Secrets

Chapter 38

I was packing my things into my backpack when I sensed someone approaching from behind. I turned my head to see Daniel, my brows furrowing as he held up his phone. I looked at it before asking, "Johan wants to meet up? Should we bring the girls?" I asked.

"I have a feeling it might be something else." Daniel stated as he slipped his phone back into his pocket. I blinked at him confused as I followed after him, the two of us leaving school together. "His text seemed off." He finally spoke.

"How so? He is just asking for us to meet up." She stated, tilting her head a bit to the side.

"If he really wanted us to meet up, he would ask us to bring the girls and send me an address to the dog park he talked about before." Daniel replied before slipping his hands inside his pockets. "No to mention ... Vasco told me the ones that caused that credit card fiasco wore hoodies that said God Dog on them."

I looked over at him, my brows furrowing, "But ... Johan seemed like a good person?"

"Well we were wrong." Daniel countered, his eyes narrowing. "If that wouldn't have happened you wouldn't have been ..." He trailed off, lowering his head as he stopped walking.

"Daniel ... I'm ok. If anyone is to blame it is Jiho. What he did was his own choice, no one forced him to." I say as I walk to stand in front of him, placing a finger under his chin to make him look at me. "So keep that in mind when we go talk to Johan." I say with a soft smile, watching as his own shoulders relax, he nodded in response once I removed my finger.

We walked leisurely towards the place Johan wanted to meet, Daniel keeping close to my side, seeming protective. I watched as his shoulders slowly began to tense up the closer we got.

Johan was sitting on the bench hunched over, his eyes focused on his wrist, where a braided bracelet was wrapped around it. He seemed to hear our footsteps as we approached, "You're late." He then looked up at the two of us, "Are we still ... friends?" His eyes looked ... so lost and sad. It reminded me of a lonely child, unsure of what the correct answer is.

Daniel was silent for a moment, his gaze flickering to me, seeming to remember what I said before, "Of course Johan. Is that why you called us out here? To ask if we were still friends?" Daniel questioned as he slipped his hands out of his pockets.

Johan glanced away for a moment before replying, "No, I wanted to ask something else." He replied, intertwining his fingers with his own as he looked back up at the two of us. "You said you still consider us friends ... so ... join God Dogs."

Daniel and I exchanged a look before looking back at Johan, our expression neutral, not betraying what was on our minds. "Daniel, you said you live with your mom, right? We have a lot in common, you and I." Johan spoke looking at him before his gaze flickered to me, "Same can be said between you and I, (Y/N). Although I can only guess we share another similarity, I recognize it in your eyes." Johan let out a sigh as he leaned back against the bench. "A God Dog never bites one of its own. The moment you two helped me find Eden, you were a friend to me." His gaze then focused solely on Daniel, "You did everything you could to get your hands on some money. That tells me you are hungry. I'll help you get your hands on some real money. Not some pocket change." My brows furrowed, as my brain slowly began to connect the dots as I watched a smile spread across Johan's face, a look of determination flashing across his gaze. "Once we unite the Four Major Crews, we can make an obscene amount of money. Join me! We're ... still friends right?" That's when it clicked, he was one of the possible successors for Gun .. welp there goes me not getting involved out the window. To be fair I didn't know, Gun barely tells me anything about the crews. I knew God Dog was a part of the four major crews but I didn't know it was Johan himself that he was mentioning as being his possible successor, much less the leader of the crew.