Enjoy this hilarious chapter! Figured we needed a little bit of humor in these dark times of Choices. The song is U-RITE by THEY (Rynx Remix)!

(Hopes POV)

"Let me be the first one to say... this is a really hostile environment," I say as I look at the wall.

The only way I can even be in the same room as Evan is if I stay looking at the wall, turned away from everyone. We all had our pistols loaded with the leftover sleep darts from when Jordan's gang came to the warehouse and just left the pistols.

"Well it's either this or you or I go into a separate room and talk with the walkie. So quit complaining." Evan says. I start mocking him which made Holly laugh next to me.

"I liked it better when you were choking me to death," I say. Brian scoffs as he turns to look at me.

"I bet you did you fucking kinky bastard, now hush." Brian turns to look at Del and Evan again.

"Look, I wanna know why the hell you didn't fucking shoot Jordan when you had the chance. One less person to deal with during this gang war." Craig says. Yeah, why didn't Marcel or Jon shoot Jordan?

"My hands were a literal full. Del and I were helping Brain and Evan out of the basement which required both hands. If there were more of Jordan's or James's guys upstairs, we would've been dead because our guns were strapped to us." Marcel says.

"Not to mention the mission was to get in and out of there with Hope and the two of them. I wasn't going to kill one and all of a sudden all of these guys come out nowhere and swarm the four of us." Jon says. The room grows quiet as I wait for someone to respond.

"Wait... did no one run into James or Seth? Just Jordan?" Lui asks behind me. Again the room is silent, meaning no.

"Those two were at the mansion, Seth injected me with this shit and just bolted out of the door," Evan says. I bring my hands to my mouth and gasp.

"This was their plan all along, it has to be. Hear me out." I say. Brian and Holly turn to look at me and I assume everyone else is looking at the back of my chair waiting for my response.

"Why do you think Jordan brought me back here? He had to of known I was going to tell you guys where I was at and what all he's done to me. He knows Brock would've dug deeper into finding out where they were because... they wanted to be found. They knew you guys were going to attack them, that's why they hid, that's why Jordan just let you guys go, this is his plan. Seth gave that shit to Evan because... well.... we're each other's weaknesses, to say the least. Guy's this thing is just getting started, we're only just at the beginning of this." I brush my hair back as the realization hit me as I was talking.

"Holy shit... she's... she has to be right. I can't think of anything else that would be a logical explanation," Craig exclaims. I look over at Brian as he gives me a scared look.

"I don't WANT her to be right, that's the thing." Evan groans out. I agree with him, if I'm right and this is only the beginning, then the future's only going to get worse.

"You guys just HAD to go to war with a dude who knows more about our own brains then we do ourselves," Ryan yells out. I let out a quick chuckle.

"Yeah, thanks a lot Evan." Brock teases.

"And don't go saying it's not your fault, because it is. I was there at the party just like everyone else." David chimes in.

"Enough everyone. Yes, my fault I get it, we need to start thinking of some gameplans to take out everyone in both the Rolling Crips and Wolf Syndicate, no survivors." Evan says. And now time for a nap because planning fucking sucks.

"And we're not waiting for them to attack us first, I want to get this done and over with so we can go back to doing other shit," Del says. Holly looks across the table confused.

"You look like you want to say something John, what's up?" Holly asks.

"That's because I do. I'm trying to make sense of all of this... Hope likes being choked? I'm slow at things I'm sorry but I COULD HAVE WON HER HEART IF I JUST STARTED CHOKING HER?!" John yells out. I slap my forehead and start laughing. Completely unexpected but that's John.

"Guys, come on, back to what's really important here," Evan says annoyed.

"Evan, this IS important. I never knew this about Hope, if we're going to work together, I need to know more about who I'm working with!" John exclaims.

"John, you're really pushing it, buddy. Her boyfriend and ex are in the same room as you right now," Bryce says.

"Hey John, let me tell you something... she doesn't only like to be chocked," Brian looks over at me and raises his eyebrows, "she has a daddy fetish too," Brain looks back to John.

"Go on, what else is she into," John says in an intrigued voice. I hold onto my stomach as I start dying in laughter now. Evan groans as I hear him flop back into his chair, thank god for a distraction from planning. Holly gasps as she looks at me.

"OH I HAVE SO MUCH DIRT ON HOPE THAT NONE OF YOU KNOW ABOUT, REMEMBER FRESHMAN YEAR HOPE?! BEFORE BRIAN CAME IN?!" She giddily gets out. I turn and look at her confused as she has an evil smile on her face. Wait a second, IS SHE SERIOUSLY BRINGING THIS OUT NOW?!

"Holly it was one time at the party! I'm straight!" I whine. I heard at least four chairs scoot back as people stood up, Brian included.

"SHE HOOKED UP WITH A GIRL AND YOU'RE JUST TELLING US THIS NOW?!" Brian shockingly yells out.

"I FUCKING KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! OUR FANTASY WAS FULFILLED!" Tyler yells out.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW HOLY SHIT!" Craig was freaking out like the rest of the guys.

"Anything else Holly? Pretty sure this meeting is done with thanks to John." I raise an eyebrow at her.

"So no one's gonna mention the sex tapes of Brian and Hope to these guys?" Autumn cockily says. She's seriously bringing THOSE up. What is up with everyone dishing dirt on me?!

"When did this become about me?!" I say as I start laughing. The meeting room door opened and was slammed shut.

