He pushed his way through and came in front of Nathan. He had black hair that had started to grey, tanned-skin with grey spots on his face, probably having suffered a disease recently. He had a muscular frame, huge hands and pot-belly that bulged out from the faded blue shirt he wore with Jeans. "I warned you didn't I? I told you to get your ass out of the road...You still ended up wrecking havoc you piece of shit..who have you killed now huh? You tell me?" The man grabbed Nathan's cloth at the neck, hooking him. Nathan stared at the man, trying to control his rage, and impulses. The others just stood silently watching. Drew stood rigid as well, equally perplexed about the situation and not knowing what to do amongst a gathering of well aged people. "You don't want to talk ehh? Cat got your tongue?" The man said, spittle flying into Nathan's face, making him squint and close his eyes. "Just let the lad go, the other one is safe" A woman said. "I knew this was gonna happen, wit

"I thought we were heading for classes?" Nathan asked raising his sunglassed face slightly in a smug way. "Do you look like you're dressed for classes?" Letha asked, chuckling. "True though" Drew said. "I have an idea. How about we all head back to the mansion for a night-out, after classes?" Nathan suggested. "A party?" Letha said. "Yeah. Sort of" "Of course why not" Rose butted in. "I'm sure it'll be fine""Let's go" Letha said softly to Nathan, pulling him along, and resting her head on his shoulder. Rose looked sullen. But Drew came up beside her and offered his arm."Shall we?" He gave a gentleman smile."They don't get to steal the show" He said, trying to deflect the implication of the situation. Rose gave a small smile and linked her arms, with his, and they fell in step beside Nathan and Letha. Nathan glanced at them, and removed his eyes quickly. Devin and Nic trailed behind them. "Since I and Devin are the unfortunate ones without a date... we'll just guard behi

Then he spun it around. The bottle whirled, spinning before it came to point at Nic. "Nice go Drew" He rolled his eyes. "Not my fault" Drew raised his hands, chuckling. "I'll go first then." Rose shifted excitedly on her fabric. "Truth or Dare Nic" "Truth... I don't like being dared to do anything" He said cooly. "Who do you like the most among us? Someone you're crushing on.. perhaps?" "Yes...I think I actually do" "Wooooah" The others chirruped. "Who is it?" ", it's Drew" Nic turned to him. "What the hell man...screw you" Drew said with disgust on his face. And Nic laughed. "No..I don't have anyone I like here, unfortunately." "That's sad..." Delby replied, taking another swig as the emblems roared into the night. The bottle was spun again and it it's head nozzled in Nathan's direction. "I'll go next... Nathan" Delby said quickly. Nathan looked up at her. "Truth or Dare?"Truth I guess." Who do you like amongst us?" Rose seemed to go stiff somewhat as she stared

Then he paused, taking deep breaths, and went again at the bagSome moments later Drew and Nic came inside."Devin's not back yet?" Drew asked. "I don't know" Nathan. "Hmm, that's odd.* "Probably decided to stay back and enjoy himself. Saw him hanging out with Velma" Nic said.Nathan punched the bag again."Let's train" "The ring this time or the bag?" Nic asked. "The ring." He moved over and climbed through the four ropes fencing off the box arena.Drew and Nic put on their gloves. "One of you should come at me" Nathan said, his face set. But they looked at him with confused faces. "Come at you? What do we even know" Nic asked. "Don't be afraid... just come.. you'll be able to learn that way" "Right...Drew you go first" Nic said, trying to push Drew forward. Drew scoffed." so much for the tough attitude... suddenly a scaredy-cat huh?" "I'm not a scaredy-cat. Alright I'll go then.. just sit at the sidelines and watch how it's done* Nic said and punched his palms together.

Nathan dialed Mr. Swack's line, his heart thudding in his chest. But there was no response. Shit. "Oh, come on... not now" He dialed Mr. Swack again, trying to control his shaking fingers and the man picked. "Mr. Swack, there's trouble. We need some back up"Nathan tried to calm himself down. "What's going on?"Mr. Swack asked, tension in his voice. "The police are after us" "They caught up with the plan, I thought you had it all figured out?" Yes I still do".. I'll explain everything later..I need some distractions before they can call enough back-up and then we are screwed beyond redemption" "Where are you now?" "Hanson lane, West coast Avenue" "Good. I have someone around there.. just make try to avoid getting caught. He'll get the job done" "Thanks." Nathan said before hanging up, then turned to Donovan. "We just have to stay on the road and avoid being caught for now." *Leave that to me" Donovan said and swerved into another lane. The police car's siren kept screaming