"Hey kid! No running in the halls!" Jack yelled after the kid. The kid looked back at us and was about to dash out of a pair of heavy doors, when I started singing,
"One two the Mercers are coming for you!
Three four you better lock the door!
Five six you better get a 20 ought-six!
Seven eight you're in a real big hate! (Meaning the siblings must hate that person to hunt them down)
Nine ten the Mercers are at it again!"
Jack started laughing, the kid ran through the doors only to be thrown back, landing on his back. Angel walked in through the other side of the doors looking very pissed off. Angel grabbed the kid and threw him onto his feet and against the wall.
"Where you goin, youngster?" Angel growled the kid backed against the wall.
"I'll go tell Bobby." Jack smiled running off, while Angel and I guarded the kid.
"What's your name, kid?" I asked. The kid looked at me regaining his cool.
"Keenan."
"Well Keenan, the guy my brother Bobby was talking about, who is he to you?" I asked
"He's my brother, Damien. Don't hurt him man, he's a real good guy."
"We don't want to hurt Damien, we just want to ask him some questions." I said Keenan relaxed just as Alyssa, Jack, Jerms and Bobby came back.
"Bobby, this is Keenan. Keenan says that Damien is his brother." Angel said a bit relaxed now.
"No sht? Well Keenan, these are my brothers…" I did a coughing noise, "Oh, and my sister." Keenan looked at us oddly.
"No, he's my real brother!"
"Yeah, and these are my real siblings. That's Angel, Jeremiah, I'm Bobby, Jack and Ryan." He said pointing to each of us. Keenan looked at Alyssa.
"Who's she?" Keenan asked. Bobby smiled at Alyssa, and Alyssa smiled back.
"This is my girlfriend, Alyssa." +Whoa! What! That was quick but when did that happen+
"So Keenan, you love your brother?" Bobby asked.
"Yeah, me and him are real close."
"Yeah, where would we be able to talk to him?" Bobby asked. The kid looked unsure than looked at me. I gave him a nod.
"We live across the street, in those apartments." He said nodding his head to which apartment building.
"Thanks kid." Bobby said walking outside with his arm around Alyssa's waist. Jerms looked at Keenan's 'bling' (A/N: Damn I hate that word!) and laughed, "Is that tin?" He asked. Jack, Angel and I laughed.
"Shit doesn't even spin!" Jack laughed. We all walked to the car laughing.
"So does anyone know when those two got together?" I asked
"Yeah, Bobby asked her when he was holding up the game." Jerms laughed.
"Okay that doesn't make since but whatever floats Bobby's murderous boat." Jack said. We all jumped into the car and waited for Damien to show up.
We had been waiting for about an hour when Jerms had to leave to take my nieces to gymnastics.
"Why don't you take Jack with you?" Bobby joked.
"You where the one who took ballet, Bobby." Jack mumbled as Jerms got out of the car.
Alyssa looked at Bobby, "You took ballet?" Alyssa laughed. Bobby cleared his throat and looked out the window. I slid off of Jack's lap (Jerms, Alyssa, Jack and I had to squeeze into the back, so I sat on Jack's lap.), Jack looked at me sadly.
"Aww!" Jack moaned. I smiled at him and leaned my head back on the seat. I started singing/mumbling a Clash song that I currently had stuck in my head.
"Breakin' rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won…" Jack joined in mumbling it with me.
"I fought the law and the law won
I needed money cause I had none,
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won…" Alyssa started mumbling with us.
"I left my baby and it feels so bad…" Angel started saying the words.
"Guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the...
Robbin' people with a six-gun…" Alyssa nudged Bobby who got in on the song with us.
"I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I lost my girl and I lost my fun…" Jack started breathing on the window to make fog.
"I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won…"Jack started making pictures and erasing them on the window when he pointed to something, "It's him!" he whispered, then turned to us, "It's him!" he said louder. We all jumped out of the car and ran inside the building. Damien was already at the elevator.
