Unpolished

Sparklers

Chapter Twelve

Sparklers

(Playlist – Escape [Radio Edit] 3LAU)

Thank you everyone for sticking with me so far. Again, thank you Jennifer for being such a fast, efficient beta. Thank you Patricia for keeping me going even though I been a bad patient while sick. And thank you Shana for being so uplifting when I have felt so down and unwanted lately. <3  

Vance's POV:

"Dio mio! You told me what was going on as far as people following you, Owen. But this? This?! You should have dropped the job and gone straight to the council as soon as you detected any danger." We were crowded in Nathan's living room. Kota and Victor were working with Corey trying to follow video feed as to where Sean could have been taken. Nathan had the video on watching Luke, Marco, and Jade. I on the other hand was livid. "Come osa mettere qualsiasi membro del team, i nostri fratelli, in tale pericolo." I threw my hands in the air as I ranted. I didn't care whether he understood what I said or not.

I heard Isaac speaking, I guess he was playing translator. Owen stood and came over to me. When I looked up at him, all of the fight left me. He looked miserable. Sean was his best friend. They had done absolutely everything together. I couldn't imagine how he was feeling right now.

"Vance, I would never intentionally put any one of our brothers purposefully in danger. But please understand that there are reasons that I have not left this place yet. We have one reason in particular." He eyed the girl sitting in Nathan's lap.

"Just spit it out, Owen. Now is not the time for games or secrets. Sean is missing! The assistant principal from the school we are now at has been dealing drugs, and has been raping Jade, and probably others for years, not to mention the fact that he ordered a hit on your girl over there by another student! Jade!" My hands were flying all over the place as I yelled.

"Just focus on your task, and we'll focus on ours."

I got right up in his face. There was no way I was going to hold back. "There is no ours and yours anymore. This is all ours!" I quickly turned around and walked away before I punched the man.

"Hey! We found something!" Victor yelled. "Corey, see if you can get a clearer picture on the face." Corey hit a few more buttons. "That's good."

"Who is that? I've never seen either of them." Isaac questioned.

Owen kept a wide berth from me, but looked closely at the computer. "That's because they were not at school today. That is Mr. William, and his best friend Rocky."

"Why would they kidnap Sean?" I looked closer at the screen.

Nathan had jumped up to join us around the computer. "What's Rocky doing with his hands?"

He was looking directly at the screen with a real mean mug. His left hand was open, palm up, while his right hand was making a fist coming right down onto the open palm.

"It's sign language." Kota stated. "It's sign language for help."

Isaac gave Kota a funny look. "He looks awfully mad to be asking for help, Kota."

"Isaac, trust me. He is asking for help. They didn't stage the kidnapping. Someone else did."

"I think he is saying they'll be back for more." Isaac was not sold on the whole sign language theory. I wasn't either. Regardless, this wasn't the last we would hear or see from them, I was sure.