I'm rewatching this episode as I'm writing it to make sure that everything is perfect.

Such a roller coaster of emotions in this episode and chapter.

A little change to a certain scene tho.
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"Alright y'all, I'm finna head out." Fez says to Ash, Custer, and Faye.

"Wait, you're, uh, you're leavin?" Custer asked.

"Yeah, we about to leave right now." Fez replies.

He looks between both Faye and Custer. Something feels off to me again. Is he getting this same feeling? "Is everything good?"

"Before you go bro, I, I really gotta talk to you about something." Custer says.

Fez sighs clearly just wanting to leave. "Like what, man?"

"Everything." Custer answers.

"The fuck is you talkin' 'bout, bruh?" He asked confused.

"The fuckin cops found Mouse's body." Custer finally gets out.

Fez told me about Mouse. He used to do business through him. But why the fuck is he bringing this shit up now?

A glass shattering turned all our attention on Faye, who obviously dropped it. "Sorry."

She crouches down and piles up the glass with her hands. Fez and I glance at her as she looks back up at us and places her finger over her lips. Indicating for us to not say anything.

"Did you hear what I said?" Custer asked.

Fez leaned against the wall. He seemed to be in his own head a little. Ashtray observed everything as if he was picking up on shit that we weren't. I sat on the couch across from Custer. We obviously weren't leaving right away.

"I thought you told me that Laurie killed Mouse, right? Laurie?" Faye questions.

Laurie is one dangerous ass person to fuck with. But I know she ain't kill him. Fez told me everything that happened. Faye is trying to protect him. From her own boyfriend though? I'm starting to get confused.

"I never said that. What are you talking about?" Custer asks.

"Yeah, you know, Laurie, the drug dealer that lives in the apartment complex off Kemper. Yeah, you were the one that told me she killed Mouse." Faye says standing on her word.

"I never said that." Custer argues.

"Yes, you did." She replies.

I'm starting to sense that Custer is an informant. If that's true that means something is recording this entire conversation.

"You know that Laurie and those fucking people, they scare me. Why are you trying to protect them?" Faye asked.

"I'm not fucking protecting anyone. What the fuck is this?" Custer asks looking around.

"So you're working for Laurie?" She responds.

"Hey, no. So how about you just shut the fuck up." He snaps.

"Okay, then why are you trying to cover up a murder that she committed?" Faye asks.

He starts nervously laughing. Much like Cassie did when Rue exposed her ass. I will never forget that day.

"All right now. Think it's time for you to get outta here, big fella." Fez says.

"Bro we gotta figure out what the fuck we're gonna say. Okay, this is becoming an issue." Custer says.

It's like he's trying to get Fez to admit to the murder. He's searching for a confession. That's all you need nowadays to get put away. No evidence just an admission.

Ash looks at Custer mysteriously. He gets up and I can see the knife is in hand. He walks up to Custer and I realize what he's about to do.

"Wait, Ash. Ash, no." I say but it didn't matter.

He stabbed Custer in the fucking neck. He pulled the knife out and blood started pouring from his neck. Fuck, we're about to be in some shit.

I stand up quickly and cover Custer's mouth with my hand to avoid him from making any noise. Basically suffocating him. Fez told Ashtray to be quiet the same way Faye did to us.

After about a minute of Custer hitting at my hand and choking on his own blood, he finally died. I point at his phone silently telling Ash to hand it to me.

Once he gives it to me I walk into the kitchen and dump it inside a 7/11 cup that was filled with soda.

Fez and I look at each other in distress. What the fuck just happened?

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No One's P.O.V

Back at East Highland High's auditorium, Lexi's play was already halfway through. Maddy looked at her phone wondering where the fuck Y/N was. She stared at her phone as she texted Y/N multiple times. Each text delivered but she never got a text back.

Lexi was backstage doing the exact same thing except with Fez. She wondered if she had been stood up. But how could she? Fez texted he was on his way after all.

Behind the double doors of the auditorium stood a pissed off Cassie. Nate had just broken up with her. She had no friends left. She was mad at Lexi over her portrayal of her in the play.

