The man with the scar on his lip says to Jax "Be careful she might have rabies" in a joking voice. Jax lets go and steps back
"Now if you'll excuse me I will be on my way" then as I get up I pause for a second and stare at one of the men and he quickly covers his face. Jax then adds in
"We won't excuse you and What are you embarrassed about, Sam?" just then I drop my bag and my mouth drops to the floor
"You freaking scumbag…" I scream at Sam stomping toward him jabbing my finger into his chest "They all had reason to not like you but they had the wrong reason! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" I continue to scream "You are the one who threatened Paul with that letter! I bet you were just using me this whole time you douche! I can't believe you can lie to me with a straight face! This whole time I stuck my neck out for you and this is how you repay me!?" as I barrage him with these nasty comments I keep pushing him back until he hits the wall with his back, meanwhile everyone else is just standing there enjoying the show. I go to lift my hand so that I can slap him in the face but my arm is quickly grabbed by the one with the lip scar
"Okay that's enough, little missy" . I turn around and punch the guy in his gut with my other hand and he falls to the ground. I run out of there leaving everything behind, the men run after me but I jump over the gate in record time and start to run as fast as I can. Before I know it I am at my regular store asking to use the store phone
"Hello, hello Paul?!" I say with a rushed tone looking around he answers me asking where I am and where I've been but I quickly interrupt and say to him in a panicked tone "Don't worry about me I'm safe, get out of there go to a hotel or something I know who threatened you! I will fill you in when I meet up with you" then I quickly hang up and dash out of the store.
As I look back to the way I came and don't see anyone so I start to walk towards the office but as I come near it I hide in the shadows of the next door alley and let out a sigh. Suddenly I hear someone approaching the office, I back up into the alley a little more so that I'm not spotted. Just as I'm backing up I run into someone, I turn my head and see a sleazy looking man smiling at me
"Hey sweetheart wanna have some fun?" I run out of the alley screaming but as I reach the sidewalk the man grabs me by my hurt wrist and starts to pull me up and talks in a slow voice "Don't worry it's going to be f-" and is soon stopped with a punch to the face then the man falls over letting go of me. I get up and go to thank the person who saved me but I soon see that it's Jax and make a dash for it. I run to the corner only to be cut off by Sam.
"Hey, we don't want to hurt you, we just want to talk," he says with a weak smile. For some reason I run away from him remembering everything I had been warned about and hide behind Jax gripping his blue flannel shirt Jax pats me on the head and says
"Hey what the hell? Are you afraid of him? Little old Sammy wouldn't hurt you" but as Sam starts to walk up to us I jolt back and fall on my butt shaking. Just then Jax holds out his hand to Sam "Hold on I think she is actually terrified of you man" Sam stops in his tracks looking at me with sorrow in his eyes. Jax offers me his hand and says "I won't let little old Sammy touch you so don't worry" in a childish voice, I nod my head and follow Jax down the street leaving Sam stuck in place. When we get all the way down to the corner Jax makes a call saying he found me and we're heading back, as Jax walks along the path I follow right behind him like a loyal dog. As we approach the fence once again I can't seem to find the strength to lift myself over it, as I'm shaking there staring at the fence Jax reaches his hand down from the top of the fence and I reach out to him and take his hand. He pulls me up with ease and we jump down to make our way to the factory. When we enter, three of the guys are waiting there looking at us and the one with the scar on his lip speaks up in a rough voice
"Where is Sammy?" and Jax instantly looks down at me to say
