Tridon pulled up to Erica's place and waited outside. He leaned back and looked at his phone. There were several missed calls from all of his clubmates. He sighed and tossed his phone into the console.

"I told those girls that I would be busy today." He closed his eyes and took a power nap.

The girls rose from the trunk of Tridon's SUV and frowned. Sayori tried to leap forward, but was held back by the other 3.

"No. Sayori." Monika whispered loudly, "Don't armbar him yet."

"I don't even know why we're doing this." Natsuki commented, "He's just having a day out with another person."

"Another person he used to go out with." Yuri added, "We can't risk anything."

"She's married though." Natsuki retorted, "They won't try anything because she's married. Can't we trust him for once?"

"Natsuki," Monika started, "we can barely trust him when he's alone with one of us. We can't risk it."

"So what are we gonna do?" Sayori asked, "If they try something, it'll just spur trouble."

"We just watch for now." Monika explained, "He's really good at knowing when we're spying on him, so we have to be a little more cautious with our actions. That means no armbars Sayori."

"Hmph." Sayori crossed her arms and puffed her cheeks out, "He'll get one eventually..."

They noticed Erica walking out of the house and ducked down, shaking the car. Tridon woke up and looked towards Erica. He sat up and fixed his seat. He unlocked the door and Erica slowly sat inside.

"Hey there Tridon." She greeted.

"What's up." He responded, "So what do you wanna do?"

"I was hoping you had the plans."

"Uh well..." Tridon scratched the back of his head and chuckled, "Kinda been helping the girls with studying, so I haven't been able to really plan anything."

"Have you been using your power?"

"Only once to help Natsuki. Other than that, not really."

"Okay. Just remember not to use it a lot."

"Uh. Yeah." Erica eyed Tridon and puffed her cheeks out, "What?"

"You did use it too much."

"You can tell?"

"How can a girl not tell when her ex-boyfriend has done something they weren't suppose to do?" Erica laughed and pinched his cheeks, "Do I have to mother you about your powers?"

"I'm fine. The next thing I need is for 6 girls being over-protective of me."

"So those 6 girls are me, your sister, and the 4 girls in the Literature Club, right?"

"Yup. Ever since that one incident, they're kinda hesitant about letting me use my powers to go on adventures."

"What happened?"

"Nothing happened. Just a fun adventure."

"Tr-i-don." She alliterated. She frowned at Tridon who slowly backed up in his seat, "What happened?"

"Just thought I'd take a fall for the team. Literally." She raised an eyebrow at Tridon and pinched his arm, "A-Ah!" The girls slowly rose from the trunk and pouted, "I wasn't severely hurt!"

"Yeah right!" Erica proceeded to poke Tridon in his side and laughing, "Don't lie to me!"

"Stop and I won't!" They eventually stopped horse-playing and Tridon firmly grabbed the wheel, "So uh, just wanna head to the park for a minute? Take a walk."

"The park or the park-park?" Erica asked.

"Hm." Tridon thought to himself, "Park-Park." Tridon confirmed.

"Sweet! I haven't been there since you know..."

"Yeah..." Tridon shifted the car into drive and sighed, "Let's get going." He jerked the car forward, causing the girls to roll around in the back, "Oops. My bad." He sarcastically said, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah?" Erica chuckled.

Meanwhile in the trunk, the girls were all over each other with swirls as eyes, "I think he knows we're here..." Monika mumbled.

"Yeah..." They all agreed.


A few moments later, Tridon and Erica arrived at a rather large playgrounds. The two got out while the girls peaked their heads out of the trunk.

"Oh," Sayori started, "I remember this park." Sayori leaned back and smiled, "We have fun here despite being highshoolers at a kid's playground."

"We gotta go though." Monika interrupted, "They're on the move."

At the jungle gym, Tridon and Erica looked at it, "Do you think I can fit through?" Tridon asked.

"Maybe. You're toned, but you're slim."

"It's not that. I'm talking about it height wise." Tridon stretched his legs and hopped up and down, "But there's only one way to find out." Tridon walked over to the jungle gym and started to squeeze through.

"Be careful."

"I'll be fine." Tridon attempted to squeeze through while the girls poked their out from a nearby slide.

"How much have you all gone to this playground?" Natsuki asked, "I used to come here a lot as a kid, but I stopped coming here after middle-school."

"We never really stopped." Sayori answered, "I think since we were 4 or 5. Erica of course started coming they started dating, but Tridon and I have been coming for as long as we've known each other."

"I never knew about this playground." Monika commented, "I only went to the park that we've all been to downtown."

"That place is popular for people like us." Sayori added, "But this is something that holds so much meaning to Tridon and myself."

Back to Tridon and Erica, she stared at Tridon smiling, "So Tridon," Erica started, "what'cha doing there?"

Tridon looked at Erica while hanging upside down and laughed, "Oh you know. Just hanging around."

"Boo..." Erica flirtatiously responded, "Can I join?"

"If you can fit."

"Alright." Erica squeezed in rather easily and met face to face with Tridon, "Hi."

"Hi." Tridon swung around lightly and smiled at Erica, "This is definitely not a place for two young adults."

"Yeah." Tridon lost his grip on the bar and fell to the ground, "Blegh..."

