Faye chuckles darkly, her ears turning an excited red,
"Now Kynlee, didn't your parents ever teach you not to make promises you can't keep?" I glare at her and growl, angry that she brought up my parents,
"You leave my parents out of this," I say darkly, my voice promising violence. I hear a bowstring being pulled back, Briar and Paige both tense and glare at Faye with an angry sadness in both of their eyes. Forgetting my anger, I wonder what has gotten into them, Faye hasn't reacted at all to my threat, she's just standing there with an evil smile on her pretty face. I slap a hand to my face, gosh I'm an idiot! In my anger, I hadn't realized that I had spoken in Uryuomoco, that's why Faye didn't react. I curse myself in my head, my friends and I hate it when our parents were brought up, they were dead, it was a painful subject for all of us especially because we were assassins and killed other people's parents. I clear my throat to stop the ongoing glaring, Briar and Paige look at me, Briar's face is silently asking me if I'm okay, I give him a reassuring smile. Paige's expression is the strangest, tears are cascading down her cheeks and her face is screwed up in a painful look of guilt, what is she feeling guilty about? And who is Amelia? I'm snapped back to the present with that question,
"Paige, who's Amelia?" She tenses up and I see panic in her eyes before she broke down again,
"Faye has her! She has my baby! She wont give her back unless you help her!" Blackmail? Oh heck no! I stand up and glare at Faye so hard that I swear she would melt,
"Blackmail?! Now that's what we're resorting to now?!" I am so angry I can't even think straight! I'm probably switching in and out of English and Uryuomoco but I don't care,
"You've kidnapped Paige's baby and basically holding her for ransom?! All because I wont help you?! Yeah I know I tried to kill you but you can't pressure me into helping you! I-" My ranting was stopped when Apollo spoke up, well down,
"Wait Paige has a baby?" His last word echos down into the alley around us and I realize what I've said,
"Wait you have a baby?!" Briar asks, turning Paige around to face us, she is shaking so much and crying that I'm afraid she'll choke on her own tears. I kneel down on the dirty cement and embrace Paige,
"Why didn't you tell us Paige? You know you can trust us with anything! We could have helped! How old is...Amelia?" I pause before saying her name, I don't know if that's the baby's name or not. Paige wipes her tears,
"I didn't tell you because Faye said you would do this! She said you would get angry and yell and she said you would take Amelia away because I'm too young! Well I'm not! I'm 20 years old Kynlee!" I feel guilt pierce my chest, I probably would have done that but, I took in Paige, Briar, and Apollo when I was younger than Paige so I don't have any room to complain. I rock Paige back and forth while she sobs onto my work clothes that are not covered in blood, yet.
"It's okay Paige, I'm sorry for yelling. I took in you, Briar and Apollo when I was younger than 20 so I don't have any room to talk," Paige gives a wet laugh and I smile,
"I wouldn't have taken your baby away! I would have tried to get you to move in with me so I could help you with them sure, but I would never take someones baby away. But Paige," she looks up and wipes her eyes,
"Hm?"
"How old is your baby?" I breath out a sigh with the words, she looks down,
"Amelia is five years old."
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What An Assassin Has To Do
FantasiKynlee Salmon is elegant, athletic, driven and a little too impulsive. She was born in a rich family in a developing. She lived free of worries until she was about 12 years old, but at that point things began to change. Someone broke in and murdered...
