Armando and I had just walked back into Mike's house to show everyone the photo and letter that I was left. Once the group saw the horrific letter they observed the photo carefully. Rita started to make phone calls afterwards while pacing back and forth taking the back of her hand to wipe a string of sweat from her forehead.

My dad (Marcus) began to put his glasses on while peering more into the photo.

"How did he take this photo so quickly?," Marcus questions us. He passes the photo over to Mike while pointing at all of our pixelated bodies.

"And how did anyone not see him?," Mike continues. "He got a clear shot of all of us and no one saw anything?," Mike asks again, growing impatient.

Dorn shakes his head with his hands over his face after looking over Mike's shoulder to see the photo.

"What are we going to do? He knows where Mike lives and it's obvious he's not too fond of Armando," Kelly tells us.

"Not too fond? This is practically a death threat," Mike corrected Kelly as he pointed to the prominent "X" mark over Armando's head.

"It's just a threat," Armando says.

"It's never just a threat," Mike says to him on the verge of snapping. Armando grew silent with me and we both watched the group go back and forth about the letters and photo.

"Did you guys read the letter?," I ask them all.

"Of course we did. What does he mean by "do whatever he says and no one gets hurt?," Dorn answers with air-qoutes.

"Oh, I don't know...," Marcus starts. "Maybe just maybe and hear me out when I say this, do whatever he says and no one gets hurt?," Marcus suggests. Dorn rolls his eyes while taking multiple photos of the letter I received.

"I don't know," I say shutting my dad up. "But that wasn't the first letter I've gotten," I continued

"What do you mean?," Mike asks.

"On the day of the mission they fought and before he left he slipped Y/N a note," Armando answers for me.

"It was generally just saying how he's always watching and will see me soon," I finish for him cautious to not make my situation worse since I didn't tell anyone.

"Y/N! What happened to not keeping secrets?," Kelly asks me.

"Yeah, this is a serious matter. These letters he's leaving you could be clues or worse," Dorn adds on. "Plus we truly don't even know who he is," He continues.

"I know I know," I start. "Look," before getting cut off by an angry voice.

"First, you didn't tell me about this no-good Parker guy and now this?," My dad questions me. Hurt was drawn all over his face. I never meant to hide Parker from him but when I started to, I thought, why should I stop? Too far gone.

"Look, it's almost 11 pm, guys, I gotta get home, I have school in the morning," I say to them after the split silence from my dad's comment.

"School Y/N? Are you being serious?," Mike asks me. You're worried about school right now?," He continues

"Yes, Mike! I've missed some days due to the last mission and I can't afford to possibly miss anymore," I answer while tapping my foot. "I'm scared that I'm behind, I took some work home and got it done but it's not the same," I continued my explanation.

"Y/N no. You need protection and you need to hide!," Mike says with a furrow of his eyebrows, disregarding my sob story.

"Now hold up. I'm paying for her med school and I need her in that classroom," My dad interferes.

"Marcus," Mike says through gritted teeth.

"What! I've invested a lot into Y/N, she needs to be in these classes," Marcus continues while shrugging his arms. "Unless she's been skipping... another thing she hasn't been telling me," Marcus says, letting his eyes wander over the room clearly referencing to all that I've been keeping from him.

"I'm leaving," I announce to the group. I can't possibly deal with my dad right now and I need some relaxing rest for school tomorrow.

"I'll go with you tomorrow," Armando says quickly. "And tonight if you need some company," He adds.

"You can't go to school with me Armando!," I say back. "Plus my place isn't safe for you," I continue.

"Sure he can," Mike says to my comment about school.

"I'll just hang out in the back of the classroom," Armando suggests.

"We have assigned seats," I countered. Rita hangs up her phone call and walks back over to the dining table.

"How about Dorn and I go?," Kelly says.

"He'd recognized you guys though," Marcus answers. "We need a way for us to see Y/N's surroundings without her surroundings seeing us," He continues. Everyone keeps suggesting ideas until enough gets shot down.

"How about this, Dorn and Kelly will watch Y/N's school from their van and we'll send Armando in as an undercover security guard," Rita explains the plan to us.

"They'd recognize Armando from his mugshots and the news," Mike corrects her. His once perfectly placed silk button-up was rustled and unbuttoned a few.

We've been here for a good 30 minutes and no good ideas have been brought to the table.

"And we need the van to be in a certain mile radius so we don't lose signal from Y/N like last time," Dorn adds.

"Alright then," Rita starts. "Armando will be dressed up as a janitor and keep a safe distance from Y/N," She corrects herself.

"Janitor," Marcus repeats while laughing to himself.

"Shut up Marcus!," Mike says quickly.

"And what about us?," Kelly asks ignoring the growing banter.

"There's an abandoned parking garage near my school, not so sturdy, but they could hide out there. It's only a good four buildings down," I suggest to them.

"Perfect! Kelly and Dorn will be there for the next following days," Rita says. "If your stalker is true to their words Y/N then they should be following your every move. Kelly and Dorn could spot him for you," She continues.

"And Armando you're going to keep a close eye on everyone that comes in and out," Mike adds to Rita's plan. "Marcus and I will be under cover and watch the other ends," He continues.

"As janitors too," Rita says.

"Wait what-," Marcus starts but is cut off by Armando.

"Janitors," Armando says to himself with a laugh, mocking Marcus.

"Hold up," Mike says while shaking his head. "Why do I need to be a janitor?," He asks.

"You mean we?," Marcus corrects.

"Because if you were guards Y/N's stalker would know it's you," Rita answers. "You three will be in costume, keep your heads down, and watch out for whoever the mystery man is," She explains briefly. Rita starts to grab her bags and pack her stuff up.

"Y/N, you will still go to school as you'd normally would just ignore us," Rita explains to me.

"Sounds easy?," I say with a treble in my voice. Now I gotta balance school and a crazed ex...Well I think my stalker is my ex?

"You got this Y/N and if it doesn't work out then you can always see my therapist," Dorn tells me, earning a slap to his arm from Kelly.

"Oh what would she ever do without you," Armando says back to him sarcastically.

"Ignore him," I say to Dorn.

"Armando, you will be staying over at Dorn's place until we find out who Y/N's stalker is," Mike informs Armando after sharing words with Rita.

"You can't be fucking serious," Armando says.

"Woohoo! New roomie alert," Dorn yells out loud while engulfing an annoyed Armando into a bear hug. I look over to Kelly who's already shooting me a worried look. Please let Dorn walk out alive tomorrow. ——— For starters, I would just like to sincerely apologize for how late this chapter was😭😭😭 I've been slacking so so hard when it comes to writing and life in general

All of that pushed aside, thank you guys so so much for reading and comments/votes are appreciated!! I'm working up a new chapter that I can't wait for y'all to see. It's going to be very "K.C. + Raven Symoné coded when they want undercover as janitors to save Judy." (and yes, I've been binge watching K.C undercover...)

as always let me know if there's any spelling or grammar fixes!! i'm beyond grateful for more than 20k reads and I'll see y'all next time!!!💕💕💕💗💗