When Mia rose from her slumber the next day she was surprised to see a pair of arms wrapped around her. And then it all came rushing back. -fuck they had fallen asleep. She was thankful that her parents never entered her room.

Grabbing her phone Mia checked the time, 10:45 she had slept in for school. But on the bright side this meant that both of her parents would be at work currently. She sighed in relief, next time they were definitely staying at Fez's.

"Fez." She whispered tapping on on of his arms that was holding her. He ignored her and held her tighter to his chest. Mia chuckled at this, he's so cute when he's sleepy.

"C'mon Fez, it's like 11am." Mia turned in his arms, watching as he opened his eyes.

"Aw shit, you need me to drive you to school?" He asked, releasing her from his grip.

"Nah I'll just skip." Mia decided, she had already missed her first 2 classes.

"Aight, you wanna chill with me today." Fezco asked as Mia checked her notifications. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Sure, lemme get changed." She decided, Fezco decided he would go home to get changed and then pick Mia up and they would chill at the store for the day. Mia decided to dress slightly more girly today.

She smiled, pleased with her appearance. Mia had been having a lot of good days lately. Spending time with Fezco was a good way of distracting her mind from her usual dark thoughts.

She put on some eyeliner and concealer while she was waiting for Fezco to arrive. Finally, his car pulled up in her driveway. Mia wasted no time, making her way outside to greet Fezco who was just stepping out of his car. He was wearing an oversized supreme sweater, Mia tried not to stare at him. Fuck he's hot.

"Aye, your looking fine as hell, girl." Fezco complimented, making her cheeks burn. "Could say the same about you." She replied as they got into his car. Her compliment making Fez secretly happy, as he had decided to wear his favourite sweater.

They sat in a comfortable silence as they drove to Fezco's store. After arriving Fez went behind the register to serve some customers, while Mia went to visit Ashtray.

"Yo Ash, what up?" Mia greeted the younger boy.

"Yo Mia, you know you been spending a lot of time with my home boy. Is something going on I should know about?" He asked.

"It's not like that." She mumbled unconvincingly.

"And anyway, I'm a customer so whatchu got?"

Ashtray seemed hesitant before replying, "Mia ion know if I can be selling to you anymore. Don't think Fez would appreciate that I've been secretly selling his girl coke."

"Yeah well I'm not his girl so you don't gotta worry bout all that." Mia replied getting frustrated that she was going to be unable to get her fix. Ashtray looked unconvinced, finally giving in when she started pouting.

"Aight, whatchu want them?" He gave in, making Mia grin.

"Just like 5 G's of coke and uh 5 Gs of weed." She rushed out, realising she would have to stock up if Ashtray was going to be hesitant to sell to her. He rose his brows but didn't say anything as she passed him a wad of bills.

"Don't give me that look, some is for a friend ok?" She lied with ease, making him hold up his hands.

"I ain't here to judge, it's just business."

"It was a pleasure doing business with you!" She laughed kissing his cheek and quickly making her way into the store.

Fez was stood behind the cash register and Mia silently hoped that he hadn't heard any of her conversation with Ashtray. Fez smiled at her and she visibly relaxed, knowing she was off the hook.

"Hey ma, what did you get?" Fez asked as casually as he possibly could. Silently hoping that it was just weed.

"Um, is client dealer confidentiality not a thing anymore?" She joked, grabbing a soda and a bag of potato chips. Flashing a smile that made Fez forget their conversation for a brief moment.

"Yo, just because I didn't make the transaction don't mean I'm not your dealer. That's still my shit you buying." Mia gave him a smirk and waltzed up to the counter he was standing behind. Placing her elbows on it and leaning over as she spoke to him. Unaware of the effect she was having on the older boy.

"Is that how you talk to your favourite client?"she tsked leaning closer to him. Fez could smell her sweet perfume and her coconut shampoo, he inhaled savouring the scent.

"I just got weed Fez, you need to take a fucking chill pill bro." She laughed standing up straight, he shook his head at her antics.

"Aight watch or imma make you start paying for this shit." Fez joked, knowing he would never make her pay.

"Yeah right, what kind of sugar daddy would that make you?" She joked opening her can of soda, taking a long gulp.

"You calling me daddy, baby girl?" Fez smirked, making Mia blush furiously. Fez found her embarrassment endearing and vowed to make her blush more often. Because Mia looked fucking cute when she blushed.

"You wish." She stated with a laugh making her way outside with her snacks.

Just as she was lighting her joint, Fezco joined her outside. He eyed the girl, sitting in his lawn chair. With ease he picked her up by her waist, lifting her off the chair. Placing her on his lap. Mia giggled at his actions, covering her face with her hair so he wouldn't be able to see its redness.

"Hey!" She exclaimed, "that's whatchu get for stealing my seat, baby girl." He replied as she passed him the blunt. Mia turned even more red at the nickname he had given her.

Just then they saw Rue approach them, along with a blonde hired girl. Mia bit her lip, while she was outgoing enough at parties and such. She never really found herself interacting with many people throughout her day, aside from Fezco. While most people just assumed it was because she was a bitch, most of her antisocial behaviour came from her anxiety. The only thing that was able to calm her was being intoxicated, hence the reason she took drugs so regularly. Although Mia wasn't the type to have many friends, she found herself wanting to befriend the curly haired teen. If Fez thought so highly of her she must be cool.

