Lisa's POV
The lights were off. Everyone had retired for the night. If my parents weren't around I wouldn't have bothered going full Archie. Just as I was about to exit and complete my mission, the lights were turned on.
Bursted. I held in my breath and turned to see my parent standing akimbo staring at me with a "you're bursted" look.
"Where do you think you're going, young lady?" My dad questioned.
"I'm off to see my bestfriend, Kenzy Anderson"
"Dressed like a malificent on a hoodie?"
He was just overreacting. I was on a black coat hoodie to hide my inner dress.
"That's an overemphasized exaggeration, Daddy. Can I go now?"
"I won't let my daughter wander off to God knows where by midnight" Mum stated.
"I didn't have to sneak when you weren't around"
"Annalisa!" Dad snapped
"That's the truth. She shouldn't act all mummy on me now"
I heard my Mum's frustrated sigh. "If you wanna leave, at least could you let Tommy drive you?"
"No mum I'm good. This city isn't as bad as you think. I'll be back by morning parents" I flashed them a sweet smile knowing I've won. "Adios"
I was out.
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Kenzy's POV
It's been 8months since I'd visited the quaters. We'd taken down the Yorkies after which I took a break to finish my senior year and get into college. Here I was, back at the agency taking the elevator to the 3rd floor where the meeting was going to be held with the "legacies" as we call ourselves.
The legacies were tagged the oldest recruits; those that had worked for the agency for 5years and above. Consisted of four females and 8males with me being the leader.
"If it isn't the run away queen" Lance said. That's was his easy of welcoming me. He spread his hand side open for a hug.
I smirked and hugged him wsrmly "I'm a dawg, Lance. Dawgs stick up for eachother".
"Hmmmm"
Lance was family. He treated me like his daughter and I loved him for that.
I greeted the rest of the legacies.
I just had to notice Rivera wasn't in our midst. "Where's Rivera?"
The door flung open revealing the hot looking Rivera breathing heavily. "I'm here"
"Did you run all the way here?" The third female, Lucy questioned.
She took her seat beside me. "Parent problem. My parents are back, I wanted to sneak out. They caught me"
"Bummer"
Lance coughed before he began. "Now that we are all here. Let's get to the matter at hand. The savinch"
"What's up with the savinch trying to come after us?" Rivera started. "I mean, we don't have or do business with them"
"That's the thing Rivera" Baxter cut in. He was also also called the frog because of his large protruding eyes. He was the most daring amongst us. I liked him a little bit but sometimes he made me want to shoot him in the heart. "To the savinch, we are sinners. They were friends with the Yorkies but we divided thier clan".
"We didn't do anything wrong. They came after us"
"Thats correct but they don't know that. To them we're the bad guys"
I sighed. This was very troubling.
"Jazmyn,"Lance called me. At the agency my code name was Jazmyn. Lisa is Rivera incase you are wondering. "Message was brought to us that the leader of the savinch is your classmate"
"Classmates?. They're tight chums. They seat at the same table, he takes her home and they even go to the park together"
"Thank you for spying on me Lucy" I said sarcastically.
"Anything for you, boss". She winked which made me smile.
"If Kayden is the leader of the savinch then we are as doomed as the endless pits of hell" I said.
"That's where you come in Jazmyn" Lance said. "You're friends with him; you and Rivera. All of you have to do is act so nice to him, he invites you to his house, you dig out thier dirty secret and viola we're one step ahead"
"Digging out thier dirt isn't enough Lance. I'm familiar with the savinch, they are good at everything they do. It'd be a matter of time before they find out who I really am"
"You're a nerd Jazmyn. Noone suspects nerds" Lucy stated.
"Thanks Lucy. You sure have a way of lifting my spirit"
"I was thinking," Rivera started. She turned to cyborg. He was a tech guy. "Cyborg, can I have one of your bugs?"
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I still couldn't believe I was going for the stupid sleep over party at Vandi's house. I didn't even know why she invited us in the first place. She didn't invite me but all the same I was going to be present.
We stood at the front of Vandi's family castle, they called it "sky house". That castle was as old as my great grand father. It's one of thier family legacy as far as we know.
"You're welcome to my sleepover" Vandi screamed. She was excited, I didn't even know why because we weren't even friends.
She led us into the insides of sky house. It was more quiet than a graveyard. If it was a party why was it so quiet. I couldn't help but ask, "Vandi, if it's a sleepover party where is everyone?"
She paused on the millionth staircase and turned to me. "Who is everyone?"
"I raised an eyebrow at her. "Your friends?. Alex and Rihanna"
"She's right" Lisa agreed. "This house is more quiet than a graveyard".
My thoughts exactly.
Vandi smiled. I could tell she was faking it. Something was up with her.
