Checkmate

Gala part 1

I left Amodios property angry and annoyed and honestly it's been a blur since then.

After I left Amodios house I went into the nearest bar had a round of shots and something more and yet I was still not drunk. I must have been in there for hours and had thousands of dollars on my tab by now.

"You okay there missy?" The bartender asks me as I down another cup of hard liquor.

"Just keep it coming Fred! I'm not even close to drunk yet!" I down another and another and still nothing. The feeling I wanted, the freedom of being drunk wasn't coming fast enough.

I down another three shots when I see Alessandro's caller id show up on my phone...again. I reject the call and down another drink. He has called me thirteen times since I left and he won't stop leaving hundreds of messages.

"Miss that your boyfriend or something?" I feel the weight of the alcohol start to take affect.

"Yup! And he's a pain in my ass" I reject another call and down another drink.

"Alrighty then! That's enough! I'm cutting you off.. hey! Nobody serve this lady anymore drinks! You hear?!" He yells across the bar and everyone nods or yells back.

I step away from the bar and head outside. I find the nearest liquor shop and buy a large bottle of some kind of liquor. After purchasing the bottle I make my way back down the street and sit on a bench. I pop open the bottle and reject another call before taking a deep breathe and relishing in the silent street.

I take a swig and watch a black car drive up to the curb. It halts to a stop and four men walk out. All of them are wearing black suits and have a gun in their hands.

"Sure! Fight me when you think I'm drunk! Cowards" I spit at them and take another sip.

One by one they try to close in on me. I grab the first one I can reach. I grab his tie and tighten it throwing him to the ground. I hit the second on the head with my bottle and throw him into the third.. both of them falling over.

The fourth tries to shoot but misses and I knock the gun out of his hands. I put my right hand around his throat and lift him up in the air, his feet dangling. He makes a few choking sounds before I hear a gun shot ring through the air.

"Enough!" The man falls from my grasp gasping for air. I turn and see Alessandro holding a pistol raised in the air. You could still see the smoke coming from the gun.

"Madeline come with me?" He reaches for me but I smack his hand away.

"Leave me alone! I want to get drunk and just forget about everything! Why is that so much to ask of you people!" I yell at him when he tries to reach for me again.

The air still and I turn around looking for my bottle. "Look what you made me do! All this mess." I shake my head then shrug before sitting on the bench again.

Alessandro sits beside me cautiously, "you've been gone for two days.. please just talk to me.. we don't have to do it this way" he reaches for me again but before I can pull away I feel the prick of a needle in my neck.

My vision blurs and I try to keep from slipping into darkness.

"I'm sorry" I hear Alessandro mutter before I succumb to the drugs.

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I wake up to the sun shining directly in my face. I turn on my side and see that all the shades have been pulled up.

I roll into my back and look around the room. It's the room I was staying in with Amodio.

I ball my fist in the sheets and groan. I don't want to get up but I do. I close the shades and lay down. Not even a minute after they go back up blinding me once again with sunlight.