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Finally!

So you know how I said in my last chapter that they were going to go to New York? How I thought that that was a great idea.

Yeah.

I was wrong.

So after having a small break, I was finally able to finish chapter 9!

YAY!

I will try to update more , but ive been really busy with my school work lately. And im also about to be in the midst of two of my hardest classes, so writing is gonna get tougher then it already is. is that even possible? I am not sure.

BUUTTT

Something hit me and I got ideassss sooo we will have atleast two chapters out of that that will be posted frequently. So hopefully within that time something else will hit me.

So anyhoo, I hope you enjoy!

Yall's rock my socks!

~XOXOXBecca


I fell asleep sometime during our long trip.

I was then woken up.

"Dylan," Someone said, softly. "Dylan." I ignored Rian and rolled my head over to the other side.

"DYLAN WAKE THE FUCK UP!" Alex screamed in my ear.

I jumped. "Alex you dick!"

Alex was out of his seat, between the door and the middle bench seat, doubling over in laughter.

"Ugh!" I groaned and fixed myself back in my seat. "You're such an asshole." Alex continued to laugh in the back.

"Guys, quit your bitch'in," Zack said.

"Why?" Me and Alex laughed. Wasnt like Zack ever cared about our feuds, just as long as they didnt last for six hours.

"Because we're here."


I let out an exaggerated sigh as I switched legs.

Will you hurry it up! I thought to myself at the woman in front of me. As soon as Zack said we arrived in the city, we all looked up at the road in front of us. Rian, Jack, and Alex all got up and squeezed behind us trying to look at the rising towers of buildings in front of us. It only took four minutes of taking in the glorious scene to realize that the guys forgot to disguise themselves. Of course, New York is big, and it contains alot of Hustlers. So being the guys couldnt leave the car which was parked in an alley, and no one knew who i was, I had to walk four blocks to the costume shop to get the four of them disguises.

"Hmmm," The women in front of me said as I rolled my eyes. "Do you have it blue?"

"Let me go see," the cashier said in a feminine voice as he turned and disappeared through the door behind the counter. I groaned.

He appeared with a blue hat with pink feathers. "The only one in stock. How is this?"

"Hmm. . . " The women pondered. "Can the feathers be yellow?"

"Oh my God," I finally said. "Just take it and get your fat ass out of the store before I shove the hat up your ass!"

The womans jaw drop to the ground as the cashier gasped and started to snicker. "How rude!" The women said.

"Yeah well, Believe it or not people are waiting to check out and have lives we would like to continue," I said to her. "So take the hat already and leave the fucking store!"

The women huffed and turned to the cashier, holding two bills in her hand. "Fine, ill take that one."

The cashier, as I found out by his name tag was Renaldo, took the money and stuck the annoying womans hat into a round hat box that was white with red strips. Yellow and pink tissue paper filled the box. The man handed her the box as she turned and finally left.

"Its about time," I huffed out and stepped forward, dropping my contents on the counter by register.

" 45.50," The man said. Holy shit.

I searched around my bag for my wallet and handed him two twenties and a ten.

As the cashier counted up my change, he snickered.

"What?" I asked, my guard going up.

"Rude," He whispered handing the money over. "But im thankful."

I took the change and smiled, knowing what he meant.

"Thank you," I said as I took the bags with the disguises and left.

The sun warmed my skin as I exited the shop. I squinted my eyes against it as I slid my sunglasses over my eyes, relieving me from its bastard rays.

I walked down the sidewalks, the black asphalt covered with cars and taxis flowed next to me. People rushed past and pushed me out of the way. It was really starting to piss me off. I became even more agitated when I tripped on a piece of broken concrete sticking up from the sidewalk and fell down.

I gritted my teeth as profanity flowed off my tongue. I picked my self up, aware of the pain that shot through my leg. I looked down to see a nasty scrap on my knee and down my shin. I started walking, I only had two blocks until the alley way. I limped most of the way, the uncomfortable pain being almost intolerable.

The mouth of the alley finally came into view. I turned and blended into the darkness of the alley was the black SUV were I saw the silhouettes of four boys.

"Here are your fucking disguises," I said through my teeth as I got into the car and threw the bags behind me.

"Jeez, whats up your ass?" Alex snorted. I rolled my eyes.

"Bitch," Alex muttered. And something about my time of the month.

"Well maybe if you werent such a dumb ass and forgot your disguises, I wouldnt have had to walk four blocks to and back from a costume shop where a lady as fat as the fat lady that guards Gryffindor tower couldnt make up her fucking mind so I stood in line for an hour. Had to pay almost fifty bucks for disguises and tripped and fell on the sidewalk and scraped my knee that it hurts like a bitch to walk," I snapped.

"Okay sorry," Alex said like he didnt mean it. He put his arms up in a surrender gesture and blew out his mouth, sitting up straight and sitting down in the seat next to Rian.

"You know you dont have to be a bitch," Alex said.

I twisted around to face my brother, "Well maybe you should shut your fucking mouth sometimes." Before we could continue any further Zack stopped us.

"Guys, seriously look at her leg," Zack said. He must have caught sight of it when I turned to yell at Alex. I was thankful for him stopping the argument because the position I was in really irritated it. The two dumb dumbs behind me tried to get a better look, Jack basically on their shoulders trying to get a look.

