" When I'm with you, I feel safe from the things that hurt me inside."

-Jeremy Lockhart
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⚓️SKYLAR⚓️

"So what do you have in mind for us, Danny Boy!" I swung my arm around his shoulder. After finding the red note, I was solely relying on my hopes that it wasn't Dante.

I decided to bottle up my anxious thoughts and instead, spend time with him while coming up with my genius prank.

"We're gonna make it a No-Phone-Usage-Day!" He grabbed my phone swiftly from my hand before throwing it onto the grass.

Glaring at him, I picked up my precious fragile phone before kissing it gently. My poor baby.

"Sometimes I wish you would treat me like your phone Skylar. " he chuckled lightly.

"So are you up for today? Each of us gets a round to choose what or where we want to go to carry out a task. Any task." He had a cheeky smile on his face.

Mirroring his expression, I switched off my phone.

"What are you waiting for Danny Boy!" I ruffled his hair before jumping into his motobike.

"LEGOOO!!" He fist pumped the air in joy.

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"Remind me again, why we standing before a busy junction?" I raised a questioning eyebrow. The first round was Dante's choice and he decided to conveniently park his motorbike a kilometer away from a busy junction where we now stood before.

I had no clue what he was planning.

"You're gonna learn a few things about me through the places I bring you and the things we do at each place." He gave me his familiar mischievous smirk.

"Let me guess, you like cars. " I said in a duh-tone.

"Nope, I like to dance."

"Wha-" before I could question how dancing would relate to the busy road before us, he grabbed me by the hand a twirled me onto the road.

It was exactly at that moment where all traffic lights turned red, allowing the pedestrians to cross.

Instead of crossing the road like normal people do, Dante twirled me around like a princess in the centre of the road.

Holding me by the waist, he moved smoothly while guiding me. The dance was so quick and even though there wasn't any music, our laughter became the music to my ears.

"YOU ARE CRAZY DANTE!!" I screamed out, bursting out in laughter.

"SO ARE YOU!! We have 20 seconds left before it turns green!!" He lifted me off the ground before dropping me back down quickly, allowing my chocolate brown hair to whip through the air.

The drivers from every car were staring at us in utter shock or amusement. A few passers-by whipped out their phones to video the scene that played before them.

The next moment, Dante started doing some weird jazz hands while I tried to moon walk which definitely, with no doubt, failed. Dante did a final dab at all the cars before dragging me to the road side right before the lights turned green.

Catching our breaths, we broke out once agin into a laughing fit.

"You're insane!! We could have almost died!" I slapped him lightly on the arm, while a playful smile played on my lips.

"You're just not as adventurous as I am, that's all! I doubt you can come up with something that could top what just happened. " he folded his arms across his chest challengingly with a smirk.

"Wanna bet, Danny boy?"

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"What are we doing at a underground wrestling compound?" Dante's eyes darted from one muscular man to another who seemed even more threatening.

Unlike Dante, this sight didn't frighten me. I've seen this since I was young as my dad always brought me to the wrestling grounds back in California. I've watched so many matches that I could almost predict each wrestle's next move. To be honest, I hated the fact that there would only be one winner. I hated how that wrestler who won would parade around as if he was the best.

So this all came back down to why I chose to come here with Dante for the second round of our ' adventure ' .

"Could you also explain to me why we went to ToysR'us before coming here?" Dante tapped my shoulder again as we climbed up the narrow staircase.

Wiggling the stuff I bought in front of his eyes, his jaw dropped.

"Nerf guns..." he muttered out while an evil smile crept onto my lips.

We reached the second level of the compound where all the spotlights were situated. Dante decided to be the macho man and broke down the
out-of-bounds door which led us to the path right above the wrestling ring.

"Are you sure no one will notice us?" Dante asked with uncertain eyes as I passed him a Nerf gun.

"Just listen to me carefully, Razor is a wrestler that always wins except when he goes against Blades who is the champion but that's not important. So while he fights we'll start to subtly shoot at him and this will cause a big commotion. It'll be fun, trust me." A confident smile laced upon my lips.

Nodding his head, he took a deep breath before replacing his nervous smile with a confident smile.

The first bell rang, signaling the start of the match between Razor and Speed. It was obvious who would win this match just by looking at Speed's scrawny body.

We stood above, watching intently every move made while positioning our guns right at him. Giving Dante a wink which was our signal, he shot a nerf at Razor's neck which immediately distracted him.

This gave Speed the opportunity to bring down Razor but not long before, Razor recovered once again.

Razor continued to stay focus and I made the next move by shooting right at his forehead which caused him to stumble back a bit.

His furious eyes scanned the crowd but immediately got back to punching Speed. Our subtle shots continued through the three rounds, but the crowd didn't seem to notice us at all.

Many people were shouting vulgarities at Razor's performance during each round and with each passing second, I noticed how frustrated Razor got.

Dante and I were trying hard not to break out laughing. Razor's features morphed into a confuse expression every time we shot and it was truly priceless.

"Okay let me try and aim for his eye!!" Excitement laced in Dante's voice.

Dante's grey eyes narrowed at the target before pulling the Nerf trigger.  The rubber bullet shot directly at Razor's eye which caused him to instantly cover his eye in pain. In that  moment, Speed brought Razor to the ground before pulling his leg over his head.

"1...2...3...AND WE HAVE OUR NEWEST CHAMPION SPEED!!!" The referee blew the whistle while Speed did his victory dance.

"BULLSEYE!!" Dante jumped up in pride but thankfully the crowd didn't notice.

My eyes were still kept on Razor who stood up menacingly. Wiping the blood that dripped down his nose, he punched Speed square in the face which caused him to fall unconscious to the ground.

The entire crowd simmered down and even the referee didn't dare to react. Scanning the wrestling ring, Razor picked up a Nerf bullet that laid carelessly on the ground.

Lifting it up towards the crowd, Razor's nose flared up in anger.

"WHO DID THIS?!" His thick Russian accent roared throughout the compound. I immediately pulled Dante next to me, in order to stop him from celebrating his victory.

And as if god wanted to make the situation any worse, the door to the second level opened.

"Oi what you two kiddos doing here!?" A man covered with tattoos shouted out to us which caused me to yelp in surprise and accidentally throw the Nerf gun out of my hand.

The entire crowd, Dante, Razor, the tattooed man and I watched as the Nerf gun fell into the wrestling ring. The entire scene played before me as if it was in slow motion, which seemed totally unreal.

Licking my dry lips, I felt Dante clutching my hand while all pairs of eyes on us. No one moved an inch until...

"GET THOSE MISFITS!!" Razor yelled out in rage.

"RUN!!" Both Dante and I screamed in unison.

And that's when everything turned into utter chaos...