“Couldn’t you have said this before making me drive all the way here and you also made me wait for you for around half an hour too?” He drawled grumbling at me. His reaction came as a surprise and blinking my eyes at him I stared at his face causing him to ask, “What?”
“No, why aren’t you asking me anything? I was sure you would call me crazy or something,” I said shrugging my shoulders. It was weird, I had barely known this man and yet I felt comfortable around him to spew out my feelings. Or was it because he was a stranger that it made it easier?
“No, I think I had already established this yesterday that you aren’t a sane person in any terms, and with the declaration that you just made I think that fact has pretty much just solidified in my mind,” he said, nodding at his words as if trying to make sense to himself more than to me. Looking back at me then he asked, “So, do you want me to drive you to a mental facility? I am sure you need to get your brain checked.”
“Hey! I am not crazy!” I grumbled out my words but take no real offense to it when I saw the smile displayed on his face. He wasn’t entirely wrong after all, there was definitely something wrong with me, for me to see future visions but I didn’t mind them.
“That is exactly what a crazy person would say,” he piped flashing me a grin as he adjusted his back mirror. I was about to retort back to his words when suddenly he stilled and without moving an inch he said, “Hey don’t look back and simply just sit inside the car, okay?”
“What? Why? I told you I am not going to the airport anymore,” I said unable to understand what he was trying to say or where he was getting at.
“Stop arguing with me and just get in!” he exasperated meeting my eyes and something in them made me nod along and move back to sit inside. He was agitated and slightly on the edge which made me nervous.
What was happening? Why was he behaving this way?
“Okay now that you have seated inside look into the mirror, can you see those people standing by that street lamp?” he asked pointing at the scene with a shake of his head. Adjusting the mirror for me I looked through it and saw a group of baggy t- shirt wearing people standing huddled around the lamppost.
The area I lived had been a quiet neighborhood with middle class homely families living in it. It had therefore come as a bit of a surprise to find such rugged looking people standing there.
“But this is NYC, its common to find such people around the city, what’s wrong with them?” I asked still not giving into my doubts yet. It could be a normal occurrence that had made them wander to this part of the city, right? Maybe they had come here to meet someone.
“Yeah, I know that dumbass but I saw them checking you out two to three times now. I don’t think they are just here on a walk,” he said and that thought scared me. Could that be possible? Were they here for me?
“B-But I don’t know those people! Why would they come here for me?” I asked frantically about to turn around to look out the window when I am stopped from doing so by a hand on my shoulder which pushes me back to the seat to keep me seated and looking to the front.
“Are you crazy? Don’t let them know that you are aware of their presence!” he said huffing at me as he leaned over to put my seat belt on, “Haven’t you seen any movies? How are you going to face Draven Calix if you make these small mistakes?”
“Calix? You think they are from the Calixes?” I asked bringing a hand to my mouth. What did he want from me?
“Well who else would they be? Maybe Draven Calix snapped and sent some thugs after you to mess you up or something? I don’t know, I have no idea what went down there at your meeting with him, in fact, wait why am I even bothering with all of this?” he asked staring at me with slightly agitated eyes.
“What?” I asked taken aback by his last question.
“I mean you are the one in trouble so why should I be roped into it? I don’t want anything to do with the Mafia. It’s not like I even know you or something,” he said opening my seatbelt, ready to send me out. The nerves kicked in at the feeling of being left alone and grabbing onto the seat belt I locked it back and shouted, “Hey! You know me! You are Nicholas and I am Silia! You are the Mafia expert and I am the desperate friend in need!”
“Oh no, I rather not make friends with a woman who is being chased by a group of murderers and who has apparently pissed off their boss,” he said bringing his hand back onto the seatbelt to open it but I held onto it and pleaded, “Oh come on! Are you just going to leave me to die? I thought you are nice!”
“Not nice enough to get myself killed as well!” he shouted when suddenly he stopped fidgeting with the seatbelt that I refused to let go and immediately put his hands on the steering wheel, “Shit! They are coming towards us!”
“See, it’s too late to escape now,” I said slightly rejoicing and slightly panicking in my head. Our commotion must have alerted them of something being wrong and the group was slowly trudging closer to us. Seeing the big burly men close in on us I patted Nicholas’s shoulder and said, “Come on, what are you waiting for? Drive!”
