Trusting You

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"I miss the fucking ice-cream parlor!", Jeff whines as he falls onto couch hitting Jess's face. "Hey!", Jess says at the same time Jace says, "Yeah, now we have to order the ice-cream!". "We have two bodyguards standing outside the door at all times. Am I the only one that gets nervous about it?", Miranda says walking out of the kitchen with ice-cream in her hands. Sam sits, hugging Tyler as she says, "I hate it too but my parents think it's necessary cause of all the drama". I sipped my tea as I watched all my friends sit in the living room watching Netflix. A lot of things have changed, everyone looks stressed and tired at the same time. We're all trying to act like we're okay but we're not especially after yesterday. I stood up carried my bag and walked to the door, "Alright guys, I'm going to Flynn's office". "Should I come with?", Skylar asked. "No don't worry. I'm good", I said as I waved. "Be careful!", Jess yelled as I shut the door. I put on my shades as I stepped out.

"Mabel made quite a confession yesterday", Flynn said as I sat down and crossed my legs. "What did she say?", I asked. "She said she was the one who hired someone to take pictures of you while you were planning the party but she's not involved in the restaurant or Dylan's murder", Flynn said as he brought out his case files. "Do you believe her?", I asked. "I can't say, do you?", He asked. "I'm not sure either". Just then, his phone rang, he looked at the phone and his face fell before he picked it, "Hey". I couldn't hear what the other person was saying but Flynn's face was saying it all, "I'm sorry. I can't make it tonight. I'm working on a case and...." "Yeah I know but this is the..." "I promise this is the last.." "Yeah sure", he sighed. "Tell Amy I love her", he said as he rubbed his head. The line went dead and he leaned back in his seat. I sat there awkwardly till he sat up and spoke, "Sorry. It's my wife. Let's continue". I nodded as he continued talking, "All accounts against Blake outside the intensive room have been taken care of. If only we could see through the intensive room. What really went down there?". "There isn't any CCTV camera?" I asked. "The gym's security system blacked out two weeks ago", Flynn said. Bummer! A thought crossed my head and with the look on Flynn's face, I could tell he was thinking the same thing. "You think the person took down the system?", I asked. "It's very possible", Flynn said. That means the person must've been coming to the gym for a long time to monitor the place and know every nook and cranny. The person could be hanging around there anytime. "I have to go", I said as I stood up. "Okay sure. We'll talk later", Flynn said as he resumed his work.

I entered the gym. I spoke to the instructor and he showed me the intensive room. I looked around it before walking out. I looked at everyone as I walked by. Nothing suspicious here! As I thanked the instructor, I saw movement from the side of my eye. I turned to see a guy with face cap and from the back he had a dirty blonde hair, like Lizzy said. The phone thief! I followed him to an alley then he turned around, "Why are you following me?". I moved backwards as I asked, "Who are you? I saw you at the courthouse. You have something to do with all these". "Didn't you hear Rue? Curiosity killed the cat", he laughed as I felt something hard hit my head and then I blacked out.

My head hurt as I opened my eyes. I looked around me and i was in like a dirty basement. I was tied to a chair and my mouth was tied along with my eyes. I heard footsteps entering the room followed by voices. "Here, implant it in her house". "What if she's home?" "Mabel's freaked out about this entire thing. She can't be home". Mabel? They're trying to sabotage her! Wait but why does one of the voices seem familiar. I shook in my seat as one of them said, "Rue darling. You're awake!". The blindfold was taken off  and my eyes widened as I saw who was in front of me. Noah.

"I just wanted to speak to Rue and...". "You can't", Ben said firmly and that surprised me because these guys are best buddies. "Fuck you Ben! Fuck all of you!", Noah yelled and I flinched back. "And Rue, don't think this is over" he said pointing straight at me before walking off.

Why didn't I think of this earlier?

He took off the tape shutting my mouth. "How do you feel babe?", He smirked at me. "Fuck you!", I said. "Tsk tsk language honey", he smiled as he rubbed my head. "Don't you just love my intelligence. How I made the plan work exactly how I wanted it to?", He said raising his hands as he walked around. "Let me tell you all about my plan. I had been plotting for like 2 months on how to carry out this plan. Then one day, one beautiful day, I saw your boyfriend walk into the gym on a lovely Tuesday afternoon. I wait for him to leave then after he does, I go in and ask a random person and they told me he had workout sessions every Tuesday in the intensive room. He just made my work so much easier. And so I got a tech guy to mess up with the security system of the gym. I think he put in a virus or something. Anyways, then I was following you like I've been doing for a long time and I see this guy taking pictures of you. I tackle him and then he says he's from Mabel. I sent him to ask Mabel if she'd join in on my plan but she refused saying she was happy with Dylan and nobody turns me down!", He yelled before smiling. "So I'm going to teach her a lesson. Now back to my story, later on I met this dude Brody. Apparently he has some kind of hate on Blake so it worked for me. I got him to go to the restaurant and steal the phone and send a message to Dylan. He dropped a bag of his changeover clothes in the toilet a day before. So after dropping the phone back, he just changed and left that's why no one noticed him. At that point I went to the gym and hid in the intensive room. After the whole fight between Blake and Dylan, I shot Dylan in the head and broke out through the window. Now, Brody has gone to implant the gun I used to kill Dylan in Mabel's house. That's what she gets for turning me down", he smiled. "You psychopath!", I screamed. "Now now honey. Don't take it personal, you haven't heard my plan for us", he smirked. "There is no us!", I yelled. "There will and there will always be. Now listen, so you and I are traveling out to start a new life. Maybe Miami, Germany, Spain. Name it babe", he smirked as he came closer to me. "You're out of your mind!", I laughed bitterly. "For you babe and that's why you get to decide where we're going to. You can think about it as I go get dinner", he sang as he walked up the stairs and left. Fuck, fuck, fuck!

I look around me and there's only a table at the far end where my bag is on, a little window too small for me to pass through, a dirty mattress at the edge and that's about it.  I try to drag the chair to the table and use my head to knock down the bag so all the contents spilled out including my phone. I see it buzzing as Sam's name blared through the screen. I've got almost 20 missed calls from the guys. I tried to use my chin to drag the phone and unlock it which I did but before I could call, a blindfold was put over my eyes and a handkerchief pressed to my nose. I inhaled what was in the handkerchief before passing out.

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Dum Dum Dum!

It was Noah!

Did you see it coming or not?!