Nicole's outfit above.
Amelia Smith
"Sweetheart, I'm sorry!" Liam exclaims, apologetically.
"No, fuck you, Liam!" I yell and throw a pillow at him.
He pushes his face in his hands. "Please forgive me." He pouts, cutely.
Damn him!
"No! How could you?" I cross my arms over my chest, dramatically.
"Man, you're crazy," Brian says to me.
I glare at him and sit angrily on the couch.
"What's got you frowning like that, Milly?" Tyler asks when he comes into the living room.
"Liam watched The Greatest Showman without her," Brian answers him.
"He's such a fucking traitor! We planned to watch it together!" I growl.
He comes and hugs me by the side. "Sorry, Mills." He pats my back.
"Amelia," Liam says.
I ignore him.
"Ameliaaaa."
I ignore him again.
"Brian, where's Nicole?" I turn my attention to Brian who is texting on his phone.
Jacob and Ian went out to buy doughnuts. I swear those two eat like cavemen.
"She's in Liam's bedroom." Brian answers.
I get up from the couch and make my way upstairs. I open the door to Liam's room and find Nicole sitting on a couch with a Doritos bag in her hand, watching Riverdale. "Hey." She says. "What's going on downstairs? I heard yelling." She pauses the show and asks.
Liam's room.
"Liam watched The Greatest Showman without me," I tell her in disbelief.
She gasps, placing her hand on her chest.
"I know, right? He's such a fucking traitor!"
I lie down the bed and start using my phone. A few minutes, Emily comes into the room. "Amelia, Liam just texted me, asking me what you want."
Emily's outfit.
I raise my eyebrow at her, questionably, and ask her to read the text.
"Okay, it says 'Hey, Em. Amelia is mad at me. What should I do? Should I get her something? Send me a list of the things she wants. My dad buys my mum stuff when she's mad at him."
"He's funny." I laugh.
"So what should I say?" She asks impatiently. I'm sure that she wants to go back to the guest room where she and Colton are having 'fun.'
"Come and join me on the bed, Emily." I pat the space beside me.
"Why?"
"Please."
She rolls her eyes and sits. "Are you and Colton using protection?" I ask her.
Her cheeks turn red and she widens her eyes. "What?! Are you crazy?"
"No, I'm just worried for you, Em. I know Colton is a good guy and he'll take care of you no matter what but we're still in uni. We still have to figure stuff out and-"
"Gosh! Stop!" She presses her hands to her ears.
"What?" I smirk.
"Colton and I are not having sex!"
"Really?" I raise my eyebrow.
"I swear!"
"So why do you guys always lock yourselves up in a room?" I put my hand on my waist.
"Amelia, if you haven't noticed, Colton and I are very shy people. We don't do PDA. We're not like you and Liam." She says.
Yes, it's true. Emily has always been a bit shy. Nicole and I are the confident ones. Emily keeps things to herself.
"What do you mean you guys are not like Liam and me?"
Nicole scoffs from the other side of the room. "As if you don't know. You two literally can't take your hands off each other." She says.
"Exactly." Emily agrees.
I roll my eyes. "Whatever."
"Speaking of Liam, let's text him back," Emily says.
This morning I wrote a list of the things that I need to get from Sephora. I'll just make him get them instead.
"Tell him, I want ice cream from Coldstone. Cheesecake fantasy to be precise. Then the gold deposit Mac highlighter, Anastasia Beverly Hills modern renaissance shadow palette, Urban decay all nighter long-lasting setting spray, then the LOr de Vie cream by Dior."
"Wow, that's a long list," Emily says and I just shrug.
"Can you please tell him to buy me a Dior face mask and I also want french vanilla ice cream from Coldstone," Nicole says.
"Isn't the list a bit too much?" Emily asks.
"He's a Black, Em. He can buy the whole Sephora and sleep peacefully at night." Nicole reminds her.
"Yeah, you're right," Emily says and sends the message.
****
"Who wants to bake a cake?" I randomly ask.
"I do," Ian says.
"Count me in." Tyler.
"I wanna eat but I don't wanna bake." Brian.
"What flavor are we making?" Emily asks. Yes, she and Colton have finally come out of the guest room. Ian and Jacob also came back from Dunkin Donuts. Tyler and Rob are both sprawled on the couches.
Liam had gone out earlier, probably to buy me all those things that I want. I'm not even angry anymore. Actually, I wasn't even angry at all. I was just being dramatic.
