I had gotten up early and climbed into the shower. Here, in the Mercer household, you never really got any private time. I was rinsing the soap out of my hair and I heard the bathroom door open. I popped my head out the shower to see a sleepy Jack. "Mind if I join you? We might as well save some water." He said running a hand through his hair. I pulled back to shower curtain and motioned him to climb in.

He got in quickly and I moved back, so he could wash his hair. The bathroom door opened again and I heard toilet seat being pushed down. "Hey Jackie, I'm just taking a shit." I heard Bobby and groaned. Like I said, you never had time to yourself.

"Where is Bailey? I walked by your room and she wasn't there." Bobby said. I heard a newspaper being opened and I knew Bobby was going to be here for a while. I popped my head out of the shower curtain, "Please, don't stink up the place." Bobby rolled his eyes and went back to reading the newspaper.

I pulled my head back into the shower and grabbed the shower gel. Jack stepped back and let me get closer to the water. "You two aren't very quiet. Jack, you sound like a fucking gorilla. I thought you might me killing her till I heard, 'Oh Jack, harder'. Damn, feisty." Bobby muttered. I blushed, rubbing shower gel on my chest. Jack chuckled and grabbed the shower gel from my hands rubbing some on my back.

"Hey Bobby!" I heard Angel yelled. "Yo" Bobby called out kicking open the door further. I smacked my hand on my forehead. I just wanted a nice little shower. "You know me and Sofi did a lot of making up last night." Was all they every talked about was sex? Jesus! I was getting irritated.

"You gave her that ring, huh?"

"Yeah, but I seem to have gotten some rust on my tools." Angel said. "Whoa now, ask the cock expect in the shower." Bobby groaned. Jack pulled back the shower curtain and stuck his head out. You think I would be used to this. I have lived with all them pretty much since I was five, and I still was not used to how sick they could get. "Rug burn" Jack said simply.

"Thought my luck ran out. Hey, Jackie poo, were those bite marks on your neck?" Angel asked chuckling. I groaned and stuck my head out again. "Yes! Now would you like to see his back too? Ugh!"

"Anyways, I found out yesterday that Jerry lost everything. He's broke now, and got in with some pretty big gangsters. This big Councilman named Douglas took all his funds, so you need to go have a little chat with him." Angel said.

"What else do you know, Angel?" Bobby asked. "I know that Jer took out a huge insurance policy on mom before she died. I got other leads to handle." I quickly turned off the water and Jack climbed out first wrapping a towel around his waist. He handed me one and I climbed out.

"Jack, get me some fucking toilet paper!"

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"Yep, this is his car!" I said kicking his tire. Before we left the house, I hacked into the DMV and tracked down his license plate number that was on his car insurance. I had gotten caught once or twice during high school when I would hack into my teachers computer to change a zero to an actually grade. I never got into any trouble because they could never pin it on me. "That's the Bailey I know." Bobby said as he wrapped his hand up in a towel.

He punched the window and stuck his hand in unlocking the car. I grabbed the gas can from him and poured it all over all the seats. I locked the car back and handed the gas can back to Bobby. "So now we wait." Jack mumbled and I shook my head.

"Go ahead, Bailey." I smirked and zipped up my leather jacket. "I'll be back." I jogged over to the elevator and rode up to his office. I checked myself out in the elevator door. I took a deep breath and stepped out of the elevator. I planted a giant smile on my face and walked to the front desk.

"Good afternoon ma'am. How may I help you?" The girl looked like she had just gotten out of high school. How did I know that? She still had braces. Her muddy brown hair was tied back in a tight bun. "Oh yes. I was wondering if Councilman Douglas is busy." The girl looked over her shoulder. "In fact he is. An officer is actually speaking to him. Would you like to wait?" Green? Oh fuck. I smiled and shook my head.

"I'll just come back later."

I got into the elevator and began slamming my palm on the button hard. I had to get back to Bobby and Jack and quick. I rushed out of the elevator and Bobby pushed himself off the wall. "Well?"

"He is talking to Green! Why do you think Green would want to talk to Douglas?" I said breathing heavily. I was pumped, this means we were a couple of steps ahead of Green. "I dunno. Now we just got to wait." Jack said wrapping his arm around my shoulder. The longer we stood there; I was starting to get cold. I was so stupid to just wear a thin leather jacket. "You always were the one to pick looking good over being warm." Jack whispered wrapped his arms around me tight to warm me up.

"Bay, you are going to freeze in that." Jack said as I walked into the living room wearing leggings with a baggy sweater with my new combat boots that Angel got me. "Hey, I need to look good. Jack, we are freshmen going to a senior party." I said plopping down beside him.

"We only got invited because Bobby is back in town and they are hoping that Bobby Mercer will show up with even more alcohol." Jack said rolling his eyes. I jumped up and tug on his arms. "Come on, let's get going!" I was excited about this party. Of course, I didn't let Jack know that Bobby didn't know about this party. I actually got invited and asked if I could bring Jack along, they were scared to let Jack come because of Bobby.

We walked out the front door and began walking the block to the part. I felt the cold wind cut through me like I was paper. I refused to show Jack how really cold I was because I didn't want to hear him say I told you so. We finally reached the party that was in an old warehouse. The music was loud and there were fires lit around different rooms. I walked into the first room and pushed my way to the fire. Jack chuckled and I stood awkwardly by the fire.

We were there for about an hour. "If one more guy comes up to you and hits on you… I'm snapping." Jack hissed gulping down his beer. I brushed his hair out his eyes and he turned bright red. "No need to get jealous, Jackie." I whispered, yes, I was a little tipsy.

"I need to know where Jack Mercer and Bailey Alexander are now!" I heard Bobby's voice from down the hallway. "Should we run?" Jack asked. "Oh yeah."

"There he is." Jack said nudging Bobby. We walked towards Douglas and stopped right in front of him. "Councilman Douglas, I'm Bobby Mercer and I wanted to ask you a few questions. We heard that you took away my brothers funds for some gangster. Who is it?" Councilman looked like he was about to be sick. He was going to crack.

"I don't know what you are talking about." He pushed past Bobby and me. We all turned around and smirked watching him walk over to his car. He got in and then froze. I snatched the gas can from Bobby's hands and began pouring it all over the hood. I dropped the gas can and pulled out my lighter holding it up to Jack's cig. Douglas' eyes widen and I flicked the lighter on and off.

"Now I gotta light your ass on fire! All I wanted was a name, but you're gonna make me turn your ass into the black gingerbread man now! It's alright; I'll have my little brother here suck your burning dick!" Bobby yelled taking Jack's cig from his mouth. I knocked on the window and he quickly rolled down the window.

"Victor Sweet."

I looked at Bobby and Jack. Now, we were getting somewhere.