Plan B - Me =/ (10 best books of all time .TXT) 📗

He turns to me, crossing his arms over his muscular chest. I cross my arms over my stomach, feeling self conscious now being the center of attention. I shake my head slightly. "Alright." His voice is again, much colder. I feel Alan's glare, and while Adrian is distracted with whatever they were talking about, most likely a weapon dealing, I slip out of the room. 

I almost reach my room without being detected, but at the last second I hear my 'name', being called. "Emily!" I turn at the familiar lie.

"Brad?" 

"Hey. I heard you found out?" I can't help but scoff. 

"News travels fast around here." I state, and he laughs.

"That it does. Anyways, whatcha up to?" He asks politely. He locks his hands behind his back and rocks back and forth on his feet, reminding me of a small child who wants something. It almost scares me more that I'm not super nervous around him...

"Nothing much. Why?" I raise an eyebrow at him.

"I was wondering..."

"Yes?" I grad out, copying what he did with his words. 

"Will you play Candyland with me?"

I can't help but burst out laughing. "Seriously?" I laugh. He looks at me incredulously. "Wait, your serious?"

"Well yeah... No one else will play with me." He shrugs.

"Are you sure your old enough to be here?" I ask, giving him a strange look. 

"Hey! I'm 22!" His words make me wonder again, him being the same age as myself, but I stop myself.

There is no way. 

"Alright, fine." He shrieks like a valley-girl and runs down the stairs, expecting me to follow.  

And that's how I end up sitting on the floor of a monstrous living room, playing Candyland with a grown adult. 

"Haha loser! I win again!" I gloat.

"You know what, I don't like playing with you. Your cheating!" He pouts, again proving my point. 

"Okay, you shuffle the cards this time." I offer.

He scoffs. "I will!" He rips the cards out of my hands, shuffling them once before pausing. Right when I open my mouth to ask why he stopped, he suddenly flings the cards at me, some landing straight in my mouth. 

"You asshole!" I screech. He just rolls around on the ground, laughing his ass off. "You know, suddenly I know why no one will play with you." I sigh, gripping the bridge of my nose, making his laugh even louder. I can't help but smile, and soon I'm laughing softly with him. 

"Oh no." I hear a groan behind me. "You roped her into doing this?" Riley comes in and sits next to me. We pick up the cards and start playing again. Riley wins that time. Then Rose joins us. Then Garret and Dani are there, and we end up playing three on three with teams. The siblings are together, Riley and Rose are together, and then Brad and I. We won that round, and then more peoppenjoin us. 

And that's how we ended up playing four on four, with twenty Mafia memembers, plus me. Since we needed five people, I got drags onto Riley's team, that had Dani, Garret, Rose, her and me on it. Baldy got all offended, but he had to deal with it. I soon learned that the people here were really easy to get along with, and even the guys were nice. Weird... Basically everyone that lived here except Adrian and Alan were here.

"Close game here people. We have Team Chase, tied with Team Emily. Who will win?" Everyone besides Chase and me are standing up, watching. Brad and Rose are being weirdos, reporting every action in this close game. We both need two moves to win. Chase goes first. He picks up the card and... Gets the lollipop! "Ooh! Chase has to go back! Will Em get what she needs, or let this dipdhit win?" Brad asks, making everyone laugh. I pick up the card, and get two squares, exactly what I needed. I move and throw my hands up as everyone cheers. I stand up and join my teammates in their high fives. "You did good Strawberry... But next time I'll get you back!" Brad says when he's close enough since everyone is still buzzing with excitement. I laugh. 

"What going on here?"

Chapter nine

 ~Sofia~

 

"Adrian! You missed it." Chad exclaims. Adrian walks over and glances down at the Candyland board, as Alan glares beside him. Adrian looks up at a now shy me, and back at the board. 

"Who won?" He asks after a few moments of silence, making everyone but me laugh. Oh, and the Devil's spawn obviously. 

"Emily! She just barely came out on top and..." Everyone starts talking at once, and suddenly the room is all too small. With everyone preoccupied, no one notices me briskly exiting the room. I escape to my temporary room, and try to calm myself down. I shouldn't have done that. Getting close to them when all i will do is betray them, is idiotic. I shouldn't be feeling comfortable around any of them anyways! But I guess that's what they do. Everyone. They act like they care so that they can use you. They get this stupid power over you, and they abuse said power. 

 I don't know what to do anymore. 

Then it hits me. 

Antonio isn't here, right? He wouldn't know if I just ran away, right? I smile, as I form a plan in my head. 

"Emily! We gotta go. Do you need anything before we leave?" Riley asks, knocking on my door frame before she spoke. 

