Life, Love and Gangs. {Book 1} *In Editing*

Money, Money, Money

Niall's POV***

I woke up and remembered the text I got yesterday, I look over to the clock and see I have an hour to get in over to Lucas. I kissed a still sleeping Cinder on the couch and rush out the door and back to my place, I jump in the car and rush off. I had half an hour when I grab the weed, if it's not there on time I get only half my cash.

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I arrive at the alley way that I usually meet him at, I was 5 minutes early thank god. I pulled a smoke out of my pocket and lit it taking a drag, I missed smoking.

I turn my head from left to right till I see a black figure, it was him. I have known Lucas for years now, my brother has been dealing to him for years, I don't like him but he's my biggest connection to money.

"Ni, how ya doin'?" His strong Boston accent sent fear coursing through my body, he's American and only moved here because of legal trouble. I know what you're thinking, why don't I turn him in for cash? If I do they will do a background check and see who my family is and I'm screwed. All because of my brother forcing me into something I didn't want to do.

"Hello?! I asked you a question." He says hitting me over the back of the head, I look up at him and reply to his question.

"Now, you got the shit?" He asks looking from left to right.

"Here, where's my cash?" I ask handing him the bag of weed, he hands my the $100 bill.

"I want you to do some jobs for me.."

"I'm not interested." I say, I want as little as possible to do with this asshole.

"Look, you will do what I fucking tell you, cunt." I clench my jaw at his words.

"What do you need me to do?" I ask, I'd rather get this shit over and done with.

"There is a few of my guys going to the night club down the road from you, I need you to go there and talk to the manager and give him this letter. I need you to tell him I'll be there to talk to him about it around 11pm that night, got that? I need this done tonight." He says handing me the letter.

"Yeah, so I'll see you there." I say walking away, why was I being the messenger?

Cinder's POV***

I woke at the sound of my phone buzzing, it was my dad. I pick up and answer it.

"Hey dad."

"Hey sweetheart, I need you to do some deals tonight at the night club. We have 10 orders to fill and they all happen to be at the same place, could you do that for me?" He asks.

"Yeah, sure thing. Text me the times, names and what they want. I got to go, I need sleep. I'll drop by later, see ya."

"See ya, honey." He says before hanging up.

I get up off the couch and walk towards the closest bathroom I could find and had a shower, it stung to wash because of my cuts. They hadn't healed properly yet, well not all of them. I quickly wash myself and get out and get dressed, I walk back into the lounge room with my wet hair to see everyone crashed either on the floor or the couch. I stood in the middle of the room and shook my hair and woke everyone up, the power of water.

"Ha ha, hey, guys... Where's Niall?" I ask looking around for him.

"Um, oh! He said he had to go early but he'd be back but lunch, he left this for you." Liam says chucking me something, I caught it and took a closer look. It was a roll of money, not just money but fifty's! This is a shitload of cash, what did he want me to have this for? Anyone would think he was paying me to be his girlfriend!!

"He wants all you girls to go shopping for the day and we will all meet back here and have a picnic at the park." Lou says.

"What will you guys be doing while we are out though?" Danielle asked.

"We'll be cleaning up the camping stuff and Zayn's place for that matter." Liam says hugging Dani and giving her a kiss on the forehead.

"Lets get going then!!" Eleanor shouts rushing to the door, I realised that her and the other girls where still in their clothes from yesterday anyway. The girls and I all leave out the door and head to Zayn's car where Perrie was driving, I unrolled the money and started to count. There was a note attached to the fifty's as well.

No sharing!! Unless you really want to :) ;) - Ni

Haha, what a sweetheart. The drive was fairly long, I was still counting the fifty's as we drove.

"800, 850, 900, 950, 1,000. Shit! I've just counted $3,000!" I say out loud looking at the wad of cash in my hands.

All the girls looked at me in amazement, why would he give me this much? And more to the point where did he get it?

"Shit! You're one lucky girl. How about you shout us all lunch?" Perrie says focusing on the road.

"Sure, I have enough." All the girls cheered at my words, the shopping centre was huge. There was 4 stories to the building, we didn't even know where to start.

"How about we start at the food court? We should all eat breakfast and while we are eating we make a list of what we want to buy?" Perrie suggested, we all agreed and headed off to the food court. Something tells me it's going to be a long day.

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After 3 hours of shopping we were finally done, we all had a shopping trolly each. The amount of stuff we brought didn't even put a dint in our wallets, I only managed to use half.

As we drove along we told eachother about how me met each of the boys and the cute little things that they do for them.

As we got closer to Niall's I spotted a nando's.

"Wait Wait! Pull over, Nando's!!"I shout. Perrie pulled over and I went inside to get us all food, I even brought something for Niall.

After a 20 minute wait I finally got our food, I ran back to the car and handed all the girls their meals.

"Thanks Cinder" They all shouted in sync, we drove off towards Niall's. 

We arrived at Niall's and the food was still warm, we all took heaps of our bags inside and upstairs. We found the boys asleep on the couches, I looked around, no sign of Niall..

I walked through the kitchen and in the bedroom, nothing. I walked back into the kitchen and sat the food on the counter and pulled out Niall's food, I pinched a chip and sat on the bench. I looked out the window to see the view, it was beautiful.

"That for me?" I heard a voice say, it made me melt at the sound. Niall.

"Hey babe, yeah. It's for you, who else would it be for?" I asked as I got off the bench and hugged him, his chuckle vibrated through his chest and into my ear.

"You could have been about to eat it? Anyway, thank you love. You didn't have to though, it was your money to spend, that's why I gave it to you." He says kissing my nose.

"I know, that's why I spent it on you. You are my world." I say kissing his nose.

"Anyway, I quickly eat this and then we are all going out to the park. So go wake everyone else up."He says before turning to eat the Nando's.

I laughed and walked off, I went down and helped the girls with the shopping before waking the guys up.

The day has been great already but I was still wondering one thing.. Why did Niall have to leave so early?