"Baby, I could slow down If that's what you need me to do We can go another round Maybe to a new altitude"
The next day
Missy and Alaska had met up to go to Malaki's house, "Bub, someone's here to see you" his mom called out knocking on his door, she smiled at us before walking away
"Hmm? Hmm?" he questioned sitting up quickly, Missy walked into the room, Alaska following, her nose scrunched in disgust
"Oh, my God, Malakai"
"Are you trying to gas yourself?" Missy asked, Alaska turned around and stopped the music that was playing
Missy opened his curtains before sitting on the bed "Taking the breakup well then?" she asked motioning to the takeout boxes on his bed
Alaska sat on the bed next to Missy, "Oi, you gonna sit in here for the rest of the term?" she asked softly
"I dont know" he mumbled, Alaska and Missy took the blanket off of him
"Mm"
He sighed sitting up, looking between the two girls, "How do i keep getting this shit so wrong? I figured going with a guy would be easier. Less of a head-fuck, you know?"
"Oh, we hate to break it to you, but you fellas are the worst. It's al shrugs and grunts. I have no idea if my brother's will have a full-blown meltdown or they're just hungry" Missy explained, Alaska nodded in agreement
"In fairness, we are usually just hungry, so..." Malakai chuckled
"Oi"
"Hm?"
"Do you guys think it's weird if a guy only wants to go down on you?" Missy asked outta the blue
"Oi, you got a boy toy all the sudden, eh?" Malakai smiled, "Missy, who is it? Tell us the tea" Alaska laughed
"Oh, no one you guys know. But yeah, no. He only wants to eat at the downstairs restaurant and nothing in return"
"Pretty sus. I dont know, maybe he's got another woman" Malakai shrugged, Missy shook her head right away
"Tsk. No, that's not it"
"Then, i dont know"
"Oh! Maybe he's got a bent budoo, or an infection" Alaska shrugged, the two laughing
"I dunno... Maybe he's just not that sure about you"
"Well, maybe Rowan's not that sure about you" Missy snapped,
"Yeah" Malakai sighed
"No, you know what? Fuck this. Fuck that. We're not the problem. Us there, we're bloody bisexual icons" Alaska shook her head standing up
"Yeah, yeah. I mean, our old people didnt fight for us to sit here and talk about people that are just blessed to have our attention" Malakai nodded looking at her
"For now on, we cut. No questioned asked" Missy added standing up
"No answers needed" Alaska nodded
"If it disturbs my peace, jog on, cunt" Missy smiled
"Oh, fucking oath"
"Amen"
"Self-improvement, who needs it?"
"Not us"
"I love you guys!" Alaska smiled, her and Missy jumping onto Malakai
"I love you guys, too" Malaki smiled at the two girls
Alaska and Ant were in the living room watching a movie, the two looked at each other confused before getting up and going over to the door
Alaska opened the door to reveal a crying Quinni, "Quin?" Alaska questioned, Quinni hugging the girl as she cried
"Let's go sit, ok?" Alaska spoke softly, Ant shut the door behind the two, the three of them making their way to the living room
"W-we went to the zoo, a-and i just felt left out about everything. Amerie shot her campaign video and didnt even tell me about it, Rowan helped her, every second i felt like i was about to panic. Something might be happening between Rowan and Amerie, Malakai and Rowan broke up. Then we'd be looking at animals, they'd walk away and didn't tell me. Darren, Harper and cA$h are moving in together. This is the only thing i felt in control about, and everyone wants me to stop doing it, i was told i was doing it wrong. Then Darren and I talked, i just wanted thing's to go back to the way they were, everything's going by really fast and i just want it to slow down. I-I told Darren how i felt like i was always playing by their rules and not mine, they told me to stop. I think we're not longer friends" Quinni cried out, holding onto Alaska who was rubbing her bag
"Quinni, breathe" Alaska spoke softly as she grabbed her face, "Hey, breathe, ok?" she added, Quinni closed her eyes as she began to clam down
"I understand how you feel about being left out of stuff and all that. Im glad you told Darren how you really feel, but i think you guys just need to sit and talk it out, ok? Everything is moving on really fast since everything happened, i know you want it to slow down, and we can try to slow it down, ok? But i just need you to breathe for me. Everything's going to be ok. Darren loves you, they're just caught up with Ca$h at the moment. Im sorry i didn't come to the Zoo with you. And for Amerie's that's a little shit that she didnt at least tell you what she was planning, i know they didnt wanna bother us but i think we both would of felt better if they just kept us up to date with everything. I am really glad that you told them how you feel, it's better then staying quiet and bottling it up"
"I didnt wanna be a burden to anyone so i didn't say anything, i just felt like i was wasn't even there. like, they were talking about things i had no idea about, and like i said, this is the one thing i felt like i had control over, i just kept getting told that we should stop, or I'm doing it wrong"
"Hey, how about for the night we forget about them? We can stay up and watch movies, ill have Ant go to the store and get us a bunch of junk food" Alaska offered
Quinni nodded smiling, "Id like that"
"Well then im off to the store" Ant called out, the two girls laughed looking at each other
3rd person pov
Quinni voice over
"A new chapter had begun"
Ant sat on Quinni's bed, he watched Alaska and Quinni take down the Bird Psycho board
"Angeline had returned from the underworld and could now see things clearly.
Quinni reached over and grabbed Malakai's picture
"She finally understood the way things really work"
Malakai sat in his room, his parents came over to tell him they're moving
"And with that truth came clarity about who she really was"
Spider was laying in his bed, his laptop on his lap playing a movie he wasn't even watching, he was looking at Missy as she slept on his chest
"About the choice she had made"
Cash made his way over to the window pickup at Harrys, "Let's do it" he said leaning on the counter between Harper and Darren
"Let's move in together" he added, Harper and Darren looking at each other excitedly
Quinni placed the box down as she grabbed Darren's picture off her wall
"And in that moment she realized the real enemy had been under her nose the whole time"
She leaned over and grabbed Amerie's picture off of her wall
" In those she thought she could trust the most"
Rowan sat in his work room area, nervously bouncing his leg he opened a drawer taking notebooks out, he grabbed a black notebook, Quinni's phone sat under it
He shut the drawer and opened the notebook
"And as for the Demon King.."
On the page there was already a bunch of "Forget Amerie's written down, he wrote a few more underlining them twice
The same "Forget Amerie" that was on the note Amerie found, the one she assumed was Malakai's
"... he was someone else's problem now"
Alaska and Quinni stepped back from the now bare wall