Carson POV

I tired talking to the squad one fateful evening before sunset at the playground. They are seemed tensed being here but I tried to overlook it. I inhale cautiously but I knew the atmosphere was tensed. Honestly we haven't come together like this in a long while.

"I wanted to ask a question" I said and their silence gave me to go ahead.

"What happened to us? Every since Franklin passed we've been distance as if we never know each other" I said feeling slightly infuriated.

"What are we coming together for?" Dolores shouts at me.

"Franklin always wanted us together and just his finally wish you all give deaf ears to it, what about the lords" I asked and everyone at a halt answered apart from Louis.

"Carson, we are petrified of loosing ourselves, when we younger we were exposed to a lot of dangers and yeah it was fun while it lasted. But just imagine if we lost another person..." he said as I cut in.

"Franklin was sick!" I shouted because he was using Franklin as a prototype, an example.

"And what if you lost scarlet or I lost Dolores, how will you feel? Just tell me because you don't seem to grasp reality when its coming to you! Just face it and move on with your life, forget all about the lords and start your life, a life you want not what Franklin wants" he screams at me and the stillness that followed means everyone went on the same outlook with him.

I couldn't believe it. They just want to move on and forget us, forget the lords. I stared at all of them, looking into their eyes, trying to sense a trace of regret in what they said but agonizingly that was none.

Shortly after Louis speech they are left leaving me alone to my thoughts. I sat in the swings, swinging back and forth as the sky took an orange hue, people walk pass and there I was alone, once again. But to my will boy days, friendless as fuck.

"Carson...." I hear a soft voice say next to me. I diverted my eyes there and I locked with scarlet brown eyes staring at me so deeply with so much anonymity.

"Scarlet you want to leave too?" I saw bringing my thoughts to a halt trying to search for the answer maybe in her eyes or her body language or anything but I knew I was gonna regret it after all. She just breathes shakily taking a seat on the swing next to me and held my hand with so much certainty.

"What you saying I'm right here" she said smiling a lot it covered much of her eyes flaunting of her freckles and silk black like lashes.

I didn't want to say or ask anything anymore. I wasn't alone after all, I had scarlet and she had me and I'm never letting go. With this thought I gave her hand a gentle squeeze and she just smirk at me. She was my reassurance that I was never alone and it almost made me sensitively.

After that sunset in the park, I and scarlet were always together, I saw the squad once in a while that's because we went to the same school. Countless times scarlet makes me to talk to them, but it all ends up awkward.

I guess every sweet, joyful thing could be gone in a instant.

I continued my normal routine, home then school then scarlet then back home.

Eventually we got out of high school and we planned to go to the same university that is Princeton obviously and luckily we got in. we stayed together and maybe we had a fight or two but we always patched up. Right after we graduated, few years later we got married and so did Louis and Dolores and Felix and Susan.

Sooner or later, we had our first child, Archie. We decided to keep the lords thing on a low for the meantime with Archie around but later after two years then scarlet came up with this once in a lifetime chance. She called it the last heist.

The plan was to steal loads of money from a truck carrying it into the bank at night. Simple right? That's what I thought till then.....

All dressed in black, we stay hidden in a dark alley not far from the garage the truck was suppose to park in. honestly I wasn't into this heist but I just joined because of her so let's get it over it.

"Scarlet why are we doing this?" I asked frustrated.

"cause I want the money and don't ask me any question cause I struck with you all this years so please just this once hang around!" she said aggravated and I didn't want t argue so I just fell silent.

Suddenly, the rays of light flickered around, I looked over there sneakily and there was the truck steadily driving into there. We entered quickly but swiftly into the garage gauging closer to the driver side waiting for him to come out.

Just as he came out, scarlet skillful took him out lying unconscious on the floor. Then she turned to me smiling and I just nodded to her. We started offloading the back of the truck and unknowingly to us. The driver faked being unconscious and quietly went over to turn on the burglar alarm.

"Shit" I cursed when the lightening became red and a long loud whining sound accompanied the panic that settled within me.

"Let's go" I said to her and she just ignored me focusing on packing enough money into the black bag. Shocked me tried yanking her arm out thinking maybe she didn't hear me but when she turned giving me a disgusted look I could see the desperation in her eyes.

"Scarlet lets go the cops are coming!!" I said seeing the blur of red and blue lights coming towards our direction but that didn't seem to faze her. I thought whether to leave her, then maybe she will come back home herself. What was I saying?!? If I leave her, they will surely catch her.

The police didn't waste time coming to the garage keeping a safe distance from us.

"Keep your weapon down, with your hands above your head" a voice shouted through a loud speaker.

"If you don't come out, we will burn you alive" the voice shouted more brashly and serious after the fatal silence five minutes ago.

"Scarlet lets go, there still a narrow escape for us, please for Archie" I said feeling a hot sensation tingles on my cheeks, it was wet and made my eye sight blur.

"Let them have it" the voice shouted in a rather low tone and soon after I saw a ball like object. It was unknown to me of course it was a grenade, lightened up at the end rope sheering a bright orange flare.

I guess this is the end of me Expect that was what I thought.

Scarlet swiftly push me aside to the corner we were hiding earlier as the whole garage caught fire. My head hit hard on the stony ground but even in the agonizing pain, where was scarlet? No! no!!! She was still in the fire. Why did she throw me?

No no!! I cried out loud, losing my mind.

"Let's check the perimeters, they can still be more thieves" I heard a voice said and I halt in my sobbing. I had to run but what about scarlet?

Honestly, I could not think again. I just ran, ran as fast and as swift as I could and the tears dried up plastered on my face. I got home but I simply couldn't bring myself to open it, I was afraid of facing Archie.

What am I going to tell him? That umm Archie your mom got burnt in a fire while we were stealing.

That seems logical. Of course it's not!!! I screamed at my thoughts. Okay, maybe his asleep, it's already midnight, maybe I'll face him tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow I thought.

I opened the door quietly shutting it behind me. The sudden burst of light heightened my nerves, turning I met with young two years Archie in his pajamas clutching onto his brown teddy.

"Where were you?" he asked in his baby voice which almost broke me if not completely shattered.

"I'm here now" I barely spoke, my voice husky as my throat felt too squeezed together.

"Bed time story" he said turning to leave to his room and I trailed behind him. I was a little relieved he didn't ask about why I was so dirt looking or more important about scarlet. I quietly read him his bed time story, smiling as I tuck him inside his bed. Frowning as I left the room to mine.

I couldn't sleep, how could I? When I didn't know that happened to scarlet and I didn't want to come to terms with my rash thoughts. No scarlet is strong; she will survive and come hug me any minute from now. Seconds became minutes and minutes became hours into days, months and years.

She never came back, and as Archie grew up, he became curious and I just had to lie that she died in a car crash. I knew Archie if I said she left, he will go look for her so she was better dead to him.

"I lost everything, my friends, my love and I'm not gonna lose Archie" 

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