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Note: From now on, I am too lazy to write all of the rescue squad (Naomi's gang and Ellie's gang) scenes and also it would be too long. There may be exclusive Scenes on Kayla's page. I will link her story as an exclusive link. Or if you want, I will pm you it. But, you will still be able to understand the story even if you don't, but her book is AWESOME so, remember to read it after. Furthermore, I may have scenes she does not, I have not decided yet and it is also up to her if she wants to add the scenes I add into her book.

I was debating between everything has changed and this song, I ended up choosing bad at love and idk why? So yeah that is the chapter song!

Previous chapter, "He'll only hit you up if Colton doesn't kick his ass first"

My eyes fluttered open. It had been weeks since the kiss and he did not bring it up, I guess he regrets it, heat of the moment thing. However, whenever I tell myself that, it hurts for some reason. I guess I have recently been avoiding him as well, but because he has not confronted me and I want to know if it was a mistake. It probably was. Leo does not date. Date what am I talking about. I decided to text Mi about it, maybe then I could make some sense about it. She could tell me why I was thinking so hard about it

✨GIRL SQUAD✨

Ellie: Mi! Are you awake! You better be!

Mi: OFC I AM!!!! What happened! Do you need the rescue squad! Are you okay!

Ellie: If I needed the rescue squad, I would text the group labeled "Rescue Squaddddd GOALS!"😑

Mi: Waddaya need gurlie😂😂😂!

Ellie: Haha, remember how we met a month ago and you asked me if I was dating Leo?

Mi: Yep! What about it???

Ellie: Well I kinda kissed him that day... BEFORE WE MET!

Mi: WHAT! AND YOU DID NOT TELL ME!😡😡😡

Ellie: Well, I thought it was more of a heat of the moment, but I have not been able to stop thinking about it and I can't figure out why. I AM LOSING SLEEP!

Mi: Daamn gurl, you liiiike him! Eleo or Lellie? Or Llie? Soooo many options!😍

Mi: I know! Elleo!😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😘😘😘

Ellie: WTF I don't like Leo!😑

Mi: Are you sure??😏

Mi: I am sooo coming over!🤩🤩

Ellie: I am sure, Mi

Mi: Eh, still don't believe it! Coming over asap!

I sigh as I lay in bed wearing some clothes Leo had. For some reason, he has clothes sized 13-14, my size. We never got around to shopping this month and I am still with them. Sure Ben is scared, but he has gone into hiding and until Leo finds him, I am staying with the boys. Not that I am complaining. I have become an official snipper of the group. I guess I do fair well with guns. Anyways, my brown hair is tied up in a messy bun and I am wearing some emoji shirt that I slept in last night. I groggily get out of bed. It is true, I have not been able to get Leo off of my mind, but me liking Leo, NO WAY! I admit he is hot, but I think all the guys are hot. Not as hot as Leo though. I guess I did enjoy our kiss, sorta. And I have started feeling butterflies whenever I see him or get a text from him, which is like never. As I said, we have been avoiding each other. For a month. And it is killing me. I hear the doorbell ring, bringing me out of my daze. How the hell did that girl get here already? I slowly trudge downstairs and open the door.

"ELLIE!" I am greeted by a massive hug by the one and only.

"Hey, Mi," I reply, hugging her back.

"Let's go to your room, where are the boys?"

"They went on a raid. Needed someone to stay at home. Al and I are staying, but Al is in the security room. It like 2 floors upstairs or something. I have been here for a little over a month and only know the first two floors, I don't really know where anything else is," I laugh at the sudden realization to which Mi nods her head in understanding. For some reason, at some point, I told Mi about me being the falcon and my past. Obviously she went into friend murder mode. I am pretty sure she forced Colt to help Leo find Ben, but to no success. Despite what happened, I am still scared of him and know not to underestimate him. 

"Hey, why are you wearing an emoji shirt? I never pegged you for an emoji type of girl!" Mi asked suspiciously.

"I'm not, Leo gave this to me to wear. Well, he gave me a closet. I figured he bought it for me recently." I replied, too tired to think into it, but Mi was not.

