Chapter 10 – Misty
Red Valdez, Shoreside Vale, Liberty City, 2003
Red was doing some photo shoots at a local photography place in his white suit that he still loved. It was his twenty-first birthday so he was being photographed beside tacky white cakes with twenty-one candles on top and the number twenty one. After the long boring photo shoot he walked back into the car park, and jumped into his red Kuruma muttering about how he had to do this same thing last year, except he was twenty last year. Well at least he owned the media now. Since Donald Love had went missing two years before, Red asked for none of the news of his disappearance to be in the papers, like they would just forget about him, surprisingly it actually worked, he was still in Dr. LaBratt's basement.
He turned the key in the ignition of the Red Kuruma, pressed down on the accelerator and the car sped off onto the street, the photo studio was only a few blocks from his house, the radio had been turned to a new station that played fifty's music. As he neared his mansion he suddenly braked in the middle of the street. He heard beeps of the horn and frantic yells of the confused drivers behind him. What had stopped him so suddenly in the middle of the road was the door of his mansion was lying wide open, and it looked as if some of the furniture had been upturned. Uno wasn't in Liberty City; he had been attending some special business elsewhere in America.
He turned into his driveway, quickly stepped out of the car and pulled his Colt 45 out of his white suit pocket. Slowly he stepped towards the door of the mansion, as he walked up the steps he noticed white powder had been spilt everywhere inside the door, it was obviously cocaine. He closed the door behind him and slowly sneaked into the hall and stood beside the doorway of the living room, he then quickly aimed his gun inside the living room. The room was inhabited by a girl wearing pink, who was lying on the floor unconscious with a large smile placed on her face. As he stepped in the room she suddenly woke up to Red aiming the gun for her head.
"What the f-ck are you doing in my house?" Red asked her
"U…Uno took me here" the girl said
"Uno, where is he?" Red asked
"I'm here" a voice said in the background
As Uno staggered through from the kitchen, the first thing Red noticed was he looked stoned.
"Hey Red, join in the party?" Uno said
"Uno, can I ask who this tart is and why did you bring her here?" Red asked
She frowned in disgust and mumbled "tart?" to herself.
"This so-called 'tart' is our next business opportunity my friend" Uno said "we are going to make some money with this girl"
"What is her name?" Red asked still holding the gun to the girls head
"Her name's…" Uno began but she suddenly interrupted
"My name's Misty" she spoke
"Okay, so Uno, how is this our next business opportunity?" Red asked
"I met her on the flight, she was the air hostess" Uno replied
"What do we want with some air hostess?" Red asked
"She smuggles cocaine out from any border, we can make some money from Mexico especially, Mexicans will accept the dearest prices because it's so hard to find" Uno replied
Red placed the gun back in his pocket.
"Uno, why when I walked into my house just now did I find my front door wide open, some of my furniture upturned and around a thousand pounds worth of cocaine spilt everywhere?" Red asked
"We decided to throw a bit of a party, so I got a parcel of cocaine I had lying about, then some marijuana and some vodka I found in the fridge" Uno replied still smiling "what are you worrying about anyway, you own the media"
Red suddenly was pumped full of fury.
"Uno, am I missing something on your little escapade you had with this tart Misty, did you go and take over the entire of Liberty City's police force?" Red asked
"No, of course I didn't" Uno said "why…"
"Well that means we can still be caught by them then, doesn't it" Red said
"I thought we paid them off?" Uno asked
"Yes, we paid a police captain off, a second in charge one, just to keep a little bit of a blind eye on minor crimes" Red replied still in anger "so when a policemen sees a door wide open and cocaine spilt everywhere, he's going to think there's been a robbery, meaning the place will be swarming with policemen in a few seconds if this policeman goes straight to the head of police in Liberty City, so that will be our clean reputation gone, our business gone, no twenty-second birthday photo shoot for me"
"Oh well, we didn't get caught, go and have a line Red, just one line" Uno said still in a fit of smiles
"F-ck you, I won't touch that crap in my life, f-cks up your nose" Red shouted "I thought you weren't into that stuff Uno, and I thought you being a legal representative would know better"
"I'm not usually" Uno replied "just wanted to celebrate this business deal"
"Oh and Uno, I want this tart out" Red demanded
"Oh, can we not keep her?" Uno asked
"I knew she was a dog" Red replied having the last laugh
Misty again frowned and fell into an unconscious sleep.