The Mysterious Demon

-Blake-

“As of today, I am disbanding The Skulls and Bones Gang!”

For a second I stopped breathing.

“WHAT?!” I couldn’t pinpoint who was the one who shouted, or more accurately how many people shouted out because there was definitely more than one.

I ripped my gaze away from Nick and turned to Dominic, she had started walking towards Nick. She seemed to be the only one who wasn’t fazed by what Nick had said, her face was calm and… satisfied?

When she got to Nick’s side, she put a hand on his shoulder which seemed really tense and squeezed it gently. This made him sigh and smile at her, it was as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders but it’s not like he could just leave it like that. No one else was satisfied.

“What the fuck do you mean?!” Liam exclaimed, standing angrily, Nick’s knife in his hand. He marched towards Nick, “This whole war!” He grabbed onto Nick’s collar which made me step forward instinctively but I knew Zack and Jason were right next to him and available if he tried anything.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“You fought this whole thing just to break us up?! What kind of fucked up logic is that?!” He shoved Nick and continued shouting in anger. “Are we that much of a bother to you?! Why can’t you just be the leader we want you to be?! You selfish prick!” Liam then stepped forward to try and punch Nick but Zack stepped in front of him and kept him back. Liam continued trying and struggling but seemed weak in Zack’s hold.

However, even though Zack was keeping Liam back, he himself looked at Nick with saddened eyes. “What’s going on Nick?” He asked softly, hurt in his voice. Zack was the first friend Nick had, the person to start the gang with him, of course, this was going to hurt him.

Nick gave them a wider smile which confused both of them so much so that Liam stopped struggling just to try and understand.

“The reason I’m disbanding the gang is that this isn’t a gang. You’re all my family.” He grinned at their shocked faces, looking around at every single one of us before carrying on. “I can’t let you guys risk getting injured and hurt and punished because of me! We’re so much older than when we started and yet we haven’t even begun to start living!”

Nick stepped forward and put a hand each on Liam and Zack’s heads, “Let’s start living from now on.”

“If living means being in a gang, then make your own. If it means getting your dream job, do it. If it’s finding love and having kids, some of us are already almost 30! What the fuck are you waiting for? Lets fucking live! Together and safe!” Nick breathed out. “Let’s live.”

I’m not sure what the rest of the guys felt but I smiled at the end of his speech. I definitely understood where he was coming from. I walked forward towards him and Dominic, nodding at him when he turned to me. Jake came up to us too also grinning from ear to ear.

Zack sighed in relief and also seemed happy with what Nick said, so was Jason. Now it was the rest of them left.

“We’re still family right?” Nate stood up and asked out loud.

“Always!” Nick replied which made Nate smirk.

“Then what’s the problem? The rest of you, get off of your asses, for the first time in 13 years we’re all going to spend this night together!” He exclaimed.

Zack took that opportunity to grab his glass that was left where he was sitting before and raised it, “To the disbanding of The Skulls and Bones, and to the creation of a stronger family! Cheers mother fuckers!”

“Cheers!”

–

The rest of the night was spent in a way that a few years ago I wouldn’t have been able to imagine. To have so many people all together in one place, to know them all and spend so much time with them all, was amazing.

A lot of the guys had drinks out, passing them around and after getting tipsy or full out drunk started singing messed up camping songs and kumbaya. I was passed a drink as well and got to catch up with a lot of the guys that I hadn’t seen in person since the first time we met.

Jake had grabbed Dominic away from me and excitedly wanted to introduce her to the rest of the women that were present and it seemed like she was really comfortable with them straight away, laughing along and listening to their stories, sharing her own. It wasn’t as if I was surprised to see her socialising but seeing her do so for so long comfortably made me really happy.

One of the guys seemed to notice that my focus had drifted off because he nudged my shoulder which made me turn back to them. “Fancy someone Mr Lucifer?” Kade teased which made me smirk.

I glanced at the other guys who were amused by Kade’s lack of knowledge and how the situation was playing out and decided to play with the guy a bit. “Not sure but I do feel something for the girl with the grey eyes,” I say and he looks a little confused. He leans back to take a look at which one I could be referring to. When he spots Dominic, his eyebrows raise a bit.

“That’s the girl that was with Nick right? She new?”

“Something like that,” I answer

“What’s her name? She’s hot.” Oh, I know.

I look back at him before I answer, “She’s Dominic, my girlfriend.” The way his head whipped back to me after he checked Dominic out made the rest of the guys that were listening in to our conversation burst out laughing.

“She’s the girl Blake claimed as his ‘future wife’, didn’t you?” One of them says, apart of Texas and was probably there when they took Dominic. I nodded back which made Kade’s face whiten.

“I’m so sorry dude, I didn’t know,” He apologises which makes me laugh, I reassured him that it was fine when Jason walks up from behind us.

He probably heard the conversation because he says, “You introduced her as your girlfriend before you did Nick’s twin sister,” whilst chuckling to himself.

Kade spits out the drink he had just started drinking when Jason said this, “SHE’S WHAT?!” Which then makes us all laugh unanimously.

After that, I got up and headed towards Dominic. When the group of girls and Jake saw me coming they turned and greeted me. I sat on Dominic’s left side, Jake was on her right and the girls sitting in a broken circle in front of us.

“Welcome Blake,” Jane greets and I nod, “Dominic, I actually have Blake to thank fo still being here to meet you, he saved me from a landmine earlier,” I tensed a little, hoping that didn’t come off a little weird to Dominic but instead she chuckles.

“I’d be worried if he didn’t save you from a landmine. I heard they were scattered everywhere!” Dominic then turned to me, bringing my forehead against hers before saying, “I’m proud of you, you did great,” quiet enough for only me to hear it. It made me grin back at her.

It was the first time someone had said they were proud of me, it was something I didn’t get to hear from my parents and thought I’d never hear ever but she proved me wrong making the evening a thousand times better than it was already.

“Thank you.”