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"You good?" Fezco asked Mariah as she walked back to him after the car that Reyna got into drove off, noticing that she was a little off.

"Yeah babe, all good," Mariah said with a semi convincing smile, sneaking under his arm as they walked back into the fair together.

Fezco smiled down at her under his arm, pulling her closer to his body and handing her the stuffed bunny back.

"I gotta go give a couple things to a couple people and not that ion want you wit me, but ion want you wit me, you feel?" Fezco mumbled into Mariah's ear. "So can you uh, go tell Ash I'm outta tickets and to close up and go have fun and shit."

"Okay," Mariah nodded, glancing up at Fezco as he mirrored her actions and nodded his head.

"Ima meet you over there at the pretzel stand aight?"

Mariah nodded once more, smiling when Fezco gave her forehead a kiss and took his arm off from around her before they parted ways.

Still a mob in the center of the carnival because of the chili contest, she decided to walk through the back of all the trailers and booths, making her way towards the pretzel truck.

She ignored the group of guys smoking behind one of the trailers as they blurted out some aggressive ass cat calls, mentally rolling her eyes as she picked her pace up.

Passing another trailer, she heard some light crying, heart dropping at seeing that girl from earlier, Maddy, with some tall ass slenderman looking guy with his hand wrapped around her throat, pushing her up against a trailer.

Mariah took a good look at him, noticing it was that kid that was at the chili stand earlier when Maddy tipped over a pot full of chili, assuming that this was Maddy's lame ass boyfriend, who told her that she looked like a hooker.

It reminded Mariah of all the times Danny had done that, getting super mad at something she had done or something she had worn and then put his hands on her, choked her.

She could remember a time at a party when he had his hand gripping her throat, and not in the way she liked, and people had seen and had done nothing for her, just let it happen when Mariah couldn't stop it herself. She couldn't just let it happen to Maddy.

"Hey."

Nate Jacobs paused mid teeth-gritted sentence, freezing in place and staring at Maddy once hearing some girl's voice behind him.

"Get fucking lost, whore," Nate yelled through his teeth, not taking a single glance at Mariah, and not noticing that she had walked up and reached to pull his hand off of Maddy.

Nate finally looked at Mariah, grabbing her hand off of him and gripping it in his hand.

"What the fuck are you doing?" He asked her.

"Leave her alone."

"She's my girlfriend," Nate scoffed, taking a good look at Mariah while she stared at Maddy, who was giving Mariah an ugly look. "Shit, I know you. You're that fuckin stripper Danny's with, aren't you?"

Mariah furrowed her eyebrows up at slenderman, trying to remember if she had ever met him with Danny. She wouldn't doubt it, Danny liked to hang around the pieces of shit in East Highland, considering he was one himself.

Mariah felt uneasy under Nate's gaze, tightening her hold on her stuffed bunny under her arm and cringing at the smirk on his face as he got all up in her face.

"Well guess what; she got fucked by your boyfriend," Nate told Mariah and pointed at Maddy. "So really, I'm doing you a fucking favor. Maybe I should fuck you after, so we're even, huh? Cause your boyfriend fucked my girlfriend?"

"I'm not his fucking girlfriend."

Nate ignored her, giving her a once over before raising his eyebrows. "You sure look the stripper part. Why don't you run along before I call Danny to come get his bitch?"

Mariah pushed him away, turning to Maddy, "Are you okay? Do you–"

"Can you fucking leave?" Maddy interrupted her. "I don't know what you thought you saw, but I'm fine."

Mariah gave her a weird look, "I've literally seen this–I've had this done to me before, I swear he was–"

"No he wasn't bitch, you're just fucking high and hallucinating or something," Maddy bit back.

"Girl come on, I'm not stupid."

"Clearly you are. Don't you have to get back to that drug dealer that you literally share brain cells with?" Maddy asked her.

Mariah raised her eyebrows, remembering what Rue had said about Fezco having 7 seven brain cells. What the fuck is up with everyone and their obsession with Fezco's brain cells????

"Yeah, you're right–at least I won't be getting beat though," Mariah scoffed before just walking off.

This is what I get for being friends with high school kids
Dense ass bitch

Mariah rolled her eyes as she continued making her way to the pretzel stand, but still felt slightly guilt for leaving Maddy there with slenderman when she clearly knew what was going on.

If Maddy didn't want her help then she wasn't gonna force it on her. You can't save someone who doesn't wanna be saved.

Mariah wanted to say that Maddy was stupid, defending her abusive boyfriend and staying with him, but she couldn't, because she was once in that situation too. Mariah couldn't remember ever defending Danny though, who would she defend him to anyway?

Nobody cared whenever he put his hands on her. Nobody cared up until Fezco.

And Mouse too, I guess, but who gives a fuck about Mouse?

