The Darkside of the Bronx

chapter 14

VERONIKA?! I yelled again running around every room. Everything looked like it did the last time I was here except the clothes were gone from her closet and the drawers. Her makeup and jewelry as well. Thankfully she's the only weirdo I knew who still had a landline just incase of emergencies and she couldnt get to her cellphone. I plucked the receiver from the base and dialed her phone number. It rang and rang. straight to voice-mail.

"V it's Tally, I'm at your apartment, call me back." I hang up and as soon as I do the phone rings.

"V"? I answer
"Tally, I'm at my friends on the west side, the hell is going on?" Veronika says in an angry tone
"Give me the address at the number I text you on" I look at Luther and hes telling me to hangup and say 2minutes
I hang up the phone and jump in the car. I text Veronika and we head to the address she to gave me.

We pull up to the address, Veronika is standing on the steps with her mouth agape at the car we pulled up in. "No time to explain, get your stuff and get in" I say hurriedly as I rush up to the porch of the house she was staying.
"Is this what I think it's about?!" Veronika yells as she's grabbing her stuff and thanking her friend for letting her stay
"Yes, now let's go!" I yell as I'm running out the door. Right as we get outside a black minicooper pulls up and two men step out. Judas and Klaus run up behind Veronika and try to grab her. I run up to Judas and punch him in the face, he falls to the ground as Klaus is pulling Veronika toward his car. Luther is fighting another bodyguard that looks to be one of Nick's.
I walk over to Klaus
"Let her go now, or you'll end up like your brother, Klaus."I seethe out through my teeth.
"Fuck off, bitch. I'm going to kill her." Klaus says laughing.
"Ohhh no..oh shit" V says and starts laughing.
"The hell is your problem?" Klaus says looking down at her as she's trying to pull him away from her."
"This, I'm not a fucking bitch, you bitch." I smack him in the face with a pipe and grab V, we run to the car with Nick and Fallon. Luther is still fighting a body guard. Fallon steps out and shoots the other body guard in the head.
"Alright, playtime is over, let's go." Fallon says as he gets back in the car and we watch Luther looked at the guy on the ground and got back in the driver's seat. On our way to Fallon's house, Veronika is laughing her ass off in the thirdrow backseat.
"Are you okay?" Nick asks after a few minutes.
"I'm so sorry, I'm in tears from what just happened" Veronika wipes her eyes on her shirt.
"It's okay, we will be somewhere safe soon" Fallon says from his spot in the front seat.
"She isn't crying" I say and look back at Veronika again.

"I just can't believe he called you a bitch" She said laughing and imitating the smack of the pipe against Klaus head.
"No one calls me that" I said and looked out the window
"How did you know their names?" Nick said
looking at me expectantly when I turned to look at him.
" I tied the fuckers up and blew up my apartment." I said nonchalantly and looked away.
"Phewww.." Fallon says from the front seat and we all look in his direction
"You sure you don't work for the mob or something?" Fallon says laughing
"No, I think it's the mob who are after me" I say and look out the window again.

We stop at Fallons to get his clothes and start back to the mansion.
On my way home I wonder about my mom and how many times she has called worried about me. I'll have to call when I get back to Nick's and make sure she's okay.
She's probably just living life in her pretty house with her perfect husband. Trey is probably visiting so she's probably not bothering with it either. She said he's coming home soon. I would love to see my brother again but at this point he never reaches out to me and I stopped calling after he would ignore my calls or voice-mail a year after he left. I was used to being on my own, without Veronika or the Makatis I wouldn't have what I'd consider family. Someone who actually doesn't know your past as much as they think they do. Al is my bestfriend too, I hope they don't find him from the gun, they wouldn't have known about V if I didn't stay there after blowing up my apartment.
Rain started falling and it was around 4pm, I felt my eyes getting heavy looking out the window.
I fell asleep and before I knew it we were home.