"Yo! You Damien!" Bobby yelled pulling out a gun. I rolled my eyes, "We wont get anywhere if you go that!" I groaned. Damien yelped and dashed into the elevator. We ran down the hall, "Jack, Alyssa and Ryan stay here and tell me what floor he stops at." Bobby yelled dashing up the stairs with Angel at his heels. "Screw that!" I yelled running after them. I passed Angel at the 4th level, he was huffing and puffing. +Isn't he supposed to be a jarhead+
Bobby and I were heel to heel when Jack flung open the door, "SIX! He stopped at six!" He yelled. Bobby threw open the six level's door and ran into the hall, Bobby looked around. There were two different halls in a V formation. "You go down the left hall, I'll take the right!" Bobby yelled running down his hall. I ran down mine, but everything was peaceful and then I heard dog snarls+Damn, Bobby got the hunt again+ I thought turning around and running down to Bobby's hall. I turned the corner to see Bobby being attacked by two Rottweilers. +Oh shit+
"Hang on, Bobby!" I cried. I turned around to run right into Angel. "Where the hell have you been!" I yelled, "Never mind!" I cried running over to a fire extinguisher. I opened it and sprayed it on the dogs, who whimpered and ran off momentarily. Angel, Bobby and I ran into the apartment. We searched for a few minutes when Angel noticed a rope hanging out of the window. Angel called us over, and looked out of the window with Bobby, seconds later shoots were fired from someone outside.
"Oh he what's to play? Well I just wanted to talk, but fine!" Bobby mumbled grabbing a butcher knife off the counter. He looked out of the window, "So you want to play now?" Bobby yelled and cut the rope. There was a loud yell from outside and then a 'thump'. "Let's go see if he wants to talk now."
Angel, Alyssa, Bobby, Jack and I walked up to Damien, who was lying in the snow with his leg busted open.
"Call an ambulance, man!" Damien moaned. Bobby looked at his arms.
"For my dog bites? No, I think I'll be fine." Bobby said making Damien moan in pain. "You gunna talk now?" Bobby asked.
"I wont say nothin!" Bobby looked a little surprised.
"Ok fine. But it's a cold day and I doubt anyone will hear your screams over this wind. Let's go." Bobby said walking off with the rest of us not far behind. When we were out of earshot Alyssa looked over at Bobby. "You're not really gunna leave him there are you?" Alyssa asked. Bobby looked over at her and smiled.
"No, I'd never really do that. It just really freaks the person out." Bobby said and not a moment to soon, Damien started yelling us to come back. We turned around and jogged back.
"I'll talk! I'll talk, just call an ambulance." Damien gasped, Bobby nodded for him to go on. "Ok, well some guys told me that they'd give me 50 bucks if I said I was across the street playing ball when the liquor store was held up. That's all I know man! That's all!" Damien gasped.
"That's all you had to say." Angel growled.
"We'll call the ambulance. But what did they look like? And do you know where they are?" Bobby asked. Damien looked up at us, "Yeah they were at The Hollow. You know that bar off of Saint Street? They were both black, and one of em had a braided goatee."
The five of us were now driving to the bar Damien was talking about. I already knew those two guys were hired hits. Thugs don't pay off people to be witnesses, they just take the money and hope nobody figures out they were the one's who jacked the money. But who would hire someone to hold up a liquor store? "So what's gunna be the plan this time?" Jack asked, hoping it wasn't 'winging it'.
"I was thinking we would wing it." Bobby said. I rolled my eyes.
"How bout I walk up to the two of em and act like I want to have 'a good time' with them? Knowing men, they'll both be a bit drunk and men are never able to turn down good as, so I lead them out to the parking lot and when they come out Bobby and Angel can…talk to them." I said coming up with the plain in seconds. Jack looked nervously at me, "But what if you get hurt? Or worse?"
"Jack, I know how to defend myself and how to get myself out of 'sticky' situations, like Angel knows how to pleasure Sofi." I said making everyone laugh.
"I'll do it too." Alyssa said.
"Hell no! I'm not gunna risk you're neck just so I can slit theirs!" Bobby cried.
"I want to help! I don't want to be just some groupie on the side like Sofi!" She cried.
"Hey!" Angel yelled, Alyssa looked over at him.
"You know I'm right." Alyssa said.
Bobby sighed, "Ok fine, but I'm gunna give you my knife, just in case." Alyssa leaned back in her seat, satisfied.
The five of us walked into the bar and started looking for two black men one with a goatee.
"There they are!" Jack cried pointing his arm to the bar.
I yanked his arm down, "Shhh!" For a second I though our cover was blown and our plan was shattered but the two hadn't even noticed we were there. I turned around, "Ok, you three go outside and stand by the door for us to come out. It might take longer than a few minutes." I said grabbing Alyssa's wrist.
"Wait!" Bobby said making Alyssa turn around. Bobby handed her a knife, "Just in case." He said giving her a small smile. Alyssa smiled back and walked with me over to the bar. Her and I sat at two stools a few stools away from the two hit-men. "What are we doing over here? Shouldn't we be over there talking to them?" She whispered.
