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𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶 does stupid things all the time. She has no excuse, she has no reason, but her mind is a mess and it forces her to do things she knows she shouldn't. It's self-sabotage. She's been feeling good, and her mind knows it's ready to feel shit. She ruins her own life before somebody else can. Because she knows nothing can stay good forever.

If she has a good day, her mind gives her anxiety about the next, because if one moment is good, then the next will be bad. If she starts to think things are going to stay good, then she's jinxing herself. If she starts to think things are going to go bad, then she's manifesting her own downfall. There's honestly no win when it comes to her mind.

So that is why she turns up at Fezcoʼs knowing Mouse is coming. That is why she licks the kingpinʼs knife. And that is why she now lies on a couch, half-dead and feeling amazing.

In conclusion, Rue Bennett and Montana Lestari definitely should not be together when their lives are going well. Only a few hours ago, they were smiling and sober as fuck with the girls they're currently obsessed with. Now, they're drugged up on a drug dealerʼs couch. Bipolar and bpd do not mix at all, and together the girls are way too much for Fezco to handle on his own.

Which means he has two choices. Call an ambulance, or call a teenager to help out. Of course, being a drug dealer, he can't call legal help, so he has to go with the latter.

Not knowing the password to Rueʼs phone, he scrolls through Montanaʼs contacts. Distantly, he can hear the sobs of Monty as he holds his stuffed animal close to his chest and cries in worry for his sister. Ashtray did try calming him down for a bit, but gave up after thirty seconds and went back to glaring at everyone.

Most of the people on Tanaʼs phone are strippers, dealers from different towns, random people she's met during her disappearances, old social workers, many foster parents and Lexi Howard, who has a heart after her name.

Lex ♡︎
hey, cassie is going
out of town this weekend.
do you stay over
when she's gone?

Tana 𓂸𓂸
yo it's fez
need yo help

Lex ♡︎
ok? i'm on my
way now

Tana 𓂸𓂸
should probs bring
someone w u

❤︎

𝗦𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 and Lexi turn up together. Both of them most likely traumatised for life from what they see on the couch. Montanaʼs clothes — or lack of — leave her basically naked, while she hangs off the furniture completely passed out. Rueʼs head is dropped onto her shoulder in a way that looks painful as fuck, and she can bearly open her eyes.

"Rueʼs mom will know something is up if she stays out," Fezco states, and the two sober girls are shocked to see how chill he is about all this. "But Tanaʼs foster parents 'on't really care. She can't stay here, though, 'cause Monty is, like, freaking out." And that may be the longest speech, most clear Fezco has ever given in his life. If Montana were awake to see this, she'd definitely be clapping her hands right now.

"Well, I mean, I can take him to my house," Lexi says. She wants to be with Montana tonight, she wants to nurse her back to sobriety, but she also knows there's nothing that girl cares about more than her little brother. And when she wakes up in the morning to find out she's scared him, she'll only hate herself more. "I did promise him a sleepover yesterday."

Fezco furrows his brows to inspect Lexi for a moment. She seems to genuinely care about Montana. It's not that people don't like her, it's that she doesn't like people. She usually pushes people away to the point where she gets so angry with them that she smashes their heads against walls to stop them from liking her. Fezco hopes she doesn't do the same to Lexi. Because the truth is, even though she slipped up tonight, Lexi Howard has changed Montana Lestari in ways only therapists can dream of.

Eventually, he nods. "Yeah, alright. I'll get him now." Fezco turns to Ash, who stands at the doorway with his arms crossed. "You start the car, bruh."