Fezco was the one that really cared. Fezco was the one that saved her.

And she didn't give a fuck what other people said about him, to Mariah, Fezco hung the moon and the stars and also the fucking sun and shined all this light into her life. He was perfect and he deserved the world.

She didn't know it yet, because she'd never felt this strongly for someone, but she was hopelessly in love with him.

"Hey, this pretzel don't got shit in it."

Ashtray stopped eating the funnel cake that some girl brought him, glancing at the pretzel that was thrown onto the counter of the pretzel truck before looking at the dumb fuck who threw it at him.

"The fuck is your problem, dumb fuck," Ashtray scoffed, straightening up from where he leaned against the counter.

"You gave me this shit and it don't got nun in it," Danny let him know.

"You didn't have a ticket."

"So?"

"So you need to have a ticket if you want a lil sum in your pretzel," Ashtray responded in a duh tone, rolling his eyes and shaking his head. "Dumb ass," He muttered.

"The fuck?" Danny furrowed his eyebrows up at Ashtray. "Give me some coke."

"No," Ashtray said, grabbing the pretzel and shoving it back into Danny's hand. "Get the fuck out."

"Come on bro," Danny kissed his teeth.

"You don't know what no means?" Ashtray asked, glaring down at Danny before they started arguing back and forth with each other, Ashtray's patience thinning by the second.

He rolled his eyes listening to Danny bitch and groan, eyes eventually finding Mariah as she walked up through the side of the trailer and then to the front.

Mariah didn't even notice Danny as she walked up to the pretzel stand, smiling up at Ashtray as she rested one of her arms up on the counter.

"Hey Ashhhhh, Fezco said to close up cause he's out of tickets," Mariah let him know. "So like, go have fun and shit. Ima make him get on the ferris wheel with me."

"Alright, just need to get this fucking crackhead to fuck off," Ashtray nodded before turning to Danny. "Pay double or you get nothing."

Danny, who had been staring at Mariah before looking at Ashtray, nodded his head in response as Ashtray walked further into the trailer to get a dime bag for him, mumbling some shit under his breath.

"You hanging out with the drug dealers now, huh?" Danny spoke as he grabbed two 20's from his wallet.

Mariah's heart dropped at hearing his voice, choosing to pretend like she didn't hear him as she side eyed him, then watched Ashtray looking through the stash in the back.

"You're deaf now, too?" Danny asked, only this time he was so close that his hot ass breath was on her neck as the words left his mouth.

Mariah finally turned to look at him, leaning her head back and pushing him away from her.

Danny smirked as he looked her up and down before settling his eyes on her face. "How you been?"

Mariah continued to avoid eye contact, wishing Ashtray would hurry the fuck up.

"You miss me?" Danny spoke again.

His question had Mariah let out a laugh, even if he was joking, she found it funny that he thought she would miss him. Shit, not when she was with Fezco now.

"Cause I miss you," Danny continued, placing his hand on her lower back.

Mariah shoved his hand off, stepping away from him and continued staring at Ashtray.

"Nah, you know you like it. Shit, letting guys touch you is what you do for a living, isn't it?" Danny asked Mariah and gave her a fake curious look, placing his hand on her lower back again.

"Don't touch me," Mariah snapped at him, finally fed up with him and his presence and his overly wandering nasty ass hands.

Ashtray glanced back at the two, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Mariah glare at Danny, who just smirked, looking amused.

Fezco had told him about her her ex boyfriend, and how he almost fucked him up when he first started talking to Mariah–he hadn't told him that Danny was abusive, but Ashtray knew that Mariah's ex must've been a piece of shit if Fezco almost fucked him up. He knew Fezco, and Fezco didn't just jump to try and fight anyone.

And partially listening in on Mariah and Danny's conversation now, some shit told him that this motherfucker was that ex.

Being raised by Fezco, Ashtray was a mini version of him, only just wayyyy more violent when he needed to be. And also whenever he felt like it.

Mariah meant a lot to Fezco. Fezco would protect Mariah with his life and Ashtray would protect Fezco with his.

So it was only right to protect Mariah too.

"Hey fuckwad, it's 80 now," Ashtray let Danny know and leaned on the counter again with the dime bag between his fingers.

"I'm not gonna pay 80, what the fuck are you on," Danny refused, offended.

"Guess you better walk the fuck on then," Ashtray spat before watching as Danny grabbed his wallet again, looking for two more $20 bills to add to the $40 that Ashtray was already overcharging him.

Danny gave Mariah one last nasty glance before handing Ashtray four $20 bills and taking the dime bag from him to leave, but not without Ashtray roughly grabbing his wrist and pulling him against the truck.

"Stay the fuck away from her or ima fucking kill you."

