THAT SAME EVENING, the Saunders Gang and I are at the Tavern Bodge, partying with each other along with The Vipers, and some others.

I'm sitting in a armchair, with my red plastic cup of strawberry margarita.

"Last time you drank a strawberry margarita, you had to fake your death." Ziandra said, sitting on a sofa with her red plastic cup of margarita.

"That was five years ago, Ziandra." I said to her, bewildered.

"Yeah. I know, but still." Ziandra said, taking a swig of her margarita.

"Hey, pretty ladies." Pedro said, sitting down on the sofa beside Ziandra.

"Hey, Pedro." I said to him with a small smile.

"Love the hair bang hairstyle, Angie. I really like it." Pedro said.

"Thanks, Pedro." I said.

"I'm glad you're having fun." Amy Tooney said, having walked into the Tavern Bodge.

Everyone stops chitchatting and looks at Amy Tooney.

"What the hell are you doing here, Amy?" Sharron asked, annoyed.

"Just visiting." Amy Tooney said in her English accent, and looks at me. "Angie."

I look at Amy. "How did you escape?"

"I'm not wearing this gray scrub dress for anything." Amy said.

"You need to leave." Gilmore said.

Amy grins, slyly. "Gilmore Hayes. I'm sorry for you. You were nothing but a bedfellow hookup for Aiden." And glances at me. "And it's Angie that Aiden truly wanted to be with."

Gilmore starts to lunge at Amy, but Sharron reassuring her back with a reassuring hand, which makes Amy Tooney grins, mischievously, knowing that she to Gilmore.

"You need to leave, Amy. Now." I said to Amy.

Amy looks at me and proceeds her menacingly taunting. "Aiden and You are happy with your relationship now, but once the gloominess sets in, you'll know."

"I love Angie." Aiden said.

Amy looks at Aiden. "You love Angie now, because Rowan was dating her, but now, that Rowan and Angie had broken up five years ago, you just had to swoon in, didn't you?"

"Amy, enough." I said, becoming annoyed.

"Fine, then, I was done anyway." Amy Tooney said, walks away, walking out of the Tavern Bodge.

Aiden and I exchange looks at each other and sighs to ourselves.

Minutes after...

I'm sitting on the U shaped sofa, still reeling a bit from Amy Tooney's taunting.

"Hey, Angie." Gilmore said, sitting beside me on the U shaped sofa. "Some party, huh?"

"Yeah. Some party. And Amy Tooney ruined the party mood." I said.

"Are you okay, Andy?" Gilmore asked me, concerned.

"Not really no, Gillie." I said to her.

Gilmore and I exchange gloomy looks at each other.

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SAUNDERS HOME

In the living room, I'm sitting on the three seat sofa, I had taken off my Mary Jane shoes and is sitting on the three seat sofa, in a sidesaddle position.

The door opens and closes. Aiden slowly walks into the living room and sits down beside me on the three seat sofa.

"You left the party." Aiden said.

"Yeah. I wasn't in a party mood anymore." I said to him.

"Yeah. Amy said some taunting things, didn't she?" Aiden said.

"Yeah, she did. I really thought that my antagonistic quarrel with Amy Tooney would be over. It's been five years, Aidy, and she's still a pain in my side." I said to Aiden.

"We may not know what Amy Tooney is up to, but whatever it is, we're gonna get through it together." Aiden said.

Aiden and I exchange small smiles at each other. And we kiss each other.

afterwards...

In my nightly bedroom with the nightstand lamplight on, Aiden and I are laying in bed, shirtless, wearing his boxer briefs and my high waisted undies, with the bedcover covering us both.

"Are you still a member of The Vipers?" Aiden asked.

"Yeah." I said, and looks at him. "Why?"

"I was just asking." Aiden said, and looks at me with a soften look in his eyes. "You still have your cut wound."

"Yeah. Everything that I, and you guys, have been through, has been quite the hectic nightmare, but we've gotten through it though." I said to Aiden.

Aiden gently lays me down on my bed, he and I exchange soften looks at each other.

"I love you." Aiden tells me with a small smile.

I smile a little at him. "I love you too, by the way, what's with the nickname,
" 'Shortcake' ?"

"It sounds pretty nice." Aiden said, with a small smile and gently brushes my hair bang with his fingers. "I really do like your hair bang hairstyle, Andy."

"Thanks." I said, and sits up straight with the bedcover wrapped around my torso and lower half of my body. "I love you."

Aiden smiles, sitting up straight with the bedcover covering the lower half of his body. "I love you too, Shortcake."

Aiden kisses me. I kiss him. And he playfully sits me down in his lap, in a straddle position. Aiden and I gently hugs each other and we kiss each other. And he gently lays me down on the bed.

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Aiden and I had fallen asleep. He's asleep beside me, gently cuddling me. And I'm wearing my short sleeve lounge pink A shirt, along with my high waisted undies.

But somehow, I become a bit restless and slowly sits up straight with the bedcover covering the lower half of my body.

My phone buzzes on my nightstand. I picks it up and looks at it. Trudy Young

Trudy Young. Haven't spoken to her in a long while.

I answer my phone. "Hi, Trudy."

"Angie, I need your Mother, Sam." Trudy said on the phone, frantically.

"Trudy, what's wrong?" I asked, worriedly.

"Fletcher and Mina Dreyfus. I don't know how, but they escaped from the Arrington Asylum." Trudy tells me on the phone.

I become worried.

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