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BILLY.

"Of course," Sebastian murmured with a small smile.

I smiled in response.

"Great," my father sighed as he clapped his hands. He glanced between the three of us before he spoke again. "Is there anything specific you guys want to do exactly?"

I glanced at Alice. "I mean," I began. "The two of us kinda, like, need more clothes," I said as I motioned between Alice and I. I tugged on my shirt that was still coated in orange juice. "This is all I have with me."

My father softly smiled before he murmured, "I kinda figured." He cleared his throat before he added on, "And I got you a rental car for while you're stuck in Atlanta, Bill."

I sighed before asking, "What kind of car?"

My father smirked. "I think you'll like it," he mumbled.

I chuckled as I looked between Alice and Sebastian. "Looks like we're going on a fucking shopping spree," I chuckled.

Alice smiled in response. "I'm up for it," she giggled.

"So am I," Sebastian softly giggled.

Alice added on, "And now is probably the right time to put the SIM card back in my phone. Right?" She turned to my father and raised an eyebrow.

He softly smiled as he whispered, "I think so."

Alice stood up slowly and walked to the bedroom to retrieve her purse. After a few moments of hearing her shuffling around in the master bedroom, she walked back to where the rest of us were while holding her phone in one hand and the SIM card in the other.

Alice sat down in her seat beside me while staring at the SIM card in her hand. "Wow," she sighed. "I never thought I'd be putting this shit back in my phone again."

I glanced at my father and noticed he was smiling from ear to ear. "I'm glad that the time has come sooner than expected," he murmured.

Alice glanced at me as she whispered, "Me too." She then glanced back to the SIM card in her hand and proceeded to put it back into her phone slowly, almost as if she was afraid that it would detonate like a bomb. Once the SIM card was placed back within her phone, she sighed quietly as her phone rebooted itself and as the lock screen once again showed.

Sebastian mumbled, "I'm glad that everything's worked out the way it has."

I glanced to my left to see him softly smiling at Alice, almost as if it was only the two of them in the room. I chuckled as I ran a hand through my hair, causing Sebastian's gaze to slowly fix upon me.

A small smile came to my face as I murmured, "Me too."

**

The five of us stood in the hotel lobby as we glanced outside, watching as the paparazzi paid no attention to us.

My father turned to me. "Here are the keys," he said as he placed them in my hand. He raised an eyebrow sympathetically. "And Billy?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah?"

My father sighed. "Don't do anything stupid, and be careful. Keep in touch with me please," he sighed.

I smirked in response. "You have my word," I mumbled with a cocky grin.

My father chuckled as he shook his head. "It's parked a little to the right of the paparazzi. You'll know which car it is," he murmured.

I smiled before pulling him into a hug. "Thank you," I sighed. "For everything, Dad, really. Thank you."

He patted me on the back before pulling out of the hug. He motioned his hand towards the doors. "Go," he chuckled. "Go make the whole world confused, kids."

I motioned towards Alice and Sebastian with a nod of my head, conveying that now was the time to leave. The three of us headed towards the hotel doors as Mickey and my father stayed back, probably waiting until all the fuss died down so they could leave. Either that or my father had a security team on their way to pick them up. Either option was plausible.

The paparazzi didn't initially realize we were walking towards them until I opened the hotel doors for Alice and Sebastian. That's when all Hell broke loose.

"Sebastian! Sebastian," a reporter called as we turned right to walk towards the car. "Are you friends with Billy Redford and Alice DeLaurence?"

"It's Hartsfield," Alice called over the noise of cameras flashing as she looked back at the reporters over her shoulder.

"Alice! What's going on with Austin? Did he do everything he did because of your secret love affair with Billy Redford?" Another reporter called as we continued walking.

Yes.

"Billy! What do you have to say about your love affair with Alice?" A different reporter called, causing me to turn my head back and wink at the cameras as I flashed them a smirk.

"Billy! What do you have to say about Vinny Gillinger's statement? Is it true?" A reporter yelled as I hit the unlock button on the car keys. There were cars lined up all along the street where my father said that our car would be, and I honestly had no fucking idea what he was talking about when he said that I would know which car it was.

As reporters continued to call out our names and ask us about our personal lives, I kept glancing at every car as we walked by as I repeatedly hit the unlock button.

"Billy?" Alice asked, more like yelled, over the sound of everyone screaming at us. "Which car is it?"

I shrugged my shoulders as I hurriedly glanced up and down the line of cars. "I honestly have no fucking idea," I called back.