Mariah's eyebrows shot up a little as she witnessed a whole ass kid threatening a whole ass grown man for her. Why the fuck hadn't she met the O'Neill boys earlier in her life.

"Pussy ass bitch," Ashtray snarked once Danny walked off, glancing at Mariah for a second, who just stood there holding her lil bunny in her arms. "You know him?"

"Yeah. I wish I didn't."

"Ex boyfriend or something?" Ashtray quizzed.

"Yeah. I don't know if Fezco told you, but we started talking cause he kinda like, saved me?" Mariah laughed. "He jumped in when my ex was tryna like...hit me."

"Oh."

Fezco hadn't told him that.

He understood why this girl was full on in love with his loser ass brother now. He saved her.

"Yeah I know, it's like, weird or whatever, we don't gotta talk about it. Anyways, he said to close up and go have fun!! Ima drag him on the ferris wheel with me," Mariah laughed.

"Nah, we ain't goin on no ferris wheel," Fezco spoke as he walked up to the pretzel truck.

Ashtray and Mariah exchanged looks, agreeing to keep their encounter a secret between themselves.

"Told you it was gon be a good night, mane," Fezco dapped up his little brother before dropping the empty ticket rolls on the counter. "Go have fun, kid."

Ashtray nodded in response before going back to eating his forgotten funnel cake.

"Some girl brought this to me, y'all want some?" Ashtray offered.

"Ouu you got a lil girlfriend?" Mariah smiled, tone teasing.

"I got more than just one," Ashtray winked, making Mariah bust out laughing.

Fezco chuckled, watching Ashtray mean mug her for laughing.

"Now you can't have any," Ashtray told her and scooted his funnel cake closer to himself. "Go swap spit with each other on the ferris wheel or some shit, leave me the fuck alone."

Mariah smiled, exchanging looks and laughs with Fezco, who extended his arm out for her to grab her hand so they could leave.

"Be safe bro, we'll see you inna bit," Fezco told Ashtray, dapping him up with his free hand while Mariah intertwined her fingers with his.

"Don't tell me you're sleeping over," Ashtray groaned and gave Mariah a look.

"Yup, suck it up buttercup," Mariah blew him a kiss. "You'll get pancakes in the morning."

"Your pancakes suck," Ashtray told her, lying because the pancakes she had made a few mornings ago were the best pancakes he'd ever had in his life.

"Don't play with me, you ate two big ass stacks," Mariah reminded him, pointing an accusatory finger at him.

"Doesn't mean they were good, I was just hungry," Ashtray shrugged, his shit eating grin visible on his face as he stuffed his mouth with his funnel cake.

Mariah raised her eyebrows at him and just laughed. He was such a liar. And a bad one.

He was fucking those pancakes up the other morning. Just like his brother was fucking Mariah up that morning.

"Come on, let's jus go, I know you ain't come to just fight wit Ash," Fezco pulled on Mariah's hand with a laugh.

Mariah gave him a fake confused look, "Who's Ash?"

Ashtray took advantage of the fact that she finally looked away from him to pull down the screen for the truck, laughing to himself once he was alone inside.

"I don't get how you're such a sweetheart and he's such an asshole. Didn't you raise him?" Mariah squinted at Fezco as they walked away from the pretzel truck. "I'm not making him pancakes tomorrow. I'm making waffles."

Fezco laughed, "Sounding like Donkey from Shrek right now."

"Okayy I know you like Shrek and all, but I didn't know you got the whole script memorized," Mariah teased him and giggled.

Fezco just shook his head at her, pulling her closer to him and under his arm. "What you gon name yo lil bunny?"

Mariah held the pink stuffed bunny up in front of them as they walked for them both to see.

"I was thinking Coco," She answered, fixing the bunny ears.

"Coconut, that's wassup," Fezco nodded as he pet the bunny, making Mariah laugh.

Coco because Fezco without the first three letters was Co, and Coco was a cute ass name. But he didn't need to know all that.

"Coco O'Neill," Mariah finished.

Fezco smiled, "Yeah, that's definitely wassup. Is that all yo other stuff animal's last names?"

Mariah pursed her lips into a smile before shrugging, "Maybe."

It's also mine in my dreams ;)

Catching sight of the tunnel of love boat ride, Mariah grinned, nudging Fezco's side before glancing up at him.

"We're going in the tunnel of love, right?" She asked him.

Fezco furrowed his eyebrows, "What kinda question is that, course we is."

He smiled at her smile, allowing her to grab his hand and pull him towards the line to the tunnel of love.

They went on the tunnel of love, plus a couple other rides that they could get on together, placing Coco in between them on the seat. Fezco bought Mariah the churros he said he would buy and they ate while in line for none other than the ferris wheel.

