After Storm left Rowan just looked at me. Even though we been bestfriends for years, she sometimes doesn't know how my emotions would be in certain situations.

I stood in this same spot and started to think. I did Storm bad, I didn't stick up for her when I should have and now I must have lost her.

She wasn't wrong about what she said about Sian. She was my first fuck but I don't have a deep attachment to her. I don't harbor any love feelings for her, I just think of her as a friend.

"Arlo you need to calm down for me." Rowan rubbed my back.

I didn't notice myself shaking or breathing heavy. My knees got weak and I fell in Rowan's arms.

"It's okay Arlo, I got you." She whispered. She kept comforting me until I calmed down.

"My advice for you is the same thing I told Levi,"

"Give her sometime to calm down and then try to earn her forgiveness, do anything in your power to get her forgiveness back."

I listened to what she said and I took it all in. There's no way in hell that i'm going to lose Storm because of my stupid mistakes.

I gotta make a plan and I know just where to start.

Rowan walked me to my room. All I could say is that it reminds me of is her. This past weekend was torturous. I got so used to cuddling with her at night that not having her here felt weird. Felt like something was missing.

I shook out of my head and went to take a shower. I have a busy day ahead of me. I have meetings back to back and I'm looking for a new venue for a secret operation. *wink* *wink*

I got out of the shower, dried my skin and got dressed. I grabbed all that I needed and went downstairs, where Rowan was waiting for me.

"You ready?" I asked grabbing my keys from the bowl. She nodded yes and we went to the garage.

We hopped in my 2020 Audi Sport EV and drove off to the club. Rowan usually came with me to these things because she's always free. She doesn't work because she didn't need to. She does things here and there but it's only for fun.

"Damn traffic is a motherfucker today." She rolled her eyes, while I laugh.

"Girl you in a rush for what?" I asked.

"You know this shit irritates my impatient ass." She rolled her eyes.

"You always in a rush, slow down and smell the roses." I laughed.

"Bitch ain't no fucking roses here, air smells like gas fumes and toxic shit."

"The fact that you took that literally is crazy."

"Whatever you handsome squirdward looking ass bitch."

"Damn not the handsome squidward" I laughed harder.

She didn't say anything else so I knew I won. The rest of the car ride was filled with us shouting lyrics out and her saying extra gay shit.

You might have noticed that Rowan is different around me and Levi. She's more open, outgoing, outspoken. She's herself because we accept her for who she is, we know the real her and we pass no judgement.

Anyways we pulled up to my club and hopped out. The club wasn't opened to the public as you know we just closed lol. The usual people were in there.

We said our hi's and hello's and went up to the office.

"Why we here again?" Rowan asked laying on my couch.

"You done bored already?" I rolled my eyes.

"Don't try to start that shit, I just wanted to know what we doing."

"We got a busy day, meetings and then we going to meet with a real estate agent."

"Alright, leggo."

We waited for the people to come so we could start the meeting. I drummed my fingers on the desk while I stared at the door.

Suddenly the door opened and in walked Sian with a goofy grin on her face. Nah not today, shit ain't sweet.

"Good mor-" She started before I cut her off.

"First thing first this ain't your office, you knock and wait until you hear enter go do that then I'll continue." She looked at me surprised.

Rowan on the other hand had a slick smirk on her face. Soon I heard a knock and I waited awhile to let her in.

"Come in and have a seat." I said leaning back into my chair.

She sat down and before she could get a word out I began to speak. I really didn't have time for her shit. I realized I gave her an opportunity to come in and ruin shit that I had going on.

Now that I came to that realization, I plan to fix it and that means putting her in her place, just like I should of before.

"Now I don't want this business's temporary partnership to go anywhere other than where it is,",

"You are not invited to come to my house uninvited with the excuse of party planning and you will not be invited back into my house at all. Point blank period."

"This how you do your old friend?" She cut me off.

"Your going to wait until I'm finish to speak to me.",

"As I was saying you only speak to me when it's concerning the party. No calling or texting for anything personal, we are not on that level." I took a breath as I continued,

"You will have no further communication with me after this party has passed, try it and you won't like the outcome." From the corner of my eye I saw Rowan trying to hide her laugh.

