Payton, a normal girl finally figuring out the ropes of adulting. A nice apartment with her boyfriend, and her boyfriends annoying best friend. A steady well-paying job, all sensible people's dream. That was until her boyfriend went away for work and his best friend, asks for her help. It was nothing too difficult, just acting like his girlfriend around his boss to make a good impression. But he left out the part where his boss, was one of the biggest gangsters around. She is thrown in with the sharks, where this sensible girl's normal life, becomes anything but normal. She has to fight her way through all the criminal twists and turns, leaving her unsure of her place in the world. To make matters worse, her pretend boyfriend confessed his own feelings for her! Police, murder, and relationships turn her life upside down. Follow her story to find out what being The Step In Girlfriend really entails.
View MoreI 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.*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
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,
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
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
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
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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