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Justin

       I twirl my keys on my finger as I walk through the precinct, humming  a song I'd probably be embarrassed about singing. Ryan behind me stumbling over his own feet to catch his breath, everyone looking at him amusingly as they passed; poor guy. “Are you done having an Asthma attack, Butler? ” I ask as I stop and listen to him breath hard, turning to take in his appearance.

        “No! Damn that guy was fast.” he breathes out, his breaths short and his own hair sticking to his forehead with sweat. I chuckle at his overdramatic nature, then watch as he takes a seat on the floor right in the middle of people's paths; making people walking around him wearing annoyed expressions. “Let me just rest, for a little bit man.”

           “Ryan, the chase was over thirty minutes ago. Why are you still catching your breath? ”

             Ryan doesn't reply right away, instead her just waves his hand at me dismissively and shuts his eyes tightly. I've came to the conclusion that I would force him to accompany me on my jogs, he needed them desperately. If he was going to be tired after chasing down a guy that was bigger than he was, Ryan needed stamina or he wasn't going to survive another day. “I don't care how long ago that was, I'm tired.”

            Shaking my head and bending down next to him, I nearly laugh at the look of distress on his face. He looks miserable and I nearly laugh at his own pain. “Dude, what has gotten into you?” I laugh, as he glares at me with a flustered face; its impossible to take him seriously. He's looking as red as a tomato and he's passed out in the middle of the floor.

        “I think,” Ryan takes a slow breath which happened to help him slow down his breathing. “ I think its Jade's cooking, I'm getting fat because of her, all she does is stuff food in my mouth whenever I let her stay the night.” he complains with a slight whine to his voice, he was older than me whining because his girl was feeding him. You don't see me complaining when Sequoia cooks her ass off, I dance into the kitchen breathing heavy and all.

           “She's cooking for you, huh? you two are getting serious.”

         Ryan glares again and says nothing, instead he finally picks himself up from off the floor, I laugh as he stomps away from me then towards his own area. I follow behind him to mine, when I reach my desk I see the usually letters sent to me from Penelope. Most of them along the lines of ;

I miss you

I love you or

we'll be together soon.

      Yeah right, I didn't want to be with that woman again. I think I would rather do anything else but, I couldn't go through with that. With the envelope in my hand, I tear it open and read the letter inside;

       Justin,

        Our time is almost up, we finalize the divorce next week and I want you to see what you're missing out on. You're messing up a perfect marriage for that little girl, she's not enough for you and I want you to know that. She doesn't love you like I do, you'll see that soon.

    Penelope.

      I rolled my eyes and groaned before ripping up the paper, throwing the shreds into the garbage; who even writes letters anymore? Soon, I hear Ryan call my name, I look up to see him motioning me towards him frantically. I easily comply but not as fast as he's requesting me to, his face is glaring at me as I stroll over to him wearing a smirk.

      “Took you long enough, I want to show you something.” he mutters his eyes staring at the doorway, I follow his stare to the captain standing with the new officers from the police academy. Rookie cops that were either trigger happy or suck ups, either way they couldn't wait to get out on the streets. I would know because I was once like that, a few years ago; now I couldn't stand being a police officer. “We got one female cop, right there. She's a looker.”

          He nodded his head towards a tall girl, her hair was blonde and pulled up into a ponytail. I could make out the color of her eyes from where I was, they were brown; and I had the sudden urge to find out how brown they actually were. Her features were soft, small lips and all. My eyes trail down her body which was thin but not too thin, she was gorgeous actually. Her skin had a slight tan to it, I mean we're in Miami for Christ sakes. What was she doing here? She belonged in a magazine or anywhere else but here.

        My eyes linger on her for a moment as she intensely stares at Jones, who was probably giving them the  have pride in your community speech that he gave to all the newbies. I probably shouldn't be staring but I couldn't help myself, I know I had Sequoia but this unknown woman had my eye for the moment.

     This shouldn't even be happening.

