Becoming the Bad Girl

Chapter 11

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The sun had already gone down when we stopped for gas at a deserted station. It was clear how everyone moved that we were all exhausted from driving around so much. Even I was getting tired of riding on the back of Raiden's motorcycle. My legs were cramping from being in the same position for hours and my back ached from leaning into him constantly. But thankfully it was warm out and not freezing. I never would have survived the freezing cold.

"Here, watch the pump." Raiden told me before turning away, "Draven!" he called.

Raiden and Draven walked away a little to talk privately. By the time they finished, Finn and I were done pumping gas and were ready to leave.

"Venus is going to take you with her and get a motel room," Raiden said when he walked in front of me. "We have some business-" he was cut off from Venus' scream of outrage.

"Absolutely not!" she said getting out of the car and facing Draven head-on. "You made me stay behind once and I am not staying behind for this!"

"But Scarlett-" Draven tried to say but Venus wasn't having his excuses tonight.

"Can go with us." She stated, "She knows enough as it is anyways. I am not going to sit in a motel room freaking myself out waiting for you show back up. We're going with. I will death grip myself to the seats. You'll have to rip them out before I agree to go."

"Don't ruin my car!" Raiden said in a mock horrified voice. It was his car? I didn't ask out loud because I didn't want to interrupt the argument by asking a stupid question.

"Venus this is too risky to bring Scarlett along. If something went wrong she could get hurt." Draven tried to reason.

I grit my teeth in annoyance that they were talking about as if I was a child; an invisible one at that. "I'll go," I said. All four of them turned to me. "I'll go with and I won't get in the way."

Venus had a satisfied smirk when she turned back to Draven, "See? She wants to go and I do too. We're going."

Draven turned to Raiden and silently asked for help. Raiden shrugged as he glanced at me. Draven groaned knowing he lost, "Fine. Get in the car."

Raiden turned to me as the others got in the car, "You sure you want to go?" he asked.

I nodded, "I'm not going to be an inconvenience. Besides Venus might start to hate me if she's stuck babysitting all the time."

A hint of a smile pulled at Raiden's lips but it was gone before it fully formed, "Okay." He said as he got on the bike.

We drove for a good twenty minutes before Raiden turned onto a dirt road. Thankfully he slowed down tremendously so dirt wasn't blown into our faces; that would have been a nightmare.

The next turn was into the forest that I had been hoping to avoid. The deeper in we went the more nervous I became. Maybe I shouldn't have come along. We could get murdered and no one would know where to look for us. The last they would think to look is a forest in the middle of nowhere in whatever state we were in.

The light ahead was our destination. I assumed so anyway because it was the only house I've seen for miles. The small cabin home looked to be in good shape. However the yard was littered with shrapnel wood pieces lying everywhere, beer cans spread around and chairs knocked over. It looked as if someone just had a party and hadn't cleaned up yet.

Both engines were shut off and Raiden got off the bike. "Stay here." He told me before walking to the front door. I looked over and found Draven standing next to the trunk of the car.

Moments later Raiden came walking back with a man who had to be in his late thirties maybe early forties. After that, the only thing I noticed about the man was the shotgun he was carrying with him as he followed behind Raiden.

When the two of them got to the car Draven opened the trunk and pulled a case out. Finn got out of the car and joined them. Venus got out as well but stayed there as she hung on the door observing the scene.

"Not as bad as you thought it would be is it?" she asked me. There was at least a five-foot gap between us making it easy to talk and not disturb the others.

I shrugged, "Besides the guy bringing a shotgun with him I guess not."

"It usually isn't." she responded, "The gun is for his own protection. There's one of him and five of us. You can ever be too careful."

"Do all three of them have to be there? Wouldn't that make him more paranoid?"

She shook her head, "More times than not, it's the person who's buying that tries to take over. They get to keep their money and steal free drugs. It's hardly ever the other way around. It ruins their reputation and their business. Draven weighs the product so the buyer knows they aren't being screwed over. Finn counts the money and then recounts it to be sure. Raiden has the faster reflexes so he surveys the area and watches the buyer so they don't try anything. It's because of their teamwork that we've never been robbed. Some have tried but once word started spreading that we knew exactly what we were doing they stopped. No one tried anything because they didn't want to be shot; or worse."

"Do you sell all kinds of drugs or just one particular one?" I asked truly curious.

"Usually we only sell pot. We know how to treat it and what's bad product and what's good. We have sold other stuff but it's usually already weighed and has a specific buyer. For those occasions, we just drop the product off and take the money."

"If you've done deals like this before why does Draven not want you tagging along?"

She hesitated, "There was a time when someone tried to rob us. We got away but I didn't leave unharmed. I got shot in my abdomen and Draven had to rush me to the ER. We made some bogus story about being jumped in an alleyway and they believed it. Ever since that, Draven worries about bringing me along because he doesn't want anything else to happen to me. I keep arguing with him because he expects me to stay behind knowing I'm only going to worry about if he got hurt or not. I wouldn't know and I wouldn't be able to do anything. Basically I use his own words against him." She joked.

Venus and Draven were an amazing couple in my opinion. I could clearly see they loved each other and the way they acted with each other I knew they would fight to the end to save one another.

"How long have you been together?" I asked.

"Three years. I was fifteen, he was sixteen. I had just turned fifteen actually and like I said before I hated Draven. He was an annoying cocky guy at the time; still is sometimes. We got together after he saved my life. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating I was only shot in the stomach but still." She said with a soft chuckle, "After that we transferred schools. Finn had already been attending there with Raiden so we stuck with them. The four of us have been close together ever since."

"If I remember, didn't you and Finn once have a thing?" I asked remembering the day Draven told him to shut it because he had the title of her boyfriend.

"I was friends with Finn when I hated Draven. We had been at a party and were pretty wasted. At the time we were bored and the next thing I know we're making out. It lasted a good hour before we laughed it off and started drinking again. So there was never a thing between us I guess, more like drunken actions." She finished with a chuckle.

Our attention was brought back to our current situation at the sound of the trunk closing. Finn and Draven walked around to get back in the car as Raiden spoke silently to the mysterious buyer.

The two shook hands before the man took off towards his house. Raiden walked over to me as Venus climbed back into the car.

"You okay?" he asked.

I nodded, "Yeah."

Nothing else was said as he threw his leg over and started up the bike. We drove away first with Draven following behind as we took off towards our next destination; another motel.