Connection ~ (Highschool AU - Catradora)

Chapter 33

Catra's POV

DT and I made our way up to several flights of stairs, the adrenaline that rushed through my body was insane. My hand repeatedly went to the pistol in my pocket in case if someone was following us.

"Hey, calm down. I can practically hear your nervousness" DT joked.

I scoffed, "Take this a little more serious, would ya?"

"Tsk, you're no fun. Just take it easy, we will be fine" They reassured, putting a hand on my shoulder.

I sighed, they were right. I needed to let loose, I'm going to have a normal conversation..with a criminal that could possibly kill us. Great.

The last flight of stairs awaited us, as we stepped up each one with slow footsteps, although DT was wearing heels so they were pretty loud going up.

We reached the top of the staircase and there was only one apartment, the numbers were scraped off of the door. In fact, the door wasn't looking too great either. It had holes in it, and it looked like it was centuries old.

DT kneeled and brushed their fingers over the holes in the door, "Those are gunshots all right"

I visibly gulped and went closer to the door, eyeing DT who was still inspecting the door, "You sure this is the place?"

They nodded, "Pretty sure, no traces of them moving out recently".

"Well, here goes nothing" I sighed, before balling my hand into a small fist and tapping 3 light knocks onto the door. My heart raced every knock I pressed against the door, my hand instantly flying to the grip of the pistol after I knocked 3 times onto the door.

"Don't pull out the pistol just yet. We don't know if he wants trouble" They explained, pushing the pistol further into my jacket.

I nodded and waited for the person to come out of the door.

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No one. No one at all came to the door. We waited for about 20 minutes for the person to finally come due to nervousness, but no person ended up showing up.

"Well, that's that. No one lives here, or they are out. Let's head home, I have take out!" DT exclaimed, dancing around. The clacking of their heels stomping about the ground.

"No, there has to be somebody" I pondered.

DT went close to me, "Are you trying to tell me...you want to break-in?"

"W-What! Nah, what are you talking about" I said, taken aback. I'll admit, I do some pretty rebel things but I'd never go as far as too break into someone's house.

"Oh, Catra. I can read you like a book, and your face is telling me..you're willing to do anything to get into this man's house and see if he is here" They hummed.

My shoulders sagged, "Yeah. You're right.."

"Well, good thing I brought my lockpick. You wait here while I do all the magic" They winked, squatting down to the keyhole and began picking.

I nibbled on my fingertips, DT wasn't necessarily wrong about me wanting a break-in, but I know the dangers of going in. Were practically asking for ourselves to be killed. I fished for my phone to see several missed calls from Adora. I bit my lip and yet again considered calling her back to tell her I was busy, but a text caught my eye.

'Hey, it's Glimmer! Just wanted to wish you luck. P.S Adora gave me your number' Glimmer texted me. Ah, shit. Now, Adora thinks that I'm probably ignoring her if Glimmer asked Adora for my phone number.