Chapter 14: Chapter 14

"Are you serious?" I laughed with a snort, Randall was telling me about the time he and his brother tried to avoid an ass whooping from their mom by trying to talk street smart out of trouble but they still got their asses beat, how could they possibly think they were going to get out of trouble by trying to outsmart their mom it probably made her angrier. He kept talking about his brother in the past tense as if he were dead or maybe it was just the way his brother was when he was a kid and he's a changed man now or maybe I was just reading too much into this.

"He was a reckless idiot but he knew how to have fun," Randall laughed with a sad sigh at the end,

"You alright?" I asked

"Ya just miss him sometimes," he said

"You should introduce us I'd love to meet him someday," I smiled gently

"Ya he would've liked you," he smiled a sad smile making me feel sorry for him.

"Anyway sorry to dampen the fun, tell me about your sister?" He changed the subject quickly

"Oh Haley where to start with that one," I scoffed

"Haley and Harley huh your mom was pretty creative with that," he chuckled

"You're telling me, the moment people hear my name they have this idea that I'm badass as Harley Quinn herself but instead I'm just meek, pretty hard to live up to that," I sighed

"I hear you but define your name don't let other people define it for you," he gently said, he always knew the right words to say without even trying gentlemen need to get some classes on how to treat and respect women from Randall because he was drawing all the right cards before I could even read them or maybe he just researched all the write words and was a serial killer in secret coaxing woman into his home to commit unspeakable acts and then kill them after. I was too trusting for my good as Cole said so I needed to keep my eye out for the red flags before it's too late.

"Thank you so much for tonight I had such a wonderful time," I said once we finished dinner and stood outside the chill night staring deep into each other's alluring eyes.

"I had a wonderful time too we should do this again," he smiled

"We should," I beamed, silence surrounding us once more as neither of us had any clue what to say next as a cloud of electrical attraction danced between us.

"We should go, it's getting pretty late," I broke the silence, the chilly air nipping at my exposed skin.

"Right of course," he said as if he was caught in a trance and just got out, we walked to his car and he opened the door for me like the gentleman that he was.

"Thank you," I said

"Anytime milady," he smirked, getting into the driver's side and cranking up the heater as I rubbed my hands for warmth. The radio filled the silence on our way to my place and I lowly hummed to the music. The road was fairly empty since it was eleven in the night.

"Thank you again for tonight," I thanked Randall once we arrived at my place

"Don't mention it, I should thank you for making tonight such a memorable one," he said, making me feel like a giddy schoolgirl.

"Night," I said

"Night," he said, getting into his car with a light wave and left, once he was out of view I twirled around the spot with a happy squeal.

I hummed to Pharrell Williams' Happy song as I unlocked my door with a wide smile that was plastered on my face.

"Mh what's got you so high and mighty," Lila asked me, noticing my very good mood, she had turned my lounge into a cinema with all the lights off and blinds closed the only source of light coming from the tv and her phone she was typing on.

"Oh nothing," I hummed heading to my bedroom turning the passage light on, Lila hissed like a snake dramatically and flipped me the bird.

"Don't be so dramatic," I told her

"My eyes," she groaned, covering the blanket over her head. I just rolled my eyes at her childishness and changed into my onesie. Yes, I wore a onesie. They had no age limit and they were just so warm and fluffy who wouldn't want to own one.

"Lights off," I said, using my phone as my torchlight, navigating to the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea because I was cold.

"Quick question, why do you have a vault?" Lila asked me, my heart nearly stopped.

"Oh that came with the place it's not like I own this flat so I can't just throw it away and I liked it so I kept it," I rambled on glad she couldn't see my shaking form

"Oh makes sense," She said, making me sigh in relief, "Then why do you have Veronica's phone?" My mug slipped through my hands and shattered on the ground.

"How the hell did you get into my safe?" I angrily asked

"Oh, so it's yours now?" She asked with a raised brow.

"Shut up and answer the question," I was practically shaking like a leaf just trying to find a good enough explanation as to why I had that phone.

