Chapter 2: An invitation and an old friend
The next morning, Shilo woke up to the smell of bacon. She sat up in the bed and looked around realizing that she was in Emily's room. She got up from the bed and out of the room, and headed downstairs. Shilo could hear Emily in the kitchen, singing some song in Italian. 'Wow…she sort of sounds like Mag' Shilo thought and walked into the kitchen.
Emily glanced over hearing footsteps enter the kitchen and smiled light at Shilo. "Morning sleepy head…want some breakfast?" She flipped over a pancake and waited for it to cook on the other side. Shilo nodded and sat down at the table smiling. "When did you get up Em?" Shilo asked, and looked at her seeing that Emily was already dressed in black ripped skinny jeans, with fishnets under them and vest corset. Her straight black hair from yesterday was now curled into loose ringlets.
"Six…I usually get up early. Unlike you Ms. Wake up at nine am" She giggled a little and grabbed a plate, putting the pancake, eggs, and bacon on it. She smiled and drizzled some syrup over the pancakes and set it down in front of Shilo, with a glass of milk.
Shilo rolled her eyes and picked up her fork smiling. "That's still early. At least I don't sleep in really late." She ate some of the pancakes and licked her lips. "Mmm…this is so good" Emily leaned up against the counter and grinned. "I'm glad you like it Shi…so what's on today's schedule?"
Shilo shrugged and finished eating her breakfast. "Don't know…I was always locked up, so I'm kind of new to the whole doing things" She giggled a little, but it was cut short by the door bell. She looked over at the door and saw an envelope slide through the mail slot. Emily, walked quickly over to the door and picked up the envelope, and opened the door. She saw a limo, starting to drive away from the Wallace house. She watched it drive away for a moment and shut the door once it was out of her sight. She looked at the envelope opening it up and reading the letter.
Shilo got up from the table and walked over to Emily, standing right next to her and reading the envelope over her arm. "Who's it from?" She asked a bit curiously, and looked up from the letter to Emily. Emily's eyes were widened and her hand was tightly wrapped around the small locket around her neck. "Shilo…go take a shower, get ready. We are going over to the Largo's for dinner."
Shilo looked at her a bit shocked and not sure what to say. But she obeyed her older sister and headed upstairs for a shower. She looked down from the top step and saw Emily still standing there, motionless. 'I hope she's okay' Shilo thought and took off her wig, going into the bathroom and placing it on the wig stand. Shilo looked in the mirror and smiled a little. Her head was starting to get fuzzy. After the opera she took Graverobber's advice and stopped taking her medicine. She was glad she did but she was having troubles once in a while. She shrugged and started to undress, and turning on the shower. She smiled and got in, thinking about what might happen tonight. She bit her lip hoping it will go good.
Meanwhile, Emily finally had regained her motion and started to walk upstairs, grinning. She was now extremely nervous about seeing her old friends for the first time in years. She knew that they had changed, drastically, over the years. With all of Amber's surgeries, she didn't look like the little girl Emily once knew. With Luigi…well he was still the same grump she knew as a kid. She could tell he was the same by his anger and stress lines on his once young face. And Pavichie, to Emily, he changed the most. Emily scene him with his scared face. To her, he was and still his handsome. But Pavi didn't believe that. And in a way she blamed Rotti, for telling him he was ugly all the time. She also blamed Luigi, for being the one who caused Pavichie's misfortune. And now he rapes and steals women's faces.
Emily shook her head; things defiantly had changed over the years. She walked over to her vanity and started to pin her hair up a little, letting the curls drop loosely. She smiled light and turned, walking out of her room and downstairs, to wait by the door for Shilo.
Shilo had just gotten out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her, and grabbed her wig. She walked out of the bathroom and into her room, grabbing a short black skirt, and a black top, putting it on. She grabbed her favorite purple vest and threw that on over her shirt, and looked it the mirror. Shilo pulled on her black wig and took her brush, brushing out the straightened hair. She doesn't really wear much make up so she put on a little bit of eyeliner and some lip gloss. She put her shoes on and grabbed her bag, running downstairs, and over to Emily. "Ready!" She giggled a little and opened the door.
"Great! Let's go." She walked out of the house smiling, still a bit nervous. She walked out of the front gate to the house and out into the street and looked around, trying to remember the short cut she always took as a kid to the Gene Co. building. "Come on Shi…lets go take the alley ways." She smiled and started to walk off into the alley across the street in front of the house. Shilo grinned, running up close behind her. She knew she had a chance of running into Graverobber here.
They were deeper into the alley ways and Shilo looked around, looking at all the zydrate addicts and scalpel sluts hanging around. She whispered to Emily, who also was looking around. "Support meeting I think…" And right after Shilo had said those words, Graverobber had jumped down from a fire escape and onto a closed dumpster. "Who wants their fix of the glow!" He shouted and his junkies surrounded him.
Shilo watched as Graverobber took his money and shot his addicts with the Z. She smiled light, but her focus on him was cut by Emily's curious voice. "Graves?" She said, taking a step closer to the dumpster. "Is that you?"
Graves head snapped up and he looked into the darkened alley way and smirked. "Emily Wallace…and Shilo Wallace?" He hoped down from the dumpster and pushed his way past the begging junkies, and stood in front of the two sisters. "Amber kept talking about how your coming back home, today…while I was giving her fix" he smirked. "Nice seeing you again after all these years."
Shilo's eyes widened. 'They know each other?' She finally spoke up and looked at the both of them. "You two know each other?" She seemed kind of shocked in Graverobbers point of view and he chuckled. Emily nodded and looked over at Shilo, smiling a little. "When I used to walk to the Largo's, Graves would always would be out here. Selling drugs as a kid" She giggled a little.
Shilo also giggled a little, and looked over at Graves. "Hey it's a great life, living out on the streets, selling drugs. Super fun" He smirked and turned away from them, heading back to his addicts. "Speaking of selling, got to get back to work. I'll stop by the house later, to talk." He chuckled
Emily and Shilo both said bye to him and walked off around the corner, leading out to the street in front of Gene Co. Emily looked up at the top of the building then at the door. Memories flooded her mind and she smiled a little nervously. Shilo looked up at her and noticed this. "Come on…let's just get this night over with." Shilo started walking to the front doors and walked inside. Emily jogged after her and walked inside with her sister. 'That's not it Shi….I don't want this night to end'