Chapter 2
It was a freaking nightmare!
Why was she in Stilwater? He had made sure he fled as far away from home as possible and now, of all the places she could be in right now, she had to be here, in his city, his crib on top of that. He should have know she would snuck up to them like she did. First she had to chase him down all the way from one highway to the other, going all around Stilwater as they did and after the attempt failed, she covertly followed him to the crib. Just how in the fucking hell did she even managed that?
He was smart for a brute, but unfortunately she was even smarter than he was. Of course she was, she had always been; smart, beautiful, charismatic, just like his mother, just like their mother.
The Boss heard her voice booming loud from the crib's entrance, the used-to-be church hall of the new Saints's hideout. Well, it wasn't really much of a hideout anymore, almost every being in Stilwater knew the place, and with that girl making so much chaos in his territory, everyone will know about her and who she was to him. It was indubitable what he had to do, that girl had to be stopped and sent away; far-far-away from Stilwater immediately.
"What's the big deal? Just let me in!"
"For the third time now, this ain't a place for you lady, you are pretty and all but our Boss aren't looking for company right now."
"Excuse me, but he's my-"
"What the hell are you doing here?!" the Boss questioned furiously as he entered the hall, his voice made his once crowding crew spontaneously cowering to the side, they knew better to back off whenever he uses that tone on anyone.
"Mickey!" the girl yelled out in enthusiasm ignoring the angry aura emitting from the said man, bright smile on her pretty face as she approached the Boss and instantaneously jumped on him, embracing him in front of his present crew. Hell, in less than an hour everyone in his gang would know his real name, so much for keeping Pierce's mouth shut.
"Where have you been? You know I've been worried sick." the young girl questioned as she looked up to him, both her hands cupping his face close to hers and gently. She still had the same bright doe eyes, her hair were much longer than he had remembered them to be, dark and luscious, her scent reminds him of home. A place with memories he vowed to obliterate and yet in just a matter of second, her scents recollected back those memories.
"Are you actually living here?" she looked around, "I heard you are-"
"Jesus Min, What are you doing here?!"
"Looking for you of course!" she frowned as her hands gripped tighter around his face, she just wouldn't let go no matter how hard he tried to shove her away. "I thought you'd be happy to see me after three years, instead here you are being all angry and looking tough, as usual." she added the last part as she rolled her eyes.
"Oh, and that didn't occurred to you when I drove away like a mad man to avoid you?" the Boss asked as he was trying to pull her hands away from his face. "Get your hands off me!" he snapped after several attempts failed.
"Gee, you don't have to snap at me." the girl said, before slapping the Boss's face hard with both her hands that was once gently holding them, earning her a wail from the man she did it on, gasps and exclamation of surprises came from some of their audiences in the room.
"Fuck!" the Boss hollered at the stinging pain on his cheeks, holding them as he did. It wasn't that painful or anything, it certainly beats being shot or put to a coma. Still, the shock of having to be slapped on came too sudden that it kind of made him yelped out so shamelessly in front of a number of his crew. Now there was a fat chance he would lose respect and his tough cool guy image, ruined!
If she was anyone else, he would have shove the bitch's head in the toilet bowl; the one downstairs, the same one filled with shit, urine and puke that had overflowed.
"That's for being an asshole!" the girl added furiously.
"Yo Boss, who's this?" Johnny strolled in with Pierce in tow, "A chick you banging?" he added and managed to chuckle a little, stopping just behind the said chick who suddenly turned around, punching Johnny square in the face, the same girl who had just slapped the Bosses face red on both cheeks.
"He's my brother you moron!"
It was a real peachy day.
Earlier that day he had pancakes for breakfast, Shaundi was no where to interrupt his meeting session with the Boss talking about the Ronin, then the said usual uptight Boss miraculously asked him to go shopping together with the Boss, they had lunch at Freckle Bitches. It wasn't a date or anything, just bro's hang out. It was a pleasant day sure, and it got exciting too. That was until this lady followed them to the parking lot, called out the Boss's real name, Boss got scared, chasing them down the highway, and turned out she was tailing them to the crib, then it got even better! The same girl, who was a head shorter than the Boss, slapped him and gave Gat a punch on the face. She did made the notorious gang leader yelped and sending the monstrous second in command to the ground.
