"Thanks again for taking me out," I say as we both step out of Zayn's car and head towards the half open garage. Zayn had taken me to the store so that I could buy some more clothes with the money I earned from working here at the mechanic shop. We also drove by a drive in theater and decided we should see a late screening of some scary movie I forgot the name of. "I know you probably had other things to do, so."

"Don't mention it," he says as he sparks up a cigarette. "I just wished the movie wasn't in Spanish. Should've just waited until the second screening with the English version." He chuckled and took a drag.

"So you live in the very border yet you don't know Spanish?" I gasp in disbelief. "¿Que te pasa?"

At this, Zayn rolls his eyes. "Hey, I understand it, I just can't speak it. One of the perks of being me, I guess." He says and smoke escapes his mouth. He was leaning against the hood of the car, his free hand stuffed in his pocket. I'm about to ask what we're doing out here but a car pulls up and out comes a short girl with short black hair up to her jaw.

She had on high waisted shorts, black boots and a red spaghetti strapped shirt. She seems to thank the driver before she turns and sees us. Zayn seems to know her as he turns and smiles, she does the same and runs up to him, jumping on him and wrapping her legs around his waist. I look away, thinking I should give them some privacy.

Once they're done, Zayn turns to me. She was now back on the floor, a grin on her face. "And you must be Emmaline?" She outstretched her hand towards me and I gladly take it and we shake hands. "Zayn's told me about you."

"Well at least what I know," Zayn laughs as he passes the cigarette to the girl. "Like your name, that you're married and that you work with us."

"Bit of a closed book, are we?" The girl asks and I chuckle awkwardly.

"So what's your name?" I ask, hoping to change the subject. The girl blows the smoke from her lips.

"I'm Raven Mathers, but just call me Raven." She smiles, she looks very sweet despite her appearance. She has a full sleeve of tattoos on her left arm and a half hidden tattoo around her waist, most of which was covered by her shorts. Soon, the guys are coming out from inside the shop, cigarettes and beers in their hands.

"Look who it is," Niall speaks as he stomps on his finished cigarette butt. "Thought you finally dumped his ass for good."

At this, Zayn rolls his eyes. Raven grabs Zayn's arm and wraps it around her neck. "I would never do that to my love bug."

The guys laugh and Zayn groans. "Don't call me that in front of these pricks."

"Don't worry, love bug, we won't tease ya." Louis mocks as he sparks up another cigarette. Another car seems to pull up, the loud roaring engine made so much noise that I actually felt the gravel beneath me shake. They turn off the car and out steps a tall broad figure blowing smoke past their lips. "Hey, punk rocker!" Louis shouts.

The light finally hits the person and I am able to see him. Blonde curly hair, dark clothing, leather jacket, blue eyes, lip ring. He says hello to everyone in the group and stops by me. "Hey, I don't know you." He squints his eyes. "I'm Luke."

"Emmaline," We shake hands and he nods before he backs away.

"So what are you doing here?" Zayn asks from his leaning position on the hood of the car. Raven had her back pressed against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her.

"Dig race tonight," he says and he blows smoke. "I was on my way and decided to stop by. You guys in?" Before anyone could answer him, a new set of heavy footsteps joins us and it's none other than Harry.

"Hey, where were you?" Niall asks as Harry walks past him towards Luke.

"At your moms," he snaps back sarcastically. "What are you doing here?"

"There's a dig race tonight down in Little Mexico," Luke says this time to Harry. "It's been a while since we saw you over there."

"Well he hasn't been around much here either," Louis says. "Lord knows where he's been."

"I'm not in the mood for it," Harry sighs. "Let me know how it goes though."

"You don't even have to be a part of it if you don't want to, just stop by. It'll be fun." This seems to somewhat convince Harry as he thinks about it.

"I'm in," Zayn speaks up. Soon, everyone else agrees with him.

"Fine," Harry says. After this, Luke nods at the group and walks back towards his car.