"I'm finished now, you may speak." I said dryly. I'm telling y'all here comes her bs.

"Why the hell are you doing this?" She shouted.

"You really tryna get me out of my character?" I asked. She looked visibly scared and she should be, she knows how I am and what I can do or have done for me.

"I ain't do shit to you but you doing this whack ass shit to me."

"Yo your voice annoying the shit out of me." I rubbed my temples.

"You ain't think so when you had me moaning." she tried to be snarky but shit she sounded a little too desperate to me.

"Girl that was how many years ago." I laughed but added,

"You sounding too obsessed right now." Her face turned red as hell and Rowan ass was over there rolling on the floor.

"I said what I needed to say, we are not friends that left when you disrespected Storm and my stupid ass didn't do anything, but I am now."

"Now get the fuck out my office."

Sian didn't have shit else to say, she just stormed out of the room pissed off. If i'm honest I don't want her back in my presence no more. I'm going to call the company and tell them send somebody else.

I know she's going to be back to start some shit and trust and believe me I'll be ready for whatever she got planned, but if she end up in a gutter or missing she made me do it.

"Well that was something." Rowan laughed still on the floor with her extra self.

"Girl get up off the floor and let's head out." I said getting up.

"So you really not fucking with her no more?" She asked seriously.

"I'm really done, I don't need to be round nobody that disrespects nobody that I'm close to," I started

"I also don't want my history to cloud my judgement of what is right or wrong. Right is right, wrong is wrong and I won't let that change again just because I have history with a person."

"Aww best friend you growing up, I'm going to cry." She said with her dramatics.

"Bitch If you don't shut the fuck up and come on." I walked down the stairs.

"But on a serious note just know if you not fucking with her, I'm not either."

One ting about Rowan you never have to worry about her loyalty, she my true rider just like I am for her.

"I appreciate that bro." I dapped her when we both reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Race you to the car." She said then ran off before I could even process shit.

"You fucking cheater." I yelled after her. It didn't make sense to run cause she was already in the lead and I ain't winding myself for her childish game.

I took my time walking out and when I finally got to my car, her ass was standing with a smug look on her face.

"Get in the car dummy." I said with a attitude and she just laughed.

We ran errands for most of the day before going to meet wit the realtor. We pulled up to a blinding seeing the lady standing outside waiting.

We got out of the car and walked up to her.

"Good afternoon, my name is Mrs. Williams we spoke over the phone." She smiled.

"Nice to meet you yes we spoke over the phone, this is my best friend Rowan." They said their hellos and we entered the building.

You might asked why I want to buy a building and my answer to you is, "YOU IN MY BUSINESS, DON'T DO THAT."

She started showing us around and from what I was seeing I really liked it. There is room for improvements but I think it's perfect.

We then started talking about the price and I didn't need to hear it to be honest, I had my mind set on it.

Halfway through the conversation my phone started to ring. I looked at the name and It was Levi.

"Can you excuse me for a little." I said walking away to answer.

"Hey Lev, wassup?" I asked as soon as the facetime connected.

"I can't find Storm." She said worriedly. I took in her appearance, she looked like she been crying. Her eyes were red and puffy and she looked all around sad. It breaks my heart to see her like this.

"Levi calm down okay, take slow deep breathes." I instructed. After she calmed down, she began to speak.

"The last time I talked to her was in the library, and that was hours ago. I been looking everywhere, I texted her, called her no response at all and then it started to go to voicemail." She explained.

I had to be strong for her. If she saw me break down then she would only get worse. She already feels bad because of what happened and now this is eating her alive.

"We're going to find her okay. I promise we're going to find and bring her home."

"I need you to stay at school, your in no position to drive i'll drop Rowan off and she'll drive you home." She just nodded her head and I hung up.

I ran back over to them.

"Hey, I have an emergency so we have to cut this short.",

"I'm interested in this building, I'll contact you sometime this week and we'll finalize everything." We said our goodbye's and I dragged Rowan away.

"Wassup, you look shaken?"

"Levi called me and she was breaking down cause Storm is missing."

"What!?"

"We'll figure it out later now I need you to call Levi and calm her down." She nodded and did what I said.