"Uh oh, go... go get him, Evan." Brian wheezes out through his laughs. The meeting room opened and closed again. I turn my chair around and look at everyone. Evan runs down the hall not looking back at us.

"Okay, raise of hands, who HAS seen at least one of the videos," Brian ask as he looks around the room. Everyone except for, Holly's gang, Lui, David, and Brock, raise their hands.

"Tyler? You fucking hate Hope?! Why did you see it?!" Marcel asks Tyler.

"One word 'did'. I DID hate Hope. Now that I found out about her past, I think all the hatred is gone now." Tyler looks at me and smiles.

"Can I see these so-called videos?" Luke asks looking over to Brian and I.

"Be my guest, my friend." "No, you can't." Brian and I say at the same time. Luke got up from his chair and left anyway.

"There's no more dirt on me, I literally can't think of anything else that you guys can have on me." I look around the room at everyone.

"Now all she needs to do is do what she did in your guy's video with a girl," Tyler says to Brian. They both stand up and high five each other. I glare at Holly.

"You're an asshole you know," I look over to a still smiling Autumn, "AND SO ARE YOU." Autumn makes a kissy face to me.

"Love you too Hope." I roll my eyes and sit back in my chair.

"You know... I remember back in high school when you were like, 'I'm never calling a guy daddy it's gross and disgusting' what the hell happened to THAT?" Holly asks me. I shrug my shoulders.

"Childhood trauma, let's go with that, yeah." I look over at her and nod my head.

"Wait a second... why aren't those two back-... ARE THEY SERIOUSLY FUCKING WATCHING IT!" I get up from my chair but Brian grabs onto my arm and holds onto it.

"Hope! You can't just walk in on a man when he's enjoying the company of his own hand!" Brian manages to get out through his laughs.

"I CAN WHEN IT INVOLVES ME!" I stammer. Del stands up from his seat and looks at all of the people remaining.

"Since Evan isn't here with us right now... I have the power to say, meeting adjourned until... I believe 15 minutes? Isn't that how long one of the videos was?" He asks. I bring my hands to my face and shake my head.

"I'm going to go wash my eyes and ears out with bleach in the meantime." Brocks groans out as he gets up from his chair and leaves the room.

I was in the gym at the punching bag when I head exaggerated moaning behind me. I wipe the sweat from my forehead and look back at John as he crosses his arms and continues to do a horrible job on moaning.

"You better stop if you know what's good for you." I put my hands on my hips as he just does it louder. Brian sets the barbell back on the rack and looks at John.

"If you're going to tease her, you're going to have to do it better than that because right now you sound like a dying walrus," Brian smirks as he walks over to us.

"Yeah, her moans were short and to the point John, did you not watch any of the videos?" Luke nudges John which made him shut up.

"Oh no I did, I just think it's funnier the way I'm doing it." John looks over at Brian.

"You sir though, need help in the foreplay department, I felt bad for her! It was like a minute of foreplay at the max and then you just got right to it." Brians eyes narrow as he now glares at John.

"I don't hear Hope complaining if she was willing to make more videos." He snaps back.

"John, I'm about ready to fight you right here right now and I'm pretty sure Brian and Luke are just going to let it happen. So, want to say anything else there buddy?" I say. He looks me up and down and smirks.

"Oh, yes, right there." He mocks. I grab his throat and slam him down on the matted floor. I get on top of him as my grip tightens around him.

"Harder... daddy." He looks at me and actually fucking manages to smile. I scramble off of him in almost disgust as he sits up and lets out a small chuckle.

"You know what... I take everything I said back, Hope. I can see why you like being choked now." John says confidently. I groan out of frustration.

"Can you at least tell me that Evan still... isn't in his room." I look between Luke and John.

"No, he's not in his room... he's in his office get it right." Luke chuckles. It felt like my soul was leaving my body.

"STILL?!" My feet turned me around and made me walk out of the gym.

I can't go in there, so why am I even going there anyway. A stupid but still rational idea comes to my mind. I go to my room and grab my knife as well as my bandana and my pistol from earlier. I walk to the bathroom and close and lock the door behind me.

Am I really going to do this so there's a chance Evan won't recognize me? I grab a huge strand of my hair and slice it off to where the strand is now next to my ear. Too late to back out now. I grab another strand and go about the same length. I continue slicing the rest of my hair off and throw the cut strands into the trash can. Once done I drop my knife into the sink and take a step back away from the mirror in shock, I don't even look the same anymore. I'll get a professional to fix it up when I can.

I tie my bandana so it literally goes up just underneath my eyes and throw up the hood of my sleeveless hoodie. It's a short term fix to a short term problem... hopefully. I walk out of the bathroom and stride to his office where sure enough the door is closed. Just... walk in Hope. It's worth the chance, he'll understand if you have to shoot him and appreciate the attempt to see him.

I brace myself and open up the door. He's looking up the ceiling in... amazement or is that shock?

"I'm trying something and I want to see if it works so... don't be mad if it doesn't." I grip the handle of the pistol in my hoodie pocket.

I scared him back to reality as he looked over at me. I hold my breath waiting for him to react, he doesn't. I yank the hood down and watch as his eyes go wide, but he still doesn't react. Holy shit it's working.

"What the hell did you do to your hair?! You don't even.... you don't look the same." He says in realization as he stands up.

"You're not attacking me because of my mask and hair I bet." This is working, I get to see him face to face now finally.