The Heartbreaking Agreement

Chapter XVI

I was bored the other night, so I edited this video for 3 hours - just for fun. I know it's not perfection and it's a little confusing, but I still had a lot of fun making this video.

P.S. The video is about one of Angel's dreams.

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I didn't have my own room at first. There were only two bedrooms, which were owned by two different guys.

Door A belonged to Jerome, aka King of Zombies. It was pretty clean, but after spending an hour in my temporarily new house, I already found there two bras with different cup sizes. Door B was the entrance to the dragon's cave. Zebra Boy, aka Zebra Zombie, was a male version of Kara, Julia and Felicia. All four of them loved K-pop and Jerome's roommate wasn't ashamed of his taste. Especially, when he was listening to his music in the shower. I was pretty sure the entire building could hear him.

But either way, I didn't have a chance to choose. Jerome let me take his bedroom for some time. He said he can sleep on the sofa and that way, it will be harder for me to sneak out, even if I dared to try.

"You know, he's a light sleeper" Zebra Boy warned me with a goofy smile on his face. "But not after a race. Then he can't sleep. He's either too drunk or too angry. Or both."

Zebra Boy was right and on my second night with these boys, I was about to experience that myself. Jerome had a race with a Tiger representative. The winner gets the money prize and will race against other gangs in few weeks. Believe me or not, but there are more groups like Phoenix or Tigers. There's hundreds of them, all over the country.

Jerome tried to explain everything, but he didn't do well. By the time we were on our way, I was still trying to figure how everything worked. For some reason, Zebra Boy decided to help.

"So, if there is more than one group in the area, there will be elimination to represent the city or region. Then you go further and further, until you get to the top. If you get there, you win everything and you're set for life - that's how much money you would get. Damn, Jerome could split 50-50, keep one half and share another one with everyone from Phoenix and he would still be pretty damn fine."

"I'm already pretty damn fine, thank you" Jerome teased him with a smirk. Mike rolled his eyes and tried to ignore Jerome's confidence.

"Anyway, you understand why everyone wants the money. Both Tigers and Phoenix have their own reasons to win."

"Yes, Kile explain that to me already"

When Mike heard Kile's name, he winced. His face reminded me of a small child trying a lemon for the first time. It was funny and weird at the same time.

"You met Kile?" oh, he doesn't like him. He probably hates him. Well, I guess Kile is my new BFF now.

I looked at the window, noticing we are getting farther from the city. I remembered this road, when Karma and I went hiking, few days after I came back from England. I hated it. We went to the forest, which was under the state's protection. It was beautiful, but that place reminded me of when I fell from a hill and almost landed in the river. I cried like a little baby.

And that happened four months ago.

We drove by the entrance to the forest. I was relieved, knowing I didn't have to go back to that awful place. Especially, when it was getting dark. Instead, Jerome turned into the side road, which I never noticed before. It was well hidden with trees and bushes.

After few minutes, I saw an old building of toys factory. Although you might think that place was abandoned there were lots of cars, surrounding the building. Some of them were simple and cheap, but I also noticed few sports cars.