"Woah," Sebastian sighed as he stopped in his tracks for a second, his gaze trained on something slightly to his left and in front of him.

I followed his gaze to be met with a black Porsche Panamera, and I smirked when I hit the unlock button and it answered.

"That's it," I called as I patted him on the shoulder before briskly walking to the car. I opened the driver's side door and hurriedly sat in the seat as cameras continued to bombard me with flashing lights. Alice sat in the passenger's seat beside me and Sebastian sat in the middle seat in the back row.

I revved the engine as I chuckled to myself. "Good job, Seb," I giggled as I glanced back at him in the rear view mirror.

I noticed in the mirror that Sebastian sheepishly smiled in response. He shrugged as he spoke, "It was only the most expensive car there."

I chuckled as I connected my phone to the BlueTooth system that the car offered. I picked a song and the ringing of a bell could be heard over the speakers.

"If we're getting out of here," I called over the music as I turned to look between him and Alice. "We're leaving like we're fucking badasses."

Alice chuckled along with Sebastian as I turned the speakers up even louder. I revved the engine again before I put the car in drive, speeding down the highway as I left. Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" continued to blast over the speakers as I sped my way to the closest mall, desperately needing to change out of my sticky clothes from the orange juice incident a little while ago.

I pulled into the parking garage of the mall after a fifteen minute drive, although it should've been a twenty five minute drive, but that had been brought down a good ten minutes because I had been flying down the highway.

I turned the car off and turned to see Alice clutching onto the grip on the door and I chuckled. I turned back to see Sebastian with his eyes closed, looking like he was doing some sort of meditation along with whispering a few quick prayers thanking God that we were alive.

"C'mon, guys," I sighed as I rolled my eyes. "It wasn't that bad."

Alice slowly turned her gaze to meet mine. She slowly blinked before saying, "Billy, we drove by four cops while you were doing eighty in a fifty five." She paused before asking, "How the fuck did we not get pulled over?"

I smirked at her before opening up my door. "I'm Billy fucking Redford," I murmured as I winked at her.

Alice sighed as she stepped out of her side of the car along with Sebastian who looked like he was still having a minor anxiety attack.

"We're alive," I called as we walked to the elevator in the parking garage that would bring us up to the mall.

"Whatever, Frankenstein," Alice murmured as I pressed the button for the elevator.

I flipped her off as the three of us stepped into the elevator. We stood in silence as the elevator ascended to the first floor of the mall. I rolled my eyes again when I saw that Sebastian's hand was twitching from his minor mental breakdown, causing Alice to shoot me a disapproving look.

The three of us stepped out of the elevator and were met with numerous groups of people moving around the mall while laughing, talking, listening to music, eating- you name it.

"I don't necessarily need anything, so wherever you two wanna go is fine with me," Sebastian shakily mumbled as he glanced around the mall.

I sighed before walking towards a store with the two of them trailing me. I proceeded to then enter the store after the short journey I had taken, and I was met with actual Heaven.

"Jesus," I whispered as I slowly took in all of my surroundings.

Listen, I know I'm a spoiled little bitch, but when I say that I felt the need to buy the whole store, I'm not kidding.

"Billy," Alice sighed as she stood a few feet behind me with Sebastian beside her. "Do you really need every single article of clothing in here? Can't we, like, shop somewhere else too?"

I slowly turned around to face her with a raised eyebrow. "You can hold this now too," I said as I handed her another pair of pants to hold. Sebastian was currently holding the majority of my items but even he was starting to get a little shaky because of the weight in his arms. So, I started to give items to Alice to hold as well.

Alice rolled her eyes as I added the pants on top of her pile.

I glanced between the two of them for a moment before sighing. "Fine," I sighed. "I'm done now."

"Thank God," Sebastian murmured as he adjusted the clothing in his arms once again.

After I had paid, the two of them proceeded to walk in front of me while I was a few feet behind them and struggling with my bags.

"This is why I paid people to do this for me," I murmured as I shook my head. "This is exactly fucking why."

After a few minutes of us walking around, and after Sebastian had kindly offered to hold one of my bags for me, Alice found a store that she was enamored by.

"Oh," she sighed as she ran towards a section of clothing. "I'm getting all of them!"

Never take rich twenty-something year olds shopping unless you desperately want to gain muscle mass. I don't mean to boast, but I'm pretty sure that today is the exact day that Sebastian gained around forty percent of the muscle mass in his arms for his upcoming movie. Who needs to lift weights when you're forced to be the pack mule for billionaires who aren't paying you a single cent? Bucky Barnes, you're a real hero now.