"Yeeeeaaah about that we got a problem" he paused for a second to look back at the other dudes "Little miss here gets scared shitless when she is around him" I quickly slap him on the side of the arm at his comment
"Hey what was that for? It actually hurt!" just then I hear them laughing and the one with brown hair shouts over to us
"What's wrong Jax ma boy? Are you getting beat up by a little girl" he says teasingly. When they all stop laughing I walk up to the cot I was at before and hold up the two blankets and ask with a very serious voice who owns the Froggo blanket, they all turn to look at a pale tall guy with black hair hanging down in his face blush spread across it from ear to ear. I stare at the man and say
"You have great taste dude hehehe" and put the blanket down on the cot while putting everything back in place where it should have been. When I turn around I see most of the cots look the same as this one did "You all need to take better care of your stuff, I mean look at this your limited edition knife from the rodeo in Oklahoma is just laying here on the floor! Shame on you!" as I say that last part the one with the scar on his lip walks over and picks it up off the ground. Finally the quiet black haired one speaks up laughing
"Now it's your turn Spek!" and the one they called Spek turns around to go make his bed in embarrassment. I let out a growl and hiss out
"You shouldn't make fun of someone's unique things they are proud of! I'm sure all of you assholes have something to hide!" with that they all shuffle around uncomfortable and start to mumble. I go over and make the rest of their beds setting everything that's on the floor on top of their beds, just as I am about to finish up with the last bed I hear the door open and I see Sam walk in I make a mad dash for Jax and hide behind him as he whispers
"I'm not your shield you know?" in a harsh tone. I stick my nose up at him and make a break for the broken window in the back of the room, I just barely grab the ledge and roll myself through the narrow window and jump to the ground as I hear them partially shouting at Sam complaining while the other two scream
"Forget about that! We have to get her, she's seen our faces, you dunces". As they run out the door after me I jump back onto the ledge, roll back inside and hide under the bed owned by the guy named Skyle, l let out a little sigh and chuckle as I think of how badly I juked 'em. As I lay on the cement floor under the bed I doze off into some most needed sleep. When I wake up I feel something heavy laying down on the cot and think to myself with a laugh
"Oh my god they still didn't find me!" and giggle to myself quietly. I slowly crawl from under the bed and sneak a note into Kye's hand and he turns over and winds up laying on it and I proceed to sneak out of the old factory and make my way back home.
***
When I reach the front door i open it seeing that Paul forgot his key on his way out, when I walk into the living room and remember what I wrote down in such a hurry
"Meet at office (ask sam) just Kye no one else or consider all of you reported to the police'' and let out a sigh. I head upstairs and grab my pocket knife since I don't have my dagger, grab my purse and on the way out I grab a couple rocks from the sidewalk and toss them into my purse for good measure. I make my way to the office at around 11am, I was hoping Paul won't be there after what I told him so I head into the office and go straight to the fourth floor to do some work before Kye gets there. I mean it's not like I can afford to miss a lot of work. After I finish my first article I get a call from the front desk
"Hello miss Kokio, you have a visitor" I tell them to let him up and when Kye comes into the office Mark, Jack and Drew just stare at him as he looks down at the floor with his black hair hanging down as always and I say with a stern voice
"Hey guys back to work he is my visitor" and Jack looks at me like he knows something's up and says
"Oooooh you've got a special visitor huh?" with a suggestive tone. I flick him on the forehead and grab Kye on my way out. I pull Kye along by his wrist and make my way into the elevator, as soon as we enter I let him go and he scooches away.
