(Holly's POV)

     Sleep over at my house tonight? It's the weekend and my dad is leaving for his go kart race that's tomorrow and my sister and mom are going with him and said that I can have you two spend the night.
Wow, why was that message so long? I look up from my phone and turn around to look at Hope.

"You know that I'm literally a couple inches in front of you? Why do you have the need to text both (Y/N) and I if we're right here?" I ask her. She starts to shush me and goes back to typing on her phone. I sigh and decided to respond to her.

Yeah fine by me. I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything anyways since I really don't have a life. I hear (Y/N) scoff before she turns to look at me.

"Okay yes you do so shut up." She says with a smile on her face. Mr. Baker clears his throat and I look up at him as he stands at his desk.

"Did you three ladies hear me?" He asks. Hope starts to laugh which caused (Y/N) to laugh and ended in me giggling a little. The whole class erupted in laughter. Mr. Baker sighs and looks back down at his computer.

"I said that we'll be working with a partner for our next speech and I was discussing on what it would be about. Pay more attention ladies." He says. We slowly quiet down and wait for Mr. Baker to call out groups.

     "Since there's an odd number of people there's going to be a group of three and that is, Craig, Hope, and Cristiano." He says. It seemed like our small group that we had instantly went quiet before a loud thud was heard. I look over and saw that Craig slammed his head on his desk.

     "Next group is Holly and Evan." He says. Well, at least I can get along with him and not have any arguments.

     "After them it's (Y/N) and Brian." I smiled a little at that one knowing how (Y/N) felt towards him.

     Mr. Baker kept on listing off random groups in the class and then afterwards we were allowed to talk with one another cause we only had a few minutes left of class. Craig kept his head remained on his desk while Hope and (Y/N) surrounded my desk.

     "So..... how about this speech....." I say. Hope shakes her head and looks at the ground.

     "Don't get me started please. I honestly don't know what to expect." (Y/N) says. She leans in closer as does Hope.

     "Especially who I'm paired up with." She says before laughing a little. We all began to laugh with her.

(Your POV)

     I walked into Hopes house and found her and Holly in the kitchen, already eating pizza. I throw my overnight bag on the couch and walk over to the kitchen while grabbing a slice of the pizza.

     "Well I can see Holly didn't pick the topping because there's no pineapples on it." I say. Hope begins to laugh while Holly just rolls her eyes.

     Someone started to beat on the back door which caused all of us to jump and Holly to scream. I heard Evan begin to laugh before coming in from the back door.

     "You know you can be a real dick sometimes. No wonder why no one loves you." I say to him. He shrugs his shoulders and sits up on the counter.

     "So why aren't you hanging out with Cris tonight Hope? Thought you would've since you know.... it's Friday night?" He asks of more of a question. She shrugs her shoulders before getting up onto the counter as well.

     "To maintain a healthy relationship there needs to be SOME space. I don't feel like being suffocated all the time." She says. I look away for a second and roll my eyes. Or he did something to piss her off, most likely that.

     We spent an hour in the kitchen and actually finished up the whole box of pizza before going into the living room to play on the Wii. We all had a blast playing on it and ended up making it a competition with Just Dance, which ended after a little bit after someone was rapidly beating on Hopes door, loud enough for the whole street to hear. All of us jumped again at the suddenness.

     We sat on the couch all looking at one another waiting for someone to move or even speak.

     "Fine, let the big strong man handle this one." Evan said while getting up off the couch and to the door, all of us walking closely behind him.

     He cracks open the door big enough so all of us can see. A girl in her early 20's with red tangled hair and clothes dirty as can be stands there practically crying her eyes out. I took a step back as did Holly. Hope remained behind Evan.

     "PLEASE YOU HAVE TO LET ME IN! SOMEONE IS CHASING ME AND THEY HAVE A GUN!" She yells through her sobs. Evan looks back at us for a couple of seconds before looking back at the girl.

     "I'm sorry, our parents are going to be home any minute. I'm not allowed to let anyone in the house without them home. I can call 911 if you want." He says calmly. Is he crazy?! We have to help this girl!

     "NO DON'T CALL THEM! THEY'RE GOING TO KILL ME BEFORE THEY GET HERE! PLEASE LET ME IN!" She yells again, this time with more force. Evan sighs and shakes his head.

     "I'm sorry but no." He says before shutting the door on her and locking it. He turns around to look at us, Holly was the first one to speak.

     "Why the fuck didn't you let her in dude?!" She whispers loudly. He puts a finger to his lips and doesn't say a word. With his free hand he grabs all of our arms and walks us to the hallway.

     "Did you not see her eyes? And all the needle marks all up and down her arms? Yeah she may have been crying but they shouldn't have been THAT red. My gut told me not to let her in so I didn't." He said in a quiet voice.

     Someone at the back door begins to beat on it, this time a male and the same female voice could be heard. My heart was beating out of its chest by now. I pull out my phone and proceeded to dial 911 before Evan took m phone out of my hand.

     "Let me do it in a minute okay. I want to see if they stop." He says. As the banging continued. Hope started to curse under her breath and we all turned to look at her.

     "Did you lock the door when you came in fucktard?!" Hope hisses. Evan nods his head and slumps down to the floor with a sigh after the banging stopped after a good minute.

     He proceeded with the call and talked to the dispatcher about what had just happened. He handed the phone back to me after he ended the call.

     "Don't text dad. He'll flip his shit about what happened." Hope said to me. I nodded my head and sat down on the floor next to Evan.

     We heard police sirens in the distance and a sigh of relief came over us. It got closer and closer but never got close to the house which worried me a little. What if they're just patrolling the area and not actually looking for these people?!

     Another knock came from the door. This time a lot calmer. Evan stands up and tells us to stay put. He gets up and walks to the door before opening it. I don't know how long it took but it seemed like a while before he said thank you and closed the door. All of us got back up at once to go to Evan.

     "It was a couple that was high on heroine. They caught them luckily and also found a suspicious car that was parked up the street with drugs in it as well as guns, duct tape, rope, literally everything for a kidnapping and murder." He says with the same calm voice. All I could do was stare at him while he stared back at us.

     "If you want I'll stay here for the rest of the night and go home when you all wake up." He says. Hope and Holly both quickly nodded their heads in approval. Evan looked at me for an answer.

     "Yeah..... yeah thank you Evan, really thank you." I say before going in for a hug.