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"Damn, my mother is gonna kill me." Commented Jayden as she checked herself out in the mirror. A carbon copy that's what she was just like her mother right down to the blue eyes and the love of the color black. The only thing that she had from her father was her black hair. Jayden had no idea who she got her compassion from. Her mother's a mobster and her father was to. But Jayden? All Jayden wanted was to live her life like a normal person. But Jayden knew that, that would never happen, especially if her mother got her way.

Jayden exited the hotel and after getting in her black mustang headed down to the courthouse. She knew that her mother wasn't very popular at the moment and she knew, that she would need all of the support that she could get. Pulling up she exited her car and headed toward the front doors but stopped, her mother was heading toward those same doors.

Before Jayden could even move toward her mother and let her know that she was there for her, even if she had told her to stay in Europe, shots rang out. And that sound was all too familiar to Jayden, gun shots.

She watched in horror as the bullets ripped through her mother's body, they hit her with such force that the upper half of her body was twisted around. Before Jayden knew what she was even doing she was jogging toward her mother's falling body and then she was full out running. As she neared her mother she shoved everyone out of her way and caught her mother, falling to the ground with her mother in her arms.

"Jay?" Faith asked as she looked up at her only child.

"Hey, everything's gonna be okay." Said Jayden, the tears already rolling down her face.

"No, it's not and we both know it otherwise you wouldn't be crying. But forget me, think about yourself. You have so much to live for, your father he'd be proud. But do me one last favor forget about the business, do what you want to do with your life. Live the life that you want."

"I'd do anything for you, you know that."

"Then promise that you'll forget the business and do what you want with your life."

"I promise," said Jayden as she started crying harder.

"I love you, I may have never said that to you but I do love you, so very much and your father he loved you too…" Faith trailed off as her eyes finally closed.

"No, god no," said Jayden as she tried to find a pulse, she couldn't. So she just held her mother's body closed to her and sobbed. Sobbed for her mother, her father and everything that was going wrong in her life.

She felt somebody's hand on her shoulder and looked up. Justus. She'd only met him twice but he seemed nice. He gently slid Faith's body from her and helped her stand up as the paramedics rushed to Faith's side. But Jayden knew she knew that it was to late.

The funeral was a few days later, more people had come then Jayden had expected. Some old guy and a red head, and Justus. She knew no matter what her mother had done to him that he would be there for her.

Her mother may have died but she made a promise to her mother and she intended on keeping it. She was finally freed from the future she had always thought that she would have. She could go back to Europe and back to her life. Sure her mother was dead but she was 19, she had a whole life ahead of her.

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Aimee