8 AM...
Las Vegas...
At Skylight Hotel...
Sebastian stretches his arms out as his eyes flutters open. He puts his hand on his head as he slowly sits up and observe his surroundings. Though he still has a bit of a headache, he remembered well how did he eventually got to this place in the first. It's a good thing he is pretty strong with drinks, otherwise he could have forgotten about last night. Suddenly he hears the bathroom door open, revealing Olivia walking out of the bathroom while wearing a bathrobe.
"Rise and shine," says Olivia with a smile as she walks over to the bed to sit next to Sebastian. "Do you still have a headache?"
"A little, but it'll get better," says Sebastian. "What about you?"
"I'm way better now. I didn't drink too much last night," says Olivia as she rest her head on Sebastian's shoulder. "I wouldn't wanna get too drunk. I have to control myself."
Sebastian smiles at Olivia. "That's good. You wouldn't wanna end up like me in a way. Hangover sucks."
"Haha, that's why I tried to control myself," says Olivia, before giving Sebastian a sassy wink.
Sebastian stares at Olivia with a flirty smile. "Well, you're pretty good in taking control."
"Stop it, Sanchez!" Olivia throws a pillow at Sebastian lightly. "Damn, we were young and dumb."
"We are still young and dumb, Senorita," Sebastian says before eventually letting out a laugh. He gets up from his bed to check his phone, which he had put on silent mode last night when he was partying with his friends. He had a lot of missed calls from Alfredo and his mom.
Sebastian decides to call Alfredo and check up on him, knowing that he was badly drunk last night, Sebastian just wanted to make sure that his brother is ok.
"Hey, Bro! You ok? Where are you?" Sebastian ask.
"I'm at home. Where the hell are you? I've been trying to call you since earlier," Alfredo says.
"I'm good. I'm at a hotel. Just wanted to make sure you're ok. You were quite drunk last," Sebastian says.
"Well, I'm better now. Momma's been looking for you all morning," says Alfredo. "Let me tell you, she is angrier than a furious gorilla."
"She called me a few times. I'll be back in about an hour," Sebastian says before he hung up.
"Everything alright?" Olivia ask.
"Yeah. My momma's just worried," Sebastian says as he sits on the bed next to Olivia.
An hour later...
Las Vegas...
At the Sanchez's mansion...
Sebastian and Alfredo are sitting silently in their grand-father's office room as they listen to a grumpy looking middle-aged woman babble, Miranda Sanchez, who is none other than their feisty mother. The woman is constantly babbling about how furious she is that her plan didn't turn out well, and that it's time for a new plan.
"Those good for nothing idiots! Wait till I get my hands on them!" Miranda says.
"Calm yourself down, Miranda. The men will bring them back and give them no mercy," says her father, Juan Sanchez, who is also Sebastian and Alfredo's grand-father
"I can't stand it anymore, Father," Miranda whines, before she lets out a sigh. Miranda then stares at her two sons who are sitting in front of her on the couch.
"This girl is a hard target," says Miranda. "From what I heard, she only has her eyes on one guy in college. And damn that guy is always protecting her."
"All the guys I've send had been useless in getting her. What's dumber is that they don't even know where she lives. Idiots." Miranda adds with an annoyed tone.
Just then, a knock can be heard on the office door. Alfredo gets up from his seat to open the door, revealing a girl with strawberry blonde hair and a guy with black hair, as well as two men standing by their sides.
"Come in!" Miranda's strict tone almost made the .
Emma and Darren walks inside the office room nervously as the two men follow from behind them. Emma is trying her best not to look scared, though she wanted to break down and cry so badly right now at the sight of Miranda and Juan Sanchez in front of her. Meanwhile, Darren tries to look calm though he is really on the edge of panicking inside.
"You useless piece of rubbish! I send you off to New York for a year and this is how you return?" Miranda shouts with rage in her voice.
"Madame Sanchez, I..." Emma tries to give an explanation.
