Ella

"We're back bitches!"

I guess the storm cleared up in Seaside because here is Gracie walking through the door with Grayson behind her.

"Hey guys." I said, shoving a piece of pizza into my mouth. "How's was your flight?"

"It was good." Gracie said, shrugging.

"Horrible." Grayson mumbled, fighting with his suitcase. "Gracie kept snoring on my shoulder."

"Well that's what you get for eating my chicken tenders." My older sister said, snapping on my older brother.

"Whatever, I'm going to unpack." Grayson mumbled, dragging his suitcase with him in the direction of the staircase.

I turned and looked at my sister who jumped onto the couch beside me.

"What?"

"Don't you love me?"

"What do you want, Gracie?" I asked, putting my paper plate on the table infront of me.

Gracie, Grayson and Kelly all have this stupid idea to ask "don't you love me?' whenever they want something from me. It's a good and bad thing in my opinion, good because I know that they want something and bad because they annoy me easily like this, making me say yes to whatever it is that they want.

"Well..." She began, laying her head on my shoulder.

Shove her, shove her right off of the couch.

No, we're not mean. We're nice, remember.

"Come on, Gracie." I said, locking my phone.

"There's a party tonight and--"

"No." I immediately say.

"But you didn't even let me finish." She whined.

"There's no need to." I said, laughing. "I'm not going."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want to, Gracie. I just want to be lazy today."

"Please." She whined, throwing her arms around me.

"No."

"But I love you."

"And I love you too but the answer is still no."

I didn't want to party today. Today's been a good day for me, I've cleaned, I've watched Monday Night Raw since I missed it last night and now I just ate a pizza. The day I've had made me happy and I feel like going to a party will ruin it because I don't want to go.

"I'll do anything. I'll pay your phone bill for half a year. I'll pay all of your bills for half a year."

"We're rich, money isn't a problem, Gracie. I can pay my own bills and still have money left." I laughed.

"Um, I'll cook for the next two weeks."

"You burn applesauce, no thanks."

"Oh right. Okay, I'll be your personal servant for the next two weeks."

I opened my mouth to say no but my brain beat the words from coming out of my mouth. I could have a little fun with having a personal servant, especially if the servant is my sister who's making me go to a party that I don't want to go to. The party is just a night and I don't even have to stay the entire night but she'll be my servant for two weeks.

"Deal." I said, shrugging.

"Really?" She asked, looking at me.

"Really. When is it?" I asked, grabbing my phone and pulling up Kelly's contact.

"It starts at eight and you're riding with me." She said, jumping from the couch and exiting the foyer before I could even open my mouth again.

I hit the call symbol next to Kelly's name and listened to the ringing coming from my airpods.

"Hey, Ella. What's up?"

"Gracie is dragging me to a party and you are coming with me."

"Hey Kelly, how are you? I'm good, Ella, thanks for asking. Are you available to go to a party with me, Kelly? I know you have a busy schedule and all but I'd like you to come with me." She said, nonchalantly.

"Oh my bad." I began, laughing. "Hi Kelly, how are you? Gracie is forcing me to go to a party so would you like to come with me?" I asked, trying not to laugh.

"I'm good, thanks for asking Ella. Yes I would like to go with you. What time should I be ready?"

"We're riding with Gracie so let's say seven."

"Okay."

We ended the call and I placed my phone on the dresser before heading into my closet. Before I could start looking through my dresses, I heard a knock on my room door.

"Ella?"

Joseph.

I came out of the closet and looked at him as he stood in the middle of my doorway, Noelle inside my room near the door.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Well, since Ace and Blake are back, Noelle and I decided to stay with them. You know, the original plan."

Being around them these past few days have been cool and fun, so fun that I don't want them to leave. We have multiple rooms for them to stay in, in fact, they can still stay in their rooms.

"Are you sure? You guys can still stay here, I like having you here."

"It's been fun being here but yeah, we're gonna bounce. Nina is over there and I've gotta get back to her."

"Okay, that's cool. How are you getting there?"

"Ace is coming to get us."

"Okay, well call me and we can hang out before you go back to school."

"You're coming to the party though, right?" Noelle asked.

Did Gracie invite them too? How do they know about the party?

"Gracie invited you guys?"

"Gracie? Blake and Ace invited us, they're hosting it."

Wait, WHAT!? Gracie decided to trick me into going to a party that is hosted by my ex-boyfriend and his bestfriend? What in the he--

"Ella? You good?" Joseph asked, waving his hand infront of my face.

"Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm fine and yes, we'll be there."

"Okay cool, see you tonight then."

"See you tonight."

They walked off from my room and towards the steps. I shut my door and went back into my closet.

I'm not even upset that Gracie didn't tell me it was Blake's party. She knew that if she were to tell me, I definitely wouldn't go. She should've never agreed to be my personal servant is all I'm going to say.

7:54 pm

We picked Kelly up ten minutes ago and now we're heading to the party.

"Well, Gracie forgot to mention that Blake and Ace are hosting the party." I said, scrolling through my instagram.

"Woah, Blake? C'mon Gracie." Kelly said.

"Wait no, I didn't forget. I just didn't tell you." Gracie replied, sheepishly.

"Why not? Don't you think I should've known?"

"Um, no because then you wouldn't have came and I wanted to you go."

"You are unbelievable."

"Are you mad at me?" She asked, turning onto the street that the part is on.

"No because you agreed to be my personal servant that's more than enough." I said, giving her a bright fake smile.

"Don't do anything harsh on me."

"I'll do whatever I want." I said, opening the door.

I faced the house and took a deep breath, I certainly am not prepared to be here. Every room in this house holds a memory, sexual, happy and bad.

"It's okay, c'mon." Kelly said, stepping to my side.

I followed Kelly who followed Gracie into the house that is filled with dancing and horny adults. The song No Guidance by Chris Brown is blaring through speakers.

"I'm going to get a drink."

"Maybe I should go with you." Kelly said.

"No. I'm fine. You didn't come here to look after me, that was one night and one night only, I'm good. Go have fun."

I learned my lesson from trying to give myself alcohol poising and I know it won't happen again. I can't go through another day and a half of puking again, it was horrible.

"Okay. I'm going to come find you in thirty minutes, just to make sure you're okay myself."

"Deal."

We went different directions, her to the living room and me to the kitchen. The entire island is filled with different types of liquors and beers. I grabbed a white foam cup and the bottle of vodka.

"You look good."

I looked up at the second doorway to see the six foot devil. I put down the orange juice and grabbed my cup. I don't even have two words to say to this asshole, so I'm just going to exit the kitchen.

"Hey hey hey wait. I just want to talk." He said, blocking my path.

"Talk? We don't have anything to talk about, you made that pretty clear." I said, turning around to exit through the other door."

"Even though I'm begging here?" He asked, his voice soft.

"What if I begged you not to leave me, would you still have left? Look, I'm finally getting better. No more late night crying, no more drowning myself in food. I can feel my happiness coming back and I deserve that. One itty bitty thing can make me fall back to where I was, I'm sorry but I can't risk it."

I shouldn't have heard him, but I did and that was my downfall.

"It's about my mother."

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Chapter Fifteen

+ GUYS ... I DID IT! I made another chapter, even though it took about a year and a half. I had the worst writers block man. First, I was going to finish this boom after I finished my others, then I wasn't going to finish it at all, then I wasn't going to finish any books and now I FINALLY HAVE THE MOTIVATION TO FINISH THIS BOOK. I'm happy tbh lmao.

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