"No but thank you." I smile kindly at her, and get one in return.

My smile drops as she walks away and I see Adrian behind her. "Stay here alright?" His tone is light-ish, but his eyes hold only seriousness. I nod and divert my eyes. "Bye Cupcake." I roll my eyes as he hums, walking away. Who calls someone cupcake? Fifteen minutes later, I call Antonio. 

"Ahh, Sofia. I've been waiting to hear from you." He says. I roll my eyes, thankful he can't see me or I'd have a black eye already. "How's it going over there? Alan told me you're making some friends?" He growls. 

"I'm getting them to trust me. That way they'll tell me more." I tell him a half-truth. 

"Ah, smart girl. Any news?"

I hesitate. Should I tell him? Sure... "They have a deal today. I'm not sure where, I think up town?" 

"Excellent. Keep at it. Remember, I have eyes on you." He hangs up after that. I throw the phone into the vent above my bed that I hide it in. I don't want to ever have to talk to him again. I peek out into the hall when I finish, and shut my door when I see no one. I know they left, but I didn't know if they have maids or anything.  I change out of the dress I was wearing, and remove the make-up. I lay the dress neatly on the previously made bed, and change into a white t-shirt and black skinny jeans. I put on Converse, and a leather jacket, and then go to leave. Since they took my phone, I don't have to grab that. I only grab all the money I brought with me. Just before I shut the bedroom door behind me, I rush back in a grab a floral sundress that I know will look stunning on Maria.

I get out of the house, and run down the driveway as fast as I can, while an alarm blares behind me. It'll take me about half an house to get to downtown, so I pray to God that they are gone longer than that. I'm only about two minutes away when I hear a gunshot. It's common for this part of town, so it only startles me. I only walk about two steps more before there are gunshot on top of gunshot, and it seems to be right next to me. With a sigh, a glance around the corner of an old building and my breath catches. I should have known this wouldn't be easy. 

On the other side, is Adrian and Antonio, going at each other's throats, while those around them shoot at each other, Adrian's people and some I don't recognize blocking the crate, of, I'm assuming, guns and other weapons. Adrian is currently on top on Antonio, repeatedly getting blows in as Antonio lays there helpless. This may sound bad, but seeing the sight makes me smile. He's finally getting what he deserves. I leave before anyone can see me, and run all the way to Maria's. I knock frantically on the door. The faster I was gone the better. 

"Sofia! What a lovely surprise. Come in." She walks away from her open doors leaving me to gladly shut and lock it. "What brings you here?" She asks with a smile. "Coffee?" I glance at the time and laugh. 

"Only you would make coffee at ten fourty-five at night." I chuckle and she shrugs. "I'd love some. And I was kind of hoping I could stay here for a while?" I ask with a hopeful smile. 

"Always Hun." I give her a full blown smile at her answer. 

"I have a gift for you." I tell her. 

"You do?" She gasps jokingly. I nod and hand her the blue sundress. She gazed at it and her eyes sparkle. 

"Well? Go try it on!" I demand. She squeals. 

"Thank you!" She runs to her room, and emerges wearing the flowing flower dress. "Eh, what do ya think?" She smiles, twirling around. 

"You look amazing!" She really is gorgeous. Her straight brown hair falls around her shoulders, framing her oval face. The dark blue on the sundress makes her hazel eyes pop. A smile graces her full lips, and her cheeks turn rosy at my compliment. 

"Thanks. How'd you get this?" She asks, but quickly figures it out. "The Garcia family." She sighs. 

"Yeah." I confirm. 

"Why aren't you there anyway- No. Sofia! You didn't. Sof you're going to get ins so much trouble when they find out!" She tells me. She's only about 30, so just 8 years older then myself, but she still acts like the scary mom for me sometimes. 

"Relax ma. They have no reason to come after me. Either way, they won't find ou-" I'm cut off by a knock. "Fucking hell." I growl under my breath. Maria shoots me a sharp look and I immediately go to hide. They did have a reason. They now think of me as a threat, I know about them. Shit. 

"Hello. How can I help y'all?" I faintly hear her ask when she opens the door. 

I hear Brad's stressed voice next. "Hi. You haven't seen a woman around have you?" 

"Why I have." My eyes widen as I hear her sell me out. "You know, I went in the bathroom, and there she was, staring back at me from the mirror!" I sigh and shake my head with a smile on my face. "Sorry hun, you'll have to be more specific."

"Uh, strawberry blonde hair, green eyes, tan skin?" I know he'll be peaking around her, and my current spot in the hallway isn't very secure, so I go to hide in the bathroom. I glance behind me to make sure he didn't like barge in or anything, when I trip over a small towel rack, causing it to fall, me going down with it,and