The City That Never Sleeps ||h.s|| ON HOLD

two.

Harry.

I sighed after a long night of selling pot to some dumbass kids, and here I was sitting in the car with Zach who wouldn't shut up.

"Say, Harry... when do I get to do this on my own?" Zach mutters as I stared out the window.

I muttered, "not anytime soon mate."

"Whatever man," he grumbles, he knew my answer yet he still asked hoping I was stupid or something.

Zach stayed silent for the rest of the ride for the most part until the sweet silence was interrupted by the ring tone of my cellphone and I see a familiar name appear on the screen.

"Lei, what a lovely surprise," I smirk.

I hear a snort of the other side, "yeah Harry, hey. You done for the night?"

I smirked, "my dear Leila,  as charming as ever. But to answer your question, yes, just finished with Zach"

"Great bring some herbs with you," she sighs.

"Long day huh?"

"No idea, saw the hottest girl though but I didn't nail," I laugh, Leila always had a way with girls.

"I'll bring it in an hour, then you can tell me about this girl." I hung up and looked over Zach and he just started grumbling more knowing what I was bound to say, he already turns right leading towards the direction of my apartment to get what we needed for the night. It didn't take long for us to get to my apartment as Zach hollers to wait in the car, I quickly rushed up the stairs as I open the door of my shitty apartment  instantly say the mess.

"Shit," I say under my breath. I stumbled over stuff all over the floor and I rushed to my room praying they didn't find my giant stash. I swing the door open when I see what seemed like a girl. "What the hell!" I shout and take a step forward and saw her head whip and she was out the window and into the night. I ran towards the window where I see another car racing down the street and I quickly rushed around the room to find they took anything and everything, and what I feared, my stash.

I ran back outside where I saw Zach standing next to the car looking at the street, "hey Harry,  I just some girl run and jet the hell out of here."

I grabbed Zach's collar and glared, "did you  see what she looked like?"

He shakes his head with wide eyes, "No man, it's too dark."

I grasped his collar tighter, "did you see the kind of car she was in?"

"Harry let go man!" He raises his voice.

"Zach!" I demand.

"Some beat up black truck!" He shouts.

I let go of his collar and I ball my hands into fists and I look back at Zach who watched my carefully,  "we need to go to Leila's."

Zach rolls his eyes and hops into the car waiting for me to get in. I hop in as I try to hold in ever bit of my anger as Zach drives like a goddammit maniac, I just think he wasn't taking any chances with me tonight as he hurried along the streets to Leila's place. We pulled to little homes in the area that were much older than anyone in this city. I didn't even wait for Zach to fully stop as I rushed out and into Leila's house. Leila was sitting on the couch with a beer on her hand with a bra and shorts. 

"Finally,  I really need a blunt," she doesn't seem to mind my bursting in.

I walked over to the couch and I slumped on the couch and I looked at her, I calmly tried to ask, "what do you know of the state's best thieves? "

Her eyes quickly move from the TV to me and her mouth drops, "you did not get robbed?"

"Leila!" I snapped and I stood back up. "What do you know!"

She laughs, "god damn who knew someone is crazy enough to steal from you?"

Zach strolls in and mutters, "careful Lei, he's in a mood."

I ignore Zach's comment and I explain, "they took some valuable shit, even all the plants I had."

"Ah man my weed?" Clearly Leila had one too many beers. 

"You didn't answer my question," I was losing patience.

"Right," she sat up. "well I  am aware it's like some type of cult shit, it's a pretty small underground group of weirdos."

"Know anything about a girl in this group?" Zach asks.

Leila raises an eyebrow and shakes her head as she chuckles, "Harry you were robbed my the king of the underground."

"King? It's a girl," I fold my arms. "Do you know who she is?"

"Oh trust me honey, she's the king," she takes a sip of her beer. "And no, she's good at what she does and her royal subjects won't ever snitch her out."

"What kind of shit did I get myself into?" Zach laughs.

"Can you find her?" I ask Leila.

She sighs and looks between me and Zach and pouts her lips, "well I don't have much of a choice, I'll find whatever I can about her."

"Good," I nod. 

"But..." Leila hums. "If she's hot, then you can't guarantee I'll say anything."

"Why's that?"

"Because either you or I will fall for that, let's be honest," she crosses her arms and then giggles. The thing was, she was right.

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Sorry if my chapters are short, they will be for a while until the story gets really going.  I'll update a bit more when I'm out of school I've just been trying to survive, so just hang in there. Thanks for reading. 

Love you all,
-E.x