Trouble

Dancing With Flames

"Why should I, Alex? Hmm? What are you going to say to make me not want to kill them? Better hurry Alex, the clock is ticking.." Jesse says the last part with a smirk. Alex steps forward, holding his hand out. Jesse steps backwards, her smirk growing as she presses the barrel of the gun against Jack's head once more. Jesse puts her empty hand up and points it at Alex, forming her hand into a gun shape. She smirks at him and puts her thumb down. "Bang." she laughs manically as she pulls the trigger to the real gun that was near Jack's head. I almost faint when I see the blood trickling onto the floor. "Alex! What the fuck did you do!!" I scream, not being able to tear my eyes from the large, deep gash in Jesse's left shoulder caused by the kitchen knife Alex now holds in his hands. The knife is dripping blood and Jesse is on the ground. Three stab wounds in one day. "ALEX!" I scream again. "What?" he asks coolly, turning to looking at me. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DO?!?!" I scream again, rushing over to Jesse and helping her up. "She's had that coming for a while now and you know it." he replies, wiping the bloody knife off on his shirt. I glare at him. I help Jesse walk over to the couch and sit down. She presses her hand tightly against the wound and I rip off part of my shirt for her to wrap around her wound. After she has done that I walk back over to the guys. "Do you realize what you just did?" I say to Alex through clenched teeth. He looks up from the ground. "I don't know.." he says quietly, letting the knife fall to the floor. "You're a fucking psychopath. So are the rest of us, but you just stabbed your fucking girlfriend.. How low can you be man?" Rian says to him. "I'm so sorry Jesse..." he says in her direction. Her response was her middle finger. "Okay, I deserved that." he nods his head, I scoff in disgust and walk over to the guys, untying them, then over to Jesse, laying down next to her and falling asleep.

~Skip to Fourth of July~

"Shut up, Jaime!" Jesse shushes him as we ran quietly down the break wall towards the rest of the people. I have my small golden pistol concealed in one of the pocket on my cargo shorts, along with more ammunition in another pocket. I see them set off the first fireworks and Jesse pushes us forward, into the small crowd of people that were allowed on the break wall. I grab my first person and pull my pistol out, cocking it, as do Jesse and Jaime, and as the fireworks explode, fire the gun at their temple, their screams being cut short and not able to be heard over the fireworks. We all grab our next person tightly as they light off the next fireworks. I fire this bullet into their chest, pushing the body into the water along with the other ones. We continue killing people until all of them are dead. We figured that people would get suspicious if the fireworks randomly stopped, so we finished them ourselves, Jesse and I laughing when Jaime falls in the water from the grand finale. We lean over and help him off, then walk off of the break wall, get in the car, and drive away as if nothing just happened, as if we didn't just murder about 30 people ruthlessly. When we stop, I turn to the back and we all look at each other and start laughing hysterically.

