Chapter 2: CHAPTER TWO
The next day, Ivy walked into school after parking her car in the car park. She had her earbuds in her ears, and a packet of some snack in her hands. She finished and crushed it into a ball, dumping it in the trash can as she walked past it.
Levi and Lily saw her walking towards them and Lily glanced at her friend. "Don't be upfront about it. We'll slowly approach it." She advised.
"Right, slowly, ok." Levi nodded his head, breathing deeply. But as soon as Ivy got to them and removed her earbuds he blurted it out. "We saw you going into that guarded house yesterday!"
"Oh my god." Lily muttered, face-palming.
"What?" Ivy's earbuds dropped from her hand and were now just looped around her neck. She ran a hand through her dark black hair and closed her eyes. "Can you please repeat that?"
"V. You left something, so we were gonna follow you home and give it to you. My phone was dead, and he was charging his, so we couldn't call or anything. We didn't mean to, but now that we know. What's going on V?" Lily softly approached it.
"I-I-" Ivy was speechless. She wasn't ready. Well, maybe she was, but she didn't want to involve her friends in this. She wasn't ready to lose more people close to her. Having Sierra know was bad enough.
"Hey V. Levi, Lil." Sierra walked up to them, her curly brown hair cascading down her back and her eyes shining a soft brown.
"Sierra. They saw us yesterday. The house. Sierra. I can't- not more people." Ivy was tugging at her hair. Eyes wide and alert.
"Go V. I'll explain." Sierra assured her. She pushed her best friend away. Ivy shot her a thankful look and then ran out of the school, headed for somewhere private to spend some time alone to calm down and think before she did something she would later regret.
"Sierra Black. What the actual hell is going on?" Levi asked.
Sierra grabbed both of their arms and dragged them outside. She pulled them to the sidewalk. "Let's just take a walk, and I'll do my best to explain some of the stuff."
She made them walk in silence for a short while before she finally began speaking. "I can't tell you everything because it's not my story to tell. What I can tell you, I will. So, Ivy is involved in something that she may or may not be ready to tell you about. I pried some years ago and she burst. But, even if she was ready to tell you, she may not want to because she doesn't want to put you in danger."
"How would she put us in danger?" Lily snorted, brushing a delicate strand from her eyes.
Sierra looked towards a hooded figure that was approaching them now. "You're about to find out."
The figure pulled its hood down and looked at them. It was a man. He was middle-aged and had long dirty blonde hair tied back in a bun. His eyes were slightly red and mad. He held a silver dagger that glistened in the sun. it had a wicked tip and a leather grip.
"I know you." He pointed at Sierra. "You work with that fucking bitch. And you must be her friends." He pointed at Levi and Lily. He jumped at them and then dropped to the ground in tune with a loud gunshot.
They all looked down at the man to see he was bleeding from a wound near his thigh. It was gushing blood, and the red liquid seeped through the pale brown material of his trousers. The looked up and saw Ivy stood a distance from them, pointing something at the man.
On closer inspection, it looked like a gun. Ivy walked towards them, she didn't have her backpack or her earbuds. All she had was her gun, which she still had pointed at the man. "Close your eyes." She commented, giving them some time to do so. And when they did, she pulled the trigger and that shot ended his life.
"You want answers. Don't you?"
"Uhm, yeah?!" Levi looked hysterical, and Lily's eyes were wide as she stared down at the body that lay on the ground before them.
"Follow me." Ivy tucked her gun into a holster hidden under her leather jacket, she turned and began walking with the trio following her. Sierra left the other two and jogged towards Ivy.
"Hey V. Everything ok?"
"Yeah. I think so. Its just- I didn't want to tell them, you know. I wanted to protect them. I can't bear losing someone else. It's too much, but they saw everything so it's not like I have a choice. I had to go and tell Carlos to expect us, and to get some food ready."
Sierra nodded then glanced back at the pair walking behind them. Levi has his arm wrapped around Lily, and they both looked very alert and worried.
Ivy stopped in the middle of a parking lot that was empty except for one car, her Bugatti. She took the key out of her back pocket and unlocked the car. Then she turned around and walked to Lily, wrapping her arm around her waist and helping her to the car. She sat her down in the back and let Levi beside her.
She got in the driver's seat, and Sierra in the passenger's seat. Revving the engine, Ivy began driving the same road she took yesterday to the huge house. She soon pulled up outside the house and the guard came up to the window.
"Hey James."
"Hey Boss." He replied, signaling to the other guard, who pressed the button to automatically open the gate and let the car through. Ivy parked the car right in front of the door and got out, helping the others.
She walked towards the front door and pushed it open. It wasn't locked, they weren't worried about anyone trying to break it. They would be dead seconds after they took their first step into the house.
When the entered, they were in a marble room with sweeping, marble staircases leading to higher floors in front of them. Ivy lead them to a door to their right and they ended up in a room with the curtains drawn, and the fire blazing.
Someone was placing something down atop a table and they turned when they heard someone come in. it was a man slightly older than the group. He had messy brown hair and bright blue eyes. "Lily, Levi, this is Carlos. I can tell you about him. But you guys should sit first. Carlos, dismissed, check on the shipment for me, will you?"
He nodded and left, shutting the door behind him. Ivy helped Lily sit and she sat down beside her. Sierra took a seat in the armchair opposite them, and Levi did as well. Ivy took a deep breath and brushed a lock of her dark hair behind her ear.
"It's a long story." Sierra leaned forward, grabbed her hand and squeezed it before letting go.
"Alright. So my father used to be in my place. He was the owner of this gang, or its leader. It was him they called boss, not me. But, shit happens and now here I am in his place. Now, let's go back. My father had made a deal with a guy, but he turned out to be shitting us and could have put us in jeopardy, so my father had someone take him out before anyone got hurt.
Some friends of the man my father had killed didn't like that, and they came after my father. And my mother and sister happened to be with him. They were visiting her actually, she was at university. So, they just killed them all. My brother was with them too, but he managed to get away, only for a bit though. They saw him and decided to wait for me to come of age.
Because they thought killing my whole family wasn't enough, they took the one person I had left and kept him from me. They're waiting for me to turn 18 next week, and then they'll contact me about paying a ransom. But mi not gonna let that happen. I'm gonna get Jake back if it's the last fucking thing I do. He's the only family I have left, and mi not gonna let them take that away from me.
So, I trained with the people my father had trained with and became the leader. And I'm gonna get my brother back and kill those fuckers. They shouldn't have messed with the Parkers."
Ivy took a deep breath and leaned back, she pulled her knees to her chest. Levi stood and walked towards her. He wrapped his arms around her. She returned it and placed her head on his chest. "I'm sorry for not telling you guys sooner, I didn't want you to get hurt. You saw what happened earlier."
He let go and headed back to his seat. Lily turned to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. Ivy placed her head on the Asian girl's shoulder. "It's alright V. We understand, and we're with you all the way. No more secrets."
"I promise."
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