The Gangleader's

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Ariana's pov

The ride to the mansion was silent and some tears spilled while looking out the window. I felt disgusting. Jake kept glancing at me every five seconds or so but I didn't bother looking at him. "Ariana I'm sorry I d-" I cut Jake of by saying "no Jake it's not your fault" and turned to look out the window. I heard him give a heavy sigh, "I promise I won't let anybody hurt you anymore." I didn't answer and kept looking at the sky. It was getting dark and I really wanted to get home and shower. Once we got there I got out and went straight inside. All the boys heads turned to look at me and once they saw the bags under my eyes, and my lightly ripped clothes they rushed to me. "What the hell happened, Ariana?!" "Are you okay?!" "Did Jake do this to you?!!" I quietly put my head down and said, "no it wasn't Jake, I'm really tired guys I'm going upstairs" with that I went upstairs to my room and quickly turned on the shower. I stripped off and got in. After about an hour later I was done. I got out  wrapped the towel around my body, washed my teeth, brushed my hair, threw away the clothes I had on, and went to my bed where all the stuff Jake bought me was. I got my underwear, bra, sweatpants, tank top, and socks. I got dressed and went downstairs. All the boys were in the living room and had glares on their faces. "He's going to fucking pay for what he did" I heard Austin say. "Don't worry I already took care of him" Jake muttered. "Guys what are you talking about?" I asked quietly.  They all turned to look at me and their faces softened. "Don't worry about it Ariana, how you doing?" Max asked with a concerned smile. "I'm fine" I said looking down. "Well that won't happen again cause Ariana, tomorrow you'll be starting training" Jake said with a small smirk. "Training?" "Yes" "for what?" "So you could defend yourself" Jake said in a duh tone. "Oh" I said quietly. "So anyone hungry?" Jackson asked and everyone's head snapped up. "ME!!!" They all yelled at the same time. I giggled. I swear these boys act like five year olds. Jackson went to the kitchen and I followed. "I'll help" Jackson turned to me and smiled "thanks Ariana" I just returned the smile. I hadn't noticed how tall all these guys were until I was standing next to Jackson making pasta. They are all about 6 feet to 6'4 while I'm just 5'4. After Jackson and I were done making pasta they all came rushing in and sat down. We served them and after they all had their plates they started eating it like they hadn't ate in forever. Well then. I just smiled and was about to head upstairs when Jake spoke up and asked, "aren't you going to eat, Ariana?" "Oh um no thanks I lost my appetite from earlier, you know?" His eyes darkened and just said, " oh, yeah, right well if you get hungry later your plate will be in the microwave" I just nodded and headed to my room. Once I got there I laid down in my bed and started thinking about school and how my parent are right now, although they probably don't care that I'm gone. I sighed and my eyes started feeling really heavy until eventually I fell asleep.

"Ariana wake up we have training to do" I heard a voice call out:. "Ugh just give me five more minutes" I heard him chuckle before my sheets were ripped off. I turned to the alarm clock in my nightstand and saw it was six in the morning. "Are you serious?" I asked the person and once I turned to look at them, I saw Jake smirking down at me ,"yes now get up and get dressed we're doing training" with that he walked out. Stupid Jake. I got up, went to the restroom, and did all my morning things, got dressed into a white t-shirt, my Nike workout short shorts, socks, my roshees, and tied my hair in a ponytail. I went downstairs to see all the guys shirtless with some sweatpants hung low, which showed their Calvin Klein boxers and god damn. They also had Nike workout shoes. I guess they were coming too? Whatever when they saw me they smiled and I smiled back. "You ready to kick some ass, Ariana?" asked Grayson wiggling his eyebrows. I just chuckled nervously and said "Um not really but I guess" they chuckled and gave me reassuring smiles "you'll do great."  Yeah I really hope so.