MARCHE DISTRICT,VENICE IN ITALY; THE VELVET VIXENS' DOMAIN (Shante's room)...5 PM.
Shante lied down flat on her bed,her back on the bed and her front facing the ceiling. She has washed off the red dye in her hair and it's back to it's caramel kiss color,she also did not put on any contact lens and her baby blue eyes made her look more youthful and babish but there were still lifeless.
She stared hard at the ceiling,lost in thoughts;her caramel kiss hair scattered all over the pillow, her pretty hands folded under her chest,her left leg crossed over her right leg; she kept on heaving a long deep sigh.
Her doorbell started ringing meaning someone was outside but her mind and soul wasn't in her body anymore,she looked and seemed lifeless,like a dead person who has been laid on the bed.
"Madam Te are you there? Madam Te?" The person kept on calling as the person started banging on the door because she had stopped using the door bell.
"Madam Teee..." The person shouted but Shante didn't hear,she was so lost in thoughts that she wasn't able to hear words that are coming from her surroundings.
The person kept her head on the door worriedly but she couldn't even hear a thing,what was she even thinking, Shante's room is over soundproofed that you can't even hear a noise if a train is whistling,but if you're inside the room you can hear noises from outside.
"Shanteeeeeeeeee!!!" The person exclaimed while shouting and that seems to do the miracle because Shante jolted back to reality immediately.
Shante quickly jumped from her bed and sat abruptly,she went straight to the door and looked through the door hole before opening the door.
Julian had a weird expression on her face "What are you doing?" She suspiciously scanned the whole area with her sharp eyes.
"So that's the first thing you'll ask after calling out my name disrespectfully,do you know what would have happened if the members heard you?" Shante scolded her,staring at her fiercely.
"I know, that's why I was sure the coast was clear before I yell your name and stop your pleasure" Julian teasingly said still looking around for traces of a man.
"Seriously?" Shante stared at her in disbelief.
Julian didn't see anything so she had no other choice but to whine at her "Why won't you allow me see him?"
Shante rolled her eyes away from Julian going to the drawer this time to take three packets of cigarette,she really needs it to clear her head.
"What's the message this time around?"
"So, you're meaning to say that I'm not allowed to come here and play with you?" Julian twitched, looking at Shante hurtfully.
Shante saw her hurtful expression and careless, that's not even part of the least of all her worries,she actually doesn't give a flying fuck.
She took the lighter and also went straight to the side of the drawer to take an ashtray. She needs to smoke her mind out to clear it and she doesn't care if she lose herself,she has done this many times so it's not new to her.
Julian noticed immediately that something is wrong,the look in her eyes tells it all, anytime her eyes gives that look then it means she's about to do something very harmful and dangerous, having spent eighteen years with her made her know many things,buh not all though.
Julian's forest green eyes looked at Shante who has already settled herself on the edge of the bed,with an ashtray beside her on the bed, three packs of cigarette; she's about to smoke shit out of her system and Julian is very familiar with the state she'll be into after this stunt she's trying to pull.
"Shante, don't." Julian was about to go and collect everything from her but a quick glance from Shante made her rooted on a spot.
Shante may be her friend but that doesn't mean that she isn't dangerous, there're many times Julian herself has felt terrified of her.
"Te,are you fine?" Julian asked out still standing at her position because she dared not go further after receiving the warning from her boss.
Shante tore the pack of one mercilessly and the cigarettes fell out from it to the ashtray. "What's the message?"
"Seriously, you can tell me what the problem is." Julian said quickly,her gaze softening.
"If you tell me what I don't wanna hear after I ask you this third time, I fucking swear to gawd, like I fucking swear to the fucking gawd, I'll send you to The Red Room Society." She hissed at her angrily,the anger so evident in her lifeless baby blue eyes.
Julian flinched at the harsh words that were directed at her but that was only her reaction,this isn't the first time she's experiencing this.
"There'll be a meeting at the headquarters next week Monday,I just received the notification from the highest organization." She informed.
A meeting?,but isn't meetings always held monthly and they've done the meeting for the month so what's the purpose?; She mused as she kept a cigarette in between her lips sexily.
"Scram." Shante only said and Julian looked at her worriedly.
"Sha..." She choked on her words when Shante the glared at her again
"You like me repeating my words, don't you?"
Julian smiled, more like an half sided snare because they were very sad and bitter
"Take care of yourself ma." She bowed her head slightly before walking to the door,she walked really slowly expecting to be called back but she was extremely disappointed.
Shante noticed her slow steps and saw through her immediately,she smirked at the sight.
Heavy smokes came out of her nostrils and mouth with the cigarette still in her mouth,her slender fingers rubbing it slowly.
She really needs to clear her already fucked up head.
Meanwhile,Julian fell on her knees immediately she got out, sitting in front of the door. She's so worried that she can't leave Shante in this state,not in this state.
She'll make sure she pay rapt attention to the sounds inside, even though she won't hear anything but she'll just guard her from outside so that in case any form of problem arises, she'll be here to help Shante out.
At that thought,she rested her back on the door,she legs raised to her abdomen,her hands crossed them and her forehead rested on her knees.
I'll make you save Te; I'll make sure of that.