Two days later while on a job I got a call.
"Hello." I kept an eye on my hit.
"Hey Mercedes," the voice sounded familiar.
"Jack hi, how did you get this number." I got up from my table.
"Ah Lexus gave it to me."
"Really, so what's going on?"
"Um nothing."
"Yeah where are you?"
"At the Dizzy Horse."
"Where?" I looked around.
"Outside, I'm coming about to come in."
"Oh wait there."
"Ok"
I walked up the steps and pushed through the crowd to get outside. "Oh I see you!" I waved to Jack.
"Hey!" Jack closed his cell phone.
"Hey! What are you doing here?"
"Following you…"Jack smiled. "No I'm kidding I was in the neighborhood."
My guard went up a bit. "Oh so…"
My hit walked out of the club with some girl. I looked over towards him and realized that tonight was a complete disaster. Besides there was always tomorrow night, right.
"You wanna go out for a drink?" I asked.
"Sure."
Next thing I know Jack and I were at a bar talking about times when we were like thirteen.
"One time when I was about 15 I was smoking pot with a couple of my friends. We were sitting up in her little brother's tree house, talking about stupid shit." I started laughing
"What happened?" Jack was laughing.
"Well I was rolling on the floor laughing; I guess I rolled a little too far to the edge. Next thing I knew I was on the ground laughing. I fell out of her tree house."
"Ow! That's got to hurt."
"No, I just broke my arm. My foster parents sent me to this youth group thing at their church. They said that I was following in the ways of the devil and I needed a way to ask god for forgiveness."
"Wow so you were a foster kid too." Jack smiled.
"Yeah must have been with 15 different houses before I was 18. My real parents were…" I had to stop myself. "They passed away in a car accident when I was five."
"Oh I never knew my parents."
"Yeah well anyway…here's to getting through those rough times and making here today!" I lifted my glass for a toast.
"Cheers!" Jack clanked his glass with mine.
During the course of the night, my guard slipped away. I was getting more shit faced as the time went on. Little did I know that someone was watching me.
As Jack and I walked out of the bar, I heard almost from a distance someone yelling our names. We both turned around to see Bobby and Angel.
"Jack what are you doing here?" Bobby was pissed.
"He's my new friend now; you can't take him away from me." I laughed.
"Yeah!" Jack bumped into me.
"What have you been drinkin?" Angel asked.
I looked over towards him; there was something red on his jacket Blood! I got freaked out and tried to run down the street. Jack double crossed me.
I didn't make it far; I was too drunk to even stand. Besides my heel broke off my shoe and I fell face first onto the wet pavement.
"OW!" I screamed.
Bobby came over and helped me up, "Your always running Mercedes."
"Ow! Let go of me!" He let go. I realized he was only helping me up.
"Come on Mercedes will take you home." Bobby actually sounded sincere.
I had no choice, I was absolutely smashed and I needed someone to guide me. For the first time ever I let people that I really didn't trust in the first place, take me to my real apartment.
I handed my key to Bobby so he could let us in. I walked over into my apartment, and went straight to my bedroom. I plopped right on my bed and closed my eyes.
"You gonna be ok?" Angel asked.
"Yeah thanks for taking me home." I opened my eyes to look at the guys.
"No problem."
After I heard the door shut, I closed my eyes once again and fell right to sleep.
"Jack you have to be careful Sonny is still out there looking for us." Bobby was concerned.
"I know." Jack replied.
"Where did you go tonight anyway?" Angel pressed the button for the elevator.
"To some bar, I think your wrong about Mercedes…"
"Jack what's the matter with you." Bobby lightly smacked his brother.
"Ow, I mean it's just her parents are dead man. There is no way that her parents can be Michael and Teresa."
"How do you know Jack, did she tell you that?" Angles face tightened.
"No, but I can say that she's defiantly not working for Sonny…"
"Yeah how you know that, she tell you that too." Bobby cut in.
"No, she was following Sonny's son Tony tonight."
"So what, the entire Demarco family is followed besides Johnny and Sonny is always being followed."
"No man, its different the guys know to keep away from Tony though. If Tony was ever killed Sonny would their killing all his men by himself. Tony is a sort of prize to Sonny, he sends people to follow him to protect him from others."
"How do you know this Jacky?" Angel asked.
"I just know."
"Don't lie to my Jacky, that girl has been putting things in your head. You have to watch her; she might turn around and kill you."
"No Bobby it's not like that. She hasn't been telling me shit, we had a normal conversation. She wouldn't turn around and kill me." Jack walked away.
"Jack your too trusting of people, you got to let it go. Jack get back here you little fairy."
Jack ignored Bobby and kept walking.