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As I pulled up into the driveway I saw that the clock on my phone said 1AM. I looked through my rearview mirror and saw that the girl was asleep.

"Should we wake her?" Fredo asked.

"In a bit, let's go talk to the guys," I said getting out.

Fredo and I walked over to his car where Za and Malcomn were standing.

"I want to say thank you to the both of you. Without you two this shit wouldn't have been done. I know I can always count on you and you know you can always count on me. I'll send you guys a cheek tomorrow, take care, drive safely Fredo, I'll see you guys later," I said.

"Nah man," Za said, "you don't have to pay us. This is something that we all wanted to do."

Malcomn nodded. I nodded too, but I was still going to send them the check. He all said our goodbye's and Fredo drove away.

I walked back to my car and opened the door pushing the seat forward. I reached for the girl softly shaking her, "Hey. Wake up."

She shook as she eyes opened up.

"It's okay, it's okay," I reassured, "Come on out."

She sat up climbing out of the car.

"It's pretty late so you can stay here and I'll take you home tomorrow, or as soon as the sun comes out since it's already tomorrow," I said.

We walked inside and she quietly stood waiting for me to tell her what to do. I brought her into the kitchen and sat her down on a stool as I searched for somethin to give her to eat.

"What do you like to eat?" I asked.

"Anything," she said.

"I don't think I could finish a meal but I have canned chicken soup," I said.

"Sounds yummy," she quietly said.

I heated up the chicken soup before pouring it into a bowl and giving it to her. I gave her some water and she instantly started eating. She rushed to eat savoring it as if it were the best meal she's ever had.

"How long has it been since he fed you?" I asked.

"About three days," she said.

"I'm sorry," I said.

Once again the guilt towered over me. I've done that before to other girls. I regret it so much. If only I had known.

"It's okay," she said as she finished the last bit.

"Want some more?" I asked.

She shook her head.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure," she said.

"Okay," I said, "here's some ice for your eye. I'll show you to a room where you can sleep."

She followed behind me placing the bag of ice on her eye as we went upstairs. I gave her one of the guest rooms. When she walked in she looked around.

"Wow," she said mesmerized.

"I'll be right back," I said.

I walked into my room and found Felicity still peacefully sleeping. I walked into the closet and grabbed a pair of leggings and a shirt from Felicity's side then j walked back to the girl's room.

"Here are some clothes. The bathrooms across the hall," I said.

"Thank you so much. I don't know what I could do to repay you," she said.

I smiled, "You don't need to repay me. It was the right thing to do."

"Why'd you kill him?" She asked.

"It's a long story," I said, "I'll tell you later. For now, get some sleep."

"Okay," she agreed.

"By the way, what's your name?" I asked.

"Catrina," she said.

"Well Catrina, I'm Justin," I said.

"Nice to meet you," she said.

"I'll see you in the morning, good night."

"Good night," she replied.

I closed the door behind me and walked back into my room. I quickly got into the shower before getting into my pajamas and crashing down onto the bed next to Felicity.

Felicity

I woke up to the sound of the shower running. I groaned as I stretched out, opening my eyes to find an empty spot beside me. Justin was in the shower. I sat up and noticed that the bathroom door was open. He wasn't showering in our room.

Hmm... Weird.

Suddenly the shower turned off and I turned over to shove my face back into the pillow.

After about five minutes I decide to finally get up. I got up and walked outside. As soon as I turned I bumped into a girl with light brown skin and curly brown hair.

"AHHHHH!" I screamed, "Who are you!?"

She screamed as well then I noticed a bruise on her eye. "I'm Catrina."

"Oh. What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Justin brought me here," she said.

"JUSTIN!" I yelled.

"What? I can here your screaming from all the way in the kitchen!" He yelled.

I quickly ran down the stairs and slid into the kitchen standing in front of him.

"Who is she?" I asked.

"Who? Catrina?" He asked.

"Because there are like fifty other girls besides her yes of course Catrina who else?"

"I'm helpin her," he said.

I cleared my throat, "Explain..."

"Last night... When I went to Austin's, I found her, she was frantically crying and I decided to help her. It was the right thing, right?" He explained.

Catrina walked in. She was gorgeous.

"Hello, I'm sorry for screaming in your face. I'm Felicity," I introduced myself.

"Nice to meet you," she said giving me a warm smile.

"So you finally escaped from that asshole," I said.

"Yes," she said.

"Good job Justin, I'm proud of you," I said kissing his cheek.

He gave me a cheesy smile as he handed me a plate full of pancakes.

