Luca's Salvation

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The car ride home is filled with Ana talking about all the perks of being a blogger. I zone her out and open my eyes to find myself sitting alone in the car in the car alone.

"What the f-ck," I mumble to myself yawning. I open the car door and head inside. The door was unlocked.

"You've got to be f-cking kidding me," I whisper yell running up the stairs. "Ana!"

"Whattttt!" She yells from the bathroom.

"First of all, how did you get inside my house and secondly, why didn't you wake me up?" I say opening the bathroom door.

She was curling her hair with one hand while also somehow still managing to apply makeup with her other hand.

"I stole your keys out of your purse and if I'm being completely honest with you, I totally forgot that you were even in the car."

"What kind of older sister are you?" I ask rolling my eyes.

"What's got you so pissed?" She asks finally putting the curling iron down. "First you call me crying and now you've been bitchy since I picked you up. Did you have a fight with Gerold?"

I hadn't heard that name in years..
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Flashback
The cop looks me right in the eyes with a sympathetic look.

"Is there anywhere that you could go or stay at for the night?" She says. "Maybe a family member or friend?"

I shake my head.

My entire body felt numb.

I didn't feel anything at all and yet a part of me felt everything.

My head was blooded with so many questions and so much hurt.
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"Soph!" My sister says waving her hands in my face. "Hellooooo, earth to you!"

"I'm sorry," I say coming back to my senses. "Um, I'm going to lay my head down. I've got a killer headache."

"I don't think so," she says quickly facing me. "We're going out with your hot rich guy friends! I want all the details on how you mixed in with guys like them. Especially that Lucas one. I can't wait to get my hands on him," she says biting her lips.

"You know, you don't have to sleep with every guy you meet," I say irritated.

"Who said I was going to sleep with him?" She asks rolling her eyes. "Take a pain killer, put your big girl pants on, and get ready," she says picking the curling iron back up.
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An hour later, we I've finally gotten dressed up.
As much many as I wanted very little to do with Luca and the shady business he was involved in, a part of me still wants to have some sort of justification for it.

And a tiny tiny part of me did not want to see Ana get her claws onto him.

There's a knock on the door and Jasmine walks right in.

"You know the point of knocking is for someone to actually say "come in, right?" I ask slipping my shoes on. "Where have you been?"

"Work and I may or may not have spent the whole day with your buddy Rico," she says jumping on the bed.

"Rico?" I say squealing. "I want to know everything about it! Start from the very beginning and leave nothing out of it!"

"Oh not so fast!" She says. "I want to know what happened between you and Luca and why you're looking so good right now? Is it to go see him? Fill me in on the deets."

I bite my lips.

Should I tell her about the shooting?

"That's actually where we're going now, to Luca's" I say. "I want you to come with me and save me from the devil aka my sister."

"Satan's spawn is actually here?" Jasmine yells. "I knew there was an uneasy feeling when I walked in through the door."

"Ha-ha," my sister says sarcastically. "Keep it up b-atch,".

"Heyyyyyy, Ana-Banana," Jas says leaning against her. "Mmm missed you!"

"Yeah whatever," Ana says rolling her eyes. "Is she coming with?"

"Yes," I say giving Jasmine puppy dog eyes.
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"I don't know how I got dragged into this mess," Jasmine says pushing her dress down.

"Oh hush! I know you want to see Rico," I say holding her hand. "You look so good!"

Before she can respond the door is opened by Luca.. and as always, he looked edible. God why was he so good looking?!

"Ladies," he says with a smile on his face. His eyes land on me and suddenly my dress feels as if it's too short because his eyes linger there. "Please come in. Make yourselves at home."

"Will do," Ana says stepping inside.

"I am more than happy to give a house tour to anyone who hasn't been here yet," Rico says coming down the stairs.

"Oohh me!" Ana says rushing to his side. She puts her arms through Rico's and immediately, Jasmine let's go of my hand and runs to his side to grab his other side.

"Ladies, ladies," Rico says chuckling. "There is enough of me to pass around."

"Yeah that's the problem," Jasmine whispers annoyed.

"Okay so first we're going to start off with a tour of the upstairs and will make our way downstairs," he says.

Just as I'm about to follow them, I feel a hold on my hand.

"You've already seen the house, haven't you? Comes a deep voice from behind me.

He smelled so damn good...

"No," I say taking my hand from him.

"Look," he says taking both my hands into his hand. "What you saw that day was not what it looked like.."

"What? You killing a man in cold blood?" I ask. "Luca how can you justify that? How? You're a god damn murderer!"

"I know—"

"An old man!" I say throwing his hands away. "You killed an old man as he was begging you for mercy. How heartless can you be?"

"Sophia-"

"Sophia what?" I ask. "Who are you?? What are you??!" I yell.

He opens his mouth to say something and then shakes his head and turns towards the door and leaves.

I didn't know how to feel.

Was I rude?

No.

He deserved it... he KILLED a man.

I should call the police and file a report.

I sit on the couch and after about 10 minutes, the door opens and I feel the couch shift with weight.

"He killed my mother."