#fivesoskingdom

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One month later and you couldn't say that you were still thinking about Ashton and the whole incident, so saying that you got pissed when you saw a brown haired guy wearing a jacket with a golden star following you was an understatement. Sure, he just saved you from a creep who was following you when you were getting back home, but still, you got mad. Really mad.

"Take me to Irwin." you said between teeth.

"I can't, I..." he looked scared, he wasn't much older than an teenager.

"Oh, you can and you will. Take. Me. To. Irwin." you say getting closer to him, he nodded and you two walked to his car, parked in the other side of the street. The trip took longer than expected, you couldn't see anything out of the car since it was already dark and you were in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly the guy made a turn into the threes and you saw the big place hidden. You remembered why you were there and just stormed into the place. "IRWIN." you screamed. Suddenly you were hit by the smell of weed while something about ten guys were on their foot point two guns each to you.

"What the fuck?" you heard his voice coming from somewhere you couldn't see, but then he was in the middle of the guys, you saw the bleatched one by his side. "What the fuck are you doing here?"

"You fucking psycho, you got me followed?" you start to walk at him, seeing that he made a move to everyone put down the guns. "Are you insane?"

"You got caught? Seriously?" he looked through you to the boy.

"A creep was following her, you said that nothing could happen to her, so when he hold her, I needed to do something." the boy shrugged.

"You're screaming at me because I just saved you from a creep?" he finally looked at you.

"I'm screaming at you because you have no right to follow me, you fucking bastard. What the hell were you thinking?"

"Did you kill him?" he was looking again to the guy.

"Killed him?" you looked at him. "Are you insane?"

"Shoot him in the leg." the boy smiled.

"I really don't see the problem here, sorry." Ashton was looking at you, his head a little turned to the side.

"Are you deaf or just retarded? You made someone follow me without me knowing." you said again, almost screaming.

"For God's sake, shut the fuck up." one of the guys said, everything happened too fast, one second he was on his foot with a gun pointed to your face and in the next he was on the floor with a hole in his forehead. You were so shocked that you just freeze.

"Anyone else wants to try anything?" you turned your face to see Ashton still pointing his gun to were the guy was. Everyone just shook their heads. You couldn't believe in what just happened, the guy was there, his head bleeding until it had a puddle of blood on the floor, his eyes remained open, lifeless, but the scariest part was that no one seemed to be bothered about what just happened. You looked again to Ashton, his gun was already on his belt again while he stared at you with his arms crossed, his eyes so dark that almost weren't the beautiful hazel color anymore.

"I need to get out of here." you say turning around, still too shocked to process anything.

"I'll take you home." Ashton said and you laugh.

"No, you're not." you say walking to the door, too afraid to talk anything above a whisper.

"Yeah, and what the fuck are you going to do? Call an Uber? Will you put Golden Star in the pick up point?" Ashton's voice was so bored that made you stop on your foot, turning back to him.

"You need to stop following me, Irwin. I never asked for that and in one day two persons got shot because of me." your voice was lower, you were trying to be calm and not to cry in front of all those guys. "All I asked was to not have my phone taken again. And it was a joke."

"Well, being followed got you that too." he shrug, you looked at him with your eyebrows furrowed.

"I lost my phone two weeks ago."

"You what? How?" his voice was dark again, mad.

"I don't know, in the subway, I think." you shrug, when you look again the dead guy isn't there anymore, another one is cleaning the floor.

"When?" his voice was so sharp that made you shiver.

"I already said, two weeks ago." you rolled your eyes.

"What day? Exactly."

"Why do you-" you stop yourself realizing why. "You were following already." he just nodded. "I don't know, Thursday?"

"Impossible, Thursdays are my days." the bleatched guy said, shocking his head.

"OK, let me think." you have a deep breath, reviewing your week. "It was Wednesday, around eight in the night, in the subway coming back home."

"Josh." another brown haired guy said, Ashton nodded and made a move with his head, the guy got on his foot walking to the exit.

"Wait." you said, he stopped. "No one is getting shot anymore, right?"

"No." Ashton said. You furrowed your eyebrows. "I promise you. It was his first job, Calum is just going to talk to him." he moved his head again, the brown haired boy, that now you know that is Calum, got back to walk.

