The Ghost

33. I'm bored

"Guys! I'm bored! Let's do something!" Paris whines. 

The whole group looks at each other terrified. A bored Paris, sets traps and pranks for everyone if she isn't entertained fast enough. So everyone started blurting out ideas. 

"Paintball?"

"Movies?"

"Laser tag?"

"There's a party?"

"Make overs?"

"Shopping?"

"We could go to the big fight?"

When Paris hears the last one her face perks up, "there's a fight tonight?"

Galaxy's face snaps to Jace who's still engrossed with the TV show on. Then she signals to Mark, who suggested it, that she wants to talk, so the two get up and wander to the kitchen alone. 

"What's up G?" Mark asks curiously. 

Galaxy looks at him like he's crazy, "Is it safe enough to bring Jace? I refuse to leave him home alone with them." She spits in disgust. 

Mark realizes what's going through Galaxy's head, "Relax, Jace knows enough about the family business that he can handle going to a fight. Jackson put me in charge of his training, so it's been going well."

She sighs out a breath of relief, "Ok, I just refuse to let anything happen to someone under my care." The pain in her eyes at her past failures is obvious to Mark, but he just doesn't know what to say, so he nods and walks back to the living room. 

"Did she say yes?" Paris asks, waiting with bated breath. 

When Mark nods his head, everyone in the room cheers, but Jace shushes them, his eyes still glued to the show. They all laugh at the boy, but he just gets more annoyed. 

Eventually his show ends, everyone else gets ready for the fight. He didn't care how he looked, so Jace waited for them. When they were finally all gathered together again, Galaxy took charge, "Alright no one goes anywhere alone tonight. You will have at least one other person in the car with you. Jace does not count as a person." 

Jace glares up at her grumbling, "why am I not a person." He turns from her pouting as she finishes laying the ground rules. 

Before he has the chance to get away from her though, she grabs his hand. "It's not that I don't think you can fight, it's that if something happens to you, I could never forgive myself. I've already let two siblings get hurt, I refuse to let you be hurt too."

When he hears that he gets really happy that his big sister wants to protect him, but also confused. How were they hurt? He wasn't sure what she meant, but he would do his best to make her proud.

Jace acted really bratty when they first met, but she never let him see it get to her, so eventually he gave up pushing her away and pulled her as close as she would let him. He knows there's a lot they're not telling him, but for now he's ok with the information he has. 

At the club, the second the bouncers see Mark they rush to let him in. The club has a giant ring in the middle with couches surrounding it on steps so that they can watch comfortably. 

"Hey, why's this place so fancy?" Rosie asks, looking at the fancy club. 

Mark looks slightly embarrassed, "Well this is a club only for the super rich to watch the best if the best fight."

"Really?" Galaxy smirks wondering if she could get a fight here. 

"Who's fighting tonight?" Jasmine asks curiously.