Adopted by Syndicate

Chapter 11

I walked down the stairs and saw James wearing the same thing. He too was wearing jeans and a flannel shirt but his was green and not red.

"Have her back by 2." Tom says.

"But that give us an hour." I complain.

"You think I mean Pm? I meant Am. Don't worry I'm not that type of person." I give him a hug and then James and I head out the door.

"So where are we going?" I ask.

"As I've said before, it's a surprise." He said opening the door for me.

"Thank you kind gentleman."

"Can I ask you a question real quick?" James asks.

"Sure what is it?"

"When is your birthday?"

"It's September 19th. In four days actually." I tell him just realizing how soon it was.

He goes around and gets in the driver's side and we pull away from Tom's house. We went into town and drove around for a little bit before he pulled into Olive Garden. We went in and ate but he said that it wasn't the surprise. Once we left the restaurant we went to an older building. James came around the car and opened the door before I could. He led the way into the building and inside the windows were blacked out and there was black lights all threw the building. Against the wall to the left when we come in there is red and blue vest along with guns. Laser guns.

"We are playing laser tag!" I say excited.

"Yep come on." James said and we go over to the check in counter and her pays for a couple games. "Same team or different?" He asks me.

"Different." I say with a smirk. I grab a blue vest and a gun while he gets a red vest and gun. We had to wait for a few more people to join so we can start. There was a crowd of people that comes in and out of those people is me ex. I turn away, hoping he doesn't notice me. Soon the game starts and with my luck I guess he didn't notice me. We start playing when I see him running at me. When he saw me he stopped.

"Look what the cat dragged in. Its little Jo. What are you doing here?" He asked me, he was now invading my space.

"I'm here on a date. Leave me alone, Jason." I start to walk away but he grabs my vest and pulls me back.

"Don't you walk away from me. You're still mine." I pull away but he grabs my wrist and pulls me close to him.

"I thought calling the cops would have been a clear message that we were breaking up." I yank my wrist way and start to run. I heard him behind me chasing me. I see James and start running to him. "James. Help please." I yell to him and he looks at me.

"What's going on?" He asks once I get to him.

"It's my ex. He's here and we need to leave now."

"Ok come on." We head out of the building after taking the vests off and once we are out there, we run into Jason.

"Jo you can't run from me." He grabbed the bag of my shirt and pull, ripping it. I knew you would be able to see my back now. I pulled from him and ran behind James.

"Leave her alone!" James yelled at him. Suddenly Jason drew his arm back and punched James. James stumbled back into me and I caught him. He go up and ran at Jason, tackling him to the ground. They throw punches at each other while I stood back in shock. James jumps up and Jason is laying on the ground knocked out.

"Oh my god, are you alright?" I say hugging James.

"I'm fine. What about you? Did he hurt you?" He asked, hugging me back.

"Yea he just ripped my shirt."

"Come one lets go before he wakes back up." He says opening the door of the car for me. I get in hoping he doesn't notice my back.

"What's that on your back?" He asks and hurry up and sit down.

"Nothing. Why?" I say quickly.

"You answered too fast. You sure it's nothing?" He pressed. I gave in.

"It's a tattoo." I say, "I'll show you and Tom once we get to the house."

The rest of the drive is silent except for the radio. I took us about an hour to get there. It was only 5:45. I'm sure Tom will be wondering why we are getting back so early. We walk inside and Tom is right in front of us.

"Why are you guys back so early? What happened?"

"My ex was at the place we were and James got in a fight with him. He also ripped my shirt in the process and James saw something that I wasn't ready to tell you guys about."

"What is that?" Tom asks me.

I sigh and turn around, taking my shirt off and show them my back. The tattoo that covered scars from the car accident that kill my parents.

"This is beautiful. What is it for?" Tom asks.

"That's what I wasn't ready for." I say. "It covers scars from the car accident that killed my parents." I put my shirt back on and turn to face them.

"I'm better head home. We are starting Mianite again tonight, right?" James asked Tom.

"Yea we will be on." Tom says.

James gives me a hug and he leaves to head back to my house.

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