Turns out, she's- "So, you are the Boss's little sister?" Pierce picked out one of the many questions that were piling up in his head. Too bad Shaundi wasn't there for all of this. He made a mental note to boast to that hippie chick later.
"Hey, I am not little anymore, besides me and my brother are only six years apart." she answered as if 'six' was a 'one' and he followed them to the main hall.
The Boss rolled his eyes, hands in his pockets. "You shouldn't have come here."
"I can do whatever I want and most certainly... do not need your consent."
"Lady, you have no idea what we are dealing with right now. I suggest you return to being a cheerleader in whichever high school you are suppose to be in." Gat snapped at her.
Pierce knew Gat wouldn't lay a finger on the Boss's sister even after what she did to him. Gat did respect the Boss that much. But still, a little snapping wouldn't hurt, besides the Boss wouldn't mind, he was also a victim here.
"He's right." the Boss added, confirming Pierce's assumption.
"I am not a high school student anymore! I've just graduated." the girl retorted, her brows furrowed and that was when Pierce distinguished the family resemblence. Great, a feminine Boss, with an even more bossy attitude. "You weren't even there for my graduation."
When they got to the main hall, the Boss had the rest of the crew out except for the Boss himself, his sister, Gat and Pierce. Gat sat himself on the worn out sofa, legs stretched out resting on the coffee table, an arm draped at the back of the sofa.
"You actually hang out down here?" Boss's sister looked around our sanctuary with evident disgust on her face. It was true, the place was a wreckage, dirts everywhere, smelling like the sewer , crawling with vermins, and worse thing was, Pierce's first night there he stepped on a (or maybe several) human shit within the said shit hole. It was around that South corner of the underground hotel entrance and he vowed to never walk over that area ever again.
The Boss sat himself next to Johnny and Pierce drag an empty barrel for the little lady to sit on, "You sittin' or not?"
The girl snorted, "I rather stand and not dirty my skirt, thank you." she said snobbishly.
Pierce was about to make a comeback but the Boss hold up a hand and said, "Don't mind her Pierce, she can be a bitch sometimes."
"Well excuse you!" the Boss's sister retorted.
"Hey, if you graduated, why aren't you going to uni? I thought you were adopted by a new family, few weeks after they sent you to that orphanage." the Boss leaned forward and asked inquisitively.
The girl quirked a brow curiously, "How did you know all that?"
The Boss faked clearing his throat, trying to avoid eye contact with anyone in the room. "I had my sources. Just answer my question."
"They were a nice family, definitely not our kind. I left them to come here after I graduated high school. We left in good terms and still in touch. Mom and Dad are two adorable couple..." she trailed off, but Pierce swore he saw the Boss flinched at the mention of his sister's new parents."...and I have a bitchy older sister instead of a useless older brother who hadn't speak to me in years, until now."
"Then I am sorry I am the ever useless brother to you. But you shouldn't have come here, so you may as well go back to your new family." The Boss seemed offended.
"I can't." she shrugged.
"Why the fuck not?" It was Johnny's turn to ask and he sounded rather impatient.
"It is none of your business stranger, but to answer my brother's question well... I am here for a few reasons."
"What reasons?" Pierce took his turn to participate in the conversation.
"First off, I am a student in Stilwater University and second I come all the way here searching for you." she pointed a finger at the Boss. "...and here you are!"
"Shit Boss, if the Sons of Somedi finds out about her, she's going to be in big trouble." Pierce pointed out.
"I know." the Boss sighed, taking out a cigarette from the box laid on the coffee table. "She is in trouble the moment she stepped foot here in Stilwater." he lighted up the cigarette and started to smoke before he continued, "...and not just the Sons of Somedi, the other gangs may target her. The Brotherhood, the Ronin..."
"Since when do you smoke?" the girl asked, scrunching her brows.
"Exactly how did you know I am in Stilwater?" the Boss ignored the question asked and required his own.
