accomplice | ethan dolan

eleven

jade

"jade, we're leaving in half an hour!" zack yells from his bedroom, next to mine. it's almost 1am.

ethan fell asleep while we were watching a film so i roll out of bed quietly, to start getting ready.

i throw a change of clothes into a bag, along with my toothbrush and other toiletries. i change my pyjama shorts for a pair of bike shorts before looking for my wig.

zack said i have to change my hair, and i know i have a blonde wig, somewhere in my room, from halloween a few years ago.

i find it at the end of my closet in a shoe box, but once i take it out and brush it, it's perfect.

i put it on in the bathroom and make sure it's secure before coming back into my room to wake ethan up.

"ethan" i whisper while nudging him gently, "we're leaving soon, get up"

he sits up rubbing his eyes and just as i think he's getting up, he wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me back into bed.

"i'd rather stay in bed" he smirks while leaning in to kiss me.

"tomorrow night we can. we'll just be a whole lot richer" i remind him before sitting up and fixing my hair.

"jade?"

"yeah?"

"since when is your hair blonde?" he asks confused.

"it's a wig. zack said my blue hair was too easy to identify" i explain.

"i really like the blue" he says, "but you're hot as a blonde too"

"thank you" i blush as he finally gets out of bed, "did you sleep well?" i ask as he makes his way into the bathroom.

"always when i'm with you" he smiles.

after grayson and noah arrive, we're ready to leave. zack talks us through the plan for tomorrow before giving me my own gun. the boys always keep one with them, and have their own.

"this is it?" i ask holding the glock.

"you want a bigger gun?" grayson laughs.

"no. i just thought we'd need machine guns or something, since we're robbing a bank"

"a gun is a gun. we'll be in power regardless of what size they are. besides, that's why we have you as a hostage" he explains.

"you guys ready to go?" zack asks, grabbing his car keys and we all follow him out to his car.

"shotgun" grayson calls before running to the passenger seat like a child.

great. a two hour drive in the back of a car with my ex and my - i don't even know what he is - ethan.

noah was staring at me the whole time he was in my house, but didn't say a word to me. this is going to be agonising.

noah gets into the car first and i go to follow him, but ethan pulls me back.

"i'll sit in the middle" he mumbles before getting into the car.

"can we listen to music?" grayson asks zack.

"no" ethan and noah answer in sync.

"this is going to be a fun two hours" i scoff, closing the door behind me.

"how come you changed your hair?" noah asks me after a few minutes of silence.

"because you said you liked it blue" i state bluntly.

we fall into an uncomfortable silence once again. this time ethan's smiling smugly as his hand rests on my thigh.

"fuck this, we're listening to music" grayson snaps and zack laughs before handing him the aux cord.

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it's just past 4am when we arrive at the motel. i go with zack and ethan to book a room while grayson and noah take the car to go hack the banks cctv cameras.

"jade are you sharing a room with me or do you want your own room?" zack asks me while we're waiting for the receptionist.

"i'll share with ethan" i tell him and he nods before glaring at ethan.

"how can i help?" a woman asks returning to the desk.

zack organises our rooms with her before returning with the keys.

"the bank opens at 9am. it's a twenty minute drive from here, be ready for 9" zack tells us as we're walking to our rooms.

"are we coming back to the motel after it?" ethan asks him.

"only if we need to. if we're in the clear, we'll go straight home"

"see you at 9" i yawn as i reach my room. i open the door and can't help laughing when i see the two single beds on opposite sides of the room.

"goodnight" zack smiles smugly before going into his room next door.

ethan quickly fixes it, pushing the two beds together, as i brush my teeth and do my skincare routine.

"can i sleep in your t-shirt?" i ask him shyly. i brought pyjamas but i'd much rather sleep in his t-shirt, mostly because it's smells like him.

"yeah, it looks better on you anyways" he smirks before taking his t-shirt off and throwing it to me.

i strip down to my underwear before putting it on and he joins me in bed, wearing only his boxers.

"do you think we're bad people for what we're about to do tomorrow?" i ask him as he wraps an arm around me.

"depends on how you define a bad person"

"i feel guilty for not feeling guilty" i admit.

"you're not a bad person jade, you never could be. try not to worry about it too much and get some sleep" he whispers before kissing my forehead.

"goodnight" i yawn and within seconds i can feel my eyes getting heavy. all my worries simply disappear when i'm in his arms, because i feel safe when i'm with him.

note;
filler chapter. any thoughts on the story so far? please let me know what you think!