The Heiress of The Mafia

Chapter 2 - The Academy

    We got out of the car, fixing ourselves up, grabbing our satchels and walked confidently into the academy. Many eyes were on us, whispers were exchanged from one boy to another about us, more per say, about me. I observed each passing person carefully, looking for a sign of potential threat. After a bit of walking to the storage corridor we got our lockers and organized our stuff inside it. I quickly tightened and fixed my weapon holsters and tugged my tie. 

  Valravn sighed, "You could get thrown out of the academy if the professors see you with those." He said, putting the last of his stuff inside the locker and closing it. 

   I looked up at him, "Oh please, if they look at my profile, one look at my name will cause them to tremble in fear." I said confidently with a scoff. 

   Valravn laughed and shook his head, "Behind closed door, you aren't as scary as you appear to be. I hope you can find people to be like that around besides me and Victor." He said as he placed a hand on my shoulder. 

   I looked at him with a small smile and nodded, "If only, but in my line of work, I don't have time for distractions." I said with a clearance of my throat before the bell rang. 

  Valravn looked at his schedule, "Let me see your schedule." He said, reaching his hand out for my phone. I pulled up the page with my schedule and handed it to him. "Dammit, we only have third and fourth hour together." He grunted. 

  I took my phone back, sliding it in the inner pocket of my jumper, "Worry not brother, no harm will come to me trust me, I can handle myself." I stated.

   He sighed, "At least let me walk you, and pick you up from your classes." He asked, I nodded in approval and we started walking.

   We arrived at my first hour, security and programming, "I will see you after brother, now hurry before you are late." I said, waving goodbye to him. 

  Upon turning around and walking into the class I was greeted by a familiar face, "Ay, great to see you Valkyrie!" He said cheerfully with a bit of surprise. 

   I grabbed his hand with one hand and his elbow with my other, with a firm shake. "Great to see you too Ivan! Does Valravn know you are here?" I asked before suddenly being pulled into a hug. 

"No and frankly I didn't know you two were here." He said. 

I hesitantly hugged back, "The whole organization is here we fled so quickly I never had the chance to say goodbye." 

  He chuckled slightly and released me, "You must tell me everything that happened in the past, what? twelve years?" I nodded in agreement. 

  The professor walked in, "Students, to your seats." He announced

    Ivan and I made our way to the back where an open table was. It had been a long time since me and Valravn have seen Ivan, his parents worked in the organization so we often played with him. Shortly after my fifth birthday, the organization fled to America, we built back up but many of the old workers stayed hidden back in Russia. Ivan and Valravn were just a couple months apart in age, remembering that I asked, "Ivan, aren't you supposed to turn nineteen soon?" I whispered, he looked at me and smiled with a nod, "Glad you remembered." 

    About thirty minutes had passed, and another professor came in and told our professor something. "Okay, students you have your assignment, I must leave, the rest of the class is a free period, do as you please,"  He announced before leaving. Me and Ivan gave one look t each other and quickly got up and left the class. 

   He grabbed my hand and ran with me up three flights of stairs. "Where are we going to Ivan?" I asked, running next to him, grabbing his hand. 

   "I'm taking you somewhere quiet so we can talk with no eavesdroppers!" He said cheerfully. We stopped at some double doors, allowing us to have some silence on the roof of the academy. He sat down against a wall and patted the ground next to him, signaling me to sit. "You've changed quite a bit from the last time I saw you, what happened to the cute little girl I knew hm?" He asked.