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After Ashanti had explained to Rihanna why her and Alsharafzi had arrived late and why they were hyperventilating so much, it was finally time for Ashanti's last test, aka...

Stealing candy from a baby.

She was now on the streets with the rest of the Sugar & Spice organisation right behind her, with Ashanti keeping on looking behind her because she was scared.

This is the last test, girl.

After this one, you'll be OK.

Although not really, as she had snuck out of the house and her parents completely knew that.

And as they knew that, and as Ashanti had gotten grounded for getting suspended at school, she was going to be in serious trouble when she had gone home, and she knew it.

Taking a deep breath, Ashanti had then looked around for someone near Krondon Alleyway with a baby that had a candy, but she couldn't have seen anyone.

If she had seen someone, then they didn't have a baby, or if they did have a baby, then they didn't have any candy.

It was just so flipping inconvenient that no one had really walked past Krondon Alleyway because if that was the case then Ashanti would have been done with this test a loooong time ago.

There was no time limit for this test but Ashanti couldn't have gotten caught or anything.

Which was kind of stupid as a baby would have most likely cried if candy had been taken away from them, but apparently, Ashanti had to run away with the candy before the baby had gotten caught, which would have been quite hard to do, but it wasn't impossible.

For some reason, Rihanna had refused to show her her score to the previous test, as she wanted to do everything in the end.

Oh well.

I probably failed anyway.

So I probably didn't get any more than five or half points.

After like five minutes, Ashanti had then eventually seen someone with a baby and with candy (thank God), so she had left her hiding place, aka the Krondon Alleyway bus stop to go and talk to the seemingly Brazilian woman with the baby.

"Hey, that's a really cute baby you got there!" Ashanti complimented, smiling. "What's her name?"

The woman had smiled at her before thanking her for what she had done, then telling her her daughter's name (Sierra), not realising Ashanti's evil scheme to steal her baby daughter's lollipop away from her.

Ashanti had stalled her for a bit by asking her how she had made her hair get so long, voluminous and frizzy (it was really pretty though), then when the woman was least expecting it...

Ashanti had taken her daughter's candy, before pretty much running off with it.

Inevitably, Sierra had cried, with her mother getting annoyed too, telling her that the lollipop in which Ashanti had stolen was literally the only thing she could have afforded as a snack for her as she was in poverty, but Ashanti didn't care.

She had gone back to Rihanna's group, showing her the candy, with everyone laughing with her.

Now were the results.

Round One- killing someone- 2/10
Round Two- shoplifting- 4/10
And Round Three- stealing candy from a baby- 7/10

In round one, she had shot the wrong thing, so marks were deducted there, in round two, she had gotten caught & and her time overran, so marks were deducted there, and in round three?

She was good but she hadn't ran away before the baby had cried, plus she had gotten caught.

So therefore marks were deducted there as well.

That had given Ashanti a total of 13/30, but she needed 20 out of 30 to pass.

After realising that she had failed to meet the minimum marks required to pass, Rihanna had then kicked the girl out, rudely forcing her to go home.

"What?"

"You heard me. You failed. Leave."

"But you can't do that!"

"I'm Rihanna, boo. I can do anything. And I insist you to leave. Otherwise, I will hurt you. Do you really want that? No. No you don't. You shouldn't anyway, because it would be really crazy if you did."

Ashanti wanted to cry but she didn't, she had just walked away from them.

Yeah, Rihanna wasn't the kind of person that Ashanti had thought she was, and not in a good way either.

Giovanni had actually felt really bad for the kid, therefore bringing Rihanna to one side to talk to her privately when Shaylana, Alsharafzi and Zonarosa had left with Ashanti too.

"Why the heck are we here, Giovanni?"

"Don't you think you're being a bit too hard on her, Rihanna? I mean, look how determined she is. She really wants this. I can see that- can't you?"

Ashanti was determined, yeah.

Very determined.

She wouldn't have lied and said that she had wanted to join the group more than anything though, because that wasn't true.

She did want to meet Rihanna more than anything though, and she did.

And joining an entire group with her?

That was literally a dream come true for her.

Rihanna had done her dirty, and she was starting to realise that now.

Especially with the mechanical bull incident next week- she had almost died because of her, and that wasn't nice.

Heck, she had even read Rihanna's entire book: a lot of people wouldn't have done that but Ashanti did. And in a weird way?

Rihanna had kind of respected her for it.

"Fine," Rihanna had stated, rolling her eyes. "I'll call her back."

And literally too, she had quickly dialled her number on the phone, talking to her for like twenty seconds, explaining to her that she had changed her mind and that she should have come over immediately.

Ten seconds later, Ashanti was there, meeting Rihanna and Giovanni in the middle of the alleyway again, by herself though as everybody else had left.

She was about to take the bus but didn't, as Rihanna had called her.

"Now listen up, Ashanti. We're like sugar 'n' spice, baby." Rihanna stated, coming up close to a mortified Ashanti. "We're the sugar," she pointed to herself, before pointing to Ashanti again. "And you're the spice."

Sugar & Spice.

Sugar & Spice.

"Ashanti, I'm telling you. Rihanna's part of a gang. Sugar & Spice. You've got to believe me."

"I never said I don't believe you, Kehlani," she corrected him, jumping off the stairs, washing an apple and then eating it, Kehlani's eyes fixated on her the whole time.

"But you're acting like all gangs are bad, Kehlani! Not all of them are bad!"

Kehlani was right.

"Are you sure it's not the other way around?"

"If you know what's best for you babe," Rihanna trailed off, staring at Ashanti deep in the eyes. "Then don't correct me. Capeesh?"

"Ca-ca-capeesh." Ashanti stammered, literally wanting to be anywhere else but here right now.

In other words, she was a part of the crew now, part of the Sugar and Spice organisation.

Ashanti was now over the moon when she had heard this, jumping for joy before unexpectedly hugging Rihanna and then Giovanni, saying thank you to her countless times.

Then she had left.

Giovanni had left too, but when he had asked Rihanna if she was leaving, she had said that she had to take a phone call.

So when Giovanni had gone completely, Rihanna had dialled someone on her phone again, seriously hoping that they would have picked up.

Someone had realised that she was Rihanna so she had told them to be quiet, as she didn't want anyone knowing that she was here, let alone who she was in the first place.

The people that she had called in the first place was Shealtiel & Kentrell from the Sugar & Spice organisation headquarters underground somewhere.

"Shealtiel & Kentrell. We got a new member. Ashanti," Rihanna had told them, before rolling her eyes. "No, not the singer Ashanti. Some teenager, who's a huge fan of me, apparently. Either way, I say we kidnap her. Then we kill her. Let's show this girl how we really do things around here."

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Shealtiel & Kentrell will be described later. Well that's the end of my Sugar & Spice marathon, y'all! Hope you enjoyed the chapters and see you angels in the next one in a couple of days time.