Alice had toppled clothing into mine and Sebastian's arms after we had set my bags down. There were shirts, pants, shorts, bras, and panties that we were currently trying not to drop as we balanced everything out as we followed her while nudging my bags along with our feet. Alice even started to hang short dresses off of our wrists by the hangers.

"Ok," Alice sighed as she placed her hands on her hips. "I think I've gotten everything I need from this store."

I grumbled incoherent words as I walked my way to the counter while kicking my bags along with Sebastian behind me. I really underestimated the magnitude of this shopping spree.

Like I said before, if you're ever given the chance, never tag along with billionaires when they feel the need to go shopping unless they're paying you a fuck ton of money.

After Alice had paid for her clothing, I proceeded to pick up my bags and Sebastian picked up one of mine too. He even helped Alice with the majority of her bags because all three of us knew that she couldn't carry them all by herself without collapsing from exhaustion at one point.

"Please tell me we're done," I sighed as I stopped in the middle of the hall while setting my bags down. I leaned back as I cracked my back and almost moaned at the feeling.

Alice looked between Sebastian and I before gently nodding her head. "We can go now," she mumbled as she held her head down and proceeded to walk towards the elevator on the other side of the mall.

I stood back with Sebastian for a moment as I placed my hands on my knees as I bent over while taking deep breaths.

"It's times like these where I hate cigarettes," I sighed as I continued taking deep breaths. I paused before adding on, "But I really fucking want one."

Sebastian glanced at me and then trailed his gaze back to Alice as she walked slowly down the hall while waiting for us to catch up. "If I hadn't quit, I'd be saying the same exact thing," he murmured.

**

The three of us all shoved mine and Alice's bags in the trunk and even had to shove some of the bags in the seats beside Sebastian because of how much shit we had gotten.

I sat in the driver's seat of the car lazily as I turned the car on, and the three of us practically moaned at the feeling of the air conditioning blasting on our bodies.

"Did your dad put any water bottles in here by any chance?" Sebastian murmured. "And possibly any ice packs or muscle relaxers?"

I chuckled as I glanced back at him in the rear view mirror. "Unfortunately he did not," I chuckled.

"Fuck," Sebastian whispered as he tilted his head back and closed his eyes.

Alice rested her head against her seat as well and closed her eyes. "That's the biggest workout I've had in a few days," she murmured before opening her eyes and winking at me with a smirk on her face.

My eyes lit up before I shook my head as I chuckled. "Me too," I murmured with a small smile. "Me too."

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OLIVER.

I laid in bed for a while after the workout that I had had with whoever she was, and after the workout that I had had with my own self.

I lowered the blunt to my lips as I closed my eyes, inhaling the drug filled smoke before exhaling with a small smirk on my face. I opened my eyes to glance at my phone, and the time read 5:27 p.m.

I opened the internet browser to see that another article had been released about Billy, as well as Sebastian and Alice.

"This is new," I mumbled as I lowered the blunt to my lips again.

I opened the article to see that the three of them had left the hotel together, causing me to raise an eyebrow in shock.

"I thought you hated him, Billy," I mumbled as I scrolled through the article. The article wasn't written with any factual evidence as to why the three of them had left together, which then prompted me to do a little research of my own.

I opened the Find Friends app and refreshed Billy's location as I lowered the blunt to my lips once again.

I mean, this shit was too easy. When Billy had sent me his location when he got on that fucking plane, I immediately called Austin and told him the news. It was too. Fucking. Easy.

Billy's location had refreshed and it showed that he was at the mall about twenty or so minutes away from The Toldstead, causing me to raise an eyebrow.

"What the Hell do you need at the mall?" I whispered as I refreshed his location once again. It refreshed to show him on the street to the side of the mall now, showing that he was currently in the process of leaving.

I clicked out of the app and proceeded to reopen the internet browser. I typed Sebastian's, Billy's, and Alice's names together in the search bar and low and behold, someone had taken a picture of the three with numerous bags of clothing in their arms.

I smirked to myself as I set my phone down and closed my eyes, lowering the blunt to my lips once again and taking a long puff.

"Shouldn't have sent me your location, Billy," I chuckled.

"Now I always know where you are."

hi this is a quick little update that i filled with light humor because of impending doom and destruction.

OLIVER THO.