Fight Me

Chapter 5

"What are you guys doin?" I asked while smirking.

The guys ignored me but Jessica motioned for me to sit down without looking away from the screen.

After a bunch of episodes, Jessica headed off to bed, sadly taking her MacBook with her.

"Okay guys, we really have to talk." Austin's playful tone turned serious as soon as Jessica's door closed.

"I know, R went to far this time." I added and we positioned ourselves in a circle.

"We can't give him the territory." Easton deadpanned.

"I know, but we can't give him any money either, but if he keeps pulling stunts like this we might not have a choice." I told them and they nodded.

"Are we gonna have to start a war?" Austin questioned and I thought about it for a moment.

"We have more me but they have more weapons." Easton explained.

"We can get more grenades, C4, guns, and ammo, but we need time." I informed them.

"Well, we have time, but R knows about those two." Austin said, sounding concerned and motioned to the hall with Jessica's and Elliot's rooms.

"We need to protect them." he added.

"She seems able to do that herself." Easton mutters and Austin's brows furrowed. "Yeah, how'd she do that?"

Easton shrugged. "Maybe her parents make her take a bunch of like, self defense classes."

"Yeah, where are her parents?" I added.

"Jessica told me they're away on some buisness trip for a few weeks. But we need to get those two some protection." Austin said.

I nodded and we discussed the arrangements for their protection.

"Hey, I'm gonna go see what she has here for food." Easton said and got up from the mattress.

After we discussed the final arrangements Easton calls us to the kitchen.

"Dude, look." He said and opened the fridged, which was comepletely empty except for a re-usable water bottle.

We flung open the pantry which was almost empty except for a box of toddler food, a small jar of peanut butter, and a basket of apples.

We searched the cupboards but didn't find a speck of food, just some plates and silverware.

"I checked the trash, no food containers." Austin said and I ran my hands through my hair.

"We can fix that."

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Jessica's POV

That morning I awoke to a familiar smell that hasn't travelled up my nose in a really long while.

Bacon.

I almost went straight out the door but realized the guys were here and that I was just in nike pros and a sports bra. I threw on an over sized shirt and some sweat pants and headed out the door.

I followed the scent and it lead me to my kitchen with a scene I thought I would never see.

Easton was sitting at my table reading the sports section of the newspaper, Austin was frying some bacon, and Clayton was flipping pancakes.

"What's all this?" I asked, I was so confused on how all of this food got here.

"We went on a little shopping spree." Clayton said, then nodded in the direction of the fridge and I eyed him skeptically.

I swung open the fridge door and my jaw fell open.

There was several cartons of juice and a few different kinds of milk in the side of the fridge, fruit filled one of the bottom drawers, and vegetables filled the other, there was a bunch of deli meats on my top shelf and some spreads and cheeses next to them. In the middle shelf was a couple loaves of bread and bagels.

I swung the freezer door open and saw it was filled with four cartons of various ice creams, stacks of cold cuts, bags of bacon, frozen waffles, a few loaves of french bread, and some frozen veggies.

I ran to the pantry and opened the door, there was flour, sugar, snacks, chips, crackers, cookies, salt, a bunch of different spices, some more bread, like six cereal boxes, and loads of toddler food and snack lined the shelves.

I threw my hand over my mouth and gasped.

"Oh my gosh, thank you so much, but I don't know how I could pay you back." I said to the boys and they just smiled.

"You don't have to, just let us stay here for a little while." Easton said and I raised my eyebrow.

"How long is a while?" I asked.

"Um, a few weeks." Easton said and scratched his neck.

My eyes bulged. "A few weeks? Why?"

He nervously chuckled and Austin hopped into the conversation.

"We need a place to stay." he said simply and I could tell he was lying but I decided not to press.

"Okay, just you're in charge of groceries." I said and they laughed while nodding.

"Oh, and here," Clayton said and handed me an envelope." for your troubles." he added with a wink.

I eyed him but opened the paper covering and my eyes bulged.

"Three thousand dollars? Why?" I asked as I stared at the slip of paper in my hand.

"One thousand each, it should cover it." he said and smirked.

"We also got you the weekend off work." Austin added.

"Oh my god I can't-" I began but Clayton interupted.

"You can and you will. How many pancakes." he said and held out a stack of golden brown pancakes.

"Wow, these look amazing." I said and took three.

"I know, I'm hot and I can cook, I'm the total package." he said cockily and smirked, I just rolled my eyes.

This was gona be a very, interesting few weeks.