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"the night seems to fade
but the moonlight lingers on"

Emori might have not remembered it all well, but after the 'not a date', fez drove them to the garage.

As emori chilled at the back eating dry cheerios and trying her best to sober up, all while fez and that lexi girl they met at the party were blushing at each other.

"They are so down bad for each other" she chuckled as she watched the two through the blinds, swinging on the wheeled chair

Ash shook his head as he kissed his teeth,  staring at emori— or her hair— as she gazed at fez and lexi and stuffed a mouthful of cheerios in her mouth.

She looked back to find ash as he just jumped and cleared his throat, pretending he wasn't just staring at her

Before she could address that, there was this old sweaty man that just walked in the store.
She couldn't get a great look at him, but she's definitely heard that voice before

At that, she watched as ash fiddled through a different cheerio box, this time, a gun came out of it. She nodded her head, impressed at the disguise.

Tension filled the whole store between lexi, fez and the man.
For most of it, she was confused as to why this man seemed so passive.

"What the fuck was that? the nerve this man has." she barged out of the room right after she took another hand full of cheerios

Everyone turned to lexi since the man mentioned that she might know him.

"That's nate's dad" lexi told them, emori still lost as ever, turning to ash for an explanation

"The bitch fez jumped at the party" ash told her as she lifted her eyebrows

"He want revenge or some shit?" she chuckled as she looked to fez

"I fucking knew it, you're drunk, aren't you?" fez chuckled after the silence, "shit"

Emori looked to ash who was already staring at her, trying to hold in his laugh

Fez gave her a ride and made ash walk her back to her house.
She doesn't remember what happened after that interaction with lexi and nate's dad, whatever that was

But as ash quietly got the both of them into her room...

"Wait, where are you going? stay" emori urged, trying her best to keep her eyes open.

"Deadass bro?" ash genuinely asked

She slowly nodded. And ash didn't bother to protest against it, mainly because he was also drunk out of his mind and didn't really wanna jump back out of the window in the dead of night.

*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

IMESSAGE CONVERSATION
ғᴇᴢᴄᴏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀsʜᴛʀᴀʏ

ASH 🔨🫂
staying for the night

FEZ 💊🫂
a'ight, tell Emori i told her goodnight

ASH 🔨🫂
sure thing

*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

They did plan on talking and catching up for the rest of the night, but um...

[light snoring]

yeah...

She layed comfortably on ash's shoulder, with her leg cuddled up between his.
They were warmed by emori's cool fluffy duvets, and her pink lighted room.

They were lucky enough that they snuck back into the house at 1am, everyone was sound asleep by then...

When she was half awake, all that emori could hear were faint noises of movement in her room, and loud music coming from downstairs.

She lightly groaned as she rubbed her morning eyes, then scratched her head, seemingly forgetting how last night had ended.

She forgot everything until she slightly opened her eyes, squinting and violently blinking to make sure she was actually seeing a figure in a grey polo shirt and dark tracksuit pants.

Oh it's just ash...wait, what the fuck? why am i so thirsty? she asked herself

She grabbed the nearest phone and her trusty bottle of water, gulping it down and checking them time.

10:44 it read.

"Morning sleepyhead" ash said, his voice notably rustier than normal
emori just nodded at him, then carried on drinking the water

All she did was rush to aggressively open the door, leaning on it to hear what was going on downstairs.

"And when I am king Surely I would need a queen"

It was zi, playing kingston town by ub40. typical

Emori was relieved to have him too occupied with dancing to the rhythm while making pancakes, and not checking in on her just yet, hell there was literally a boy in her room.

She looked up and sighed, then proceeded to close the door.
She got caught off guard by ash literally death staring her as he slowly put his tracksuit jacket back on.

"And my queen will come at dawn"

"...What?" she flatly asked, eyes wide open

"Good mor-ning emori" he pushed

"Right, sorry— morning ash" she chuckled as he zipped the jacket up before—

"Yeah, morning 'mori...and ash?" another voive said
emori jumped as she saw her older brother peak through the halfway closed door

"Sup" ash greeted, unbothered, carrying on with his business

Oscar leaned on the doorway, tapping his foot and suspiciously looking at the both of them, dead silent.

