Sin City

Seven: Bella's Plan

"You wanna fuck his dad?"

Sin went home without talking to anyone else. She didn't talk or even look at Frog when everyone got together to go over plans. Slowly, Frog grew rather annoyed with the lack of attention she was receiving and tried to draw some of the spotlight to herself.

At first, it would be small things like coughing loudly or sneezing in an overdramatic way, then it would grow to bigger things such as punching Nate in front of Sin, and knocking water bottles off of tables.

Everyone else noticed how Frog was desperately trying to get Sin to notice her, and how Sin would look on as if nothing of significance were happening. Nate noticed this, staying far away from Frog when both she and Sin were in the same room, in fear of getting punched again.

The week went by quickly, the masquerade ball speeding towards them. And still, Zayne hadn't shown up. Sin used to spend her free time hoping, desperately hoping, that Zayne would return in tears with a good excuse, but still. Nothing. She eventually learnt to stop hoping, and she got more determined to hurt him as time went on.

Everyone was in a state of restlessness and exhilaration, practising their mannerisms and dancing to seamlessly blend in with the mafia. A few days after everyone got their clothes, Kaz had the bright idea of learning how to fight in case everything went wrong. 

Obviously, nobody was great at combat, since they only had a few days to learn- with no prior knowledge. For some reason, Nate would always laugh every time Kaz threw a feeble punch. Kai suggested the idea of bringing along daggers, and she went out of her way to buy everyone one that matched their outfit.

Two days before the ball, Kaz was looking over their plans, double-checking everything, making sure everything was prepared. During this evaluation she noticed an ever-so slight issue with the clothing arrangements.

"Wait... Siiiiiinnn? How many of us are there?" 

Sin came out of the kitchen, holding a toasted subway sandwich. "Uh. Twelve? Wait, going to the ball? Yeah twelve of us are going."

"Ohhhhhhhh. We only have eleven garments of clothing. And eleven passes for the ball."

"Well. Uh. Hm. I guess someone has to be left behind."

Kai came running down the stairs with an almost unhinged look plastered on her face. "If someone is gonna be left behind it's not gonna be me. I have done so much for us, and I am not missing out on the opportunity to meet some hot people."

She took a deep breath and shouted as loud as she could, inciting a blend of fear and mayhem within every one in the house. "OI! SOMEBODY HAS TO BE LEFT BEHIND! ONE OF US ISN'T GOING TO THE BALL. LAST ONE TO GET HERE IS LEFT BEHIND."

Sin groaned and returned to the kitchen as everyone ran towards Kai. Hera, in particular, was pushing everyone over like the fucking whorish bitch she is, and unfortunately reached Kai first. It looked like everyone was there, except for one person. 

Bella came jogging up to them, adjusting her pants. "Fuck you guys, I was still in the toilet."

"Not my problem," Hera laughed at her. "I guess you're staying behind."

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Bella grabbed Nero by the wrist and pulled them towards an empty room. Nero raised her eyebrows as Bella locked the door. "Look, Belly Boo, I thought that we already made it clear that I don't feel this way abou-"

"Shut up and don't call me that. I need help." Bella scoffed as she sat on a table.

"What, do you need help sneaking out again? Or do you want me to supervise you while you make 1-minute noodles so you don't burn your house down again?"

"Shut up. All I want is you-"

"Oh, I know you want me."

"Interrupt me one more time and see what happens."

"Jesus, okay."

"I need you-"

"I know."

Bella rolled her eyes. "Fine. I'll ask someone else."

"Okay, okay I'll shut up."

Bella sighed deeply and winced as she muttered her next words.

"So... Can you find out who Zayne's dad is?"

Nero laughed, confused. "What? Why do you want to know that?" 

"I want to... I was thinking of... uh... I thought of a good revenge plan?"

"Ouu, tell me what it is"

"Umm.. Uh-" Bella looked around the room, her eyes wandering ever in order to avoid eye contact with Nero. "So uhm... So you know, how Zayne is very uh... protective? Of his dad? Uhhhhh..."

"You wanna fuck his dad?"

"How did you knowwww?"

Nero rolled her eyes. "It's something you would do. I'll try find out who he is."

Bella smiled. "Thankkssssss"

Nero ignored her and walked out of the room, looking for Sin. When she found her, Nero sighed. "Sin?"

"Hm?" The girl turned around, revealing the large mess of plans she was observing.

"So. I just wanted to know, who is Zayne's dad?"

"Ion know. Zayne was very protective and secretive about him for some reason."

"Oh. So you at least know Zayne's last name?"

"Nope."

"What the fuck? You're married?"

"That don't mean I took his last name"

"Useless." Nero turned away, heading for her temporary room in Sin's house.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to do Bella a favour."

Nero clicked the door of their room shut, and flopped onto her bed. She sighed deeply and pulled out her phone and laptop, looking up every one of Zayne's accounts on every website and app she could think of. 

The only lead she could find was a few very old pictures she found on Facebook. Nero noticed one old man in the background of them. He was always wearing long oversized clothes that covered his whole body. He wore a large hat in every picture, his face remaining hidden.

Zayne didn't mention the man's name at all, but his body language showed that he was comfortable around him. Nero wasn't a world-class detective, but she wasn't an idiot either. She cropped one of the pictures so it only contained what she assumed was Zayne's dad, and used it for an image search on google.

They found a variety of pictures of old men wearing oversized clothes, but she saw one man in particular that had a hat matching with the ones in Zayne's pictures. She smiled and clicked on the picture. It led her to somebody's profile. It was full of pictures with the old man covered in heavy clothing.

She decided that this was probably Zayne's dad, and she was too lazy to double-check anyways. Nero printed out pictures of the man and wrote his address (that was on his profile) on the pictures.

She admired her work and walked down to the table where all the plans were. Nero taped the pictures onto the table and stuck a sticky note onto the pictures.

'Important info for Bella'