CHAPTER TWO
{recap}
"Who's your old friend?" Letty asked and I could feel Dom's eyes piercing into me. I pretended not to hear her as I roared away on my bike, silently saying sorry to the gang, I had some business from my past that needed sorted and I wasn't sure if I was going to be coming back from my short 'visit to an old friend'.
TWO YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND THREE WEEKS LATER:
IN TOKYO,JAPAN:
I ducked relying on my keen sense of hearing since I was unable to see out of my left eye as I turned left bringing up the knife I had taken from one of the now cooling corpse of one of the Snake gang member's bodies. I used my weight and flung the knife deep into the heart of the last living member of the Snake gang and as she dropped I fell to my knee trying to get my breath. I only had a couple of minutes before the police swarmed the old falling apart warehouse so I didn't linger. I ripped my shirt and tied it around my head trying to stifle the bleeding from the cut over my left eye, the sweat on my shirt stung as it made its way into the cut but the bleeding begin to let up thankfully as I ran to where I had hidden my motorcycle before I had met with my old gang. I yanked on the helmet and the long black leather jacket that I had brought figuring I would need them in order to make a clean get-away, which worked beautifully as I drove down a deer trail in the forest and then out onto the main highway passing police car's and ambulance's. "They won't be in need of those." I muttered as I speed off towards the bustling city of Tokyo. As soon as I got to the garage that I had bought several years ago under a false name, and shut off my motorcycle I could feel that something was wrong.
I jumped off my motorcycle throwing my helmet in the direction that I sensed a presence in while vaulting myself over to a work bench and grabbing my two loaded Glock's from their hidden position's in my tool box and held them at the ready. My eyes were sweeping the garage for even the faintest movement ready to kill when a voice that I recognized but thought I would never hear again came out of the shadows. "So this is where you've been, Jade." My whole body froze, "Dom?" I wasn't sure exactly what to feel and my voice was completely emotionless as a result as Dom stepped out of the shadows and into the light of the street lamps from outside that were starting to flicker on. I put my Glock's away and slowly stood up we had both changed in the two and a half years we hadn't seen each other. Dom had gotten more muscular and mature, I myself had grown from my 5'8 frame to six foot putting me at almost direct level with Dom. My hair that had been dyed blue for the whole time Dom had known me was now back at its natural black color and was cut short with wispy bangs. I could see Dom's eyes taking me in and was thankful that I hadn't taking off the leather-jacket and that I hadn't come out fully from the shadows. "Dom... what are you doing here? How did you find this place?" I asked cautiously checking the surrounding shadows wondering if he came alone. "Why did you leave without saying anything? Do you know how heartbroken Letty and Mia were?! They cried every night for three months straight thinking that something had happened to you before they got that postcard, the ONLY postcard you sent." Dom said his voice steadily rising. He opened his mouth to start again but I cut him off, "If the only thing you came here to do was to holler at me, demand answers and preach your self-righteous crap then get out. You know what just get out anyway. In case you haven't noticed I DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND. Go back home to Letty, Mia and the guys, I have things that I ne, want to do and your presence here is bothering me." I stated my voice like ice before I turned around and made my way to the stairwell door to head upstairs. I entered my code and quickly went through the door shutting it behind me before I slumped against the cold metel. *That was close, I almost gave in for a second there, and I almost slipped up. Knowing Dom if he knew what was really behind me leaving he would try to step in. Besides this way Letty will never have to go through what I went through and she can finally act on her crush for Dom. Everything will work out... as long as I continue on like this.*