The Mafia King

The Girl

Tell myself I know I'm better when I'm not at all
Nobody sees it, so they never tell me knock it off
Maybe they're just not involved

"What about her man?" I yell. He stands there as the door closes slowly. He takes a deep breath and I start to get pissed. "Come on! Spit it the fuck out kid!"

"We found her. She's hurt bad and refuses to let us take her to the hospital!" Eric says, "the girl is scared shitless man."

I sigh, "okay. Let's go! Where is she?"

"She's in an ally, bullet wound to the side! We went after The Reapers and they shot her before running. We killed most of em, but the guy who shot her got away. Nick is working on finding him as we speak!"

We walk out of my office and down the hall. "When was she shot?"

"Uh- 20 minutes ago. Slash has her and he's making sure she don't die." Eric opens the door for me, "he said she's stable right now. But he doesn't know how much longer that'll last!" He looks at his phone and we get into the car. I drive off and he shows me where to go.

I slam on the breaks and the car comes to a complete stop almost instantly. I jump out and run over to the girl. She looks up at me with wide eyes. "I'm here to help! Your fine!"

She coughs and winces in pain. "Slash call an ambulance!"

"No no no!" She yells before wincing again.

"Your going to die if we don't kid! Why can't we call them?"

"Because I'm a run away!"

"How old are you?"

"Eighteen."

"Your fine then. Slash call them now!" I yell as I look at him. He nods and grabs his phone. "Where the hell is Lex?"

"He's at the warehouse, preparing for tonight!" Eric says.

"Okay good. Slash how's the fucking ambulance going?"

"There on the way. Another 2 minutes maybe!" Slash says putting his phone back into his pocket. He rubs his hands down his jeans trying to get the blood off and I pull my shirt off. I put it on her wound and she grunts.

"Why are you helping me?"

"Because my men where here when you were shot so now The Reapers think your on my side. They'll come after you and kill you if you make it through this!"

"Maybe I want to die," she groans.

I roll my eyes and I hear the sirens. They pull up and I carry her to the gurney. She grunts and I climb in with them. "Boys take my car home! Don't get any fucking blood on anything or your dead! Got it!"

"Got it boss!" They both say.

We arrive to the hospital and I run in with them. They push me back and say, "you can't come back here! We have to do surgery!"

I nod and stop walking. I sit in the waiting room and call Lex. "Ay man can you bring me a t-shirt or something? I'm at the hospital with some girl that was shot. She was in the crossfire of our men and the Reapers!"

"Yeah. I'm on the way."

After a little while he gives me a shirt and leaves again. She gets out of surgery and the doctor comes to get me. "How is she?" I ask as he walks over.

"She's gonna be fine. The bullet didn't hit anything important. Uh- did you know she was abused?"

"Abused? What? No. I just met her today!"

"She has broken ribs that healed on their own and a leg that didn't heal as well as it should. She's fine, but it healed weird for the time it was broken."

"Yeah I had no idea!"

"You can come see her. She should be waking up anytime!"

I nod and follow him as he brings me to her room. I get in there and he leaves. I sit next to her and say, "I don't know your name or your story, but I'm gonna figure it out!"

Her eyes flutter open and she groans. She may have heard me and that's fine. "Where am I?" She asks.

"Hospital."

She jumps as the words rolls off my tounge. "What? Why? No! I need to go!" She sits up and groans.

"No lay down. Your not going anywhere! If your leaving I'm going with you!"

She sighs, "my name is Olive. My brother abuses me. I'm assuming the doctor told you about the broken bones yeah?"

"Yeah."

"My older brother took my father's place as the man of the home so I ran away. My father died a couple months ago and my mother died a long time ago."

"Anything else I should know?"

She shrugs, "I dunno."

I exhale my breath and say, "okay. Let's go."

"What where?"

"My home. Your not going back to the streets!"

She rolls her eyes and goes to say something. Instead I pull the IVs out of her and pick her up. I check to see if anyone is looking and nobody is there. I open the door and walk out the back exit. Lex is there waiting as I instructed and I put her in the backseat. Climbing into the driver side Lex sits in the passenger.

"I want to go back to the streets! I don't know you! I don't want to go to you house!" She yells using her good side to kick. She still grunts in pain.

"Srop before you rip the fucking stitches kid!" I yell as I'm ready to slam on the breaks. She has made me angry a lot today and I just met her.

"Then let me go!" She screams.

I slam on the breaks and her body thuds against the seats. I turn around and yell, "sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up now!" She grunts and opens her mouth to speak, "shut the fuck up I said!"

She rolls her eyes and crosses her arms. I huff angrily and start driving again.

"Ace" Lex sighs.

"Shut up!" I yell.