"You were put in a coma and I didn't know about that until I saw a picture of you in the news along with a video of you breaking out of jail with some guy." the Boss's sister answered, "You have turned into a wanted criminal, I was worried, I missed you and you are my only real family left, what more reason do you want to hear?"
The Boss breathed out tiredly as he used his fingers to massage in between his brows, "So you do know I am a gang leader now?"
"Of course I know you are the gang leader of the Saints. Like I said, all in the news."
"And you still came here knowing how dangerous it is to be around me?"
"The Boss's right girl, you should have known. We are picking fights with those violent gangs outside and they will target you once they found out you are the Boss's sister." Pierce said.
"I don't care. They wouldn't know anyway if any of your gang members can keep their mouth shut. I just want to be with my brother and besides I can help you people. let me join the gang." the girl suggested bluntly, but sounded more like a demand. Pierce had predicted that she would said something like that and for once he wasn't glad that he was right. She's young and most likely no experience being in a gang and it could get her killed and she's the Boss's family too. Pierce may not dare to say this out loud but, it was obvious that the Boss's sister was the Boss's weakness. Although compare to Shaundi, Shaundi was young too, she's a college student yes, but at least she understand Stilwater and had experience... which includes an expert information gathering from her mountains of exes.
The Boss stood abruptly, "Fuck that! You are not staying here in Stilwater, you need to get out of here ASAP! Do you understand me?"
"I don't need to hear that from you. You haven't exactly been there for me, so why should I listen to you?"
"Min! I know you missed hanging out with me and I appreciate that but this isn't the way it should be. I am a gang leader now, a known killer, a criminal. You and I live in different worlds now."
The girl approached the Boss, her hands took a hold of his left hand and with puppy eyes she glanced up straight into his eyes. "Please, trust me. I don't care about anything else. I just want to be with my brother again. Please, i promise you I would do anything you say, just don't sent me away. I just want my brother back no matter who he had become." When her eyes started brimming with tears; the Boss's flinched, Gat sitting up straight and Pierce covering his mouth with a gasp.
There was a pregnant pause in the room. None of the males in the room know what to do. The Boss stared at his sister for a moment before he tore his gaze away. The Boss was hesitating, like he wanted to say no and at the same time he couldn't deny his sister's wishes.
"Please? I won't be a trouble I promise." and with that one last beg, the Boss wavered and finally gave in.
"I'll have to think about it." the Boss replied as if he still didn't give in, but the look of defeat on his face was unmistakeable. His sister's lips twitched up to form a smile, but the Boss wasn't finished yet. "But I have one condition."
"You will be staying at Johnny's girlfriend's house."
"What the hell?!" Gat exclaimed in his seat.
"That's insane! What if them other gangs-"
Pierce was cut off by the Boss who gentle remove his sister's hand away from his own and started towards the stairs. "I am asking this favor as a friend Johnny, I'll do anything you ask of me. Can you keep my sister safe with Aisha?"
Pierce looked back at Gat who hesitated for a moment but agreed to it eventually. Pierce knew deep down Johnny will not deny any favor coming from the Boss. Besides, it was kind of amusing the Boss actually asked for a favor instead of demand people to do whatever (mostly suicidal) shit he asked.
But the thought of Gat baby sitting the Boss's sister? That had got to be fun, considering he just got punched on the face by the said girl.
"Mickey, where are you going?" the Boss's sister asked.
"Getting some fresh air." the Boss's sighed and his sister was about to follow until he added, "Alone." with his back on them, holding a hand up to stop his sister on her tracks as if he had a third eye on the back of his head. "And, don't you ever call me Mickey again in front of my crew." he warned before he fully ascended up the stairs.
Pierce waited until the Boss left the room and decided to start the interview he'd been so determined to carry out. "So, girl, what should we call you?"
The girl turned around and smiled at both Pierce and Gat, "Name's Minnie, Min's fine. I am sorry for not introducing myself earlier."
That was how Pierce figured out the Boss's parents had a thing for Mickey and Minnie and man... he was right.
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