Chapter 11

Nick arrives at the airport with Meilin and Ka. They walk inside and Nick goes straight to the gates to look around. Meilin and Ka walk to the ticket desk and they walk up to a woman and hold up a picture of Lexus.

"Have you seen this girl here tonight?" asks Meilin.

The woman behind the counter looks up at the picture and nods, "She was here but I didn't give her a ticket, Sara did. She the red head down there."

Meilin leaves the counter and Ka thanks the woman.

"Where did this girl go?" snaps Meilin to the red head.

Sara looks up and studies the picture; "She had a ticket waiting for her to Hong Kong."

"Who bought the ticket?" asks Ka as he steps up beside his wife.

"I'm sorry sir I can't give you that information. The plane also just took off so,"

"Shit, I bet it was Yelen or Xander." Snaps Meilin as she walks away from the counter. Again Ka thanks the girl and he runs after Meilin to find her talking to Nick.

"Meilin we should go home, Sora will get upset if we don't go home."

"Ka you go home, me and Nick have some work to do. Don't worry we will be back in the morning." Says Meilin as she gives Ka a quick kiss and then she runs off with Nick.

Sora walks downstairs after showing Bobby to Nick's room and leaving him there to get some sleep and stuff. She walks up to the study door and knocks gently knowing that her parents are in there. Sakura opens the door and smiles at Sora; she lets Sora in and sees that Madison, Eli and Ka are also in the room. Sora walks over to Li and stands beside him and stares at this Lux girl in front of him.

"Is she really me cousin?"

Li looks at his daughter beside him and he sees himself at her age, strong and stubborn. He nods his head, "Yeah she is."

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" asks Sora as she looks up at her father's face.

"Tell her Li she deserves to know." Says Sakura softly.

"Tell me what? What do I deserve to know?" asks Sora as she looks around the room.

"When your mother found out she was pregnant with you she was eighteen. My sister Fóo was to gain control of the whole gang if I never produced a child by a certain age. When she found out that Sakura was carrying my child she went nuts. She came here and started plotting to kill Sakura. So for safety reasons the elders sent Sakura away, no one knew where she was. I went mad not having her around. The week Sakura was due with you I got a phone call from the elders saying that I could finally go to her and that she was in Hawaii."

"Mom always said she knew Sakura was there." Says Lux softly.

Li ignores this for now, "So I went and stayed with Sakura. To everyone else it looked like I had fallen off the face of the earth as well. Sakura gave birth to you and…"

"And we got word back here." Says Madison as she starts to tell the story, "We were all so happy about the baby, except for Fóo, she went ballistic. She smashed her room here and ran off with Aaron."

"Aaron was a friend of mine in school." Says Sakura.

"And mom and dad were going to go to Hawaii to kill Sakura and the baby but dad talked mom out of it and they went to America and got married." Says Lux as she looks up at Sora and Li.

"I didn't know they were going to go to Hawaii." Says Li as he grits his teeth.

"But they didn't." says Sora as she looks up at her father, she then looks at Lux, "Then why did you pull the gun on Bobby?"

Lux holds up a picture of Bobby, "The elders told me to kill him. Just like they told Lexus to kill Alas."

"I knew Lexus did it, and so did Nick. We could tell from the gun shot wound on his forehead that it was Lexus." Snaps Sora as she looks at her father.

"Why kill me?" asks Bobby from the doorway holding a glass of milk. "You guys left the door open." He says after seeing the surprised looks of everyone in the room.

"I don't know they just told me to kill. I thought I had to obey, but when I saw the way Sora protected him I couldn't. I came here tonight hoping to kill Bobby but also to look for you Uncle." Says Lux as she shifts her weight in the chair she is sitting on.

"Why look for me?"

"Well, I came to ask to be trained, and to be let in the gang. I don't like my parents; I lied before they didn't send me I came of my own free will. They have no idea I'm here and they wouldn't like it either if they knew. Please don't send me back home to them." Says Lux as she gently begs with Li and the other leaders.

"Why don't you want to go back home?" asks Sora as she kneels in front of Lux.

"Because if they found out that I came here they will kill me for sure. The are strict and foolish parents."

"She was a foolish sister as well. You can stay with us and we will hide you from your parents. But you will have to promise that you do not kill Bobby." Says Li surprising everyone even Sora.

"Oh thank you Uncle Li. Thank you so much." Says Lux happily.

"You may have the last room on the floor with Bobby, Sora and Nick. Here is your key, Sora show her to her room. The one next to yours." Says Sakura as she gives Lux a key.

Sora and Lux leave the room with Bobby talking amongst themselves.

Sakura looks at Li once the kids have left, "Why would the elders want to kill Bobby?"

"I don't know but I am grounding all Black Hearts, no one is to leave their home for any reason unless they have permission from us. I don't want anything to happen to anyone." Says Li.

"Li a gang wide grounding it's going to go over well. Meilin is going to have a fit." Says Ka.

"Speaking of which where is she?" asks Madison softly.

"Her and Nick had to take care of something. They will be back in the morning. Lexus has gone to Hong Kong like we thought. I never thought that my own daughter would just run off like this."

"I'm sure she had a good reason and will be back soon." Says Sakura as she sits down and sighs.