The song is Take What You Want by Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, and Travis Scott! I'm sorry if I repeat songs! I find one that goes with the chapter and go with it!

(Evans POV)

     I was told to wait, by everyone. I got ahold of Delirious and Autumn and told Autumn what Hope told me to tell her. She told me she would text their friend and I would have to wait for her. It's been a week already and I still didn't receive a call or text or anything from their friend. I checked every states prisoner list every single day in case the feds caught her, she wasn't in the system either. One week turned to two weeks, which turned to three weeks. I continued to punch at the punching bag at the new clubhouse, although it wasn't a clubhouse it was more or an abandoned building that we all cleaned up and called our own. It was much better than the actual clubhouse.

     "You can't keep torturing yourself over a girl Evan. You're becoming worse than Brian and Craig." Delirious says leaning at the wall next to me. I give the punching bag one last punch and grab onto it. Sweat practically pouring down my face. I've been going at this for at least an hour now, my muscles were screaming at me to at least take a break.

     "I could be acting like them and just not talk to anyone. I'm taking my anger out in a healthy way, is that a problem?" I wipe away the sweat and continue punching. Delirious leans away from the wall and grabs the punching bag.

     "You knew her for a month Evan, a fucking month. She helped us with the heist finale and that was it. Yes, she finally became a part of our gang but it's nothing like what we all have together." Delirious says. Craig comes in, dressed in black sweatpants and a grey muscle shirt. Just like me, he's taking his anger out with working out for the past few weeks.

     "Hell, she probably took the money and ran. Any sane person would so they wouldn't get caught by the feds." Delirious lets go of the punching bag and looks at me. I go back to punching, which made him sigh and walk out of the room.

     I continued taking my anger out on the punching bag when my phone started ringing on the table. It wasn't my normal ringtone and I knew why. Once I had Hope and Autumn's friend's contact number, I specifically made her ringtone different from everyone else's so I knew exactly it was her when she called. I also made everyone memorize the ring in case I was without my phone. I heard a hard thud on the floor. I look over and see Craig dropped the barbell on the floor and was staring at the phone now. I run over to it and answer it, putting it on speaker so we can both hear.

     "Tell me where the fuck she is now." I was even more pissed now, why three weeks instead of as soon as she got in contact with Hope.

     "First off, you don't talk to me like that. Hope isn't allowed to leave Liberty City till all the money is transferred into my account. She wants to give most of the money to my gang and I because she knows she'll be just fine back in Los Santos. Not to mention she just got here a couple of days ago, she ran into a lot of problems you know," I slammed my fist on the table. I need an answer now.

     "THEN WHEN THE FUCK IS SHE COMING BACK?! LET ME TALK TO HER!" I was yelling now. All the guys run into the workout room now, confused as to why I was yelling and slamming the table.

      "Warren told her 5-6 months to get all the money transferred into both of our accounts so she has to lay low for a while. She's staying with me until then, I've been helping her adjust to life here. Vanoss, she's my friend too, I won't let anything happen to her while she's here. She's safe with my gang as she is with yours." I felt everything around me disappear, I won't see her till December or January. Brian snatched the phone from my hand. I didn't fight for it back.

     "Holly it's Brian, hi how are you doing haven't talked to you in a while." He says calmly, how in the hell does he know her?

     "Hey Brian, yeah it has been a bit, miss having everyone together," Holly says. I take a deep breath to calm myself down.

     "All of us want to talk to Hope, can you put her on for us?" He says looking around to everyone. I look back at him, please say yes.

     "She's sleeping right now, I can go wake her up but don't yell at me if she starts yelling at you guys." I hear her get up as she starts to walk, then I hear a door creak open. I knew I was getting closer to hearing her voice.

(Hopes POV)

     "Hey, please don't kill me but I finally got ahold of them. They want to talk to you." Holly says as she sits at the foot of the bed. I open my eyes and sit up as fast as my body would let me. It hurt to even move, the bruises and cuts all over me really didn't help. I take the phone and put it to my ear.