She successfully dragged him on, although she was honestly lowkey scared of heights too. But she loved the view from the top of the ferris wheel even more.

So hopefully Fezco would too, his grip on Mariah's hand tight as she told him about how she once saw someone get thrown up on while on a ferris wheel.

"So like, if you need to, throw up outside the carriage, and it'll fall on whoever's under us," Mariah told Fezco, holding back giggles at the thought.

He stared down at their hands intertwined in Mariah's lap, besides where Coco sat, laughing at her giggles and at what she said before looking at her.

She almost felt bad for dragging him on the ferris wheel, his hold on her hand super tight while his leg bounced up and down due to his nerves.

"You okay?" Mariah asked, moving her finger to softly poke the freckles on his neck.

Fezco just nodded, looking around as the ferris wheel slowly moved up so new people could got on the carriages below them.

Mariah pressed a kiss to his jaw before scattering a few down his neck, softly biting the skin against his chains.

Being a little high, Fezco giggled at the feeling, moving his arm around Mariah and pulling her closer to him. He rested his hand on her thigh, his pinky sneaking under the bottom hem of her mini skirt, making him glance down at it.

"You look hella good in this lil skirt by the way," He mumbled.

"You like it?"

"Hell yeah."

Mariah smiled, "Yeah I know, I caught you staring like six times."

Fezco laughed, shaking his head at himself. "My bad, 'm sorry."

"Don't be. You're allowed to stare at what's yours, babe."

Fezco's heart fluttered at her words, glancing down at her hand as it found his again and laced their fingers together.

He's allowed to stare at what's his.

Say less. His eyes drifted back up to look at her, watching her fix her hair in her phone camera.

"Do you like the view?" Mariah asked him, looking up from her phone for a second to look down at the fairground below them.

"Yeah I like the view," Fezco smirked, never taking his eyes off of her.

Mariah turned to look at him, blushing one realizing he was staying at her and laughing before she scooted all close.

"You wanna take a picture with me?" She asked, placing her hand on the side of his face and pulling him closer to her before he could answer, but he was gonna say yes anyways.

Fezco smiled upon seeing Mariah smile before snapping a picture, trying not to blush when she turned her head and gave his cheek a kiss for the next picture.

He shifted in his seat, making Mariah scoot away a little, thinking to herself that she was maybe too close, but nah his dick was just hard now.

He made Mariah walk in front of him once they got off the ride, listening to her laugh at him while he tried his best to discreetly adjust his jeans to hide himself, shaking his head at her teasing.

"Stop laughin or ima give you sum to really laugh about," Fezco told her, smirking when she raised her eyebrows.

"I wanna laugh," Mariah smirked back as he placed his hand on her lower back, lightly pushing her along.

"Yeah? You wanna laugh?" Fezco quizzed, eyes squinted down at her as his hand slowly moved it's way down to rest on her butt.

Mariah just nodded, the smirk on her face growing as Fezco's pretty ass eyes stared into her soul.

He brought his hand back up to her waist and jabbed his fingers into her skin, tickling her and eliciting a couple laughs from her as she tried to get away from him.

"Nah, you wanted to laugh, right?" Fezco smirked, knowing what she had meant as he pulled her back into his arms.

"Not what I meant," She explained in between laughs.

"Whatchu mean then?" Fezco played dumb.

"You really wanna find out?" Mariah asked him, placing her hand on her waist where he tickled.

"Mhm," Fezco hummed in response, leaning down a little to connect their lips in a kiss.

He placed his both hands on her waist to pull her closer to him while they kissed in the secluded area behind the ferris wheel exit, Mariah giggling at the sighs leaving Fezco's lips.

"I'd show you here, but you'd blow our cover," She teased him as she took a look at their surroundings.

"I'd blow our cover? I swear you almost woke up my grandma last time," Fezco gave Mariah a confused look.

Mariah's eyebrows shot up as she pulled away to look at him, eyes wide before they both laughed.

"C'mon, let's go find Ash so we can dip," Fezco told Mariah, giving her one more kiss before he grabbed her hand and led her out from behind the ferris wheel exit.

As she walked alongside Fezco, who called Ashtray to ask where he was at, she caught eye of Nate Jacobs when they passed the chili booths.

He stared at her with zero emotion as they passed, and Fezco would have noticed if it weren't for Ashtray in his ear, yelling all this inaudible shit.

Mariah glanced behind Nate to see Danny, furrowing her eyebrows as she watched some old guy with an apron on giving Danny some paper towels for the blood that was now gushing from his nose, which from a distance, seemed all fucked up.

"Bro I can't understand shit you're saying, shut the fuck up for a second and tell where you're at," Fezco spoke into his phone.

"I'm at the truck already, hurry the fuck up. And tell Mariah I ran into her friend."

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