"Follow me girls"
I exchanged eye contact with Lisa and sighed. She shrugged.
Few seconds later, we were in Vandi's room. Unlike the full colour paintings of the castle Vandi's room was super pretty. Baby pink paintings and wall stickers. Not to mention how fancy her king sized bed was.
And boy was she packed for the sleepover. There was a bag of snack; cookies, potato chips, Oreos, tortilla chips, KitKat, Cheetos, Dr pepper, you name it seated on the floor.
"You girls get yourselves comfortable. I'll order some pizza and KFC"
"This is okay Vandi, we're not gonna eat it all"
"Okay love. Let's do something fun then"
Vandi was being weird and friend or not, it bothered me.
"It's supposed to be a party, Vandi. No one is here except us"
"Exactly Lisa. This is a party for the three of us"
"Why didn't you invite your bestfriends?. I mean they'd make a better company than us"
"You ask too many questions my dearest L. There are board games to play. We could do karaoke in the next room. Be my dates for tonight, please"
Underneath the fierce look was a sad teenager who needed to get out of her misery badly. The least we could do was channel her mind away from her tragedy.
"Let's do it"
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The cool breeze of the midnight wind swept across my face making me jerk from sleep. I tilted my head towards the right side of the bed revealing a sound sleeping Lisa. I tilted my head towards the other side of the bed. It was empty. Vandi's room had a balcony so my guess was that was where she was at the moment. This was the time to talk to her.
"Hey" I walked towards towards her. She was leaning on the pavement with a glass of vodka in her hand.
"Hey"
"Isn't it too late to be drinking?"
She stretched her hand towards me. "Handcuff me". I remained silent. She chuckled. "Relax pretty girl. It's just water"
"Ohhh".
"Hey, thanks for tonight. You're way more fun than I thought but that doesn't mean we're friends". Typical Vandi.
"Noted. Isn't it weird though?"
"What is?"
"That you had us over for a sleepover party and not your friends?"
"I think you and Lisa really make a great team and maybe I just wanted to spend time with you girls"
"Or maybe you're just going through a lot and you need someone to tell"
She feigned a laugh that did not go see well. "What do you mean?. I'm fine"
"No, you're not Vandi. Under those fake cheerleader smile I know you're going through something. And to be honest, we might not to be friends but I'm worried about you"
" What do you Know?"
"For starters, I know your Dad doesn't own MnM"
She gazed at me with a terrifying shock in her eyes. "How did you find out?"
"I did my research plus you're not hiding it as much as you're supposed to" She let out a sad sigh. " Hey don't worry about it. I promise your secret is safe with me but I'm curious, if you don't mind".
I waited for her to give me an 'I don't mind' sign so I could continue. She just gave a small nod.
"If you built MnM yourself, why give all the credit to your Dad?"
She remained silent. Drops of tears already rolling down her eyes.
"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to" I said. Deep down, I wanted to hear the truth.
"It's fine Kenzy. Just promise you won't tell anyone" I have her a reassuring nod. "I have an older sister. A lot more older than me but she's my bestfriend. She's been sick for over 5 years now. Mum and Dad tried all they could to get the best doctors in the state treat her but she just kept getting worse. Their words." She sniffed as more tears poured out. "The one day, some months back they decided it was time to take her out"
"What do you mean "take her out"?"
"They wanted to kill her and move on like nothing ever happened"
I gasped frankly dismayed.
"Little did they know I overheard thier plot. By midnight that very day, I stole my sister out of the hospital she was at. She's in a safe place now receiving the proper treatments"
"I'm so sorry about your sister" I sympathised. "But that doesn't explain the store"
"I'm just paying my dad back what i owe him"
"He found out what you did to your sister?"
"He'd kill me if he does find out but he's suspects though. I stole from him and I have to pay back. The only way to pay back what I owe and make my own profit is that store. Telling everyone it's my dad's is enough awareness because in this dumb city my dad is fucking batman."
"How much are we talking here?"
"A hundred thousand dollars"
My jaw dropped. What?. Why did she steal that amount of money. I'm guessing it's for her sister's treatment. "That's a huge amount of money" I commented.
She nodded. I could feel her eyes staring at me. "That's the story of my life, Kenzy"
I sighed. "I didn't know you were going through a lot. What can I do to help?"
A forced smile spread across her face. "You're already helping my love. You're working at my Dad's store, MnM and you're doing a hell of a good job there."
" You'll be fine, I promise"
She fiddled with her fingers as she sniffed. " Hey," she hesitated.
"Yes,Vandi. You can hug me". I pulled her into a comforting hug.
Call me psychic. But I definitely knew when someone was in need of a hug.
"Thanks for listening"
"Thank you for telling me. I promise to help in any way I can"
She just smiled.
A whole new level.