How could Lexi do this if all she does is stand in the background? In my shadow? At least that's what Cassie thought. She didn't know that Lexi was much more than just her little sister in her shadow.

But it's not like she ever cared to figure that out either. Cassie opened up the door and walked down the aisle of the auditorium ready to give Lexi and the crowd a piece of her mind.

Or more like a glimpse of an emotional meltdown. All eyes turned on Cassie, including Suze and Maddy, who still wanted to beat her ass.

She walked on the stage, slowly clapping as if it was for a more dramatic effect.

"Lexi, you really outdid yourself." Cassie speaks. "I mean where did she find these knock-offs."

There's a wave of "oh's" from the crowd. Everyone was confused. 'Is this a part of the play?' Most of them thought.

"I had no idea that my sister had this in her. Good job, right? Isn't she brave? She's up here, unpacking all of her trauma. I had no idea how hard your life was, Lexi. Can we give a round of applause for how hard Lexi's life is?" Cassie goes on.

There's scattered cheering amongst the crowd.

"Come on, guys. I know they hack the heads off of women in Afghanistan or wherever. God, it is nothing compared to living in my shadow." She continues.

"Yo, is this like a part of the play?" A member of the audience questioned, finally asking what most people were thinking.

"I don't know. Lexi. Is this a part of the play? Lexi?" Cassie says walking around looking for her younger sister.

"Stop, please stop." Lexi begged.

"This is your show. Come out. You're the big star of the day." Cassie says pulling Lexi onto the stage.

Lexi begged and pleaded for her sister to stop. This isn't what she wanted. The one thing she felt like she's done in life became a disaster, in her eyes, because of her sister, who is an emotional wreck.

Suze hopped on stage to stop this mess that Cassie was causing. It wasn't much help. In fact it might've caused an even bigger scene.

"Lexi, is this the part of the play where I steal Jake from Marta?" Cassie asked.

"No, Cassie, that's not in the play." Lexi answers.

And it honestly wasn't in Lexi's script until a certain someone decided that it was.

"It is now." Maddy says from the crowd.

"Wait, Hallie steals Marta's boyfriend?" A member of the audience asked.

"I don't know how many times I have to say this. They were not fucking together." Cassie says.

"Yeah, and not only that, but she was fucking him the entire time Marta was talking about getting back together with him." Maddy replies.

"Getting back together with him?" Cassie laughs amused. "Wasn't Marta with someone else? Isn't Marta still with that same person from when the shit even started? Not to mention the person that Marta is with, I literally had first."

That was the thing that no one knew. Not even poor Y/N, who is currently in the fight for her life. Flashback to those two weeks that Maddy and Y/N were apart. You know when Maddy got caught with Nate at the Winter Formal Dance.

Maddy told herself that if Y/N never talked to her again and moved on that she would go back to Nate. She felt that way for about four days. And for every one of those four days she confided into Cassie about it.

That was until Cassie helped her realize that Y/N is the only person she wants. She left the idea alone and never once thought about it again.

"Bitch that's not even the same. Hallie was never together with said person. Never even had a chance because that person never wanted you like they wanted me." Maddy fires back.

The two girls argued back and forth calling each other cunts and bitches. Suze somewhat broke it up and Cassie's focus went back towards Lexi.

The play seemed to keep going as the set changed to a carousel ride. With Hallie, the actress of Cassie, riding it as a form of masturbation.

Cassie screamed and threw an even bigger tantrum if possible. "I'm gonna fucking kill you."

She dragged the actress off the horse, yelling at her to get off.

"Oh, this bitch needs to be put down." Maddy says getting out of her seat.

This would be the time that Y/N tells her to sit the fuck back down and she'd listen. She'll listen to whatever Y/N says. But she's not here so there isn't anyone to stop her in this moment. Not anyone that she'll listen to anyway.

Kat and BB got up next. Kat being the one to try and stop her while BB being the total opposite.

"No, no, no. Maddy, no." Kat says going after Maddy.

"Maddy, beat her ass." BB yells.

Cassie starts running once she notices who was coming her way. Maddy chases her down and finally slaps the shit out of her like she wanted to since the situation first unfolded.