I shook my head, "We sit here and act like we're just two ordinary girls who went to a bar for some drinks. If their interested in us, they might order us some drinks, if not we'll have to go over there and flirt with them. It shouldn't be that hard because their both a bit drunk." I said, "Ok now we pretend like we're having a normal conversation, and we have to smile and laugh too." Alyssa nodded.
"So what were you going to tell me about Jamie?" Alyssa asked+What is she talking about+ I thought, I guess I looked at her oddly because she went on, "You know, something about her setting up her boyfriend?" +Oh she's making up conversation, I get it now.+ (A/N: If you don't get the italics, she was speaking in code. They were setting up those guys so that's what that meant if you were lost.)
"Oh, well she was cheating on Sam with Kevin!" I made up off the top of my head.
Alyssa pretended to look shocked, "No! Why would she do that? Her and Sam are so cute together!"
"Yeah I asked her that! All she said was that Kevin was a better shag then Sam." We both laughed. +This is fun+ I thought, then the bartender walked up to us with some drinks. +They took the bait already+
"These are from the guys down there." The bartender said pointing to the hit-men, who smiled at us. I winked at Alyssa, took my drink, and walked down to where they were.
"Hi. Thanks for the drink." I said in an airhead voice that sounded genuine, Alyssa walked up behind me. "Yeah, thanks!" Her voice matched my airheadedness (A/N: Haha, is that even a word?) I would have laughed if I hadn't taken a drink of my, what I know knew was a strawberry daqueri.
I had finished half my daqueri and Alyssa had just a little more than I did, so I wasn't worried about us screwing up somehow. I looked at the clock+Crap! It's been an hour+ Hurrying up the process I looked over at Alyssa, who was now going by Jenna.
I fake yawned, "Oh wow. 'Jenna' I think we should get going!"
"Yeah I think we should too, 'Amy'." She said getting up from the chair she was sitting on. "Do you want to come back to our place?" she asked seductively.
"Please?" I batted my eyelashes. +Oh gosh, how gay+ I growled in my head. The guys looked at each other and jumped up from their chairs and nodding. We both smiled and took one of the guy's hands, they were both so drunk they weren't even able to tell us their names but that could might have been their plan so we didn't know their names, but still you'd think they'd be more professional. I thought walking out of the doors and into the parking lot. I looked back at the door where I saw three silhouettes. I nodded to them, and they hurried out of the shadows. I pinched Alyssa on the arm which was the signal for use to let go and get out of the way. We both started running back to the door, but Alyssa was grabbed by the wrist.
"I knew you two were dirty!" The leader (the one with the goatee) growled. So the leader wasn't drunk but I could tell the other one was, so we really didn't have to worry about him but just in case, I ran over and hit him on the head with a large rock that I had found on the ground. He instantly fell unconscious to the ground. The leader saw Bobby, Angel, and Jack coming for him, so he grabbed Alyssa around the waist and ducked behind her like a shield.
"No…!" I whispered.
"Don't harm her!" Bobby growled.
The guy gave him a twisted smile, "So she's your girl." He whipped out a gun and pointed it at Alyssa who was struggling to get out of his grasp. "Back off or I'll shoot your pretty little princess here." He said breathing in Alyssa's scent and licking her jaw bone. Bobby growled and dropped his gun, Alyssa cringed and then glared.
"I will not be a princess in distress!" she growled, I smiled. Alyssa kicked the guy in the crotch and the kneed him in the face, splattering blood all over her jeans. She twisted his wrist making his gun drop, she kicked it over to Bobby. Then she pulled out the knife that she had hidden in her boot (The knife had a case around it.) and held it to the guys throat. "You want to try that again!" Alyssa growled. I was shocked and had tears in my eyes. I was so proud of Alyssa! I started clapping, Bobby chuckled and walked over to Alyssa. "You did great! Now give him over to me, I'll take care of him." Bobby soothed. Alyssa let go and walked over to me.
"Nice job, Alyssa." The hoarse voice of Jack said from behind me, I didn't even know he was behind me. Angel woke the unconscious hit-man up and he and Bobby started asking them both questions. Neither of the hits said a word, so they killed the two hits, grabbed their wallets and we all ran to the car and drove off. In the car everyone was panting and laughing about how shocking Alyssa was out there. Jack hadn't said a word, so I looked over at him. Jack was in shock, well he didn't live the life of crime, he live the life of 'Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll', how could I have expected him to not be in shock.
