𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕖 - 𝕣𝕒𝕗𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕟 - 𝕠𝕔- 𝕛𝕛 𝕞𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕜

f i v e

I walked downstairs to the kitchen to grab a snack. It was mid-day. Rafe was at the gym, Ward was doing work, and Sarah was god knows where. The night before last, after the party, Pope ended up picking Sarah and I up. It was an awkward drive home. Pope and I tried to stay quiet, but Sarah was drunk in the backseat just yapping away. I told her not to say anything about John b to Pope. Pope doesn't really like Sarah, but I rarely ever ask him for favors so he didn't have a problem. I told him everything that happened at the party, and he was worried. He tried to get me to go back to the chateau, but I refused. Pope also doesn't like Rafe. When Rafe got home, I was already asleep. The next morning, he didn't ask any questions about how I got home or anything. He didn't mention the fight once. Things have been off ever since. I stayed home yesterday while he went golfing, and I pretty much did nothing. He was gone early this morning when I woke up. Today, I was gonna apologize to JJ for the way I spoke to him. After talking to his dad, I realized that he's still the same JJ I grew up with. As i'm making my smoothie I hear Sarah come through the door. It sounds like she has a boy with her. I hear her shove the boy into the room by the front door when Ward walks in.

"What are you doing?" I hear Ward ask her.

"What do you mean?" She couldn't have sounded more guilty.

"Shut the door. Cmon sweetie" Ward says as he walks out. I peek my head around the corner and see Sarah pulling a guy out of the room and she leads him upstairs to the office. I follow behind them quietly. I see Sarah shut the door and I stop her from going anywhere.

"Who's that?" I ask with a grin on my face.

"Wh-Wh-What are you talking about? Haha It's just me. Sarah." She says nervously.

"Okay yeah. Sarah?"

"Mhm?"

"I saw you bring a guy in there. It wasn't Topper."

"I don't know what you're talking about." She crosses her arms and I move her out of the way to open the door. To my surprise I see my brother standing in the middle of the office.

"What the he-" He shushes me and cuts me off.

"Lily, I can explain." He says holding out his hands.

"Get to it!" I whisper yell and shut the door behind me.

"So basically, DCFS caught me and I dropped a picture of dad out the window, so they let me get out and grab it, but instead I ran away, I stole a bike, I got cut, I ran into a chain, and Sarah was like 'omg john b you just yeeted over that chain' and I was all like 'i know!' and then-" He was talking so fast I couldn't understand him.

"John b, slow down. Okay?" I say as I sit him down on the couch.

"Okay." Sarah comes in with the first aid kit to clean him up

"Listen, I don't know what the two of you are up to, and honestly I don't really care. Just don't do anything stupid. I have to go." I say as Sarah cleans up John b's wound.

"Hey Lils, I heard about the party." He says to me with a grin.

"You told him?!" I roll my eyes and look at Sarah. She shrugs her shoulders.

"I guess you can take the girl out of the cut, but you can't take the cut out of the girl." John b says still smiling. I walk out and give him the middle finger. I walk down the stairs and outside to my car. Before I leave, I pause my location so Rafe doesn't see that i'm going to the cut, but for some reason his was paused too. I didn't think much of it. He would be so pissed at me if he found out I was going to someplace in the cut that wasn't the Chateau.

-jj's house-

I step out of my car and hear gunshots coming from the yard and see JJ playing target practice with a teddy bear.