          “She's alright,” I shrug, trying to ignore the fact that I was just checking out someone other than my own damn girlfriend. How dumb could I get? Ryan looks at me with a smirk, I know that smirk anywhere. Its the  I know you're lying, bastard smirk. “What? I'm serious.”

           “Sure you are, because if you did look at that girl sexually I will snitch so fast. I still want Sequoia to myself.” he laughed, I scowl at him because he knew how I felt about Sequoia. I was overly possessive and in love with her, him making little comments like that pissed me off immensely. It made me want to pick her up and toss her over my shoulder, chanting the word mine because some people still don't understand.

          “That would really work out for you, you know if Jade wasn't her bestfriend and you weren't fùcking her.”

        Ryan mumbles true and nods his head agreeing with me, I chuckle and look over at the group of rookies making their way towards Ryan and I. The captain leading them with an annoyed smile on his lips, I know he's tired of doing this. I sort of sympathize with him because imagine greeting ignorant and overly excited rookies every few months, for almost ten years. I would be annoyed with my job, especially if I had to put up with rookies.

     “Officer Bieber! Butler! Meet the new officers joining our force.” Jones says, I look passed him and focus my eyes on the only girl in the group. She looks even better up close, I'm able to see the little curves she has with her uniform hugging her body. When my eyes reach hers, she's staring right back at me with a small smile on her face; her smile was pretty.

        Without taking my eyes off her, I  shake Jones outstretched hand. “Hello Jones, what's up?” I greet him, finally able to take my eyes off of the girl, it was wrong for me to admire another female. I needed to stop.

           “Guys, this is one of my best officers and soon to be Sargent or investigator, Justin bieber.” Jones gloated, his smile wide and reaching his eyes. Ryan grumbles behind me then Jones notices him and laughs, “And this is Ryan, the most lazy officer in here.”

      True.

          “Oh stop it,” I laughed as I made it seem as if I was modest, when internally I was telling him to continue to brag bout me. Jones laughs with me because he knows I'm anything but modest.

             Our laughter dies down and he steps awau from the group to whisper something only Ryan and I could hear. “I want you two to take this group and show them around the precinct, I can't stand rookies. ” Jones complains, I grin and look up at the group who were talking among themselves, my eyes catch the girl staring at me again and I stare back. “Seriously, its only for an hour. Just show them around or something, let them show off in the shooting range back there.”

      I pull away from her gaze and look back at the captain, he is silently begging with his eyes. Although I didn't like rookies, I wanted to know the girl a bit more; maybe we could become friends , nothing more than that. I sigh and look back at Ryan who was shaking his head rapidly, hut yet I ignore it. “Fine, an hour only but after that take your children. ”

         Jones sighs in relief and turns to the group to inform them of the chances, the blonde haired girl's eyes light up and she smiles widely, I couldn't help but smile also.

     Was this a good idea?

***

It wasn't.

      Half the rookies where terrible at shooting handguns and I wondered how they even graduated out of the academy. The blonde was a flirt, come to find out her name was Sarah and she was twenty five. She held a good conversation but all she did was touch me whenever she could, I hadn't told her to stop and I wasn't sure why.

             Would you stop a beautiful girl from touching you? I wouldn't, that's why I touched her back whenever I could, her skin was soft and everything but she wasn't my Sequoia, my angel who I was texting at the moment.

     My angel 3:07pm:

       I miss you, I'm bringing you and ryan something to eat in a few.

       With a smile, I replied back with a simple I miss you too. Which was completely true, I missed her even when I was away for only a few minutes. Sequoia was someone who I needed with me , she is amazing and the most honest person I know. She wouldn't hesitate to tell me how she felt or what was going on and that's why I trusted her and loved her.

      
          “Officer Bieber, may I ask why you're smiling so hard?” Sarah questioned, breaking me from my thoughts of Sequoia. She stood in front of me with her hands on her small hips, I shrug my shoulders to answer her question. Sarah didn't need to know my business, but I just met her an hour ago and she's already prying. “Girlfriend? ”

           “Yes.” I reply simply, I thought I saw her face drop but when I look at her again she was smiling. It slightly made me wary but I don't say anything aloud.

