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2024-10-29 19:42:56I walk through the door dumping my soaking wet bag as I went, slowing my pace I enter the living room dripping wet, I was making a little puddle on the carpet. Laying on the sofa asleep was my darling boyfriend, normally, I would leave him to sleep for a few hours but he caused this.
He was supposed to pick me up from work but didn't show, now that would have been fine if it didn't start to tip down with rain. Now I know what you're thinking, why didn't I like phone a taxi or get a friend to pick me up? Most of my friends are still at work and the friend that I normally got a ride with is on holiday! None of the taxis were running either, so it was either Roman pick me up or walk. I waited outside of work for an hour thinking there could be traffic, but no it's just he decided he needed some beauty sleep!I could have been like a normal person and woke him up calmly, but let me tell how not normal I really am. Just seeing him laying there all peaceful and warm, wasn't sitting well with me and my new puddle under me. I make my way over to the kitchen taking a bowl from the cupboard, I start to fill said bowl up with cold water. Before you say I'm going too far, I thought about adding ice so I'm not all bad. I carefully carry the now quite heavy bowl of water back to the living room, I hover over sleeping beauty before dumping the cold water on him. He immediately sits up breathing heavily looking up at me, I just stood there smirking."What are you doing?!" He asks loudly looking down at his wet clothes, at least we're matching now."What was that thing you were supposed to do around 3pm?" I ask calmly looking at him, I'm not gonna lie when I say that was a great stress reliever.He looks rather confused for a second before realisation fills his face, he takes a look out the balcony window where he discovers the torrential rain outside."Babe, I'm so sorry I must have fallen asleep" he says getting to his feet, him too now making a puddle."Oh don't worry, that was a good stress reliever which means you're safe for another day, but now you have the task of drying the carpet and the really wet sofa" I smile walking away and towards our bedroom, as I make it to the door I hear him laughing from the living room.I love the kind of relationship we have, we don't take anything too seriously, which with the type of person I am is a great thing! Me and Roman met when we were in our last year of school, but I knew of him years before. Him and a few of his annoying friends sat behind me in so many of my lessons, that's what I assumed Roman was going to be like. But one day, he approached me after lesson and asked me on a date, now once again I thought this guy was super annoying. But I also didn't have very good self confidence, so when this guy actually showed an interest in me I couldn't say no.We ended up going on that date and he actually wasn't annoying! We started dating and the rest of history. I moved in with him and his annoying friend Austin nearly two years ago now, I would have moved in with him sooner but as like I just implied, his friend is really annoying! Roman and him have been friends since they've been little, they've done everything together and I mean everything!I had just finished drying my hair when the front door opens, Austin's voice echoing through the house. Why does that man have to be so loud? I just roll my eyes as the bedroom door also opens, Austin stood in the doorway."Don't you know how to knock, I could have been naked?!" I ask while he just raises an eyebrow walking into the bedroom anyway, Roman close behind him apologising to me."I wouldn't have minded, you could have given me a free show" Austin shrugs taking a seat on the bed and watching me, I turn my body around to look at the annoying man staring back at me. "Payton" he says with a smile, I take a look to Roman who was also staring at Austin confused."Austin" I say just saying his name like he just did with mine. "I'm glad we've got each other's names established, but why are you sat on the bed just staring me out?" I ask with a raised eyebrow, now you might understand why I say he's so annoying."Have I ever told you how pretty you are and how much I truly value our friendship?" He asks smiling sweetly from the bed, no he's never told me that but from that sentence I know he wants something."What do you need?" I ask crossing my arms over my chest with a raised eyebrow, he could have just flat out told me he wanted something from me and not sat there wasting my time."I need to borrow some money, normally I'd ask Roman but I know he's going on that business trip in a few days, you're the only other person I can ask" he says sitting up straight while I just roll my eyes, but I couldn't really so no could I?"How much and what do you need it for?" I ask reaching over to grab my phone from the desk, it would be quicker to do a bank transfer, this not being the first time I've needed to send him money."£500, yes I know it's a lot, but I might have accidentally ran up a huge bill at the bar down the road. The owners threatening to call the police and get me arrested if I don't pay him by the end of today" he says giving me the long sob story, I shake my head before successfully sending him over the money.It takes a few seconds to process before his face lights up, I'm not lying when I yell you the amount of relief that was on his face. I mean obviously he doesn't want to get arrested and I'm not the type of person just leave him to deal with it alone."Thank you so much Payton, I promise I'll pay you back as soon as I get paid" he exclaims running over and placing a huge kiss on my head, which I was very shock about. "I have to go to pay this now, I'll order pizza for dinner!" He shouts before he bolts out of the bedroom, seconds later the front door open and closes."Is he okay?" I ask Roman whilst standing up from my chair, Roman hadn't moved from the spot he was standing in but was just staring at the wall."He's been acting off for a few weeks now, I wish I wasn't going on an eight week business trip when somethings clearing not right with Austin" Roman sighs which I did have to agree with him on some points, I also didn't want him to have to leave for eight weeks and something was clearly off with Austin."While you're not here I'll keep an eye on him, as much as that man annoys me, I don't want you worrying about him while you're away" I smile walking over to stand beside him, I knew having to watch over Austin would be mentally tiring for me.Roman looks over smiling at me, he takes my arms pulling me in for a hug. I hold him tightly whilst hearing a car skid away outside, but Roman laughing slightly snaps me from that."I bet when I come home, you two are gonna be as thick as thieves" he jokes which does make me roll my eyes, yeah like that's ever gonna happen.
