Faye's
POVI gripped the gun with tight fingers and aimed at the target sheets in front of me, while dad guided me by telling me where to aim.
"Left! Nine o'clock. On your right! Focus on your angle Faye! Shoot!"
The firing of the bullets blocked out the last of dad's remaining instructions, and I smiled in satisfaction when it perfectly landed on the big red circle in the middle of the target sheets.
I placed the gun on top of the counter and removed the ear muffs from my head.
"Good job sweetheart. You've improved." Dad said and I smiled up at him.
"Thanks dad. I think I nailed it cos the last time we were here I could barely hit bullseye." He chuckled.
"You're right. Now remember, you never know where your enemies could hit you, so it's always better to be aware of someone creeping up on you or attacking you from both sides. Got it?" I faked a salute.
"Yes sir!" We both chuckled and he placed his arm around my shoulder before we walked out of our shooting range and started heading back inside our house that is just a couples of steps away.
I quickly made my way straight to my room upstairs, and as soon as I walked in, I headed straight towards the walk in bathroom to take a shower. All those shooting made me sweaty and tired. I stripped out of my jeans and tank top before running the shower for about a minute till I stepped in and let the rainfall of cold water to soothe my aching muscles and body.
After showering, I put on a pair of shorts and a casual big shirt that covers my whole upper frame, and let my wet hair down to dry. This is like my usual Saturday routine. Goes to the shooting range with dad, stays home and lounge around or wait for my cousin/best friend Kaycee to randomly comes home just to see me. As if face time wasn't enough.
I went back downstairs to grab something to eat, and saw Jake walking in through the front door. Jake is my older brother.
"Hey jakey!"
"Sup short stuff?" I rolled my eyes at him.
"Where have you been?"
"Hanging out with Maddy and the boys." Maddy is his girlfriend. His first, serious girlfriend that does not go to our school.
To be honest, my brother is a womanizer. He doesn't stick to one girl, he can even date them all without the girls knowing. So when he suddenly has a new serious girlfriend, my parents were shocked but I was the least surprised. I know my brother better, more then anyone. And it wasn't surprising when I finally got Madison to tell me, that they were faking dating the first time they came home for dinner a few months ago.
But it's all cool now, they decided to stop so they became friends again and now they're dating for real.
I went to the kitchen while he made his way upstairs. As soon as I walked in, all the kitchen staffs and the cooks turned to me with a smile on their faces. I kinda have that effect on people.
"Hello Faye!" They all said in unison making me chuckle lowly.
"Hey everybody!" I walked towards the counter and leaned on it while propping both my hands on it.
"What can I get you sweetheart?" Maggie, one of the kitchen servers asked.
"My usual snack, please?" She smiled back at me while Micky, the cook turned around behind her back to face me.
"Sure thing! Your parents are having lunch at the back patio." I nodded before walking out of the kitchen and headed to the back patio.
Mom and dad were sitting face to face by the small round table outside, having a late lunch that only involves salad, fruits and a bottle of white wine.
"Hey mom." She looked up at me and greeted me back while I sat down on one of the empty seats beside them.
"Faye is improving a lot with her shooting and aims. I say, she's almost ready to come to missions with us." Dad said to her and winked at me.
"That's great. I'll consider that if, we have a mission someday." Mom said before sipping her wine.
"Thanks guys. Anyway, how did that meeting with the drug lord from Chicago?" Mom glanced briefly at dad with a small smile on her face.
"It went great then we had expected. I guess drake was able to come around, now that his son in law is Shane Ryder." I perked up in my seat when I heard the name Ryder being mentioned.
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special particular someone inmylife, alsohasthatsamelastname."Probably. Shane may have connections with other Mafia's, but drake has an alliance with almost everyone. It's still hard to believe that drake and his son in law used to be enemies." Dad added.
"Jonathan Ryder goes to our school." I said randomly and they both looked at me.
"We know Faye darling, it's not a surprise that he also goes to Pendleton high. That boy used to hang out a lot with Jake remember?" Mom asked, causing me to freeze.
Keyword? Used
to.Jake and Jonathan, are far from being friends now. Every time they confront each other at school, they ended up in fights and got sent to the principal's office almost every time. I still don't know the reason why, they're not friends anymore.
Now that we were talking about Jonathan. I can't help but remember his gorgeous face, his tousled brown hair, his light brown eyes and his full lips, and not forgetting his lean muscular body that he always shows off during p.e classes.
Yes. Jonathan Ryder is my crush. Since freshman year when he always shows up here at our house, to hang out with Jake or just randomly checking in anytime of the day.
I know, he sees me as his enemies sister nowadays, that maybe he needs to start treating me as an enemy as well like he's been doing to Jake. We never made eye contact in school or anywhere, if we do, it will barely last a second. But I don't mind of course, as long as i admire him from afar then my secret crush is safe.