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I'm so freaking happy that you guys liked the previous chapter, seriously. Writing have always been one of my favorite things in the world and I can't even begin to explain how happy I'm.

Anyways, the next chapter is ready, so hit me with the 30 notes. 🖤

At the Golden Star everyone was a complete mess, you got to the hospital area and a second later you were alone with Calum almost dead while Ashton, Luke and Michael screamed to each other in the hallway. You got out and tried to get their attention, but they ignored you like you didn’t even exist. Coming back inside the room, you saw a gun right beside the door and took it before leaving again, finding the three men screaming without listening to each other, you pointed your gun to the ceiling and shot, making everyone stop talking to look at you while pieces of the ceiling fall on all of you.

"Shut the fuck up. I need all of you inside that room right now." you said, your voice so firm that even you got impressed.

"We need to find Noah, I'm going to kill that bastard." Michael said, he sounded so mad that you remembered why you feared him the most.

"You can kill this son of a bitch another time." you said again, now trying to be a little more calm before opening the door "Now, you're staying. And obeying me."

"You-" Ashton started to talk, but you interrupted him.

"I'm not asking, I'm demanding. Calum is dying and I can't do this alone, so get in this fucking room and help me save your goddamn best friend." you pointed and they all got in, grabbing everything they needed. Making Calum stable was hard, the amount of blood that he had lost was almost impossible to put again, luckily Luke was the same blood type and you could get more with him aside what  you had stored at the time. After more than three hours and more things that you remembered of doing in your whole career, you did everything you could and the four of you were sitting on the floor looking at Calum and the machine that indicated that his heart was still beating. Slowly, but beating.

"What now?" Ashton asked. If wasn't for his completely tired face, he would be looking like a psycho, blood all over the place, the same as you and the other two.

"Now we wait." you said taking a deep breath. "And we shower because it looks like a fucking massacre." they all giggled and all of you left the room to take a well deserved shower. Less than one hour later all of you were in the kitchen, sitting at the table trying to eat the something like pasta you made. "What happened here? Where's everyone?"

"We got attacked almost three months ago, Noah killed everyone here and promised that he would kill us too." Luke said with a sigh, he was already on his second plate and the food weren’t even this good.

"That's what this is about. You were used as bait to attract one of us, so he could kill who got there with you." Ashton said, his voice was so lower that you almost didn't heard, for the first time you saw him looking vulnerable.

"I didn't known, I'm sorry." you said looking to your lap, but then you felt arms around your body and when you looked up, you saw Michael trying to smile to you.

"Calum and I knew and didn't thought about it before going with you." he shook his head. "We thought that you were out of the game. We’re really sorry for what happened and for dragging you down again with us." tou just shook your head, trying to give him a small smile.

"That's exactly why they used her." the anger was coming back to Ashton's voice. "We would never suspect."

"And now what?" you asked looking between then.

"Now he need a plan." Michael said, he let you go, nut kept his hand above yours for a while.

"Can I have a saying?" you raise your hand and they all look at you with furrowed eyebrows. "I'm new on this shit, I know, but I think we should wait, you know, for Calum to get better."

"First, we?" Ashton let a smirk scape from his lips. "Second, you're insane if you think that I'll let that fucking bastard alive for the next 24h."

"I'm buried in this shit with you guys." you shrugged. "And he used me, I could get killed, gosh, I could be the reason if they killed Calum. I want to shot this Noah guy in the face." all of them were looking at you with smirks on their faces. "I’m already on hell, it’s best just to go take my place on the throne."

“The throne? You?” Michael raised one eyebrow, smiling. “Are you saying that you want to be a Golden Star?”

“Hell no!” Ashton shouted. Alll of you looked back to him. “First, the main rule here is no women allowed.” he started, you were about to call him sexist when he talked again. “Not because I don’t think that women can handle this shit, I know they can, but because men are shit and I would never be able to live with myself knowing what men like Noah could do for revenge with women.”

“I still get pretty impressed that you have some kind of morals.” you giggle, making all of them look at you faking an offended face.

“Excuse me, but we still humans. No one here is a monster.” Luke said with a very dramatic voice.

“Well, Michael is, but…” Ashton started, getting an punch from Michael. “I’m not lying.”

“He’s not.” Luke agreed, Michael just rolled his eyes. “Anyway, what do you want to do?”

