I woke up various times after I blacked out. Mostly when I opened my eyes Nicholas or Sayoran were there. But I don't know if they tried to talk to me cause I would just fall back asleep. But when I woke up and managed to stay awake, Selina was sitting beside me in a chair cross-legged and reading a magazine.
"Boo. Seventeen magazine sucks." I said sitting up.
"Oh hey there. I'm glad your up."
"How long have I been out for? Is Nicholas and everyone else ok?"
"You've been asleep for about a day. I think it might have been shock cause I don't think you've ever shot anyone before have you?"
"No."
"That's ok. We all take it differently. And everyone else is ok. Nicholas lost a lot of blood but he'll be fine. I think you got nicked by a bullet too. You have a scratch under your eye."
"Oh . That was from a skate board."
Selina looked at me weird.
"I'll tell you some other time."
I stood up to go to the bathroom. But that didn't come with out a massive headache. I think I was prone to headaches more often now then before. Ever since I came to Hong Kong.
"Take it easy Sakura. You still look a little out of it." Selina warned me.
"Yeah I think I got that part." I bit out of pain in my head.
"Come down stairs after you clean up. Everyone is going to want to know how you are. Especially Sayoran and Nicholas. You know I think you've got two men that are very much attracted to you. It was actually kind of cute. They fought over who would stay here. But then I always won cause they couldn't decide."
"Why would Sayoran care? I don't like that kid at all. He's more like a brother to me than anything."
"Oh so your going for Nicholas? Well it was kind of obvious the other day I guess. Anyways I put more clothes in the dresser. Pick what you want out of there."
Selina walked out of the room as I slipped into the shower. It felt good to have hot water run down my body to wash out all the dirt and grime. And all the fear I had. What was I afraid of? I guess I was afraid of losing Nicholas. Why? He was special to me. He meant a lot to me.
I walked down to the living room to see Selina, Mikelle, Sayoran and Nicholas. I guessed everyone else was asleep. It was pretty late in the night already. Nicholas was the first to get up. He came over and hugged me.
"How are you?" He asked.
"I'm ok besides the headache. How are you? Is your arm ok?"
"I'll live. I've had worse."
He smiled. I think it was to make me feel better. It did. He had the special innocent gleam in his eyes so I knew he would be ok.
Sayoran then came up to me.
"Why did you faint? What happened?"
"I think Selina said it was shock. Mostly because I've never shot anyone before and I think I got a little scared when Nicholas got shot."
"Well at least your fine now. Why don't you go get something to eat. I'll be with you in a second." Sayoran suggested.
"Ok." I walked into the hallway and then into the kitchen. I looked around to see what they had to eat. There wasn't much except some soup. So I decided to rather keep it safe with that. Maybe if I put sleeping pills into the soup I would go back to sleep for another day or two. I needed it.
I heard Sayoran come into the kitchen.
"You know we haven't had that much time to talk since we got here. Are you still worried about being here?"
"Not really. I think I'm starting to warm up to these people. Especially Shaynu. He my dream guy."
"Haha. I see. You know, I'd have to say I'm a little bit jealous of Nicholas. He has a lot of you attention."
"Looks that way doesn't it. Does that really bother you?"
"Ya. But you know, I think I'm going for Lily a little bit. She's cute. Fun to be with. I like her."
"Well I'm glad we both found people we can be interested in. But you know. I still think of you as a brother. A very close brother, but either way. Do you think we can keep it like that? Even though you just happened to kiss me twice."
"Yeah. I think we can. Just as long as I can still kiss you? Just as friends?"
"Yeah we can keep it like that. Just as long as Nicholas and Lily know that."
"Of course… I think your soup is done."
I Turned around to see the soup in the microwave was boiling over. Maybe I should have taken thoes cooking classes when I was offered them in grade ten.
Later on I let Nicholas know about mine and Sayoran situation. He said I was fine considering it's almost the same thing with him and Selina. I stayed again with him that night. I think that, that was becoming a permanent change. Besides I think Lily went to Sayoran's room.
I wasn't sleeping that much since I had already slept for about a day. So I laid there in Nicholas' arms and looked up at the ceiling. I looked down at Nicholas. I think it was starting to become habit, but I brushed his bangs from his face. I watched his chest rise and fall when he breathed lightly. He had the lightest of snores but it wasn't unbearable. It was actually kind of cute. His head was laying on my chest and his arms were around my waist. My arms were around his shoulders. I looked at his arm where he was shot. It was healing. Slowly. But it was better than before. I slid down so that my face was right by his.
I leaned my forehead on his. I wanted Nicholas so bad. I touched his lips with my finger tips. His lips were smooth and a had a pale pink colour to them. I ran my hand along his jaw line, then back up to his cheek. I held his cheek as I kissed his nose. I didn't want to wake him up but I wanted to see his icy blue eyes again. I continued to run my hands over his face. I trailed down his neck and to his chest. His wasn't buff but I could clearly see his muscles. My hands found their way to his arms that were still around me. I felt his arm muscles as well. I don't know why I did that. It just felt like so long since I could.
