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"FUCK!" Mackie panics as Harley drives "fuck fuck fuck!!" He hits the dashboard

"Yo calm down"

"Stop the car" he takes his seatbelt off.

"No,"

"Stop the fucking car, Harley!" Pulling over Harley stops and Mackie gets out

"What are you doing?" Harley gets out too

"I'm walking I don't need anything from you"

"Mack what the fuck?! You should be thanking me! If it wasn't for me those East Shore fuckers would've killed you!"

Turning around, "and why the fuck were you even there?!" He walks back "why do you keep showing up everywhere?!" They argue back and forth

"Because I heard chatter, I don't know how they knew but I heard from people that they've been planning on finding you for weeks" Harley lies, "you've been ignoring me and I've been trying to warn you. Then when I was at your school I found out where the party would be at and, figured if they showed up you'd need back up. And guess what? I was fucking right" after his explanation Mackie doesn't say anything, he walks back to the car getting in.

As Harley drives Mackie takes out his phone calling Ben, the phone rings but no answer. Trying a couple more times Ben continues to ignore the calls, so he leaves a message "Ben please pick up we have to talk about this."

"Yo I think you killed Greg" Harley chuckles, "I mean that motherfucker's face looked jacked up!"

"I hope I did, he needs to stop trying me every fucking chance he gets."

"After what you did back there I doubt anyone from East Shore is gonna fuck with you again."

"Good."

"So where am I taking you?" Harley asks wanting so bad to know where his brother lives

But Mackie still doesn't trust him, "actually can you drop me at McLaren?"

It's late and Harley drives Mackie to McLaren Point, "I'll call you all right?"

"Yeah," Mackie gets out of the car then watches his brother drive down the mountain.

Alone on the cliff Mackie tries calling Ben again, "Ben please I didn't have anything to do with them being there I swear." He leaves another message

After a while, Mackie decides to call Maeve "how's the party?" She answers

"Long story, I'm gonna send you my location can you pick me up?"

"Yeah sure,"

"Thanks." Hanging up Mackie thinks about everything that led to this, one minute he's having fun with Ben and the next he gets into a group fight with people he swore to protect Ben from. When they first got together it took a lot to convince Ben he didn't have issues, but he lied and he kept that lie up. If Ben actually knew the amount of fights Mackie's been in, he would've left Mackie a long time ago.

Looking at his fists Mackie tries to clean the blood off but there was no point, Gregory's blood was all over him. Remembering he left Gregory's lifeless body there Mackie knows Ben and Ali will probably have a lot of questions to answer to the cops. They'll probably send the cops to his house and Mackie will probably go back to juvie for almost killing a second East Shore guy.

After a night of no sleep, Mackie walks out of his room heading to the kitchen "morning" Maeve greets as she eats grapes for breakfast "fruit?" She hands him her bowl and Mackie shakes his head. "Want me to make coffee?" Nodding he walks sitting on a stool at the counter putting his head down. "So what happened?"

"I fucked up," He mumbles with his head still down

Making it hard for Maeve to understand "what?" She fills the coffee pot

"I fucked up" Mackie picks up his head repeating, "these guys showed up to the party looking for me and instead of handling the situation like a calm fucking person, I black out and beat the shit out of them ruining the party for everyone."

"Damn, is Ben ok?"

"I don't know he wouldn't leave with me and won't answer his fucking phone!" Mackie feels himself getting heated so he tries to stay calm, "the way he looked at me last night is stuck in my head, it was like I was some random guy on the street he was scared was gonna attack him. He looked scared of me, Maeve"

"Has he seen you lose your temper like that before?"

Nodding "literally the first day we met I was in a fight, then after that, I just kept trying to convince him I'm not violent every time I attacked someone."

"Maybe he needs time to process,"

"Nah the cops were involved I bet his friends are filling his head up right now about how fucked up I am and how he should never talk to me again."

Deciding he's not going to feel better until he speaks to Ben, Mackie gets ready and drives to his house. Knocking he waits and Ben's dad answers, "hi"

"Hi Mackenzie, looking for Ben?"

Mackie nods "is he home?"

"No, he spent the night at Ali's said he wanted to stay and help clean up, should still be there."

"Ok thank you."

Getting back on his bike Mackie puts on his helmet heading to Ali's house. Driving through the open gate he parks getting off his bike putting the helmet on the seat. Walking close he sees the front door open so he goes in, looking at the mess everywhere Mackie has flashbacks of himself with Harley beating up Gregory and the other guys last night.

As she's cleaning Brooke sees Mackie and gasps, making sure Ben and Ali aren't around she walks to him. "You shouldn't be here," she tries to keep her voice down. "If Ben or Ali sees you they'll lose it"

"I know I just need to explain, can you go get him?"

"No Mackie just leave please last night was enough drama Ben doesn't want to see you, and if Ali sees you in her house she's going to call the cops no joke. So just go"

"It was a mistake I didn't mean for any of this to happen, can you just tell him that?"

"I'm sorry but no, he doesn't want anything to do with you, do you get that the cops were here? Ali's parents are going to kill her when they get home, and we didn't know shit about what the fuck happened but the cops did not believe a word."

"Fuck I'm so sorry," Mackie hates himself for putting them in that situation.

"Mackie just leave and stay away from us." Deciding that's best he turns walking away, following him to make sure he's leaving when they get to the door Brooke says "he didn't snitch on you if that makes you feel better, he made sure that none of us did."

"Thanks" walking to his bike Mackie gets on, as he's sliding his helmet on his eyes land on Ben who pops up behind Brooke. Taking Brooke's advice to stay away Mackie leaves instead of going back and trying to explain.

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