Cassie gets away again and Maddy ends up chasing her out of the auditorium and into the school's empty hallways. She slams Cassie into the wall but that wasn't enough for her. She wanted to literally beat her ass.

And she planned on it.

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Y/N's P.O.V

Fez and I came to an agreement on how to handle the situation at hand. It wasn't even necessarily coming to an agreement it basically was our only option.

Fez walks up to Ash and hits him hard enough that his mouth started bleeding. "I'm sorry bruh, but we have to make it look like you ain't do this. Just get out, man. The cops are gon bust down that door any second, bro."

"We gon take the blame for it." I say.

I already had this man's blood on my hands from suffocating him. Ain't no way to explain that to the police. Especially not with my background and already long criminal record for all the shit I did as a juvenile.

This is about to put me away for a long time. Which means I probably won't ever get to see Maddy again or my child once he's born. I'm fucked.

Cause snitching is not an option for me and it never will be. Besides Fez and Ashtray are my brothers. I would never and could never do that to either one of them. I'd literally kill for them and take a charge. Like I'm about to do.

"Listen to me you go out there and surrender. It's all on us. They gon find the knife with Fez's and I prints on it. His blood is on me." I tell Ash.

Disgustingly, I go over to Custer's dead body and wipe more of his blood on me to make it look more believable.

"Tell 'em you had nothing to do with this shit. Alright listen to me, we did this shit. We killed this motherfucker. Not you. Go wash your fucking hands. We love you brother." Fez says to him.

Ash walks off and I lean back against the wall waiting for the police to bust in at any moment now. This was it and there ain't no turning back from this.

I look up and noticed Ashtray had all the guns and was putting them inside the bathroom. Damn his ass is hardheaded.

"Ash, stop playin. I need you to walk out this fuckin door right now bruh." I say which catches Fez's attention.

"Nigga, Ash, come on bruh. We not about to do this." I say walking closer to him.

"How you think this gonna end? You trying to die?" Fez asked him.

"Just give us the damn guns." I say.

He shakes his head no clutching on to the shotgun in his hand. A few tears fell from his eyes and that's when I knew what he planned on doing.

"We not fucking asking you. Come on bro, please." Fez begs.

A sound from down the hall made Fez and I turn our head. The cops was here and about to bust in any fucking second now.

I turned back at Ash and he lifted the gun hitting me with it, causing me to fall to the ground. He did the same to Fez which gave him time to rush inside the bathroom and lock the door.

The noise got louder which let me know there was a lot of police on the other side. I quickly got up along with Fez and we started banging on the door.

"Ash, open the fucking door." I yell.

"Yo, I'm not playing with you. Open the damn door." Fez says.

"Don't do this shit bro. Just open the door and surrender." I plead.

Just then I heard someone bust the door down. Windows breaking, and if I'm not mistaking gas bombs going off.

"Hands in the air." I heard from multiple officers.

We continued banging on the door begging for Ashtray to come out.

"Drop the knife. Hands in the air." I hear.

Fez dropped the knife that was in his hand and we both slowly put our hands in the air.

"Don't shoot. There's a kid in there." Fez tell them.

"Don't fucking shoot." I scream.

With our hands still in the air, Fez and I slowly back up as told to do. We kept yelling, praying for them not to shoot.

"Ash, come out bruh." I say.

A bang goes off in the distance and guns began shooting from everywhere. Fez got hit in side and dropped to floor. I felt two bullets go through my back as I hit the ground.

"Ash." Fez screamed in pain.

"Damn it, Ash, open the fucking door." I yell.

I looked down at my stomach as blood came out staining the carpeted floor. One bullet went completely through me, the other one stuck inside me. I did the best I could to put pressure on it.

My hands were covered in a mixture of my own blood and Custer's.

"Ash, answer me." Fez screams.

I looked over at him and his white dress shirt was drenched in blood. This could be it. Ash, Fez, and I could all die right now.

In fact if my boy and I don't get medical attention soon then we will. I always thought I'd get taken out by a gun. But not like this. You know gang violence of course.

