Playing With Fire

Chapter 1

    •~CASSANDRA SCARLETT~•

"Cassie your mom and I have to leave New York. There nothing left for us here!" my dad states with an annoyed face.

"What about me?! I'm here! Your son is here?! I don't understand why you are springing this on me last minute! I'm 21 years old Dad and going to college! Where am I supposed to go! I can't just pack up my life and leave! Everything I love is here!" I yell.

"Well... Cassie your father and I have been talking with your brother. We have decided you will go live with him. I know you don't like what he does and what he's apart of but he's still family and you're safe with him!"

"Plus I've already taught you self defense and how to use different guns and other weapons. You'll be fine sis." My brother chimes in and I shoot him a glare letting him know he needs to shut up.

"So let me get this straight. I get my life going, I'm the good kid who ISNT IN A GANG MIND YOU and now you want to just up and leave and dump me on Sawyers doorstep. When you know how I feel about all he does and the gang he's in." I soff and clench my fists to try and keep any sanity I have left in my body.

"Honey that's not fair it has nothing to do with you being a good kid or not. Your father and I need to do this. It's what's best for you." My mom softly speaks trying to calm me down.

"Yeah, whatever, fuck this. Have a good new life wherever the hell you're moving. I hope ditching your kids is worth it. I'll be in my room packing up everything so you can kick me out."

I storm to my room before anyone can say anything else about it. I'm furious. How can they just up and leave their kids, and how dare they stuff me into a situation they know I'd hate with everything in me.

At about 1 in the morning I finally finish packing and collapse on my bed falling asleep from the stress of previous events.

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I wake up to the sound of loud knocking at my door. I groan and mumble a "fuck off" before shoving my face back into my pillow. All of a sudden my door swings open and someone walks in.

"Cass, the movers are here to grab your stuff. Get up and get dressed and please don't make this more difficult than you're already making it." He pleads.

I turn over and glare at him before finally giving in and getting up throwing on a black tube top and green cargo pants and throwing my pajamas into a trash bag of other clothes. I walk into my bathroom and apply a bit of makeup and put my hair into a clipped bun before walking out into the living room where my mom and dad were having a conversation. As much as I hated them for doing this to me, I don't want to leave on a bad note with them so I curse under my breath and walk towards them.

"Good morning Cassie! Did you sleep well." My mom asks with a soft smile.

"Yea I did. Listen guys I'm sorry about how I acted yesterday. It was unfair of me and is unfair of me to be mad at you for wanting to move forward with your lives. I love you both a lot and I'm going to miss you. You deserve this you really do." I say looking at my parents.

My mom starts to tear up and she engulfs me in a hug. My dad joins in after receiving a glare from my mom and my brother comes in with a mad look on his face.

"Why am I always missing the family hug! This ain't fair!" He whines.

My mom lets out a giggle and motions for him to join us and my brother comes over and quite literally crushes me between my parents. This wasn't very hard considering I'm only 5'5 and my brother and dad are both 6'0 and my mom is 5'7. All of them have height on me and I hate it. Why was I stuck being the short one. After a few seconds of the hug I begin to wiggle and beg everyone to let me out. The hug breaks and I gasp for breath and stand up just as a mover comes over to me.

"Miss Scarlett we have all of your stuff in the van and we are going to take it over to the house." He says to me.

My brother interjects and starts talking to the mover before letting him leave the house and coming over to me wrapping an arm around my shoulder.

"Well mom and dad. Cass and I should really get going. We have a long ride ahead of us and I don't want to drive all night long."

My parents got up and we all said our goodbyes one last time before Sawyer and I stalked out of the house giving our parents one last wave goodbye and getting in the car. My brother started his car and handed me the aux cord so I could play my music. I took the cord from him and plugged in my phone and shuffled my playlist before he started backing out of the driveway and I gave my parents one last little wave before he started driving down our childhood neighborhood roads. After a little while of silence my brother finally speaks to me.

"I promise it won't be as bad as you think Cassie. Everyone is pretty nice except for Enzo. But he's an Asshole to everyone even me, and I doubt you will ever see him. He's usually never around either way. It's gonna be great Cass and I won't let anything happen to you I promise, and I've already told everyone you aren't interested in anything the gang does so you won't bother them and they won't bother you." My brother says with hope in his voice.

I know it's unfair to be upset at this situation but I also know he's right. He would die protecting me if he had to and I know as long as I keep to myself here nothing will happen.

I let out a small hum in response to what he said to me and I rest my head against the window and close my eyes.

Sawyer is right. This is going to be fine. I'm sure my life with continue as normal and nothing will happen.

But little did I know. Boy was I wrong...

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