SHE

Twenty nine

Bed still warm, marks on my neck,

I still hear your laugh in my head

I must admit, I'd never guessed

you couldn't handle being loved, too much of a mess

Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. 

"The house will be empty for 2 hours from the moment you get this" - the note placed on the last page read.

It had been half an hour already. I wasn't going anywhere, I couldn't believe this without talking to her. She loves me, I love her. She's my girlfriend, she would never..

This had to be joke, there's no way this is true. It has to be a joke, I repeated to myself. Come on, you have evidence right in front of your eyes, yet you're still so naive? voice inside my head laughed at me. 

"No," I whispered. 

She had you wrapped around your finger this whole time and even now she still does? I expected more of you.

"No, she loves me," I repeated to myself. 

She doesn't, she never did. It was all a game. 

"Well fuck you, I'll prove you wrong," I told myself, grabbing my jacket, calling Hanna to pick me up. 

I stared at my shaking hands. I closed my eyes, hoping I could just wake up and this would be just a dream. Yet when I opened them, I was still at my house with pages of proof spread around me on the floor, my hands still shaking, my eyes bloodshot from me not allowing the tears to come. I can't just give up on us because someone has decided to play a childish trick on me. 

Yes, that's all it is, a trick, I repeated to myself.

She was here within 3 minutes, grinning at me from the car, while I ran to her. 

"Hey boo," she kissed my cheek once I'd gotten inside of the car. 

Then she noticed my face, her expression changing, clenching her jaw: "I know how to kill her without leaving any traces behind. No one will ever find her." 

I smiled for the first time in the past half an hour: "don't be silly. Everything's great, I will solve this."

She looked at me with big eyes, analyzing me: "solve what, preciosa?"

I sighed: "there's this stupid prank that someone did on me, it's about Eden. But I swear, it's just a prank, I just need to-"

I felt a soft hand grabbing mine: "preciosa, if it's just a prank, then why are you so upset about it?"

Because your intuition is never wrong no matter how long you try to ignore it, the voice inside my head said. I looked at my trembling hand in Hanna's. No, I won't just give up on us.

"Just drive, I need you to take me somewhere," I ignored her question.

She nodded, still not letting go of my arm though. And we were on our way. 

15 minutes later, here we were, in front of the all too similar house I'd spent some time in. 

"And now?" Hanna asked.

I let go of her arm, opening the door: "now I prove it's just a prank."

"I'll go with you if you need me to," she said, her voice concerned.

I shook my head, not averting my gaze from the house: "I need to do this on my own."

"Okay, I respect your decision. But I'm staying here, in case you need a quick runaway," she pulled me in, kissing my cheek one last time before letting me go. 

I sighed, closing the door after me. I went straight for the front of the house, fully aware of the security system on this house. However, the person who sent me all the evidence had left it turned off, so I simply walked in. 

I looked around, thinking about the many good memories I had made in this house. When did it slip your mind they weren't just normal people? They were the Quietus, silly, not your friends, that voice said.

Rarely was I the one to get attached, but I was, pretty badly in fact when it came to this gang, to my girlfriend. I had accepted every each of them as my family, knowing they were to Eden. Originally I had thought they had to be evil, Blake would be a heartless bastard, and so on. I was proven wrong, every one of them had a special place in my heart. 

I walked upstairs, knowing which room to head to. The brains of the whole gang, the best hackers in the world room. Blake's room. It was quite ironic how long ago I could have done this and find out anything I had to know. Not that it would be easy or anywhere near to safe, cause it would most likely get me killed.

Walking in his room, I immediately headed for his desk, sitting down in front of the thing that held this whole gang together - Blake's best friend - his laptop. This was the hard part. Breaking into his laptop wasn't something I couldn't do, it would just take a little bit of time. I started working on it, whilst thinking about the person who sent all the evidence to me. It was someone in the gang, someone who knew me inside out, even my hacking talents, which no one had ever known about. It wouldn't be logical for Blake to do so, he could've just told me, Luke was probably as clueless as ever, Angel simply wouldn't do this for me. It had to be Andre, we were the closest, he knew the most about me. 

Scratch that, why am I thinking about who could've done this while this had to be joke? But I had been doubting Eden.. No, no,no, there's no way. There was no way she would go this far to do it. 

Finally, I hacked into the laptop, not waisting any time before going through the files, needing to hack into each map since multiple safety nets were put on them. 10 minutes later I finally found what I needed. 

One page popped open after the other. Nearly all of them were what I'd seen already. Pictures of me walking into my house, in my house, with Kevin, on cheerleader practice, my house's security systems codes, blueprints of my house, pretty much me on every occasion. They had been following my every move at least for two months before I met Eden, every single time of me doing my usual day to day things written down. My favorite things, places to be, things to do also in the files. Not to mention, every single detail about my security guards too. Their action plan, everything. If that wasn't enough, everything about my parents was included as well. 

It was clear, they were planning to kidnap me, and since even the worlds most dangerous gang couldn't do it without getting killed by my security, they needed another plan. That was where Eden came in. They wanted my parents money in exchange of my life. They wanted to be smart about it, by earning my, my parents and securities trust, so that no one would figure out what was happening, at least until I was already gone. Since my parents were back in town, there was maximum security, they had to postpone it. To today. They wanted to do it today, as soon as my parents were gone. But why would Eden have to be the one to do it? It made no sense, it could've been any one of them.

Now all I had left to do was figure out a scenario in which Eden had nothing to do with this plan.

Who are you kidding? the voice asked. 

But I ignored it, starting to search for something, anything that would keep my world from falling apart.