I snuggled more into him and placed my arms around his neck. It felt good to be like this again. I never dared to do this with any other man after Gabriel died. I always thought he would never forgive me if I did. But one day I finally came to the decision where he would want me to be better off then I was. But I never really excepted it until now.
We were at another club the next night. Apparently this gang loved clubbing. That was fine with me. But it was weird. I was starting to get used to the clothes that Selina gave me. She decided she wanted us to match that night so we both wore the usual back leather pants. The top was kind of different though. It was a tube top that only covered my boobs but two thick lines of material spiralled down, connecting to the pants.
Sayoran came to dance with me and Selina. I think he was expecting a lap dance from us. We gave it to him but after we chucked him off of the dance floor. The other girls came to dance with us leaving the guys to be alone for a while. But I wanted Nicholas to come and dance with me. I turned around to face him looking at me from the bar. I just looked at him while I was dancing. I think he got the idea because he started to walk over to me. But before he got to me some other girls cut him off by facing me.
"You're the new Wolf girl aren't you?" One girl said acidly.
"Yeah."
"I should just kick your ass right now for being here."
"I was told this was a safe area. You can't start something in here."
"Oh but I am."
With that she made a swing at my head with her fist but u ducked out of the way. I came back up and gave an upper cut to the girls jaw. I think that shocked her coming from the new person.
"You little bitch."
"You started it."
"And I'll make sure I finish it."
Selina and Lily came up behind me.
"Wow. You know it takes a lot of guts to start a fight in here Luna." Selina said.
" Well this little princess here should know where she belongs."
That was it. This girl needed to be shut up badly. I swung my fist right into her mouth and then again to her temple… successfully knocking her out.
"No one calls me princess bitch. Remember that." I said as I walked away.
Nicholas was standing there with a smirk on his face.
"Well. I don't think there is much reason for me to be scared for you around the Tiger girls. You did better than Selina herself."
"Ya well. Five years of working like that can do that to a person."
He laughed as he led me to the bar where everyone else decided to be in one big group.
"Sakura! That was hot! Maybe next time you could take out all five of them!" Shaynu said.
"I doubt it. I'm not that quick."
"But you can pack a pretty good punch." Sayoran commented.
"And you would know. You deserved that."
"I know I did."
We all laughed. But the laughing stopped when a few gun shots sounded in the club. Maybe I shouldn't have knocked out Luna or whatever her name was.
"Uh oh. I think we just upset the kitties. I think we better go before this gets out of hand." Mikelle suggested which we did not argue to.
Too bad we didn't get out of the parking lot with out being followed.
"Sakura? Do you thing you'd be ok handling a gun again?"
Could I? Of course I could. But did I really want to? Not really. But if it saved us from being killed then it was a better option.
I sucked up all my courage and said,
"Absolutely."
I think that was becoming my new favourite word.
Nicholas handed me a gun. It was sliver and had a cherry imprint on it with my name written in Chinese : Ying Fa.
"It's yours. I wanted you to have one. Use it well. Especially right now."
We speeded out of the parking lot, Tigers following behind us. I knew the drill. Shoot a few people or bikes to get them off our backs. Wasn't my favourite thing to do in the world but if it helps me stay alive I was all for it.
I turned around on the bike. I didn't see anyone at first but after a while I saw red shiny bikes starting to catch up to us. I waited until they were a little bit closer until I started firing. I missed the first few times but my aim got better.
I saw someone raise a gun that was pointed at me. I heard them shoot but we had turned the corner. I felt a searing pain on my side. The bullet had just brushed past me. I was going to survive, but if their aim got any better I would be dead. I wasn't about to let that happen.
They weren't letting down as easily as the last time. I think I really got Luna good. She might have been really important to them… I just hoped that she wasn't important enough for the Tigers to slaughter us.
They were going to follow us anywhere. Selina and I managed to get a couple more guys but we didn't have the rest of the gang that lived in another hideout with us. So you could sort of say that we were out numbered but their numbers were decreasing.
Lily started to join in on he shooting. She had really good aim. We could have used her in the beginning. But I think she was a little too busy sucking on Sayoran's neck. And to think, I thought she would have been scared or at least worried. But she was in this gang just as long as Selina.
I felt more bullets wiz past me. One came every close to scratching my temple. But I just felt it come very close to my head.
If we didn't think of something… I was sure we wouldn't last for very long.
Oh man…. What's going to happen? I actually really don't know. I think of something. Maybe tomorrow. I'll be in Kitchener for half the day so you know. Maybe Sunday….
Luv Janey
