Chapter 7: Comfort from your friends

Holland hospital E.R,5:30pm

Johnny brushed his hand against gionna's hair as she slept on,her head against his shoulder. First lorenzo ended up dead,now carlo is fighting for his life so there's no way that johnny was gonna let gionna out of his sight,fully convinced that whoever killed lorenzo and put carlo in a coma wants to make gionna the next victim. 'If i had to put money on it,my guess would be that it's the cipriani broad who's terrorizing the other kids.' Johnny hears a cop say and tightens his grip on the sleeping brunette. He'd gladly die before he let anyone take her away from him! 'I think that it's viviana but she's in the psych ward and heavily sedated so we can't question her,leon.' Francis says. 'She has a broken arm because of gionna and while viviana's taller and has a better chance of stabbing someone to death,carlo wasn't drunk and he's still alive.' Leon says,which wakes gionna up. 'Shh! I have an idea.' Johnny says,quietly standing up and picks gionna up out of her chair,carrying her away from the cops. 'I have some friends in fortside. We'll be safe there.' Gionna says as they sneak out of the hospital.

A while later(6:10pm,elizabeta's apartment)

'Hey,liz. Hey,mal.' Gionna says after she and johnny walk in.'Where have you been?! We've been worried sick!' Mallorie says as she pulls the younger girl into a hug. 'She's right,johnny. Don't scare me like that again!' Elizabeta says as she closes the door,then hugs johnny. 'It's been a really long day,ladies. Mallorie,right? We met last week.' Johnny says after elizabeta lets go of him and hugs gionna. 'Yeah. You and gionna have been friends since you were little.' Mallorie says. 'She's still little,mal. When was the last time you ate anything,gigi?' Elizabeta says after letting go of gionna. 'Earlier today at about 9:30. The cops hauled some of us into the police station at ten.' Gionna says. 'In that case,i'll go get some food from burger shot. I'll be back soon.' Mallorie says before she grabs her coat and leaves. 'I can't wait for this miserable day to be over.' Gionna says before she and elizabeta sit down and johnny's phone rings. 'Damn. This is the third time he's called.' Johnny says,answering his phone. 'Hey,mikey. Yeah,she's here.' He says,handing the phone to gionna.
'Hey,mike. About as well as anyone can be with what's happened. Turn on the tv? Why?'
Gionna says as elizabeta turns the tv on. ' The police have no leads at this time as carlo ancelotti remains in serious condition at holland hospital. Lorenzo sindacco was found dead in a locker at liberty city high school earlier today,the locker belonging to gionna cipriani,daughter of florence cipriani and sister of alleged mobster toni cipriani. Miss cipriani allegedly has ties to the leone and pegorino crime families and is considered a person of interest in the murder of lorenzo sindacco and the attempted murder of carlo ancelotti. We now go to the sindacco house where paulie sindacco is holding a press conference.' Mike whitely says before the camera changes to paulie's house. 'My nephew was a kind hearted individual who was brutally murdered by an out of control mob princess! I'm issuing a $500,000 bounty for the capture of miss cipriani. Be careful because she is armed and dangerous.' Paulie says before johnny shuts the tv off.
'Yeah,i'll see you later.' Gionna says,hangs up and hands the phone back to johnny. 'Armed and dangerous?! Who the hell does sindacco think that he is?!' She yells,standing up and grabs the AK 47 hidden behind the chair. 'Whoa,not a good idea! Especially when there's a half million dollar bounty on your head,sugar.' Johnny says,taking the gun away from gionna and hands it to elizabeta. 'He's right,
chica. You need to lie low for a while.' Elizabeta says. ' Every lunatic in the state will be trying to kill me. I have to defend myself somehow. On top of that,the killer's still out there and we don't even know who it is.' Gionna says,blinking fresh tears away as johnny hugs her. ' He's going to have to kill me to get to you and i'm not going to let that happen.' Johnny says,kissing gionna on her forehead.

(A half a million dollar bounty is a bit extreme but people who are grieving do unthinkable things.
Next chapter might have a riot involved. Until then,stay safe.)