"Are you alone?" he nods "nobody is following?" he nods again "Can you speak?" he turns his head at my remark and makes a statement "Why did you choose me?". As we leave the elevator and walk out the front doors I grab his wrist again, not answering him, we are both silent as we walk with some speed in our step. When we finally arrive at my house I open the door and walk inside but Kye stops in place and won't budge "Oh come on now what?" he hesitates then speaks up in a shy voice
"I-I don't think I should go into a woman's house". I just stand there staring at him and finally say
"Are you sure you're a robber?" Kye jumps as I comment. I think to myself for a moment "Oh god, fine then think of it as Paul's home. I don't actually own the place" he nods and follows in after me and shuts the door lightly behind him. He finally speaks up
"So what do we have to do to get you to come back?" as I go to sit on the couch he pulls out my dagger from his oversized jacket pocket
"Oh so now you're going to threaten me with my own knife?'' I look at him with a serious glare and he holds it out toward me. He shouts out the next sentence with ease
"I will if I have to, please don't make me" I look at him with a stunned expression
"You've got some balls kid" and head up to my room with Kye following close behind. When I reach my room I slam the door in Kye's face and race towards my sword collection. I immediately went for the sword professor creak gave me and my knight's sword. As Kye bursted into the room I go into a fighting stance and say "If you come at me you won't make it out alive" with a grim voice and he backs up into the doorway. Just then my instincts from my life before this kick in and I continue to speak in that tone "We're going back to the factory but there will be no tricks and no screaming, got it?" he nods his head and puts the dagger down, we head out the door and I loosely sheath my blades so I can grab them easily if need be. When we make it to the factory I walk up to the fence and unsheath the blade professor creak gave me and easily cut through the thin metal fence to make a hole as Kye just stands there I say "Well come on" and we make our way through the tall grass and Kye opens the rusty door for me and I walk inside to see all of them playing a card game at a small table. Spek looks up at me then does a double take at my swords and taps Sam on the shoulder, soon after they all look up at me holding the sword to Kye's throat "I don't want to hurt him just stay where you are please'' then Spek speaks up
"If you don't want to hurt him, put down the sword" In a joking but kind of serious voice. I take the sword away from Kye's throat and he rubs his throat as if he thought it was cut, I walk over to the table with my sword still out then plop down in between Spek and Jax and ask
"What ya playing?" as I put the sword in my lap. Sam looks across the table at me and says,
"What are you getting at?'' I look at him with a hurt expression
"I'm joining you guys whether you like it or not. Plus this way I don't have to tell Paul I'm still looking into the case aaaaand you'll have some smarts in your team" They all look at each other as if thinking and Jax speaks up
"What the hell?" I look at him with an evil smile.
"What? Didn't you know? Oh right, Sam doesn't even know! He was too busy playing around to care to ask about my past life~ Yeah anyway I am not from around here, I'm not some delicate little girl you thought I was as I've proved." they all seem to nod in agreement and all at once say "Cool". Just then I notice Kye walking over in shock and he says
"You're all okay with letting this girl come to our heist and robberies? And the fact she might have to stay here too!" with a panicked tone. Jax looks up at him and simply says
"Yeah pretty much. She is durable and if she turns us in she is an accomplice". I get up from my spot and walk over to Kye's bed then point to the spot under it
"Hey Kye I bet you didn't even realize I slept under there last night when you guys got back" the rest of them start to giggle like school girls as Kye turns tomato red at my comment "But don't worry I will be staying at my place, got it?" he looks at me a little relieved and shakes his head. I look over to Sam "Hey give me your phone" he stands up and looks at me like he is angry "I am going to call Paul and say I spent the night at your place, just hand me the phone!" he pulls the hand with his phone back and shouts
"No it will sound wrong if you say that!" I punched him in the shoulder and he dropped the phone,
"It's the only logical thing to do, I dashed out of the house in a rage last night so I'm going to tell him I went to you with advice and that we talked about the New York attacks. Then if he asks anymore I'll tell him we already figured things out and leave it at that" he nods and the other's start to laugh at Sam because he got told off by me. I head outside and dial Paul's number, he answers it immediately and starts shouting stuff like
"Have you seen Max? Do you have any idea where she could be? She wont answer her phone!" I quickly shut him up with a loud shout into the phone
"Hey!" he goes quiet for a minute and then starts to talk in a very low tone "Why do you have Sam's phone?" I let out the most convincing sigh I could and reply with regret
"I went over and spent the night at his house, he gave me some advice and we got talking about the whole attackers case and we got into deep thought about it and turned up some information so we are just blogging it, okay?" he takes a deep breath from the other line then continues
"So you'll leave it be then?" I tell him I will and that I will be home soon. After we hang up I head back inside Sam looks at me the second I enter
"Did he buy it?'' I nod my head and tell them I have to leave.