I flexed my leg for the morons in the back to see. Finally being able to see what my bitching was about, Alex grimaced and made a weird face. Rian leaned back, as he also pushed Jack's head, which made the skinny moron fall back into his seat.

After the guys changed, Zack pulled out of the dark alley and into the light. I was now sitting in the back with my leg stretched out across the seat, propped up on Alex's lap.

"We should clean Dyl's cut before we do anything," Zack said from the front. Alex nodded.

Zack pulled into a Walgreens parking lot about half an hour later.

"I'll go in," Rian offered as he opened the door and got out.

"Im going too!" Jack sang as he made his way out, I saw Rian roll his eyes. I snickered. Alex just had a smile on his face. I watched as the two boys made their way through the parking lot. Jack was skipping and jumping up and down. And I mean big jumps. That is why he almost got hit by a car. The car skidded to a stop inches from the boy and blared its horn at him. I heard Jack scream and curl into Rian, who patted his back and pushed him away.

"Dumb ass," Zack muttered in the front seat, shaking his head. Me and Alex just laughed. As few minutes later, the boys reappeared each with a bag in their hand. The click of the doors being unlocked by Zack rung out as they neared the car. Jack threw open his door and got in as Rian went around to the other side.

"Got everything I texted you?" Zack said, Rian nodded.

"Here, let me get back here," Rian said as he climbed over the back seat. I moved and sat up in the middle seat, Rian sat down next to me. I put my leg up on Rians lap as he handed Alex the bag. Alex handed Rian whatever he needed from the bag as we drove away.

"Okay this is going to burn a bit," Rian warned me as he uncapped the alcohol bottle and turned it upside on a cotton ball. As soon as the wet ball of cotton touched my skin I let out a yelp.

"A bit?" I said through my teeth. "NO STOP TOUCHING IT!" Rian shook his head.

"Girl, it aint gonna feel better unless it gets cleaned. Do you want it to get infected?"

I bit my bottom lip and shook my head. "No. But it hurts like a bitch." Alex let out a laugh from behind me. I pinched his leg.

"Ouch!" He cried. "You little fucker."

I chuckled, but not after Rian continued to clean it.

"Do you want me to come back there and hold your hand?" Jack teased from the front seat.

"Uh, no," I answered.


By the time we parked Rian had my leg cleaned and bandaged up. We went around the city, looking and taking pictures in front of the sights. It was towards the evening when we made our way to Central Park. Rian was flirting with this chick he saw when we first walked into the park and was now trying to pick her up. Alex and Jack took off and ran, chasing a poor squirrel and acting like a bunch of idiots. Okay im pretty sure they werent acting but whatever. That just left me and Zack to walk side by side down the walk way.

"You know, Alex wasnt kidding when he said he wanted to make things better between you," Zack said, breaking the silence. I looked off and watched my older brother and the moron he was. He and Jack were just running around in a circle, flapping their arms and knocking each other to the ground.

I looked at my fingers which were twirling the ring on my finger around. "I know. Its just something like that is hard to believe. Especially after what it all was and now. . . " I sighed. "I dont know."

Zack stuck his hands in his pockets, staring at his feet. "After we talked to that guy, something just happened to Alex, like a light bulb turned on and shined out of him. I never seen anything like it. As soon as he told us, and said how serious he was, I knew we had to somehow do it. And then when they told us to take some time off, we had to come back. Well, Alex basically dragged us out the door by our ears, but ive never seen him so serious on something."

I looked down at my feet as Zack looked up, nodding. I wanted to belive both him and Alex, but it just seemed too unrealistic. Could someone really change like that?

I really hope I was not making a big mistake in accepting it.

"I believe it," I said, drawing in a breath. "Just dont be lieing to me or ill kick your fucking ass Merrick."

Zack laughed and shook his head. "Nah, im too scared of you to lie to you."

I chuckled as we walked. The wind blew my hair into my face, making me inhale a whole bunch of it. I pulled it away, spitting some of it out, and sticking my tongue in and out like a lizard.

"Blah," I groaned as I threw my hair back behind my shoulder, Zack laughed. "Shut up Merrick!" I smacked his arm.

"Ouch!" He said, rubbing is shoulder. "Yeesh." I stuck my tongue out at him.

The autumn colored leaves fell from the trees around us and engulfed us as the wind blew, smacking into our legs, crunching beneath our feet.

"You know youve changed alot since the last time I saw you," Zack said. I snorted which brought him to ask, "What?"

"Well, its kind of funny for you to say that considering you've never spoken to me before," I said, a smile growing on my face. I was soooo gonna give him a hard time about this.

Zack shrugged. "Just because I didnt pay attention doesnt mean I didnt notice. You cant help but notice people when they are around."

I shrugged, considering this. He was right, you couldnt help but notice people no matter how much you try to ignore them.

"And how have I changed?" I asked, smirking at him.

He gave out a little laugh. "Well before you were typical, straight brown hair, jeans and tee shirts. Keeping yourself under the radar. Now your hair is almost completely blue, and you have the most outrages way with things. Your anything but typical. And you make sure that you are defiantly on people's radar. Ouch! Will you cut that out?" I laughed as Zack rubbed his bicep where I just pinched him.

"I do not get all up in peoples 'radar'" I used air quotations to show how stupid he was being. I was not the type that starved for attention like Tiffany. It makes me sick to even have a thought of being compared to her.

"Whatever you say Dylan," He drew in a breath and I smacked him on his arm. "Okay thats it your going to get it," and I started running.