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Last night when we arrived home, Roman had a whole lot of questions. Austin told him how he had a huge nose bleed and needed my help, it didn't really explain why we needed to leave the house but thankfully, Roman never questioned us about that part. It was early the next morning, the day Roman's leaving for his two month business trip. I roll out of bed to say goodbye at 4am! He needed to be at the airport for 7am and apparently he needs to be there that many hours earlier, don't ask me why. While still half asleep, I follow him out the bedroom where Austin was waiting outside his room with a sleepy smile. We all head outside and down to Roman's car, the freezing night making me shiver and hug myself. "Tell me again why you need to leave for this long?" Austin asks as we watch Roman put his bags in the car, I offered to help but he said he didn't need any. "Because we want to see as many companies as we can, the more sponsors we can get the more of the product we can make" Roman ex
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I stare Austin out for a few seconds, did I just hear him correctly? I stand there at a lost for words, has he just walked in the room and forgotten about Roman all of a sudden? "What do you mean we need to date, if you haven't already realised, I've been dating your best friend for years now!" I exclaim not really understanding why I would need to remind him, Roman's only been gone for not even 24 hours, he can't have forgotten about him. "I know but just let me explain, my boss has hated me for the longest time, whatever I do he strikes me down and I never knew why. But a few weeks ago, I was sat having my break when he walks over and starts having this weird conversation with me. He starts asking me questions about life and if I was with someone, I didn't want to feel lame in front of my boss so I said I had a girlfriend" he starts to ramble not really explaining his point really, just because he told his boss he has a girlfriend doesn't mean I become her! "He started asking me q
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We were soon pulling up at the huge house the party's being held in, Austin keeps calling it at house but you could fit our apartment a hundred times over in this place. In my mind I knew this was a company event, but I didn't anticipate how many people from the company would turn up. There were cars and people everywhere, which does make me rather nervous. "It's gonna be okay, I'll be with you the entire time" Austin smiles pulling the car up in an empty space, which were really hard to find in this huge courtyard. "What if someone asks me a question that I have no idea how to answer?" I ask while he takes his seatbelt off fixing his suit, I didn't want to look dumb by saying something that was the total opposite to what he's already told them! "Hey you're gonna be fine" he smiles taking my hand in his smiling, I nod my head taking a deep breath in to get my head in the game. "Thank you for doing this Payton" he smiles before opening up his door, I nod my head about to reach for t
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It was the morning after that weird party, Austin ordered us pizza where he would avoid any question I would ask about the party. If he was trying to be inconspicuous about the whole thing, he wasn't doing a great job by avoiding my questions. I don't know why but before Austin literally made us flee the scene, something was still standing out to me. Now I'm not one to categorise someone, but no one at that party last night looked like the type of people who would lay under cars all day and fix them. Again I know people can dress up and make themselves look totally different, but it wasn't just that. The type of cars these people were driving! Now I admit, I'm not someone that's into cars or knows anything about them, but these cars looked expensive! I would have to save money for my entire life to afford to buy ones like that, I don't think they'd be able to buy those cars on their salaries. But it's not only what those people looked like or the cars they were driving, but they way
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As soon as my shift ended I clock out and leave the building, I didn't even stop to have another heated conversation with Brooke, not that I wanted to stop and have that anyway. I walk down the road with the white envelope in my bag, I of course wanted to open it but didn't want to see the horrors that may be inside. Once I was down the street I pull my phone out, where Austin's missed calls light up the screen. He told me I had to ring him once I arrive home, why has he been ringing me? I click on his name pulling the phone to my ear, it rings twice before he picks up. "Payton are you okay, Markus dropped by an hour ago and told me he went to see you at the café?" He asks worriedly down the phone, if Markus was going to go and see Austin anyway, then why has he sent me to give him this? "I'm okay, he had lunch and gave me a white envelope to give you, I'm on my way over to the garage now" I inform him while crossing the road, I knew the walk to there would take around ten minutes.
