"You've changed" Octavia broke the
silence, her voice so soft as she spoke.
"I did? How?" Mica asked, even tho she
already knew what she was referring to.
"Your...your ways everything. You look
more...bold now" she replied and Mica
looked down at the floor and chuckled.
"Well.. had to blend with the others".
She said.
"The first time i got here, it was so
difficult getting them to acept me.
Master Khalid is very strict with his members".
"You know, his clan is one of the most
powerful. So, everyone wants to belong
and serve under him. It was very difficult
getting to please him and make him
choose me.
I had to go through a lot, did a lot of
dirty jobs just to prove myself. Back
then, we were 12 and in the end, only 3
of us were chosen."
"I'd found it so difficult blending with
them, tho. It was so difficult. But, I had
to. I had to act like them, fight like them,
and eat like them.So, that's the reason I
became this way.Tho, I'm proud of it".
Octavia watched her sister as she spoke
so enthusiastically. She stared at her
like her whole life depended on the
story.
She had so many questions to ask - so
many questions about the X-family,
what they do and how things were being
handled. But she was scared of asking
Mica because Mica might see the fear
in her. Yes, she was damn scared.
"How's dad?" She asked after a little
pause.
Octavia cleared her throat before replying:
"He's fine"
"And Agatha? ls she still being a pain in
the @ss?" Mica chuckled and Octavia
shrugged and nodded.
"She had actually been sick severely
sick. But she's fine now". She added.
"Does..dad ever talk about me?" Mica
asked, a different look in her eyes and
Octavia shook her head slowly.
She scoffed and stare down at the floor.
What an unfortunate way to have a
father.
She breathed in lightly and stood up.
"Come on. Let's take a walk around" she
stretched out her hand to Octavia, but
Octavia stared at it like it was strange.
"I..I don't think I want to. There'd be...so
many people outside" she answered
shyly.
"Come on, don't worry about that. Its
fine" she said, but Octavia still didn't
take her hand.
"It'll be 9 p.m. soon, Yn. Let's take
a short walk around", she urged.
"Wh...What would happen at the hall?"
She forced herself to ask one of the
disturbing questions, but the reply she
got from her sister wasn't encouraging-
not at all.
"You're the one who insisted on staying, Octavia. You should be ready for the worst" she said bluntly and walked out of the room.
*
*
*
In the room...
"Do you really have plans of taking the
girl?" Becca asked as she stood behind
who was taking off his clothes.
A deep silence met her question and
she twitched
"Khalid..." She pouted.
"I'm yet to decide, Becca", he snapped
and she kept her mouth shut.
Despite the fact she was his girlfriend,
she still knew her limits.
She walked up to him and held him from behind. She felt so lucky - she was the only female in the clan who got to hold him that way - the Almighty Khalid.
"Khalid..." She moaned his name as she
ran her hands on his bare tattood chest.
"How did the meeting go?"
"Well,still the former. They're working
on choosing a new leader of the X-
family" he said simply and Becca
smiled.
"Oh Khalid..." She giggled and rested her
head on his back.
"I keep having this feeling you're going
to be the new leader!"
Khalid didn't respond to it but just left
her and walked to his wardrobe. There was so much competition in the family and getting to be leader was never gonna be an easy task.
He threw his shirt in the wardrobe and
Becca went to stand in front of him.
Not stand, but kneel.
"Let me pleasure you, Khalid" she said,
when she noticed he was about ordering
up.
She knelt in front of him and brought
down his zipper and the needful was
done.
*
*
Octavia fiddled with her shirt as she
walked beside her sister under the dark
atmosphere.
Mica's hands were in her leather
pockets as they walked along and she
was lost in thoughts, wondering why her
sister would want to join the X-family all
of a sudden.
It was too dangerous for her. And she
knew he sister...it'd be so difficult for
her to blend.
Octavia on the other hand, was feeding
her eyes with the things and activities
going on. There were decorations, boys
and girls chit chatting, drinking and
mostly smoking.
They, got to a pool area where it looked like a
party was taking place and they stopped walking.
Octavia was bedazzled at the beauty of
the place in the darkness. The entire
place looked just like a city on its own.
The sisters stood at a distance and watched them.
"Hey, Mica. What's up?" Two boys who walked by stopped to greet them.
"I'm cool, buddy", she exchanged a
nigga handshake with them.
"Pretty sister you've got there, huh", one
of them chuckled and Octavia felt her
cheeks become hot.
She stared down bashfully.
"Yeah, I know" Mica also chuckled.
The one who had complimented her,
suddenly made a light to shine on her
face, a pretty glowing light.
Octavia's eyes beamed as she stared at
it, but it was only a few seconds. He
chuckdx and left with his partner.
Wow, Octavia thought within her. That was a nice gift.
She smiled and looked back at the rest
of the people at the mini party.
"What....do you really do here?" Octavia
found herself asking another disturbing
question.
Mica adjusted her hands in her leather
jackets and shrugged.
"Well", she began.
"This is just our life. We eat, fight, party,
and carry out the Master's orders".
"Do you..fight with other clans?" She
asked.
"No, no. Not directly. Although, there're
are so many enemies, attempted
murders from one clan Master to another, spy cases, but there's never been a recorded combat between two clans. They actually fight in private if they want to". Mica explained and Octavia tried to digest it in.
"I...I heard...all the clans are under one
ruler?" She asked.
"Yea..kind of. You see, The origin of all these is the X-family. So, every clan is under the name of the X-FaK".
"The X-family is more like the body of
constitution here. So, they have a panel.
And the panel...has an overall leader.
But I heard they're trying to elect a new
leader", she concluded with a shrug while Octavia had listened attentively.
"Your Master...is he too cruel?" She asked and Mica laughed.
"Khalid is the devil himself. He's among
the top five most feared masters. He
gained his respect and fear from people
as a result of his brutal he is".
"I heard he'd taken out an entire clan
few years ago. Its just a rumor, tho, and
the panels couldn't find any strong
evidences to prove it was done by
Khalid, but people strongly believed it
was done by him. He'd been having a
little conflict with the clan master and
few days later, that happened"
She paused and turned to face her
sister.
"I'm really scared for you, Octavia" she
said.
*
*
To be continued!