"Never underestimate the i-dont-give-a-shit-itude of part time security guards."

We actually got into the set. It was really easy. We looked around the set. People pushing the equipment around.

"Hi. Im working background, as an extra." We gasps as the women came out of nowhere. "Where am I supposed to go?" We didnt say a thing. We just looked at her. She just rolled her eyes and walked away.

"Okay, now whats the plan leader?" I turned to Jamal.

"The plan is to fond Father Goose, and he's waddling around here somewhere and we can't be wandering around, so stay put."

"And do what?" Jamal smacks his lips.

"What that girl did. Be clueless." And he just walks away. Oh how wonderful! We just stood there, being in the way. I just pulled out my phone and scrolled through my apps.

"Shouldnt we be helping him?" Cesar says.

"We are. The best way to help Jamal is to let Jamal be Jamal." Ruby tells him. "If we go rogue, he'll lose his shit."

"Can I say we're giving him way too much power and this is a terrible plan?" Monse stomps.

"Yo, whatever. Jamals leader now, so..." Jasmine plays on her phone. Cesar went to answer a phone call. Monse took my phone away and started to talk to me, Ruby was looking for service and Jasmine joined with us. Cesar came back. We looked at mister grumpy.

"You okay?" Monse asks.

"Uh yeah." Liar. He smiles. Yeah right. "Is he...Ruby cool?" He changed the subject.

"If I stand here I only get one bar, but we need at least two to text a pic to Cuchillos once we get it."

"You can get on Vals shoulder. The change in altitude might help." Monse points out, we both looked at each other.

"No!" We yelled at her. All our phones got a notification from Jamal.

Jamal: One the move. More order to come. Heads on a swivel, people!

"You guys waiting for Jamal?" Said a man with a box of phones. We all nodded. "Alright, phones." We all put our phones in. I wanted to but, I didnt. "And that one." He pointed at the burner phone.

"Jamal said I could hold on to it."

"Its not his call. Its Father Gooses'."

"Looks like Jamal talked to Father Goose."

"In Jamal we trust." Ruby drops it in. The man looked at me as I was struggling to let go of my phone. The man grabbed my phone. We tugged on it before he snatched it. No! My phone! "Oh Jamal said two are union and three are not. Whos who?"

"We're union." Ruby pulls Cesar.

"You two will come with me. You ladies go right there."

"Union? What is that?" We whispered as we went to where we were directed. Monse, Jasmine and I sat outside in the hot sun.

"I wonder if Jamal got that pic yet."

"What pic?" I hummed. The girls looked at me.

"Okay, Whats going on with you?" I sighed. I turned to them.

"Its Ruby. He told me he loved me and I didnt say it back."

"What did you say?" Jasmine asks.

"That he didnt." I didnt look at them. I was ashamed.  "I was so scared to let him into my crazy Santos life."

"Oh my god." Monse laughs.

"What?"

"You're pulling a Monse." I widen my eyes.

"Im really offended." I held my chest.

"You dont want to hurt him because you love him too! Why cant you just say it?" Jasmine adds. I shook my head.

"Whenever i say to someone that i love them, they get hurt. I dont want him to get hurt. But telling him what i said that night," i sighed. "Hurt him even more."

"Just say it!"

"You cant just say it." Monse tells Jasmine. "You have to mean to it. And Val thinks that black magic shit is real."

"For real tho, when Ruby told me he loved me, I felt like it was a dream. Someone actually meant it, not because they have to say it." I kind smiled as I looked down. "Ruby, is the the love of my life, and I want to spend my entire life with him. He has my heart." I snapped out of my cloud 9 moment. "I just ruined it! I just messed it up!" I yelled, putting my face into my hands.

"You didn't." Monse smacks me with the paper. "You guys like each other too much. Nothing will break you two."

"What if he hates me! What if he doesn't want to talk to me again!" I started to freak out.

"Have you ever considered talking to him, telling him how you actually feel?"

"So he knows that im a chicken?"

"You're not chicken. You guy had sex right?" I didnt even look at them. Their eyes widen.

"What?' No! No! Wait!" They yelled.

"I thought you lost to Carlos!"

"What no! I want to lose it to a guy who actually respects me and wont use me for popularity." I crossed my arms. "I dont even touch myself." Okay this is getting weird.

"Wow! I actually thought you lost it!"

"You be making out with so many guys!"

"Okay, one guy isnt many guys, ight?" I pointed at them.

"You are too innocent." Jasmine holds my hand. "Too innocent for this world."

"Sometimes i do dream about me and him you know-" i coughed.

"You and Ruby are the perfect match." Monse laughs. The crew members pulled us into the changing rooms. I put on the cupcake costume. "Val come on!"

"I look like a unicorn threw up on me!"

"Its not that bad!" I stepped out of the room. The girls laughed. "I was wrong!"

"Man fu-" i pouted as the crew took us back to where we were sitting before.

"Tell Ruby how you feel!" They brought it up again. "Can we get some water?" The crew ignored us.

"I want Ruby. Im just scared to fall in love." We started to talk about relationships.

"But someone always has a but more. In our relationship...its me. I always get what i want. I make him think it was his idea. Like a Jedi mind trick." See, im not like that! I dont want manipulate him!

"That Cesars your bitch."

"Its okay to share the power, even if its low key lopsided."

"Jamal wants you all on set." Said the man from behind. Great! Now I have to show up with his ridiculous outfit! Jamal will pay for this. We all went inside, and I saw Ruby.

