CHAPTER 1

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Prologue....

"It's time for you to learn the family business. I finally talked your mama ass into it." My dad Mickey said to me when he came into my bedroom. I looked up to him with my big brown eyes and hung on to every word that he said. I worship the ground that he walk on and would do whatever it was he wanted me to do. He sat on the bed and grabbed my hand.

"I know that you're only 10 years old Serenity. If it was up to me we would have done this a long time ago. Oh well we will just have to make up for lost time. I that you can do that. Right baby?"

"Yes sir. I am ready to show you that I am a big girl. I been told mama to stop babying me."

"Do you know what it is that I do for a living?"

I really didn't what he did but I had a feeling that it wasn't anything good. Every time dad did bring up his job mama would always send me to my room. My brothers had to know though because they always stayed in the room.

Mama always said that I didn't need to worry about those things. She just didn't know that it made me feel left out. It make me feel like I wasn't wanted. So to hear my dad say that he wanted me to join the business made so excited. I didn't care what is was rhat he wanted me to do but in was ready to do it.

"No daddy I don't know. What it is you do?"

" It's what we going to do." My dad said reaching in his pocket and placing a pink gun into my hands. My hands started to shake from the weight of the gun.

"Don't be sacred baby girl. This here is your new friend. She won't hurt nobody unless you tell her to. Get use to her weight. That's right baby girl get use to the feel of her in your hands. Hold her everyday. I want you to sleep with her. Where you go she goes too. Ok."

I shook my head yes as I bounced the gun from one hand to the other.

"I am going to give you a couple of days to get use to her being in your hand. You see this here clip u pull that when you are ready to shoot. You always make sure that the safety is on when your handling her okay."

"Yes daddy" I said as I watched him walking out of my room. I stood up and held the gun with my finger on the trigger. Was it wrong that I liked the feeling of holding my new friend.

It's been four days since my dad came to my give me the new about joing the family business. I kept my friend with me like he asked. I was so used to her that I decided to name her Harmoni. Harmoni felt like the other half of me. I was starting to think that maybe my mom had made him change his mind.

I was sound asleep when I felt somebody pull me out the bed and cover my mouth. My eyes widen as my hear started beating out of chest. I tried to reach for my friend under my pillow but a strong hands pulled my arms behind my back. I let out a muffled scream from the pain.

"Lesson one baby girl. You have to sleep with one eye open." My hear started to slow down once I recognized my dad's voice. What the hell is going on? I wondered to myself.

"You sleep too hard. You was suppose to notice that I was in you room. We have a lot of work to do. We have sheltered you to much. Get dressed and come to the basement. Oh and bring your friend from under your pillow."

He said laughing letting go of my arms and untying the bandana from around my mouth. He walked out of my room. How in the hell did he know where my gun was?

I quickly got dressed, grabbed Harmoni, and ran downstairs to meet him. My brothers were there with him standing in the basement looking so serious waiting on me.

"Baby girl remember rhat what happens in this room stays in this room. Remember that we love you and that this is just part of the job."

Before I could answer or protect myself my oldest brother MJ slapped the shit out of me. What the hell. I have never been hit by anyone in my family. Shoot I have never been in a fight before. I grabbed my face shocked and looked up into his smiling face.

"Serenity look at me. He is not your brother right now. Right now No one in this room is family. Right now he want to hurt you. He wants to kill you. So it's you or him"

POW! My brother Angelo punched me in the mouth.

"You have to learn to anticipate a move. You have to see the move before your opponent makes it. Understand? Lesson 2 Blindness. Taking away that sense will heighten others." My dad said walking up to me and tying a bandana around my eyes.

"Now I want you to concentrate on our breathing. Try to pinpoint who is where. Your breathing always give you away. Slow your down. You will notice the change of breathing before someone makes a move to attack."

He said as I felt someone punch me in the stomach.it wasn't hard but hard enough for me to double over. An hour later my dad said that training was over for the night. I untied my blindfold and looked around at the empty basement. This is a hell of a way to spend summer vacation. What the hell have I gotten into.

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