How To Be A Phony Hero

ZERO : GWEN'S SECRETS

Gwendolyn is not a villain.

That is the first thing you should know.

She doesn't go around making deals with the devil. No, no.

She makes deals with people who kills and make deals with the devil.

Gwen likes to think that she's not a grey character, but rather a silvery white. Her good intentions saves her from the bad things she does.

But it'll eventually end. The legal, dirty work will soon come to a stop, but Gwendolyn doesn't know if she'll be alive when it does. Come to a stop, that is.

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Gwen despises risks, despite it seeming like she's taken too many of them. Standing in front of an old abandoned building, she doesn't know whether this was a gamble or an act of cowardice. Maybe it's both.

She picks up the ringing phone from her cheap purse, takes a deep breath, and answers the call, "Hello?"

A man on the other side of the line replied, "This is Emilia, right? Emilia Bane?"

She clears her throat and says, "Indeed, Mr. Wright. Are you in the meeting place now, dear? I've bought them on the way."

The added sultry tone to her voice works, and in less than a second Gwen again remembers why she's doing this. 

"The slut fell for it," whispered Mr. "Wright" with a muffled, deeper voice, as if he's talking to another person. The sentence was not intended for Gwen to hear, she knows that, so once the man asks if she's still up for it, she answers casually, "Of course, I want to make this special."

He was making sure that she didn't hear anything when he asked if she was still up for it because he thought that if "Emilia" heard the muffled sentence, she would run away and go to the police. They thought that they scammed the teenage girl because teenage girls are easy to fool, right?

Too bad that Gwen was not a regular teenage girl, and that Emilia Bane who was supposedly easy to fool simply didn't exist. 

She knows that this man was no Mr. Wright, rather a dirty bastard who thought that he had the upper hand in matters. 

But thing is, he'll end up dead with a bullet in his head after this "session" is done. 

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Staring at the money in her hands, she knows she's never going to get out of the hell hole she put herself in. 

And then she thinks of Holly Golightly, a woman who looks for a man to marry with a bank account bigger than the U.S.A's population. Who wanted to be free but instead locked herself in a cage she built herself.

She thinks that maybe, just maybe, that she'll also have a Fred.

Oh what a dream.

Of course it's impossible, since not only does Gwen have money in her hands, she also has blood in it.

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NOTE:

The story will start off a little bit dark, but unlike other stories, it is to be more light-hearted with humour the further we go into Tempesto and Gwendolyn's story. 

( Also please don't give up on me, if someone is reading this )

( breakfast at tiffany's tho )

xoxo, cal