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The funeral hadn't lasted long. Danessa had spent most of the time watching her father's reactions to the Vicars words-or lack of reaction to be more precise.
She sunk her head down into her hands-to which her father mistook for grief over her mother. His hand patted her back. It took all her willpower not to pull away from his touch.
After the funeral some men has shown up at the church-spoke briefly to Brick Top, who then apologized saying he had business to attend to-but left John and a car to drive Danessa and Nikki to the cemetery.
"Thanks, Dad." Danessa smiled forcefully as she took the keys from her dad and watched him leave.
"I am so lost right now." Nikki said coming up beside her. "Where's her body?" she leaned in and whispered.
"Get in the car, Nikki." Danessa said as she looked over her shoulder for John-who had just finished helping to carry the empty coffin to the hearse. He was walking toward them.
Nikki followed Danessa's gaze to John, saw the keys in her hand and nodded- She walked to the car and climbed in the backseat, but was confused when Danessa got in the drivers seat.
"You know how to drive? When did you learn that?" she asked crawling over the front seats to the passenger seat.
"Lock your doors." Danessa said as she started the car-John had came running up.
"Nessa!" John tried to open the door, when he saw it wasn't working he started pounding on the window-his pinkie ring tapping on the glass with every thud. "Open the door, Nessa---You'll get yourself killed!"
He tried the handle again but again to no avail. Danessa's foot found the gas and the car lurched a bit causing John to let go of the handle. Soon, she was on the road-farther away from that mock funeral.
"Where are we going?" Nikki asked reluctantly.
"We're going to get pissed."
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"What's this, Turkish?" Tommy asked once they had gotten back in the jeep from talking to Mickey
"Shit." Turkish looked over at what Tommy was talking about and saw Nikki's bag. She must've forgotten it in his jeep earlier.
"Is it Nikki's?" Tommy asked as he began to open it.
"Let it alone, Tommy." Turkish scolded. "Well, I'll take it back to her at the church-but if she's not there, I'm not going to Brick Tops to give it back to her."
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John saw Turkish drive up and made his way directly to him.
Turkish saw him approaching and hesitantly rolled down his window.
"Alright, out the car." John said.
"You what?" Turkish's eyes narrowed.
"Nessa's run off, innit she?-with the car." John said. "I gotta go an' find her."
"What about, Nikki?" Turkish asked after thinking for a moment.
"She's gone as well."
"Get in-we'll go together." Turkish
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Danessa was on her second drink within seconds. Nikki sat beside her and was drinking as well-but far slower.
"Can I get another one of these?" she yelled rather loudly-gathering a bit of attention from a few of the men in the bar.
The bartender eyed her carefully-before refilling her glass.
She flashed him a 'fuck you' grin before downing it in one gulp. She slammed the drink back down on the counter.
"Ness-you may want to slow down on those-remember you're the one who is driving."
"Fuck that car." She said ruefully. "We'll leave it here. Let them have fun finding it."
"Hey-" A random guy approached them. "My friend and I are sitting over there-we wondered if maybe you two would like to join us?"
"Um, I don't think…" Nikki began but Danessa cut her off.
"Yeah, alright." She was already climbing off her barstool.
"Ness?" Nikki began-
"Come on-They'll pay for our drinks-and they aren't bad looking." Nessa shrugged.
Nikki scrunched up her eyes-but followed Danessa over to the booth.
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"There it is." John said as he spotted the car.
"Which building you think they're in?" Turkish asked as he parked his jeep beside it.
"The pub."
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-kind of a setting up the next bit update...but I thought I would go ahead and post what I had.