"You wanna...explain maybe?" oscar asked his younger sister

"Oh my bad. we went out last night to eat these fire hotdogs at one of the food trucks there, we even had...mad slushies—" Ash enthusiastically explained, using hand gestures as he and emori widened their eyes at each other, silently communicating

"—Yeah, really special slushies while on a really cool ferris wheel. then we stopped at the store and witnessed fez making googly eyes with that lexi girl, then came back here and slept" she emphasized, looking back at her brother, who furrowed his bushy eyebrows at the pair.

"Uh-huh...you's a special case." he pointed at the two, "be ready in...ten minutes"

"For what?" ash asked emori

"School shopping" oscar answered

"Fuck me" she flatly announced, before closing the door and pushing her brother out.

They both sighed in relief, right before they heard footsteps approaching the room. it was zi humming along to the song.

[gentle knocking on the door]

"Moon! i got breakfast" he told her, before continuing to hum along, the two widening their eyes and looking for a hideout for ash— she had just shoved him into her closet.

"Uhh...coming" she fixed herself up, trying not to look like she went out the previous night

"And a palace and everything, yeah"

"Morning moon" zi sweetly greeted his niece as she pulled the door open

"Morning zi" she took the plate he held out, grinning at the food

"Who's...puffer jacket you wearing?" he pointed at the blue jacket, furrowing his eyebrows

"Uhh— oscar's! yeah" she lied, trying to distract him from the movement taking place in her closet

"Mmm...looks good" he nodded in approval

"Uh-huh" she agreed with her uncle

"...Well it looks like you want me to go so..." he squinted his eyes

"Mmm just...girl...stuff" she told him, trying not to cringe at the shallow lie

"Aight. finish up— then we can head out, ye?" he left the doorway, dancing on his way down

"Got it, zi" she said before he closed her door. ash immediately got out of the closet, staring at the plate of fluffy pancakes and maple syrup.

"You got a lotta clothes" ash said as he exhaled, stretching his back and neck

"You may not believe it, but its never enough" she said, before witnessing him take a huge ass bite out of the top pancake.

She looked at him disappointedly, as he pointed at the food then did the chef's kiss.

Emori chuckled as she bit the remaining piece of the top pancake.

They both heard muffled voices from below, reminded that one of them shouldn't be here.

"Okay, you seriously gotta bounce the fuck outta here" she told him, picking out a quick outfit to throw on and throw her other clothes in the laundry

"Fine. but i'm taking this wimme" at that, he grabbed the remaining three pancakes from her plate

"Wha— uh— ash— wait—" she stammered, speechless at the fact that he's literally eating all her breakfast. she followed him as he climbed out of the balcony, impressed that he could do it all with one hand and a full mouth

"Send my regards to zi, this shit is amazing" he said, mouth full, right before literally parkouring to the ground.

"Unbe-fucking-lievable" she whispered as she watched him happily walk out of the driveway

She opened the door, walking downstairs in shame, "hey zi, i'm gonna need four more of those pancakes you made. and a ton of water. also— when are we leaving— you guys are literally in pajamas still"

"Shit. the deals aren't up yet" zi stroked his beard disappointedly as he looked at his phone

"but why can't we just buy now?" emori nagged, also mad that ash might've left for nothing

"Tomorrow. i ain't paying extra for shit. don't y'all need a pencil and paper anyways?" zi asked, before handing her another plate of pancakes as he answered a phone call.

"What the fuck man" she whispered with a whiny tone, before storming back upstairs.

"sorry about that...maybe you should help oscar with textbook covering, he fucking up" zi told her, making her laugh at her brother as he yelled in frustration

As she got back upstairs, thinking about ash, she thought about how different he was during the not a date- a good different.
He was calm for the first time in forever, that was peculliar to her, especially because they both managed not to deeply insult each other for more than 20 minutes.

next day, right?

There's nothing more bittersweet than school stationery shopping. i mean, it's super fun choosing a theme and rebranding yourself and buying these super cute supplies, but the downside is...it's for fucking school, where no one gives a shit.

"We've been here for a hour and you only have six things checked off the list. what's up?" zi affectionately asked

Emori wasn't about to tell her uncle and older brother that she might be experiencing the consequences of drinking a ton of vodka at the ripe age of 14.

"...rough night" she summarized

"Hmm, probably didn't sleep at all considering ash—"

Emori bumped her brother as he nearly snitched on her.

Silence followed as emori continued to push the trolley forward, dropping books into it.

"...Be on the lookout for sales...this shit aint cheap" zi ordered

They were back home, and emori and her brother were ordered to sort their shit out.

