Sugar & Spice

Part five: Let it all out and have a cinnamon roll with us

I was expecting him to start yelling at me, but to also start crying in the process is a different story. I understand that he was hurting but I never guessed he would have that much hurt and heartache inside him; even the expression in his eyes have changed. Seeing him like this, being so broken and defenceless just makes me pity him. But at least we were getting somewhere, now I just need him to tell me about what happened that night, the reason for why I came here.

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"Sorry Seth, but I can't leave just yet. I got another question for you."

"One more question? You really do got some balls don't you," he said weakly to me while making eye contact with me. I could see brokenness in them. I didn't say anything to him but only give him a small yet awkward smile, which I was honestly not expected to work but it did as he let out a deep sigh.

"Alright, just promise me this is it and you go the hell home, I don’t know how much more of this I can take."

"I will, I just want to know what happened. Alphonse may have told me everything on his side; from getting to know each other to him seeing the boss on top of you. I want to know what happened from your point of view," I said to him while he looked almost shocked.

"He really did spill his guts huh? Don't ask me any questions you might not want to hear the answer to."

"That may be true but I still want to know."

"You really wanna know why I was attacked at night, might not like what you hear Jolene." I could tell that he is beating around the bush with me, like he was trying to change my mind, but it won't work.

"Do you want me to go home or not? I'll stay here all night if I have to!"

"Fine. Derek; he's the one Alphonse would have been telling you about, the boss. Used to date my mom, got me hooked on bike gangs, the whole culture."

Good to know that my argument worked against him and on the plus side, I just got some new information. Derek, the boss and the guy who Al and Seth worked for. As someone who came from the city, I never really paid much attention to all the stuff that was happening; not my problem, not my business, not my issue as Robin would say but there was something about his name that sounds so familiar to me. Rather than saying something, I just sat there quietly as Seth continues his story.

"I started working for him and when I brought Alphonse to the city, Alphonse was my partner in crime. I have pretty thick skin and I could adapt that life; I could have rose through the ranks and a few years down the line, burned out and ended up in addict or dead or in prison. I was okay with that. It felt like a fitting path for me, just an outcast with nowhere to be, but I wasn’t an outcast as much as I wanted to forget. I knew that there was one place that I belonged, so I went and swept Alphonse off of his feet, brought him back. The one person I ever felt at home with. So even as I slid further down that fucked up rabbit hole, I could still be that lovestruck kid, I could still be me. The me I wanted to be. I had to live that life for so damn long, I had to be this person I was disgusted with but I got so good at believing my own lies that time just kept going. The stakes kept getting higher and I’d introduced Alphonse to this world that I hated. I could let it change me, I could become a lonesome son of a bitch and be OK, but the moment I started to see how it was hurting Al; that’s when I came up with a plan."

"And what was the plan?" I asked him as I was filled with curiosity.

"Derek found out I had been shorting him money. I kept telling myself that I’d get us out of there, that we could runaway all over again. I could be a mechanic, al could open up his own candy shop and we’d live happily ever after. I just need enough time to save enough money to make it work."

At first, I honestly expected Seth to say something completely different but he caught me off guard. He was taking money that was for Derek, he was risking his own safety and was keeping some money aside so that he could take Al away from the pain and actually live a happy life. I'm actually starting to get emotional just thinking about it but I got to be strong, I have to make it through this.

"What happened next?"

TO BE CONTINUED

(I promise that the next part will be the final one😅)

📢ALPHONSE AND SETH DON'T TO ME! THEY ARE YUURIVOICE CHARACTERS SO ALL RIGHTS AND CREDITS GOES TO HIM AND THE TEAM!📢