Alice felt a tight grip on her neck as she was jerked awake. As she opened her eyes, she was met with Vanoss's angry glare and his hand tightening around her throat. He had pulled her off the bed and held her against the wall by her throat, which proved to be helpful since she couldn't fight back.

"You stupid bitch!" The raven haired girl could see Delirious wake up out of the corner of her eye. "I should slit your throat right here."

This was the only time Alice had ever been truly afraid of anyone in the gang. Lui was right when he first told her not to piss Vanoss off, but like the idiot she was, she did exactly that.

Words couldn't escape her mouth since air was being restricted from her lungs. She didn't try to scream or thrash around. The gang member knew exactly what she did wrong and right now she was going to pay for it. Her green eyes stared directly into Vanoss's and for a second, she felt his grip loosen. That was until his tightening chokehold was completely gone.

As she fell down, she could see the people who had stopped Vanoss. The entire gang had pulled him away and she couldn't help but feel her eyes water at their kind gesture.

Moo brought his hand to Vanoss's shoulder. "Look Vanoss. We got the heist done and she saved Delirious. There's no need for this."

The entire room went silent as Vanoss pushed Moo into the wall beside him. Wildcat quickly helped him up and stared at Vanoss in disbelief.

"I want all of you out of this house right now," Vanoss growled. It didn't take long for the seven gang members to scramble out of the house, leaving the two alone.

As soon as he heard the front door shut, he focused his attention to the tiny figure currently sitting on the bed.

"Before you try to kill me, just know that I don't regret my actions and I won't apologize for them."

Vanoss' s heart tugged a little. She actually believed he was going to kill her, but he couldn't blame Alice. A burning rage filled with his chest and that rage was all focused on the girl in front of him.

Not responding to her statement, he pulled out his magnum from the back of his waistband. "Did you think you'd get out of here alive? Being yourself, I thought you'd be smart enough to leave when you had the chance."

A laugh escaped Alice's lips. "I believed that you'd take mercy and just kick me out, simple mistake. If you're going to kill me, give the gang a message." Vanoss stayed silent, urging her to continue. "Tell them thanks for being a family, no matter how bad they were at it."

Another tug at his heart made him put his weapon away, but he was still angry. At the same time though, he was confused on to how a strong willed girl like herself would run into an enemy base when there was an incredibly high probability she'd die or allow someone to kill her so easily.

"Why would you risk your life? Even if it was for Delirious, there was a slim chance you'd make it out alive. And why would you give up your life so easily?"

A solemn smile was etched onto her lips as she answered. "If you haven't realized Vanoss, I don't care if I die or not."

And that was the last and most powerful tug in his chest. He finally calmed down and sat next to Alice with a frown.

"Although the heist was successful and you saved Jonathan, I'm still fucking mad." Alice let her head hang low as he spoke. "But that's only because I'd care if you died, Alice."

His hand went up to her chin and lifted it up so that she was staring at him. It was only now that he realized there were tears in her eyes and a few small bruises marking her cheek. Without a second to spare, his lips met hers.

Everything seemed to move slowly as they kissed gently. Alice had only had three kisses in her life. One from Jonathan when they were children and two from Daithi. But unlike those, this kiss meant something.

With Vanoss, she felt a warm feeling in her chest and couldn't help but smile as the kiss went on. It was something she hadn't experienced before, but it ended too soon.

"I guess its safe to say that I might care about you as well Vanoss and that you're bipolar cause I'm pretty sure you were going to kill me a few seconds ago," Alice mumbled.

"Very funny little one. From now on call me Evan," he smiled when she leaned in again.

For Evan, the kiss was also something very new to him. He had plenty of intimate moments in the past, but somehow being with Alice was different and he couldn't help feel ecstatic as Alice kissed him again.

But in the back of both of their minds, they knew this wasn't going to work out at all. Not only because it went against Evan's original rules, but also the fact that they were gang members. If anything happened to either of the two and there was a high chance of them getting hurt in most situations, the other person wouldn't forgive themselves.

As they broke apart once again, Alice laid her forehead against his. "You know this won't work out."

"And what exactly is this? Because if we don't put any labels on whatever this is, I'm pretty sure it'll work out," Evan's voice was deeper than usual and Alice couldn't help smile widely.

"I guess so. Hopefully this means I get to stay?"

Evan looked thoughtful and smirked as Alice impatiently waited for an answer. "On one condition," Alice waited for him to go on. "Kiss me again."

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Unknown to Alice and Evan, two certain gang members stood outside the door listening to the entire conversation. MiniLadd and Lui quickly rushed from the door to their friends outside.

