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I fucked him, I slept with Benjamin and left him after an hour, while he was asleep– not my finest moment, but hey, what can you do?

I raced back to Tobias and Micky's house. All of us stayed there for now.

"Babyyyy, I'm homeee" I call out as I kick the door open, Micky immediately comes into my view, a smirk plastered across his face and slowly he crosses his arms.

"I smell a skank" Micky calls out with a teasing laugh. "That's weird, me too, did you shower yet?" I retort and he slaps my ass as I pass him, both of us giggling as we part ways.

"Hey, Jake asked for you after you left" Serena calls out, she's cuddling Tobias on the couch and I drop into the opposite where Louie is laying.

"Oh right, I was supposed to meet him" I realized and winced as I had unintentionally bailed on him.

"Are you gonna tell him anything?" Serena asks me.

"I don't know, I don't want them to worry, with Claire and the baby coming. I think we can take care of it on our own, don't you think?" I ask her, both her and Tobias nod.

"Of course, we're going to Santiago's tonight, then we'll see if we can figure anything out" Tobias says and I nod.

"Good, I need a shower" I say and stand up. "Want some company?" Louie calls out with a smirk.

"Sure" I say and shrug, Louie's face lits up with hope. "Serena, you coming?" I call out and Tobias bursts out laughing.

"That's a rejection, mate" Tobias teases.

I shake my head and laugh quietly as I make my way to the room that was set up to be mine. I got new fresh clothes and took a long shower before getting dressed.

I went back downstairs.

It was morning and I hadn't slept yet, and I wouldn't anytime soon.

"I'll head to Jake's now, I'll see you guys later" I call out and grab my car keys. I had bought myself a brand new Camaro, I did say that I wanted one, right?

I got in my car and raced down the familiar roads, and within ten minutes I pulled up at my old home, I walked in without knocking.

"Good morning fuckers" I call out. Claire and Terry turn to me from the kitchen and I hug my brother and kiss Claire's cheek.

"Someone slept well..." Terry mumbles with a small smirk, he knew I had gotten laid, no doubt. "No, I haven't slept yet" I say with a chuckle.

"That's not healthy" Claire points out and I shrug before jumping onto the kitchen counter.

"Who cares, I'm young. Is Jake up?" I ask and steal a piece of bacon that Claire was cooking.

"Yeah, he's in the garage outside" Terry says and I nod before jumping down. I walk outside and find him in the garage as Terry said, he's working on his old dodge challenger.

"Hey" I called out, I leaned against his car and he looked up from the hood of the car. "Hey, I couldn't find you last night" He says with a frown.

"Oh, yeah. I had some things to take care of" I say and shrug.

"What did you need to talk to me about?"

"Just wanted to say that it wasn't because I didn't want you there at my graduation from college, it just wasn't a big deal and it was a long ride, especially with Miss Preggy in there" I say.

That wasn't what I wanted to say, but I had to play it off cool.

"I understand, it's okay. I'm just happy that you're home, we missed you a lot, Alex" Jake says and gives me a small smile.

"I missed you guys too, a lot" I say, followed by an exhale of relief and a smile finds its way to my lips.

"Did you talk to him yet?" Jake asks after a few minutes of silence, I frown and raise an eyebrow.

"Who?"

"Marcus, you idiot" Jake retorts with a glare. "Oh" I say in realization, I scratch the back of my neck and smile sheepishly at my stupidity.

"No, I haven't and it's not in my plans for the next few weeks– I'm fully booked" I say and cross my arms. Why did he ask that?

"Why?" I ask as he remains quiet–not suspicious at all, Jake.

"He asked about you tonight, I was just wondering" Jake says and shrugs, I could see on his face that there was more to it, but I decided to let it go.

"Yeah, no. It's a closed chapter. I don't want to see him" I say and shrug before pushing him aside, I grab his tools and tighten the loose parts in the engine.

"No, yeah. That's good" Jake says, trying to play it off.

"Good."

"So, I'll see you tonight, right? We're going to Santiago's, I hope I'll see you there" I say and smile at my brother and pat his shoulder before leaving.

As I pull out of the driveway, I see a familiar motorcycle– Marcus coming towards the house as I take off, he looks after me and I pretend I don't see him.

An uneasy feeling sets off in my stomach, turning it upside down– I swallow the lump in my throat and exhale calmly.

I raced back home and decided to get some sleep before tonight, I stripped off my clothes and got into my bed.

I slowly ran my cold fingers across the painful wound above my ribs, a small wince escaped my lips–despite the pain, I let myself relax and fell asleep immediately.

I woke up to Serena sliding under my blanket and hugged my side. "Is it still hurting?" she asked as her fingers traced over my stitched side.

"No, it's fine" I assure her– I put my hand on top of hers and squeeze it.

Four days ago, we were assaulted after a race, I got stabbed, luckily not that deep, but enough for stitches, I took Serena's hits. And I would do it all over again.

"Are you afraid that they're gonna find out?" Serena asks me and lifts her head to see my face. "No, they won't. I know they won't" I assure her.

"How are you so sure?" she asks me hesitantly.

"Because I'm gonna make sure of it. By the time they will find out, we've handled it" I say and she nods.

We fall back asleep peacefully. We got woken up by Louie and Janet, by the time we had to leave. We got dressed and left on our motorcycles and cars. We walk in without trouble and I greet Diego, the doorman.

"This place is awesome" Janet calls out amazed. "Let's get some drinks" Louie calls out, before swinging his arm over my shoulder.

I shake my head at him before leading the way to the bar. We order drinks and immediately take shots.

"I love drunk Alex, so much" Micky cheered, I blew a kiss his way and he smirked in response.

"Ehm, Alex? Douchebag is here" Serena calls out, I look up and see Marcus walk in beside Jake and Terry.

Claire and Tabitha followed closely behind them, I shook my head a little before putting my act back on. Just ignore him. Always ignore him.

"Hmm, Louie? I think we need more drinks" I say and Louie nods before getting up with me. We order new drinks and take five shots each at the bar.

"I missed this" Louie leans in to say in my ear. "We literally drank two days ago" I retorted and shook my head with a laugh.

"We should drink everyday" Louie says before downing another shot, I cheer and take another with him then we get our drinks and we return to our table.

Everyone had found our table and settled down. There was only one seat left, so Louie sat down and I slid onto his lap and put my arm around his neck.

The tension is thick as I do so, I don't bother looking up– Louie whispers sweet nothings in my ear and I giggle at his sweet words and lame jokes.

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"Oh my god, baby dance with me" Tabitha suddenly blurts out, she jumps out of her seat and pulls me with her–I pull Serena with me and she pulls Claire after her.

I giggle as we're all dancing with each other. Tabitha brought her hands to my hips and I put my arms loosely on her shoulders, she swung her hips to the rhythm of mine.

She leaned in closer with a smirk. "I fucking missed you, Alex" Tabitha calls out.

"I missed you too" I smirk a little, before letting our lips graze each other, without making full contact.

"Fuck yeah!" Serena shouted and I smirked at Tabitha. "Alright, I'm gay for you, mommy" She retorted and eyes widened as I just laughed at her.

"Well, I wanted to try new things anyways" I say and shrug, I turn my back to her and move my hips against her front, she pulls me closer by my hips.

She brushes my hair to one side, letting her breath hit my naked shoulder, I smirked as I looked at her sideways.

She graced her lips gently against my earlobe and ran it down to my neck– I tilted my head to the side, making room for her– a smirk on my face as I sensed a burning stare on my skin.

"Marcus is furious" Tabitha whispered to me as she pulled me closer.

"Good"