Waking up on a Friday morning for school would normally give me a sense of relief - not because of school by the way but because a) I've literally survived another week.... and b) It's nearly the weekend so soon I'll have a reasonable excuse for not being at school. However today I felt slightly anxious because tonight is the night I plan to break into the King Cobras gang house, this means I only have one more day to mentally prepare myself for the mission.
I usually wake up at about 5:00, that's if I even go to sleep in the first place... Either way I always have plenty of time to get ready for school without having to rush. Today I woke up at the normal time and dragged my half asleep body to the shower, I washed myself with my favourite sweet peach tea body wash which helped wake me up, slowly.... very slowly. After my shower I decided to get dressed in a particularly hot outfit, coz ya know if I'm gonna die this weekend I might as well look good!
Then I trudged down to my kitchen where I heated up a cookies and cream poptart, sat at the island on a bar stool and took a bight out of the warm treat. "Fuck" I muttered in the middle of a full mouth, everything rides on this mission being successful and if I fail? Well I don't even want to imagine what will happen... Let's just say that if this mission works out then I'll be one step closer to taking down the Vicious, one step closer to getting revenge on my family's murderers....
After hearing the rumble of my sexy beast (sorry, my motorbike), I took a deep breath and set off for school. While cruising down the busy New York roads, I felt the wind caress my blonde locks and the morning sun's rays warm my back. This moment of delight was cut short as while I parked up I realised I was being watched. I turned my head and I caught sight of Cole and his friends watching my every move. Like seriously dude? I know I'm hot and all that shit but give a girl some space!
Thankfully I managed to carry on with my day without any more unexpected run-ins with the boys until lunch break when I bumped right into them, "Well hello there boo!" I spoke to Cole in a particularly annoying nasally voice. "For fucks sake quit with the Stacy voice!" he just about screamed back to me. I laughed at his pained face, he'd obviously gotten his fair share of Stacy. "Stop fucking laughing at him bitch! God you're insufferable!" Alex obviously had a short temper and felt the need to speak for Cole himself, "Dude, no offence but a bitch got places to be soooo bye!" With all I needed to say said, I spun around and tried to leave. Key word tried. Shit, I cringed at the awkwardness of the exchange, but seriously I tried to leave and something stopped me. More like someone. To be more accurate an idiot by the name of Cole.
He grabbed me tightly by my bicep and his eyes widened slightly, "Fuck what are you made of?" I laughed at his reaction to my built arms. "Pure muscle babes." I smirked widely as all three men rolled their eyes. "Maybe if you keep rolling your eyes you'll find a brain back there!" Sorry I had to, it was the perfect time and place. "Jeez, do you have to have an answer for everything? Even when something doesn't necessarily even need one!?" This time Ben spoke to me, I only smirked back, again. Then I remembered I was supposed to be leaving so I spun around and a lot of strain was put against Cole's shoulder. This resulted in him letting go of me immediately, as I ran to my next class I heard Cole shout after me, "I will figure you out Violet Cartel..."
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After a whole day of school the last thing I want to be doing was breaking into a dangerous gang house, but ya know I must've been a fucked up bitch in my last life coz that's exactly what I'm currently doing. At this moment I'm waiting outside two black gates for the guards to change shifts, I'll have about a 45 second gap between the old guards leaving and the new guards arriving for their next shift. In this short period of time I need to vault over the gates while staying in the blind spots of both security cameras set up to spot what comes inside the gates and what goes out. Just a day in the life of Violet Cartel! Finally after waiting 25 minutes I saw my opening and moved positions as planned. Now I'm over the gate I have 3 minutes and 26 seconds to run half the perimeter of the compound and climb into an unused laundry chute. That may seem simple but take into account all the guards and the security cameras then it becomes a seriously choreographed part to the mission that must be executed perfectly. After 3 minutes and 12 seconds I found myself underneath a dusty laundry chute as planned. After a moment of stillness my heart skipped a beat; I must have miscounted or planned the timings wrong because the sound of heavy footsteps can just be heard over the dense sound of the city night. "Shit this is wrong.." I whispered quietly, I'll just have to take a few seconds off my original time limit. As the foot steps came closer I realised how close I'd be cutting this, I struggled up the creaky pipes connected to the brick wall then crawled into the tight and dark space where I eventually sat down breathless.
About a decade ago the house partly relied on an intricate system of ventilation shafts running above ceilings for thermal comfort. Nowadays radiators are used to keep the place warm and these large ventilation shafts have just been abandoned. They're just big enough to squeeze my body through so that's how I plan on making my way inside and around unnoticed. The old laundry chute is connected to one of the ventilation shafts so now all I have to do is find the opening, get through and then find the main office on the east wing where the information should be. After 20 seconds of awkward crawling up the laundry chute and using weird contortionist skills I never knew I had, I found the opening to the ventilation shaft. Thinking back to the hours I spent studying this labyrinth of tunnels, I managed to work out the relatively long route I need to take. It consists of many lefts and rights, a few drops downwards and then a few climbs upwards, just like a real life game of snakes and ladders: eventually I should end up above the main office where the dealing information is kept. Then I'll have to find a way to open a hole in the ceiling, drop down to the ground and retrieve the info. Retracing my steps and escaping out of the compound is a different story all together but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
After adding several bruises and cuts to the patchwork I have already, I peered through a metal grate and I saw my destination-the X on my treasure map. Using the palm of my leather gloved hand, I pulled the grate up then carefully placed it beside me. Then I dropped down silently to the luxuriously carpeted ground where I paused for a second to catch my breath. I didn't however catch my breath I just held it, "Fuck what is that noise... Oh shit its footsteps... Fuck its coming to the door!" Yea... not part of the plan. Quickly, to the sound of the door unlocking, I grabbed a chair and used it to reach the ceiling opening where I came down from. I grabbed the sides of the opening like I was pulling myself up on a pull up bar...
I was half hidden in the ventilation shaft when the gravelly sound of a vaguely familiar voice stopped me altogether, "Stop there before I fill your ass with bullets." Yea safe to say I didn't move much after that threat, especially with my butt exposed like that, and no protection other than my fists and feet... I packed for stealth not combat, so fucking stupid. I calmly dropped back to the ground, dodging the chair on the way, and turned to look at the person who caught me red handed. I could no longer doubt my suspicions that the bad boys of South High had something to do with the King Cobras Gang.....
"V?!" he said.
"Hey Cole...." I said.
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