"Shut up!" Miranda shouts as she slaps Emma on her face, making Sebastian and Alfredo shock at sight of their mother slapping someone, though it wasn't really the first time for them.
"You're no longer any use here! Both of you!" Miranda says as Emma starts to burst into tears. Miranda then also slaps Darren on the face. "Take them away!" Miranda adds as the two men drags a now crying Emma and a traumatized Darren out of the office room.
Miranda takes a deep breath before she grabs her cup of coffee from Juan's table and takes a sip. "All of this had made me insane since the day that jerk crossed the line," says Miranda. "I don't want to grow old knowing that my enemies haven't suffer yet."
"Mom.." Sebastian tries to calm his mother.
"I thought about it. If my men can't help me take revenge, I'm gonna have to let my sons do it," Miranda says.
"Mom, what do you mean?" Alfredo ask in confusion.
"I didn't adopt you two for nothing, you know that. I've always wanted to have children who knows the meaning of gratitude, even it means putting their lives on the lines," says Miranda. "In this world, you have to be ready to put your life on the line to reach ethernal happiness."
Sebastian and Alfredo became silent after hearing their mother's words. Since Miranda adopted them when they were very young, they always got used to the gang life. They knew their adopted mom is the daughter of one of the most powerful mafias in Las Vegas. Despite the amount of times Miranda and Juan had put people's life to an end, they still care for their adopted mother and grand-father.
"Mom, what do you have in mind?" Sebastian ask with a gentle tone. Knowing how much his mom had suffer from grudge, Sebastian always tries to calm down the deeply shattered yet wicked woman.
"I'm sending you boys to New York City tomorrow morning! I already prepared everything. Get the girl and get it done," says Miranda. "She is too addicted to that damn transferred student. Even Darren failed to get in her pants."
"Mom, so all you want is just for us to kidnap her?" Sebastian ask.
"Or do you want us to get in her pants?" Alfredo chuckles.
"Win her trust, and take her here. I want that girl to suffer in both love and life," says Miranda. "She won't get away this time."
Hearing those words, Sebastian and Alfredo could only nod at their furious mother as they continue to listen to her babbling rage.
A few hours later...
8 PM...
Sebastian is packing all the stuff he would bring to New York City. He is still surprised by the sudden mission, yet he knew that it still needs to be done. And if this is the only way to make his mother happy, he would do it anyway.
Just then, Alfredo walks inside and see his brother still busy packing his stuff.
"Are you all pack yet?" Alfredo ask.
"Almost," says Sebastian. "I'll be needing a lot of stuff."
"Yeah," says Alfredo. "You know, sometimes I actually wonder though..."
"About what?" Sebastian ask.
"Are we actually bad enough to kidnap a girl we don't even know?" Alfredo ask.
Sebastian lets out a sigh. "Well, we have to. It's kinda what we are used to seeing since we were little."
"I know," says Alfredo. "And I almost thought Darren was smooth enough to get her under his skin." Alfredo adds with a small chuckle. "By the way, what was her name again?"
"Rachel Spencer," says Sebastian as he continues to pack his stuff.
2 days later...
At Weston University....
Rachel's POV..
I'm sitting in class as I listen to the lecture with two empty seats beside me, which I had saved for both Alex and Emma. Alex is outside having a phone call with Liam, and as for Emma I haven't seen her in the past few days. Even her phone isn't active. It's weird because it feels like she just disappeares out of the sight. I hope she's ok.
Just as I was listening to the lecture, a guy who I am not familiar with suddenly approaches me. I turn my head to see the guy. He is quite tall with big amber eyes, tan skin, and messy dark brown hair. He is wearing a blue t-shirt along with some black jeans and white sneakers. I guess that he could be one of the new students that the girls were talking about earlier.
"Hello! Is anybody sitting here?" the guy ask.
"No," I say casually.