So as emori spiritlessly opened the packaging of her glue sticks, pencils and colored pens—

[loud tapping on the balcony]

She stood from her seating and slowly walked to her window. she scoffed as she saw—

"Ash?" she called, seeing the boy, now changed to a black nike tracksuit with red strokes on the shoulder pads.

She saw him gesture that she come outside. sighing, she looked back at her messy desk filled with stationery items.

"Fuck it" she pursed her lips, grabbing her phone and slipping on some fluffy slides.

"I'll be back" she told zi as she rushed downstairs and out of the house.

"you will be back" Zi watched the girl waddle to the high doors

Ash watched the pink haired girl, who now wore a blue valour tracksuit with a white lace folded top underneath.

"What brings you here?" she smiled as she put her hands in her heart shaped back pockets

"Let's go" he ordered, putting his hands in his pockets as they left the driveway

"Where? your place?" she asked as she turned to him, squinting as she felt the afternoon heat hit her face

"Yessir" he kicked some rocks lying on the road

"You could've just told me to come by, yknow" they unintentionally walked closer together

"I know your ass wasn't gonna walk all the way to my crib" he chuckled as she rolled her eyes

"So you've decided to walk me there - yourself" she concluded to herself

"I'm such a sweetheart" he whispered, loud enough so she could hear him, frowning as she blushed

All ash and emori did was watch some tv, eat and talk.
he even eventually told mori about the reason faye was staying with them.

"Is she always this...high?" emori whispered to ash before sipping out of the box juice he gave her, the both of them peaking over the large window at the blonde smoking on the couch.

Ash scoffed, taking the juice box from her hand, turning around and gazing his eyes upon the security camera live footage. Emori noticed he was occupied on something, so she turned around to where he was looking to.

"Who the fuck is that?" she asked, not expecting any answer

Ash just pursed his lips then sighed, handing the juice box back to mori.

"I'll be back" ash said, seeming to have done this shit before

"Okay" she lifted her eyebrows, playing with her mouth as she heard fiddling in the bathroom.
before she knew it, ash walked out holding a huge ass AK-47 looking shit.

She widened her eyes more and nodded, already knowing what was about to go down

She made an O shape with her mouth as she watched the flat screen, displaying ash aiming the gun at some dude in his car

She squinted her eyes as she stared deeply into the screen

"You doing a'ight 'Mori?" fez, who just stepped into the separate room, asked as she leaned on the table starinng at the screen

Her hair moved from left to right as she shook her head, eyes fixed on ash's business. she felt the warmth of fezco's presence as he and mori watched ash handle things.

Fez sighed as soon as he could decipher who was in the car, exiting the room and grabbing a chair from the dining table

"Let us handle this shit, okay" he told emori as she followed him back upstairs

She nodded, pursing her lips as she awkardly rubbed her neck

"You saying nothing" fez emphasized, watching emori walk into the hallways

Emori chuckled as she nodded, hearing footsteps approaching at the entrance as she closed the bathroom door to use the loo

Emori heard faint conversation between Fez and the man that Ash found by their driveway.

The sound of their conversation became clearer as she pulled the door open, the door awkwardly creaking and the whole room going silent as she slowly walked in the hallway.

The bright afternoon sun piercing through the curtains shone on her therefore blocking her view of everyone present.

"...So first, you come to my fucking job askin' all these weird-ass questions like the feds. Then I find you out in front of my house. What the fuck are you doin', man?" she heard fez tell the man as he leaned on a table

"You're free to call the cops." the man said, turning to her. it wasn't the fact that he was literally staring her down as she slowly walked to where ash was. she's seen this man before...and not only from yesterdays interaction

"Why the fuck would I do that?" fez asked him

"Well, it's either call the cops, let me go or... kill me." even the man's voice sounded way familiar

"What the fuck, man? What's with your family? Are you all just a bunch of fucking assholes?" fez asked

"You beat up my son." the man justified

"Yeah, well, he deserved it, man. He's a fucking bitch." fez said as emori turned to her right to see ash lifting the gun he carried

"Oh, okay, tough guy. Ow, fuck!" the man yelled in pain as ash hit his head with the gun "Why did you do that?" he asked, blood streaming down his sweaty face

"'Cause you're in no position to talk shit." ash told him

"I'm warning you. You hit me one more... Oh, fuck!" ash hit the man once again

"Why don't you call the cops?" ash pulled out his phone from his pocket, giving it to emori

"The Chief of Police, Will Greenwood... Mm-hm." the man grunted in pain as ash repeatedly hit him in the same spot, watching him stretch his hands to emori

"All right, Ash. Chill out, man." fez told him

"Fuck!"