“You guys need to stay low.” You talked again after some time. “Calum is far from well, anything can happen and now your main job is keep that guy alive. Plus, let Noah wait. Now he’s waiting for retaliation, he thinks Calum is dead, of couse the next step for Ashton is to go after him. Let him wait, trick him, by the time Calum gets better, Noah will be already dealing with another stuff and you guys will have your shot.”

“To be honest, I think she’s right.” Luke said.

“That’s because she’s.” Michael just nodded.

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For a year the Golden Star became just a memory of what one day your life was. Ashton vanish from everything and you never heard about him, Luke was the only one to send you messages time from time just to say that everyone was still alive and to check on you as well, but the messages never were anything like the all night conversations you two used to share. Aside from Luke, the only other person you talked to from the gang was a guy that, times to times, appeared on your door to check on your necklace to see if it needed any fixing. You never took it out, not even when you bath, not even when a year later you never saw anyone watching you or following you. The Golden Star on your chest always sparking with a little A on it. People asked if it was your boyfriend, but you always denied and changed the subject saying that was personal.

One day you were coming back home when you saw a car parked three houses before yours, you knew, for a fact, that that house was empty for almost six months now and whoever tried to park wasn't to go there. You looked around, widen eyes, but you couldn't see anything or anyone. You've been living in the same house since you finished college, you knew everyone there, every family and could even say that you knew the routine of everyone. That car was new, wasn’t from someone you knew and it wasn’t just a visit for someone there. That kind of car were used by a very specific kind of people, even more when inside were all green and you could see the little snake on the glass. That was problem. You parked on your own garage and walked carefully to your door, it was locked, just like you had left, but your curtain had been moved and you could see a silver shining thing on your couch and a little shadow next to your kitchen door. You came back to your car and got out of there, driving to the known road to the Golden Star building.

"Did you missed us?" the cocky smile from Calum welcomed you, but when he saw your not very happy face, he just dropped it. "Come in."

For the first time the building was empty, not one single man were around and that was odd, it wasn't that late. Some things were different too, like the window in the second floor, now you could see inside the office that was, as well, a little different. Calum and you walked to the office, only Michael was there.

"Where's everyone? Why is so quiet here?" you asked. Almost looked like you were in the wrong place, Michael just shrugged, putting the TV on mute and looking at you. "There's someone in my house."

"Are you sure?" Calum asked. "Did you saw someone?"

"I live in a really quiet area, there was an car parked three houses before mine, an empty one, a black car with green interior." you looked between them. "When I got to my door I saw that someone moved my curtain, then I saw something metallic sparkling on the couch and a shadow. I just came right way here."

"We're out of your life for more than a year now, there's no reason to Noah still be after you. Are you one hundred per cent sure?" Michael sat you down on the couch, giving you water, just now you realized you were shaking.

"Look, I don't like to be here as much as you guys don't like me being, I swear to God that someone was or is my house. I thought about calling the police, but then I remembered that I'm in this shit with you guys as long as I live here, so..."

"I'll take you home, I can check on you just to be sure, OK? Let's go." Calum said and you nodded, going with him back to your house. The car was still at the same place, what made Calum furrow his eyebrows, you parked again at your garage. "Stay here, stay low and please, shot anything that moves." he handed you a gun. You tried to get as down as possible, but enough to still see what Calum was doing. He got out of your car and entered in your house by the front door, but as soon as he got in, you heard the three loud shots and some screams. Scared, you sat up on your car just about time to see a two men coming out of your house, one of them got close to you and threw you a rock before you shot him on the arm and he rushed to his car with the other one, you couldn’t see their faces, but the green snake around the golden crown made very clear who was behind that. Noah. You got out of your car and ran into your house finding Calum on the floor, one shot on his chest, one on his leg, one in his arm and a cut on his neck. By some kind of miracle, he was still alive. You just slapped your own chest, hitting the Golden Star, Calum's phone started to alarm and you knew that the other boys started was well, you shut his off and yours started to buzz on your pocket.

"I'm on my way." you heard Ashton say.