            “Let me see your phone?”

              “What? N—”  before I could protest, she snatches the phone from my hands and types something in. I look around and notice ryan eyeing me with a frown as she types away on my phone. “What are you doing?”

             Sarah sighs and hands me my phone back, “I know we just met but I put my number in your phone just in case you and that lovely girlfriend of yours wants to hang with me.” she says with a shrug, my eyebrows furrow and I look down at my phone to notice that's exactly what she did. Why would we want to hang with her? “Or just you.”

      No, no wa—

        “What are you guys doing?”

         Thank you god

 
         Ryan stood in front of me with his hands in his pockets, I gave him a silent thank you because I didn't want to walk myself into that awkward situation. Sarah shrugs and looks down at her feet before look back up at me, “We were just talking about hanging out outside of work.” I inform, feeling my phone vibrate with my hands but I don't look at it right away.

         He rose an eyebrow and hummed, “you, sarah, and Sequoia your girlfriend? ” he asked, putting extra emphasis on girlfriend. I narrowed my eyes at him while he only grinned triumphantly.

        Sarah glares at Ryan, a glare that would scare anyone but she quickly masks it when she notices me looking. Everything around me is starting to get weird, “Well, officer butler and officer bieber I'm going back to the group. I'll see you two around.” she says, then walks off purposely sway her small hips. I tear my eyes away from her and look at Ryan who was shaking his head in disappointment.

           “You are a sad case, Justin.”

            I know

              I decide to ignore him and go to my area, I didn't have time for a lecture from the womanizer himself; I learn from him. I grumble to myself angrily as a turn the corner and walk into the busiest part of the precinct, many officers walking in with men or women in handcuffs; probably taking them in for overnight stay. One officer is coming my way with a smirk on his face, “Hey bieber, someone fine is here to see you. She says she's your girlfriend but I don't believe it.”

          I raise an eyebrow at the short man, I felt sort of offended. Who wouldn't? “And why is that, McCormick? ”

          McCormick sighs and reaches out to pat my shoulder, “Well, she's fine as hell and younger than you. Tell me, how did you end up with her?”

          “Its none of your damn business” I snap before moving around him and moved to the front to claim my girl. When I got there, I took a good look at her before I made me presence known. Her beautiful hair was up in a high ponytail so I could see her high cheek bones and her delectable lips, she was dressed in something so simply; jeans that hugged her bottom graciously. I could see the stretch of skin around her stomach, letting me know that she didn't have a whole shirt on.

          I had to stop staring, all the other men walking by her were doing the same thing; so I quickly swoop in and grab her waist from behind. Sequoia gasps and let's out a small giggle from her mouth, I loved that sound. “Hi baby” she says as she faces me, my arms still around her. I take notice to the bright smile on her lips and the look in her eyes, it was very different from what I usually see; she didn't look happy nor did she look at me with the usual love in her green eyes.

        Should I ignore it?

         “hey babe,” I say lowly, pulling her closer to my body and sliding my hands down to rest on her ass. It almost slips my mind that we were at my place of work and it would be unprofessional of me to just squeeze her ass and kiss the life out of her. My coworkers would probably enjoy watching Sequoia get grappled, since they enjoy staring at her already.

        Fuckers.

              “I brought food, ” she pointed to a bag on top of the table where most people come to report things, I grinned down at her small figure and kissed her lips quickly. I liked when she did things like this for me, it felt as if we were married; like she was my babying wife. “I cooked, and once I started I couldn't stop. There's something in there for Ryan too.”

              “Thank you, what did I do to deserve you?” I joked, pulling away from her to grab the back which was full of food. Did she cook for everyone in the Miami police department? Jesus Christ.