"Jack…?" I whispered, he looked over at me, he looked like he was going to cry. "I now you're not ok, but think of it this way. Those asholes killed mom, when she was defenseless. She was unaware of what was going on, she was elderly, she was set up, she was defenseless, and she was a saint. It's a good thing those two are off the streets." I soothed to Jack. He forced a smile and nodded a thanks to me, after he looked a little better. I took his hand in mine to comfort him, he released a sigh and untensed slightly.
The five of us walked into the house, Sofi was at Angel's side in a second-guiding him upstairs, three guesses what they were going to do. The four of us walked into the kitchen, "Who would hire professional hit-men for a drug store hold up?" Bobby asked.
"And why?" Alyssa groaned rubbing her temples.
"And why would someone want to kill the nicest woman in the whole world?" Jack asked. I sat down at the table and started banging my head on the surface of the wooden table. +Why would someone set up a liquor store? Who would hire them? Damn, none of this makes any sense+ I yelled in my head.
"Maybe I should that Ryan up to bed…" Jack said, I could tell he was tired himself and still shocked. He walked up behind me and gently pulled me to my feet and wrapped his arm around my waist. When we got to our room I just jumped onto our joined bed, to tired to change, Jack did the same thing as me. I groaned, "Jack, why do people have to be such asholes?" I asked, not really expecting an answer, but still got one. "Because they didn't likely grow up with someone who loved them. Like growing up I had our brothers, and Mom…" He trailed off and looked at me, "…and you." I'm not sure if it was from me being so tired, or from the daqueri, or from all the pressure, but I started crying! I had silent tears streaming down my face.
"I'm sorry! Are you ok? What did I say!" Jack asked flipping over so he could rap his arms around my waist and wipe away my tears.
I started laughing, "You didn't say anything mean, Jack. But that last thing you said, was so sweet and romantic." I wiped my face off on my blanket. "Great, now I'm turning into…into…I don't even know!" I laughed. Jack smiled and looked down at the comforter, then back up at me. We looked at each other for a few seconds before he came into kiss me. Then we started making out, I didn't even notice when I pulled off his shirt, then mine, then my pants.
The next morning I woke up, but Jack's arm wasn't around my waist like on a usual morning. +Odd…+ I thought about to get out of the bed. But when I looked at the floor I saw the clothes that I had been wearing the night before, including my undergarments. +Crap…+ I thought, but then I thought about it. +I love Jack with my whole heart and I sort of always figured Jack would be my first and only. So I guess it isn't as bad as I thought.+ I put on new clothes and walked to the bathroom wear Jack was in the shower and Bobby was on the porcelain. +Guys and their openness+ I thought rolling my eyes. I walked in and started brushing my hair, which was very tangled. I laughed to myself.
Angel walked to the bathroom door, "Hey Bobby, well as you know Sofi and I have been doing a lot of making up. But I got something down there and I have no clue what it is, but it burns!" Angel said a bit scared.
Bobby looked at him disgusted, "I'm not the cck master, Jack is. Well after last night, I'm having second thoughts." Bobby chuckled, my eyes widened.
"Jack, help your brother out here?" Angel asked. Jack looked behind the shower curtain and Angel opened his robe. +AH! Sick+ I cried in my head turning right as he opened his robe.
"Rug burn…" Jack mumbled winking at me. I blushed and rushed out of the bathroom, as I rushed down the hall I felt someone jerk me into a room and then shut the door behind us. "So…you and Jack hit home run?" Alyssa laughed.
"That is so 7th grade, Alyssa! But yes!" I said smiling/blushing.
"Why are you blushing? I mean your not the bit modest, you and Jack topped over Sofi and Angel!" Alyssa said.
"Really!" I blushed, Alyssa nodded.
"Bobby and I couldn't stand it anymore so we went to a motel for the night." She continued to embarrass me. I heard Bobby yelling at someone then some slam the front door. Alyssa and I go up from the floor and walked out to the hall.
"Dammit Angel!" Bobby yelled running out of mom's old room. Jack walked out of our room.
"Jack? What happened?" I asked.
"Oh, well last night you and I started making out…"
I cut Jack off, "I know that! But what happened with Angel and Bobby?" Alyssa laughed behind me.
"Oh, Angel went to check a lead out on his own, but Bobby wanted to go. So before Bobby could do anything, Angel walked out." Jack said.
"Oh, big whoop!" Alyssa groaned.