"Bring everyone. Hurry." you said before crushing the phone on the ground, trying to help Calum. You moved him, trying to see if the bullets got out and two of them got, the one on his arm was still there. You cuted his shirt, making a bandage for his leg and one for his arm, you were trying to do something for his neck when you heard the three vehicles stopping by your house, Luke, Ashton and Michael entering pointing guns. Calum was on your floor, each second palier, his breath was already going really slow. "It was a trap, I'm sorry, I didn't know." you said crying like never before, getting their eyes on you. You were shaking, your hands couldn’t keep the pressure on his neck, everything was a complete mess. Ashton eyes widened when he saw Calum's body and all the blood all around, for a second he got almost as pale as his friend, but then he was already going to both of you.

"What the fuck happened?" Michael asked, getting a glare from Luke.

"That doesn't matter now, we need to do something." Ashton screamed, you got out of their way. "Your bedroom."

"I can't do anything here!" you screamed. "He need your doctor! You need to get him to a hospital."

"Ronan is dead." Luke said, you looked at him scared, they were already getting Calum out there, you were pacing around, not really knowing what to do or what to feel, at this point everyone had already called the police, for sure, and it was a matter of time until they got there and everything gets worse.

"You need to get out of here, now." You screamed, pushing them to your door, Ashton looked at you.

"I need you." He said, stopping by your door, his face in a complete mix of emotions, so many that you couldn’t even say all of them. You just shook your head, denying.

"I don't have anything here, Ashton! For fuck sake, I'm not an hospital!!" you screamed back.

"At the Golden Star. You will have everything there. Please. I really need you." his eyes softened for a moment and you just nodded, in the next second you were already on your car, Ashton driving as fast as he could away from your house while you saw the police cars coming in your direction, Luke and Mike far from your seeing.

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Ashton waited for you for about three hours in front of your house, his car parked where you could see him as soon as you got to your street. It was odd for you to see him there since he never show up before and you also realized that you didn't saw any guy walking you home today. Secretly you wished that it was Luke's day because after the hell day you got, you could use a good talk at home with some pizza.

"Last time you were here you were covered in blood. Good to see that's not happening today." you pointed while opening the door.

"Yeah, didn't got any shot in the last month." he said getting out of his motorcycle and going to you, entering your house behind you. "And the shot you took care is the only one I don't have a scar."

"Well, good to know that. I'm not a plastic for nothing." you smiled.

"I wondered about your specialty. Good to know it's plastics."

"Seriously, Irwin?" you left your stuff at the dinner table and got to the kitchen to take two glasses of wine. "Never bother to ask to any of my dear followers?"

"Nah." he smiled getting the glass of you, going to sit in the couch and you followed him. "Wanted to ask myself."

"OK, now that you know that I'm a plastics, what are you really doing here?" This was, by far, the strangest interaction you two ever had. You were sitting on the couch with your legs crossed, looking at him, he was sitting more formally, the glass of wine spinning in his hand.

"We need to talk. And it's serious."

"Please, don't say that the guy I hit wants to kill me. You said you would protect me."hearing that kind of words was never a good thing, hearing from someone like Ashton was even worse.

"He's not a threat anymore." he said and you raised one eyebrow. "He's alive, you just really teached him a lesson and I made sure to teach one or two more as well."

"So, what's so important that made you come here yourself?" you never bothered to turn on the main light, the whole room being illuminated by the little yellowish lights you had, making it all really cozy. Ashton stayed in silence for a while, pondering how and what say to you, you took your time to analize him. His face was some kind of soft, he wasn't looking scary or even mad, for once, a little scar, almost invisible, was near to his eyebrown and you knew it was new. Being a plastic surgeon made you really observant to the little things.

"Listen, I'm not going to follow you everywhere anymore." he started with a sigh.

"Oh my God, thank you!!!" you almost screamed, making him giggle, shaking his head in denial. You could, actually, kiss him because you were so happy.

"Yeah, don't get all excited. Here's the thing: Someone from Noah's gang saw us following you and now we think that they think that you're something important to us, what means that they can get you." now his soft face was worried, his lips were in a thin line. You mind started to buzz and it was nothing with the wine, your heart raced and you felt your hands sweat.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" you get up, completely shocked. "You put me in danger and now you're going to leave me all by myself? What the actual fuck?"