"See you guys there then." He says before he gets in his car, roars the engine and drives away loudly. Everyone seems to be getting into separate cars.

"Emmaline you can go in with Harry," Zayn says as he seems to take out some kind of metal from the trunk of his car.

"Can't I just go with you guys?"

"Well I mean there's no backseat," Zayn says. "We take them out to make the car go faster when racing." I notice Louis and Niall get in one car together after taking out some stuff and Harry was doing the same.

"Don't worry, we're all going to he same place." Raven says from out the window of the car. "It's just precaution." I sigh at this and trudge over to where Harry was placing tape over the cars license plates. He seems to hear my footsteps stop by him and without turning, he speaks.

"What is it?" He says as he was concentrated on what he was doing.

"Zayn says I have to go with you." I say. He seems to laugh silently at what I said.

"You can tell Zayn that I said—" before he's able to finish that, Zayn's car turns on and he drives away followed by Louis and Niall leaving behind only us behind. Harry looks away from them to me and looks me up and down. "Why do you even wanna go to this anyway, it's stupid."

"Well why are you going if it's stupid?"

"Because I like stupid things." He shrugs and stands up from his crouched position on the floor. "You can stay here, I don't carry weight I don't need in my car."

At this I cross my arms. "I'm surprised your car is able to hold that big head of yours in there." I bite back, my face showing annoyance yet his showed amusement. Without another word, he walks away towards the garage, shuts it and gets in his car before he starts to back away. He then stops and looks up at me. When he honks the horn, I get startled. "Get in."

I have to bite down on my tongue to prevent me from saying anything rude. Although I should, he's been nothing but rude to me despite Zayn telling me he's harmless. He pulls away rather too quickly and just as I'm about to complain, he highers up the volume on the stereo, I'm The Man by 50 Cent blasts throughout the car loudly that I feel my body vibrate.

For the rest of the car ride, I look out the open window and enjoy the wind on my face.

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The ride to this place was about twenty minutes long. There were big sand dunes and a long road that I had no idea where it led to but there was a lot of tire marks. There was also a big dip in the earth and a lot of cars and people seemed to be huddled around talking, smoking and playing music. There was a big fire pit in the middle which was rather convenient considering it was kind of cold out.

When the car comes to a stop, I'm about to get out when Harry stops me. His hand on my wrist that I look to him. He raises my left hand up and points at my wedding ring. "What?"

"I would suggest you get rid of that thing," He says.

"Why?"

"We're in a place with delinquents. Unless you want that big rock stolen, I would say put it away." I listen to this and take it off. "Here," he takes it from me and throws it carelessly in the middle glove compartment. Without another word, he gets out of the car and I follow suit. We quickly find the group and I take my place beside Raven and Zayn, considering the other three members of this group don't like me.

The air was filled with smoke and loud engines from cars and the smell of oil. Raven hands me a beer and I take it. Beer wasn't necessarily my choice of alcohol, but I figured this was all they have here and I wasn't going to be that person. "...I'm just saying, I could easily pull off a bank robbery." Niall shrugs as him and Louis come close to the group.

"You're about the biggest idiot I know, how would you pull off a bank robbery?" Louis remarks.

"This is crucial information, I can't tell you. But just know, I have basic knowledge and how and when I'd do it."

"Are you premeditating a bank robbery, Niall?" Zayn says and Niall looks at him with furrowed eyebrows.

"No, who said that?"

"I think it would be fun," Raven says nonchalantly and everyone looks at her. "Imagine having so much money to buy an island just for you?"

"You're not actually entertaining this, are you?" Zayn asks.

"Shh," Raven shushes Zayn. "I'm relaxing on a hammock with a coconut in my own island."

"I would move to Dubai," Louis says. "I'd buy a big penthouse and never leave it."

"I'd join the Mafia," Niall says and we all look at him. "I would love to have all that money hidden under my mansion."