"Pretty easy, I mean everyone knows you have a thing for Cole so I just tried his birthday and at first I thought I was being stupid with such an easy password but then again this is you we're talking about," she shrugged her shoulders

"Hey! what is that supposed to mean," I exclaimed, hurt by her remark.

"And if you're trying to impersonate her you're doing a terrible job," She said, shaking her head side to side.

"Well excuse me I don't exactly have a 'fuck everyone' switch that I could just turn on and off," I argued

"True you're too soft that's your problem," she said

"Fuck you," I swore at her

"Well if you wanna, who am I to deny you that pleasure," she teased

"God shut up," I groaned, texting my sister to get to my place asap because I was freezing up like a lagging laptop.

Haley: Why on earth would I come to that side this ungodly hour?

Me: Lila found out that I have Veronica's phone and I'm freaking out here

Haley: You idiot I knew something like this would happen, distract her I'll be there in less than ten minutes

That last message was a bit concerning because it took about twenty minutes to get to my place from hers. How could I be so stupid and let this happen now what was I going to tell Lila to make her believe I put that phone in a safe for a completely good reason that I didn't know of yet.

"Who are you texting?" Lila asked with narrowed eyes

"Uh just Cole," I awkwardly said

"Oh we should video call him I wanna see what France looks like at night," she excitedly said

"Uh he's busy watching a movie with his mom," I lied my skin crawling in shame

"Oh bummer maybe tomorrow then," she was acting way too calm for my liking

"Ya," I muttered looking back at my phone tapping my foot repeatedly hoping it would summon Haley this instant. I didn't like pressure let alone being put on the spot. It just brought the worst in me. I acted irrationally and got aggressive quickly.

"Who could that be?" Lila asked as we heard loud banging on my door, bless the lord Haley was here. I practically ran to the door putting the lights on.

"Haley, what a surprise," I awkwardly smiled, "What are you doing here so late?" I asked

"Oh cut the bullshit, I don't have time to play games, I have a very cranky nanny to get back to," she bitterly said, shoving me out the way as she walked inside, that's my sister for you.

"Oh hey, Haley didn't know you were coming over," Lila greeted her

"Me neither," Haley grumbled scanning the place for god knows what as I locked the door.

"So what brings you here?" Lila asked

"I could ask you the same question," Haley said

"I'm going to take a wild guess and assume this has something to do with me finding out you have Veronica's phone," she guessed with a raised brow

"Ding ding you do have a brain in there after all," Haley rolled her eyes heading to the kitchen and grabbing my meat carving knife, Lila immediately stood up alarmed.

"What are you going to do with that?" Lila asked scared out of her mind

"What do you think I'm going to do with it?" Haley asked toying with the knife in her hand

"Haley?" I asked alarmed when I asked for her help I didn't expect her to come ready to commit murder for me.

"Oh relax you don't even have to watch it'll be over in a jiffy though I would advise covering your ears Lila is kind of a screamer," Haley nonchalantly said like this was an everyday run of the mill scenario.

"God no," I said standing in front of Lila, "You're not going to kill her," I said

"Then what do you suggest we do genius?" She asked

"I don't know, talk to her?" I quickly said not sure what to say

"I don't wanna die I'll do whatever you want," Lila cried

"Oh relax doll I wasn't going to harm a hair on your pretty little head, I just wanted to scare you, did you piss your pants?" Haley chuckled, putting the knife back, I nearly slapped her for scaring the shit out of me.

"A little," Lila answered in a small voice making me stare wide at her, "Don't judge me your sister is the devil incarnate," she cried

"I take that as a compliment," Haley beamed, of course, she would.

"Now down to the actual reason why I'm here," Haley said, sitting down and gesturing for Lila to sit down to which she hesitantly obeyed.

