Ok so I have some explaining to do so imma be honest 🙃 I'm not in the best space mentally, emotionally or creatively but I do try to update and write when I can.

The fact that there are people who actually clicked on this book despite it being incomplete is the thing that makes me want to finish this book.

We still have a long way too go with Stacie and Michael but all I ask is not to dump this book but be patient as I try to crank it out.

I'm not going to rush cause then it'll be sloppy and not right so here's chapter 17......

After the chaotic night we had, we decided to go back to the Mafia house so that Michael can hold an emergency meeting. But let's just say that the guys wanted to know how we knew Benjamin.

May his soul rest in eternal misery 🙏.

"So how were you two connected to the head of Mestiere di morte's son?" Michael asks us from the driver seat. We hijacked one of Mestiere di morte's cars. I'm pretty sure they won't miss it.

"Well to cut the long story short he was a jerk who used to be insanely obsessed with Alex."

"Yup and he wouldn't let me go under any circumstances. Constantly threatening any guy that comes near me and being super controlling." Poor Alex, she couldn't keep any guy friends around with that butler around her. And that consisted of 70% of our friends. Why do we have so many guy friends over girl friends you may be asking? Well let's just say that the main reason is atleast guys don't gossip or backstab you.

"So one day he wanted to beat me up because he heard me fangirling about Jungkook on the phone to Stacie-"

"I don't understand why you think that guy is drool worthy. "I say while rolling my eyes and crossing my arms.

"Excuse you? Don't diss my husband and atleast he's way better than that 59 year old grandpa." She scoffs while doing that weird head thing Miley Cyrus did in Hannah Montana when she found out that her brother wanted to cheat in his exam.

Since I'm sitting infront in the passenger seat, I turned around to face her. "Hey Michael Jackson is 63 years old (would have been because ya know he died) and he is handsome as hell so you don't have the right to diss him and second of all you ain't got proper taste in men like seriously you wanna come here and say Tom Holland is hotter than Harry Styles? In your dreams. " I finished my rant with a befitting mmmhm.

"Uh girls we are going-"

"SHUT UP MICHAEL." We are both glaring at each other at this point.

"Yea girls aren't we trying to listen to the-"

"SHUT UP KEVIN."

"And by the way Tom Holland is hotter than Harry Styles-"

"That's cap."

"It's true but you don't want to believe it."

"And why would I believe ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. " This woman is unbelievable.

"ITS TRUE JUST LIKE BTS IS WAY BETTER THAN ONE DIRECTION." I gasped. Oh no she didn't go there.

"EXCUSE ME? One Direction is cuter, more funny and way better than BTS. I mean have you ever watched one of their concerts? LEGENDARY. "

"Oh my are you delusional. Atleast BTS can dance unlike One Direction who all have two left feet and can't dance to save their lives." She didn't just go there.

"Oh really now we are going there?" I'm pretty sure that she didn't go there. Well now I have no choice.

"Atleast they have genuine fun while performing and make their concerts fun unlike serious all the time
BTS." (disclaimer I've actually never seen a BTS concert so I don't know if this is true or not but let's just say for arguments sake it is )

" One Direction are man children why do you even like them?" She says while crossing her arms and raising her eyebrows. She doesn't possess the skill I do of raising one eyebrow.

"Ok let me tell you something ok? Hazza is hilarious and extremely handsome and is one of the cool uncles in the group. Ringo is dark and mysterious and even though he didn't enjoy his time in One Direction he was an unwilling accomplice to Tommo and they made the group the way it was." I needed to catch my breath.

"Speaking of Tommo who's the oldest of everyone, still shocked about that, was the person who would always make hilarious pranks and mischief and made the group fun to watch." I'm pretty sure she doesn't know which members I'm talking about but anyways.

"Then we come to Church Boy who although not the youngest, that's Hazza, kept the group together even now during the hiatus and is the little brother of the group that's just always laughing and smiling. Finally we have the most controversial one of the group, Liam who was a support system and kept them out of trouble most of the time with Ringo acting like the parents of the group. " Now I have to close this speech.

"The point im trying to put out is that they each have unique personalities that made watching them worthwhile. " Just as Alex was about to speak Michael interrupted.

"OK it's 3AM and we've been waiting for yall to end this argument for the past 20 minutes and if you don't tell us that story right now I promise things ain't ending well." Alex:23, Stacie:43 .

"Fine as I was saying before I was interrupted. He flipped out on me thinking that I was talking about an actual guy that lives nearby. Although I told him it's just some celebrity he punched me on my cheek and threw me across the living room and I crashed on the wall. I remembered that Stacie was on the phone and I screamed our SOS message as loud as I could. " While she was sobbing I decided to continue.

"I heard there was yelling and I wanted to yell out for Alex but decided to keep silent and then I heard someone yelling morphine and that's when I realized Alex was in danger so I took Matt and a bottle of acid with a hot rod and trash bags and ran to my car. I drove to his apartment with murder in mind."

"After I yelled the code word he dragged me to the bedroom using my hair and threw me on the bed. He unbuttoned his pants and let them drop. He then climbed on top of me and tied my hands to the bed post. He pulled my pants down and ripped my underwear. H-h-he tore my shirt and ripped my bra off . I thought that I was going to be raped that night but I heard the bedroom door and saw my savior."

"When I got into the bedroom I instantly hit him on the head with Matt and untied Alex. She ran to the closet and I locked the closet door so she couldn't interfere. He woke up shortly after and tried to kill me. But I ripped a huge amount of hair of his scalp and he left me. Meanwhile Alex was trying to get in the room but I ignored her. I took the acid I had and threw him with it. It only got his left arm and leg . I then realized that if Alex and I didn't leave, we were going to be murdered so I knocked him unconscious and took Alex after she wore one of her oversized hoodies and we ran to my car. From there we went to one of our friends house and stayed there for the night. " Just remembering that day was not pleasant.

"So after that I was surprised that he didn't come after us especially considering that he didn't rape me. It took me 3 months to get over that night and live life like normal. " After we wrapped up the story the car was awfully silent.

"When did this happen?" Kevin asks with an unreadable expression on his face.

"2 years back when we were 16." Imagine all of that happened when we were 16. I should have finished him off that night. Maybe if Alex was dating him, I wouldn't have met my worst nightmare.

"Damn that's quite the story. " We kept quiet and Michael started the car and drove off.

Little did they know that was only half of the story.

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Author's note

That was an interesting chapter. I wonder what story is Stacie talking about. Maybe it's something that turned her into the way she is today.

Rebecca: What is up with the Author forgetting about me? *glares at the author*

Author: Rebecca remember what we discussed? *raises eyebrow*

Rebecca: Of course I- *remembers very important role* Oh yeah I remember *smirks* Oh this going to be good. Tata everyone .

*Rebecca goes to dressing room *

Stacie: Uh should we be worried?

Alex: Yea cause if Rebecca is happy that means trouble for the rest of us.

Michael: Yea she hasn't been troubling me for weeks now.

Kevin: Same I'm worried.

Author: *sits in her chair, stroking the cat sitting on her lap and sips tea * Oh I just struck a deal with Rebecca and got her off your backs for awhile. You should be thanking me.

Stacie: But what deal was it?

Author: You'll see. So anyway I know it's been ages since I last updated I apologize for that. My mind hasn't been in the best headspace lately and I lacked the energy to do this. But also I'm trying not to make this more than a hobby cause then I'll lose interest in it.

Also if you guys are wondering why do I do these A/Ns like this. I got the idea from this other book called The Guy Next Door.

This book is an emotional Rollercoaster but has awesome A/Ns so that's where I got the idea from.

Adios Amigos.