Gangs, Love and War

chapter 20 : what the fuck??

I walk into the school hallways heading straight to my locker. I wasn't willing to talk to anyone today, well except Maddy of course.

As I'm walking I notice a lot of people staring at me. I mean I know I'm sexy as fuck but seriously .

I walk to my designated locker for the year to find Maddy leaning against it typing away, apparently she met a really nice guy last night who's name is apparently  Justin who is apparently in my gang . Ok I've used so many 'apparentlies' in that sentence it should be illegal.

"Hey babe"  I say as I open my locker which is next to her head.

" Hey bab-omg Jenn who marked you . Omg who did you sleep with- omg Jenn tell me you didn't sleep with a complete stranger and they marked you." She says all in one breath

" Wait what do you you mean marked me and is it that obvious that my thighs hurt?" I say while taking out my books for the first three lessons.

" Babe didn't you see your neck this mor- you know what let's go to the bathroom and fix this ." She said while motioning to my neck.

By now I was completely and utterly confused. As we made our way to the second floor bathroom I received scared, shocked and horrified stares from people.

We reached the bathroom and I watched Maddy as she checked all the stalls to make sure no one was in at the moment.

After her investigation she turned to me with a look that reminded me of the look Cassidy, my childhood best friend , gave me when I ' accidentally' killed her cat.

" Ok Jenn I want you to turn around and look at the mirror Very very slowly. I was confused but I trusted Maddy so I did as I was told.

What I saw next horrified me. For only one reason. As I looked in the mirror there were redish-pinkish marks all over my neck. I know what you're thinking ' it's just hickies' but these were no ordinary hickies' . These were gangleader hickies'.

This is a religion passed on from male gangleader to male gangleader. This was to 'mark' thier women in order to let everyone know that thier taken and if you so lay an eye on them you're dead.

But that's not the terrifying part of it. No. The female that gets marked has to marry that gangleader in the future .

You see for every gang has thier own ' logo' the Black Assassin's have an 'X' . The dead roses have five consecutive hickies' in a line and the Serpents' have a circle.

The one on my neck is a circle. It's bad enough that we're in war with them but because I'm a gang leader our gangs, The Black Assassin's and The Serpents', have to be joined to form one gang.

I slowly turn to face my best friend to see her with tears in her eyes.

"Jenn who did you sleep with yesterday?" She asks her voice cracking a little.

"R-Ryder." I stutter . Realisation comes to me that means Ryder is a gangleader. Not just any gangleader but the Serpents'. This is bad.

"Maddy this is bad this is really bad. This means that Ryder is a gangleader to not just any gang The Serpents'. Maddy what am I going to do?" I ramble.

Maddy looks at me with a confused look.

"How did you know that's the Serpents' logo?"

I forgot that she didn't know I was a gangleader . Now I have to kill or tell her. I looked at her almost as if wishing for her to forget that those words came out of my mouth.

At that point I decide to tell her. So I did I told her everything from Xavier, my parents, my gang and my uncle's gang and most importantly about her being in it.

"Oh I'm so sorry babe for not telling you earlier. I'm sorry. " She said while applying my mascara, I guess I was crying because it was in black lines running down my cheeks.

After the bell rang signalling that the first lesson has begun we stood up and head to the Drama room.

Which I share with Ryder .yay me!( Note the sarcasm)