"Well come sit," I told Catrina as I walked to the dining table. I placed the pancakes down and then Justin helped me bring the rest of the food and plates out.

While Justin finished cooking the eggs I talked to Catrina.

"How old are you?" I asked.

"Seventeen," she answered.

"Me too!" I said cutting my pancakes up, "Where are you from?"

"Tucson, Arizona," she said.

"That's not too far," I said.

"I know! She'll be home in no time," Justin said from the kitchen.

"Are you happy to be going home? Oh that's a stupid question of course you are," I said.

"Yeah, I've been away for almost five months," she said.

"Wow," I said.

"Yeah, I was on my way home from school when a man pulled me into his van. Then I was sold to Austin," she said.

I looked over at Justin who was walking inside with a plate full of eggs.

"Don't look at me like that," he said.

"Like what?"

"Like you think I did something," he said.

"Oh I know you didn't," I said.

"So why did you kill Austin?" She asked.

"So you did kill him?" I asked.

"Yeah," Justin answered.

"I was taken in March. I was sold to Austin for a while and just recently Austin paid me a visit. An unfortunate visit at that. Justin decided to go get some revenge," I said.

"So you were taken too?"

I nodded.

"So is this what you do Justin? You help girls who have been abducted?" She asked.

"No," he said looking down.

We continued eating before she asked, "Are you two a couple?"

"Yes," Justin replied, leaning over to kiss the side of my lips.

"You guys are cute," she said.

"Thank you," I said as I stuffed my face with another forkful of pancakes.

Justin leaned back in and licked the side of my lips again, "You had a lil something on your mouth."

I smiled and shook my head as I looked over at Catrina, "When you get home, you'll be so happy to see your parents' face. They'll be so happy to see you."

"I can already imagine it," she said.

After we finished eating I decided to go with Justin and Catrina to take her home. We got dressed then got in the car.

On our drive we talked about places we wanted to travel to and we learned more about Catrina. She was genuinely a nice girl that did not deserve the fate she got.

Once we reached her neighborhood Justin parked a few houses away.

"I don't want to just completely never have contact with you two. Is there a way I can still talk to you guys?" She asked.

I handed her my number, "If you ever need something just call."

"Thank you," she said.

I reached from the backseat and gave her a hug. Justin also gave her a hug before she opened the door and started walking towards her house. Justin slowly drove behind, making sure that she would get home. As soon as she turned and walked closer to her door, we drove off before anyone saw us.

I climbed into the passanger seat before putting my seatbelt on.

I stared at Justin as he drove.

He noticed and looked over, "What baby?"

"I love you so much. If I loved you to the moon and back. Now I love you to Pluto and back," I said.

He smiled, "and I love you more."

"Oh really? Don't get me started Jay because I will tear you down."

He stopped and reached for my hand.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Yeah why?"

"Oh no reason, it's just that before this we both went through hard times and I just want to know if you're okay; if you're feeling semi-good now," I asked.

"I do, I feel good," he said, "mostly because we're not fighting."

I giggled, "True."

"Don't worry about me, okay?" He asked.

"Okay," I replied.

Six hours later

I laid down pulling the sheets over me as I watched Justin walk back and forth from his office to the room "trying to solve a dilemma" which was really just him trying to see who hadn't paid for the drugs he sold, or at least I'm assuming.

After about twenty minutes he walked into the bathroom and brushed his teeth. He came back out, taking his clothes off and throwing them on the floor before climbing into bed with me.

"Look who we have here," he said wrapping his arms around me.

I giggled, "It's me."

He kissed my forehead as he pulled me in closer to his chest, "I know. My favorite person in the entire world."

I smiled as I placed a soft kiss on his chest.

"Want to go out tomorrow?" He asked.

"Sure," I whispered snuggling into his chest.

"Okay, good night, I love you."

"And I love you."

I woke back up in the middle of the night when I felt the bed raise. I looked through the darkness but couldn't see anything. Suddenly the bathroom light turned on and Justin shut the door behind him. I looked at the clock-1:34AM.

I closed my eyes again and waited for the toilet to flush or for the sink to start running but nothing. It was completely silent and when I looked back at the clock it was 1:55AM.

Suddenly the door opened and I closed my eyes back up, pretending to sleep. Soon Justin was back in bed laying on his side far away from me.

Two days later

"Justin! Justin! Justin!" I yelled running down the hall to his office. I stormed inside walking over to his chair and jumping on his lap.

"What?" He chuckled as he put his papers down to give me his full attention.