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*Ten Months Later*I was peacefully walking up and down the market, as it was getting darker earlier once again, the pretty market was just full of fairy lights. This place always reminds me of a fairytale, the people are always so nice when you talk to them.We haven’t been able to come back here in way over a year, with all the chaos we had to stay clear of this place which was sad. But now I was back, the peaceful moment is what I really needed. But due to the peaceful moment, my mind was having its opportunity to start thinking about all the chaos that had filled my life for those months.Of course, my mind drifted to the one and only Roman first and what he was up to now. I know that might be very confusing but also, rather alarming to hear me speak about him that way. But I’m here to tell you, Roman never died that day, even though that’s what Jacob said. When the police looked more into what Markus did to the city, it was found that the device that Markus used to blow up all th
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I continue to lay in Austin’s arms pretending to be passed out, the only flaw to my plan is I couldn’t see what was happening because of my eyes being closed. I trust Austin won’t let anything happen, but let’s all remember that Markus is about and when he’s involved, there’s no telling what could happen.“We don’t have time for this, come on” I hear Markus’s panicked voice says from somewhere, I didn’t know how long this was going to stale him but anytime, is better than us running with him.“Can’t you see that my pregnant girlfriend has passed out?!” Austin voice shouts which did nearly make me jump, thank the lord that I managed to not flinch.“Payton is going to be fine, but we really need to leave!” Markus says sounding like he was really losing his temper, but at this moment I didn’t care that much. “I know something that will wake her up” he says and before I know it, my eyes shoot open as he had just thrown cold water on my face.“What the fuck?” I ask looking down at myself,
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Around an hour later, Austin and I were back in his car heading towards the seafront again. I feel like this is all I have done recently, just drive to and from the same places over and over again. We had both gone over the plan with Jacob and I felt confident, that we both knew what we had to do.The car was silent as we sat there, I think we were trying to come to terms with what we had just learnt, Austin more than me. While also, worrying if a certain part of this plan falls through, which is something we cannot let happen!“I still don’t understand how you were able to hide what you were doing from me for so long, either you’re really good or I don’t pay attention” Austin says breaking the silence, I look over at him laughing as he looked back at the road.“I did it to keep you safe and I knew what you would have said if I would have told you, I’m sorry I kept it from you, I hope you’re not too angry” I say looking over at him with a tiny smile, I would understood fully if he was
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We soon head home and begin to pack our things, Austin told me that we would have to pack one bag each. We didn’t need to be lugging a heap of bags with us when we were trying to run, I kept agreeing with him before I start worrying about the plan that was ahead of us.I had packed a bag of important things before walking out into the living room, I could still hear Austin rushing around in his room getting his things ready. My eyes begin to scan the living room a place I had called home for a few years now, trying to take in any details that I could. I had no idea if we were going to be able to come back to this place once we leave, not because we’re going off with Markus as I know we’re not. But after he gets arrested, we’re going to be put in witness protection. I know for sure that we won’t be able to live here, this will be the first place that Markus will look.I still couldn’t really believe that this whole nightmare is going to end soon, the event that has taken over my life f
