The van finally came to a stop and Marie and Ayanda saw they were in some building.
"Where are we?" Ayanda asked.
"ATF building. We need to ask you questions," Josiah said.
"Oh," Marie said as they headed to the elevator with her supported between Nathan and Ayanda.
Marie nudged Ayanda who nodded in silent agreement as they waited for the elevator doors to close.
"Its okay. Don't panic, they open up again." Ayanda joked.
JD cracked up laughing and even Chris smiled a bit.
Marie then gasped, causing the others to look at her. Her eyes had gotten big and her mouth had dropped open. "Did you feel that?" she asked in a panic.
The men remained alert, trying to feel something. The atmosphere turned tense.
Marie and Ayanda just couldn't control their laughter anymore.
"Ya really thought there was something," Marie laughed.
"Two trouble makers," Josiah said as he pinched the bridge of his nose in order to stop a growing headache.
Marie and Ayanda just couldn't stop laughing.
JD just shook his head, then thought of something. "What else can you do on the elevator?" he asked, causing the other men to groan.
Marie and Ayanda smiled from ear to ear.
"Oh, there are some good ones, like stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally," Marie said.
"Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?" Ayanda laughed.
"Or, drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, and then scream, 'That's mine'." Marie giggled
"Oh, this is good. You pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures," Ayanda burst out laughing.
"You should have been there when we did that, and you should have seen the looks that we got. There was a doos of an ou that believed us," Marie had to stop as she was laughing so hard tears were running down her face.
"That's not as bad as the one time, we left a box in the corner, and we waited for someone to get on before asking them if they could hear something ticking," Ayanda burst out laughing.
"You should have seen the guys face, he was white as a ghost," Marie laughed.
"Another thing is when you Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you shut up!"," Ayanda said as she started to hit her forehead.
"Here's, a good one. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, 'Got enough air in there?'," Marie laughed.
JD and Buck were laughing at each new idea that popped into the girls heads. The others just smiled, and Chris shook his head.
When the elevator door opened Chris lead everyone to a large meeting room. They all sat down in their usual spot, as Marie and Ayanda took up seats at the other end.
"What happened today? And we need to know everything!" Chris asked.
Marie and Ayanda paled a bit.
"We was walking, looking at the shops, we kept on walking to see where we would land up. It started to rain, and Marie slipped, hurting her foot. We were near a empty warehouse, so we went in their to get out of the rain," Ayanda stated.
"We went to that spot that you found us. We started to argue about what's cool and what's not, when we heard a car stopping. So we went silent, we watched as a Rich, and I mean Rich, oke comes in," Marie said.
"I mean that suit, my oh my, You got to have a lot of bucks for that suit," Ayanda stated.
The men looked at each other, then back to the girls.
"Don't forget the three body type guards, they were typically movie-type bad guys. Oh, well they come in first. We waited then two BIG okes come in dragging one scared dude," Marie said.
"Yeah, he was begging them, telling the main dude that it wasn't him, but the leader dude said something about betraying Mr.... um...its S something," Ayanda paused.
"Yeah, Mr...Mr Stuan, it think?" Marie filled in.
The men's eyes turned to the leader.
"Damn it," he swore.
"What happened then?" Josiah asked.
"He told the other men to kill the dead guy," Ayanda said sadly.
It was now confirmed that the girls had seen what happened.
"Did you see how he died?" Vin asked.
"Yip," Ayanda withered.
"Do you want to talk with someone? A counsellor?" Josiah asked.
"Na, don't worry. Its not the first guy we seen get killed. We all have been counselled. We know the drill off by heart," Marie said sadly.
"What do you mean?" JD asked.
"We live in South Africa, there are many things like taxi wars, where they just shoot into the crowds. People break into the houses and kill everyone. People walk down the street and you get attacked. There was a serial killer that was in our town. We found a girls body..." Ayanda couldn't speak anymore.
"But SA isn't always that bad, its just depends where you live," Marie explained.
"Yeah, but its life. But there are some good things about South Africa too, like Cape Town, the beach, the sun, and stuff," Ayanda smiled.
"But you have just seen a man die?" JD said still in shock.
Ayanda and Marie looked at JD,
"Yes, we have. We didn't want to, and that image is going to be in our minds forever," Ayanda said.
Vin looked at Chris. "What we going to do with them?" he asked.
"We have to look after them, for the trail. We got witnesses now," Chris said.
Ayanda and Marie looked at Chris. "WHAT?" Marie shouted
"You witnessed a murder, you know the people who did this, we are going to need your testimony," Chris said.
"Like witness protection thing, where there are gun fights and people dying and people coming after us?" Ayanda asked.
"Possibly," Vin answered.
Marie looked at Ayanda. "Lei Ying Lo?" she asked.
"Dunno," Ayanda answered.
"Sum Ting Wong?" she asked.
"Yep," Ayanda answered.
"Wasit?" she asked.
"The doos, Dum Gai!" Ayanda cursed.
The other men just watched the two, with open mouths. They seemed to feel the eyes on them so they turned to see everyone looking at them.
