Sought and Snatched

Chapter 17

Luna's P.O.V

Five years ago...

When we got inside of Dominoes I sighed as the smell of warm pizza and pepperoni filled my nose. Venus giggled. "I swear you love food more than anything."

I pouted my lips. "Not true. I love you more than anything." Venus blushed and put a stray of her strawberry blonde hair behind her ear. I smiled. Venus never blushed or got embarrassed.

At least not in front of me.

She took my hand and moved me up the line. "Hi we would like a medium pizza with pepperoni, sausage, onions, mushrooms, green bell peppers and make sure-"

"It's flat crust" Venus and I said in unison. We looked at each other. "You remembered?"

She nudged my shoulder playfully. "Of course I did. It's your favorite." A faint blush spread to my cheeks.

"Are you blushing?" Venus teased.

"No" I lied. I turned my face away from her. My face already turning into a crimson red.

She pulled me closer and whispered in my ear. "I don't mind. I think it's cute."

Crap.

If my face was red before it was definitely even redder now. Who just says stuff like that to someone?!

Venus left go of my hand to grab our food and I left out a breath I didn't know I was holding. I wiped my hands on my jeans. They were sweaty.

"Ready?" Venus said to me as she grabbed my hand. "Yeah."

When we walked out there were two guys out smoking.

The taller, muscular one kept staring at us. He nudged his shorter stubby friend next to him. He lifted his head and smiled as we made eye contact. I turned away quickly and pulled Venus along so we could pick up our pace.

My house was literally two blocks away. We could make it. I turned around and noticed they were following us. "Luna..."

"I know. Come on." We were practically jogging now.

"Hey, where do you two beautiful girls think you're going."

What the heck? How did he end up in front of us?

"Yeah. We're nice people. We just wanted to chat." The short stubby one said as he appeared next to Venus. I pulled her closer to me.

"We...Wed-don't m-mean a-any harm." Venus stuttered. I squeezed her hand.

"Yeah, we just want to go home and eat some food. So if you excuse-" The taller one looked down on me and poked me in the chest.

"You two aren't going anywhere." He grinned flashing his yellow teeth that were covered in some kind of black tar.

Venus's grip on my hand loosened.

Uh oh.

She walked up to the guy and looked him straight in the face. Her blue eyes challenging him. I gulped. "Look. We asked nicely and I don't like repeating myself. So move." The guy laughed and he pushed her.

Venus stumbled but didn't fall. Furious, she slapped him. I didn't like where this was going.

His face barely moved but his cheek was turning red and a trickle of blood flowed down it. Venus probably cut him from one of her rings.

He wiped the blood off his cheek and gritted his teeth. "You're going to pay for that bitch."

Before Venus could make a move he punched her in the face and she fell to the floor with a thud. The pizza box she was holding goes flying in the air.