"Spot! I'm going to kill you," screamed a very soggy Ace, who charged at Spot.
Let's recap on what just happened.
Me, Ace, Spot, Jack, Joker, Five and Diamond, we are sitting in one of the private rooms in Medda's, playing poker and just talking.
Spot got up to refill his cup of whiskey. He refilled it, and was walking toward me and Ace, when Race shoved Jack, who fell into Spot, who stumbled and spilled his drink on… Ace. Now here we are, with a very wet Ace, and a laughing Spot.
"You shouldn't have been standing dere," Spot said, chuckling lightly at Ace's soggy appearance.
"You arrogant bastard, you could at least say your sorry," Ace said, trying to get out of Jack and Race's strong grips to murder the Brooklyn leader. If looks could kill, Spot would be dead ten times over.
"Well, listen here sweet cheeks, Spot Conlon doesn't say sorry, and who are you calling a bastard, shrimp?" Spot said, getting angry and getting in Ace's face.
"Shrimp!" Ace shrieked, trying harder and harder to get out of the strong newsies grips. "Who you calling shrimp, you're an inch taller than me. You're a little on the shrimpy side, for a guy," Ace said, finally breaking free of Jack and Race's grips, and charging once again at Spot and shoving him against the wall while starring him down.
Spot and Ace kept on insulting each other while we watched in amusement.
"Hey, what's going on?" Heart asked, coming into the room and sitting next to Joker and Five, watching Spot and Ace.
"New age flirting….. Insulting each other," Joker said with a grin. "Watch," he said turning to Diamond. "Your hair looks terrible today," he said, as Five smacked him in the back of the head and walked out of the room.
"Hey, Five I was joking." Joker yelled. "Spot, Ace you just made my future wife mad at me," he said leaving the room. We could hear Joker pleading for Five to forgive him, and then were heard a "whap" noise, like someone getting smacked. "Come on Genevieve, I didn't mean what I said to Diamond. I was just demonstrating to Heart what new age flirting was." Then it was silent for a while, when Joker and Five walked back into the room. Joker had a red hand print on his face, probably the slap we heard.
"So Joker how's that new age flirting thing goin for ya?" Race said snickering at Joker's fierce glare.
"Shut ya trap Race. The new age flirting will be a big thing soon, and it will all be thanks to Spot and Ace," Joker said watching the still fighting Spot and Ace, shoving each other.
"Shove me one more time, Carla, and I'll punch ya. I don't hit goils but I'll make an exception for you," Spot said clenching his fist.
"Well bring it on little man, and its Ace," Ace said clutching her fists and throwing the first punch, nailing his jaw.
Spot looked surprised at Ace's strength, but got over it fast and charged at Ace. Jack stopped him before he could hit her.
"Spot if you even lay a hand on my sister, you'll lose your family jewels," I said pushing Jack out of the way and getting in Spot's face.
"Don't mess with me Spades," Spot warned.
"Spot I ain't in the best mood to be toyed with. You better watch yourself and stay away from Ace and you won't get hurt. You know what I'm capable of, so if I was you I'd watch it," I warned.
"Spades stay out of this," Ace shouted.
"Shut ya trap Carla- I mean Ace. You've made Cohon cry from all the yelling, and you're messing up Deck's party," I shouted trying to calm down the screaming baby. "Heart, go get the rest of the guy's, Ace get your ass outside and stay there till we come out," I said, starring Ace down, daring her to contradict me.
"But-" Ace started. "Fine, enjoy the shiner Spot," she said leaving the room, muttering incoherently about evil older sisters and arrogant Brooklyn leaders.
Once we were all outside, we started off to our home, but we didn't get too far when a dark figure stepped out of the shadows and walked toward us.
"Tony what are you doin here?" I asked. Tony Ferragamo was in charge of getting our jobs for us, and getting the floor plans of the building we have to steal from. See this is how professional stealing works. We have us (the Cards) the ones who do the dirty work, then there's Ferragamo who gets us the clients. Then there is the Boss of all of us. He's the one that takes care of the money. Before him (the boss), there was another. David Mata. David Mata was a good man; he was Larette's (Diamond's) father. We loved him like a father, but someone killed him, because he wouldn't give our gang to a man that wanted to be in charge of us. Well, that man that killed Mata is our boss, the one we answer to. I know stealing is bad, it is now under new management, but when David was in charge, we stole for good people. We stole things that were important to our society, we stole from the bad. You could say we were "Robin Hood's" of our time. Yeah, I know, weird. But now we steal for bad people. We've tried to get out of it, but the boss threatened to kill us.
"I'm here to tell you about a job you have tonight," Tony said, with sympathetic eyes.
"But we're supposed to have a week off," I said, getting angry.
"I know I told Boss, but he wouldn't listen. I'm sorry Spades. All the information you need is in the envelope," Tony said, handing us an envelope before melting back into the shadows.
"Argh," I cried in anger, throwing the envelope to the ground. "He can't do this! We were supposed to be off, to grieve over Deck. Boss promised me; he gave me his word."
Everybody stared at me a moment, then questions started shooting out.
"You've seen Boss?"
"What's he like?"
"Did he look good?"
"How come you got to meet him?"
"Why did you get to meet him?"
"Does he like bacon?" Everybody looked to Joker in confusion.
"Guys!" I screamed. "Be quiet. I went to talk to him about Deck. Now, that's all I can say; we have a job to do and we don't have time for silly questions," I said, picking up the envelope. "Five, take Cohon home and get one of the maids to watch him and meet us at the usual place. Joker go with her and bring our things."
"Eye, eye, cap'n!" Joker saluted.
Joker and Five began to walk towards our home where I bet all of us wanted to be. "This is going to be a long night."
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