From Mine to Ours

49 - Part 2: Conclusions

Two men and two women appear from behind the wall leading back to the elevators and are quick to run up to the shocked Cadence and Oliver who are currently having cuffs being put around their wrists. I wait for a moment as the police do their jobs and procedures, reading them their rights and such, before calling Jennifer again who's waiting behind the cubicle. With all of these windows, I'm surprised they haven't spotted us yet, but I suppose potted plants are a better hiding place than expected.

She stands up and reveals herself to the two and when they turn their attention to her, I finally notice the tears in Oliver's eyes. I can't lie... I almost stopped this whole thing, but there's no way I won't see this through to the end after all of the hard work we put into this. Besides, he made me cry too...

"What a sight this is, don't you think, Sarah?" Sarah stands up beside her and I can feel the glare she's sending them from here. She is not to be messed with. "You didn't think you could get away with a stunt like this, did you, Cadence?"

Her pink hair shakes violently with her head, "Sarah?! You guys- you can't do this, this is all just a misunderstanding, okay?!"

"Yeah? 'Cause that video does say otherwise and I'm sure the police agree as well," Sarah responds, a rare smirk forming on her lips-

"You won't get away with this, we have-"

"Friends, or in your case a dad, in the police department? We're well aware," Jennifer answers this time. With their full attention on our bosses, I motion for Lucy to come forward more to get a better view on her camera. "You don't really think you're little friends are the only ones with connection in the law enforcement, do you?"

Once again, and not to our surprise, the elevator dings once more. This time, a struggling Charlie and Lucas are coming through to join the others in the center of the floor with two more police officers right behind them. "You will get into so much trouble for this, give me your name, now!" Charlie yells, briefly shocked at seeing all of the commotion going on in the room.

Thanks to Tyler, he managed to get these two out of the apartment and near our office building for a 'surprise lunch' he planned. Little did they know, they walked right towards our little trap-house.

"You not only stalked one of my employees, but have the audacity to whine about facing the consequence of your ridiculous actions too?" Jennifer's voice cuts through the chaos, sending the room into silence once more. "As I was saying, you're not the only one with connections, and your dad being an officer isn't enough to stop us from giving you exactly what all four of you deserve,"

"I- I have no clue what you're talking about-" Charlie tries, but Lucas beside him who I've never even seen shed a tear let alone sob finally breaks.

"Please... I- I really didn't want it to get this far..."

Charlie turns to him with a glare so hard I worried it might actually break the blond even more. But Lucas is so out of it, his face full of tears and his hair stuck to his face as he must've moved around a lot on their way up here. To be honest, I least expected Lucas to break first. Especially this quickly... However, thanks to his little outburst he finally blurts the truth. "It was us. All of us. Charlie, Cadence, Oliver, myself, but I didn't think it'd last for months, okay?!"

"SHUT UP, LUCAS!" He tries to wrangle with police officer cuffing his wrist, but to no avail.

"So, you admit it was the four of you behind this all along?"

Him and Oliver quickly nod and Cadence simply hangs her head in defeat. "It was Charlie's idea; he wanted to build connections to people working in the building, it was a coincidence that the first person he clicked with was Oliver who was on his way to lunch one day..."