The song is Without Me by Eminem! Who doesn't love a little Eminem?!

(Hopes POV)

     "Remember to call me if anything happens and-" I kiss Evan on his cheek as take the AP pistol from his hand. Evan and I got lunch together and didn't notice anyone following us, now it was my turn to go out and see if anyone follows me.

     "And call Delirious if I notice anything I know. Evan have SOME faith in me jeez." I put the pistol in the sleeveless hoodie that Evan gave me and put my knife in the waistband of my shorts.

     "I have hope, not faith." He says giving me a smile. I put on his aviator sunglasses and look over at him.

     "Do I look cool now?" I say starting to laugh. He playfully rolls his eyes at me.

     "Just go before I change my mind." I continue to laugh as I close the door to the Deveste Eight and start it up. Evan taps on top of the roof as he starts to walk away. I take my phone off of mute as I put it on the phone holder.

     "You ready Del? I'm going to go to Del Perro Pier and go for a jog on the beach so it looks like I'm doing something, also might buy a mask at the mask store." I pull out of the garage and was greeted by the Los Santos sun. Del was a couple of blocks away so I'll be passing him before I get to the pier.

     "Ready, let's get this done because Autumn is waiting for me at home with dessert." He says starting to chuckle. I shake the image from my head, it was still lunchtime.

     I was jamming to the radio when I passed Del's car. I got to the next stoplight before seeing him pull away from the curb and was a few cars behind me. This blacked-out SUV has been following me for a few blocks now.

     "Just letting you know the SUV in front of you has been following me since I left the apartment, could be harmless but you never know," I say out loud to my phone. I look back in the rearview mirror and couldn't even see through the windshield of the SUV.

     "Taking a picture of the plates now so I can send it to Evan," Del says. I sit back in my seat as I lock my doors, can never be too careful.

     I got to the pier safely, however, the black SUV still followed me, it did take some back roads to make it seem like it wasn't following me, but it evidently was. I plugged in my headphones to my phone and put my phone in my pocket. I step out of the car and look around me, not seeing where the SUV went exactly.

     "I'm on a roof with a sniper to watch you. Do like a lap or two around the beach then go to the mask store." Delirious says in my ears. I put up my hood and start to jog to the trail around the beach.

     "You run like a pussy you know," Delirious says beginning to laugh. I want to stop and flip off the different buildings since I don't know where exactly he is. I just roll my eyes and continue to jog.

     "Why are you watching then? Shouldn't you be looking for oh I don't know the fucking people after me?" I say. I hear him take a sharp inhale.

     "Yeah yeah yeah. Oh shit, hold on Hope." He goes quiet on his end. I still jogged to avoid any suspicion.

     "Jon, what's going on?" I only called him by his real name when I was scared, which was hardly ever. He was still quiet on the line.

     "Jon, you there?" I really hope he didn't hang up or that we got disconnected. I jog to a stop and look at the rooftops, no surprise I didn't see him anywhere.

     "Jonathan, you have 10 seconds to answer before I call Evan." I started to count in my head as I pulled out my phone, we were still on the call.

    "Hey, can you hear me now?" Delirious finally says. I sigh and put my phone back in my pocket.

     "Yeah, I can hear you now. What happened, you alright?" I look away from the buildings and start jogging again.

     "I'm fine, there's four guys that got out of the SUV, they're keeping their distance but starting to follow you. They're in casual clothing so you won't be able to recognize them easily, I'll keep my scope on them." Even though I can't see him, I nod my head. I feel my lungs starting to regret this, but I keep on jogging. A few hundred yards in front of me, I see Sydnee jogging toward me. I don't know if she's seen me yet.

     "Jon we have a problem. She's here, she's a ways in front of me, and I don't know if she's seen me." I don't know if I should just risk jogging past her or turn around to the four guys.

     "Cut across the sand and go to the mask store, we aren't risking going either way. I'll let you know if they change course. I'm going to get Evan on the call." I do a 90-degree turn and jog through the sand and to the mask store, luckily no one caring.

     "What's happening, is Hope alright?" Evan says suddenly and in a quick tone. He picked up fucking fast.

    "I'm fine. I was followed by a blacked-out SUV the one that Del sent you a picture of. I'm at the beach and both Sydnee and four guys from the SUV are here." I reach in the hoodie pocket, making sure the AP pistol was still in there, it was.

     "She's fine Evan. You don't need to come... yet." Delirious says as I stop jogging and was now walking up to the small corner store. 

     I look at the different masks, acting like I'm interested in them. I pick up a black bandana with the bottom half of a skull on it. I go to the mirror and hold it up to my face, maybe another mask won't hurt anyone.

    "Fuck... I lost sight of all 5 of them. Hope I can barely see you, get away from there and just go back toward the pier." Evan started to cuss over Del.