~October 31st~

"Jesse, hurry up! Get your costume on! Hurryyyyy!!" I yell upstairs, adjusting my Harley Quinn wig. "Chill." she says, walking up behind me, making me scream. "Are you ready?" I ask, taking a picture of my outfit and posting it to Instagram. She nods and I pull her next to me, snapping of picture of our outfits and upload that one to Instagram as well. "Okay, leggo." I say, walking to the door, and out. I hear the door close behind me and then footsteps approaching me. We get a little ways down the road and see two girls approaching us. The slightly shorter girl was dressed in the same costume as me, and the slightly taller girl was dressed as Poison Ivy, just like Jesse. I turn to Jesse and raise an eyebrow. She shrugs and we keep walking. The girl dressed as Poison Ivy accidently bumped into me, and turned to look at me, taking in my costume as she opens her mouth to speak. "I'm sorry, and I love your costumes." she says, winking as her friend laughs and then they walk away. I turn to Jesse and raise an eyebrow. "Curiouser and curiouser." she mutters. I giggle and we keep walking, occasionally stopping at the houses I mapped out that give the best candy. I stop when I see the next house coming up. Jesse stops too, and her jaw drops. We slowly turn to look at each other. "What." I say, followed by Jesse saying, "The." and I finish the sentence by saying, "Fuck." I glance back at the house, slowly backing away. Jesse puts her hand out to stop me. "How is this not creeping you out?! That one right there looks exactly like Kelly! And that one looks like your dad! And right there is Scott! And look! Right over there is your sister! Jesse, they all look like people we have killed!! What the actual fuck!" I whisper scream. Jesse shrugs, seemingly hypnotized as she takes a step closer, bending down and reaching her hand out to brush across the things head. "They're so realistic.. They even feel real.." she mutters, turning to look at me. I step closer, standing next to Jesse, then quickly scan the area to see if anybody was around. All of the lights in the houses around us were off, except for one. The one we were standing in front of. I glanced at the house, scanning the windows. When my eyes got to the upstairs window on the far left side of the house, I nearly scream, but instead I lean down and tap Jesse, not taking my eyes off of the window. "What?" she asks, looking up from the thing that looks like Kelly's deceased body. "There is somebody upstairs, in that window.. They're watching us.." I try to whisper without moving my lips too much. I see them throw the curtain shut and walk away from the window. I turn to loom down at Jesse. "We need to go. Now." I command, grabbing her hand and glancing at the house every so often. "Relax, it's probably one of the guys from school trying to scare us. This house has been abandoned for years." she says, trying to calm me down. "So then does it not make sense that the yard would be decorated for Halloween?!?" I nearly yell, grabbing her hand and pulling her up just as the front door opens. "Happy Halloween!" the guy yells, running out of the house laughing manically. I scream and start running, dropping Jesse's hand. I hear Jesse laughing, then the slap of a high five. I stop running and turn around to see Jesse and Jeremiah practically falling on the ground laughing. "You guys are fucking assholes!" I yell, walking back over to them and slapping them both. "I haven't seen you in like, 5 months and this is how you greet me! By scaring the living daylights out of me?!" I yell at Jeremiah. He just nods and I playfully slap him again. "You should have seen your face! You legit looked scared for your life!" He wheezes between gulps of air from laughing so hard. After that little fiasco, Jeremiah, Jesse, and I spend the rest of the night hanging out and watching scary movies. Around 2:30, Jeremiah goes home and I instruct Jesse to stay down stairs and strip her costume off. "Why?" she asks, raising an eyebrow. "Just do it! Don't question me!" I laugh, racing up stairs, striping as I go and leaving a trail of clothing. "YOU BETTER NOT BE TRYING TO PRANK ME!" Jesse yells after me. I don't reply, just grab my fake blood from my bedroom and filling the tub with it mixed with some warm water. While the tub is filling, I finish striping my costume off and throw it on the floor next to my bed, then get out two towels and throw them onto the counter. "Get your ass up here Jesse!" I yell. "I'm coming!" she answers from down the hallway. I turn the water off and climb in before she gets in the bathroom. She walks in and stops. "What the fuck is this?" she asks, raising her eyebrow and crossing her arms, jutting out her right hip. "Just get in." I smile. She shrugs and climbs in, sliding down the shower wall into the warm, red water. "You know, I never thought that we'll bath in blood naked... Haha." Jesse laughs and I just shrug and respond with, "I thought it was the perfect way to end our... Interesting... Halloween night." I laugh, relaxing and sinking into the warm water, closing my eyes. Jesse does the same thing and we get about fifteen minutes of relaxation before somebody knocks on the door downstairs. "Well, I suppose it was probably time to get out anyways." I say, standing up and rolling my back and neck to crack them. Jesse does the same and climbs out of the tub. I pull the plug out the drain and set it on the rim of the tub, then walk out of the bathroom, not bothering to grab a towel. Jesse follows me, not bothering to grab a towel either. Both of us pad down the hallway quietly, leaving a trail of red footprints. I run down the stairs and walk over to the door, pulling it open without bothering to cover myself. "Hey, I forgot my hoodie." Jeremiah says, looking down at his phone. "Come on in and get it." I smirk, pulling the door open wider. I hear Jesse's footsteps behind me followed by her voice. "Oh hey Jeremiah." she says. He finally looks up from his phone and immediately turns bright red. "Oh.. You're naked and covered in blood.. Yanno, why am I not surprised?" he laughs and walks in. Jesse and I both laugh and Jesse goes into the kitchen. I follow Jeremiah to the living room and sit down on the couch, turning it the deep, rusty red color of blood. "So why are you and Jesse both covered in blood and naked?" he asks, grabbing his hoodie and sitting down next to me and casually placing his hand on my thigh. "Jesse and I were bathing in blood." I shrug, not offering anymore explanation than that. "Ah.." he replies quietly, slowly inching his hand up my thigh. I turn to loom at him. "Jeremiah..." I say. "What?" he whispers, sliding his hand to my inner thigh. I grab his hand and remove it, standing up. "I can't.. I just broke up with Zack yesterday.. Plus, you're ruining my blood!" I playfully whine, smiling, which causes him to smile. "I'm sorry.. Its just that your body is amazing, and I just wanted to feel it." he says. "Damn, that didn't sound creepy or anything." I smirk, sitting back down on the couch and relaxing, almost sinking back into the plushness of the couch. I grab the remote off of the couch from next to Jeremiah, leaning over him and pushing my boobs against his legs, then sitting back up and flicking the t.v. on. "Oh.." is all he says. "You're bloody now, Jer." Jesse says from behind the couch. I jump and scream. "When did you get there?!" I yell, clutching my chest over my heart. "A while ago. You're such a flirt, you know that right?" she laughs, looking at Jeremiah. He nods and pulls me close to him, sliding his hand around my shoulder. "So I've been told." he smiles and kisses me.

(A/N) So this is my last chapter for Trouble. I can't believe its ending! This has been such an amazing book to work on. Its had its ups and downs and its now coming to a close, like all good things do.. Jaden has been such an amazing co-writer and its sad that Trouble is ending, but we have good news for you guys! We are going to be working on a sequel!! Its going to be called Dancing With Flames and it will sort of be a continuation of this one. I think you guys should recognize a few characters ;) Anyways, Stay strong, stay beautiful, stay you. Peace out my lovelies!!

~Madi <3