Gang Leaders Claim

GLC; 11

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"Charlie stop touching my cake!"

"That's what she said."

"Charlie!"

"What?"

"Shut up!" I yell angrily, this guy I swear. My mom bought me a Reece's peanut butter cake and Charlie won't stop sneaking some pieces.

"Charlie I need you to shut up." I groan, face-palming whilst staring down at my sheet of paper lying on the desk.

Exams are coming up soon and I'm worried I might fail, I have my waver so I can only wave one exam. I chose to wave my Physical Science exam because that's the thing I'm worst at. I can't afford to fail.

"Why do you always study all time?" Charlie asks, rolling his eyes in the process.

"Because I actually wanna get somewhere in life, unlike you." I spit out playfully, Charlie was actually really smart. He's one of those people where the brains were just given to him. Give him the most confusing and hard math question, he'll answer in two seconds flat.

"You know, I could quiz you." Charlie smirks, no way. He's tried to quiz me before but he loses his patience quickly. So if I ask him a question, he'll go crazy and tell me that I should know all of this already.

"No thanks." I sigh, flipping the pages to chapter 5 of the huge math book. I swear, where does this all end? It's like this book keeps adding more pages every time I flip through it.

"Okay well I gotta get home for dinner. You should come, take a break from studying." Charlie suggest, take a break? I admit it seems nice but I can't afford to flunk this exam.

"Nah I'm good."

"You sure?"

"Yeah." I nod and look back down at my papers, soon the door shuts and silence fills my ears. Okay I can't take this.

"Charlie, wait!" I call out, throwing on my old converse and chasing after him.

"Changed your mind?" Charlie smirks once I reach him at the front door. I nod shyly before following him out to this Jeep. I climb in and rest my head on the seat, the sun was setting showing off a beautiful pink and orange sunset.

I love sunsets, just something about them soothes me and makes me feel better. This is exactly what I needed. I close my eyes, sighing as Charlie turns on the radio.

Pretty Girl by Maggie Lindemann comes on causing a smile to break out on my face. I love Maggie, she's such a good singer and definitely should get more notice.

I turn the base up and sing along.

"I can swear, I can joke. I say what's on my mind if I drink, if I smoke. I keep up with the guys, and you'll see me holdin up my middle finger to the world. F*** your ribbons and your pearls." I sing along to the song i grew to adore.

"Cause I'm not just a pretty girl!" Charlie shouts and bounces his head along to the beat, I laugh at him and notice how great he looked with the sunset sitting behind him. If I had my camera, I would definitely take a picture.

Soon the song ends and another one comes on, All Time Low by Jon Bellion. I smirk and sing along.

"I, was the knight in shining armor in your movie
Would put your lips on mine and love the aftertaste
Now I'm a ghost, I call your name, you look right through me
You're the reason I'm alone and masturbate" I sing loudly, I could see people around us give weird looks but I shook it off, nobody can ruin my vibe now.

"I, I've been trying to fix my pride
But that sh*t's broken, that sh*t's broken
Lie (lie, lie), lie, l-lie, I try to hide
But now you know it!" I swallow my pride and shout as loud as I could.

"That I'm at an all time low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low" I sing loudly, afterwards taking a deep breath of air, I don't have the pipes for this.

Soon we reach Charlie's house, he turns off the radio and leads me inside.

Instantly I prepare myself.

"CHARLIEJOSHUA QUINN!!! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WERE BRINGING GRACE HOME!!!"Charlie's mom smiles widely before trapping me in the tightest hug causing my lungs to give out.

I whimper slightly and look at Charlie for help, the idiot was smirking! I'm dying here and he's just smirking!

"Oh hun we missed you! I was just fixing dinner, how about some mashed potatoes and chicken breast?" She smiles up at me, she sure was a short woman. With her 4'9 frame and short legs. Her long brown hair was pinned up in a bun and her face was light with simple makeup making her look younger than she is. She really is a nice lady, if there were homeless people walking the streets, she would take them in without a second thought. If someone was in line at the store and didn't have enough money, she would step up and pay the rest.

She truly was the sweetest.

"That sounds great Leigh, thank you." I say using her first name, after all her son and I have been best friends since diapers.

"Oh no need to say thank you! Now Charlie I want you to set the table okay?" Leigh nods at Charlie, he groans loudly causing her to give him a warning look.

"I can help!" I step up, raising my hand in the process.

"Pfft no! I'm not letting you do work!" Leigh scoffs, waving her hand in the air.

Charlie rolls his eyes, squinting his eyes at me as if to say "your lucky". I give a cheeky smile in return before walking to the living room and sitting down. I press the password in my phone and look through Instagram. I like random posts until I see one of Charlie's from ten minutes ago.

It was a picture of me smiling and laughing at the camera, I do remember him pointing the camera at me but I didn't know he was taking a picture.

I chuckle silently before reading the comments.

I saw many comments saying "Dang bro!" and "She's hot!" but James profile was the only one that truly caught my eye, his comment read "Taking pics of my girl? Watch out bro." I look at the comment smiling widely.

Why am I smiling?

"Dinner is ready." Charlie says walking into the room, I nod and follow him to the dining room. "Nice post by the way." I wink at him and chuckle.

"Anytime Gray." Charlie chuckles.