What I Never Told You

Chapter 6: Play Nice.

My first stop is to Josh, knowing that Macy, David, Liam, and Clara will be with him or not too far from him. When I don't find them in their normal places I go to Jem, maybe I can figure out where they are once I get done with Jem. I get to where he works and walk in. When I walk in I see everyone there, staring at me. I raise an eyebrow and look at them, wondering what they are all doing in here.

"Well... I should fill you all in on what is going on."

I quickly tell them about the meeting before leaving to find Cyril. So far, there are no problems. That will change, it always does. Give it a few and I am sure something will pop up that we will have to stop. Nothing is ever perfect, life isn't perfect. This shouldn't be any different.

When I find him he frowns a little before dragging me to the parking area, "We better get going."

After a moment we look back and make a run for it so we don't have to worry about anyone stopping us. We get to his motorcycle and I throw on my helmet as he gets on. I get on behind him and hold onto him as he heads to the exit. When we get out I smile as I look at the sunny area in front of me. With glances behind us, I make sure that no one that I know is following us. When we get to the Little Cafe Cyril parks and I get off, taking my helmet off.

I go to walk past Cyril but he grabs my arm and blocks the view in front of me, "Play nice."

I look up at him, "I will."

Before he lets me go he reaches behind me and takes my gun, "You can get it back when we are done."

I watch him put it in the back of his pants with a small frown on my face, "I wasn't going to use it anyways."

"Good, I would hate to have a scene that would get us in trouble."

He lets go and I fix my denim jacket before following him. We walk to a table with someone reading the newspaper. When we sit down she lowers it and smiles at Cyril before looking at me. Her smile falls for a moment, coming back as a smirk. She pushes her sunglasses down her nose and looks at me over the top of them. I keep my face emotionless as I stare back at her.

"Hayden. I missed you, it has been a while."

I stare back into her eyes, "Feeling isn't mutual."

She frowns before a menacing smirk appears on her face, "Isn't your birthday tomorrow? Tell Madison I said hi."

I clench my fists as I move my jaw. I wonder if I could punch her before Cyril stops me. I highly doubt it, he is too close to me and would stop me before I could even lift my arm up. I look at the knife in the folded napkin in front of me. Cyril clears his throat, shifting in his seat and moving the knife and napkin away from me.

"Nikole, can you help us?"

She looks back at Cyril, "I don't see why not... I do owe you after all. How many are going?"

"Eight total," I watch people slowly leave and smile.

"You want to put eight lives on the line just to find this person? Did you-"

I get up and pin her to the ground, "How much did you pay to get people to leave?"

She looks up at me, "Enough for it to be worth the little fight."

Before I can do anything I am pulled off of her and thrown over Cyril's shoulder, "I will expect to leave tonight. Goodbye Nikole."

I hit his back, "Put. Me. Down!"

"I should have just left you behind."

He puts me down and I slap his arm, "She planned it, it was fair."