(Third person)
Police officers, firefighters, and medics were surrounding the cliff where the two drivers fell in. Ling was bawling on the phone with Miharu telling her what had happened.
Asuka was praying for not only Leo but Lili as well.
Hwoarang was pacing back and forth anxiously. Steve was talking to the only police officer who knew english. They just sent some fire fighters down to search for their bodies (wich made the girls hysterical).
The firefighters climbed back up with a police officer with them.
"Loro non giù là." the firefighter told the cop walking towards him.
"Ma abbiamo trovato le loro orme. Apparentemente il loro ricerca del sostegno di senso." the other cop said. Steve looked at the officer he was previously talking to for an explanation.
"They couldn't find their bodies. But they found their footprints. Their probably looking for a way back up." Asuka overheard this and rushed over.
"So you mean that their alright?" she breathed.
"I wouldn't say they were alright. But their alive." Ling held onto Asuka's hand. We're going to send a search team can we get a description of the girls?" Asuka cleared the lump in her throat.
"Emilie Rochefort. E-M-I-L-I-E R-O-C-H-E-F-O-R-T?" Asuka looked at Ling to make sure she spelled her name correctly. Ling nodded. "She has long blonde hair, light skin because she's french, she was wearing a orange dress. She's about 5'4." The cop wrote down the information.
"And the other woman?"
"Leo Kliesen. L-E-O K-L-I-E-S-E-N. She has short and shaggy blonde hair like a guys. She has light skin too because she's german. She was wearing a black shirt and jeans. She's little shorter then, Lili." The officer nodded.
"We'll contact you as soon as we find them." he tipped his hat and barked orders in italian. Asuka prayed again.
"Where could they have gone?"
20 minutes earliar...
Lili's point of view.
We continued falling and I couldn't see Ling anymore. i shut my eyes waiting for my tragic death until I felt Leo grab my arms. My eyes shot wide open and I looked up. Leo caught herself on a hanging rock and saved me from plummeting the rest of the way down.
Which I now realize was only a few feet below. I let go of Leo's hand and landed on the ground. Oh how I love land. I moved aside so Leo can land too. I looked around my surroundings. There was a road but no cars.
"We're going to have to find our way back." Leo stated. I glared at her intensely. Putting all the hate into it.
"How can you be so calm!?" I asked. She rolled her eyes.
"What do you expect me to do? Panick?" she asked like it was dumbest thing she ever heard of.
"You should be! We fell down a cliff, we're in the middle of nowhere all because of you." Leo scoffed.
"My fault?!" she asked. "Your the one who wanted to race!"
"But if you had accepted my offer in the first place then we wouldn't be in this mess." I pointed out.
"What!? That didn't even make any sense!" she spat.
"I gave you a chance to take the offer of a rematch, but you said no. So I had to do a car race!"
"Do you hear how you sound right now? You sound like a rematch obsessed retard." I scoffed back at her.
"Rien pourquoi can' ; t vous acceptez juste un défi ?" I said.
"Don't speak french in front of me?" Leo commanded. I rose an eyebrow at her. i knew she didn't just tell me what to do. She sighed deeply, trying to keep her anger in check. "You want to get out of here, or not?" she asked sternly.
I nodded silently. She shrugged.
"Alright, then we are going to have to walk the way?" She turned left and walked. I followed her. Maybe she knew where we were going.
1 hour later...
Maybe not...
"Kliesen-"
"Just leave it to me." I shut my mouth. She stopped and looked around. She noticed too. "We just passed that rock." I told her. She spinned around to face me.
"What makes you think that?" she asked.
"It looks like Brad Pitt." I pointed out. How can you miss a rock that looked like the hottest celebrity. She furrowed her eyebrows.
"Then we just go the other way." she said turning right.
Another hour later...
I looked at my watch. It said it was half past midnight. I stopped and realized that we once again passed Brad Pitt. (the rock, not the person. i wish.)
"Kliesen? You know where the hotel is right?" I asked her. She was quiet. Not a good sign. "I knew I should have asked my daddy for a helicopter." Leo again spun on her heel to face me.
Deja vu...
"Don't worry your little head." She winked and continued leading us to nowhere.
3 hours later...
I remembered something.
"Wait! I have my cell phone!" Leo glared at me.
"You forgot you had a cell phone." I ignored her. But my hope vanished.
No bars.
"Forget the cell phone idea, we can't get a reception." Leo kicked the dirt. "I thought you knew where we were headed."
"I thought I did." she said sheepishly rubbing her neck.
" 'I thought I did' " I mimicked her. She narrowed her eyes. I sat down on the dirt. I usually wouldn't sit on filfth but I really didn't care because my feet were killing me. Leo continued to stare at me. She then headed towards the woods.
"Wait, don't leave me here!" I cried.
"Don't get your panties in a bunch, I have to take a piss."
"Your going to leave me alone so you can pee." I asked.
"Are you coming with me?"
"Forget it. My feet hurt." I said this taking off my heel, massaging my foot.
