I Love You

Chapter 7

Morning passed by fast. Alex awoke around 10am to see his mother in the kitchen making coffee.

Stella: Good morning sleeping beauty.
Alex: Don't start, I've had an awful night.
Stella: Ok?
Stella: You tell Angelie we're picking her up?
Alex: Yeah
Stella: Ok, go do everything you have to do, I don't want to be there too late.
Alex: Yeah, OK.

Alex heads to the bathroom for his morning routine. He brushes his teeth while in the shower. After getting out, he combs his hair back, by the time it dries, its already taken its very own shape. As Alex proceeds to get dressed, his phone vibrates, It was a text from Angelie.

Angelie: WAKEEEEEE UPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
Alex: I've been awake dummy.
Angelie: Oh, Hey :)
Alex: I can tell someone's exited for today.
Angelie: Yeah.
Alex: We'll be out in a sec, Mom's still getting ready.
Angelie: Ok!
Angelie: I Love You.
Alex: I Love You Too.

He heads to his mother's room and finds a note on her bed.

Alex: "I wonder what this is. "

He picked up the note and began reading.

It read:
Stella, times running out, you need to give us an answer. If we wait any longer, we're going to get caught and I'm not gonna go down alone. Basically, what I'm trying to tell you is, you haven't paid us back for that favor we did for you two years back. If we're not paid for our services, we'll be forced to take action and having a son, I can imagine that's the last thing you want from us. Hope to hear from you soon. Also, take the time to answer our call and messages.
We'll be waiting.

-Stan

The name Stan ment absolutely nothing to him, he didn't know of any friends called Stan, but for some reason, this Stan character is reclaiming a supposed favor that dated back two years ago and its big enough to cause a threat against the both of them.

Alex: "Think."
Alex: "Something important that happened about two years back?"

He thought, as he headed to his room, about things that probably happened about two years ago.

Alex: "Dad's death was about two years back, but mom wasn't there, we were at the movies that night, I remember vividly, dad told us "business was booming". So what could it be."

The thought grew, he begins to date back on events from two years back. All that comes to mind?
His father's murder.
As he sits on his bed, retracting on what he knew.

Alex: "Eight men took to surrounding you, each pulled out nine millimeter pistols, all took four shots to your body. Once in the ground, the one facing you before you got surrounded wasted one shot on your already dead body. The police caught one of your killers and placed him under custody. He gave away the identities to six men, but refused to give the last one. He was really unprofessional by giving away his partners, which at the moment raised a brief thought in my head;

'This job seems WAY too out of their leagues, there's definitely a leader'

I still think it is. That one man was never capture and the other seven were placed on death role. The people involved in your murder were all male, not one female. So what favor could this person be talking about. Did she hide something from us on that year? I can't think of anything else but your death. Maybe something else did happen, but your memory obscures it. I just hope that's what has me this way."

(Stella exited the bathroom.)

Stella: Go on, we're leaving in fifteen minutes.
Alex: Ok.

(Alex begins to search in his closet.)