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Cate head snaps up to look at something behind me. "Hey." She says to the person.

I swiftly turn my head to find fucking Iliana. The rims of her eyes are red and glossy and she's lazily holding a bottle of coconut rum in her hand.

She brings it up to her lips. "Hey."

"You okay?" Cate asks her concerned, of course. She somehow always manages to strike sympathy, no matter what she does. Her brother just killed himself, Jordan the voice in the back of my head reminds me.

But that doesn't stop the words from flying off my tongue.

I let out a scoff. "I don't know how anyone can breathe around here with their heads shoved so far up your ass." I smirk, but she doesn't seem impressed.

I just can't help but be so angry she gets all these sponsors falling at her feet left and right when I've actually been here the whole time, working my ass of. While she got to go play Hollywood for a year.

And forgot I existed...

She lets out a laugh and pretends to wipe her eyes. "If only you used that charm on the sponsors, maybe they'd actually give you the time of day." She fires back at me. My smirk disappears as my jaw tightens. She walks over stopping right in front of, and lowers her voice. "So how about you fuck right off, mkay?" She then takes another sip of the bottle before loudly pulling out a chair and sitting down. My nostrils flare as she narrows her eyes at me while Cate eyes bounce back and fourth between us, wondering what the fuck is going on.

Heels click behind me once again and I look up to find Marie. Oh, this should be fun.

"Oh look, Iliana! It's your bff." I call out.

"Bite me." Iliana spits out and I see a hint of gold in her eyes.

Marie sighs. "I'm not in the mood, okay? You can attack me in the morning." She sighs defeatedly.

"Maybe you two can lodge your tongues up each other's asses since everyone else has this evening." I pop off, their reactions only fueling my anger that both of them have been handed everything at this school.

Marie keeps moving. "Leave me alone." She calls over her shoulder. And why would I want to?

"Brownnoser. Mommy and Daddy's perfect little hero." I say, thinking about Iliana's perfect parents. The parents that always support her, no matter what. Does she know what I would give for that? "God, you two are so alike." I look over at Iliana, everything that had been building up inside of me for the past year spilling out all at once.

Marie spins around. "Yeah, well, that's definitely not me, because my parents are dead." She snaps. Yeah right-

"Tell them." Iliana mumbles to herself. I scoff to myself.

"Because I killed them." Maria reveals. I keep a straight face as Iliana coughs. "So, I guess Iliana and I do have something in common after all." She refers to Luke's death. "You happy?"

"Yeah, Jordan, you happy?" Iliana juts my way and my eyes snap over to hers. With this conversation or in general? I stare at her. Longer than I should.

"Bullshit." I call, begging myself to tear my eyes away from Iliana's. A dangerous place to look at for too long.

The longer I look, the more my chest starts to hurt.

"I didn't know I had powers until my first period." Marie says. "I couldn't control the blood, and it sliced through my mom's body." She chokes up. "Dad came in. Same deal."

"Fuck." Cate lets out.

"Yeah. I'm the last person who thinks they're a hero. I fucking hate myself half the time." Marie cries out. "I don't know how you do it." She points at Iliana. I see her sink down in her chair out of the corner of my eye. What? No longer like the attention? I want to say. God, Jordan you're such a prick. "And I just spent the entire night being dragged around like a show pony, so I'm not in the mood for your shit." She snaps, turning to leave.

"I'll cheers to that." Iliana says.

"Hey." Cate stops her, a frown tugging her face. She pulls up a chair next to her and pats the seat for Marie. I sigh staring at the table and grab my glass bringing it to my lips. I've had enough of this night.

Iliana leans forward. "What, nothing to say now?" I cross my arms.  "Join us." She motions for Marie to sit. "We're all fucked up around here." I ignore her sudden hospitality, knowing it's not genuine. It's just to piss me off.

Cate goes on to tell Marie her story of how she discovered her powers. This is all getting too suffocating for me.

"I killed my grandpa with my powers." I lie for fun.

Iliana blinks taken aback, knowing that's not true and Cate turns to look at me.

"No you didn't." Cate says.

"Yeah, I know. I was just feeling left out." I crack. I notice Iliana shaking her head, the corner of her lips tugging upward like she's trying not to laugh. I look down, smiling at myself, proud I can still amuse her.

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Suddenly Andre rushes up to the table and I quickly sit up straight. Oh shit- I totally forgot about our little... mission, for a sec.

"Hey! Guys, uh..." Everyone looks up at him. "Iliana and I fucked up." He whispers. Jordan glances back at me for a sec over their shoulder. Ugh, look away!

I look up at Magnet. "Wha-hey!" I throw my hands up. Of all the times to be included?! What the fuck happened?

"What did you two do?" Cate asks sharply.

"It's about her roommate." Andre takes a seat on the step, pointing at Marie with crazed-wide eyes. Well, I guess it's really bad if he's TELLING EVERYONE.

"Emma?" Marie asks shocked.

"Who the fuck is Emma?" Jordan rushes out, looking between Andre and I.

Ooo... I look up at the ceiling before taking a long sip.

"I-is she okay?" Marie asks hesitantly and confused.

Andre glances at me before answering. Don't look at me! "I think she's stuck."

"Oh, fuck." I mumble quietly.

"Stuck?" Marie doesn't understand. Cate turns to me with look that, if could kill, I'd be dead as fuck right now, before staring harshly at Andre. 

I feel like she's a mom about to blow up and then ground us.

"Wh... where?" Marie chuckles nervously. I shift in my seat.

Cate subtly shakes her head.

"You know where." Andre nods at her.

"Andre." She says before gazing over at me with a pointed look. "Iliana. You promised."

I actually didn't promise shit.

"Well..." I trail off, chuckling nervously, popping my lip through my teeth.

This is bad.

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𝟶ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʙɪsᴄᴜɪᴛ𝟽 sᴘᴇᴀᴋs!

And with that, episode 3 is done! Whew, I never felt like I was gonna finish for some reason tbh lmao, but I loved every second of it.

There were so many Ilordan and Goldie and Magnet moments this episode🥹 And now the action is justt getting started!!

Anyways, can't WAIT for S4 of The Boys tomorrowww, omg!! So I wanted to update for The Boys S4 Eve!! So excited to see how Gen V is incorporated in!!

ALSO!! (Yes, shameless self-promo). I'm publishing a book for The Boys tomorrow!! It's not connected to this one, I just wanted to share since it's the same universe and all! Lemme know if you wanna be tagged in it/added to the DTS (dedicated to someone) list for it! If not, still hope to see you there!! ;)

Thank y'all SO SO much for 2k+ reads on Golden Facade so far!! And hope y'all enjoyed getting Jordan's povvv!! See you in episode 4!! <3