Chapter 11
On the other side of the city in the small little apartment, Richard and Kori were getting ready for bed.
Victor had moved over to Bryce's big place, leaving them alone.
Richard was lying on his bed, reading a book.
"I think it matters," Kori said from the bathroom.
"What matters?" he asked.
Kori came out of the bathroom and leaned against a wall, brushing her teeth.
"The pirate and the girl," she replied. "I think it matters that they gave up their treasure for love,"
"You do," Richard smiled.
"Sure,"
She returned to the bathroom to wash her mouth.
"I'm not surprised you said that," Richard called.
She came out and bounced on his bed playfully.
"What about you?" she asked. "Will you give up treasure for love?"
"That's an easy question," Richard grinned. "I would definitely take the treasure,"
"You're such an ass!" Kori laughed and punched him lightly on the shoulder. "You wouldn't!"
"No way," he said and pulled Kori into his arms.
"Yes, you would,"
"No way,"
There was silence.
"We have a good life, a great one," Kori said softly. "You should ask yourself what's missing in your life that money won't get you,"
When he didn't reply, she climbed over to her side of the bed and went to sleep without a word.
Late that night, Richard lay wide awake in bed with Kori sound asleep next to him, thinking about what Bryce and Kori had said.
Unknown to him, his 3 friends had taken the speedboat out to sea.
Bryce and Victor had put on their diving gear and Rachel had brought along the coordinates she had noted down the other day.
"Good?" Victor asked, he and Bryce preparing to dive.
"Hold on, hold on!" Rachel said.
She stared at the digital map readings for a moment, and then shouted, "Now!"
The 2 boys dove into the dark waters, and Bryce spotted a shark.
But they both ignored their fears and swam towards the plane wreck determinedly.
The next afternoon, Bryce drove Rachel to a gym.
She entered the basketball room and found a few African-Americans listening to loud hip-hop and playing basketball.
One of them spotted her and shut off the radio.
He took off his sunglasses and walked to her.
He was the guy she had drunk with the other day at the party.
"Hey guys," Rachel said nervously. "How's it going?"
"Like shit," the guy snapped.
"I have a feeling I'm gonna make it all better, baby," Rachel grinned.
Bryce was waiting impatiently in the car when someone tapped on the window.
He rolled it open to see Rachel and the guy.
"Get out of the car," he snapped.
Darren was helping Richard get all the water out of his boat later that afternoon.
"I gotta move," Darren finally said after an hour of backbreaking work.
"You gotta go?" Richard asked as Darren passed him the bucket.
"Yeah, I gotta go to work or my boss is gonna kill me,"
"See you, Darren,"
A few minutes after Darren had left, Richard's cell phone rang.
"Yeah?" he answered.
"Uh, who's this?" Bryce asked on the other line.
"It's me. You called me." Richard rolled his eyes. "What's going on?"
"Can you meet me now?"
"Sure, where?"
Moments later, Richard was on a speedboat speeding towards a bigger boat in the middle of the sea.
He climbed up the huge boat to find many people sitting inside, drinking and chatting casually.
He went further in to see someone sitting on a big armchair, and next to him on a sofa were Bryce and Rachel.
"Is it him?" the man asked and Bryce nodded grimly.
The stranger was a well-known drug dealer, Reyes, as Richard had recognized from a magazine.
"What's going on?" Richard asked Bryce.
"You tell me," the drug dealer said and tossed a bag to the floor.
A familiar red and white box fell out.
Richard turned to Bryce and Rachel furiously and they turned away.
"Here's the deal," Bryce started and stood up. "And don't give me that look! Everything's fine!"
"Nobody crashes my party without an invitation," Reyes interrupted. "You found my plane, didn't you?"
"Look, do we have a deal or not?" Bryce snapped, moving towards Reyes.
Immediately, one of Reyes' henchmen pounced on his back, throwing him to the floor.
"Now we're done," Reyes smirked.
The henchman let go of Bryce and he got up quickly.
"Is there a problem?" he asked.
"Why, yes," Reyes nodded. "Yes, there is a problem,"
He grabbed the box from the floor.
"Take some bails to take my cocaine, and then sell it back to me," he ordered.
"Your cocaine? We didn't know anything about that," Bryce cried.
"I don't care how my stuff finds its way back to me," Reyes continued, ignoring him. "I want it back. All of it,"
"That's all we found," Richard fibbed.
"No," Reyes replied calmly. "Stuff don't come in six packs,"
He walked over to a table and picked up a gun, holding it against Richard's forehead.
"There's 300 kilos in that plane, and I want every brick of it in 12 hours' time," he told Richard. "Your friend told me the ocean is your soccer field, so you shouldn't have any problems.
"This is the deal. You're gonna swim back down to the octopus' garden, get the rest of it and bring it to me.
"If you get caught and you give them my name, I'm gonna come after the one you love most, okay?"
Richard stared at him in shock.
He could not bear the thought of Kori being killed.
"Not okay," he said.
"Did you say something?" Reyes growled.
"We don't have the equipment to haul the rest of it up," Richard said. "It costs 30 grand non-refundable to get the rest of it,"
Reyes smirked and nodded to one of his henchmen.
He took a small package from a table and handed it to Richard.
Richard opened it to find 30 grand in cash.
"You have 12 hours," Reyes told him. "Spend it wisely,"
One of his henchmen drove the 3 friends back to the shore, then left.
At once, Richard dove at Bryce, knocking him to the sand.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Rachel cried.
"I can't believe it!" Richard shouted at Bryce, ignoring her. "You put Kori's life in jeopardy!"
"What's wrong with you? I don't understand what the problem is, Richard," Bryce said. "We go down there, we get some coke, we deal with those morons and then in a month, we're on Discovery Channel!
"Up to our knees with treasure, smiling, like this!"
To prove his point, he threw his hands up in the air and flashed Richard a big grin.
"What's the problem?" he asked again.
"It won't be that simple," Richard told Bryce, and then he grabbed him by his shirt collar.
"If anything happens to Kori, I swear to God I'll kill you!" he growled menacingly, then dropped Bryce.
Way long since I've updated this story.
I've decided to just finish the whole thing off, whether or not anybody is gonna review.
There are 17 chapters in total, plus the epilogue. I'll probably finish updating all the chappies by... this week perhaps?
A HUUUUGE thank you to all my reviewers and readers, though more to the former cos they commented.
No offense to readers, though. At least you liked my story, and I know it and I really appreciate it. Really. Really really really really.
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