My breathing turned abnormal. It was getting harder for me to actually actually take in oxygen. The hall was filled with smoke from the rapid fire. The more either one of us coughed it's like more blood poured.

"Ash, nigga come on. Say something." I begged.

Two things happened for the very first time. I cried and I seen Fez cry. It's like my mind flashed with many different things as if it was trying to play them for me one last time.

Maddy, her telling me that she's pregnant, me being excited over her pregnancy, the first time we said I love you's, the first time I ever laid eyes on her. Ashtray, my first time meeting him, us up all night playing fucking video games together, us cracking jokes on each other, me buying this nigga whatever he wanted despite Fez telling me not to.

My boys back from my hood. Bobby, Jaden, and AJ. They gon go crazy if I die right now. Rue and Gia, my favorite relatives. I always thought Rue would die before I did. My father, he just got home.

Finally was Fez. I love my boys to death but Fez is the one that's like a brother I never had. He's always kept it real from the jump. Doesn't matter what life or universe, I'd do this same shit again for both him and Ash.

The bullets stopped flying and it got quiet. A little too quiet. The officers looked at each other unsure of what to do next.

"Ash." Fez says.

An officer slowly walked down the hall telling us to shush. He opened the bathroom door with a raised gun, ready to fire.

"He's gone." The officer said.

Ash is gone. That means he got out. Thank God. It's a fucking miracle.

"What?" Another officer asked.

"Bathroom is empty. Target must've fled through the window." The officer says.

The cops put us on our stomach and place or hands behind our back, putting cuffs on us. They lift us up and walk us out the house.

Fez and I smile at each other through the pain knowing that Ash made it out. At least one of us did.

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Maddy's P.O.V

In the school restroom was BB, Kat, Cassie, and I. Cassie and I sat on the sink as BB and Kat stood up. It was silent in here most likely because I just beat Cass's ass.

Despite everything that she did, I still love her very much. Physically, I know it hurt her more. But mentally, yeah I got that.

"Do you know what's funny?" Cassie says breaking the silence.

Nothing. Nothing is fucking funny. Why would she even ask that dumb ass question?

"Nate broke up with me before I even went on that stage." She continues.

I look up and make eye contact with her.

"Don't worry. This is just the beginning." I respond.

Coming from someone who's dealt with Nate on several occasions, Cassie is in for so much. She gave herself up to him, he's not letting her go like that.

Out of the blue, it's like an unsettling feeling hit me. I was getting this feeling in my stomach that something is really wrong.

"Something isn't right. I can feel it." I say.

Kat looks at me confused. "I mean you have a cold soda can on your fucked up foot. You sure it isn't that?"

"Bitch, no." I say and hop off the sink counter. "Where's my phone?"

BB takes my phone out her pocket and hands it to me. Throughout this entire time of Cassie causing a scene and me chasing her around the school, Y/N still hasn't texted or called.

This is adding to the feeling which is making me think that something is wrong with Y/N. I called her and it went straight to voicemail.

"I need to find Lexi." I say and quickly exit the restroom.

Kat and BB followed me like always as I rushed back to the auditorium. The play was over and I squeezed my way through the crowd of people that were leaving.

I made it backstage and asked someone where Lexi was. They pointed in her direction and I followed.

"Yo, Lexi." I say.

She turns around and looks at me. "Yeah."

"First off your play was fucking amazing. You're a fucking G." I compliment.

"Thank you." She smiles.

"But have you maybe heard anything from Fez? As you know him and Y/N were supposed to be coming here together for the play. She never responded to my texts and I just called and it went straight to voicemail. It didn't even ring. I'm just getting a really bad feeling." I explain.

"Fez didn't reply to my text either. Let me try calling him." Lexi responds.

She pulls out her phone and tries to call him. She looked really worried. "It went to voicemail."

"Something bad is happening, I just know it. Do you know where Fez lives?" I ask.

"Yeah." She answers.

"Down for a ride?" I ask.

"Let's go."

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I don't care how the storyline went. I ain't killing Ash. That's my boy.

Not proofread.

Until Next Time.