"Ellie, you are not the only girl to wear that shirt. Look how faded it is!" Mi brings to my attention. Looking down at my shirt, I realize she is right. It is faded to the point the emoji is barely visible. I guess I never noticed it. Thinking about it, I was never able to identify the emoji due to how faded it was. I wonder who wore it before me.

"You are right, I will ask Leo later," I reply, scrunching my eyebrows, still lost on the thought that I have been wearing someone else's clothes. 

"Anyways, let's go upstairs!" Mi claps, dragging me upstairs. We both reach my room and sit on my queen-sized bed. The room was filled with Paris everything. Eiffel tower bedding, pink walls, a macaron phone case lay flat on the white desk. 

"Sooo, you are still thinking about a kiss from a month ago?" She asks and I nod my head.

"YOU DEFINITELY LIKE HIM!" She squeals, "Remember, I like Colton and know what it is like! You definitely like him!"

"It's different, I don't like him...I can't!" I reply, shaking my head furiously, my eyes wide for some reason.

"Remember the time we walked into the two of you making pancakes in Colt's kitchen when you and the guys stayed over for the Ben business?" I slightly cringe at his name, but I remember every detail of it as though it were yesterday, but it feels like a lifetime ago. A lifetime he was not ignoring me.

⚡FlashBack:⚡

I woke up to on top of someone, my faced stuffed in their chest. At least I know it was a boy, but who was it? I attempted to look up, but my face was smooshed against his chest and I needed to breathe. Like badly. I attempted to wiggle away, but hardly succeeded.

"What are you doing?" I heard a familiar voice raspily reply.

"Trying. To. Breathe." I attempt to gasp for air as I reply. Damn, how did I sleep like this? I feel the warmth of the person leave me and look up to see I was sleeping next to Leo. I felt the heat rise up to my cheeks, tinting them pink. Thankfully it was too dark to tell.

"What are you doing awake so earllllly?" He groans and I chuckle at how hot his voice sounds in the morning. Wait, what?

"I just woke up and decided to make everyone PANCAKES!" I giggle.

"Do you even know how to cook?" 

"Errrr, I was hoping to find something online that does not require an oven, microwave, or pan???" I stutter not thinking this far ahead. I hear Leo sigh and get up.

"What are you doing?" I reply, furrowing my eyebrows.

"What does it look like? I am helping you," He sighs again.

"YAAAAAAAAY PANCAKES!!!" I squeal as Leo shakes his head, a faint smile playing on his lips. Those lips I kinda wanted to kiss. NOOO, WHAT AM I SAYING. MUST BE THE FACT THAT IT IS TOO EARLY. Yep, that was it, I took a deep breath and headed to the kitchen, Leo trailing closely behind. 

"We are going to need all of her eggs if we are going to feed everyone!" Leo called out as I stuffed my face in the fridge searching for the eggs. I found them and stood on my tippy toes, reaching for them. BANG! SPLAT! CRACK! And that my friends, is how I ended up on the floor. Perks of being 5'3 ladies and gentlemen. Honestly, why couldn't Leo have done it? He is probably 6 feet! He could have easily reached the eggs, but nooooooooo. I had to. I heard a deep chuckle and I glared at the owner of the voice. I am actually surprised no one has woken up. So I did what any sane person would. I snuck behind Leo while he was too busy laughing, took the batter he was mixing while I was getting the eggs and rubbed it across his face. He stared at me in shock, before a maniac smile appeared on his face. You know, the one serial killers wear. 

"Ellie..." He warns as I stare up at his brown eyes in innocence, "Run!" He yells. I squeal and run. Well, attempt to run. Then I find myself kissing the ground. Stupid eggs. Leo catches up to me easily. Actually, with my short ass self, he would not need me to slip to catch up with me in seconds. 

"I'm sorry?" I state, but it comes out more like a question.

