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Chapter 22

I slowly made my way towards the back door, trying my hardest not to make any noise. I peeked over to the back door to see a male figure dragging someone else's body through the door.

"Babe, I'm going to check over here to see if I see him." I heard a feminine voice getting closer and closer to me until..

"I—" Before she could finish, I quickly wrapped both arms around her, one around her torso and the other around her mouth, so that she was restrained and could not speak.

"We can do this easily, or we can make this complicated" I say, waving the gun while trying not to move my arms. "What's it gonna be?"

"Ah! Bitch!" I shook the hand that was once covering her mouth, feeling the lingering stings of her bite.

"You tell me" she said, turning around, an evil smile plastered across her face. I was finally able to see her face up close and a million images began to flash in my mind.

Images of her as a child when my parents first bring her home, us chasing each other around the house as children, us fighting each other, our parents yelling at us to sit down and relax, us being at my aunts house when we got the news of my parents' death, us being placed into foster care when my aunt decided she didn't want to take care of us, and finally, us being separated.

Though only a few seconds had passed, each image seemed to take its time, playing vividly through my mind before transitioning to the next.

It'd been years since I'd seen her and she was much older looking now. She had definitely matured a lot as far as her looks and the way she sounded; I guess that's why I didn't immediately recognize her.

"A-Adeline..it's...y-y-you" I struggled to get the words out, not even realizing that I had started crying.

At one point, she had been the only piece of my old life I had left and when I was put out of the system, I had no way of taking her with me at which point I felt like I had nothing or no one.

Sure, I had my friend, but that relationship had always been rocky and as soon as I was able to move out, I did.

I didn't know how I could have been so stupid. All of the signs were there, but I guess at this point in my life, I had been so convinced that she was lost forever that I partially erased her from my memory. I was used to be alone by now anyways.

Adeline stood in front of me, the same evil smile remaining on her face, seeming unmoved by my reaction to seeing her.

"In the flesh" she laughed. "For years, I'd waited for you to come to my rescue, to look for me, find me. I even ran away a few times in search for you, but none of it helped. Thank god I was placed with some decent people at last, at least one of them was. My foster brother was a fag." She paused and laughed to herself for a second.

"That's beside the point. My dad was a pretty nice guy. I guess you could say I became a daddy's girl. He had become the only important person in my life with you going AWOL and all. He took me under his wing and taught me everything there was to this little game you two play.

"You know, you were better off just letting him lead the coke market. I mean, he's smarter, more experienced, and he had all of the resources. But you just had to jump in, prove a point I guess. You should've known though, my dad was not one to mess with.

"You wouldn't believe that I actually jumped at the chance to bring you down. With all of the resentment I was feeling, it was a lot easier than you might think. It was even easier to play this game for us, especially with an inside man."

"That's right" I heard SB's voice from behind me. I couldn't see his face, but I knew he was smiling as well.

As Adeline spoke, I hadn't moved the entire time. I instead stood there dumbfounded, taking up everything that she had said. I hadn't even realized that I'd dropped my gun, but I didn't even attempt to go for it.

Above all of the things I was feeling at that very moment, I felt dissatisfied with myself for having let my baby sister down.

Part of me knew that I should be feeling betrayed that my own sister would turn on me like she did, but I couldn't help the feeling of dismay that came with feeling like all of this was my fault and that I had let her and my parents down.

"You know, you're not as smart as I thought" SB continued. "Why did you think I took things so lightly when WT had got shot or why did you think he was the only one shot? Funny story actually; I was the one who shot him. I set it all up.

"His father's a pretty selfish guy. As much money as he has, he refused to share it with others, even his family. He made it on his own, so he figured, why couldn't they? It didn't make it better that his own son went against his wishes and even went as far as working for his enemy to do so.

"You see, none of this was an accident. It quite honestly could've been done, but why not let you have your little fun? We'd been watching you and even let you get here first to think you had the upper hand, but we have what makes you most vulnerable."

I watched from my peripheral as his hand reached to the side of me, pointing toward Adeline. Her smile had faded into a smirk, but I knew that she was getting a kick out of this. I just didn't know she had it in her to be so evil.

At this point, I was completely infuriated. I had never wanted this life, but it had been something I felt I had to do.

I jumped at the chance to make a way for myself so that I'd never have to depend on anyone else again, but it turned into something that it was never supposed to be and was turning the only people I ever loved and trusted against me.

In a fit of rage, I reached and grabbed SB's arm, pulling him in a closer range and using my free hand to elbow him in his mouth.

I heard his gun fall as well as he used the hand he was holding it with to grab his mouth. I delivered a few jabs to his stomach and chest repeatedly, with all of the strength in my body.

I watch as he grew weaker and winced with each hit. It was as if I was putting the anger from both what he had said and my own sister into each hit. I could never bring myself to hit her, so he was the next best thing.

"Stop! You're hurting him" I heard Adeline's voice and it actually caused me to pause my movements. She actually sounded as if she were concerned.

I released SB and turned around to face her, a mocking frown covering her face. The frown slowly turned into a grimace before she spoke her next words. "You fags are so weak and gullible."

On cue, SB placed me in a headlock and began to squeeze harder and harder. He was bigger than me, so it was kind of hard to escape his grasp. I clawed at his arm, hoping his grip would loosen so that I could get some air, but it didn't work.

"You hit like a bitch" I felt his hot breath against my ear. "Once we find your little boyfriend, maybe we can have a little ménage à trois. WT can even join if he'd like."

I know longer felt anger, but simply sorrow and regret. Sorrow for everything that I had gotten Will and Terrance in and regret that it had come to this in the first place. At this very moment, I felt helpless. I no longer put up a fight and instead hoped that Terrance was okay.

He was the last thing on my mind before everything went black.

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