"Let's make chocolate," Nicole suggests making me turn my attention to her.
"You're baking?" I ask her. The thing is she hates cooking, baking, or anything kitchen related so I'm kind of surprised that she wants to bake now.
"Yeah." She replies simply.
"Okay." I get up and we all go into the kitchen. Liam's kitchen is the biggest kitchen I've ever seen. I swear everything about this house is just so cool. I could live here forever.
"But there are so many people here," Tyler says.
The kitchen staff is all busy working. Too busy to even notice us. Some are chopping vegetables, some are stirring food inside the pot, and so on.
"Hi, everyone." June comes and greets us. Just like Mary at my house, June is also this mansion's housekeeper.
"Hi, June." Tyler, Emily, and I say in unison.
Nicole and Ian are walking around the kitchen, asking the cooks silly questions.
"Do you guys need, anything?" June asks.
"Yeah, we want to bake a cake," Tyler says and I nod my head.
"Okay, let me take you guys to Mrs. Black's kitchen then. The cooks are quite busy here."
We follow her to the kitchen and she helps us bring out the ingredients.
"So where's the recipe?" Ian ask.
"In my head," I reply smugly.
"Dude, we're not gonna help you burn down this kitchen." He says.
I roll my eyes and start measuring the ingredients.
"Nicole, can you please sieve the flour?" I give her the bowl.
"Sure." She says and brings out the sieve.
"Man, that's not how to crack a fucking egg!" Tyler exclaims at Ian.
"Shut up, Tyler. You know nothing." Ian says, picking the eggshells from the bowl.
"Yeah! You know nothing, Tyler Williams." Nicole says in Ygriette from Game of Thrones accent and voice.
I chuckle at them and continue sieving the cocoa powder.
"Wow! You guys are so lame." Emily who is by the oven, greasing the pan with softened butter says.
"Are the wet ingredients ready yet?"
"What do you mean the wet ingredients?" Tyler asks with a dirty smirk on his face.
I roll my eyes. "Perv."
Nicole gives me the flour and I pour it into my bowl of cocoa powder. I put them in the mixer and add salt, baking soda, baking powder, and sugar.
I stir carefully and collect the milk, vanilla, vegetable oil, and egg bowl from Tyler and carefully pour them in the mixer. I turn it on and everything starts mixing. Ian gives me the boiled water and I add a teaspoon of coffee in it and stir.
I stop the mixer, add the hot coffee, and turn it back on.
Nicole and Emily start making the frosting while Ian and Tyler are on their phones. The ingredients finish mixing so I gently pour the batter into the greased pan and put in the oven.
Colton comes in and goes over to wrap his arms around Emily, giving her a kiss on the cheek. She blushes and leans into him.
So much for being shy people.
"I hope that you guys are not doing it on the kitchen counter cause we're not done baking," Ian says to them.
"Shut up, Ian," Colton says to him.
"Are you guys done making the frosting?" I ask Nicole.
"Yeah." She nods her head. I take a teaspoon and taste it. It's too dry and it lacks flavor. I add a little milk and some vanilla flavor and turn the mixer to mix it again. I taste it again and it's perfect!
I feel the sudden need to pee so I leave the kitchen and go upstairs into one of the guest rooms. My phone beeps with a text message from Liam.
Yes, I take my phone to the toilet. Who doesn't?
Liam❤️: Miss you.
I smile and think of you what to reply to him with. He still thinks I'm mad at him so I'm going to keep it that way.
Me: 🤚🏼🤚🏼🤚🏼
Talk to the hand. I know it's childish but I honestly don't care right now.
Liam❤️: Come on, sweetheart. I said I'm sorry many times. I can go again and watch it with you. If that will make you feel better.
Me: Don't worry, I will go and watch it with Mason. I like watching movies with him anyways.
I grin evilly as I send the message.
Liam❤️: Mason Stryker? That better be a fucking joke!
He's so funny. I chuckle and keep my phone.
I wash and dry myself then flush. I wash my hands in the sensor sink and leave the toilet.
By the time I reach the kitchen, Emily has brought out the cake from the oven.
"We're waiting for it to cool," Ian says with a satisfied smile on his face.
"Well, I'm going to the living room," I say, leaving Emily, Colton, and Ian.
****
"This is actually so good." Brian moans as he takes a bite of his big cake slice.