"Oh gosh." Erica helped Tridon up and started to dust him off, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. With all the submissions and suplexes Sayori puts me through, I'm kinda used to this." Tridon sat up and looked around, "It's like we're in jail. Reminds me of a game Sayori and I used to play as kids."

"We played it too." Erica commented, "It was called Princess. Me or Sayori would be trapped in the jungle gym and you would try and safe us while whoever wasn't tried to hold you back by throwing things at you."

"That was fun." Tridon laughed, "We can't really do it now since the others aren't here."

"Yeah and technically, you're trapped with me."

"Yeah..." Tridon and Erica eyed each other for a second. A very long second.

The girls watched from a far and Sayori wanted to jump out again, but was pulled down by the other 3.

"Let's not try anything." Tridon commented, "You're married and I guess I have those 4 girls. The last thing I need is a 5th one in that bunch."

"Yeah I guess." The both of them slipped out of the jungle gym just as Erica's husband confronted them, "Sweetie!" She shouted.

"What's going on here?" He rhetorically asked, "Because it looks to me that my wife is cheating on me with this boy."

"Now hold on a second," Tridon retorted. The girls poked their heads out as Tridon confronted the man, "we were just hanging out like we used to. Is that so wrong?"

"Need I remind you that she is my wife. Not some toy for you to play with."

"Why would you say that? She's my friend. Why would I see her as some toy. It's obvious someone here does see her that way."

"Quiet you." Erica's husband grabbed her wrist and started to drag her away, "We're going home."

"B-But...!"

Before they could leave, Tridon grabbed Erica's other wrist out of instinct. So out of instinct that he was shocked himself.

"What do you think you're doing?" Her husband growled, "Let my wife go now."

Tridon slowly shook his head and glared at the man, "I'm not letting her go with you. We might not be a couple now, but I still care about her. How you treat her now is like you have a dog collar around her neck and you're just yanking her chain whenever she's out of line for you."

"You really think you have it all figured out?" The man pulled Erica out of Tridon's grip and put her behind him. He confronted Tridon and said, "You might not know this, but I'm the most powerful man in this county. I control everything here. That includes her. You're nothing but a nobody at her old school trying to look cool in front of someone they lost. If it were up to me, I could end your school career in a blink of an eye. But I won't."

Tridon watched as the man backed up and grabbed Erica's hand, "Her and I are betrothed and it looks like you're still hanging on to whatever past you have left of her. But I'm sorry to tell you that she's mine now. Right Erica."'

"I'm sorry Tridon, but he's right. We can still hangout I hope, right?"

Tridon looked between them and shook his head, "Um, I'm just gonna go. I have some birds to take care of." He turned around and walked towards the slide the girls were hiding behind. Once he passed them he said, "Let's go girls."

"U-Uh..." Monika, Natsuki, and Yuri stood speechless, but Sayori ran over to Tridon and quickly followed him back to his car.

Erica's husband stared at Tridon while the other 3 joined them. He smirked and looked at Erica to say, "Let's get going." Her husband walked off while Erica remained for short time watching Tridon until he yelled, "Let's go!"


Tridon drove his friends back to his house and the drive home was rather deafening. Nobody said a word. The radio was off and the overall ambiance was dreadful. Tridon stopped in front of his house and turned off the car.

Sayori looked around and said, "How about a sleepover? We haven't had one in a while."

"Yeah." Monika agreed, "That would be nice."

"I'm down." Natsuki added.

"What about you Tridon?" Yuri asked, "Are you willing to participate?"

"You girls can have one at Sayori's house." He answered while getting out of the car, "I think I need some time alone for the rest of today."

"But..."

"I'm sorry girls." Tridon said from outside, "Just let me rest my mind." He started walking back inside his house and said, "Lock my doors before you leave." Tridon slowly walked back inside.

"Should we do something?" Yuri asked.

"No." Sayori solemnly answered, "Let him ease his mind out. I could tell he was furious." Sayori sighed and stepped out the car, "He was ready to kill that guy, but he stopped himself. That's why he wanted us to leave quickly."

"That guy..." Monika murmured, "That guy is controlling Erica. It's obvious she doesn't want to be with him, but she's forced to."

"We can't do anything about it though." Natsuki commented, "As much as I would love for us to just suplex and armbar him, we just can't."

"I feel bad for our friend." Yuri added, "Just when he thought he could have fun with Erica again; that man has to ruin their fun by controlling who she hangs out with. It's sickening."

"Definitely." Monika and Natsuki agree.

"But we can't do anything about him." Sayori retorted, "All we can do is support our friend." She looked at his house and sighed, "Let's leave him alone and start this sleepover."

"Yeah." They agree in unison.


-Epilogue-

Later that night, Tridon paced around in his room. He grabs the revolver from his dresser and aimed it at the wall for a second before looking at it. He spun the cylinder multiple times and opened it. One bullet remained in the chamber and he pointed it again at the wall. He pulled the trigger and...


A/N: I'm so sorry everyone for not updating in a while. Online college courses are taking me over. Please bear with me as I get these chapters out. Things get interesting now as we get a taste of Erica's unnamed husband. We can tell that he's some rich prick who can do what he wants and could possibly end Tridon's life if he wanted to. Let's see how Tridon reacts to this guy. Apart from that, I do hope everyone is doing well during these times of quarantine. I will keep this rather short and end if off by wishing everyone best wishes and remain healthy. C'ya in the next chapter!