"Listen up, we're doing b-roll, so that means when the director calls playback and action, groove to the music." What did i get myself into? "If you cant groove, pretend you can cause thats what you're being paid for." Not us that for sure. "Okay extras, pair up, foods with dudes." I just followed Jasmine but the women stopped me and Ruby. She grabbed us into the center. "Do you know the lunch money dance?" She asks us. I was ashamed but yea. So i nodded. "Okay, you're going to be our hero couple." Our eyes widen. "And Jamal needs you to kiss." Ruby and I looked at each other again. Awkward.

"Do you want to kiss?" I coughed.

"Only if you want to." Ruby responds.

"Do you want me to want to?"

"Do you want me to want you to want to? It is for the greater good." My heart started to beat faster.

"In Jamal we trust."

"Lets try the kiss." A man comes up to us. Wait! Theres a practice? "Action on rehearsal!" I jumped as he yelled. I turned to Ruby and we just stared. We gave each other a quick peak on the lips. "More tongue!" He walks away.

"We get it! Jamal had sex! Good for him." Ruby yells out. A man stops and looks at Ruby.

"Who had sex?"

"Jamal."

"Im Jamal." Oh no. Theres two! "Look, kiss, dont kiss, but leave my private life out of it." Jamal tells us.

"Theres two." I said. The bell rings. Its about to happen. Oh god. Im scared.

"Action!" The music started playing and we started to come out and dance. Im so embarrassed right now. Me and Ruby just danced and then boom! We started to kiss, more like make out. "Hold! Hold! Hold! Nobody move!" But me and Ruby didnt stop kissing. "Too much kissing!" He points at us. We quickly pulled apart. I licked my lips and turned red. He really didnt need to call out us out like that.

"Vivian! Line check! How do you say that lyric? Is it al messo de niro!" Father Goose said.

"Uh no, its dinero de almuerzo." What, he doesnt know spanish. Its not him. Its not Lil Ricky. Jamal grabs us and we booked it.

"What the hell just happened?" Ruby asks as we hid.

"He doesnt speak spanish, is what just happened. There no way he's lil Ricky. We went on a wild Father Goose chase for nothing. And its all my fault."

"Thats not true." I told him.

"Its on all of us."

"If I hadnt found that money, we wouldn't be here in the first place. All this time, i thought it was you guys who overlooked me. But i do it to myself. People wont want to see people who want to be seen. I gave up my first girlfriend for this shit. Kendra liked me and I made the wrong choice. I should be knee deep in cooch right now." It was all sweet and good but you lost me at cooch Jamal. "And now Cuchillos is going to be knife deep in me."

"Hey." Ruby goes up to Jamal. "We're gonna find lil ricky and diablo." He looks back at me. "No ones better at hide and seek than you are."

"This isnt a game. There were no stakes to not finding the rollerworld money. No one actually cared. Sorry Cesar."

"Its cool." He shrugs.

"No its not. We're out leads. We've been down every road we could possibly go down, and we failed. Im not a leader. Im a loser."

"Hey, a good leader never loses sight of the mission." Jasmine goes up to Jamal. "But a great leader is able to recognize when hes failed." Jamal then wipes his tears on her costume.

"We might have hit a dead end but we can still figure it out together." I said as I took off the ridiculous costume. I just the tights over my clothes, because this thing is embarrassing.

"Ill get us a Lyft." Ruby shares. "Oh shit! Our phones are still inside." Uh great!

"Ill go get the phones. And your clothes. Its the least i could do. Plus i really have to pee after all those drinks." We chuckled. Jamal walks away. Jamal told us we needed to go to Rosés place, and told us everything. "Rosé!" Jamal yells at her door. "We need to talk."

"Go!" She yells back. "You dont want me calling the cops on you in this hood." She really pulling that card. "I have no problem being a front porch patty."

"Did Frankie know that you were cheating on him with Ricky?" Jamal smirks. She backs up. "Who else know? Did your friend Stacey, aka Cuchillos know?" Jasmine shows her the yearbook photo of them two. She opens the door.

"Get in here!" We all looked at Rosé up and down as we entered her home.

"Just help us find lil Ricky and Diablo and ill stop badgering you, please." Jamal begs.

"Baby, you cant find nobody that dont want to be found, hear?" We sat in her kitchen as she poured herself a glass of wine. "You think a women that owns everyone, even the police, cant find them, and yall can? Its amazing you solved Rollerworld. But this is different. Im sorry baby but you dug up more than just that money."

"But Cuchillos loves him. And diablo is her best friend. She just want to reconnect." Jasmine tells her.

"Reconnect? She want to kill them." I backed up. What? "Why in the hell you think they skipped town in the first place? Listen." She sighs. "Ricky and I had something special. We loved each other. We wanted to make it right with Stacey and Frankie, but it just didnt work out that way. And Chico." She looks at me. "He knew about it, and he lied about it to Stacey, Stacey and Chico go way back, but he had Rickys back since they grew up together, so he had our backs. We Found ourselves in a tricky spot."

"Speaking of...tricky ricky? Your song? I couldn't find it online."

"Its not online, or offline. It was never released." We all hummed.

"That bad huh?"

"Please. Everyone said that song would have made my career, but if it got out and Stacey heard it, she would killed us both."

"Over a song?" I said. The most stupidest thing i have heard.

"Over anything. Stacey? Bless her psychotic heart, the light are on but ain't nobody been home in a long time. Mm, yall want to hear it?" We didn't say a word but she ran to play it anyways. "But just remember this, you cant trust Stacey. She'll do anything she wants just because she can."

"Because she can?" Jamal said. "We're loose ends. "We're disposable."

"What are you saying?"

"We're not going to find them, and even if we do, shes just going to kill them." I covered my mouth. "And then she's going to kill us. Either way...we're already dead."

"She's gonna kill us." I cried. Ruby quickly grabbed my hand.

"Unless...we kill her first." We all looked around. Oh no.