𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 • 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐳

Chapter 1

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"Tia?"

"What!" I yell at Kirra throwing my hands in the air.

She stood behind me quietly. She looked like if she could curl up into a ball and hide she would. "The Genshin gang will kill us if we don't leave"

"Are you scared of them? When have we ever been scared of anyone before?" I ask her raising one eyebrow in annoyance and confusion.

"We've never been up against a gang like this, this time it might be different"

"It won't be different, I don't die Kirra"

"But WE do!" She said raising her tone with tears starting to claw at her eyes.

My hands form into fists and my knuckles turn white with my back faces towards her. An animalistic growl escapes my mouth and I pull the gun off the table behind me and point it at her "Go on, leave then, see what happens"

Before Kirra could even think about what to do another voice cut me off.

"Tia! Put the gun down" Freya said slowly entering the room. She wasn't dumb. She knew not to get close to me when I was mad, but she also knew she needed to calm me down before I could do anything I would regret.

I slid my tongue ring across my teeth and looked up closing my eyes. My head was aching now.

"Your not mad at us, your mad at them, the Genshin gang remember?" She explained to me like I was a child, but it's what I needed when I couldn't think for myself.

She came over to me and took the gun out of my hand and proceeded to stash it in her pocket to hide in the house, far away from me.

"Come on" she grabbed my shoulders and pushed me over to the couch to catch my breath and to calm down.

I fell onto the couch lazily with one of my legs jumping up and down, and an arm holding my forehead. "We aren't leaving" I said to her moving my eyes to look at her beside me.

"We will do what we need to do, we can figure it out later"

"We don't have time..." my frustration came out clearly through my breathy voice. I started to get up and got pushed down again.

"Just stay put, I'm gonna go check up on Kirra" Freya said before getting up and heading out of the room.

•Freya's POV•

I knew exactly what I was getting into when I became her friend. I knew she had anger issues, and I knew that she made decisions based off her emotions. And yet I stay.

"Kirra?" I spoke softly entering the kitchen. She was standing still, head down with a glass of water in her hand.

I took the water out of her hand and placed it on the counter beside me.

"You know she doesn't mean it..."

"Your lying! Your lying and you know it" she said, her voice shaking.

"She wouldn't shoot you?" I said grabbing her face to look at me.

She fought me off and took a few steps back.

"She's done it before! You lie to yourself everyday because you care about her. When will you wake up!"

"Because she cares about us! Everything she does is to keep us safe! She feels horrible about getting us into this mess and she will do everything she can to fix it!"

Kirra's face started to scrunch up and tears fell from her eyes.

"Hey it's okay" I comforted her pulling her into a hug.

"Why does she have to get so mad" she cried into my shoulder.

"She can't control it you know that, but she loves us, she would die for us"

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•Tia's POV•
•Later That Evening•

"What are we gonna do? We have no plan and no money" Kirra said stressed out.

"We will figure it out, we always do" I said with little to no hope.

"I have an idea" Freya said walking into the room putting her flip phone back in her pocket. "I've made a few calls, every gang in the surrounded region have a massive 'get together' every once in a while" she said smiling proudly.

"What do they do at these things?" Kirra asked with her arms crossed.

"Well they drink, race, fight, do business, shit like that. And the Genshin gang coincidentally love racing" she said dragging out the word love.

"Well so do we!" I said slamming my hands on the counter with a wide smile.

Kirra and freya looked at me with sly smiles. We had our plan.

We walked to the basement of our house hollering excitedly and laughing loudly.

"You think we could beat them?" Kirra asked me cleaning her Glock 19s. They were her favourite to use. She would never admit it but she enjoyed killing if it was deserved.

"I know we can, you don't think so?" My gun clicked as I reloaded the clip in my COLT AR-15. She might not be able to admit it, but I can, I loved killing. Especially when they deserve it. Especially when they made me mad.

"I don't know yet, but I'm going to have fun trying" She said smiling at me sweetly. She looked so innocent. I felt bad for making her the way she is.

"Freya? You getting ready?" I yelled.

"Yeah, don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing" she said wandering over from the other side of the room sharpening a large machete. Freya liked knives. She likes using them too I've noticed.

Kirra put her guns down and pulled out a toiletry bag.

"What are you doing?" I ask confused.

"My makeup? I'm not getting seen by that many people while I look ugly!" She said scrunching up her face.

"What? Your joking right?"

"No she's right, we should make an impression" Freya said smiling at Kirra.

"Well..." I said getting up and pushing my black and purple hair out of the way "get dolled up princess" I said with an amused look before getting stopped.

"You too pumpkin" Freya said, taking a seat in front of Kirra to get her makeup done.

"You act like a dude that's severely homophobic Tia, take a seat then?" Kirra said focusing on Freya's face.

"I'm not letting you put makeup on me. If I'm putting makeup on I'm doing it myself" i heard them giggle to each other. I was annoyed but I knew I would still do it for them.

I sat beside them and took random things from kirra's makeup bag to use. I knew exactly what I was doing. I never said I hated makeup I just didn't think it was necessary for what we were going to to.
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