If anyone finds out at school that I have a gigantic crush on Jonathan Ryder, my whole reputation of being a 'Royal Princess' in school, well technically I am a princess cos my family is the Royal Mafia, everything will crumble. Besides, the last thing I want is to deal with Jake's angry overprotective mode if he ever finds out that I secretly like Jonathan.
That, would be a real nightmare come true.
Faye'sPOVThe next day, Kaycee and I met at a local café called 'The Box'. It's quite popular around this part of Los Angeles because a lot of people from different schools came here just to hang out and enjoy coffee, so the customers that this café gets are only teenagers. But in my school, Pendleton high, this cafe is like considered to be the only spot where you can find the most popular group from school.On one table, you have the cheerleaders that were ogling at the hot barista that personally went over to their table just to get their order. No surprises there. The cheerleaders from my school are not those typical ones that parades around in their tight fitting cheer leading uniform with pompoms in their hands.
Jonathan'sPOVI stared blankly at the can of beer in my hand while the distant sounds of Tj's and Luke's constant yelling about the video game they were playing, echoed in the background. I kept thinking back to what had happened at the cafe yesterday afternoon between me and Jake Castillo and his, pretty innocent sister.Jake and I have been, let's just say, enemies, for a long time now. I hate his guts just as much as he hates mine and every time I see him all I can see is red. But thanks to my mother who taught me the skills on how to mask my emotions very well, I'll say it came pretty handy nowadays.The Royal siblings. That's what they're known as in the entire world. Their mafia is known as the Royal Mafia and because
Faye'sPOVMr Samuelson, my English teacher, continued talking about whatever he was talking about in the first place, his words were too far for me to hear, yet I kept jotting down important details on my notebook. My mind was blank and my eyes were glued to Mr Samuelson's mahogany table right in the front of the classroom.Then, just before he was about to add something else, the bell rang indicating that our fourth period just ended. Now, it's lunch time. I leaned back on my chair for a moment and watched the rest of the students filed out of the classroom and then I closed my notebook and placed all my pens and other small items inside my pencil case before putting both inside my bag.The minute I looked up, I saw Jonath
Faye'sPOV"Hot pink? Or aqua blue?" I held up both the two dresses I just mentioned their color and showed them to Kaycee who was lying lazily on my bed, typing on her phone while popping her gum at the same time.She stared at the dresses with narrowed eyes before lifting them up to stare at me instead."Wow, you really know your colors more then fashion." I frowned and watched her swing her long legs over the bed and strolled towards me and grabbed the dresses from my hands and tossed them back inside the closet."I'm about to go crazy. Jonathan is gonna be here in an hour cos he said that when I texted him a while ago, and I'm still looking for a dress to wear."
Faye'sPOVI have never felt this much happiness before in my entire life. My excitement never runs out and every little thing that I do, makes me think about him and just smile to myself. I was on cloud 9. Even my own family started to notice my happy change of mood, and they started to wonder why so they decided to ask Jake about it, which was the last thing I want for them to do, but luckily, Jake never said a word because he knew absolutely nothing about what's been making me happy nowadays.He never stopped texting and kept face timing whenever he got the chance, which makes me even more happy and excited just to hear his voice and see his handsome face on the screen of my phone.The next day for school, I quickly got dressed and then drove t
Faye'sPOV"Which one do you think is better? The blue one or the red one?"Mom asked while I continued texting Jonathan on my phone with a smile on my face. We were in mom's walk-in closet, and I was helping her choose a dress to wear at a boards meeting in Paris that she's gonna go to in a few hours. Honestly, I didn't even hear what she was saying not till she start flicking her fingers right to my face, when I finally looked up from my phone."Hello! Earth to Faye. Are you gonna help me or not?" I quickly nod my head."Of course I'm helping mom." She narrowed her eyes at me."Yeah sure, you're definitely helping by staring a
Faye'sPOVSaturday afternoon at around six something o'clock, I was rushing about in my room trying to get ready. Knowing that Jonathan will be picking me up at seven, being patience is probably something he doesn't even know. So I tried my best to get ready as fast as I can so I can be on time and won't make him wait for me. I rushed into my closet and picked out a dark blue cropped hoodie with a white Adidas logo printed on the front and then quickly slipped on a pair of black jeans to go with it. I put on my sneakers before brushing my hair and putting the top half as a bun on the top of my head and letting the lower half to flow down my back, freely.I applied a thin wing of eyeliner on my eyes and then put on some red cherry lipstick and after all that, I slipped on a pair of
Jonathan'sPOVI took a long drag of my cigarette and let out a big puff of smoke while I watched the street race unfold before me. One arm draped around the skinny brunette standing by my side while the one holding on to my cigarette between my thumb and index finger as our eyes trained on the racing cars rushing before us in full speed. My mind was completely focused on the race without any thought of Faye lingering in my head. It's not like I think of her anyway but something about that girl bugs me the wrong way.I think it has something to do with the way she presents herself to others. Acting so innocent with all smiles and happiness, definitely displaying the princess act as who she really is. But when I'm around her, I get the feeling that she's holding back onto something.