(This story is told from the perspective of Gabriella, not Seara)
"Gabby? Gabby! Wake up!"
I snap awake, unsure of how much time has passed
"Are you ok gabby? You hit your head pretty hard"
looking up I see a familiar face reaching out for me
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine" I reply while pulling myself to my feet
"I'm glad, you had me worried for a moment, I almost called an ambulance for you"
"yeah yeah, I'm ok, no need to go calling 911" I scoffed
"Yeash, I'm just concerned about you, I don't want you to get hurt"
"I know hon, but I'll be fine, you don't need to worry about me"
fixing my ponytail and getting on my bike I make my way home, trying to open the door quietly so I can sneak in
"Gabriella! You're late" I hear a deep voice shout
"I'm only a few minutes past curfew, cut me some slack!"
"I don't want to hear your excuses young lady! I've had it up to here!"
"Mom! Tell dad to calm down, I'm not getting through to him!"
Silence fills the room as my father looms over me angrily
"tch, useless as ever" I mumble
making my way to bed trying to ignore my father's rage, I lie down, aimlessly scrolling my phone until I get a text message
"from Mathew: hey, want to come over to my place tomorrow afternoon? I got something cool to show you"
"Sure, I'll be there around 1:30, see you then" I type back
"alright, see you then, goodnight honey"
tossing my phone onto my nightstand, I turn out the lights and drift asleep
I awake early in the morning, grabbing breakfast and heading out the door before my parents wake up, biking my way to work, clocking in for my shift at 6PM
"another dead end shift" I sigh to myself
Minutes turn to hours as my shift slowly passes, the entire time I wonder about what Mathew wanted to show me, I finally my shift ends at 1pm, I clock out and bike to his apartment
"He should be in room 167" I read off of my phone "oh here it is"
knocking on the door I send him a text to tell him it's me, no response, I stand there waiting for a few minutes before knocking again, still nothing
"Mathew? Hello? Open the door" I shout while knocking more
annoyed, I grab the door handle, just as I do so the door opened
"Why did he leave his room unlocked?" I wonder to myself
looking around his room I see a small note in his handwriting left on his desk
"meet me on the roof gabby" it read
"What's going on? why would he want me to see him on the roof?"
putting my bag down in his room, I run my way up the stairs to get to the roof, opening the door, I see a man with a blue ponytail standing before me holding a pistol
"Mathew? Why do you have a gun!?" I shout
"Keep your voice down sweetie, no need to draw more attention than you already have" he whispered as he put the gun to his head
"Wait Mathew! We can talk about this!"
"shhhhh, nobody will believe you gabby, nobody" he said softly as he pulled the trigger
BANG
The shot rang out and before me lied the body of my boyfriend on the ground, horrified at what I just witnessed, I picked the pistol up off the ground and stared in shock
"M-Mathew…" I muttered
As I hear the sounds of police sirens, I finally come to my senses, dropping the gun and running down the stairs to grab my bag
"Gabriella, come out with your hands up!" I hear an officer shout
"Why the hell do they think it's me?" I muttered under my breath as I reach his apartment, grabbing my bag and jumping out the window into an alleyway, running for my life, I hide behind a dumpster while trying to catch my breath
"Where did she go?" "I think she went this way!" I hear deputies argue
suddenly I hear the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps
"Hey, what are you doing here? The cops are gonna find you!"
I look up, finding not an officer but a tall black man reaching out his hand
"come on, I know a place they'll never look"
He grabs my arm as he starts running, taking me to what appeared to be a storage garage, barely catching my breath I head inside, to find two women and a man siting at a table
"So what's your name?" I ask, still panting
"it's Tyrone Marshal, this is my sister Sephrina marshal, he's David Chen, and that's Cathryn smith" he explained pointing to the table
"well nice to meet you Tyrone, you too sephrina, David and Cathryn"
Sephrina and David ignored my regard, choosing to focus on the work on their lap tops
"pleasant meeting you as well" Cathryn said to me, putting her cigar in an ashtray "Do you know anything about the criminal underworld perchance?"
"I know a thing or two, I've stole a bit of food, robbed a few people too"
"hmm, I see, well, how would you happen to have heard of a gang known as 'Poshela'?"
"never heard of it, why do you ask?"
"well it happens that we run the gang and needed a new member, would you like to join us?"
"It's not like I have a home to go back to, and the cops are after me too" I think to myself
"sure, I'll join you guys"
"excellent, we'll see you soon Gabriella, your help is much appreciated" Cathryn replied "also, it's best you stay here for the night, considering that the cops are still looking for you"
from that day forward I was not just any old delinquent, I was officially a gangster, and there was no turning back from here