        “I know it's a lot but I was just— I don't know— because I just found out something and it was just a spur of the moment type thing. I don't even know whats gotten into me, shít. I'm rambling wow, what the hell is wrong with me?” Sequoia rambles, laughing nervously then looks everywhere but me. What's gotten into her? Usually she was calm and collected, but now she was nervously; Sequoia was nervous, and I want to find out why.

            “Are you okay? What's the matter?” I ask, my hand instantly cups her chin and turns her face to mine; forcing her to look me in the eye. Whatever was going on with her, I was going to find out.

           Sequoia huffs and tucks her bottom lip between her teeth nervously. “Can we, go talk about this somewhere private? ” she insists, her eyes never meeting mine; that upset me by the way. I was so used to seeing her eyes staring at me with so much emotion, now she won't even look at me for more than two seconds.

      With a worried heart, I nod and take her small hand in mine instantly feeling her squeeze my hand. It made me worry even more, what did she have to tell me?  I led her to the break room where we can sit and talk, not many people were in there now anyway so it was perfect. She smiled at me when I pulled out the black chair for her, put Sequoia still hadn't looked me in the eye.

          “Justin, ” she sighs as I sit in the seat across from her,  the tone in her voice worries me further. I watch closely as she plays with her fingers on top of the table, I place my elbows on the table and wait for her to continue. “my mother called me today...” Sequoia hesitates, I sigh in relief; I thought she was going to tell me she was pregnant or something. “And she told me something about my father, he— he wantsme back in France. Well he's actually demanding me to come back. ”

        Now that caught my attention, her father had some nerve demanding that Sequoia returned back. From what I've been told, her father was almost never around and now he wants to take her back? Sequoia is a grown woman who can make decisions for herself, if she wants to stay here then she can. But if she wants to leave, I won't let her; besides, she has no reason to leave. Hopefully she wants thinking of leaving me, I'd go crazy.

         “You aren't thinking of —” I start to say slowly but Sequoia's eyes quickly snap to mine, she looked at me as if I were insane.

        “What? No!”

       Of course she wouldn't leave me.

    
       I let out yet another breath of relief, I couldn't believe that thought crossed my mind; Sequoia inclines her  head, her eyes were still on mine and I was happy to see that there definitely was love within them. But yet, I don't feel assured maybe she will leave me. I'm worried that she may decide that her love for me doesn't exist and leave me for another man; almost like karma. Similar to what I had done to Penelope.

       Sequoia speaks up again, but her voice is so soft I almost don't hear her. “Do you actually think, I would? ” the disbelief behind her words made me rethink everything, why was I even thinking that way? “we love each other too much to even leave all of this, whether you like it or not. I'm starting to think you're trying to wish me away.”

          Now I glare at Sequoia and she raises an eyebrow at me challengingly, daring me to say something smart. “Now you know I'm not wishing you away! I'm just asking, even if you did try to leave me I'll take you and lock you up in a tower.” I say seriously, Sequoia laughs and shakes her head at my words. “I am so seriously, when I say you are mine I mean it. And I am yours angel.”

         “Add unconditionally so we can be a cheesy couple in those books I read” Sequoia muses, I chuckle at the woman across from me; she turns a serious conversation into a silly one. Maybe that's why I adore her so much, she was entertainment, joy, lust, and love all in one small body. I don't know what I'd do without her, that's why I couldn't loose her; I wanted to shake away that feeling that, I was going to loose her.

      And I didn't like it.

      I don't let the distaste of my thoughts show physically, instead I look at her straight in the eye and smile; I didn't want her to know why I was worried because if I did, I wouldn't hear the end of it. Sequoia wouldn't leave me, I try to convince myself.

          “unconditionally Angel. ”

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   Hehe, y'all don't know if Sequoia is pregnant or not lolololol.

      But anyway, I need to not be evil. Next chapter you will find out and other things. I can't wait y'all.

Anyway, y'all please don't hate Sarah yet. She's a good person, somewhat .

Alright, bye y'all. Sorry for late updates AND HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TO MY SEXY ASS DADDY BAE, JUSTIN.

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