We used to be close, but people can go
From people you know to people you don't
And what hurts the most is people can go
From people you know to people you don't

Charlotte's P.O.V

"What do you want to talk about?" I asked Emma. She called me around fifteen minutes ago saying she had to tell me something very important. So, here I was in her bedroom waiting for her to speak up.

"Did you bring it?" She asked immediately. "Yeah, I did. But why did you asked me to bring it?" I asked taking the box out of my handbag.
Yeah, I forgot to mention. She also told me to bring that note, I got few weeks ago.

"Okay." She sighed. "I have a theory." She said. "Is it MCU theory?" I asked excitedly and she gave me look. "No. I think Mason was the one who sent you this note." She said pointing towards the box while held the note.

"What!?" I asked confused. "Are you out of your mind? Why would he sent me that?" I asked. Mason cannot do that, can he? From past few days, he had been nothing but sweet and caring towards me. He always managed to make me smile when I didn't want to. Why would he do that? Why would he want to take away my happiness?

"Charlotte, have you even read the fuckin' note carefully?" She said. "What nonsense you are talking. I had read it million times." I said. Which was true. I had read this note more than million times trying to think who could had sent it to me.

"Well read it again." She said. I rolled my eyes taking the note out of it's box and reading it out loud.

"I know about your little secret Q-Tip."

I looked at her and she face palmed here. "You are dumb." She said.

"The note had written Q-Tip over it. Who else calls you Q-Tip? Mason. Remember when you both were dating, he was the one who used to call you Q-Tip all the time. When he came to apologize, he almost called you Q-Tip, don't you remember?" She said and realisation hit me.

"Shit." I cursed under my breath. I remember all those times when Mason used to call me Q-Tip. And the note also had Q-Tip written on it. When he came to apologize and start over, he almost called me Q-Tip.

"Hey Q-Ti--I mean Charlotte."

He was going to call me Q-Tip but he corrected himself on time.

But why would he do it?

"But why?" I choked out. "Because he wants you, Charlotte. Not only that he was the one who threatened Justin because he got pictures of you both from your birthday party." She said and my eyes grew widen.

"Why didn't Justin tell me about it then? There must had been some confusion. If Mason was behind it, Justin would had told me." I said licking my lips.

Emma groaned.

"Do you think I am lying here!?" She said. "What? No but there must had been some confusion, Em. What if someone else did it and wrote Q-Tip because they knew the blame would go on Mason." I said. "That's not possible, Charlotte. You don't believe me? Fine! Go to Mason's house after school with him. Make a excuse of homework. And when he isn't present around his phone then you can check it. I am sure, you'll find some fuckin' pictures in it." She spat.

"And if I don't?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "Then I would never say anything bad about him, okay? Just do it, you'll get to know the truth." She said and I sighed.

"Okay, I'll do it." I said.

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*new day*

"Hey Mason." I said when I saw him getting in his car. "Yeah?" He smiled. "Can we hang out at your place? You know doing homework and stuff." I asked nervously. Apparently, Emma didn't come to school today. She had to accompany her parents somewhere. At least that's what she said to me when I called her in the morning.

I wasn't able to sleep the whole night. My mind was conflicted with my own thoughts.

Why would Mason do this, if Emma says so? And if it wasn't Mason then why Emma would assume that it was him?

"Yeah sure." He smiled. "Can we go now?" I asked and he smirked. "Yeah we can. I don't have any problem with that." He said smirking. I suddenly started to feel uncomfortable under his gaze. I faked a smile and then we got in his car.

The ride to Mason's house was silent and soon we reached there.

Mason opened the door and we walked inside.

I found Mr. & Mrs. Nash in the kitchen talking and laughing as music was playing in the background. The music was loud enough for us to not hear their conversation. I had always admired Mr. & Mrs. Nash relationship with each other. Everyone can truly see that they were madly in love with each other. I wanted something like that.

"Hey Mom. Hey Dad." Mason said catching their attentions. They both smiled when they saw me and Mrs. Nash turned off the music.

"Hey sweetie. Hello Charlotte. How have you been?" Mrs. Nash asked pulling me in a hug. "I'm good." I smiled. "It's been so long." She smiled and I nodded. "Mom, me and Charlotte are going to work on our homeworks in my room. Don't disturb us." Mason informed and she nodded while giggling. Does she think we are dating again?