"Wasup?" Ayanda asked.
"You know Chinese?" Josiah asked.
Ayanda and Marie laughed. "Hell no, where did you get that idea?" Marie asked.
"Well lets see, Lei Ying Lo?" JD asked.
"Such a doos, I swear. Lei Ying Lo, stands for lying low," Marie said.
The men still looked confused.
"SA lang, we mix the different languages to make one, isn't that right Ayanda?" Marie asked.
"Yebo!" she laughed.
JD turned to the others. "And I thought Ezra was hard to understand," JD joked.
The others laughed.
"Mr Dunne, are you trying to tell me that something is wrong with my form of communication?" Ezra asked.
" Jislaaik!" Ayanda said in surprise.
The others turned their attention to Ayanda.
"What?" Vin asked.
"He speaks funny," Ayanda laughed.
The men just shook their heads. "What we going to do?" Vin asked Chris.
"Keep them safe. I can't trust them with anyone but us. We'll keep that at my place until the trial," Chris said as he got out his phone.
"Cool cell," Marie said.
They watched as Chris talked on the phone.
"Hey, so how does this thing work, I mean who's the boss, and what do you do?" Marie asked.
"Well, we're with the ATF. That's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It's a Federal law enforcement agency. We have a supervisor, Director Travis, he was the one that made Chris leader. Chris then chose each one of us. Chris and Buck are childhood friends, so of course Chris hired Buck. Then Josiah came on, then Ezra, Nathan and then me and Vin," JD explained.
"Nathan's our medic. Josiah has a masters in psychology and works as a profiler. Ezra is the undercover agent and JD here is the technology man. Vin, there is our sharp shooter, Chris is our leader, and me, I'm the ladies man, and I'm good with a gun," Buck concluded.
"So you guys go undercover and get drugs and guns off the streets?" Ayanda asked.
"Yip, that's the idea," Buck answered.
"Cool, I mean, that's great," Marie said.
Before anyone could say anything else Chris clicked off the phone.
"Spoke to Travis, he wants us to look after them full-time. He doesn't want anyone else to go near them," Chris said.
"So that means we got to stay with you guys 24/7 ?" Marie asked.
"Looks like it," JD said.
Marie and Ayanda looked at each other.
"Ek dink ek is in 'n droom," Marie joked.
"Ek ook," Ayanda laughed.
"Hey what did you say?" JD asked.
Ayanda and Marie just burst out laughing.
"So, does that mean, that where we go, you have to go with?" Ayanda asked.
"No, that means we tell you where you can go and go with you," Josiah said.
"Don't you guys wanna go to South Africa? away from the people that want to kill us? I mean, South Africa is a big country?" Marie asked.
The others looked at Chris.
"I mean, they don't know about us yet, and it would be nice to relax, " Marie stated.
"Well, you know Chris, it would be kind of fun, and I mean, we won't have to pay for this ourselves..." JD silently begged.
"And think of all the new women I can meet," Buck suggested.
Everyone groaned.
"Come on Chris, just think, we can have a little holiday, and it would be nice?" Nathan asked.
Chris groaned as he pulled out his cell,
"Travis, we need to talk," Chris spoke as he left the room.
"YES!" JD screamed.
"Now, we would we go?" Josiah asked Marie.
Marie and Ayanda suddenly had a sly look on their faces, as if they were planning something.
"Ya up to something, I kin see it," Vin whispered into Marie's ear as he passed.
Marie looked at Vin and winked. Vin gave a smile in return.
"Well, we can go and see the animals, I mean we got lions and elephants, all the wild things," Ayanda said.
"Yeah, I mean you just walk outside and you can see them walking by," Marie joked.
"You mean, they walk around where you live?" JD gasped.
Marie and Ayanda had to try and keep serious face. They gave each other a quick glance.
"Yes, I know an oke that got eaten by a lion," Ayanda said seriously.
Marie looked at Vin, who was just smiling the biggest smile ever. She looked at the others, who were still trying to see if it was the truth. The only one that fell hook, blind and sinker was JD.
"Yeah, I mean its a mission to even get out the house, first you have to look around, see if there is any movement, then you run like hell to the car. Then your safe, until you have to get out again," Ayanda spoke as if she was telling a ghost story.
Marie just couldn't handle it, she just burst out laughing at JD's face.
JD looked at Marie, then it hit him.
"That's not true, is it?" he asked.
Ayanda cracked up laughing at that one, she was laughing so hard tears were running down her face. She was laughing so hard she began having problems breathing.
"You are so gullible," Marie giggled.
Chris come in to see Ayanda on her knees holding her ribs as if they were about to burst, he looked at his men to see them all smiling, and one very red JD.
Chris looked up at the ceiling as if to ask for mercy. Then walked back in,
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Yeah, don't worry, lots more suffering later on. Please tell me what you think. This section is going to be on South Africa, so if you don't want to read about the sites or their adventures, then please read the ending. I'll write it as a chapter headed, because you have to find out about the trail, anyway there's always danger in the end....
Evil aren't I.
See ya
Kas