Matched (septiplier)

|Chapter 10|

The days flew by, then weeks, Hell's Helpers are still here. Why haven't they left already? they travel around the country all the time, what's stopping them? Everyday I live in constant fear, as if I don't deal with that enough already. I just want them to go away. All the neighborhood gays have been in hiding. Aly and Syd. Mark and I. Nat was lucky, he didn't have to hide because he was offered to go on a mini tour with his band, finding peace elsewhere for a while.

Syd and Aly are still keeping their relationship secret and behind closed doors, but they've been taking extra precaution. They usually are open with their relationship, but now they don't even leave the house together anymore. Mark and I were already in hiding sort of, so nothing had really changed except for the fact that we distanced ourselves in public.

Our relationship is still going strong and growing every day. Every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday we hang at either my house or his house. I found out Mark had a little adorable golden retriever, Chica was her name, and boy was she a ball of energy. She would always cuddle next to Mark and I when were together. Chica seems to take a liking to me, which is a good thing, if Chica didn't approve then we'd have a problem.

Every time we were together, it consisted of cuddles, kisses, and absolute shenanigans. We would always do weird things together (not like that, get you mind out of the gutter! sickos) we did the baby food challenge, I identified all of the absolutely disgusting foods correctly, Mark on the other hand, kept getting them wrong.

I had an opportunity to meet Bob and Wade! we actually played Mario kart together, Mark kept falling off a cliff and Wade seemed abnormally good at the game, which just made it that much more fun! They were super cool and actually very excited to meet me.

We tried out a double date with Aly and Syd, but it mainly consisted of Syd bombarding poor Mark with 10000 questions. And i'm not talking 'what do you think of Jack?' or 'What's your favorite color?' Oh no. I'm talking 'so when are you two gonna fuck?' I don't think i've ever blushed that badly before.

Our relationship was going smoothly even though we were sailing on rough waters, we didn't mind, we made it work. We made the best of the worst situation. That's what was special about Mark, he made the best out of the worst times.

Anti surprisingly hadn't made any appearances, which is good, maybe he had finally learned to leave me alone.

Things at work, however, started to go downhill. Annie especially has been acting weird. Annie, I hate to put it this way, but she's at the bottom rank at work. She's lucky I haven't gotten her fired yet. She always acts like she is supposed to be at the bottom, but for some reason, she's had an attitude change.

"Grass head."

"What now Annie?"

"Hurry up and get back to work."

"Excuse me?!"

"You heard me. i'm going on break, you're taking over for me."

"I have authority over you! You can't tell me what to do."

"Oh really? So what if I told HH (Hell's Helpers abbreviation) about, oh I don't know, your boyfriend?" I tense up and go into shock, how does she know about Mark?

"How the fu-"

"Yeah, from your little break down a few months ago, I put two and two together. I have authority over you now. Not to mention I also know about your little lesbian friends too." She crosses her arms over her chest and stands tall, knowing that I have no way of denying. There was this dark look in her eyes, almost like she was Anti....

"Well? what are you doing standing around? GET TO WORK." I wanted so badly to punch her in the face, but I couldn't, anything I do wrong could trigger her to attack.

Shit. I'm not safe anywhere. It's really sad when you fear someone who is smaller and weaker than you, and someone who is younger than you. Through the rest of the day, I played my cards very carefully around Annie, one slip up and my friends and I could land up dead.

When my shift finally ends I hang my apron and slowly begin walking home. Mark sees me and runs up to me.

"So how was work? You seem a bit down."

"Annie." His face contorts in confusion and he knits his eyebrows together.

"What about her? I know she's a bitch but..."

"She has relations to HH. I don't know how, I don't know what the relationship is, but she has contact with them." He gasps slightly, and fear struck him.

"what? please tell me you're joking. this isn't funny." I look up at him in pain. He then knew I wasn't joking. I was serious.

"Shit." there was silence between us, a dark cloud was looming around us, we were in danger and i'm so scared. But I know Mark is far more scared than I was, because he knew if Annie did tell them, I would be attacked. Even dead.

"What are we gonna do?"

"There's only one thing I can do. I have to actually be nice to her." I had my head hung low.

"Fuck, but I don't like her, and she acts like a spoiled brat. This isn't fair."

"I know. But it's probably the only way to keep us alive." Mark huffs, I know he's infuriated, but I have to do this for the sake of our safety.

Fate please be nice to me.