City of Misfortune

Chapter 24 Nala

After I cleaned up I waited upstairs watching tv. It was weird to me watching all the new different shows and movies. I was used to watching cable and not even the good kind, all it played was the old stuff. I heard a ding noise coming from my bag. I checked it to find that I actually had my phone with me. It was a text from Jasper.

"Hey Nala everything is fine. We're just all locked up sitting here waiting and waiting and waiting. Well not me, I'm not locked up...anymore at least. If you aren't gonna show you just screwed us all. Thanks. I didn't want to live anyway."

I wasn't trying to keep them waiting, but I didn't know what to do anymore. Maybe that wasn't actually Jasper. If it was he'd know that I was trying. Whatever the case may be I needed to go, like now.

Before I could get up I heard glass shatter downstairs followed with yelling. Sander and Diomedes was going back and forth. At first I thought how could someone like Diomedes be afraid of a teenager Sander. But I was so wrong Sander got the best of him which made me slightly scared of him. Not scared enough that I would do anything he said just scared enough to be careful around him.

"Will you just listen to me for once in your life. I wouldn't be here if I would've known you were going to be this clueless. You can't keep her here, she has to go. If she stays any longer you're dead and I can't help you on that," Sander yelled at him.

"If she leaves and fail we're all already dead. And I don't mean just you and me, I mean our kind will be dead," Diomedes yelled back.

Finding out that it's honestly just up to you to either save everyone or kill all of them sucks. I don't wanna do this. At least not anymore.

I went down so I could better understand what they were talking about, but Sander was starting to leave.

"Wait, Sander. Where are you going," I called out to him. He stopped by the door with his head down and jaw clenched tight.

"I need to go."

"Why?"

"Because Nala I need to. That's it, there's nothing more to it."

"I thought you were here to help your brother, not leave him lost. If my brother was here right now he would stay 'til he gets to me and I actually start listening to him."

He shook his head letting out a little laugh. Then looked straight into my eyes before he said anything.

"Stiles loves you, but he also would be nothing if he didn't have you. You listen to your brother, because that's your only family you have left. Dio doesn't listen to me because he has more family to lose than if he lost me."

"See right there is where you're wrong. He keeps a lot hidden and more than you think he does. You can't give up that easy even if you've been trying for years on end. You staying at the door is saying that you're waiting for that chance for him to listen. So make him."

Sander let out a sigh and looked over to Diomedes. "She's much smarter than I thought." He looked back at me with a dead serious face. "You have to go, that is the truth. You must go to them willingly. That's the new plan, once you're in I can't help you much longer than that. And whatever you do don't black out, got it?" I nodded. "Good lets go."

Sander drove me to the tower where Sivers was at, driving a million times faster than Diomedes. It was a longer ride there than I expected. The silence was starting to get to me.

"So... How do you know Stiles," I asked Sander.

"Friends. We're kind of like you and Dio, but except I never lied to him."

Diomedes shot with a vicious glare. "I've never lied to her."

"Oh have you now brother. I think your appearance is a lie. The fact that she doesn't know why you're watching over her is a lie. Keeping her underground is a lie. I could go on and on if I wanted to."