I know I fucked up bad but I can't let nothing bad happen to Storm. I got to find my baby girl.

I woke up sore as hell. It's been a few weeks after I was beaten and left for dead. My body is still sore as hell. I'm constantly in pain. The pills that they gave me don't help the pain.

Well maybe it's because I haven't been on bed rest like they instructed, but in my defense I have to take care of myself and get shit done.

After I came to the hotel I emailed the school and explained that the doctors said that I should take a long time before I go back, they made all my teachers email me my work so I wouldn't have to leave. I'm trying to get early graduation, I think I fit the criteria so i'm going to talk to the principle about that.

Levi and Arlo been blowing up my phone ever since the day of the incident. I know their worried about me but I don't think I'm ready to see them. I miss them like crazy but I need a little more time before I can just forgive and forget. Well I never forget but I can forgive.

I had to turn my phone off because I didn't want them tracking me. Sometimes at night I contemplate on calling Arlo just to hear her voice. I fantasize of her holding me in her arms, where I feel the most safe.

At night I get bad nightmares which contribute to me getting less and less sleep. They're all different but they end in the same way him killing me.

After the end I wake up wit sweat all on me and in tears. My mental has been so fucked up, I feel like somebody is constantly watching me and it's like i'm their prey and their the predator. Just waiting for the right moment to snatch me up.

I always look over my shoulder when I'm out. Why do I go out you may ask. Well I had to buy clothes and I got a job.

It's nothing to big, I work in this little bakery. It's ran by the sweetest old lady ever. She doesn't have kids or a family so she ran it all alone.

I applied for a job there and here we are. She bakes I sell and then I clean and help with her financials. She doesn't know everything that happened. She just knows she saw a beat up girl come in her bakery and the rest was history.

Now that your all caught up we can move on.

I made my way to the shower to do my daily routine. It was hard because of the pain my body was in. I tried not to cry out in pain but it ended up happening anyway.

I slid down the bathroom wall and started crying. My body felt like it was on fire, not even the cold water worked to cool me down.

My crying made my chest hurt even more, but no matter how I tried to clam down I couldn't. My vision got blurry because of the tears.

Sometimes I think about ending everything. It would be easy because of the amount of pills they gave me to take. But I keep reminding myself that I can't.

I noticed that I have depressive episodes often. Like really often. My brain tells me to end it but something in my heart holds me back. It's hard to listen when you feel your brain is going against your heart.

It's a constant fight to be honest. I don't know what to listen to. I shook out of my thoughts and tried to calm myself down. Where's a guardian angel when you need one.

After my tears stopped I slowly got up using the wall to balance me and finished my shower. I didn't have to work today so I was staying in the room. I'll just do the homework that was sent and then sleep the pain off.

I left the bathroom, dried off and changed into some comfy clothes. I got my laptop and carefully laid on the bed. I started it up and waited for it to fully turn on.

After it did I logged into my email and saw all the work that was sent. Which might I add is a lot because I haven't done any for the past 2 days.

'This gon take a while.' I thought.

After a couple hours of doing work I finally finished. I emailed everybody back and also my principle asking about early graduation.

I'm tryna get this diploma and move the fuck on. I shut down the laptop took some pills and went to sleep. The sleep didn't immediately it the way It needed to so I was up for a while thinking.

I haven't been eating right. By right I mean I barley eat. I don't have a appetite a lot anymore and when I try to force it everything comes right back up. So I gave up on that.

I guess that's why my body has been shutting down on me and why the pills won't help. I want to go to the doctor but i'm scared.

I shook out of my sad thoughts and tried to look at the brightside. It was hard to find one at first but I did. I clung on to the thought of me being successful and far far away from here.

I smiled a little feeling sleep take away into the unknown.

"Boss I think I found the girl. " The idiot said.

"Where did you find her?" I asked interested.

"She's at a hotel we have a room number and the name of the hotel, just need the go ahead."

"Go find her and bring her back here unharmed, I want the fun for myself." I smiled sinisterly.

"What are you going to do boss?"

"Stop questioning me or it'll be you and her." I said seeing her gulp. Ah fear I love it.

"Y-yes boss." She stuttered.

"Bring 2 of out best and get her now." I dismissed her.

This should be fun.