Blood and Barbies

Meeting Him

The truck still had plenty of space. Flick and I were in the tailgate of a black pickup being transported. Looking at his face that close up made this mission feel so much more real. I had never been able to converse with him before now. All the information I had about him was from a thin dossier that I looked over every night. It was really not a lot of information. Cherry, Jade, and Lacey had compiled what they knew about him. Since Cherry is the leader of BnB she added the information about him that had to do with the how, what, whys and whens about him. For example, he was born in BnB nineteen years ago. His parents have retired from gang life since then so he has been living here on his own for the past five years. Since Jade was a spy recruited by BnB for BnB she could casually go up to him and ask him questions when socially appropriate without blowing her cover. Lacey works in the camera room so she knows when and where he is going places. Nothing was obviously helpful to me but you never know what will come in handy. I wish I had more information about PKT itself. I had gotten absolutely no information on that. None of my friends are from that gang so I can't ask them about it and I can't just go up to a stranger and ask them, but there is a poster in the locker that lists all the bigger gangs such as us, Sunset, Arrow, (add more), and PKT. Each of the gangs listed has a picture of someone from the gang, and PKT showed someone wearing mismatch clothing and long brown hair. They were barefoot.

I had one duffle bag with me, if I had truly packed all my things, I would have four, but all my equipment would make me obvious. I had other ways to getting my stuff where it needs to be besides just bringing it with me. I packed the most conservative clothes I could find. I guess PTK is not known for being too frisky. That is all I really know. Flick had two bags. One was a suitcase and the other one was a backpack. His equipment must not be as conspicuous as mine is unless he is also planning on smuggling it through. I will have to be sent my chemical supplies later once I'm there. We had been on the road for ten hours now. Roads between gangs barely exist, they are really not traveled a lot since there is no reason other than trade and moving criminals to be using them. No one owns personal cars. You walk around your territory, or you have a bike. We had made two stops to use a bathroom along the way, nothing luxurious. It's not like there are gas stations to use. The stars shone brightly over the 2 AM morning . Flick slept on the rigid floor without anything over or under him. That could not be comfortable. We had not talked the whole trip so far. Jade told me to let him be the first one to talk, so I have been just waiting. I looked up at the stars for a few minutes before falling asleep on the opposite side of the truck bed.

***

A door slam woke me up. When I opened my eyes, flick was staring at me. He sat on his suitcase with his hands in his lap, folded. I felt uncomfortable; how long was he watching me for? He looked away the second I caught him staring though. I noticed that we were still surrounded by forest as before. I really felt apathetic towards him. I mean, it is kind of bad to trick someone, but I have a good cause. Plus he doesn't know that I know that he is spy. He's also lying to me because he won't tell me he's a spy either. I can not trust him, so he should not trust me.

The mexican boy that was driving us, got out and rounded the corner to the back.

"I am going to use the bathroom, I will be back" he informed us. He was younger than us, maybe fifteen. He must be getting a lot of points for handling criminals between gangs. I let the boy zip tie me to my luggage after he did the same to flick. Conveniently, I had the sudden urge to rub my eyes because I had slept with my baby blue contacts in. There better be stores at PKT, I don't want to run out of beauty supplies. I am not going to change my routine for this new gang, that's asking way too much.

Flick yawned- maybe he had not been awake for too long before I had woken up. Flick had shaggy, dirty blonde, short hair and huge brown eyes with long black eyelashes. He had dark brown fleeky eyebrows and full lips. I had not noticed before how attractive he was. Then he broke the silence, interrupting my little investigation.