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"So Ashanti. What kinda things do you like? And why do you live in this neighbourhood? No offence to you, but it's not exactly the best."

All four of them were at the nearest park now, with Ashanti having absolutely no idea what the four of them were really up to behind the scenes.

Quite frankly?

Ashanti was becoming slightly annoyed because they had kept on asking questions about her, but she had absolutely no information about them.

When she had realised this, she had gotten really suspicious again, disregarding all of the questions in which they were asking her, so that she could have asked them their own questions instead.

"I think you guys have enough information about me already. I know nothing about you guys, so what's up with that?"

Kayden's eyes had widened a lot when he had heard that, because he didn't want his cover being below at all.

They needed to use sleeping gas on her and get her to the headquarters in order to kidnap her, but how?

They kind of had a tight schedule here.

Apparently, if they hadn't kidnapped her in ten minutes then all three of them would have gotten kicked out of the team for good, and none of them wanted that.

Although Tazeena didn't care really.

But Kayden and Thalia did.

"We can show you where we live if you want," Tazeena suggested, with Ashanti just staring straight at her as though she was a crazy person.

When she had said that she had wanted to get to know them, she didn't mean by going to their house, because that would have been messed up.

I barely know them and they're already inviting me over to their house?

Something's definitely up.

"Why would I suddenly want to go to your house after barely knowing you guys?"

"It'll be fun," Thalia had promised her. "Come on. Let's go."

Inevitably though, Ashanti had refused to follow them to their house, causing Kayden to use sleeping gas on her when she had least expected it, which had harmlessly put her to sleep.

But the truth was... they didn't really want her to come to their house at all, why would they? Like Ashanti had said- they barely knew her and everything.

They just needed a distraction in order for one of them to use sleep gas on her.

After Kayden had unexpectedly used the sleeping gas on Ashanti without warning her, Ashanti had fainted, with Kayden catching her.

Thalia had then contacted Missy Elliott that they had used the sleeping gas on her, with Missy Elliott then telling them to come to the headquarters immediately.

They had all agreed to go to the park in the first place because that was where the headquarters was located in the first place.

If they had kidnapped Ashanti when she was awake, then she could have potentially told an external party where their headquarters were, and nobody had wanted that for themselves.

Tazeena, Kayden and Thalia had to go underneath some bush to enter their headquarters, with Kayden still pretty much carrying Ashanti, meeting Shealtiel and Kentrell on the way inside.

Kentrell had taken the unconscious Ashanti, putting her into some sort of transparent tube, and handcuffing her.

Missy Elliott wanted to talk to three of them of them about something, and whilst they were doing that, Ashanti in the meantime had just woken up from her coma.

The sleeping gas had only lasted for five minutes max, which was exactly why Tazeena, Kayden and Thalia had to be super quick about everything, because if Ashanti had woken up halfway and realised what they were doing?

Then they were in big trouble.

"Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey..." Kentrell had said to her, moving some type of clock necklace left and right continuously, almost as though to hypnotise Ashanti, but didn't.

Ashanti was very confused yet extremely pissed over what was going on right now, but she was even more annoyed when she had tried to escape from where she was right now but she couldn't.

"Who are you," she fumed, trying to escape from the transparent tube she was in, hands and legs handcuffed to it, which had only held her back. "And where the heck am I? What am I doing here and why are you keeping me hostage like this?"

"If I told you that, where's the fun? There's no fun in that!"

But that was all Kentrell had said.

Kentrell hadn't said anything after that, but just then Kayden had walked right into the scene, resting one of his hands on Kentrell's shoulders.

"Kayden? You were in on this?!"

Him, Thalia and Tazeena were in on this apparently, not just Kayden himself.

Actually, Tazeena wasn't really in on anything because she was kinda completely against the whole thing, but at the same time?

She didn't really have much of a choice.

Kentrell had left the scene entirely, leaving just Kayden and a locked up incarcerated Ashanti in the room, and Ashanti really couldn't have helped scowling at him as the kid had folded his arms at her at the same time.

The worst part was that Kayden was pretty much smiling over everything, almost as if to make fun of Ashanti for getting herself into this situation.

And not for making her get herself into this situation himself instead.

"You lied to me."

When Kayden had heard that, he had just smirked, before deeply examining his fingernails, pretty much avoiding all types of eye contact with Ashanti until further notice.

Missy Elliott had apparently told Kayden to watch over Ashanti in case the kid had tried to escape the room and all of that, so Kayden had been trying to make her suffer for as long as she was going to be here.

"I didn't lie to you," he lied. "You're just easy to deceive. You should have gotten skeptical when we had invited you to come over to our house before we had even gotten to know you properly."

"I was skeptical!"

Yeah, well, she wasn't skeptical enough, and Kayden had told her that.

She was also pretty much an incarcerated desperado until someone had rescued her out of there, if they had done so in time anyway.

It was highly unlikely for someone to do that.

As if Ashanti's entire situation couldn't have gotten worse than it already was, Kayden had set a one hour timer on her, telling her that was how much time she had left to live.

And if the girl had misbehaved herself in any way, then Kayden had every right to reduce the amount of time she had left to live by ten minutes.

In reality though, he didn't really have the power to do that, but he obviously wasn't going to tell Ashanti that, was he?

No of course not.

He wasn't insane.

He pretty much had all of the power over Ashanti until the day she had died.

"I'm not a desperado!"

"Yes, but you are incarcerated," he grinned, smiling evilly at her as she had given him a dirty look. "Face it Ashanti, you're done for, and that's a fact."

So cute yet so annoying.

"Yeah, I get that a lot," Kayden agreed, almost as if reading her mind. Ashanti thought that she had thought that, but she didn't.

She had just muttered that under her breath for no one to hear, but Kayden had still pretty much heard her anyway.

Yep.

She was screwed.

And there was no escaping this one.

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