Realizing that there was no way out anymore he sighed and started the car and almost immediately took off while the men who had been keeping an eye on us raced after us. Taking my head out now from the window I saw one of them raise their t-shirt a gun glinting in his waistband pocket while he took out his phone and called someone.
“We need to lose them and hide somewhere, I think he is calling someone else,” I said as Nicholas grumbled and increased the speed of the car.
“I wonder what did I do wrong to be going through all this. All I did yesterday was to help a sad girl and look what that brought me? I am being chased by the fucking Mafia!” he shouted honking at the cars in front of us in frustration and fear.
Although Nicholas said these things and used this tone, it was clear from his words that he was a good man and even now he could have easily pushed me out and handed me to those people but he didn’t he chose to protect me.
I wish I could help him somehow as well.
“Don’t worry I am sure we will both be alright,” I muttered out my words not really wanting him to hear. I knew for sure that I was going to be safe but I couldn’t say the same for Nicholas because I have yet not seen him even once in any of my visions. Even then if his life really did get in danger and my visions are true then I am sure Draven will listen to my request to save him if something was to happen.
At least I am hoping he will…
Suddenly I feel a slight ache in my head and I saw a black car chasing me. I couldn’t make out my surroundings and I couldn’t see Nicholas in my vision but I was aware of the fear I felt as I saw the luxurious looking black car slowly gaining speed.
Snapping out of that small vision soon after I immediately looked around to make sure that there hadn’t been any car or maybe I wanted to see a black car for my visions to be proved true? I don’t know but I felt my nerves unsettle and work on overdrive as I twisted around in my seat continuously.
“What are you doing?” Nicholas asked looking at me from the corner of his eye as he focused his attention on driving.
“A black car is going to follow us soon,” I mumbled out my thoughts before I could stop them and freezing at my words I am about to deny them when Nicholas shrieked, “How did you know? I think that car is following us!”
Nicholas said as he pointed at a car behind us, it looked similar to that in my visions and I felt my eyes widen at the quickness of it coming true.
“Hey, I think I recognize that car. It belongs to Draven Calix himself!”
What?Draven was following me himself now?What the fuck did I do this time?Could it be true that he is coming to ‘mess me up’ like Nicholas had claimed to?The thoughts were running wild in my head and were only pressing down on me more and more as I saw his car nearing us by every second.“Fuck!” Nicholas’s cursing brought my attention to him, “Why do we have to get stuck in a traffic jam right now?”What was wrong with my luck? Why now of all time?Draven’s car stopped just behind us and turning to look back at him I tried to search for him but the windows had been tinted so dark that nothing was visible of the inside of the car’s passengers.“Do you think he would try to do something here? Among all these people?” Nicholas asked agitatedly tapping his fingers against the steering wheel while honking at the car in front of us with his other hand. I tried to think but before I could come to a conclusion he shook his head and continued, “Who am I kidding? Last month I saw him shoot
“W-What?” I asked any more words refusing to leave my mouth as I tried to grab my senses. He looked angry for some reason as he beheld me in his stormy gaze. The grey in his eyes only seemed to dig more harshly into my soul at the response that I had shed on him.Grasping my hands again with one hand he brought the other one to my face and roughly took hold of my chin. I didn’t know why but for some reason it seemed as if he had been pissed at me, like I had made a grave mistake. He surveyed my face with a quarrying gaze and the anger made me gulp in anxiety as his searching scrutiny scorched my skin.A button pressing sound could be heard and looking out from the corner of my eye I could see that the divider between the driver and back seat had been raised to give him some privacy. From my position I could see that we had moved out of the jam and I wondered where he was taking me.“You have no sense of danger do you? You never learn,” he said, his words coming out quipped and heated.
