Chapter 40

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*Rebel's pov*
It had been a full day since Tony left.

After Tony left Pepper and I spent the rest of the day lounging around having a movie marathon, and later that night we order shawarma, and then continued watching movies till one in the morning.

Now it was the next morning, the first full day without Tony being here, I expected it to feel different but in reality it wasn't.

I rolled over in my bed, barely opening my eyes to see what time it was, It was ten o'clock on a Saturday morning. I walked down stairs, not bothering to get changed yet and find Pepper in the living room typing away at her laptop as always. At first she didn't know I was behind her but when I sat down on the couch across from her she looked up and saw that I was awake.

" Good morning, If you want breakfast there are Pop Tarts and cereal in the cabinet." She said then continued to look back at her computer.

I got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen to search for the breakfast food, it felt weird not having everyone here for breakfast. I spotted the Pop Tarts and grab a package to take it back with me to the living room, returning to the seat I was in earlier.

" So what are we going to do today?"I asked, seeing if she had made any plans for us today.

" Well I have a lot of work to do, so I was just thinking you could hang out with Jax and later tonight we could maybe do something?" She said, putting down her laptop to look at me.

To be honest I was a little disappointed that she had nothing planned, not that I didn't love hanging out with Jax but I figured Pepper had things she wanted us to do together. I shrug at her suggestion about hanging out with Jax, after finishing my breakfast I get up and go back upstairs to get ready for the day. I take a shower, make my bed, and get changed, then I go back down stairs.

" Rebel if you won't mind, would you be willing to go down to the market to get a few things for me?" Pepper says still staring at her laptop.

As much as I wanted to say no, I didn't because I figured it would give me something to do today. I agreed and she handed me a small yellow sticky note that had the three items she needed me to get. I slipped on my shoes and yelled bye to Pepper then got into the elevator to leave.

I made my way out of the tower and on the busy streets of New York, it was especially busy today because it was Saturday and most people were off work.

I was half way there to the market when I spotted  a familiar face at a newsstand looking at magazines.

"Aulluver?" I call out, hopping it's actually him, because if not that would just be embarrassing.

He turns around and it is in fact Aulluver, he abandons the magazine he was looking at and walks over to me smiling like he is happy to see me.

" Hey, whatcha doing" he says casually.

" Nothing really" I say, forgetting that I had to run an errand for Pepper.

Soon we just end up talking and walking down the sidewalk, comparing our music tastes, outlooks on certain things, and sharing our favorite books.

" Hey I don't know if you're into art but I wanna show you something" He says out of the blue, he takes my hand without asking and leads me into the direction of where he wanted to take me.

We walk a few blocks before coming to an old building with a big "For lease" sign on the front of it. I stare blankly at it, confused at why he brought me here. He notices my confusion and just smiles taking my hand again and dragging me inside.

" Are we allowed to be in here" I say quietly, making sure I wasn't too loud.

" Yeah its whatever" he say, confused at what that meant I shrugged it off and followed him deeper into the building.

We get to the back wall of the building, Its dark and dusty so its hard to see anything. Aulluver disappears then the over head light turns on revealing that the wall I was standing in front of was cover in street art, graffiti.

" Ya like it?" Aulluver says reappearing and standing by my side to inspect the brightly colored wall art. to busy admiring it I nod my head yes, hoping he'd see it and know I really did like it.

" Did you do this?" I asked amazed, still marveling over it.

" Yup' he says proudly.

The wall was covered in brightly colors quotes and sayings, doodles and peoples names including mine, I smile when I notice my name.

" What are the names for?" I ask curisouly

" There all the people I dedicate this wall too" he said looking over at me with a big smile.

The idea made me feel so happy, he put my name on the wall because I was important to him. I was speechless, all I could do was stare at him with a big dumb grin on my face.

" Wanna help me finish it?" He asks, gesturing  to the last empty part of the wall.

" Hell yes!" I say, he walked to the corner and lifts up one of the old floor boards and pulls out a a gym bag full of a variety of different colored spray paint

He hands me a color and we start filling the empty space with whatever comes to our mines, his doodles are obviously better than mine because he was much more experience. We spent hours filling the rest of the wall, laughing and occasionally spraying the other when they weren't looking.

I forget all about Pepper and her errand because of how much fun I am having. Soon our fun was interrupted by a police siren, Aulluver looks at me and grabs the paint can out of my hand and tells me to hide. When the police officer entered the building I heard him order Aulluver to drop the paint can and put his hands up, then thats when he started looking around the building.

The building was abandoned and  had nothing in it, so there weren't many good places to hide. I hide in the furthest corner where it was harder to see from the entrance, hoping I wouldn't be spotted.

Unfortunately the cop knew there was two of us, so he immediately started looking for me, walking all over the building. Soon I was spotted and was told to come out and join Aulluver with my hands up.

The officer put hand cuffs on us and escorts us to the cop car, I look over to see Aulluver mouthing an 'I'm sorry' to me. I panic thinking how I'd tell Pepper about this, she is probably freaking out right now because I'm not  back there yet and she probably already claled Tony.

We are driven to the station and are escorted into the building, we wait hand cuffed to a metal bench before getting taken to a holding cell. the cop explains we weren't under arrest, but we did need a guardian to bail us out and pay the fine that was for trespassing and property destruction.

While in the holding cell another cop comes by to get our names and the name and number of our guardians that they should call to bail us out. I gave them Pepper's number because I didn't want Tony to find out about this, or at least not yet.

Aulluver gave them some dude name Axe's number as his guardian. About an hour later Pepper arrives looking very angry and also a little worried, when she see's meet sitting in the holding cell with Aulluver she just looks even more angry then before.

Pepper is taken to an office, where I presumed she sign my release forms and pay for all the fines. But twenty minuets later the officer and Pepper return, I expect the officer to unlock the door for me so I can leave, but when he doesn't I get confused.

" Ma'am we are going to need to keep you here over night till your legal guardian can come and sign the release forms" the officer says through the bars to me.

" What?" I practically yell, I look at Pepper who now seems less angry and more disappointed.

" I can't bail you out because I'm not you legal guardian, Tony is, the best I could do was pay off your fines." She says solemnly, not making eye contact with me.

" I'll call Tony and hope he can come get you soon, I'll come visit you tomorrow" Pepper says, taking my hand though the bars and giving it a squeeze.

She leaves, soon after Pepper has gone Aulluver's guardian arrived, which turned out to be his older brother  who came to bail him out. Aulluver promised he'd visit me tomorrow with Pepper, but now with him gone I was all alone.

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