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as soon as i left blaines office i headed back to my room to text ethan and let him know i would be leaving soon.

me- hey i'm leaving soon. is the plan still to meet up at your place?

ethan- yep everyone's here so i'll see you in 20

me- alr see ya

i place my phone in my pocket and walk down the stairs. on my way down i pass a crowd of three stripes in the pit.

well shit this isn't gonna be easy.

"hey alex what's up?" kingsman asks me.

"uh nothing much....just about to go on a run." i say trying to cover my tracks.

"in jeans?" he asks laughing.

"i don't own anything else kings" i said i say rolling my eyes and smiling. "what's going on in here?" i ask.

"blaine called us down to review the heist we just completed and i think he's gonna hand out a couple four stripes. i don't know yet." i nod my head.

"oh okay, let me know if you get upgraded." a couple seconds of silence tick by so i speak again. "well... i'm gonna go run." he nods his head and smiles at me.

i quickly slip out the door and of course make sure i'm not being followed. protocol and safety precautions.

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after 20 minutes of walking, i finally saw the wrangler house fall into my sight. i pull out my phone and text ethan.

me- i'm here

ethan- okay im coming
(A/N: lol😏)

right as i walk up to his doorstep the door opens.

"hey lex" ethan says with a sort of smile? he didn't look pissed off so that's a good sign.

"hey" i greeted back.

ethan stepped back to let me into the house. once he closed the door he led me back to the room i was in last time. it's so strange, but this place just has such a homey feel everytime i've been here. weird.

"hey alex" nash and hayes said, followed by aaron. i greeted back. grayson stayed silent still looking extremely angry. i looked over at him and looked down.

i felt a hand place itself on the top of my right shoulder making me look up. ethan nodded his head to the couch. we both sat down and ethan spoke.

"okay so we needed you to come today because we need to start preparing for what's about to go down. did you get much information at the meeting today?" ethan asked me.

"a lot actually." i took out my phone and powered it off all the way. ethan looks down and furrows his eyebrows.

"just incase anything was listening. just being safe." i said. he nodded and i continued speaking. i explained what i had came up with for the faceless, and how that fits in with the wranglers.

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"okay so we have our positions and everything. i'll get a blue print tomorrow and draw up the ideas." ethan explains.

ethans only including a small portion of the wranglers in this for now for security reasons. so right now there's only 6 wranglers in the room.

"so what happens if this fails?" grayson finally speaks up.

"that's why we need to have an escape plan incase something goes wrong. i saw the blue print and that warehouse is full of side hallways and escape routes. we need to assign certain exits and hallways to different situations. just to be 100 percent safe." i suggested.

ethan looked at me amused.

"what?" i asked furrowing my eyebrows.

"nothing it's just youve definetly grown from your rookie plan when we first met." he says slightly chuckling. i roll my eyes and smile, shaking my head. 

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i left a little after we finished talking. ethan again offered to walk me half way back to the pit.

i could swear he just likes talking on the way back.

because that's all we did the whole way there.

"no seriously! if you got to travel back in time, when would you choose to go back to?" he asked laughing from my previous dumb answer.

"i don't know." i asked looking over at the family on the other side of the street. "i guess i'd go back to when i was a small kid. i don't remember much but i remember being happy." i answered. i felt a pain in my heart looking back to the family.

i looked down at my feet and continued walking.

"what about you?" i asked.

"i'd go back to when i was a kid too. i miss how simple it was back then." he says. i look over at him while he spoke. once he finished i looked back in front of me.

"i get the completely. when we were smaller things were so much more black and white. i miss have reasons to smile everyday." i scoffed. "haven't had that in years." i clenched my jaw thinking about the mess i'd gotten myself into.

i see ethan pause and stop walking. i look over and stop walking as well.

"let's make a promise." he offers.

"okay..." i said slowly.

"let's promise to be each others reason to smile. that way we both have something to look forward to everyday. because i'm in the same boat as you." he says. i squinted my eyes a bit with a small smile.

"promise?" he holds out his pinky like a 7 year old. i chuckle and nod.

"promise." i said linking my pinky with his.

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A/N: so cute *gags in an awww kinda way*

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