"You want me to pee here?" I shuddered at the image she put in my head.
"Go. Hurry up!" I said waving her off. She ran to the trees out of sight. I focused on my feet which showed ugly blisters. Not pretty.
While I was worried about that a car pulled up next to me. I looked up and saw a handsome man in his late twenties looking down at me from his car window.
"You look like you can use a ride." He had a heavy italian accent. He smiled showing perfect white teeth. I swooned.
"Um actually yes we do." I told him, flipping my hair.
"Hop in." he tossed his head back showing me the backseat. I was about to climb in, but I remember Leo. As much as I hated the gender bender, I would feel guilty for the rest of my life for leaving her.
"Can you hold on a minute. I need to get my friend." he waved which was a go ahead gesture. I grabbed my shoes and headed towards the woods. When was about to enter I almost ran into her.
"I told you to stay." she spat.
"As much as I want to see you lubercating on tree roots, I came to tell you some good news. That man over there wants to give us a ride." Leo peaked her head around me to look at the kind man. She shook her head.
"We are not getting into a stranger's car." She stated. I stomped my foot.
"What! Your going to actually refuse! Do you have issues with offers. Or what?"
"We don't know that man. For all we know he can be a rapist." I looked behind me. He was waiting patiently behind the car. When he caught my eye he winked. Blood rushed to my cheeks.
"Please Leo. We both don't know where the hotel is." She crossed her arms, not buying it. I grinded my teeth together. "Look, we'll just go in, borrow his phone, call Mr. Chaolan, tell him where we are, and he can come pick us up."
Finally she sighed.
"Fine." Leo said. "As soon as we get in I'm calling Mr. Chaolan." I twirled and trotted to the car. I climbed into the backseat. Leo followed. The man headed towards his house.
"So what are your names?" he asked.
"I'm Emilie. But you may call me Lili."
"Lili." My name sounded sexy on his tongue. "Un bello fiore."
"I don't know what you just said, but it sounded beautiful." I sighed.
"And what is the other Donna's name?" he asked Leo.
"Meinyard." she lied. I looked at her as if to say 'you got to be kidding me' she rose an eyebrow.
"Her name is Leo-AH!" Leo kicked me.
"Quanto angelico." Leo rolled her eyes. Must be a lezbo. "What brings you fine ladies out here at this time?"
"We got lost." I said. He chuckled. We finally pulled up at a two story house. We got out of the car and he let us in. It was very tidy.
"This place is am-"
"May I use your phone?" Leo interupted me. Way to make an impression.
"In uno sbalzo, you seem starved. Allow me to make you some dinner."
"No."
"Don't be rude!" I lectured. I followed him into the kitchen. He heat up some leftover parmasean. He set each of us a spot at the table. I began digging in. i was so hungry.
"Excuse me," Leo began, not touching her food. The sweet man looked up. "You know our names," she flashed me a glare at that, "but we don't know yours." The man laughed.
"My aren't you a persistent one. Women should be more like you." Leo wasn't fazed by his charm. How she can do that, I don't know. The man noticed this too, and didn't seem to like it.
"Niccolo is my name."
"What does it mean?" I asked, intrigued.
"It means Victory." He winked at me again and I giggled. I finished the rest of my meal.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Niccolo, that was delicous." He picked up my plate.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, principessa." he looked at Leo's plate and realized that it was still full. "Is everything alright?"
"Actually, I already ate. But I really need to use your phone." Niccolo looked irritated at Leo. not that I can blame him.
"It's upstairs." He told her.
"Thank you." she excused herself from the table and climbed up the stairs. He continued to watch her leave.
"Mr. Niccolo?" I asked. "May I have something to drink?" I smiled at me again.
"Right away, Signora. I shall also bring you some desert. You can wait in the living room if you like." I thanked him again and found my way to the living room.
I was a little bored. So I picked the closest magazine. It was the same magazine Ling had. Must be hot news. I was reading the article of the mob boss that got out of prison.
The man in the picture was big. A little chunky I would say. He wore a grey suit and hat. He also was holding a cane, rings sparkling around his fingers. There were two men next to him wearing the same suit.
One of them caught my attention.
He looked alot like...
"Mr. Niccolo?" I whispered aloud. I dropped the magazine thinking I was losing my mind. A couple of pictures hidden in the magazine fell out.
I picked them jup and they were pictures of teenagers. One of the pictures was a couple. They looked horrible and scared. On the bottom written in sharpie it said,
1 out of 2 eliminated.
The next picture was an african american boy who had tears in his eyes. The bottom said
Due: 6/6/10
the pictures fell out of my hands. They weren't any teenagers.
They were victims
I gasped suddenlt. A large had wrapped around my chest, the other was holding a cloth which was on my mouth. I couldn't breathe, and I struggled onder his iron grasp. I tried calling for Leo.
He whispered in my ear.
" You know way too much, Signora."
Everything went black.
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Another cliffie. Stay tuned for Leo's side, and a bonus at the end. Happy New Years.