We're all back in the living room. I feel like this living room is like our living because it's where we stay all the time. This house has a lot of living rooms but we always sit here.
I'm sitting in my usual corner seat where I usually sit with Liam.
"Yeah, thanks to me," I smirk at Brian.
"Hi, guys!" Aunt Diana comes into the living room looking elegant as always.
"Hi, Aunt Diana." I smile.
"Hi, Mrs. Black."
"Hi, Diana."
"Mummy." Ian runs and gives her a hug. Man, he acts like a freaking twelve-year-old.
"Ian, honey how are you?" She hugs him and they break away.
Liam also comes in with a Sephora, Mac, and Coldstone bag in his hand. He drops the bags on a table and goes over to hug his mum. "Hey, mum." He kisses her cheek.
Awwww! It's so cute.
"Liam, I'm cool with you going to Coldstone but I honestly don't get the Mac and Sephora bags." Aunt Dian says.
We all start laughing and I even choke on my cake.
"It's Amelia's," Liam says, clearly not amused.
"Oh." His mum smiles at him. "I was just in a meeting with your mums, Nicole and Brian." She says. "We were talking about this year's beauty pageant."
Every year, Bluefall holds a beauty pageant. It's for senior year students in all the high schools. During my time, Nicole won and Camilla came second. Emily and I didn't participate because we don't really like competing against each other.
"You three are going to help in organizing everything." Aunt Diana says, pointing at Nicole, Emily, and I.
"Huh?" I break out of my thoughts.
"You guys should know that you're going to run this town someday. Starting now, you should know how some things are." She says.
It's crazy how the council consists of fifteen families and all of us are part of them except Chloe since she's not even American.
After talking for some time, Aunt Diana leaves the living room and Liam comes and hugs me. "I'm sorry, sweetheart." He says. I hug him back. "Okay."
"Do you forgive me?" He asks.
"Yes," I say and he breaks away. "You still love me?" He asks making me blush.
I nod my head, yes at his questions and he smiles. "Good, I love you too." He leans in and we kiss.
Nobody is really paying attention to us in the room. Everyone is doing their thing. Why I really like this corner is because it's kind of private. Nobody really sees us.
"Here." I give him the cake piece I earlier saved for him.
He pushes it away. "Feed me." He says.
"Okay." I cut the cake with the fork and move it to his mouth.
"That's too big." He chuckles.
"No, it's not." I laugh and shove the cake into his mouth, smudging it all over his lips and mouth area.
"Amelia!" He exclaims.
I laugh and bring out my phone to take a picture. As he hears the click sound, Liam narrows his eyes at me. "You better delete that." He says, darkly.
"No, I like it. It's cute." I smile looking at the picture.
"If I see it online, you will be in very deep trouble." He whispers seductively.
I blush and bring my fingers to his lips and wipe the chocolate off.
I've seen in it in movies where guys wipe things from girl's lips and suck on their fingers. I've always found it hot so I lick my fingers slowly looking into Liam's eyes.
When we are in a room full of people, it's like everyone's presence just dies and it's just the two of us that matter.
His eyes darken and I see the lust in it. "There's still some here." He says huskily, eye pointing at the finger I just lick with my hand.
I breathe in and lick the finger again.
"You're so hot." He says sexily.
I bite my lip and look at the finger and there's still chocolate. Before I take it to my mouth, Liam grabs it and sucks on it. He gazes into my eyes as he sucks on the rest of my fingers with chocolate on.
Normally, I would find this gross but right now it's so fucking hot.
I feel so weird, in a good way actually. My body feels so hot and there are tingles all over it.
"That's how you do it," Liam says as he finishes sucking all my fingers clean.
I blush and hide my face in his chest. "Dude, are we still up for tonight?" Jacob asks loudly.
"Yeah, we need to be there in like twenty minutes. We better get going." Rob says.
"What's tonight?" I ask Liam.
"Nothing." He says and pulls me closer to his chest.
Liar!
"What's tonight?" I repeat.
"It's nothing, sweetheart." He says.
"Black, let's go," Tyler says and Liam lets go of me and stands up.
It's fucking late already. It's like 11:30 pm.
"Where are you guys, going?" Emily asks Colton whose hand she's holding unto.
"We'll be back soon." He kisses her softly and pulls away.
"You guys should tell us where you're going or I swear to God I will follow you." I threaten.
Liam gives me a stern look. "That's not going to happen." He brings out his phone and makes a call.