     "Hello?" I say as loud as I can which was only a whisper. Come to find out, having your windpipes almost crushed to death will cause you to not be able to talk, thankfully Holly was able to get a neck brace for me to help it heal. I hear a mix of gasps as well as sighs of relief.

     "HOW ABOUT AT LEAST TRYING TO GET IN CONTACT WITH US?! HOPE WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD." Brian yells. I tightly shut my eyes, not wanting to cry another time today. I open them and hand the phone to Holly. I make a writing motion, I still want to talk with everyone.

     "Guys I'm going to translate for Hope, she really can't talk right now." She gets up and goes to the dresser, grabbing a notebook and pen. She turns on the light to my room and hands me the notebook and pen.

     "Why the hell can she not talk? Why aren't you explaining anything to us?" Evan said. I can tell he was getting pissed. I open the book and began to write as quickly as I could.

     "Hi guys, I'm fine thanks for asking," Holly says sarcastically. I made sure to write sarcastically then seriously after it. The guys all got quiet as I wrote again.

     "Who would've known that almost every gang from Los Santos to Liberty City wanted these drugs, cause I sure as hell didn't, and I paid for not knowing," Holly said, giving me a sorry face. I continue to write out everything that happened.

     "What do you mean by that? Hope what the hell happened? What did they do to you?" Craig spoke up. I looked at her and shook my head no and pointed at the paper.

     "I had to go back to Las Vegas once I reached Utah because of RV troubles and the only guy who could fix it was the guy who gave me the RV, which took a couple of days till I was on the road again." Holly sighed as she knew what was next.

     "From Utah till I got here in Liberty City. I was followed by different gang members, cut up, and beat up for these drugs. I was able to kill everyone till Liberty City." Holly said. I try to catch my breath, trying to calm myself down.

     "Once I got to the guy I needed to deliver to, he almost strangled me to death because he was missing a few bricks of cocaine. Come to find out, one of the gangs was able to take a few without me noticing and I paid the price for it. Warren was able to calm him down and tell him a few isn't going to matter, that he still got what he asked for. I found Holly and she has been helping me heal, I can barely move with how sore I am." Holly says. She grabs onto my hand and gives it a friendly squeeze.

     "I need to see her, send me a picture of what she looks like now," Evan says. Holly looks at me as I shake my head no quickly.

      "I don't think now is the best time Vanoss. You won't be able to recognize her, I barely did." She says. He's going to be stubborn and knowing me I'm going to give in to his pleas.

     "Holly, let me see Hope," Brian said, catching me by surprise. She looks at me again for an answer. 

     I'm going to fucking regret this. I nod my head and move the blanket off of me so she can get a better picture. I was wearing a gray tank top and gray shorts, basically showing off every bruise and cut that I had, even my neck brace. She gives me another sorry look as she gets up off the bed and holds the phone out in front of her. I see the flash go off as she lowers the phone. I cover myself with the blanket again and lay back down. Holly sits at the end of the bed again.

     "Okay... I'm sending you the picture now." She taps around on her phone before holding it back out so we can hear.

     The other end went quiet for a good little bit, did they hang up? I heard something huge hit a wall or something making Holly and I jump. Now to only figure out who did that. I heard a couple of the guys yell before they got quieter.

     "Holly I want you to listen to me. I'm going to LSIA and heading to Liberty City and getting Hope, I need her at the airport in a few hours." Evan said. My eyes went wide as I started to cry, she knew why he couldn't come. I wasn't even supposed to be with her but Warren made an exception to her.

     "Evan you can't. You won't even make it past LSIA Warren has his men everywhere to prevent you or her from leaving Liberty City or Los Santos. He's wanting to get all the money through and finalized. Only until then is when she can leave. She told me what will happen if someone she knows intervenes." I close my eyes as I hold out my hand for the phone. Holly places it in my hand and I bring it to my ear.

     "I love all you guys." I manage to get out. It felt like razor blades were scrapping my throat up, but everyone of them needed to know that, they were starting to become my family, even if I wasn't theirs. I hand the phone back to Holly and close my eyes. I felt her get up as she turns off the light and walks out the door, closing it behind her.