"She's alive," MiniLadd shouted. Cheers erupted from the group. Although Alice was a bit of a nutjob, they all did care about her. "But there's something else."

Lui sat down next to them. "Alice thought that Evan was going kill her so she said to leave us a message. She said thanks for being a family, no matter how bad we were at it."

There was a small silence, until all of them turned their heads to Wildcat. The tall boy was quietly sniffling and he looked like a lost puppy as his friends stared at him.

"Leave me alone you fuckers," laughs began to fill the silence and Daithi quickly hugged Wildcat as he hid his face in his shirt.

"That's not all though," MiniLadd commented after the laughter died down. "They made up and he kissed her."

Terroriser huffed in annoyance as he handed Moo fifty dollars. The rest of the gang members watched the exchange in curiosity.

Daithi was the first to ask. "What's with the money?"

"Brian and I bet on who Alice was gonna end up with. I bet Vanoss, Brian bet on Delirious," Moo laughed, stuffing the fifty dollars in his wallet as Brian glared at him.

Delirious hadn't said anything and stormed off with a quick flick of his middle finger. That set the mood down a bit as they saw their friend walk to his motorcycle and drive away.

"Whats his problem?" Wildcat asked seeing Jonathan's pissed off face when he left.

"He obviously liked Alice, dumbass," Lui said.

In an instant, Terroriser and MiniLadd began laughing as MiniLadd flipped his nonexistent long hair. "Dramaaaa."

The rest of the group laughed until Moo stood up. "Who's gonna go with me to get Delirious?"

Nogla volunteered and they left in Moo's hot pink truck. Wildcat, Mini, Lui, and Terroriser stayed and went back inside finding Alice and Evan casually talking in the living room.

Alice smiled at them and they did the same, remembering the message for them. "Where's the rest of the guys?"

MiniLadd didn't want to reveal the fact that he and Lui were listening in on their conversation earlier so he made an excuse up. "They got bored so they decided to go out for a while."

His excuse wasn't very convincing and he earned a questionable glance from Vanoss, but no questions.

"So we're all good, right?" Lui asked and received a nod from Alice in response.

Evan went up to his room alone saying he needed to get working on their next heist that was to happen in around two weeks. Terroriser and Lui just sat on the couch talking, while the other three went to the kitchen.

Wildcat and Alice sat down on the kitchen stools and watched MiniLadd as he attempted to cook.

MiniLadd put several pieces of uncooked bacon on the hot pan and let it fry, turning his attention to the girl next to Wildcat. "Don't tell Evan, but we all knkw what happened in that room."

"You don't think I know? You and Lui aren't stealthy at all," Alice winked at him as he saw his and Wildcat's surprised faces. "I don't really care that you know."

"Well, we also heard your message when you thought Evan was gonna shoot your head off. No matter how much of pain in the ass you are, you're family too even to this big lug," MiniLadd wrapped his arm around Wildcat and smiled. "Cant lie, he shed a few tears."

That earned him a painful punch to his arm and he fell to the floor in a pained blob. Alice hugged Wildcat as he crossed his arms.

"Thanks loser. Sorry for punching you yesterday," Alice apologized and let go.

"Forget it. We're just glad you're safe and I guess now that you're family, you deserve to know our names," Wildcat grabbed a pen and a paper from one of the kitchen cabinets. He began to write down everyone's code names and put their real names next to it. She stared at the paper.

Wildcat-Tyler
MiniLadd-Craig
Lui- Lui :)
Terroriser-Brian
Moo-Brock
Nogla-David

She laughed seeing that Tyler put Lui's name twice. MiniLadd then got up from the floor and began screaming as he turned the stove off and stared at his burnt bacon. The two laughed at Craig, seeing him fall to the floor in a useless blob again.

"We heard screaming. What happened here?" Lui and Terroriser walked into the kitchen adding to the laughter.

"Nothing. I'll let you guys clean up that hot mess," Alice said pointing at Craig. "I'll be in my room."

The dark haired girl ran upstairs into her room and jumped on the bed. Her father was right, gangs were family and she found a new one and was happy she did. Alice laid on her back, staring up at the ceiling, just thinking.
Nothing made her happier than having fun with the rest of the guys in the gang, but she began to realize that the wall she built around her began to crumble and she was okay with it. The green eyed girl was fine with letting her guard down around her family. She felt at peace for right now, which was the first time she had ever since her father had died and her old gang fell apart. Then her thoughts turned to Delirious. He probably shouldn't be out doing god knows what with healing wounds. The last thing she'd want was to redo his stitches.

