I cried.

I fucking cried because of a girl. The girl being Alyssa of course. The only time I cried was after my father's death. And after that, I felt nothing. I had no emotion but that changed after I met Alyssa. Everything changed.

I headed to my car as fast as I could. I couldn't risk anyone seeing me here with her. I spotted my car and saw a few people standing by it. I narrowed my eyes, trying to figure out who they were since it was dark.

I got closer to my car, walking slower and slower once I got a closer look of the guys. Jason, Spencer and Leo were leaning against my car, they were all staring at me with a smirk on their faces.

"Well, if it isn't Marcus Sawyer," Jason grinned and walked towards me. "Son of the Vincent Sawyer." Jason held out his hand for me to shake but I glared at him. Jason chuckled and held up his hands in the air in defence,"Okay dude, chill."

"What do you want here, Jason?" I asked, clenching my fists.

Jason smirked,"Nothing much. I was just chilling with my bros then I saw you exit the Karaoke... with Alyssa."

Spencer oohed dramatically and Leo sneered at Spencer making him stop.

I shook my head, the anger inside me building up.

"We saw you two and we thought: Dang, Marcus got soft," Leo said and Jason chuckled.

"Is that all you wanted to tell me?" I asked, deadpanned though my heart was beating furiously. Scared that they might want to hurt Alyssa. "Thanks for fucking wasting my time," I said and shoulder past Jason and Leo to my car.

"Actually no," Jason said making me pause. I turned around and looked at them.

"What?" I asked.

"I left your gang," he said.

I stared at them with a deadpanned look,"I'm not in the gang anymore. I'm not even in a fucking gang."

"Ah yes, because of the sweet girl named Alyssa." Leo smiled.

The urge to punch Leo increased the more I looked at him. I turned around. Someone held my arm and I turned around, throwing a punch at that person. Spencer fell to the ground, groaning. Jason pushed me to my car and fisted my shirt. He threw a punch at my face but I ducked and he punched my car instead. He groaned in pain, rubbing his fist.

Leo came to me with a punch and I bent down, tackling him and straddling him. I repeatedly punched Leo, letting out all my anger. Jason and Spencer grabbed my arms and pulled me away from Leo. I struggled getting off of their firm grips. They threw me to the ground and Spencer kicked me repeatedly. I shut my eyes, the pain getting worse when Jason punched me.

Spencer and Leo held my arms and lifted me up. Jason smirked, wiping the blood off of his lip,"Honestly, that punch of yours almost knocked me out."

I chuckled. "Funny, that was my weakest punch ever. You're not unconscious."

Jason punched my stomach and I groaned. He held my shoulders and kneed my stomach hard. This continued for a twenty minutes and I dropped to the floor, leaning against my car. I coughed out slight blood.

Jason chuckled at my sight,"Do you know what this reminds me of?"

I glared at him, my breaths getting quicker.

"Those days when I used to beat up Alyssa," he said and I clenched jaw. "I fucking miss those days," Jason said after punching me. "You both are losers, you deserve eachother. Oh, and I have a surprise for you," Jason said. "Lift him up," he ordered Spencer and Leo. They obeyed and each of them held my arm and lift me up.

"Sawyer," a familiar voice. A way familiar voice said. A voice I would never forget.

"Help!" Maria's voice shouted over and over. My head ached and I moaned, my whole body aching. It was dark, I couldn't see a thing. I tried to move but I couldn't. It felt like I was tied up. I furrowed my eyebrows, and waited until my eyes adjusted to the darkness. The only thing I saw was the door.

I turned around and saw my mother, María screaming repeatdly. She was all tied up to a chair and she was blindfolded. She looked horrible, her hair was a messy, she was sweaty and her make-up was smudged. Confusion took over me as I stared at my mother longer,"María." I said.

My mother stopped screaming and turned her head my way. "Marcus? I- is that you?" she asked.

"María, what's going on? What happened?" I asked, scared.

