"Now, now little one you must drink it all up. You have to drink every last drop, ok?"
She nods her head and takes the glass, from where I stand I see a woman hunched over in the chair. The man that's talking speaks in a slow, steady, almost hypnotizing voice. Behind him a bright light shined only allowing me to make out the outline of his thin tall body. The woman had the glass in hand sits up slowly pulls it closer to her and stop.
"What? You don't trust me?"
The man questions again, the answer the woman gave him was the sound of her swallowing the liquid. What happens next is sound of the glass shatter on the cold hard ground and the woman falling over in the fetal position. The pain she felt I was feeling. It was unbearable, I couldn't even stand yet alone stay on my knees. Lying flat on my stomach I watched as the woman gasp for air, holding on tightly to herself, gurgling sounds echoes loudly in my ears the man takes a step back in shock I believe.
"This is not what I was hoping for."
I barely catch his whispering over the now screaming woman.
In a cold sweat I wake up from that same nightmare I've been having for two years. Kicking and throwing off the covers I accidently tossed my Alsatian, Lupo off the air mattress. Tossing my mess of golden brown curls out of my face I stumble out of bed and chase Lupo around my empty room to let him know I didn't mean to kick him off. Finally getting what I wanted I started up my morning routine; washing myself and my hair, throwing some curly cream in it to tame it even just a little bit, brushing teeth, you know the whole nine yards. With Lupo trailing close behind me I walk pass marked boxes, down some stairs into my empty sad excuse for a kitchen. Fixing his plate I turned on some music as I started cooking my breakfast, hopping on the counter top swinging my legs I ate happily at the thought that today is the day I go back to the place I barely remember. Truth be told I have mixed feelings about it for one reason or another. Looking at the time I stuff the rest of the crepe in my mouth hopped down and started washing the dishes. After I dried and put them back into place I went back upstairs humming softly to myself as the nightmare once again disappeared from my waking thoughts. Opening the off white doors I took out my uniform, just as I was pulling it off the hanger the doorbell rang echoing throughout the nearly empty house. Throwing on the dress I rushed to the window.
"I'll be down in a minute!"
Stumbling over my feet as I was straightening myself I ran down the stairs and opened the door.
"Are you Cara?"
Asked the short stocky man as he scratched his beer belly, with an old brown clip board in hand nodding my head I extended my hand and gave him a firm hand shake.
"That's a nice tight grip for such a little lady."
He chuckles as I let him and three other men in, I took Lupo out back and played with him as they moved the boxes into a moving truck, and from there it will go to a storage unit.
Hours go by and I find myself and Lupo in front of a fountain that has a statue of a girl with two pig tails.
"Excuse me ma'am, are you lost?"
I turn to see a young boy with blue hair with katana strapped to his hip, smiling and moving some of the curls out of my face; making Lupo sit I answered him.
"I've been told to come here by Mondo."
I say softly as he gets closer seeing the seal on the letter that I pulled out of my bag. He takes it from my hands and led the way. A boring meeting between Mondo, his wife, and I luckily it didn't last long but before I knew it I was being lead to another place by the same blue haired boy. He pulled a large door to my left open and motioned for me to go through when I didn't follow him.
"Everyone Mondo had called us here to welcome a new member."
The young boy took a seat as I looked at the men and young woman in the room, my eyes linger the longest on the man with the slick back sliver hair once he looked at me I hurriedly looked away before I could see the face he wore.
Being the first to break the ice I stood up and shook the curly haired woman's hand and pet the dog's head.
"Welcome to the Acrana Famiglia, my name is Liberta of Intelligence Division, I got the contract with The Fool. Nice to meet you. "
"I am Felicita, Head of Research, I have a contract with The Lovers."
"Nova, Head of Cups Division."
I noticed that the five other guys didn't even say a word. I looked at them puzzled as Pace and Luca quickly look at a shocked Debito, while Dante just glared at Jolly.
"Is there something on my face? Or is there something in my hair?"
I turned around and watched as she touched her face then move on to her curls.
"You wouldn't believe how often stuff gets into this mess of curls."
"Nothing to worry about, there's nothing on your face…"
Jolly gets up and walks up to the woman but before it could come any closer her dog reacted, daring him to get any closer.
"You're fine, that's all that matters. I am Jolly barer of The Moon, and the family's advisor."
He goes to seat back down and introduces the rest to her.
"It's nice to meet you all, this is Lupo, and I am Cara barer of The Empress and head of the medical division. I look forward to working with everyone."
I know it started out slow with nothing really going on, next will be better. I plan on making the chapters long-ish, but not so much that it's overbearing.
Infamous Kei~