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(A double life)

*Katherine*

I woke up bright and early as I always do and climbed out of my king size bed to go take a shower before school. 

When I cleaned the little drops from the foggy bathroom mirror I saw my wet pale face staring back at me. My long dark wet hair were clinging to my body and forming little snakes on my back and shoulders. I put in my contacts making my green eyes more visible and not hiding them behind my usual gold round gasses.

After drying myself up I walked out of my bathroom and put on some clothes for the day. Blue jeans, white shirt, simple gold necklace with a tiny snake on it and my usual black vans. I tied my hair in a high pony tail leaving the soft beachy waves brushing agains my back.

I walked downstairs through the empty mansion. It was too early for our workers to be in full swing yet, but my cook was already in the kitchen making my usual bacon and eggs breakfast.

I walked to the huge windows of the kitchen opening one of the sliding doors and stepping outside to get a breath of fresh air.

"Where are the dogs ?" I asked my cook not even turning back

"T-they should be outside, miss"

I walked further out on the porch overviewing the huge garden in front of me. Our mansion was on the hill and our back yard was an ongoing green lawn with a pool right outside and a table for morning coffee in the summer.

"Karma ! Venom !" I called out and my two black Doberman Pinschers came running to me from around the corner. "Sit. Shake. Lie down." They immediately followed each of my commands. "Good boys !" I kneeled to their level and rubbed their chins.

When I finished my breakfast I grabbed my usual pink backpack, keys to my very ordinary red pickup truck and headed out to school.

I moved here quite recently, about 6 months ago, so I had some friends at school but was not that eager to make lasting relationships because of the business I deal with after school and because of what my family business is. Or was my family business, but now is left all to me because of my parents passing recently. Leaving me with mansions all over the country, restaurants to my name, and of course, the Vipers.

Yet I still followed my parents advice to keep a low profile at school, not go in my expensive clothes, not take my expensive cars, stay away from any Viper symbols that could give away my identity to anyone.

Vipers were my family now. A fucked up, psychotic and dangerous family. We're mafia. A gang. call it whatever. And since my parents left me everything, I was in control of them. As you can imagine, no 20 to middle aged man wants to listen to a 19 year old girl tell them who to kill, how to deal with business and on and on. Meaning that none of them actually know how I look like because my parents kept me a secret.

But at school, I am just a simple senior, getting good grades, keeping a low profile and trying not to get in trouble. An occasional high school romance here and there.

A double life.