She grabbed her phone off the bedside table, which she got from Vanoss before the heist. It wasn't those crappy prepaid phones, but an iPhone 5s and she was very thankful for it. When she was given the phone, all of the gang's numbers were already in her contacts fortunately. She found Jonathan's contact and brought the phone up to her ear.

It took three rings before she heard a voice on the other end. "Alice? What's happening?"

The brown haired boy was afraid that one of his friends had said the reason for his sudden departure.

"Nothing. I was just wondering where you are and if you're okay. It hasn't even been a whole day since you got back from being tortured and I don't think you want more stitches."

His heart warmed hearing Alice's words. No matter what, she was always one to worry over him and he appreciated the fact she did. "I'm fine, Ally. I'll be back in a bit."

He heard a soft sigh before she began talking again. "Okay, be careful and tell Brock and David to get home soon as well. Bye."

"See ya," Delirious ended the call. He guessed that someone had told her everyone's names already since she knew Moo' and Daithi's and that the two were trying to find him.

He looked around the semi-crowded bar and paid for his drinks before stelling outside. Jonathan hadn't even realized how bad the bar smelled until he stepped outside in the cold, crisp air. Not wanting Moo and Nogla to waste any more time looking him, he pulled out his phone and texted both of them his location.

In a few minutes, he could see a hot pink spot in the distance and immediately recognized Brock's embarrassing truck. At least there was space on the large truck for Delirious to store his motorcycle. He would have just rode back home, but he wasn't going to risk driving while under the influence.

The bright truck stopped in front of the small bar and Delirious jumped in the back without a quick "thanks" to his friends.

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Alice stared at the ceiling above of her mindlessly. Thoughts still stirred in her head and she lay thinking about them silently. Some were about her father, some about Evan, others about how she saw herself in the future, but mostly she thought of how she could brighten up the room.

Back in Chroma, the raven haired girl had her own room and it was a classic representation of her. Although she was a badass gang member, the trained woman knew that the fact that she was one didn't define her. Alice loved the colors white and black, two contrasting colors.

Her old bedroom was painted plain black and she had a plain white bed and dresser. It wasn't much, but she loved how the colors worked so well together even though they were opposites.

A creak interrupted her thoughts and she glanced at the doorway to see Jonathan standing there with a small smile. Her mouth formed into a smile as well, but she didn't say anything and began staring ceiling like she did prior.

Alice wanted to decorate the bedroom like her old one, but this time she was sharing the bedroom and she didn't know if Delirious would agree to the idea. She thought back to Jonathan's old bedroom. His was just blue. Different shades of blue decorated the walls and furniture. The walls were a navy blue, his carpet was white, his desk was a sky blue, and he had a small built in closet with a full body mirror.

"What are you thinking so hard about?" Alice looked to her side and saw Delirious sit down next to her with a different outfit. Was she really that lost in her thoughts that she hadn't realized Jonathan change in the room?

"Just about our old bedrooms. I was thinking about decorating ours, but I'd need your input before I could actually start anything."

Delirious smiled at the thought and looked around the room. It was awfully plain. There were only two dressers, the bed, and a small bedside table, and the walls were a sickly beige color. He wouldn't mind a makeover.

As he thought back, he remembered Alice's room. Along with the black and white, papers hung around the room. Unknown to any of the other gang members, Delirious was the only one who knew that Alice loved drawing and painting, not that she did that any more.

"Why don't you sketch out some stuff and paint them on the walls? I know you like the colors black and white. The carpet is already white so you can paint some sick ass pictures and we'll just paint the wall balck around them and worry about the furniture later," the brown haired boy suggested.

Alice smiled at the fact that Jonathan remembered that she used to draw and paint. It was silly hobby she'd do when she was bored and it was too dark to go outside and play with Jonathan.

The green eyed girl was about to respond, until the door opened revealing Evan. "I need to talk to Alice," he stated bluntly.

"We'll talk about it after,"Alice said, leaving the room to talk to Evan. "What's up buttercup?"

Vanoss chuckled and pulled her to his room so they could talk in private. He closed the door and leaned against the wall as Alice sat on the edge of the bed. She stared at him, waiting for a reason as to why he called her.

"I was just wondering, since there's this little thing, which we will be putting no labels on," Evan started. Alice looked at him curiously. "Well, I just wondered what you'd say if I asked you to room with me for now?"

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This chapter was 2927 words long, you're welcome. Just wanted to say thank you to the people who are voting and commenting. Along with that, who do you want Alice to be with? I'm personally a big fan of Vanoss.

Also, to people who also read my other fanfiction, "Game On", I'm honestly stumped so I'm sorry for the lack of updates there.

If you guys have any suggestions on either, feel free to comment. It makes my day seeing that people are voting and commenting on something that I really enjoy.♡