VINNIE
TWO MONTHS EARLIER
11:15AM
Melanie was belting her heart out to 'If I can Dream' by the one and only Elvis Presley. We're lost in a cloud "We're lost in a cloud, With too much rain,We're trapped in a world, That's troubled with pain." She goes off. " But as long as a man. Has the strength to dream. He can redeem his soul and flyyyy." She stands on top of the coffee table. "He can cryyyy..." She adds in the backup singers. "Deep in my heart there's a trembling question. Still I am sure that the answer, answer's gonna come somehow. Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle, yeah." ""And while I can think. While I can talk. While I can stand. while I can walk. While I can dreammmm" "Oh, please let my dream...Come true...Right now... Let it come true right now. Oh yeah" Melanie ends the song by falling into my lap. She was out of breath and she looked so hot. I gazed into her eyes as my heart started to race. "That was really good. You should be one of Vegas' Elvis impersonators" I joked. She laughed. "I was that good?" She says biting her finger. I laughed and nodded. "I really enjoyed it." I tell her honestly while rubbing her thigh. She bit her lip as she looked at my lips. This was my moment. I slowly leaned in as our lips brushed against each other. I cupped her face with my hand as I pulled her closer to me. Our lips moved in sync. Her lips were soft as I imagined. Her hand ran through my hair.
As our lips broke apart I moved her crazy baby hairs out the way. "That was bound to happen." Mel jokes. "Yeah, it was." I laughed. "I didn't hate it though." She shakes her head. "Me either." I shrugged. She laughed. I had to tell her how I feel. "Mel you're the most beautiful girl I've seen and worked with." I say caressing her cheek. "I like you man... You lie a lot." She says squinting her eyes at me as she got up. I grabbed her arm and pulled her back down. "I'm not lying. I'm serious after this mission. I wanna go ghost with you and do what we do best." I tell her "Mhm... and what is it that we do best Vin?" She asked me. "Hack, Skeem, Lie, Make money huh?" I say to her. She sat and thought about it for a minute. "I love the offer Vin, but I can't put love and work together... It doesn't mix well." She says kissing my cheek before leaving the living room.
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PRESENT DAY
I got to know Max's team a little bit more. He works in a group of 5. There's Sean the driver. Freddie who's trigger happy. Lucy the one and only girl on the team aka 'Eye candy' for the team and probably the only one with logical sense. And Jax Max's right hand man & kinda likes to hear the full story before acting on anything.
"So, where did you find Blondie?" Freddie asks Max. "We go wayyy back." Max tells him. "I heard most of the story from drunk Max." Jax says. As I was about to speak Lucy jumped ahead of me. "Basically Vincent- I hope thats your real name. Wants to cut ties very tragically with his old boss because he fell in love with person he tried to face. But his boss killed the 'love of his life' so now its basically time for revenge." Lucy says. Everyone looked at me with my mouth hung low. "Y-Yeah thats basically it." I say scratching the back of my neck. Jax looked at Max. "Hey I think love is a good motive." Max says picking up his drink. "I don't." Freddie says. "Why? You scared?" I asked while raising an eyebrow. "Never that. I just know how Laura is." He says looking me dead in the eyes as he said her name. I squinted my eyes as I had a confused look on my face. Nobody said her name so how the fuck did he know we were talking about her? "How-" "I was a free agent before working with Max. She's the reason why I'm so trigger happy now." He says putting his gun on the table. "Alright now we don't need to be kicked out another restaurant fucking idiot." Lucy say putting the gun his lap.
