My body froze. I could feel my cheeks warming up. "We'll....we kind of connected."

A scream filled my ears."Ai dios mio! I ship it. With everything in mi corazon. I ship it." I rolled my eyes at her reaction.

"We didn't kiss or anything, we just talked. There wasn't anything extravagant but it was just so beautifully ordinary. And I'll be honest it was the nicest conversation we had."

"Y'all cute. But like I said in the before....Just be careful. Don't get me wrong he a good dude. And I love home to death. But they are still Mancini's and I just don't want you to get hurt ok." I nodded.

"Oh before I forget, did you ever ask your dad about the Halloween party?" She asked.

Oh fuck. I had completely forgot to ask. "So don't get mad..."

"You forgot to ask??" She said with a frown. I nodded. "Yeah. I forgot to ask." I said sheepishly.

"If you don't go into that house and ask that amazing father of yours if you can go make bad decisions with me I swear I'll go in there and tell him you move been crushing on his bosses son." She said threateningly...

"That was weak threat." I said. She rolled her eyes.

"I know. I couldn't think of anything else. Now shoo. And text me when he say yes so we can plan when we are going costume shopping." She said as she was basically throwing me out of the car. She watched me as I walked up the stairs to my door and waited for me to go inside.

"Nemo! Is that you?" He screamed from the kitchen. I laughed to myself. "No dad. It's the ghost of Christmas past present and future." I said sarcastically.

"Ha ha ha. Your such a comedian. Anyways, how was the study?" He asked.

"It went pretty well. Um dad can I ask you something?" I asked him. Better to ask now rather than later. He nodded.

"Theres this party coming up and-" before I could finish he stopped everything he was coming and looked up at me. "No." Was all he said.

"Daddy! Please...i know I promised no parties, but you also promised that i could have the full experience. And high school and parties go hand and hand." I said begging him.

He put down the spoon he was using to stir and laid it down next to him. "I don't care if they go hand and hand. We just moved here and you already had an episode, and your expecting me to just let you go out to a party with a bunch of hoodlums..."he said in one breathe.

I smirked at the hoodlums line. I thought it was funny. "I promise I won't drink any drinks or take any thing and I'll be with Becks the entire time. We'll even leave early. Please dad. This will literally be the only party I go to. I'll even go to another check up with you. Please..." I beg. I know I'm gonna regret going to that stupid check up, but it was the only thing I could think of.

He looked at me with wide smile. "Really? Your willing to go to the check up?" I nodded cringing

"Fine. You can go. But be home by ten. And text me every hour. Deal?" I rolled my eyes as yelled out a pinky.

"Deal."

When my dad said yes I immediately ran upstairs and texted Becks. We agreed that this weekend we would go out looking for a few Halloween outfits.

"Btw...did you remember to text Tate about the project?" She sent me.

"I'm gonna finish up of the ideas and stuff and send it to him later, but thanks for reminding me cause I def forgot. I'll hit you up later."

After texting Becks I decided to start finding ideas for our visual. I looked online for inspiration and finally settled on an idea. I figured I should text him about my concept before I try to sketch it out. Or maybe I should call?

The phone started to ring before my mind could actually understand what I was doing. The phone began to rang, and began contemplating everything I did up to this very moment. The phone rang a little while longer, it felt like an eternity. I was just about to end the call til he suddenly answered the phone.

"Hello?" He voice came out breathy like he had just finish doing something and was out of breath.

"Hey. It's Meloni." I said.

"I know. What do you want?" He said annoyed. I rolled my eyes. "I just wanted to talk to you about the project." I said.

"I thought I told you to just text it to me when you were done..." and awkward silence fell between the two of us...I knew I should've just texted him.

"Look I'm about to start a match soon. Just send me what you got and we'll talk about it when we get to class tomorrow." He said

"So the rumors at school are true...you do do underground boxing?" I asked

"See you tomorrow Mildred." He said before hanging up the phone.

Tomorrow came a lot quicker than expected. "Chica! Are you ready to get your party on!?" Becks said as she began dancing her way to my locker.

I laughed at her shimmieing her way to me. "The party isnt until a few weeks from now." I said.

"So, we can shop and look for good costume til then. I'm thinking we be the evil stepsisters or i can be the evil queen and you can be maleficent. Two of the hottest villains in all of Disney." She said with an evil smile plastered on her face.

I rolled my eyes at her. "Speaking of evil, how'd the talk with Tate go last night?" She asked

"It didn't. I called and he said he was about to start a match so we will talk today at school." I said while shutting my locker. I look over to Becks and saw the confusion. "He said that?" She asked. I nodded.

Before I could ask her what was wrong a beaten and bruised Thomas walked pass us with a mean mug his bruised face. He walked passed without saying a word but if looks could kill me and Becks would ceased to exist.

"What the hell happened to him?" I said in a whisper. I looked at Becks face and she had the blank expression on her face again. "Let's go to class." She said, plastering a fake smile on her face.

"Becks?" I asked. She wrapped her arms around mine and we began walking to our class. "I'll tell you once I figured it all out, for now don't stress over it."

"Ok." I said confused and she began to pull me to our class. And I just followed in silence.

We arrived to our class and awkward silence filled the room. Everyone's eyes were set on the two Mancini boys who had small cuts and bruises on the cheeks.

What the hell happened to them?

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Hey guys I would like to say thank you for you guys patience and sorry for going MIA o you out of nowhere. Been having family drama. But I'm back and can't wait to get back to writing.