"Let's go." Mason said and I nodded. We walked upstairs in his room and he closed the door behind me. I looked around the room, seeing everything was same as it was a year ago. Just some new posters and photo frames.

"What do you want to study?" He asked. "Geography?" I said but it sounded more like a question. Mason shrugged and he took his books out and so did I.

Forty minutes had past since we had been working on our homeworks and Mason sighed. "I need a break." Mason said. "Do you want me to bring you some snack?" He asked and I shook my head.

"No thanks." I said.

"Okay, I need to go to the bathroom." He informed before making his way inside his bathroom. I heard the door lock and then sighed.

I found Mason's phone on the bed and bite my lips. Should I sneak in his phone? But I would be disturbing his privacy. But this is the only way to know the truth.

"Fuck it." I cursed under my breath and picked up his phone.

I put in the old password. I hope it's correct. I groaned lowly when it showed that the password was incorrect. I need to do it fast before Mason catch me looking through his phone.

What could be the password. I typed in some basic passwords but all were incorrect. I bite my lips before typing again, hoping it was correct.

0203

My birthday date and month.

I sighed in relief when it was correct. I hurriedly tapped on the gallery before looking through them. I found some photos of myself doing random things at school which caused me to freak out. Why does Mason has those!? When did he click them!?

I kept scrolling until I saw something which caused me to widen my eyes.

It was photos of me and Justin kissing.
Emma was right. Mason was the one behind everything.

I clicked on the photo and my breath hitched when I saw it. Anyone could cleary identify that it was me and Justin in the picture.

The bathroom door opened before Mason walked out.

"Sorry, it took me so long." He said looking down at his hands before lifting his head to look at me. His eyes widened when he saw his phone in my hands.

"What the fuck is this Mason?" I asked angrily. He kept staring at the device in my hands before looking up at him.

"How could you!? How could you do this!?" I spat. "Why do you have these!?" I asked.

"I can explain, Charlotte." He said nervously. "Go on then. I'm waiting." I said.

"I know about you and Justin sneaking around." He said. "I figured that out asshole." I said angrily. "How did you find out?" I asked. He kept staring at me and my patience was starting to run thin by now.

"Well!?" I spat and he flinched a little. "I once heard you and Emma talking about it. I then sent you the note but then I thought it would be easier if I blackmail Justin. So when I came to your birthday party, I clicked all the pictures and asked him to meet up." He explained and I groaned running my fingers through my hair.

"Fuck. I am so stupid." I cursed my under my breath. That's why Justin was acting odd. He was only trying to protect me. And all I did was slap him and made him feel guilty about it over and over again. Fuck, I am so stupid.

"Why did you do it? Why did you break my trust again?" I asked. "I love you, Charlotte. Isn't that obvious? I want you to be mine but you were sneaking around with him." Mason spat when he said 'him'.

"This is not called love, Mason. This is called obsession. If you loved me, then you would let me be happy not do this." I said.

"I am deleting all the pictures." I said and deleted all of them. "Bring me your laptop and tab." I said and his eyes grew widened. "Why?" He yelled. "You clearly have saved those pictures in every device you own that's why. Now bring them to me. My patience is running thin." I yelled back.

He groaned before giving them to me. I checked all of them and I was right. This fucker does has all the photos saved everywhere.

I deleted all of them and gave him everything back.

"I trust you again and you do this. Disappointing." I mumbled but Mason had heard me. "Disappointing!?" He scoffed. "You are fucking your own adoptive father. And I am disappointing!?" He yelled. "What I do is none of your business, Mason. Don't you ever come near me ever again. I hate you. Stay the fuck away from me." I said ready to walk out but was pulled back in the room by Mason.

I turned and saw his eyes were dark from anger as he threw me on his bed.

I looked at him shocked as he let out a dark chuckle while staring at me which scared the death out of me.

"You really think I would let you go like that?" He spat. An evil smirk on his face was evident. "You are mine, Q-Tip. You always were. I own you. I own your body. I own your soul. I own your love. I own you." He said.

"And I think I need to show it to you. You need to know whose property you are." He said before smashing his lips on mine making me scream.

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What do you think will happen next?

Btw, me and my friend were going through some rant books, and she was like "you should make one too." So should I? I mean, would you read my rants?

Anyways,

Hope you guys liked this chapter ❤️