"I don't see how you planned this out?" I ask out loud, hurdled in the corner of the bakery, strangely enough, he let Laura go, but threatening her life is she dared calling the cops.

Lucas or peter, whatever his name is, but I think I'm going to call him Psycho, because of his haunting smile, it sends shivers down my back.

He stops pacing and turns to glare at me, "what? I've planned this out perfectly fine,"

I scrunch my nose at him and shake my head, "I don't think you did, because how is he supposed to come and confront you, since you know, his on house arrest," they really let just anyone be a villain these days, I thought it had requirements.

"He did it before, I'm sure he can do it again,"

Once again I give him a 'are you stupid look', "he had a replacement and someone to take it of, but his alone now so..."

"I'm sure he'll figure it out or he could come here with that thing," he says with an evil smirk, but maybe that was his plan, to make Cayden come here with his alarm and get arrested again... Well, now I hope he really doesn't come here.

I decided to move this along, "so, how do you know Cayden? Did he beat you up once or steal your drugs?" I'm still holding onto Cayden not being a drug dealer.

Psycho huffs, "you know, you're both perfect for each other-"

I cut him off, "Really, you think so? Can you tell-"

"I'm not done talking,"

I put my hands up, "geez, okay, you're the one that wanted to be Cupid, please continue,"

His right eye twitch as he finishes, "as I was saying, you both are perfect for each other, both falling for the innocent beat up little boy act-"

"Cayden fell for that too," I laugh but quickly recovering, "okay sorry, continue, I'm genuinely interested in your tragic villain backstory,"

He doesn't seem impressed but still gives me a fake smile, "well, Cayden just happens to be my dear older brother,"

I couldn't stop myself before I blurted out, "Ew! You're Warren's son," I quickly put my hand over my mouth, oops...

His eye twitches again, "Yes, Warren is my dad and I'm very proud of that,"

"And is he proud of you?" the tragic villain backstory somehow always goes back to the parents.

For the first time since Psycho here has been holding me 'captive', this is the first time I saw some real insecurity, for a split second his whole posture became very unsure, "He will be,"

Not being able to help myself again, I laugh. This poor thing.

"Stop laughing," he clenches his jaw,

I do stop, only to say, "wait, are you doing this to make him proud?"

"Of course, he wants Cayden to rot in hell and him getting caught out would put him right back in there. Also, when he finds out I've trapped you," he beams, a twinkle in his eyes like he just managed to figure out how to stop global warming.

I stare at him, "I'm actually here by choice also, you do know that your 'dad' has already met Cayden and if he wanted to lock Cayden away for a long time, don't you think he would've framed him for something bigger,"

There's that twitch again, I continue, "why are you doing this? Is it just to get his attention, because trust me coming from someone whose done a lot of things to get attention, this, is definitely not the way,"

He huffs, "what would you know,"

I give him a sad smile, "did you get someone to beat you up?" End of the day his still a kid and all he probably wanted was to be acknowledged. Same kid.

He turns around, facing the wall, "yeah, I did," he's lying.

Maybe it's because I'm soft or just stupid, but my heart broke at that, "ps-Lucas. You don't need to do this, he's really not worth it," my eyes flicker to the door when I catch a figure at the window. No... How?

He was about to the open the door when I quickly shake my head, signing for him to go, he looks hesitant and confused but complies, walking out of view. Why is he here?

"What do you even know about him?" Psycho turns around, looking offended.

"Obviously I don't have a PhD in knowing Warren, but what I do know is that he is evil and you shouldn't be around him. Lucas, please take a seat and we can talk this out," who knows what they've been feeding him and clearly his lonely brain was eating it up.

I could see him trying to build walls around himself, closing me off before he sits down, "you're not going to manipulate me into believing lies,"

I shake my head, "I'm not, I'm just going to give you new information and it's up to you, what you choose to do with it. Warren's not a good man, Lucas and he clearly doesn't care, he doesn't care about anyone but himself-" why am I acting like I even met the guy...

"He cares about Cayden," he said with so much hate, so that's the problem.

"He doesn't though, he hurt Cayden just as much as he's hurting you," maybe even more.

Psycho rolls his eyes while shaking his head, "If he didn't care, why did he spend 15 years in prison only taking about Cayden, all he ever talks about is him,"

"Yeah, that's because he hates him. Apparently that nasty scar he has, Cayden gave it to him, so I don't really see Cayden taking the favourite son spot," I sigh, I really wanna help the kid, but I don't even know how or what I'm supposed to say or do.

I try again, "you know, Cayden managed to escape, he was lucky enough to be saved, he found his own people, made his own family and I think he's happy," I sigh, I hope he is, "What I'm trying to say is, so can you, you can start fresh, it's still not too late, you can be saved, especially before you go down a path you might regret later," especially one that involves hurting innocent people.

I could see Psycho's wall slowly cracking, taking advantage of that I continue, "wouldn't you rather be around people that love you and appreciate you? Lucas, you can be a normal kid, go to school, college and be someone, you're still young, please don't ruin your life," I'd like to think that the 'Peter' from the past few weeks was still there, that all those smiles and talks weren't an act.

I could see the emotional turmoil clear on his face, he stands up, picking his bag up and finally speaks, "maybe you're right or not, but I-I need to figure this out myself,"

"Wait," I stop him, he pauses, but doesn't turn around, "use the back door," I point.

He nods and walks to the back but once again stopping to say, "thanks," before he disappears through the back.

Sighing I stand up, walking out the shop, only to find the one and only Mr Masterpiece, leaning against the side wall,

"Hi," I greet, staring at him, confused.

He straightens up and gives me that side smile, "hey,"

Wait... He smiled... And my heart is beating at a normal pace...

Why is my heart not running a marathon right now... No, this can not be happening!

Hi guy, hope you're doing well and enjoyed the chapter.

I believe I need to move this along! 😭

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