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.
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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.
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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
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