Chapter Twenty  One drink turned into two... Which turned into three… and before I knew it, I was at least 9 drinks down and starting to lose my senses. Me and Alex were all over each other and to be completely honest, I didn’t care if Ron liked it or not. Maybe if he paid more attention to Jemma and less about what I am doing with Alex, she wouldn’t be off with Allan every chance she got. ‘Harley, Come dance with me!’. Sarah shouted, grabbing my wrist and pulling me towards the dance floor. Obviously, she wasn’t drinking, she was pregnant… insanely pregnant at that, but she was just having fun, and that is the kind of positive energy everyone needed.  I really wasn’t much

Chapter TwentyTwo  As soon as Ryan’s lifeless body dropped to the floor with a bullet hole in the dead centre of his forehead, all the guys erupted, shouting over each other, wanting to know what was going on, asking Harry what the fuck was he thinking, asking me what the hell had happened, it was all just too much. ‘Alex, will you get her out of here while we deal with this!?’ Ron shouted over everyone and before I could respond, Alex was pulling me away from the scene unfolding in front of me and towards the apartment.  Ryan was dead.  He was gone.  Harry shot him!  

Chapter TwentyFour After having such a serious and depressing morning, Alex took me to get ice cream before we went back to the garage. I seem to be living on a diet of Ice cream and frozen treats at the moment, but, It was California and it was scorching hot! If that wasn’t an excuse, I don’t know what is!  We went and sat down at a picnic bench and I couldn’t help a few people looking over at us. I smiled and Alex noticed. ‘What’s got you smiling?’ I shook my head, ‘No, Come on, What?’ ‘Well... People are staring at us, I just find it a bit humorous’. He looked up and scanned the park, I noticed the people who had been looking now suddenly weren’t. 

Chapter TwentySix ** A few weeks later **  Things had been a bit stressful recently. I moved in with Alex a few weeks ago, as planned and Ron did everything he could to stop it. He really really didn’t approve. Even Jemma told him to just back off and let me live my life the way I want to, with Alex, but he was so flat against it and to be honest, It was starting to drive a wedge between us. Everyone else was happy for us though which was nice. I tried not to get Ron or his attitude to get to me, but at the end of the day, he was my dad and it hurt that he wasn’t supportive of someone I clearly loved very much. Alex told me the night I moved in, Ron had pulled him aside and basically threatened him to try and get A

Chapter TwentyEight As soon as we were in the bedroom, I slammed the door closed behind myself and instantly pounced on Alex, making us both fall back onto the bed. I was on top of him so felt slightly more in control than normal, normally he takes the lead but… I don’t know, maybe it was the insane amount of alcohol in my system, maybe it was because I was in my old bedroom and felt more in charge, either way, I WANTED to be in control and Alex realised that pretty quickly.Our kissing continued as we moved into a sitting position so it was easier for me to unbutton the nice, black button up shirt he had put on this evening, and throw it randomly on the floor… followed quickly by my dress and I pushed him back down again, shimmying down his body, trailing kisses, until I reached his trousers. I stole a cheeky look up at him as