Deathly Deal (Sequel to Mechanic girl)

Chapter 2 : Sick joke?

The following day

Beep! Beep! Beep!

I groaned at the sound of the alarm. I stopped it and I got out from the bed, making my way lazily to the bathroom. I did a shower, then my routine. After that, I changed into black jeans and a black t-shirt with an underwear of the same color, and I put on my black Nike sneakers.
I looked at Luke who was sleeping peacefully and I took my phone from the nightstand and I went downstairs to the kitchen. I put some music on YouTube as I make myself a cup of coffee.

As I was mixing coffee with sugar, my mind kept thinking at that damn incident. It became a routine for me to do that.
I didn't know that I zoned out until the voice of May brought me to reality.

"Are you okay?", May asks.

"Yeah, yeah. Just lost in my thoughts", I say.

"About what? Oh, I want coffee too, please"

"Just the incident. Nothing new"

"Everything will be fine. Too much thinking about the incident can set your brain on fire, you know that?", she says as I chuckle at her words.  

"Thanks babe. I love you. Here's your coffee"

"Thank you and I love you too"

After we both finished our coffees, May wanted to go to shopping.

"Let's go, I will drop you at the mall and I will go to the garage", I say.

Next thing I did was letting May at the mall and my following stop was at the garage. When I arrived in front of it, I turned off the engine and I got out of the car. I blacked out all the negative thoughts and I opened the garage. I went to the phone to see if I have new requests.

*Zero messages*

Because I had nothing to do, I went to John's office.
Damn, what a mess, I don't remember John being a messy person. I started to clean and arrange the files, but one letter with my name on it catches my attention.

From John Wilson
To Alexis Carter

How the hell has this arrived here?
I opened it and I put my left hand on my mouth when I started to read the letter.

"Dear Alexis,
If you're reading this it means that I'm not alive anymore. I'm sorry, I should have let you know since you've stepped in my garage, which now is yours. Everything is on your name, you don't have to worry. Oh God, how bad I wanted to tell you the truth, but you were so happy when you showed up and my heart didn't let me to tell you. You are my nephew, Alexis, and the moving in Los Angeles wasn't by accident. My time is up.
Sweetheart don't let him getting in your mind. He will be playing with you. But most important thing : do what's right.
I trust you.

Sincerely,
John"

At this moment I started to cry. I cried so hard that I couldn't breathe anymore. I tried to stop by taking deep breaths. Next, I went to the bathroom, where I washed my face with cold water.

I came back and I put the rest of the files in order. While I was arranging them my phone started to ring. I looked at the ID caller and I saw that it was Eli who was calling me.

"Hey Eli. What's up?", I say sniffing my nose.

"Hey, when you're coming - wait, were you crying?"

"Yes, please come at the garage. Take the boys", I say.

"Sure thing sis", Eli says. 

"Thank you. Drive safe, please" , I say and I hung up.

Okay, so back to these files.

Couple of minutes later, while I was humming to a song from the band 1975, I heard some steps in the garage. I stopped the music and I got out of the office.

"Hey, what's wrong?", Luke comes in my way. Instead of saying anything I just showed him the letter and he showed it to the boys too. 

"Holy shit! Man, this is worse, way worse than we can expect it", Damien says. 

"Care to explain?", I asked confused. 

"John had an enemy that wanted him dead for a long time. John tried to negotiate with him and somehow he agreed with him. His name was Aaron, but he's dead. He died in a race couple of years ago"

"But there are chances of him being alive, right?", I asked. 

"Anything is possible", Elijah says. 

"We need to be more careful from now. If he's alive he can attack again", Ryan says. "There's a high chance that Aaron was the one who killed your parents"

"I swear if I see him, I'll kill him", I say. 

"Easy there, tiger. We aren't sure one hundred percent of that", Luke says.

"But we could be. Look, this is the message that I received last night", I say and I show him the message. 

"You're in more danger than we are. We need to protect you", Luke says. 

"Hell no! I'm not going to sit somewhere and watch you how you die", I say. 

"Look, stop being so stubborn and let us to take you somewhere safe", Luke adds.

"No, I refuse. I'll sit with you. I'm not going anywhere", I add back. 

"Alexis, you need to understand that we want you safe. If Aaron is alive, he'll come after you", Elijah says. 

"I'll wait him with my baseball bat to beat him for taking my parents away from me"

"Sis, calm down", Damien says. "Let's go home for now, and we'll think about this more in weekend"

"Okay, I guess. I'm sorry for bursting out like this", I say. 

"It's understandable. Let's get some rest", Ryan says.

"Yeah, we need it", Luke says and with that we get in the car and we are making our way to home.