I'm Gonna Miss You Baby

Two

It's been about two days, and the boys have been keeping in touch with me Erik's a nervous wreck, and Lyle is telling me how this is the best thing that's ever happened to him

today they started staying at Hotel Bel-Air which I thought was crazy but they said it was because it "wasn't safe" to live at their house

I told them to take it easy on the spending and how they present themselves because one wrong move could ruin everything for them, but of course, Lyle doesn't listen to me

a few days passed and I got a call from Lyle

"Hey, Ange, come over I got you something, I'm sure you'll like it," he told me "Lyle, what do you mean you got me something?" I asked hoping and praying it wasn't something expensive

"don't worry about it, I'll see you in a bit?" he asked me "mm-hm" I hummed before hanging up "damn it Lyle" I said under my breath getting my keys and going downstairs

"honey, I heard Lyle telling you he got you a gift" my mom smiled from the kitchen as I reached the last step of the stairs

I sighed deeply walking to the kitchen "It's nothing, stop listening to my phone calls, it's a total invasion of my privacy!" I said finally getting fed up

she slapped me hard across the face "Don't you talk to me like that!" she yelled "Don't you ever talk to me like that!" she yelled again hitting me again in the same spot but harder

my lip quivered "I am your mother, you will treat me with the utmost respect, is that clear!?" she asked and I nodded "is that clear!?" she yelled "yes" I broke a little letting out a tear "good, now go, I don't want to look at that face" she told me and I walked to my car breathing trying not to cry more

I got to the Hotel and Erik let me in

"Ange, are you ok?" he asked me "Yeah I'm fine, why?" I asked back "Your face, it's bruised," he told me and my eyes widened "it's nothing, just some... Botox" I blurted out "You get Botox?" he questioned "Nope this is my first time" I chuckled "ok..?" he said suspiciously and let me in

I see Lyle and he can barely walk

I squinted my eyes at him "What's wrong with you?" I asked him as he finally made it over to me "Nothing" he shook his head "Lyle are you high?" I questioned looking at the pupils that were huge "No" he replied

I turned to Erik and he sniffed the air and I looked back at Lyle "You're doing cocaine?!" I exclaimed

"What's that?" he said grabbing my face and turning it to see my cheek, I huffed "It's nothing" I pushed his hand away "Is your dad hitting you again?" he questioned "No Lyle!" I rolled my eyes "Then who was it!" he yelled making me flinch "Just drop it, what did you want me here for?" I said with tears brimming my eyes

"I got you some things," he told me coming to put his arm around me to bring me to the other room

"What did I tell you about the spending Lyle!? Come on" I was already frustrated from before "It's called retail therapy, can't I buy myself some happy feelings after such tragedy" he asked I shook my head at him

He opened a box and revealed the most beautiful necklace I've ever seen

"Oh my God," I said and he smiled wide "That is the most beautiful necklace I've ever seen" I looked up at him "That's not all," he said going to get something else

"You guys seriously didn't have to get me anything," I told them "It was all Lyle" Erik told me and I was shocked

I knew Erik was being more responsible with money but I didn't think Lyle would do this all out for me

He came back with another box, I opened it and I was in utter shock

"You didn't" I looked at him "Take it out," he said I took out the dress I'd been eyeing for weeks a very expensive dress might I add

"Thank you so much, I don't even know what to say," I told him "You don't have to say anything," he told me and I hugged him and he held me tight

a few days later they threw a party at the hotel

they invited me and I only went to make sure they didn't do anything stupid

Lyle told me to wear a bathing suit but Erik told me to dress comfortably so I wore a bathing suit under my shorts and T-shirt

I knocked on the door and some random guy let me in, I sighed looking around seeing girls wearing less than bikinis and guys all around

Erik found me and he was out of it for sure "Hey Ange you came" he smiled "Yeah, you ok?" I asked him seeing the way he was stumbling around "Yup I'm fine" he nodded before walking off

I walked around a little more and I found Lyle doing lines of coke on a glass coffee table with a few other guys wearing a speedo and a Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned

he saw me and came right over to me "Why are you being such a prude?" he asked, I noticed the white residue on his nose and wiped it off "Sorry I'm not a whore" I replied once I was done cleaning his nose "You have your bathing suit on though, right?" he asked me

"yes?" I looked at him skeptically "You wanna let me see it?" he asked totally coked out "No" I pursed my lips

"oh come on, you're no fun" he nudged me "Are you serious?" I questioned "Yeah, you don't do anything fun ever, you 'oughta loosen up," he told me and now I was just kinda mad

I'm fun, I'm not a prude, I can party

"I'm fun," I told him "Oh yeah? Prove it," he told me "I don't have to prove nothing to you," I told him starting to walk away

now I just spectated, I didn't want to be involved with this, it was all just drugs, money, and alcohol, nothing I wanted to be a part of

Erik came to sit next to me after a while "Why're you all alone" he asked me "This is not really my thing" I told him "But still, you don't wanna talk to anybody" he questioned "not any of these freaks" I shook my head "ok I'll stay with you" he told me "it's o-" I started "I want to" he told me "thanks Erik" I smiled over at him a little

the two of us talked and laughed he made my time there a lot better

a few days after that Lyle invited me to go to the cheesecake factory with him, I was confused but assumed Erik would be there too

I was wrong

I met him there and we sat together

"No Erik?" I asked sitting across from him "he's with the safe" he told me "ok so what are you gonna do with it? You guys can't open it without your uncle" I told him "Yeah well, could you open it? Your cousin is a locksmith isn't he" Lyle asked me "You want me to get my cousin to break into this safe illegally?" I questioned and he nodded slowly like I was dumb

"No," I told him "What!?" He exclaimed "Would you stop yelling for once, you always cause a scene" I said back to him "I'm not getting my family involved in this, I'm already in so deep I don't want anyone else to be. Wait for your uncle then make up some excuse to get with it alone or something" I told him

He thought for a while

After we ate and everything I tried paying because he really needs to cool it on the spending but of course, he didn't let me

I thanked him and drove back home

the next day Lyle called me and said he didn't find the will in the safe

then a day after that he told me their maid Flor found the will in his parent's closet and they got everything

Again they went on a spree, even though I begged that they stop but again whatever I tell them goes in one ear and out the other