“I swear if you try something like that again I am going to strangle your neck with my own bloody hands!” Nicholas shouted through the other side of the phone making me wince and pull it away from my ear. I had been ignoring taking his calls since yesterday and I guess I had blown his whistle with the pent up frustration.But I just couldn’t bring myself to tell him about what happened yesterday. It was so embarrassing!“You know you sound more like a member of the Mafia than the Don himself,” I chuckled somehow feeling better to be talking about it even though I had feared doing so yesterday. I even worried Lisa with my behavior again.“Haha so funny,” he snarked at my words and chuckling at that I heard him sigh and then continue, “I know that you don’t want to tell me about yesterday so I am not going to ask but I find it really weird that you are still alive.”“Way to tell me that you wish me dead,” I snickered at his words knowing that he didn’t mean it but in reality I was just
“A job as a florist? That’s doesn’t sound too bad.”No, you are wrong!“Yeah, I guess,” I mumbled trying to sound convincing to Lisa.“I will drop by later-” she had only started to say when I stopped her with a sudden cry that broke through me, “No!”“Oh wow, that was surprising but why?” She asked sounding suspicious and I cursed myself to have raised her concern. I couldn’t really show her this dress that had been barely reaching my mid-thigh and was paired with thigh high socks and a sexy garter belt combination. Lisa would probably blow her top!“That’s because I am not really good at arranging flowers yet and I want you to come visit me when I am perfect at it, then I will gift you a bouquet with all the flowers that you choose.” The lie slipped out of my mouth laced with sweetness and flattery. It shamed me to think that I had been resigning to this but I really had no other option.I was considering taking this job because its pay was better than any other that I had ever appl
“You are a bad waitress.”Alfeo’s annoying voice snapped me out of my glare that I had been directing at Draven’s head. Looking back at Alfeo I said, “I didn’t even know that I would have to be one.”“As your instructor you are making me look bad, smile for the guests my belle,” he said taking hold of my hand that had been limply falling beside me. Jerking at his touch, not liking it even a single bit I glared at him to subtly tell him to let me go.The place had been too quaint and sophisticated to make a scene.“See that is not the expression that I want, smile for me,” he again adamantly said making me almost want to hit off that smile off his face, “Please.”As if that made things any better…But realizing that my only option was to give in I smiled and then repeated my question again, “What would you like to order, sir?”“See, I knew you could do it!” he cheered pulling me down by my hand as he kissed me cheek making me gasp and almost hit him when he pushed me back into my stan
Looking around once more I noticed that Alfeo had been flirting with another server and therefore wasn’t looking at me. I had hoped to borrow his power to get out of this situation without making a scene but even if it meant that I have to I would do that.I wasn’t a person who would keep quiet with someone else doing any kind of injustice to me.Glaring at the man in front of me I grabbed his hand and before i could realize what I had been doing as if it had been muscle memory or more an act of defense but a small crack could be heard as I unconsciously twisted the politician’s hand to the side.I didn’t even know I had this much power to actually be able to do so.His hold at once became loose on my hand and letting him go I watched as he silently tried to tend to his wound that he couldn’t shout out about in fear of making himself look pathetic and less manly.“You are going to regret this,” he bit out his words, face still slightly red from the pain that he tried to bear the pain
“Good job today too,” Diana’s voice bubbled in my ears as she came towards me. A smile blossomed on her face making me feel a little guilty.How could I possibly hate her when she was so nice to me?“Thank you, I have a lot of experience waitressing so this isn’t as hard, the only thing bothers me is that these people are all that I see behind a screen, facing them in reality leaves me a little star struck every time,” I said glancing at the last table that I had served of a famous actress.“Give it some time,” she said chuckling at my words but then taking on a bit of a serene expression she looked over at me and in earnest she spoke, “But I am glad you didn’t decide to quit that day. I was honestly worried; also I am sorry for not paying attention to you. It rarely happens that a customer misbehaves so I had been relaxed and Alfeo said he would take care of you, I shouldn’t have trusted him.”“At least we agree on that last point,” I jested trying to make her feel better about the s
I had been quick enough to support my body with my hands before I crashed directly down into the ground. My arms ached but at least I had saved myself from banging my chin and cutting it up.Turning around with one of my feet still in his hold I kicked his face with the other making him lose his grip and groan at once. He had pissed me with this move that he had done and rounding his body I picked him up by his foot and dragging his body back a little I then sent him crashing into the giant metallic bin placed against the wall.The asphalt and dust grazed against his skin and left scratches along his unprotected membrane making him bleed through it while the cussing that elicited out of him told me that the crash had made his body hurt. At least the rattling sound had been loud enough to signify that.“Silia?”A voice calling my name snapped me out of my murderous daze. The relief I felt on seeing Diana’s worried gaze fall on me made me stagger back and sit down. I didn’t care that th