"Don't let Harry hear you say that, he'll kick your ass." Zayn remarks.

"Yeah, you know how he feels about the Mafia." There's a sudden change in the tension, Niall scoffs.

"Well his issues aren't my problem." Niall shrugs.

"Does he not like the Mafia?" I suddenly blurt out without even thinking, everyone turns their attention to me.

Louis snorts. "Nobody likes the Mafia. People just don't say that because they're afraid of them." I bite my cheek and look away. Now I definitely can't say anything about myself. Louis's eyes linger on me suspiciously before he looks away. "I'm going to go see who's racing tonight."

When he walks away, Raven grabs my hand. "Let's go watch the band play." She says and begins to pull me away.

"What band?"

"Luke's band over there, they're called Savage." Raven explains as we walk towards the small crowd gathered around some sort of stage. There were three guys up there, I recognized the blonde as Luke. There was a long haired guy with tattoos on the drums and another one next to Luke with an electric guitar.

"Have I heard them before?" I ask as we make our way through the crowd.

Raven shakes her head no. "If you're a local you probably have, but they mainly only do covers. You see that guy on the drums? His names Jason but we call him Jay, he's been to prison. The one on the bass is Marcus, he's the fuckboy of the group. And then there's Luke. Looks the part of a badass but is actually a big sweetheart. He's the lead singer."

Jay begins to play the drums in a cool rhythm, Marcus soon joins in with the electric guitar and Luke hums into the microphone. "Ooh, I love this song!" Raven claps her hands. The song was Sex, Drugs, Etc. by Beach Weather.

When I look to a group of girls, they are jumping up and down and squealing. I miss those times. I would sneak out to go to a concert with my friends and fantasize about the lead singer. When I look to Raven, she's singing along with Luke from the crowd. Luke is also plying an electric guitar himself all the while singing.

When the song ends, they take a break and we decide to go back to the group. All four guys were around the fire talking with each other, drinking and smoking. I could hear tires squealing and when I look up to the dunes where the road was, I could see cars racing and people standing around.

Raven goes over to Zayn and kisses his cheek and I stand alone. Harry looks at me after he takes a swig of his beer. "You bored yet?" He leered, a mocking tone in his voice.

"Actually no," I challenge. "I very much like this place." I give him a tight lipped smile and he laughs condescendingly. From the corner of my eye, I see a black car drive towards us before they stop. The guys all look towards the person in the car.

"You've got to be fucking kidding me." Zayn mumbles under his breath. When the door opens, a tall guy with short hair and a black shirt steps out.

"Boys," He speaks and walks towards the group. Louis goes over to him and they greet each other. At this, Zayn and Niall look at one another before they look at Harry who looks angry. "Harry. Change your mind yet?"

"Fuck off, Liam." Harry remarks, throwing his beer bottle in the fire pit.

"You know I can't. I'm only doing my job."

"Find a better fucking career then and leave me the fuck alone."

"You're one to talk Mr. Con." The Liam guy mocks with a laugh. "You know he doesn't like to wait."

"Leave it alone, Liam." Zayn speaks up. "You know why Harry would never betray himself that way. The same thing can't be said about you though."

"Calm down guard puppy." Liam mocks Zayn. "Look, fine. Let's make a deal, alright?"

"No," Harry says beginning to walk towards his car, when he reaches it he looks at me. "Come on."

"We race. If I win, you come with me. If you win I'll leave you alone."

"Liam, you're worth to me as a pile of shit on my boot. You can beg me as much as you want, but you're never going to get the satisfaction of me saying yes." Liam steps closer to the car on my side and leans on it.

"I thought you wanted to be exactly like your grandfather when you grew up?" He says, a smirk on his lips. There's an awkward tension as I say in the middle of their argument. None of this was my business, I should just zone them out.

"You can tell your boss I like being alive." Harry says as he turns on the car. Without another word, we drive off, leaving Liam behind.

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