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Las Vegas.
"What happened to keeping me away from this life!" The teen yelled as she ran through a maze of buildings and winding side streets as the sky rumbled, and heavy rain filled her shoes.
She was stuck on foot while everyone else was nice and dry in their new shiny car, "You were non-threatening" her uncle Roman said voice coming in statically over the ear-com.
Pushing pass a group of people to try to get to the main road she found herself at a dead end. "I'm at a dead end and he was right behind me" Panic rose in her voice as she struggled to search for a small hiding spot.
The small alley was crowded with trash and rodents, she refused to even think about emerging herself in waste. "Were ten minutes away babe." she groaned as her father's words came through, because the man that was chasing her decided to turn the corner into the alley.
"I don't have ten minutes," She sneered eyeing the man as he slowly made his way towards her.
The man is somewhat too tall for his build, he had little to no muscle and the suit he was wearing was barely hanging on to his frame, he wasn't very threatening.
Once he charged, Lilith flinched and ducked down, he hit the brick wall behind her and reeled. The intense pain shot up his arm as he whimpered in pain.
Lilith grabbed at the opportunity, she stood up grabbing his wrist and twisting it behind his back roughly. Seeing as he had little to no hair she gripped his blazer by the collar and smashed his head into the brick wall until he slumped in her arms.
"Never mind, took care of it." She snickered, she actually took a guy down, sure it was dark and raining with nobody around but he was down.
"Pulling up Lil," Letty's voice rung out and Lilith remembered that she wasn't at the pickup.
Once again Lilith was running, wheezing through people and cars, she could feel her heart throbbing inside her chest, her wet hair slick against her neck, the weird sound her shoes were making as she ran made her feel uncomfortable and the thought of her getting sick was nearing like a freight train.
Finally seeing the sleek black car, Lilith picked up her pace and soon she was flinging the door open and climbing in.
"One day I'm going to take as long as y'all do when someone is running" She mumbled putting on her seat belt as Letty drove off.
Pulling the flash drive out her pocket she handed the small stick to Letty, "I got everything." the adrenaline was wearing off, and she was now wet and angry.
Taking out the ear-com, and ignoring Letty looks of concern, she pushed back the seat and curled up. She might as well get a little nap in.
[1/2/19]
They had been parked at a gas station in New Mexico when the teen finally woke up. She was being picked up and carried, usually it wasn't such a bad idea but she felt the heavy breathing of the person and panicked in their arms.
Flailing about she elbowed the person and got dropped, when her body connected with the hard dirt covered ground she whimpered in pain as the person above cursed.
"I was just trying to move you to your parents room" Tej admitted, holding his throbbing nose.
"I panicked!" Lilith cried out.
After a few moments on the ground she picked herself up, dusting off as best as she could she glared at her uncle.
"There's a thing called waking someone up" she snapped, she walked away before she give a second thought on apologizing.
Looking around she noticed the gas station, diner, and motel five inches from each other, taking her chances she walked into the rundown diner. The small diner was something out of the movies.
The chipped checked floor was polished, the so-called bar was empty but clean and waiting to be filled, the jukebox in the back looked as if it hadn't been touched since the eighty's and the silver and red painting the decorated the whole thing looked shiny and new. Sliding in the black leather booth Lilith waited.
Looking through the menu she heard the bell of the diner door being opened but continued looking for what actually sounded good on the menu. Setting down her menu she was faced with her two parents, they all stared at each other for awhile before the waiter came over.
"Buenos dias que puedo conseguir para ti?" Lilith looked at the smiling waiter then back at her dad for him to translate.
"necesito un minuto?" She asked noticing the look that the young teen was giving her father.
Dom shook his head and made his daughter speak for herself.
Rolling her eyes Lilith spoke with hesitation "burrito de cerdo?" the waiter nodded and wrote it down, "con jugo de naranja."
After burying her head with shame of not knowing Spanish she listened to her Papi order for him and Brian. Once the lady left she picked her head up again, glaring.
"You couldn't order for your own child?" She asked fake hurt, she understood why he thought her learning the language was important but she didn't have time to say what she wanted to say enough times in her head.
"Your dad's a white boy" Dom said shrugging, grinning as Brian glared at him.
"She's half white" Brian pointed out while Lilith quietly clapped. "Thank you daddy."
Falling into a comfortable conversation while they waited for their food, Lilith remembered how she missed just sitting down and talking to her parents. Her whole vacation they have been running and trying to prove to the world that they weren't bad guys but this time she was along for the ride instead of being with Mia.
If her parents felt bad for dragging her along they didn't show it, they still treated her the same and while the stress levels were high they made her do her winter break assignments as if they were driving cars out of planes or helping someone escape a guy with a crooked ass jaw.
These moments were the moments why she loved being the center of their world, although at sometimes she hated them for the decisions they stupidly made but she could accept the small things.
When the waiter placed their plates in front of them the rest of the family joined. Roman sat next to Lilith, Tej sat next to Brian, and Letty sat at the bar. All squeezed into the small booth the three ate happily as the two looked over the menu and the one ordered coffee.
"Hows the math going?" Tej asked the young blonde girl as she finished her drink.
"Hows the nose?" She shot back, there was a slight bruise showing up and she knew she should apologize but he brought up school and it was now his fault.
It was later in the day when the three decided to turn their motel room over and once they did it was a feeling of regret all over.
The motel was one of those seedy places men met up with other men and did very unquestionable things, the beds looked like they were bed bug ridden, the carpet on the floor had weird stains in them that were discolored, and once Brian moved the mattress to flip it over there was blood stains on it.
Trying not to picture what exactly happened on that bed Lilith just went out to the car and grabbed her sleeping bag, returning to the room she could tell her parents just got into a small heated argument by the way her Papi back was turned to her dad's.
Ignoring the tense filled room, she fanned out her bag on top of the bed and unzipped it. The bag wasn't big but it slept two people, it could sleep three with the third was a small child and not a six-foot beefy adult with a slight dad bod.
After taking a shower and stealing one of her dad shirts the young teen was exhausted, she was interrupted from her nap, had to go steal more things after they ate, and by then it was nearing six and she was ready to sleep for the next three days.
Settling in her sleeping bag it didn't take long for her to start to slip in and out, she just wished she was already sleep so she couldn't hear her parents conversation.
"Dom, you know i'm right." Brian wasn't excellent at whispering, "She wasn't exactly brought up in this like you were."
She heard her Papi sigh and her dad continue on, "She's running for us because we can't show our faces!" him yelling made Lilith flinch and he noticed.
Running his fingers through her hair, she relaxed.
"Nobody knows she's ours but soon they'll realize she's after what we couldn't snatch." Brian went back to whispering and trying to keep his cool.
"I know this" Her papi finally spoke up, she almost didn't hear him.
"We gotta take her back, she's not our pet we trained"
"We'll take her to Mia"
"Thank you"