Chapter 11 The sound of cars pulling up forced both Vince and Gina back into reality. She pushed him off of her and ran upstairs to Mia's room. When the front door open, Leon and Jesse strolled in. "Hey brother" Leon said while plopping into a chair. Since Vince was still half way lying on the couch he dropped his head into the pillow and began yelling. Jesse and Leon gave one another looks then stared back at Vince. "What's up with you V?" asked Jesse. They watched as Vince sat up and ran his hands threw his hair. He glared over at them then started laughing. "V" Leon said before looking back over at Jesse. Both Jesse and Leon flinched when Vince jumped up and came to stand behind them. Jesse slowly lowered himself on his knees. "You know" Vince said in a low icy tone, "I could kill you two at this very moment." "What are you so worked up about?" Leon declared as he looked over his shoulder. "Not you" was all Vince said before storming off to his bedroom. "What was his problem?" Leon asked Jesse. "Um, Female" was all the young man replied before crawling over to the televisison and grabbing the PS2 controller. "Jess what the fuck are you doing? There coming to have a party not watch you play games" Jesse threw Leon and smile then went back to setting up his game. ~~~~~~~ Gina sat on her sister's bed trying to sort through what just happened. Everything was getting so complicated. First, she'd come home only to lie to her family. Second, the man who she is helping is going after her sister. Thirdly, she is having to whore herself out to a man who is dangerous. And if that wasn't enough to add to her worries, she had to deal with Vince. She'd always been in controll of every aspect of her life up untill now. He made her mad, but then made her want him so much that her breath was stolen from her body. Not the mention that being home resurfaced all the anger she had towards her brother. It seemed her world was spinning out of control and nothing she did would change that. This game she was playing was growing more dangerous by the day. Each lie she told was like a chain wrapping tighter around her. She stood up and walked over to the closet. Reaching down, she picked up a bag that she'd hidden behind her suitcase. Mia was an organized person but she never cleaned the bottom of her closet. After opening the bag, she pulled out her gun. The gun had been one of her only friends for so long. After leaving her home, Gina found herself in a new world. The university she'd chosen lay just outside of Chicago. Her first semester was fun but something was lacking. By the time her second semester came, Gina lost all interest in school. All the exciting things that should have happened, didn't. So she dropped out and took a job as a waitress at this run down bar. If school was a let down, then the bar was hell. The hours were horrible and the customers were disgusting. On ok the only good thing about the job was the money. She made enough to get her own apartment in a decent part of town. The apartment building she lived in housed mostly college students. She became close to her neighbor, Krista. Krista was a junior and was majoring in secondary education. She was sweet natured and soft spoken. Gina liked her because she reminded her of Mia. They become very close and spent allot of their free time together. This all changed with Krista started dating a frat guy name Joshua. He was well built and very good looking but something told Gina that he was no good. She had this terrible feeling about him and often expressed it to her friend. Krista would tell her she was imaging things. One night after work, Gina called to see if Krista wanted to go and get something to eat. Getting no answer, she decided to skip food and went right home. When she pulled into the garage she noticed people standing around what looked like a women lying on the pavement. Gina walked over and to her horror found her friend beaten. There was blood all over her face. Krista ended up staying in the hospital for a week. She never spoke one word about what happened. There wasn't any need, Gina knew who did this. A couple of weeks after the attack, Gina pressured her friend about going to the police and filing a complaint. When Krista refussed, Gina decided to take control of the situation and go to the police for her. The problem was that for the cops to do anything, they needed Krista. Nothing could be done without her corporation. The weeks turned into months and no sign of Josh. Krista had actually started to put her life back in order. She opened up to Gina about the abuse and felt good about herself for the first time in a long time. Gina was happy for her friend and was egar to help her on the road to recovery. That all came to a skreaching hault when Kristas was found dead in her apartment. The death of her friend caused forced Gina to see the world for what it really was. For once she saw how raw and ugly life could be; this reminded her of when Dominic was sent to prison. Why couldn't she take care of Mia and their mother. Why couldn't she control all the bad things that happened to her friend and her family? These questions haunted her to the point she felt there was no place to go. Her only means of escape was to become a cop. Since Krista's murder, Gina became close to the officers that were assigned to the case. She admired there williness to help. They worked so hard to nail Joshua for the crime and they did just that. The day after Krista's murderer was arrested, she joined the police academy. Now she sat staring down at her weapon feeling more allone than any moment in her entire life. You started this, you have to finish this. She told herself before putting the gun away and crawling back into bed. ~~~~~~~ "Look you got to give me more time, she'll get the fucking information" Brian yelled into his cell phone before cussing and throwing it on the floorboard of his truck. It had been two weeks since Gina started working at PW and she had nothing on Tran. And if that didn't fuck up his life enough, the feelings he had for Mia were confusing him. His respect for Dom and the team made it harder for him to do his job. He needed information, any information on Tran before the trucker's took matters into their own hands. ~~~~~~ Dom made sure to tell Vince to lay off watching Gina. He didn't want to make a big deal about it. Not that it wasn't a big deal but he knew Gina was a big girl and could take care of herself. Plus, he was too busy with other things. Something was looming over him. He knew it would be bad whatever it was. Just get threw this one last time he told himself. Then everything will be ok, they'll be safe. ~~~~~~ Vince and Gina spent the weeks following the "Couch" thing barely speaking. She was to busy trying to pump information out of Tran. The good thing was that no one payed attention to her. She go to work and come home like always. Tran was never brought up, he'd call her cell phone and never met up with her at any other location than the club. The one thing she didn't know, was that Vince knew about her and Tran. It sickened him that she seeing Tran but he had a feeling there was something more. She was hiding something beside seeing Tran, he just couldn't figure it out. He would wait until the game was over with Tran, then he'd make his move. What he couldn't of guessed was the shit was about to hit the fan. TBC I hope the spelling and everything is ok..had to type it without spell check