Welcome to Gang Life

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" I don't know how to say this but we're part of a..." Liam begins.

" Gang," I finish.

They all look at each other startled.

" How did you know?" Elijah asks.

" I saw Derek about to kill a guy and Ace told me," I reply.

Derek chokes on the glass of whine he's drinking and everyone looks around waiting for Derek's reaction. Did I say something wrong?

" How do you know about that?" Derek asks clenching his jaw.

" I was there duh. Jake came over to where I was working and told me that you guys wanted to see me but I wanted to go back to my place to take a nap so I took a nap and after we headed here in which I saw two guys laying on the floor...dead and you were about to kill another one," I rant.

Everyone just stares at me blankly before wearily looking towards Derek who's glaring daggers at Jake.

" Jake..." Derek warns.

Jake puts his hand up in surrender.

" I didn't know what was happening no one told me. After I saw what was going on I tried to make her leave...but she wouldn't budge," Jake says.

Derek clenches his fist and breathes out muttering random curse words under his breath. I swear to god I'm exactly like Derek come to think of it. Is that a good thing?

" So you guys were saying,"

" Yeah um we're part of a gang called Ivory Skull. Derek's the leader while Jakes second in command and Elijah's third in command. I deal with systematic tracking and deals with other gangs, Mason deals with the manufacturing of weapons, and Leo deals with the calculations of our gang so the number of weapons and supplies," Liam starts.

Wow so on top of their day jobs they manage to do all of this. That just makes me feel shitty because I'm doing absolutely nothing.

" Our grandfather Avorio created the gang, but a rival gang member smashed his skull in hence the name Ivory Skull," Leo continues.

" Wait seriously that's really fucking cool...never mind continue," I say realizing what I said might've not been the most appropriate.

" Our gang deals with drugs, weapons, prostitutes, assassinations..." Mason goes on.

" Wait assassinations?" I cut him off.

" Yeah why?" Mason asks.

My palms begin to sweat and I take a deep breath.

They can't know.

You just choose to not tell them. They can know, but they'll try to kill you right after they find out.

That's why they can't know.

Well it's pretty obvious now.

Please shut up.

" No reason," I reply.

" Like Mason was saying our gang keeps the economy of the U.S intact believe it or not. If other gangs and us weren't here then everything would go to shit," Jake continues on.

" And that's pretty much it," Elijah says.

I stay quiet and eye them all. Their gang from what I gathered is the 2nd most powerful gang in the U.S. Ivory Skull. I've heard of them before when I was...dealing with stuff. I've met some of their members and let's just say it didn't end very well.

" Okay," I say.

They all let out a sigh of relief. Why is everyone expecting some type of meltdown from me. I don't think it's that big of a deal.

" Well there is one little problem," Jake starts.

" When is there not a problem?" I ask looking up towards the ceiling.

" The gangs know that she's your sister so hypothetically if one gang wasn't too fond of us they could hurt April," Jake starts.

Everyone soon starts talking over one another about what to do. Liam and Leo are saying to let them train me to become part of the gang. While Derek and Mason are saying no fucking way because it'll be too dangerous for me.

They seriously don't know what I'm capable of do they. Then again know one does. I'm broken beyond compare. I don't even want to be in this life anymore. Do I? Liam and them are amazing and I like hanging out with them. I have good friends and a good career ahead of me. Why do I feel like I'm drowning every second of everyday? Why do I care what people think of me?

" SHUT UP!" I shout.

They all quiet down and look towards me.

" I don't care if I'm part of the gang or not. But, if I'm your sister I think other people would expect me to take part in the gang like go to meetings with other gangs where I'm there to uphold your guy's stupid family name. Also I can defend myself," I say

Everyone gets quiet and silence engulfs the whole room.

" Fine. You'll go to meetings and such we have with other gangs we'll show you the ins and outs of gang business. Also on Saturday come for training we'll
see how well you can defend yourself," Derek says.

I nod my head. I want to burst out laughing honestly. I could take them out in less then 20 seconds. They don't know that though. So come Saturday they're gonna be so fucking shocked when
I'm better then them. Strangely that's a very weird thing to be proud of but hey it's fine. I'm very stubborn and full of myself, but I find that necessary in this world. God I'm becoming that annoying character that thinks they're better then everyone else.

RING RING.

I take my phone out of my pocket and press my phone to my ear.

" Yea who is it?...yes this is April García...why what happened...oh my god,"

I drop my phone and run out of their house as fast as possible.

They can't be.

They can't be.

But they are.