GUNSHOT ➪ Zayn

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Chapter 50: Whitney

It was around 5:00 A.M when James woke up with a terrible headache.
'Damn, did I wake you up?' A woman's voice - that wasn't Selena's asked.
'No, no. Don't, don't worry.' he stuttered, remembering every single detail about the day before. Selena was J.D's daughter and she had played him.
James couldn't help but think he was dumb for not seeing the signs.
How could she do that? Our Selena has only one flaw: she's too kind-hearted.
But it made sense to him: her mother had died because of his uncle, so she pretended to fall in love with him to make him pay for his uncle's mistake.
Twisted, isn't it? After all, in this world, what's not twisted?

'My fly is here.' Carolina announced while getting out of the bathroom. 'Thanks for tonight.'
'Pleasure's all m...' James suddenly stopped himself. 'Holy shit, what time is it?'
'It's... almost 5 A.M.' she frowned.
'Fuck!' he yelled, quickly getting out of the bed.
'James, what the hell is going on?' The Asian brunette loudly asked, putting her hand on his shoulders to calm him down.
'I had to meet Spoon at 5!'
'Oh shit...' she whispered. 'Okay, okay let's not panic. Where were you supposed to meet?'
'In Whitney! Damn, how could I forget this for fuck's sake!' he grunted while putting his pants on.
'Alright... Hum, come with me!'
'Carolina, I don't have time for another good romp, okay?' he moaned. 'Where the hell is my shirt?'
'No, you idiot! I have a helicopter that I can drop you off at Whitney!' she offered, throwing him his shirt.
'Really?' James asked.
'Yeah, come on, now!'

They ran out of the room, to the roof of the club. Both walked towards the helicopter in silence.
'Who's that?' The driver stated, eyeing James.
'Calm down, he's with me.' Carolina affirmed.'You didn't answer me.' The man insisted.
'He is my partner.' She lied. 'You have to drop him off at Whitney, but if you don't believe me I guess you can just check the mission instructions. Then we would be late and you'd be fired. You don't want that, right? So stop asking stupid-ass questions and do your fucking job.'
The driver didn't say anything and neither did James.
'Where exactly should I drop you off?'
'Withney Park.' James quickly answered.
'Alright, we'll be there in 5 minutes.'
'Can you activate invisible mode? I don't need to be spotted.' James demanded.
'If the gentleman orders it then how can I refuse?' He replied in both ironic and scornful tone.

James clenched his jaw, it was really not the time to look for shit. He was already super nervous about making Danilo wait in Withney, Alyssa and Zayn were in trouble, he just fought with Selena, and then he had slept with another woman to relieve himself. Basically, he was stressed, worried, and guilt-ridden.So it wasn't the time to piss him off.
'Parker.' Carolina called the driver. 'You don't need to be agressive with him when you're mad at me.'
'I didn't do anything. I'll go with you to Shanghai anyway, so we'll have plenty of time to talk about you know what during the... Hmm? 5 hours of flight?' he smiled.
'Here we are, gentleman.' Parker announced to James before Carolina could've uttered a word.
'Perfect. Thank you,' James replied as he opened the door.
'Pleasure.' Parker greeted him before Jee grabbed the ladder.

James finally put his feet on the ground. He saw the yellow taxi and walked straight towards it. 'You're late.' Spoon said as the door opened.
'I'm sorry.' James apologized sitting on the backseat.
'Have you been followed?' he asked.
'I haven't sir.' James asserted.'Then you're coming with me.' The boss declared.
'Wait, I...'
'It's all good, Bell. I've made my researches, I know what happened.'
'Why am I here then?' the young agent asked, confused.
'Can I trust you?' Spoon asked, turning his head towards him.
'Yes sir.'
'Then no questions.'
James nodded, he couldn't say anything. It was 5 in the morning and, they were in Withney, where it all started.
'There are many things you don't know, Bell. Many things.'

A few kilometers away, the robot was staring at Zayn, who was waiting desperately for an answer.
'Didn't you hear me? Is she fucking okay?'
The humanoid still didn't answer, he pushed it and suddenly entered the room.
'I didn't miss that grunt...' Someone laughed with difficulty.
'Oh fuck, Aly!' he ran to her bed and rushed to her lips.
'Don't do that again.' he said sternly, taking her in his arms.
'Why not? I loved being in a coma!' she rolled her eyes.
'That sounds amazing!' He sarcastically smiled.

Danilo and James crossed the streets of Withney, but everything was strangely calm and peaceful.
'Why aren't there anyone?' James asked.
'It's Thursday. Nobody goes out on Thursday.'
'Why's that?'
'It's cursed; the fourth day.'
The old man took a break before saying:
'I bet you've heard about the four blood ties.'
'Who didn't hear that story?' James laughed.
'The very first fifty-four code was on a Tuesday, about two blocks from here, eleven years ago. Zayn's brother was killed on a Tuesday just... Here, about twelve years ago. Then four months later, on the last Thursday in April, Zayn shot Chic Evans, right here,' he pointed to a tagged wall.
'I don't see your point, sir.' James whispered.
'Don't you think it's weird that all the shit that happened here happened on a Thursday? The fourth day of the week? Knowing that the legend of the four blood ties started here?' Spoon asserted.
'That's... hum... a lot of four...' he laughed.
'That's the problem, James.'
'I was joking.'
'And I wasn't. I made a lot of researches, I've studied every little detail that can be studied about this fucking myth and everything led me here, in Withney.'
'With all due respect, this myth is unsolvable.' The metis man said.
'I didn't say otherwise...' Danilo turned his head towards him.
'There's something you need to know, James.'
'What thing?'
'Follow me.' He said as he parked the car.

The two men were now alone, crossing the cursed neighborhood, in the middle of the night of the cursed day, while summoning the darkest secrets that this same neighborhood was keeping.