Silence in the sound

Chapter ten

We continued our way down the main road until we were within a two-minute walk of the ice cream store. My heart started to beat a lot more quickly than before. I had never been involved in something so mysterious and shady!

D: Follow my lead, and whatever you do, do not go against what I say when were inside.

His tone was really serious and my instinct told me to follow his instructions.

We walked into this ice cream shop. It was cute, there were pink LED light strips going around the room and one of those little blossom trees in the corner. I looked over at the shop assistant quickly, he was a little taller than me, and had shoulder length hair. He wore a polo shirt that presented the ice cream stores brand logo on the corner of it. After I had finished my very quick examination of the guy, I made sure to pay close attention to Deklan.

"Hey! How are you!" the worker said, cheerfully greeting us into the store, Deklan responded with a hint of enthusiasm as well "Hey mate, long time no talk."

Ah, so they have connections between one another...?

They had a small amount of small talk before Deklan threw me into the conversation.

D: Yeah, this is the missus

He said putting his arm around my waist and he then slowly pulled me into his side.

"Hi" I said, flashing the worker, well the target, a smile.

The guy responded with, "Hello." It was quick and I deemed his ignorance as quite rude. I quickly shook the thought and brought my attention back to the matter at hand.

Deklan was making more and more progression with the ice cream store owner and I could see them both having a concentrated discussion about anything and everything.

Deklan gently released my waist from his hold and walked a couple steps closer to this man, as if he was trying to appear as friendlier. It was working too. Deklan eventually made physical contact with the ice cream man, it was discrete, but it was enough. He made a joke and both of them let out a little laugh, Deklan took advantage of that moment and tapped his shoulder. I could see that the two boys were at least acting as if they were having a good time, Deklan continued to initiate discrete contact and wasn't raising any suspicion. On the walk here from Venice, Deklan mentioned that he needed to put the track device on the back of this guy's neck. I had no idea why he had to do that, but I trusted him.

I felt a bit ignored in this whole dilemma, I had no idea what was happening and I had no idea why! I was beyond curious, and I also wanted to know, why did Deklan give me the invitation to join him at this event?

Eventually Deklan was able to humorously slap the back of the ice cream guys neck without raising any suspicions. Shortly afterwards, Deklan turned to me,

"Do you want any ice cream, love?"

I Smiled in response and nodded while saying

T: Can I please get a single scoop cone of chocolate ice cream

Deklan nodded in agreeance and correlated his answer with mine

D: Yeah Ill get that but a double scoop, mate

The ice cream guy pointed a cringey pair of finger guns at Deklan and then got us what we had asked for, I'm pretty sure he gave Deklan a discount too based on the fact that the ice cream was alarmingly cheap...

After the ice cream guy had gotten us our ice cream cones, we parted ways with the store and his presence.

D: Good job Tianah, you kept your composure, and I was able to do what I needed to do.

T: Me? It was all you!

I said gently punching his arm in a friendly manner.

T: I just, I just don't get why you can't tell me why.

D: Tianah-

T: Yeah yeah, some things are better left unsaid... I get your intentions are protect yourself but... what about me?

Deklan slowed down his walked and leaned slightly down and closer to me as a response to make sure he could speak more quietly.

D: Tianah, this isn't to protect me. Well, yeah, that's a small part of it. But, ugh, Tianah, I did this all for you!
T: What the fuck are you on about? You kidnapped me for goodness sake

D: Exactly!
There was a small moment of silence, the tension went up so high that it was like one of those line graphs that just shoots to the top.

Deklan took his hand and forced it around mine and turned down a little side street

T: Deklan what's happening

D: You want to talk about time and place, tianah?

D: The time is right now and the place down the end of this street!