Shades of Black

Chapter 11

On reaching home, I found mum in my room.
"How was the party? Hope you didn't..."
I frowned taking the cardigan off, "Mum please, I didn't do anything. I just took alcohol, that's all." I sat besides her, she opened her laptop.

"Your last mission is quite easy. You have to be someone's friends." She displayed Liam's picture on the screen. My heart started pounding real fast. I thought my last mission was to assassinate some random guy.
"This is Liam Zayan Salvatore, he's someone from your school. Do you know him?"
I shook my head with a NO!
"Your going to find all ways of him taking you to his father, Manuel Salvatore. Currently, we don't know where he is but he was last seen in Puerto Rico."
I nodded again, gulping continuously. She added, "Look at this...his not supposed to be in highschool, he's twenty four, he finished school years ago. Find out why he is pretending to be in highschool." My heart pumped even harder, my gaze heavy on the laptop.

"What am I supposed to do?" I asked hesitantly, she patted my shoulder before moving out.
"Be a woman, a seductive one. I didn't say date him or have sex...you just need to know Manuel's location."

She exited my room, I locked the door and sat on the floor. I wasn't supposed to feel bad about this right? The fact that I was going to spy on Liam, it was my job anyway. Plus, the father and son dual had spilled enough blood, and he was all pretending to live a normal life in LA.
I took a warm shower still thinking of how I was supposed to do all this. Liam wasn't going to be fooled so easily.
Why would he act as a highschool guy? That, I had to know. He wasn't the only one faking age anyway, according to the school system, he was twenty and I was nineteen.

I took a very cold shower to cool my body and thoughts also.
The same Liam Salvatore who almost killed my friend, Kritika Mirza, and now she was in a coma. Kri was the only one who always stood up for me when we were in Mumbai.
Fortunately, our mums both worked for The Alchemy. I was bullied for having afro hair and dark skin when we were in Mumbai. I could hardly do anything about it since I had been told to ever use my martial arts in school.
I promised Kri I was going to finish Liam Salvatore.

Honestly, when I reached my new school and crossed paths with "the Liam Salvatore", I thought people just shared names. Also, Liam Salvatore wouldn't be in highschool at twenty four, plus I had never seen him.
Another person I had targeted to kill was Ricardo Lopez.
Apparently, he was Tatiana's father.
I took a bottle of water, I tried to sleep but I was overthinking.

I had kissed, moreover, my first kiss was with the person I wanted to kill so badly. That kiss was not changing my mind, never.

                         ***
I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. It was nine o'clock, how did she let me sleep that long? I walked down stairs full of energy, it was Saturday.
I went to kitchen and grabbed a glass of orange juice.
"Morning!" Mum emerged from behind. I tilted my head only to see Amandla, my jaw dropped for a minute. I was really thrilled to see her. "Lala?" I ran and hugged her. Her olive green eyes lit up as well. "Surprise!" She shrugged, I didn't even know why I was exited. Mum had told me she was in Brazil.

Mum echoed from the living room, "She's staying for awhile, I'll be her new mentor."
This was exiting, at least I had someone to talk to in the house.

I headed upstairs for a nice warm shower. My phone suddenly rang,  why was Liam calling me early this morning. I picked up, "Yes Salvatore..."
"I called to tell you that I wanted to take you somewhere."
I cleared my throat wanting to say no but what came out was different. "Sure, depends on where we're going though, if it's a date, nope. Don't expect a dress"
I had a slight chuckle, "I won't... I'll pick you up." I quickly snapped, "Don't, I'll come myself."
Suddenly, I felt pain in my stomach and lower back. When I stood off my bed, shit, I had stained. No, no, not now, not today. I took a warm shower and prepared myself.
My closet was full of my normal outfits that my mum called "thug clothes". I didn't care wore the because I felt comfortable. I said bye to both Amandla and mum.
As I was leaving, my husky came running towards me. I sighed, "Rocky please...I will be right back." It whined and I felt bad looking at it's eyes. It had heterochromia, still beautiful though.
I grabbed my bike, beige...and rode off.

                          ***
I met Liam outside a cafe, surprisingly he didn't came with some fancy ass car. He also had a bike. "Hey Salvatore, meet beige." I smiled pointing at my bike.
"Well, meet ummm..ummm." Liam looked confused for a minute, I burst into laughter.
"Wait, your bike doesn't have a name, does it?"
He refused to accept, "I didn't say so, first tell me why named you  your black bike beige yet it's black. That's weird."

I stood in front of his tall figure, "Hey...that's not weird, beige is my favorite color.... anyway let's get a name for your bike."
My eyes traced Liam's bike, he sighed. "It's of no use."
"What's your favorite color?"
I asked but he didn't have one. Goodness, who didn't have a favorite color. I still joked, "I think you like pink...no ummm..." Liam quickly put his finger on my lips. "I don't have a favorite color, and it's definitely not pink." He held my hand and led me to his bike, we left mine chained
At that point my cramps got worst that I entwined both my index and middle finger together.
"Is anything wrong?" I nodded with a no.