「 FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY 」

30 | "Wanna see what I can do with this dirty mouth?"

"Oh no I am so not done, how could you-"

"Shut up, Noah" I hissed at him and Valentino let out a loud 'oooh' but stopped when he realised no one was joining in.

"Explain. Now" he told me, his voice was low and stern, which scared me way more than his yelling.

"So I already told you that Mia and I went to that carnival in town with Logan's gang which-"

"Was a completely bad idea and you two are total idiots" A familiar voice interrupted,

"Piss off, Dylan" I told him over the phone,

"Where was Chase in all of this?" I heard Liam ask,

"I don't know, he didn't come," I answered,

"Continue" Megan spoke calmly,

"And we were all hanging out when-"

"Skip to the juicy part!" I heard Kyle say and I rolled my eyes,

"Stop interrupting me, assholes" I told them,

"As I was saying, apparently Elliot's men were around and we had two options – Evacuate everyone or find out what was happening to stop it"

"So what did you do?" Kyle asked eagerly,

"We did both; we split up"

"Bad idea dude" Kyle said and I rolled my eyes, "That's like horror movie 101- never split up unless you want to get violently murdered"

"Well we weren't exactly in a horror movie"

"Then what?" Kyle asked,

"You'd find out if you'd stop interrupting me," I told them and I heard Dylan yell 'that sass though!'

Christ, if Valentino and Dylan ever stood in the same room together all hell would break loose.

"...We found a body" I told them and there was silence on the other end, "It had a note like the other one but it said 'hang in there, we'll be coming for you next' signed Elliot"

"Are you okay?" I heard Noah ask quietly and I nodded before realising they couldn't see me,

"Y-Yeah" I answered and my eyes flickered over to Mia, "But uh..."

"But?" Liam asked,

"Mia... Got shot"

Again there was silence.

"...I'm so so sorry but she's okay now and-"

"Put Mia on the line" Megan's voice interrupted me,

"Alex we're going to talk later" Noah said sternly to me and I felt the guilt of the situation weigh down on my shoulders.

I handed over the phone to Mia who had retreated to the couch and I sat next to her,

"Hey" she said quietly and I heard Megan's voice say something over the phone that I couldn't really make out but I didn't interrupt.

She winced and I could tell Megan was probably yelling at her,

"Yeah it's fine, it was just a leg injury- nothing to major",

Yeah if you call being shot in the leg nothing major.

"Yeah. Yeah I know. I will. I know. Yes Megan. Okay, bye" she said hanging up the phone and giving it back over to me.

She gave me an assuring smile, which didn't actually do much to assure me, but I appreciated the effort.