Chapter 5
Samantha yawned and sat up. Shin was sitting up, still in his bed, staring at the wall. She walked over to him silently. "Shin?" she asked quietly. He looked up at her. "I was having trouble sleeping" he lied. He had spent half the night thinking about her. "Well if it's not too much trouble, could you tell me about my parents? I know you were very close to them, and you would know" she said. He looked at her and smiled. "Sure I'll tell you. Grab a chair though, it might be a little long" he laughed. She pulled a chair over to the bed. "Well, at first I thought your father was crazy for putting his life on the line for your mother, but then I realized why. She was so dangerous, like I told you earlier. Your mother could also be described as an angelic devil, or a devilish angel, sent to earth to make almost every man fall in love with her. One of those men were your father. He seemed like the type that liked to jump into the game without thinking about the consequences, just to get into something and not stop until it was finished. They were perfect together, I can't see why so many people wanted to kill them. But…" Shin looked down. "Vicious had such a heart for revenge, he had to have them killed" he finished. After a while, Samantha stood up and said "Tomorrow I'm going to fight the syndicate" "You can't it's too dangerous" he said. "I have to! If they ripped my mother and father apart, they'll do it to me and the man I end up loving, and I don't want that to happen to me" she said back. "Then I'll go with you" he said. "But you're hurt" she reminded him. "I've been hurt worse than this, I'll be fine" he told her. She nodded. "Alright. I'm leaving tonight" she said pulling her long blonde hair back into a pony tail. Shin stood up. "This doesn't hurt very bad" he said. She turned around and looked at him. "I don't want you to get hurt, alright?" she said, pointing her brush at him. He nodded. "I want to go back by my place and get some weapons, this is a strong syndicate we're dealing with" he said. They walked out of the house. "We can't take Miaka's car, and yours is kinda…crashed up" Samantha pointed out. "We can't take a cab, we'll have to walk" he said. "Are you kidding? The syndicate could pick us up, it's raining, it's cold, no way" she said. "Got any other ideas?" he asked. "No" she sighed and began walking. "Wait" she said after a few minutes. "My grandma's house is close to here, and she has a car that was going to be given to me on my 18th birthday, we can take that" she said. "Your 18th birthday? How old are you?" Shin asked looking confused. "I'm 17" she said. "Oh…" he said. After about five more minutes of walking, they reached Samantha's grandmother's house. The lights were on, so it seemed safe to go in. She opened the door slowly. "Grandma?" she called in the living room. "Samantha? Is that you my child?" the old woman said from her rocking chair. She nodded and pulled Shin in. "It's ok, she doesn't bite" she told him. She looked at the two enter. "Lin?!" she asked looking at Shin. "No Lin was my older brother, I'm Shin" he told her. "Samantha are you ok? I got home from the store and you weren't here. Almost gave me a heart attack" she declared. "I'm fine grandma, the Syndicate my mother and father were with came after me, but Shin saved me" she said. "You two sit down, I'll make some tea" her grandmother said walking into the kitchen. "You never told me you had a brother" Samantha said to Shin. "Well I do, he knew your parents way more than I did. I was only 9 when they ran away, he was 19. He told me everything about them, but Vicious killed him" Shin explained. Samantha nodded. Samantha's grandmother came back in with tea. "Samantha you're staying this time right?" she asked sipping her tea. "Well that's the thing. We're going to try to stop the syndicate so they can't hurt anyone else, like they did my parents. And I sorda need the car that I was supposed to get on my 18th birthday" she said smiling and turning red. "Stop the syndicate?! Your parents tried that Samantha, you know you two can't get any farther than they can" she told them. "Please grandma? If we stop them we'll make a big difference" she said. After a while of silence, her grandma finally said "They keys are on my nightstand" "Thank you grandma" she said hugging her the running upstairs. "So what happened to Lin?" she asked Shin. "He died protecting Vicious…another reason I want to get back at the syndicate" he said making a tight fist.