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Austin just looks at me for a second, I had to try and act like I was somewhat surprised over what Markus had said. But I knew before Markus knew what was going to happen, Jacob gave me the heads up a few days ago.“I mean I’m happy that you’re taking us into consideration, but Payton and I can’t go on the run with you Markus” Austin says turning back to talk to Markus, I knew Austin didn’t want to because he knew I didn’t like being around Markus but also, because of the predicament that I was currently in.“I know it’s not the ideal situation, but you’re going to have to if you don’t want the police to turn their sights onto you” Markus says not getting why Austin was so hesitant, I was more shocked Austin was kind of telling Markus no for once.“We can’t psychical go on the run” Austin said looking to me as he said it, I think he was trying to spell it out to Markus who clearly, wasn’t getting what we were trying to say!“Sure you can, I have been on the run before I came here and
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Austin soon spots Markus standing there too, lucky for us he hadn’t turn around to look at us yet so we had a few seconds. Now he was in my eye line, I couldn’t stop the scared feelings that were running through my body.“I know you’re scared Payton, but trust me you’re going to be fine” Austin whispers looking down at me as we walked, I take a deep breath in sending him a smile letting him know I was somewhat fine, even though my heart was going at a million miles an hour. As we get even closer to Markus, you could see from the way in which he was standing, that he was also panicking. We even managed to get right up behind him and he didn’t know it, this Markus is one I’ve never seen before!“Markus?” Austin says when he still didn’t turn around, this does make him jump and finally turn around to look at us standing right behind him.“You two don’t understand how happy I am to see your faces, you won’t believe the amount of shit I’ve had to deal with this morning and it’s only 10am!
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In no time, we arrive at the sea front, my anxiety still off the charts at this point. One thing that I have learnt about Markus, you never know what his next move is going to be and there really isn’t much point trying to predict it either. Whenever you think a situation is going one way, Markus sweeps it from under you and sends you in a complete spin!We drive up and down for a few minutes, I was hoping we would be able to spot him and be able to stay in the car while we talk. That way if the conversation for whatever reason was to go south, we will be able to make a quick getaway. But I couldn’t catch sight of the man even once, even Austin said he couldn’t see him anywhere.“I think our best bet would be to park the car and look for him on foot” Austin says after a few more minutes with no luck, that plan was definitely not what I wanted.What if Markus has somehow found out that I have been the one helping police? Could this whole meet up be some kind of surprise attack? Markus
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I was sat in my bed just letting my thoughts wonder, I don’t think I have fully had a chance to think over everything that has happened. Not only with Markus, or the feelings for Austin that are slowly taking over my thoughts. But the little life inside of me, I place my hand on my stomach just staring at the ceiling.I still can’t believe this is all happening, my mind has been so consumed with everything else that I haven’t fully processed what’s really happened. I just hope when the time comes, everything will be back to normal.The noise of my phone getting a message snaps me from my thoughts, I look over to see it sitting on the table. I had a thought I could just leave it, but I knew it might be urgent so I had to force myself to stand up to see who it was.I pick it up to see a message from Jacob, all it said was the plan was underway, but I knew exactly what that meant. I thought I would have more time to prepare myself, but it looks like it’s starting right now! The spies wer
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We were soon pulling into the apartment complex, I feel like this is all I have done over the recent weeks. Just gone to and from seeing Jacob, Markus than home again, not how I thought my life would be going if I’m being honest. Jacob soon pulls up at the bottom of the steps where I send him a smile, I look over at see the lights on telling me that Austin had come home before I got back.“What should I tell Austin?” I ask looking over, I think I’m fully out of excuses at this point, I’ve had to use so many recently! “I can’t say I went to work today, he only told me yesterday that he had drove passed my work and saw it will be closed for a few weeks” I say my best excuse was out the window, he knows that most of my friends are out of town until all this trouble blows over and Brooke is missing.“Just say you got a call from the station telling you Roman wanted to see you, you were picked up by an officer and took over to see Roman” Jacob says which I soon think about for a second, th