"A couple of guys broke into our house and took us," María said, I could hear her crying.

"Mom, are you okay?" I asked, trying to act calm.

"Sí, sí. Dios mío, what is going on?" she whispered. "Are you blindfolded?" she asked me when she faced me.

"No," I answered, looking around. Then I remembered something, "Where's dad?"

"I don't know," María answered. "But I didn't see him at all today."

As if on cue, the door was kicked open and someone fell on the floor. That someone was my father. He groaned in pain and looked up. His eyes widened when he saw us tied up. "Oh no," he murmured.

"Dad!" I shouted, struggling to get out the ropes. Dad looked beat up, bruises on his face and blood on his shirt and mouth.

"María, Marcus!" he exclaimed and rushed to us. He quickly took off the blindfold from María's eyes. María's eyes widened when she saw us and she started crying. "Vincent, what's going on?" she asked as dad tried to untie her.

"Dad--"

"Sawyer," a voice said and I looked at the entrance and saw a tall, built figure.

"You fucking bastard! I told you to leave my family out of this!" he shouted at the guy standing at the entrance.

"I did, but you still wouldn't do what I told you to," the figure said and walked in the room. The guy had a new-looking scar across his lip, his eyes were dark brown and his hair was tousled.

"Step away from them," the guy said.

"Ja--"

"Step the fuck away or I will blow her brains out!" the guy exclaimed and pointed the gun at Marìa's head. My dad backed away immediately. María trembled in fear, screaming. "Shut up!" the guy shouted at María.

"Please, just let them go, James!" my dad shouted.

James.

"Vincent, I gave you a month to pay my money back and you decided to be a fucking jerk and not pay," James said, pointing the gun at Vincent.

I slowly and unnoticeably tried to untie my hands as they spoke.

"James, I said give me one more week. Please just let my family go, I promise I'll pay it back," my dad pleaded. "This doesn't involve my wife and son. Just let them go."

"I've sent you many warnings, Vincent. I told you that I will come for you if you don't bring my money. I gave you a month to pay it back, even an extra month," he said.

"I'll pay your fucking money just let my wife and son go," my dad exclaimed as four other guys entered the room and circled us.

"James, please." my dad begged.

"Woah, Sawyer is begging," one of the guys said. "James well done."

James shook his head, smirking, "Vincent, the money is not the only thing that's a problem. Your gangmembers killed two of my gangmembers. One of them were really close to me."

"The fuck dude, he didn't kill your gangmembers," I blurted out. James' gaze moved from Vincent to me.

"What did you say?" James asked.

"I don't know what's going on but can you let us go? Whatever amount of money Vincent has to pay I'll help," I said and James chuckled. He squated next to me, his gun pointing at Vincent.

"But you can't bring people back to life," James said. "And I'd suggest you shut up. He stood up and looked back at Vincent,"Can tell your son will grow up just like you. I can tell both of you are pretty close. Oh and who's that other girl you like? Nora? Yeah, Nora. You're lucky she has your gangmembers guarding her or she would've been here with your family."

I let go of the ropes since I had untied myself and I looked at my mother. She was also untying herself. I looked behind me and saw Vincent, he had seen us untying the ropes and was stalling James.

James smirked,"Take him."

Two of his gangmembers walked over to me and held me by the arms, pulling me away and they stood next to James. James pointed the gun my head and Marìa screamed and stood up,"No! Stop!"

"Marcus!" Vincent shouted and James laughed.

"Both of them were untied?" James chuckled and pressed the gun harder against my head.

"Say bye bye to your family, Vincent," James said. I shut my eyes, waiting for the gun shot.

This is it. It felt like this was all happening in slow motion.

I gasped when I felt the gun no longer make contact with my head and I opened my eyes. I saw James point the gun to Vincent then slowly to María.

"No!" I shouted and tried to pull away from the grip of the two guys holding me back. James smirked and pulled the trigger, my dad jumped in front of María, literally taking the bullet for her.

