"What did you say?" Right now, in the school's rooftop two people stood in front of one another.
And Ashton is going through a procedure many boys his age go through, break up.
But he actually has a hard time believing what's going on, because as far as he knows, several days ago everything was okay... surely women aren't this volatile, right?
"I said that we're finished, Ashton... I don't like you anymore... I want to finish this relationship... tell me how much it was for the repairs of last week, I'll pay them and we will go about our business..." With her hands in her pockets, Sarah put an end to everything.
She tried to be as polite as she could, knowing full well that regardless of however everything ended, it was her fault... she's the one that was headstrong enough to call him even when she knew the two of them weren't likely to beat up Morpheus.
In fact, she was headstrong enough to try to kill Morpheus...
"Are you mad, Sarah!? what did I do!?" Ashton felt outraged, he really likes Sarah, they have been together for a month now and have a lot of fun together, she's quite sexy and overall a good catch, this came too suddenly.
"It's not you, it's me... I just... want to change, I think I have been wrong for a long time and want to fix it. That's all, please... don't waste both our times."
"You have to be kidding me, what about this? you don't want this anymore!" He took out something, something that looked like a cylinder!
!!!
Drugs, or more specifically, ecstasyIV a version that's injected and potent enough to make you dream with dragons.
Just with a single sting of that, even if you're the most broken of bastards, you will forget all your problems, she has been consuming that drug for three years... almost on a daily basis.
This, together with sex, kept her on at all times and ready for whatever threat she had to face... ready for the rough and disgusting like that being in this world represents.
He even approached her with it, surely she must want this, they're in the same ship here, they're both helpless addicts!
*SLAP!!*
With a wavering will, she slapped his hand away and held the man's collar with her bionic arm.
"I don't want it! if you're not going to tell me how much it is, then get lost, Ashton! I won't take that thing anymore!" She said so, but her body was shivering... she hadn't had some for a few days now and seemed to be doing well until she saw it...
The memories of that stack she has forgotten underneath the bed resurfaced with a vengeance.
Perhaps due to her sudden infatuation or due to the change she went through, she had forgotten it but now, it would be difficult to take it out of her head.
"You! Do you think you can say that you're going to leave and that's it!? what about the gang?! do you think they're going to let you leave!? I will just say it one time, Sarah... come with me and everything will be okay... we will have some good hallucinations, a rough fuck and everything will be okay, alright?"
*BAAANG!!*
What he received was a punch square to his face, breaking his renewed nose and throwing him far away, she had directly used the hardest set-up of her enhancement.
"You're a piece of shit... granny was right... she's always right." She tried to be polite, but eventually what was fated to happen, happened and he looked for it.
After blasting the boy away, she departed the school's roof, they're finished... it had been a waste of time, worse... now she remembers something she didn't want to remember.
"..."
'Sarah Sarah... you're looking for it...' he cleaned his bloodied mouth, there is no way he's letting that piece of ass go away.
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"I'll see you tomorrow, Mary..." The classes had finished and the weakened sun was about to drop down to the horizon.
'Roses are red, the ocean is blue... what are you doing, Morpheus?'
She rolled her eyes in annoyance, she hadn't been able to think of anything else today... aside from that stack of ecstasy beneath her bed.
'I have to get rid of it...'
"What are you going to do?" Mary who had been playing with her chips' interface asked before the two of them went each on their own.
"I'm going to granny's shop, perhaps I can still help her." It's already this late, it should be two hours before she has to depart, perhaps Morpheus is also there already and finished whatever he was going to do.
"Oh, okay... I'm meeting Brice, when are we selling the next stack?" Mary whispered, she thought it was odd for her to suddenly care about her granny's shop, but well... to each their own, what she cares about is the money the drugs can be, several thousand pounds a week!
"About that... Mary, I'm not doing that anymore..." This is something quite complicated for Sarah, it's like cutting off everything she has been doing so far.
"What do you mean? what are you going to do?!"
"I said I'll help granny with her shop..."
"That rubbish? how much money is it going to give you!?" Mary literally shook her best friend's shoulders.
Has she gone insane?
"... it's not about the money, Mary... I'll see you tomorrow..." Sarah released herself from the grip and wore her jaws, she didn't like it when she called her granny's shop 'rubbish'.
In this new path she's moving towards, it seems no one is supporting her.
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Sarah took an omnibus that flies all the way from central London to High Barnet.
"The authorities have worked extremely hard to deal with one of the headquarters belonging to the red blood gang located in High Barnet, props to Officer Null from the district department for accurately pointing out the location of the hidden organisation, apparently, there are still fugitive members along with the remaining cells of the district of Camden and Homerton... this is Carol from BBC News."
'Red Blood Gang...' she clenched her hand, 'serves them right'.
As she travelled on the bus, the news was being broadcasted.
...
"Do you think you can just leave the turf and nothing will happen, Sarah?"
!!!!
When she heard that voice behind her, the blood in her body went cold.
"Anderson... w-what?" She moved her gaze to the side and at that moment she paled, even more, there weren't many people, ten or fifteen at most but... at least five of them were glaring at her!
'Shit...'
The others, upon hearing the content of the conversation, moved aside... that's not their business.
"Ashton told me about your little idea... you have sold our products for so long... you know where our HQ is, you know everything... and now you just want to say a few words and leave? do you think that's possible?" The man whispered beside her ears, a man at least ten years older than her, the one that has been giving her the merch all this while.
"Anderson, I swear I won't say anything..." As strong as her enhancement might be, not only is it weaker than his, they're outnumbering her!
"It doesn't work like that, sweetheart... you're going to come with us now... or we're going to give your little granny a visit, okay?~"
!!!
"Please, leave my granny out of this, I will go..." She bit her lips and looked at the view outside the window, the stall is not too far away from the bus station.
'Could Morpheus be with granny now? he said he had some things to do... but it has already been long, he might have been back? but what if he's not!'
Her brain and chip worked at a thousand kilometres per hour, what can she do?!
Nothing comes to mind.
She doesn't want to go with them, if she goes with them now after what she just said, getting beaten will be the lightest of treatments.
She will be abused, perhaps even killed and disposed of and the worse thing is that after being disposed of, her granny still won't be out of danger.
'Morpheus... where are you?!'
In the most critical of moments, she could only think of a single person that could save her.
Her cardiac rhythm increased as did her fear, pumping blood through her veins and energy through her bionic arms, producing sweat on her forehead... what is she going to do?!
*THUMB*
*THUMB!*
*THUMB!!!*
"It's good that you're obedient, let's go boys, today we're having fun~" Anderson, a man with rather big scars on his face, grasped the girl's shoulders and took her with him.
No one betrays the Italian Soprano Maffia.
That comment did nothing but to further scare the beauty who could only start thinking of the horrible things that would be done to her before she got killed and disposed of in a rubbish bag or a well.
Her pitiful body, abused, torn apart and disposed of in a well where dozens lay, she was just another one of the bunch.
'M-orpheus... h-help m-e...' Her eyes moistened, how long has it been since she's this scared? Has she become a pussy? she's been through bad ones, she has been stepped on, but right now... Sarah is completely sure she's going to die.
She just got an opportunity to fix things, with her granny, with her own life, why is it going to end so quickly!?
*THUMB!!!*
*THUMB!!!!!!*
*THUMB!!!!!!!!!*
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*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-------------------*