The Gangleader Paction

Chapter 24: ➢ Evil Loathsome Little Cockroach

But I was home! I was finally fricken HOME! With what little energy I had left I forced myself to keep going. If I can just make it to my house, I just know there's some out-of-date cereal waiting for me. Maybe I might have to stop on the way for some milk because the last I checked Jason finished all the milk trying to make one stupid hot chocolate.

My house was nearing and I could practically see it over the hill. I was going to make it! I was going to be home, by myself! My life was going to be back to normal, just like it had been months before Xavier had me fricken kidnapped. Part of me felt like I had sort of grown to like living in the Dante mansion. Of course, it was always an argument with Xavier or a dual with Jason over the last Eggo Waffle, but there were also good sides to it, like hanging out with Gabe. 

Man, I'm going to miss Gabriel so much.

"Oh my god that was a workout," I struggled out as I leaned against my front door. I gazed up, looking at the dwelling I had grown up in for almost all my life. As much as I had gotten comfortable in the gang's residence, nothing beats the memories this house held once upon a time when my parents were happy.

Sloppily reaching over, I fumbled my hand through the pot plant beside my front door, searching for the spare key I always hid in there in case I locked myself out. My fingers grabbed ahold of the piece of metal as I stuffed it into the keyhole. 

It didn't take long for the door to swing open, revealing the dark and empty house I had gotten used to since my mom's passing. Sighing to myself I walked in, shutting the door behind me and flicking the light on.

Half of me expected Xavier to be standing there in my living room, arms crossed, looking at his usual annoyed self. Part of me really just wanted him there. But he wasn't.

And after everything he had spat at me a couple of hours ago, I didn't think it was safe for me to be around him anymore. Groaning to myself at the mess my life was in at the moment I sludged my way to my couch. I let all the tiredness and sadness consume me as I fell asleep to the sound of nothingness.

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Third Person POV 

"Hey Sky, look what found!" Gabriel's excited voice sounded loudly as he burst himself into the kitchen. The most likely place the eccentric blonde was going to be. He grinned proudly to himself as he held up the tub of Cookie Dough Ben and Jerry's he had acquired on his trip home.

His smile fell upon seeing the bare kitchen.  "Sky?" No answer. Come to think of it, no one was home. Not a soul graced the entire mansion. Shaking his head he placed the ice cream into the freezer, afraid that when he did find Skyler she was going to flip her bricks if the ice cream had melted. 

He trudged up the stairs, gently knocking on her room door, and waited. No answer. Maybe she hasn't woken up yet? Wait that's ridiculous, it's 6 pm in the afternoon, she doesn't hibernate. Opening the door, he was faced with another empty room. If she wasn't in the kitchen or her room, maybe she's with Xavier?

Deciding to follow that idea he began walking around towards Xavier's office. She probably messed up again and he was keeping her grounded in a corner in his room again. Gabe chuckled to himself at the trouble Skyler had become for his leader. Xavier barely had a life before Skyler, he was always either out doing work or hell-bent on finding him. But ever since Sky, he was practically the same to the naked eye, but Gabriel knew him long enough to know that something was different.

The way Xavier acted around Sky, was different. The way his eyes charged when he was speaking to her. The way he reacted when she was around. Something about her made Xavier different. But Gabe couldn't put his finger on what it was.