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blaine has gone over the basic strategics with me; how to profile, the ideas that he had and the big end goal he was working towards.

taking down the wranglers completely.

i have to be super careful what i say and when i say it. i'm now being included in four stripe and up meetings, plus solo missions almost daily.

blaine is expecting me to come up with an amazing idea by tomorrow for the big plan meeting. everyone has to pitch in and help bring ideas to the table.

i keep finding it extremely weird as to why blaine is throwing so much as me so easily and quickly. i'm still kind of hesitant.

but in any case i need to speak with ethan. i need to figure out what to do and how to pull this in favor of the wranglers. even when we do find a plan, it's going to take weeks of preparation, training, surveying, and practice to be able to carry this out effectively.

so with that, i text ethan to find a time to meet up again.

me- i've got news. we need to meet up again. tonight. i don't have much time.

ethan- 20?

me- the regular spot?

ethan- yep.

me- ok.

i glance at the time at the top of my screen and take a deep breath.

10:46 pm

blaine is upstairs for the night and half of the crew is in a different state carrying out some mission.

i grab my trusty old black hoodie and slip it on with my black pants. usual night time attire.

i peek out of my room carefully before finding no one was there. i exit my room walking casually incase i were to run into someone. i think i'm just going to say i need to "go for a walk to clear my head and think" considering i could use one of those.

luckily, i don't see anyone on my way down the stairs or out of the house. like i said most of the members are in a whole other state right now.

i began walking, again be extra careful that i wasn't being followed, especially now that i know so much.

i weave through the town in the shadows, making my way towards the alley.

i see the familiar entrance and casually turn down the alley. i'm guess ethan has beat me there because he was already standing against the wall tapping his foot irritably.

"what took you so long?" he asked sort of rude.

"sorry mister rich gang leader i don't own 6 cars, let alone one." i scoffed. he rolled his eyes and pushed himself off the wall.

"what was so important?" he asked.

"who shit in your cereal this morning" i started. he was about to retaliate but i put my hand up signaling him to just shut the fuck up.

"listen. i told blaine the fake information and he believed it. he wants us all to come up with a plan by tomorrow in a meeting." i say.

"a plan for what?" ethan asks uncrossing his arms.

"he wants to take down the wranglers completely." ethans eyes go dark and his faces laces itself with pure anger.

"he's done enough already." he spits.

"yes he has. so i need your help with a genius plan that can make him want to use it, and on top of that once we have a solid plan we can use that to our advantage and surprise attack." i explain. ethan clenches his jaw thinking.

ethan begins to walk a little, turning it into slowly pacing.

"ethan could you stop pacing you're making me anxious." i finally snap.

"oh- sorry." he apologized.

"hey wait what if we set him up at your old house? we use the fact that grayson is alive as a weapon. he can think he has one left to go but then BAM grayson pops out." i said.

"that's the most rookie plan i've ever heard. we gotta work on that..." he said chuckling.

"okay hot shot what's your idea?" i said mocking him.

"i say we let blaine think the gang is outnumbered. that way he brings less people, and we can demolish him. and the guy who killed my father." he says painfully.

"wait- i thoight blaine killed your father?" i asked confused.

"no he ordered one of his men to do it. they were all shooting and i saw whos gun killed my dad. he won't see the light of day once i get my hands on him." he says starting to get extremely angry.

i walk up closer to ethan and place my hand on his shoulder.

"hey, hey, it's okay we're gonna find him and take down blaine. well get revenge for your dad i promise." i say. my hand slightly moves rubbing his shoulder as a gesture of comfort.

once i realize what i'm doing i awkwardly back off and ethan clears his throat.

"right so we still need to make a full proof plan. so how about we use the outnumbered tactic, but we can claim that we have a planned block of a heist or something and faceless can intersect." he says.

"hey, wait that's not bad....i'll say that it's a smaller gang and they're only sending a couple of their people to stop the heist at the warehouse on 5th. then when we intersect, you guys can be armed and ready in the building and around to stop blaine." i add onto his plan. he slightly smiles nodding his head.

"now THATS a good plan." he says. i lightly chuckle shaking my head.

"oh one more thing. i'm sure you know how the stripe system works, right?" i ask. he nods his head so i continue. "well blaine always has a group of fours and fives surrounding him. especially the fives. so you need to make sure you have enough people covering to get through them and to blaine." i finish.

ethan nods his head and continues thinking.

"how do i bring this up to the rest of the wranglers? i've been lying to them for a week and a half. not very 'trust worthy gang leader' of me." he says with a guilty look on his face.

"if you want, i can try to come by the house tomorrow and i'll act like it's the first time meeting you." i offer. he shakes his head.

"no reason to keep lying. i feel like they'll understand. but i'm going to need you to come with me when i explain." he decides.

"deal."

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A/N: yes hi chapter 10 broskis. things bout to get MESSY.