutely not.” He said
“so what? I don’t even know why are parents hate each other? What is the problem?”
“your parents don’t hate me cause of some family feud, they knew my mom and both of them had a miscommunication about a deal that went real bead. Just know that, our parents were always friends but girls fight and women are petty.” He looked towards the ground
“so it was a miscommunication and it didn’t get solved before your mom died?” I asked and he looked up
“it did got solved right after she died. So no hate there. But the fact that I had to intervein and my actions and tactics will always be in your parents minds, Val, I am ruthless when it comes to my business and that said of mine is not me. But your parents know me as only that. That’s the reason our dads didn’t keep in touch, cause of my actions at a dark time.”
“I know about this. This is the time I was away, but I was helping us too. Who do you think convinced my parents to have a conversation at the funeral. Hell even attend it.”
“that’s another reason val, how do I deserve you when all I do is break things and all you do is fix it?”
“well if you didn’t break things how will I have fun fixing it?” I replied to which he smiled
“that was too cheesy even for you.” He said moving his seat next to me.