"Why can't we come with you guys?!" Nicole asks, angrily.
"Because it's not safe," Jacob says.
"Then why are you guys going?" I challenge.
"Because there's something we need to take care of," Ian says.
"It's better if you don't know, Kit Kat," Rob speaks.
Emily and Colton are on the other side of the room where he has his hands on her waist, cooing her.
Brian and Tyler are also talking in hushed voices.
I glare at Liam. Why won't he tell me?
He sighs and looks me in the eye. "Amelia, now is not the time to get mad at me." He says.
"Why?"
"Because when you get mad, we fight and I don't want that." He says, running his fingers through his hair.
"But you're hiding something from me, that's not what good boyfriends do," I say softly.
He walks closer to me and pulls me by the waist, keeping both of his hands there. "It's not safe. I don't want you to worry." He says softly, looking in my eyes, lovingly.
I close my eyes in frustration and take my hands to his neck. "Liam, before we started dating, you told me that you want me to take part in every aspect of your life. Do you still feel that way?"
He starts rubbing circles on my waist. "Of course, I do."
"Well, I also get want to take part in every aspect of your life. Safe or not safe."
He sighs. "Fine."
"I can come?!" I grin.
"No, but I promise I will tell you everything when we come back."
"But you said it's not safe. I don't want you to go alone." I pout.
He chuckles. "I'm not alone, sweetheart." He points at the guys.
I frown and look down. "Hey, look at me." He grabs my chin, gently and makes me look at him. "It's going to be fine." He says, softly.
"Let's go, man!" Brian calls out for him.
He pulls me into a bear hug and kisses my forehead. "I love you." He says after pulling away.
"I love you too." I kiss him and he rushes out and joins the guys outside.
I'm definitely going to follow them!
I turn to my two best friends with a smirk. "You guys ready?"
"Hell, yeah!" They both grin evilly.
They know what I'm talking about obviously. They are my best friends for a reason.
We wait like two minutes later and leave the living room. When we reach the waiting area where the entrance door is, I see three bulky men in black standing by the doors.
I play it cool and casually walk to the door but two of the three men, block it with their bodies. "I'm sorry, Ms. Smith but you can't leave this house tonight. Mr. Black's orders." One of them says.
What the hell?! What are we now? Prisoners? Anger starts boiling in me and I turn around.
I look at the girls and they both have angry faces. Nicole aggressive dials Liam's number and he picks it up immediately. "Liam, what the hell?!" She shouts at him, putting it on speaker.
"What is it, Nicole?" He speaks in a bored tone.
"How can you have us locked up in here?!" I yell.
"Girls, we'll be back soon. Just hang out there before we come back." Rob says.
"Yeah, you guys can go to the cinema room, the game room, the hot tub even my parents' room! Just do what you want inside the house." Liam says.
"I swear if you guys keep acting this way, we will stop hanging out with you." Nicole threatens.
"Yeah!" I agree.
I hear laughs from the phone. Do they think it's fucking funny?!
"Bye, girls," Rob says and they fucking hang up.
I'm going to kill both of them.
"Well, I'm going to go watch a movie in the cinema room," Emily says and walks away.
"I'm going back to Liam's room to continue watching Riverdale," Nicole says, also walking away.
I decide to just walk around the house. I stop by the door and when I open it, I see a nice office. This isn't Mr. Black (Liam dad's) office because I know where that it. This is probably Liam's or Adam's.
I walk inside and sit on the chair and start spinning. There's an iPhone X on the desk which tells me someone has been here not long ago and the person is going to come back to take their phone.
Just like that, the phone beeps with a message tone, popping the message on the screen. I know curiosity killed the cat but I can't myself so I lean forward and pick the phone.
Unknown: You may have all the money in the world but we both know that there's something you will never have: HAPPINESS.
-X.
My eyes widen and my heartbeat becomes faster. Who's the phone is it? All the guys use an iPhone X except Tyler who uses an 8+.
It's also not Liam's because I know his phone. I'm his lock screen wallpaper and I also have the password.
But did X send this message to this phone alone or did he send it to all of us?
I check my phone, there's nothing so I pick up the phone again and see if I can recognize who it belongs to out of five of the guys: Brian, Rob, Jacob, Ian, or Colton?
"What are you doing with my phone?" A voice suddenly startles me. I yelp and put my hands on my chest.
Looking up, I gasp. "Oh my God."
Adam Black is the thirteenth person.
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