The Assassin & The Schuyler~Marliza

Chapter 5

Maria's P.O.V (I think this one is gonna be kinda short as well but if it isn't..yeah)

I pulled up to the Schuyler mansion and Eliza came running out. "Hey Maria! So..I came out to parents just now. Don't worry! Their being supportive!" She says, a huge smile her face. "That's great!"I respond. I see Peggy waving from the door and I wave back. Me and Eliza go inside and up to her room.

She opens the door to her room. It's beautiful several pictures of her family and friends on the wall. Even a spelling bee trophy on a shelf. I think she noticed me looking at it and said "Yeah, don't be to in awe. Angelica has gotten more of these then I ever will. Angelica's the smart one."

I nodded. She then pulled out a blue ribbon and put her hair in a ponytail. She says the ribbon is quite sentimental to her. "So you see, when I was 9 , Angelica was 10 and Peggy was 8 , my mom went to us and asked us all our favorite color. Angelica said pink , I said blue and Peggy said yellow. Mom got us these ribbons. As you can guess Angelica has a pink one and Peggy has a yellow one." 

Cute little story. I looked at the time and say it was about 6:30. I looked at Eliza and asked "Hey, do you and your sisters maybe wanna grab a coffee or something? Just kinda take a look around New York?" 

She seemed more then happy to. Not even 5 minutes later, Angelica was driving us out into town. Peggy was playing on her phone in the front seat and Eliza was siting next to me and just staring out the window.

"So Eliza, why do you and your sisters still live with your parents at ages 21 , 20 and 19?" I asked. She awkwardly laughed. "Truth be told there really isn't really any excuse for that. But we did get an apartment that we plane to move into together in a about a month." She responded.

"Oh, that's great! Where is it?" I asked. "Near Columbia University. We have plans to attend college there." She told me. I feel so bad. This girl...this beautiful girl...has an entire future ahead of her. Yet, I still have to kill her.  

Come on Maria! Just think of someway to get the job done without killing her! "So, what are you gonna be majoring in?" I asked, trying to carry out the conversation. "Nursing. I really want to save lives. Preferably, a pediatrician is what I want to be." She says, happily.

She isn't even guilt tripping me and yet I feel guilt tripped. "Do have any plans to go to college any time soon or ever?" She asked me, giving a shy smile. "No. I don't really wanna be in debt for the rest of my life." I responded and Eliza laughed. 

Her laugh is adorable. Anyways, we stopped by Starbucks. We just kind of wandered around the city until around 10'ish. Although we mainly went back to their place because their dad was yelling at us over the phone.

Catherine gave us some dinner. Nothing fancy just chicken. After that we all went upstairs to our rooms. Eliza had set up a sleeping bag on the floor. "Sorry Maria. I know it's not much." She said. "Oh don't be sorry Eliza. I didn't expect much anyways." I told her. 

"Okay. Well, good night Maria." Eliza said, turning off the lights. "Good night." I said, as I crawled into the sleeping bag. 

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Two in the god damn morning. Everyone was fast asleep. Except for me. Finally I had thought of a plan. I walked over to the bookshelf Eliza has in her room. I accidentally made huge book fall. Like one of those ones with like 5000 pages. 

Eliza sat up in bed. I turned on the lights. "Oh, its just you Maria. I'm sorry. You startled me." She said with relief. "Sorry about that." I said, turning the lights back off. "It's fine." She said. She was laying down again.

I walked over and decided 'its now or never'. I put my hand around her mouth and pulled her out of bed. She was alarmed and began screaming and trying to break free. I had to get her out of here and into the van.

I pushed her onto the bed. "An-" She began to scream but I covered her mouth again. She began flailing her arms around so I did what I didn't want to do. I grabbed a the book and...well....hit her in the head and knocked her out.

I made sure her skull wasn't fractured or anything. There wasn't any blood so I thought she was fine. Angelica opened the door. "Hey Maria, is everything okay?" She asked. "I hear some commotion." 

I nodded. "Everything is fine Angie." I lied. "Okay." She said and left the room. Jesus fucking Christ, why do I have to do this? I let out a sigh and open Eliza's window.  She has a big window. I pick Eliza up and jump out the window. It wasn't very high up.

I carried her over to the van and put her in there. I walked back over to the house , climbed the wall garden thing , closed Eliza's window and then climbed back down.

I walked back over to the van and drove home. Once we got there I carried Eliza down to the basement where there were cells. I grabbed a key and put her in one.

Why? Why? WHY?! Why do I have to do this? Well, I can't wait to tell Mr.Washington about this. Who knows? Maybe I can give Eliza some nostalgia by her seeing Alexander again. 

I feel so bad right now. I get up and walk upstairs to my room, letting the guilt consume me as I attempt to sleep.