"This guy don't want the fucking' cops involved. Watch. Call the cops." ash said as emori put the phone on the table

"I will."

"Dial, bitch. If you got nothin' to hide, call the fucking cops." he hit him again

"Stop, stop, stop." he pleaded

"I'm not fucking stopping. I'm not stopping. Call the cops." the two waited for him to make a move, "I told you." ash kissed his teeth as he looked up at fez

"All right, man. I get it." fez stopped ash

"I know you and your drug addict friend, that girl. You're trying to extort my son." the old man eventually mentioned

"What?"

"Because of what I did to her friend."

"What the fuck are you talkin' about, man?" fez asked, now everyone was eager to know what this man was in about

"You know, the blonde." he described

"Who? Jewel?" fez asked

"Look, man, I didn't know she was 17." at that, emori's jaw dropped.

"You tellin' me you had sеx with Jewel?" fez asked in disbelief

"Who's Jewel?" faye asked right after she puffed some smoke

"What the fuck, man?" fez said what everyone was thinking, emori and ash widening their eyes at each other

"Do I know Jewel?" faye asked, lifting her head up from the couch she lied on

"The fuck are we even talkin' about right now, bro?" fez asked

"Jewel. Jewel. Jewel..." faye whispered, wavering the cigarette around

"I just want the disc." the man said

"What disc?!" he asked in annoyance

"Of Jewel and I." he told them

"Yo, you recorded that shit?!" fez raised his voice, in utter disbelief

"Holy fucking shit, man" emori whispered to ash

"I didn't know." he excused

"You didn't know that you were recording?" fez mocked

"I fuckеd up." he lowered his voice

"Obviously, man. Yo, who the fսck even told you I gave a sh¡t about this anyway?" fez asked him

"My son." he shamefully admitted

"Your son? The one that's in love with Jewel?" fez asked

"Aw, that's cute." faye commented

"That's not cute, man. What the fuck?" fez shifted from his position

"What?" the man asked

"What kind of weird-ass father-son shit is goin' on around here, bro?" fez asked

"I'm extremely confused." the balding man said

"You're confused. I'm fucking confused, bro." fez admitted

"Me too." faye admitted

"I don't even know what the fuck you're doin' here."

Do you mind if I just leave? I'm not gonna say a word about anything, I swear to God. Let's just pretend like... none of this ever happened.

"what the fuck" emori chuckled in shock

"Yo, Ash, let me talk to you real quick." fez pulled ash aside

"Hi... what's your name?" faye asked the man

"Cal." a faint bell rang in emori's head, shes hear that name before

"Do you and your son, like... Do you, like, fuck people together?" faye asked, making cal turn away in annoyance

"Yo, check it out, man. I'mma let you walk up outta here on one condition." fez walked back to the table he leaned on

"Anything."

"You'll keep your bitch-ass son out of my fucking life, and Rue's and Jewel's, till the end of fucking time. You understand?" fez ordered

"I promise." cal told him

"Now, I don't know sh¡t about no fucking disc, man. That's not my problem. Now get this motherfucker up outta here, Ash."

As ash kicked cal out of the house, emori did all she could to try remember where the hell she saw this man from.
it was written all over her face that she knew this man, and he knew her, even ash took notice of her frustration.

"You good? you been pacing around for a good minute" fez asked, noticing she was occupied

"Huh? yeah— no it's nothing. just...that man...i've seen him before, not just from last night"

"Who? cal?" fez asked

She quickly nodded

And at that moment it came to her. cal knew her father. and she concluded that they must've been close beacause she saw him at the hospital where her father passed, his funeral too.

Something told her that he knew something, something crucial to the reason that her mother had this firing drive in her to literally drive over him, amongst other things...

She lied awake, trying her best to relive the unnerving memories of the events that led up to the turning point of her life, with the help of ashtray of course.

"...Yeah, because what you did was fucked up" she told ash over the phone

"Mmm...but i know that ain't the worst you seen...your family is fucking crazy" he chuckled as he looked back at his phone

And he was right.

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