"Sup Fez, it's Mia right?" Rue asked as she approached the duo that were sitting close together sharing a blunt.

"Hey Rue, it's Jules right?" Mia asked hoping she remembered the girl's name correctly. From what Fez had told her, the girl was also new to town and she had already formed a close bond with Rue.

"Nice to meet you, oh my god I love your outfit." The girl complimented honestly and Mia gave her a genuine smile.

"You too, I love the sailor moon vibes." She replied, the two began conversing easily and Mia decided she liked this girl. She was quite bubbly but radiated a positive energy. Unlike many of the girls from Mia's old school.

"So what brought you here?" Mia asked the girl, as Rue and Fez began a separate conversation.

"Oh I moved here from the city with my dad, what about you?" Jules saw the girl pause slightly at the question. Obviously uncomfortable, however she plastered a small smile on her face and responded. "Oh you know, my dads work." Jules could sense that the girl wasn't telling the whole truth, but didn't want to push her.

After a few hours of hanging out with Fezco, Mia decided she had to go home. Her parents were still unhappy with her spending the night with a friend. When she told him this Fezco insisted on driving her home, which she accepted gratefully.

"Thanks Fezzie." She smiled, giving him a swift kiss on the cheek before jumping out of the car and walking up to her house. Her skirt blowing slightly in the wind behind her. Fezco waited until she was inside and then drove off with a small smile on his face.

Mia smiled to herself as she made her way inside, she had been smiling a lot more than usual lately. She couldn't help but blame the boy that she had been spending all of her time with for this.

"Where the hell have you been?" She heard her mother shout, turning the corner into the living room she saw both of her parents stood waiting for her. Their faces were stormy and she found herself becoming nervous.

"I was hanging out with a friend after school, sorry I forgot to text you."

"Stop with all of the lies! We got a call from your school today, they wanted to know why you didn't show up for any of your lessons. So what is it? Hmm? Where were you?" Her mother demanded as her father just stood there with a hard look on his face.

Well shit.

"And who was that that dropped you off? Do you have a secret boyfriend?" Her mother prodded further, Mia clenched her jaw.

"No I do not, look the truth is I slept in and missed most of my classes. So it wasn't worth going in anyway." She replied half truthfully, she had missed some classes.

"Honestly Mia, when are you going to grow up and stop being so irresponsible? You think you would have learned your lesson."

"And what lesson is that mother?" Mia hissed, feeling hurt but knowing there was truth to her words.

"Well you think after your little episode you would have learned to change your behaviour. Look at you, your falling back into all of your old ways. And to think we wasted all of that money on trying to help you." Mia felt her jaw tick as she digested her mother's words.

"Little episode? What you mean when I fucking cut my wrists open? When I literally tried to kill myself?" She spat, feeing all of her happiness from earlier vanish.

"Oh please, we all know that was just another one of your many cries for attention. You really need to grow up, this type of behaviour is completely inappropriate."

"Well I'm sorry my suicide attempt was such a fucking inconvenience for you. Next time I'll make sure to finish off the job right." Mia spat, running up to her room. She heard her parents calling after her, but she was too angry to continue their conversation.

Blasting her music as loud as possible to piss of her parents. Her hands fumbled on the zipper of her bag and she pulled out the baggie of coke she had bought from Ashtray earlier. She snorted 4 lines and lay on her bed, tears silently trickling down her face. She picked up her phone, her finger hesitated over his contact. She really needed to speak to him right now, speak to anyone.

"Fuck it," she decided pressing call.

She waited as she heard it ring, she cried harder as it continued to ring eventually going to voicemail.

What did you think? He's probably had enough of you, you followed him around all day like a helpless fucking puppy.

Mia bit her lip trying to avoid her inner thoughts.

Haven't you realised by now, your all alone Mia.

-

Fezco felt his phone buzz in his pocket, he quickly sent it to voicemail. Not looking at the caller ID.

He felt his hand reach to touch the gun he kept between the couch cushions. "Ayo Mouse let me pay for it, man." He told the older tattooed man. Rue lay almost unconscious on the sofa next to him. "I got the money right here." He stood counting out the bills of cash, handing them to Mouse.

"Big brother must really love you, cause that's gonna be 600 now."

"You gon do me like that, bruh?" He asked reaching for more money. He was angry at rue for not leaving when he told her to, now she was in a fucked up situation he never wanted her or Mia to have to meet this man. He was a dangerous mother fucker.

"Yeah I'm gonna do you like that bruh, straight up."

After Mouse and his boy left Fezco told Ashray to flush the Fentanyl. He called Jules and she assured him that Rue could stay with her. Fezco sighed in relief, that could have gone a lot worse.

Fezco was just grateful that Mia hadn't been there for any of that shit. His mind drifted slightly at the though of Mia and he couldn't help but smile. They'd really had a great day, up until all this shit went down with mouse. He sighed and decided to text the girl to see what she was up to.

Fezco frowned when he saw he had a missed call from her. He quickly called her back but got no answer. She's probably just sleeping, he thought to himself. But he couldn't quite push the feeling that something was wrong.