"Can you please sit your ass down?" he asked taking a deep breath, looking at you when you didn't. "Seriously, sit." he pulled you, almost making you fall at his lap, he realized that too and took him some seconds to talk again. "Listen, stop screaming." he looks again at you "If we keep following you, they're going to get you at some point to discover why we are doing this, so Calum suggest that we follow you from far, by an app." he explained calmly, his hand never left your arm and you were starting to feel weird with his touch. "Harry, our tech guy, developed this app that will show us your live location all the time, real time. Here." he finally let your arm go to hand you a box, when you open it you see a necklace, it's golden and it has a little pendant in form of a golden star with an little A jammed. It was, actually, really cute. "This is a chip and a button, it shows me where you are any time."he shows you his app, the map showing your location at your house. "You can't take this, are you listening to me? Never. Not to sleep, not to shower, not even in the hospital. Specially not in the hospital." he gets up, going to behind you so he can put the necklace on your neck. "If you ever need anything, if you get in trouble, press the star, it will alarm my phone and the guys as well and we will be able to find you anywhere." he sits in front of you again.

"You're going to get me killed." you say with your voice below a whisper, looking to your lap. "This is insane." all your rage became fear. No, you didn't liked to be followed, no, you never thought it was necessary, but now you were being really in danger, now you could really die because of this man in front of you.

"Listen to me." he makes you look at him raising your face with his fingers on your chin. "You're not getting killed, do you understand? You saved my life and I will be in debt with you for it forever, so if you die, I'll die with you." he smiled at you, a warm smile that maybe in any other situation would make you want to get in his lap and kiss him, but now it only makes you feel sad.

"Why, Irwin? Tell me." you ask with your eyes in tears, your voice may be low, but he can hear how mad you're at him again. "I didn't asked for any of this. Now I'm going to be between two gangs?"

"You saved my life and I can't just let this go. Trust me, you'll be safe." he smiles to you and you roll your eyes, slapping his hand of your chin. "You're way too stubborn, you know that? I don't know how you remain alive." he rolled his eyes as well, completely annoyed by your attitude.

"Yeah, I won't be a problem for much longer, right? Good for you." you get up to go to your room. "You know your way out. Please don't come again, I don't wanna die."

As you started to walk away, Ashton got up from the couch and before he could stop himself, he was already right behind you, getting in your room. You saw him and was about to tell him to go, but he was faster and pressed you against the bedroom wall with his own body. Your heart skipped a beat when you felt him so close, his breath fanning all over your face since he was taller than you. Ashton's eyes were watching everything on your face, looking how you were reacting and he felt a heat over his body when you slightly opened your mouth before bitting your bottom lip. It took him all his self control to not kiss you right the way.

"I don't care what you think about me or this whole situation." he started, whispering. "I don't care if you hates me because I followed you or anything else. But I'm saying this to you: I'll never let anything happen to you." you couldn't stop your eyes from looking all over his face, absorbing every little detail from his hazel eyes to his pink lips. Didn't matter how much you kind of hated him, you couldn't deny how freaking handsome he was. But you always knew that, you knew from the day one, when you were sitting on his lap to take care of his face. Even with blood all over his body, even being so pale that you got afraid that he would really die, even so you could see how handsome he was. But being this close were a whole new level and even though he was trying really hard to not let anything appear on his face, you could read the lust in his eyes the same way he could read on yours.

"I don't know if you really believe in that."you said at his same tone, his lips turned up in a little smirk.

"I never broke a promise, sweetheart. This isn't going to be the first one." he took your chin again between his fingers and he looked directly into your eyes. "You don't know what I'm capable of doing for the people I'm loyal to."

"You never had to be loyal to me, Irwin." you shook your head a little, since his hand didn't let you move too much.

"I did. I do. And I feel that I'll always have to. Each day more." the smirk never got out of his lips. "Be good, OK? You know how to reach me." and then he kissed the conner of your mouth, getting out of the room and letting you absolutely breathless, incapable of understanding a thing about what just happened. Little did you know, that he didn't understood either, that the whole way back home he was cursing himself for the urge he felt of kissing you, more than that, the urge he felt to keep you so close to him that you wouldn't be able to move. Actually, he wanted you to move, maybe under him, on your bed that was almost screaming his name. He thought about you screaming his name and not in the way you're used to. You made him hard and you didn't even touched him. Half way home he turned around, going to the only place where he could solve his little problem for a while, making him smile when he saw the big red neon letters. "Hell on heels."

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