Hearing that, the guy takes a seat beside me, in which I didn't really mind. The guy turns his head and smiles at me, but I choose to not focus on him and just focus with today's lesson.
"So, I didn't quite catch your name before," says the guy as he turns his head to look at me. "I'm Sebastian."
I turn my head to see him smiling at my direction. "I'm Rachel. Nice to meet you," I say casually, though I was just trying to sound polite to a new student.
"Rachel, it's a pleasure to meet you," Lucas says as he shakes my hand with a smile. I smile back at him. I guess he seems pretty nice.
Just then, Alex walks back to class and approaches me. He looks at Sebastian for a moment with a questioned look, before turning his gaze back to me.
"Alex, here!" I say as I signal Alex to sit beside me on my left, since Sebastian is sitting on my right side.
Alex walks to sit at my left. Through out class, Sebastian would randomly ask me some questions, though I think he's only trying to be friendly. I notice Alex had been glancing at Sebastian every now and then with an irritated look. It seems like he doesn't like him.
"So you live around here?" Sebastian ask.
"Not far. And you?" I ask.
"Not too far," Sebastian says.
A few hours later..
At the cafeteria...
Rachel and Alex are having lunch together at the cafeteria. Alex invited Rachel for a movie night tonight since he didn't want to be bored alone in the house, though deep inside it wasn't just that he didn't want to be lonely, yet he just wants to spend some time with Rachel.
"So are you in?" Alex ask.
"Sure," says Rachel. "I can't wait to see you scream at the screen."
"It's not a horror movie though," says Alex with a smirk on his face.
"Really? So what kind of movie is it?" Rachel ask with curiousity.
"Romance," Alex says before he lets out a flirty smile.
Rachel rolls her eyes after hearing his statement. "You a romantic person? Well I'm surprised."
"You still have a lot of things to know about me," Alex says, before he continues with his lunch.
"Are you trying to be mysterious?" Rachel ask.
"Maybe," says Alex before bursting out a small chuckle.
Rachel lets out an awkward smile before she continues with her lunch.
"So....you met the new students?" Alex ask.
"Only Sebastian though. I haven't met his brother yet," says Rachel. "Why? Are you jealous?"
"No. Why would I be jealous?" Ten ask as he refuse to have eye contact with Rachel at this point. "I just wanted to make sure you're talking with the right people."
"Well, I don't think he's a dangerous guy. He seems to be pretty nice," Rachel says.
"Well, for now, he looks decent. We still have to keep an eye on our surroundings," Alex says.
"Are you kinda jealous that I was talking with him in class?" Rachel ask as she tries to tease him again.
"Ah, why would I be jealous?" ask Alex as he sounds a little frustrated. "I am not."
"I caught you glancing at him a few times during class," says Rachel with a smirk.
"I was just trying to make sure that he doesn't do anything bad to you," Alex says.
"Well, he doesn't have a gun, or a knife. For now, at least he doesn't look scary," Rachel says.
"Hopefully," Alex says.
Just then, Rachel and Alex notice that Sebastian is walking to their table along with his brother, Alfredo. The whole cafeteria start staring at the brothers, and some girls even start to call out their names and blow air kisses at them.
"Hey there, I'm guessing you must be Rachel," says Alfredo with a cheerful smile. "I'm Alfredo."
"Hi! I'm Rachel. And this is my friend, Alex," Alex says with a smile.
"Hello!" Alex says casually as his vision continues to stare at Sebastian.
"Nice to meet you! By the way, would you guys mind if Alfredo and join your table?" Sebastian ask.
Rachel glance at Alex and saw that he doesn't look irritated with idea.
"Sure," says Rachel.
"Awesome," says Alfredo as he puts his tray of lunch on the table.
Rachel and Alex continues their lunch along with Sebastian and Alfredo. Rachel starts to get to know Sebastian and Alfredo more, while Alex just joins in the conversation though deep inside he still doesn't seem to trust Sebastian or Alfredo.
To be continue...