"You are going to regret that," He replies in a low tone. Before I can think about what I am doing, I grab some yolk on the floor and smear it on his face. I can't see my face, but I am sure I am grinning like a maniac. In response, he reaches up for the center island and grabs the bowl of batter and dumps it on me. Every single bit! Pancake batter made for over 10 people! Eggs covering me! I decided that it was high time Leo felt loved! I sat down and began to fake get hurt.

"Ow! The bowl hit me!" I started, making up the most unbelievable excuse in the history of excuses.

"Shit, Ellie, are you okay?" Leo replies. He leans closer to check out where I am currently grabbing my head, pretending it hurts when I pounce on him and hug him. Keep in mind my eyes are closed because of how much batter on my face.

"ELLIE!" He yells as I burst out laughing. I attempted standing, but that is kinda hard with both eyes closed. I attempt to wipe the batter and eggs off my face. Keyword: attempt. I actually succeeded getting it off of my right eye, not so much my left. I am about to put more on Leo when I hear footsteps coming this way and already know we are in shit trouble. I try to peak at who is coming through the door. As soon as I see, Leo and I lock eyes and both our eyes are as wide as they possibly can be and at that moment I know we are both thinking the same thing.  Shit, we are screwed as Fuck! 

"Ugh, why am I hearing soooo much screaming this earlyyyyy. I would have thought you were having se-" Colton groggily says, rubbing his eyes, until he is awake and sees what we did to his kitchen. 

"Oops?" Let's just say Leo and I's eyes are not the only ones that have gone wide. Yeah, we made a tiny mess. I look at Leo and realized his eyes are not wide anymore and he somehow manages to look casual.

"YOU CALL THIS TINY!" Colton roars! 

"Well, I can explain!" I yelp as I run and hide behind Leo. In my defense, the option was to either hide behind a raging gang leader or a soon-to-be raging gang leader. Why soon to be you ask? Because I am an evil genius who has got to stop messing with gang leaders. Seriously thought, I am up to a count of 3 of the US's most powerful gang leaders? And those are the most powerful ones. Obviously I have messed with more, but not with direct contact with them like this.

"This is going to be good, please do explain, Ms. Michaels," Colt urges.

"Well, I am extremely clumsy and Leoagreedtocleanupthismessokaybye!" a/n she said leo agreed to clean up this mess, okay bye! I ran as fast as my stubby little legs could take me. When I was close enough to ear them, but far enough it would take some time for them to find me, I finally settled down. That is when I heard laughing.

"Damn, I should be mad, but your girlfriend played you damn good!" Colton laughed. HELL YAH I DID!

"Ugh, don't remind me. I still don't understand how it is possible she has the power to make powerful gang leaders like me clean up after her," Leo replied groaning.

⚡Flashback over!⚡

"ELLIE!!!!!!!" Mi yelled, snapping her fingers in front of my face, waking me up from my daze.

"Sorry..." I mumbled.

"YOU TOTALLY LIKE HIM!" She squealed.

"DO NOT!" I protested.

"Then why are you smiling like a maniac?" She smirks. I now realize that my smile is so wide it is actually starting to hurt. I try biting back my smile, but only end up drawing blood in the process, failing to bite back my smile.

"TOLD YAH!" Mi continued to squeal.

"How did you know about that?" I asked, attempting to change the topic.

"Duh! Colton told me! Now stop changing the topic!" Mi looked at me, attempting to be stern. I heard the door open and slam shut and my face lights up, until I realize that he is not talking to me. Suddenly I feel in such a damp mood.

"Go, you have to make a move on him!" Ellie replies, patting my shoulder encouragingly.

Maybe I do like Leo.

Shout out to beautifulpoetic_ for recomending the song afterlife by hailee steinfeld to get me through the frustrations of writing this. I love to write, but literally 500 words were deleted from this TWICE!!!!!!!! So, yeah! I was pissed, but here!

Also my friend dragged be across the hallway. He pulled me and I had to run backwards, keeping up with his fast ass forward pace. In other words, I was running backwards and he was running forwards! UGH! Okay, so I may have been ignoring him, but still. We both know I literally cannot stay mad at him anywayys!

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