"Ya veronica's dead and neither of us killed her she killed herself by tripping over her own feet and falling Cole's fleet of stairs, dumb bitch she was," Haley explained

"What! then why didn't you go to the cops?" Lila asked in disbelief

"I told her that but it was too late she burned the body and created a crime scene for no apparent reason," Haley pointed at me

"That was a very dumb move even for me," Lila shook her head at me

"You can say that again," Haley agreed

"Oh leave me alone, I don't work well under pressure," I grumbled through gritted teeth,

"So that's why you have her phone and that she magically moved to Italy," Lila said

"Ya pretty much" Haley answered

"Quick hint you guys suck at covering up a crime scene," Lila said

"If we suck so badly then why hasn't anyone found out yet?" I challenged dumbly, Haley smacked me at the back of my head.

"Ignore the idiot, why do you think that?" Haley asked

"Because Diana is heading to Italy to supposedly drag Veronica back home because she's wasting her dad's money and once her dad checks Veronica's account to find no money used that's going to raise suspicion like involving the police," She explained, making my gut twist uncomfortably.

"Oh god I'm going to jail," I cried shaking Haley's shoulder roughly

"Oh stop being so hysterical, we just need to figure out a plan is all," Haley said, shoving my hands off her.

"Ooh I have an idea but it's going to cost you two," Lila said deviously

"If this favour involves anything sexual I'm out," I immediately said

"It does one hundred per cent, so either that or I go spill the beans," Lila said

"Or you shut your mouth and I don't shove that knife down your throat" Haley threatened Lila who gulped and nodded repeatedly,

"Ok so now we've established that none of this leaves this room. Does anyone have an actual plan?" I asked

"I do before Haley threatened my life, and it's quite simple," Lila proudly

"Well are you going to say it or are we going to sit here all night," Haley asked

"The first step is..." the more I listened to her crazy plan the more sense it made and I couldn't believe I was saying this but it was quite genius.

"Wow first smart thing you've ever said for the first time in your life," Haley said

"That's a compliment I'll take it," Lila beamed

"Simpleltin," I muttered under my breath.

So Haley decided to sleep over and let Kyle's nanny take care of him. In the morning we executed part one of the plan which was pretty simple, Lila goes to Veronica's place with her spare key and gathers some clothes or anything with Veronica's DNA which could just be a toothbrush or hair from her hairbrush. Meanwhile, Haley and I will head to Cole's place and invite the crew over for a mini party without Veronica and Haley will try and get Michi's phone since he took videos of me and Veronica fighting to delete the video and drop his ass. While we're at the party Lila will be at Michi's place planting some evidence of Veronica being there and since he was known for being a major creep we'll hide Veronica's phone somewhere in his house making sure all evidence leads back to him because everyone knew Michi had a huge crush on Veronica and this would seem like a crime of passion if he couldn't have her no one could, case closed.

It was a crazy plan, one that might not even work but it was the only one we had at the moment so we were following through with it. As our friends arrived one by one we offered them as much alcohol as possible even got a bit of weed Cole stashed away that he didn't know I knew about so I had to pay him back for it later, ya he was going to kill me when he found out. If there was one thing Cole didn't want me touching was his weed it was like his baby but I touched it and I had the feeling he already could sense I took it.

According to the plan when everyone was high and seeing talking stars Haley took Michi aside out of view, while I kept our guest happy and didn't think anything was off. I had the easiest job because according to Haley I'd fuck everything before it even began which was true, I was already sweating and dying to say something or hand myself to the cops on a silver platter and no one said anything about Veronica yet but I had the feeling she was cursing me down in hell. I was a horrible sidekick and the worst murderer, accomplice ever to walk the earth, I was fidgety and I had such bad stomach cramps that weren't helping in the slightest with my situation.

If I had the chance mother nature would be the woman I murder without care for creating periods, I mean damn girl you just had to include the damn cramps that were a major pain. It was a cruel process of life that I wish to unsubscribe from for all of eternity, periods make me wish I was a boy at times the luxury of having no periods or hormonal episodes were a dream but alas I was a female and had to suck it up because our ancestors raised no bitches if they could handle it with fewer resources then we had today then we sure as hell can get through it with ease.