"Emma." Someone shakes me
"What?" I say turning to Trisha
"Get up." She said taking my hand making me sit up "here's clothes." She hands me skinny jeans, striped shirt, and a flannel. I look at Trisha who has a smile and is wearing another girly outfit.
"Why are you smiling?" I ask getting up and taking off Masons shirt I was still wearing, she looks at her lap since I have hickeys at some places I start to do my hair
"We're going to a party around six o' clock with Mason and Lance." She says quietly
"Well, I'm not going." I say slipping on my jeans
"Um, you have to." She says looking at me
"Why?" I ask
"Because I said so." Mason said walking into the door "Lance needs you." He said she got up and left "you're coming." He said
"Why?" I asked slipping on the flannel and sitting down
"It's not just a party" he starts "it's my gang against another gang." He says looking at me "let's just say," he wanders "it may get a bit crazy." He said "and I need to not look so suspicious."
"So you need me?" I ask
"Well, it is a party with men and women." He said
"Hey! And maybe while you're at it you can find another woman to take here to replace me!" I said hoping he'll take my offer
"Who else is as sexy as you?" He said. I look at him, I get up and leave the room. I walk down into the living room seeing Trisha and Lance cuddled up against each other on the couch, I sneak to the back door and look at the flowers again. I sat down at one of the benches
"Pretty, aren't they?" Someone's voice said. I turned my head
"Who are you?" I ask looking at the man who looked about 30
"I'm Dave." He smiles his eyes blue and his hair dark and similar features to Mason. I get up from the bench
"You're Masons brother." I say he puts down his hand
"You got me." He smiles "and you must be Emma. Such a beautiful name for a beautiful girl." He looks at me up and down. I wrap my arms around my body
"Mason must be inside." I said turning
"I know I talked with him." Dave said
"Then what do you want?" I ask
"Just to get a look at his girlfriend." He said I turn to see him smirking
"There's no way in hell we'll ever date." I say
"Then why are you here?" He asks getting close "sit." He says and we both sit
"No reason." I say still holding myself
"I know why." He said, I look at him and he puts his hand on my knee and gets closer to me "I know why both you and your friend in there are here." He says whispering and getting closer to me, he looks at my lips
"No you don't." I say his hand goes up higher
"Have you two fucked yet, cause if you have I must say goodbye?" He said, my breathing hitches
"Dave!" Mason yells, Dave gets off of me and leaves me "are you okay?" Mason asks coming towards me
"I'm fine." I say taking the sides of my flannel and wrapping them around me
"If he ever gets near you again just tell me." He said
"Why?" I ask
"Just do it." He reassures me, I nod my head, he tries to leave but I couldn't help but ask
"Mason?" I say, he turns to look at me "why," I exhale "why is Trisha getting closer to Lance?" I ask looking down
"I guess you haven't heard?" He said
"What happened?" I ask looking at him
"Lets just say they've become friends." He said looking down
"I don't understand?" I say "she wanted to go home yesterday?" I put my fingers on my temple
"Come on." He says "I want to show you something." He puts his arm around my shoulder, we walk in and he takes me up to his room "so I got some dresses for this party tonight that I thought would be great for you." He said. Three black dresses lay on the bed
"Am I going to a funeral?" I ask Mason chuckles
"Just choose one." He says. I grab one that looks like a button up "nice." He said taking it "here's your shoes." He hands me black ankle high heeled boots
"These are nice." I say giving them back to him. I sit on the bed
"I'm sorry." He says, I look at him
"For?" I ask
"That Trisha and Lance are close." He says sitting next to me, he hesitates but grabs my hand from my lap
"She said she was sorry to me last night." I said looking at him
"I heard." He said. I was going to get up when he wouldn't let go of my hand "Em, what happened to your dad?" He asked
"Nothing." I say "why?" I ask
"I just wanted to know." He said. I almost left when he continued "I know he died." He said "in a line of duty."
"It doesn't matter." I say leaving
•flashback•
"Ma'am, I'm sorry to inform you, but your husband had died in a line of duty." Officer Brewskie said to my mom as I stand behind her
"What!?" My mom falls to the ground and I stand there frozen
"We had a gang chase when his car tipped over. Him and his partner were killed instantly." He said. A tear slips my eyes, I run up to my room and lock it. Everything just happened so slowly, nothing in the world mattered. A week after I ruined my room by throwing things and breaking everything, I didn't go to school for a month.
•End of flashback•
I somehow ended up in the living room seeing Lance on the couch and Trisha in the kitchen. I sit down on the couch far away from Lance
"You want to watch anything specific Emma?" Lance asks me, I get up without answering and go back outside. I walk to a patch of gladiolus's, I gently touch them and smell them. After laying down in the grass Mason comes to me
"You need to change." He said in a black suit. I put my hands up for him to help me up. "Leave your hair like that." He said I nod and we go inside.
I put on matte dark red lipstick, winged eyeliner, and the dress. I walk out and Mason stares at me from head to toe
"Um, you'll have to act like you like me." He said still gazing at me. Me and Mason go downstairs and I see Trisha in a black dress too with floral type of skirt
"Oh my gosh Emma, you look beautiful!" She says, I smile
"You too." I say pointing at her outfit.
"Let's go." Lance said
"We're taking different cars." Mason said taking my hand, we walk to a black Ferrari and Lance and Trisha walk to a white Ferrari.