I froze, shocked to what had just happened. María cried and fell to the floor,"Vicente!"

Tears fell from my face as I stared at my father on the floor, struggling to breath. I rushed to my father and crouched down, staring at his body. Me not knowing what to do.

"Dad?" I whispered.

María was crying on his chest. Dad placed his hand on María's shoulder and he looked at me. His eyes filled with sadness,"I'm sorry, son. That I put you in danger." he breathed out. I stared at him, my vision getting blurer and blurer by the second because of the tears. "I love you," he whispered. "Both of you."

Dad shut his eyes and stopped breathing.

"Dad!" I shouted, shaking him repeatedly. I suddenly stopped realising what I was doing wasn't going to help.

María laid her head on my shoulder as she cried, hugging me tightly.

"James, what the fuck did you do!" one guy exclaimed and started panicking a bit. Everyone stared at us in shock, I turned to James and saw him smirk.

"You," I said through gritted teeth.

"Yes, me," he said with a sigh. "The guy who killed your father. The guy who's life you ruined--"

"I ruined your life? You fucking ruined mine! You shot my father!" I yelled.

"I was going to shoot your mother but he got in the way," James said. "But I think it was meant to be you know? I got to give it to you though, your mother is fucking sexy." James winked at me. I wanted attack him but Spencer and Leo's grip around my arms tightened and pulled me back.

"You stay away from her," I growled.

"Wasn't planning on going to her anyway, heard from my boys that she's a black belt in Karate now and she carries a gun wherever she goes. But you know, I can still take her anyway time I want to," James said and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

He took out his lighter and lit the end of the cigarette,"So who's the other one now... what's her name? Gabby? Tessa? Hannah? Julie? Kristen? So many girls you've dated I can't even remember them all."

Oh no.

"Come on, Marcus. Help me," James said and blew the smoke in the air. "Is it Vanessa? Shit, it's on the tip of my tongue," he said, his eyes shut trying to remember her name. He opened his eyes in realisation and smirked.

"Alyssa."

My eyes widened in surprise, my struggles getting more and more stronger. Spencer and Leo holding me back.

James leaned against the car, "Met the girl, very sweet and doesn't trust strangers like me. She's very pretty too. But why go for a softie where you can get any girl who's good in bed?"

Jason chuckled.

"You know? I thought you were using her or something but now I know you aren't. You're treating her differently, you haven't fucked her yet which is really impressive because you always fuck a girl three days into dating, and you stress over her. Look at you, wanting to kill me because I mentioned her name," James said and puffed on the cigarette.

"I'm going to fucking kill you, James," I said through gritted teeth. "You leave Alyssa alone, she has nothing to do with this."

"Yeah but you care about her. A lot. To the point that you'd take a bullet for her," James said lazily. "Just like your father took a bullet for your sexy mother."

"Please, just leave them alone. Hurt me instead," I pleaded.

James chuckled,"That's the thing, Marcus. You won't care even if I pointed a gun to your head, but if I pointed a gun at Alyssa's head... you'd go apeshit."

"James," I growled.

"Anyway, I gotta go. Where is Alyssa anyway?" James said. Just then, I was let go and I immediately wanted to attack James but Jason injected something in me that me slow down and collapse to the floor.

My body was weak, I couldn't move as my vision started to blur and my head starting spinning. My eyelids getting heavier.

I stared at James and Jason as they looked at me with a smirk on their faces. "Please, just... leave her... alone," I managed to say.

I saw someone walk towards me and stop by my face. The person crouched and tilted their head sideways,"Hey Mark," Trick's voice said.

I tried to stand up to beat the shit out of him but I felt paralysed. "You fuck... I swear... if you hurt--"

"Trust me, I try to leave her but she keeps on coming after me. Wanting more," Trick said and whispered to me. "And fuck, she's a good kisser."

James' face came in sight,"Goodnight Sawyer," James whispered and I shut my eyes.