"What's her name? Do you have any pictures?" Sean asks the royal questions. I pulled out my phone and showed them a few pictures of us. "Her name is Melanie." I tell them. "Aw she's a cute girl... So sad she's gone we would've been great friends." Lucy says handing me back my phone. "I don't know. She was never friendly. She hated me at first." I laughed. "Laura took her hostage didn't she?" Freddie asked me. I nodded. "Damn you fell in love with a hostage?" Freddie laughs. "I don't think she's one if she escaped..." Max says in a duh voice. A big group of people walked from the back of the restaurant up to the door. I heard a few familiar voices. I glanced over and I saw Tayler, Oscar, Declen and holy fucking shit. It can't be... The "NEW" Melanie. My heart sunk to my ass. It was like I was seeing a ghost... LITERALLY. I locked eyes with her before Declen pushed her out. "Nobody say a word..." Sean says with his finger up. He took my phone and put his phone side to side. "Now I know you just said she was dead. Glasses, and a little hair dye might make you blend in... But that is your girl Vincent. She is not dead." He tells the team. I picked up both phones and looked at the photo he took of her really quick. He's good. "You just put so much hope into this boys eyes." Lucy says. My heart had a little joy. "How are we gonna get passed her goons?" Freddie asks. "They're tough but easy to tire them out." I say shrugging. "Two in one mission, y'all down?" Max asks his team. "Hell yeah." Lucy answers first. "Right besides you." Jax says. "I'm not missing out on shit." Freddie says. "And I'm the driver." Sean says.
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MELANIE
"How are you feeling? You wanna stay out more or do you wanna go back home?" Tayler asked me. I yawned I was ready to go back to bed. "I'm a little tired." I say putting my head on his shoulder. "You can't sleep all day kid." My dad says looking at me from the rear view mirror. "Why not? Im not going on a mission anytime soon." She says looking at him. He turned around to look at me. "You're joking..." He asks her. "I'M HALF ALIVE ARE YOU CRAZY?!" I yelled at him which kinda hurted to yell. "Plus I can't function a gun properly. Also I don't believe y'all are my real family. Probably kidnapped me and beat me to death." I say holding my side. "Agreeable. But this you don't make up." He says handing her his wallet. "You're giving me money to shut me up?" I asked him while I opened it. "If you we're there isn't much of it..." I say kinda disappointed while taking $80. "No money whore look at the picture. Yea you are my child..." He sighs. I pulled out a little photo of young dad with long hair, baby Dec and baby me. "Das not me." I lied. "Yeah whatever now put my money back and give me my wallet."He says holding out his hand. I put a 20 back and gave it to him.
I still have a lot of cloudy memories of everyone and recent events. I see blurs images when I try to think of anything My dad or Tayler tries to bring up. But when we were at the steakhouse a few moments ago a blonde haired boy looked so familiar but I have no idea where I have seen him before. "Hey daydreamer... We're home." Tayler says poking the side of my leg. "Oh shit. I say scooting out of the car. "When you wake up from your nap you wanna forget the memory tour and start new ones?" He asked her. I smiled. "Yeah I'd be down for that. What did you have in mind?" I asked him as we went upstairs. "You'll see" He says helping me to our room we're sharing. I feel so bad not remembering a lot about Tayler because he seems like a sweet and genuine guy who has loved me for forever and I just can't pretend to act like I remember him
MELANIE'S DREAM
2 1/2 MONTHS EARLIER
I was in a secret gun range/ dealers shop looking at some pretty nice guns. "If your name was cleared right now... What would you do?" I asked. "Honestly try to live a normal life." "What's normal?" I scoffed. "Yanno get married, have a family, a normal job where I don't find random blood spots on my clothes. Yanno the normal shit." "Did you not have a normal life before this?" I asked him. He shook his head. "Did you?" "Sorta kinda." I shrugged. "We're you always in this life even as a kid?" I asked him He nodded. I kinda felt bad because I wasn't forced into anything I love this kind of shit. "Well if you can dream it baby, you can do it." I tell him. "I helped you escape the rest is up to you." I tell him. "It doesn't just work like that." "Why can't it?" I asked him. "I-I-I don't know. It just can't" He says leaning over the counter. I walked over to him and put my hand over his. "You can do a lot of shit other than sit behind a computer. You know stuff, you can fight for yourself baby I know it." I tell him. "Yanno when you aren't being an asshole or always in your head... You're actually a good person to talk too." He tells me before kissing my cheek and walking away.
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