~
We pull up to a mansion and Mason opens my door. He stops me from walking to talk to me
"Act like you like me." He says messing with my hair "don't make anything suspicious and you might have to hurt some people." He says "can you do that?" He asks
"Yes." I say "but Trisha can't." I say walking he takes my hand and intertwined them. Everyone was wearing black, everywhere you look there's black. People turn to us and Mason takes me to the bar
"Stay here real quick." He said leaving me. I order a drink and drink it slowly
"Ah, Emma!" I hear Dave behind me. He slips his arm around my waist "so nice to see you again." He smirks, I get close to his ear
"Not for me." I say leaning back and downing the drink
"Always loved your attitude." He said chuckling. Mason comes up to us and brings me close to him "hello brother." Dave pats Mason on the shoulder
"What do you want Dave?" Mason asks irritated
"Maybe one dance with Emma?" He asks
"Sure." I respond before Mason could. We walk onto the dance floor and we sway
"I know what he's done to you." Dave said
"And what's that?" I ask looking at him in his eyes
"He's already done things to you." He said "but, he won't kill you." He said
"And why not?" I ask
"You remind us of Grace." He said "his ex-fiancé." He smirks
"What happened to her?" I ask
"You'll figure it out, but Officer Vanderwall knows a lot." He said "sadly, he's dead." I step away from him
"Okay, that's enough of dancing." I say going to Mason.
"Come on we're meeting someone." Mason intertwines our hands and we go up the long stairs. We walk into an office that had a 40 year old looking man in the chair and two bodyguard type of people on each side of him.
"I see you finally got yourself a wife?" The guy chuckles "what a shame of what happened to the last one."
"Well, old man I never see you with a lady by your side." Mason talks back "wait there was one, she ran away with one of your body guards." Mason smirks, he pulls me closer to him and holds me tighter. He slips something near my belt that's on my waist, it's a gun, he taps it on my back on each side signaling me to shoot the two people on his side. I grab the gun and shoot the people on each side, injuring not killing them. The man gets up and points a gun at both of us
"Looks like your doll has good aiming." He said. Mason got out his gun but the man didn't shoot. Then two stare each other down until Mason pulled the trigger. Mason grabbed my hand and we went out and calmly walked down the stairs and blended in with the crowd, we went to go get Lance and Trisha from the bar and we got in the car.
"I'm sorry." Mason said patting my knee
"Why are you always saying sorry?" I ask
"Because" he paused "I'm just sorry you had to hurt them." He said
"I know." I say looking out the window
"You've done this before havent you?" He asked
"Yes." I say still looking out the window of the night sky
"Your dad died last year, in a line of duty. Your mom locks herself up in her room, crying, can't even bother to take care of you. A week after your dad died you went crazier than your mom. A month after you finally went back to school." He said
"I don't know what you're talking about." I wipe my eye without him noticing
"I know every time you don't look at me you don't want me to know how you really feel." He said
"You don't know what you're talking about." I say nodding my head no. He grabs my hand and I look at him
"Trisha, drugs, sex, and alcohol was the way you coped with everything. She doesn't even know anything about you." He said. The car came to a stop in the middle of no where.
"Stop." I say
"But I know you!" He said "I know you more than Trisha does, more than your own mom." He pauses "I know your dad trained you every day since you where 5 to fight back. And I know you rather be with me than to stay with your mother!"
"Take me to your house." I said, he sighed. We started to drive again.
~
I walk into his house with him following me
"Em, we need to talk!" Trisha shouted from the kitchen
"You too Mason." Lance said
We both walk in and I sit farthest away from them and Mason sat closest
"Emma, I know you'll disagree and probably hate me, but-" Trisha says
"Me and Trish are now boyfriend and girlfriend!" Lance says
"You guys sound like fucking elementary kids." I say getting up, hearing Mason chuckle. I walk into his bedroom and into the bathroom, I take off my clothes and get into the shower. I sit with my knees to my chest, I sit there enjoying the warmth of the water
"Emma, if you're going to stay in there longer the hot water will run out." Mason said
I get up and turn the water off. I start to dry myself off and put on my undergarments when I realized i didn't have a shirt
"Mason?" I say
"Yes, love?" He asks
"I need a shirt." I say
"Why do you need a shirt?" He said practically seeing his smirk "okay, come here and get it." He said. I step out with the towel wrapped around me, I walk up to him to grab the shirt but he has it raised in the air, he's about 6 ft tall and me being me I'm about 5 ft tall, he wraps his arm around my waist and our lips get closer as he lowers the shirt I grab it from him and slip it on taking off the towel
"You'll have to make up for that." He said I chuckled
"Like hell." I say as he walks into the bathroom. I lay down on the bed and close my eyes instantly falling asleep.
MASON'S POV
I walk out of the shower to see Emma already asleep. I crawl into bed next to her and she gets closer to me, her leg wrapped around my waist and her arm around my torso. I rub her thigh with my hand.
•Flashback•
After the cops found us we got into our cars and started a chase with the cops. Me and Grace were in my car and we were holding each other's hands when a cop pulled up next to us and shot her, instantly killing her. Her blue eyes started to fade, her blond hair started to soak red, and her hourglass body stopped moving her perfect lips turned pale along with her face. I grabbed my gun and shot the cars tires the car flips and instantly kills the two cops.
Later that day there where two officers in that car. Officer Vanderwall and another cop.
•End of Flashback•
I stopped rubbing her thigh and looked at her face. The face that looked so much like Grace, I kissed her forehead and closed my eyes to sleep.