Chapter 2:
"Taylor, Wait up!" Lash called to her as he ran down the hallway.
She turned around to face him. "What do you want."
"I just wanted to know when could we meet."
"If you talk to Warren and his stuck up snobby girlfriend, they'll tell you, cause I don't give a damn about this crap."
"You are as stubborn as your brother."
"Trust me, I'm worst." She said leaving.
-Lash went to find Warren and Eliza-
"Warren , what's the position on this project."
"What's it to you."
"I'm the one asking the questions around here."
"Well that's not the way it went down when you were talking to my sister." He said crossing his arms.
"That's none of your business, so you just stick you taking care of your little Malibu Barbie here, aight?"
"Don't worry Lash, I will… And just for the record, watch your back from now on, cause you don't know when you'll get yourself into some deep-"
"War, sweetie, I don't think we should mess with Lash." Elisa tugged at Warren's arm as Lash's glare pierced through her.
"Messing with me would be the last thing he ever does." Warren assured her.
"You wish." Lash objected, he glared at Warren before he turned to leave.
Eliza immediately froze Warren's hands before he could send fire balls directly at Lash. "Warren, It's not worth it, Trust me." Eliza told him as he pulled him off with her.
-With Taylor-
Taylor was in her room, on her bed, tears running down her already tear stained cheeks as she stared at the picture she had been holding in her hands for the past hour. "Mom, I miss you." She said to herself as she wiped off her tears, she didn't want to cry, but she found her tears flowing freely down her cheeks, representin \g the pain and hurt that had been trapped in her body for many years. That was when a flashback overshadowed her thoughts, and foreshadowed her fears.
-Flashback-
After a stressful day at school, I came home hoping my mom would scoop me up in her arms and kiss my sadness and troubles away. I slowly came up the stairs of the porch, because I felt like something was wrong, because the door was open, it was never opened, unless someone was outside and since no one was outside, I figured that she had been waiting for me.
I searched all the rooms, to find myself standing in front of the last room in the house, My mom's bedroom. Strangely, the room was locked, I turned the door knob only to hear a coarse voice yelling at the top of his voice.. I listened attentively as I watched through the key hole of the door…
"Where the hell is she!" the man yelled.
"I don't know what you're talking about." My mom replied, but she only received a slap across her face.
'Mom!' I thought, I couldn't dare to speak because I discover that the guy was after me.
"This is your last chance lady, where is Taylor, I know you have her."
"Don't hurt my baby, I love her too much… take me instead" she pleaded with them…. She watched the man as he pointed the gun at her….
"NO! NO! MOM!" I found myself shouting at the top of my lungs, tearing were running down my cheeks as I banged down the door. I was only 10, and I wasn't ready to lose the only one that I actually loved in my life….
Several gun shots were heard from the room as I screamed, that was the end of an innocent life and the beginning of a life of suffering….
-End Of Flashback-
Now, the picture frame had been soaked with Taylor's tears…. It took a few hours before her tears slowed and she dried them….. That was when Warren's car pulled up infront of the Paper Lantern….. She stayed where she was, she couldn't take the arguing right now...
She then heard banning on the door…
"Taylor! The Paper Lantern is opening in 10 minutes, get ready!"
"I not working today."
"What! I'm going to pretend as if I didn't hear that, and I'll replace that with you saying you'll be down in five…"
"But I didn't say that… And you heard right before, I'm not working…"
"Taylor you before get down in five or else." Warren said, his voice getting sterner.
Taylor opened the door. "No. The last time I checked, you weren't my mom, she died, remember? I guess you didn't cause you just forget about the people important in your life!" Taylor yelled out of anger and pain back at him, then left…
"Taylor, come back here!" Warren called to her, he knew what this was about….
"I'm going to do this one last time but don't except me to talk to you." Taylor yelled back at time, she didn't turn around…. At that point she hated him for not understanding what she was going through… Besides, she didn't want to let him see her tears….
-Later on in the night-
"Taylor, just talk to me…." Warren pleaded with her, but she just ignored him and walked right past him towards table 3.
"Good night, welcome to the Paper Lantern, how can I help you?" she said in a perky tone, trying to keep her composure she smiled a little… which was very rare….
"Taylor?"
"Lash?"
"What are you doing here?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing. I work here, what are you doing here?"
"I was just around the neighbourhood and I decided to drop in here to pick up something to eat, and annoy the heck out of your brother.." he said with a smile…
Her smile appeared a little bigger.
"You wanna sit down?" Lash asked.
"No, I gotta finish working before Warren explodes." She said wiping the table.
"I'll be waiting." He said smirking..
"You know that's not going to work Lash."
"But it's worth a shot, isn't it?"
"Taylor!" Warren yelled, when he saw who she was with, he glared at Lash.
Taylor looked behind her to see Warren glaring at Lash…. "He's glaring at you again, I should go back before his eyes blow out of his head."
"Alright, but when you finish, come back here, I wanna ask you something."
"What about? Is it about the project?"
"Yes, You could say that, or it could be about something else."
"I'll think about it." She said leaving.
She walked over to Warren and he pulled her into the kitchen.
"You don't need to pull me, I can walk you know." She said yanking her arm from him.
"What were you doing with Lash?"
"Well, like you said, I was taking the stinkin' orders!"
"Didn't look like that to me"
"Well keep your eyes on your own business." She said leaving.
"Where do you think you're going."
"Somewhere I'll be better appreciated."
"You can't leave here like that."
"Watch me." She said throwing the apron on him and leaving… She needed to calm down, both of them needed to…. And there was no way the Lantern was going to help anything, none the less, both of them in the same room, WWF smack down would launch and there was no way Taylor was going to lose… so leaving was for the best.
Just as he promised, Lash was still out there waiting on her. They both left, surprisingly, Taylor allowed Lash to hold her hand, and they went through the door together, Warren just watched from the kitchen….. He sighed…..
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