"Look at this," I said handing him a letter.

He skimmed it then looked up at me, "What is it?"

"Read it," I said.

He read it and his face became filled with confusion. It was a letter saying that his brother and his sister were now in the state of Arizona.

"Aren't you happy?!"

"Did you do this?"

"Well no, I only opened the letter," I said.

He pushed me off and then stood up turning to look out the window.

"Are you going to go?"

"No."

"Why not?"

He shrugged.

"You okay?"

"Stop asking me if I'm okay Felicity you know the answer to that already," he snapped.

"Yeah I do. You always say you are but I know you're not. I can't help but notice that you're hurting on the inside and not telling me is only making it worse," I said.

"What are you going to do about it if I tell you?" He asked.

I opened my mouth to speak but the right words couldn't come out. I finally said, "I don't know, but I know it'll make you feel a bit better."

"You already know everything there is to know. I can't even go see my siblings, I left them with two assholes, I sell illegal drugs, I'm tormented by the fact that I stole tons of girls and made them suffer, and this feeling just won't go away."

"I won't judge you for anything. But you gotta stop injecting yourself," I said walking towards the door.

"How do you know that?" He placed his hand over his arm.

"Justin I can hear you get up almost every night and then you shut yourself in the bathroom for like fifteen minutes," I said.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"I just don't want you to get sick, I want you to be healthy," I said, "I don't want to lose you..."

He looked over at me, his eyes bloodshot red.

"Please get help."

I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms tightly around my waist.

"I love you, so much," he said.

"I love you too," I said.

Justin said he was hungry so we went downstairs and I made him something.

"Are you mad at me?" He asked as I watched him eat.

I shook my head, "Why?"

He shrugged, "I use drugs."

"Well it's your body so I guess you can do whatever you want with it. But like I said, I don't want you getting sick or not being healthy," I said.

After he finished eating he washed his plate and kissed my cheek before walking to the front door, "I'm going out, I'll be back in an hour."

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Don't worry about it," he said.

"Justin don't do anything that you might regret later on," I said.

"I won't. And if I do, what's the worst that can happen?" He asked opening the door and walking out.

I rolled my eyes and walked back upstairs. There was nothing to do so I did one of the things I enjoyed the most, reading.

A few hours later the front door opened, distracting me from my book. I heard yelling.

"CAUSE I'VE GOT AN ELASTIC HEART."

I placed my book down and got up. I made my way to the stairs and looked down. Justin was walking in circles with a bottle in his hand.

"But your blade it might be too sharp..."

He was drunk and singing Sia. Oh no, something is really wrong. I walked down stairs and grabbed his arm so he would stop moving.

"What now?" I asked.

"Oh nothing," he said, "I just have an elastic heart."

"Oh cool. Why are you drunk?"

"Because another one bites the dust," he answered.

"What?"

"Yeah let's be clear I trust no one."

"What did you do?"

"You did not break meeeee," he said taking another drink. "I'm still fighting for peeeeeace."

"Stop singing," I snapped.

"FIESTY," he said.

"Come on let's get you upstairs," I said.

"No!" He snatched his arm out of my grip.

"Why not?" I asked placing my hands on my hips.

He just shook his head and took another long sip of his whatever the hell that was.

"You won't see me fall apart," he quietly sang.

"You kind of already are falling apart," I said.

"You love me right?" He asked.

"Yes."

He sat down on the floor before beginning to talk again, "You know, I went to see my parents today. It just brings back so many memories you know? I think back to when everything was perfect, everything was pure. Now it's all just a jumble of wrong. So many things have just gone wrong. I miss them, I miss the way things used to be. I miss having someone to look up, someone who gives you comfort, who works as a backbone for you. I hadn't realized how much of a difference not having your parents can make. It's crazy. One day they were there and the next they were gone. My chances of having a life I wanted, disappeared along with them. I turned into this."

I sat next to him giving him my full attention. Towards the end, his voice started fading away and he started resting his head against my shoulder.

"Help me," he whispered.

"You're not alone baby, we will go through this together," I whispered, kissing the top of his head.

He didn't reply but soon I felt the weight of his body against mine become heavier. I vent my head forward to see his face and found him sound asleep.

I threw my head back, resting it against the wall. Justin soon became too heavy for me to hold so I let his body crash down until his head landed on my lap. I stroked his hair, running my fingers through his blonde locks then wrapping them around my finger as he softly snored on my legs.

My eyes started closing and I could feel sleep taking over my body.

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