    "I'm heading over there so you'll have more support Delirious. I don't like the 5 against 2 odds." Evan says. I look over at the clerk and see that he honestly doesn't want to be here right now. I stuff the bandana in my hoodie pocket and walk away from the store.

     "That's fine Evan, I was going to say that maybe you should get over here since another black SUV just parked next to Hope's car." So basically what Delirious is saying is, I'm fucked.

     "Not. Helping. Delirious." I can hear the stress in Evan's voice as I hear his car startup on his end of the call.

     "Let's not fight you two. Jon, can... can you see them again?" I feel my heart start to pick up, they wouldn't attack me in broad daylight... would they?

     "I see Sydnee again but not the guys. She's jogging your way, Hope." I looked up again and about ran into a much bigger figure. I look up even more and see Brock looking away from his phone and to me now.

    "Brock... what the hell are you doing here?" I say in a panicked tone. Both Evan and Del say 'Brock?' at the same time in my ears.

     "I'm going for a run, why are you here where's Evan?" I grab onto his forearm and start to pull in the direction I was going. I partially take out my AP pistol and show him it.

     "It's a long story but Sydnee and some guys are here and they're following me." I look over to him as he partially pulls out a Combat Pistol from his short pocket.

     Two guys turned the corner and were walking dead toward Brock and I. I glance behind me and two more guys were getting closer to us. These have to be the four guys from earlier.

    "Hope get out of there, NOW!" Delirious yelled in my ear. 

     I put my hand over the handle of the pistol. In the corner of my eye, I see Sydnee walk up to us. I glance over to Brock as he looks back at me. I take a deep breath and turn to look at Sydnee. The only thing that stood out to me from her was the cherry red lipstick she was wearing.

     "Let me talk to Puddin', please? I know you're talking to both Puddin' and Jonny boy. My guys can hear everything that they've been saying to you since you got here." I didn't budge, instead, I smiled at her.

     "Why are you so obsessed with me? I mean, I thought Evan was but damn, I think I have a new stalker. I'm flattered Sydnee but I don't roll that way." I kept my hand on my pistol as I kept my smile on my face. Brock starts to snicker next to me. 

     She clearly did not like that answer because she grabbed onto me and yanked my phone from my pocket. Ripping out the headphones from the phone and my ears. She smiles and holds the phone out in front of her. I go to grab it back but the guy behind me wraps his arms around me so I couldn't move. The guy behind Brock does the same to him.

     "Hello, you two, I missed you both. How have you guys been?" She asks as she looks up at the buildings' rooftops.

     "Let them both go and I'll... I'll talk to you personally if you want. I know you want Hope out of the picture and want back with me." Evan says with a sigh. I look over at Brock as he struggles to get out of the guys' grasp. She shoos the guys away as they start to pull us toward a small alley between two buildings, she follows.

      "Oh, Puddin' I would love that! But before we do that... we need to get rid of one little problem first." She looks over at me.

     "Go to hell." I spit at her face. She closes her eyes as she wipes away the spit off of her face.

     A black SUV screeches to a stop at the other end of the short alley. No, not again. I can handle myself, I can. I still had wiggle room to work with for my hands. I was able to get my pistol out and shoot it at the guy in front of Brock and I. Multiple bullets fly out as they hit the guy all over the place, he falls over, dead.

     "YOU GUYS CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!" She shoves my phone in her pocket as she takes out her own gun and points it at me. My gun was grabbed from my hand by the guy behind Sydnee.

     "Say goodbye you two." She says. 

     "Goodbye, you two," Delirious says as he shoots the guy behind Sydnee and the guy holding onto me with a silenced pistol. 

     The guy holding onto Brock quickly hit him between his neck and shoulder blade and Brock went limb, out cold. I grab my pistol from off of the ground and wrap my arm around her neck and bring the gun to her head. Delirious shoots again at Brock's guy and they both fall to the ground.

     "EVAN HURRY THE HELL UP!" Delirious yells out loud, hoping that either my phone or his can hear him. I push the gun harder into her head.

     "What do you want from me, Puddin'?" I ask her. I hear multiple car doors open and close from behind me.

     "I want you dead, you stole Evan away from me. So, I'm going to make you feel how I feel." She says. 

     A shot goes off and I feel it graze my side. I let go of her and bring both of my hands to my side. More shots go off and I look as Delirious is shooting at the guys behind us, I watch as a couple of bullets hit his shoulders. He falls to his knees as he grabs onto his shoulder and falls on his back. I suck up the pain as best as I can and grab onto her the back of her neck and smash it against the building to our right. I go to smash her head again, but felt my arms get pinned behind my back as the butt of a gun hits me in the back of my head.