My Red Lilly

Chapter 1

   
                                        NICO

"I knew you'd be up here"

I say softly to my friend, who's sitting on the roof of the warehouse, legs dangling over the edge.

 He didn't answer just nodded, taking another drag from his cigarette. The smoke curls in the air before disappearing.

Something was definitely wrong.

Pablo wasn't necessarily a loud person.
He is only quiet around people he either didn't like or people he don't feel comfortable around.

"You ok?" I asked, lowering myself beside him.

"Yeah" he says after a moment. "Just tired"

His eyes were fixated on the sun as it sinks behind the buildings, bleeding orange into the sky.

Me and Pablo grew up together.

Standing next to him most people would assume we were brothers. Same Italian blood running through our veins, same dark hair.

I lean back on my hands, letting the breeze hit my face. One of my eyes reflects the dark forest, the other stays unnervingly dark, black as ink.
People have stared at them my whole life. Some with curiosity. Others with fear.

My heterochromia as always made my father proud.

Said it looked unnatural. Dangerous.

Pablo never cared.

He started working for my father at the age of 14. I was about 9 at that time but that never stopped us from being friends.

My father is the leader of an illegal  organization known as The Red Lillies.

So my childhood wasn't rainbows and sparkles.

But Pablo was there through it all.

He was there when my father took his anger out on me . He was there when my father's men taught me pain before mercy. There through all my first missions. My first kills.

He was there when I needed him.

Now was my chance to be here for him through whatever he was going through.

"I'm leaving"

his words spilled through the air, cutting through the silence like blades.

"What do you mean your leaving"I turned sharply, my mismatched eyes locking unto his face.

"You remember Matilda?" he asked, now facing me.

Of course I remember Matilda.

About 3 years ago my father gave Pablo a very important mission.

It was to help him take down a rival organization called The Guild.

The plan was simple: use Matilda

It happened so that Matilda's brother, Mason, was the leader of this organization. So she was obviously a target for my father.

Pablo got close to her.  They started dating.
Somewhere along the way she found out about the truth that Pablo was supposed to kill her brother.

When they broke up, it toke a huge toll on Pablo.

He told my father he wouldn't hurt Matilda or her family and knowing my father, he's not gonna let an opportunity like that slip through his fingers.

All this resulted in Mason being dead.
The Guild being wiped out.
Matilda moving away to live in California.

My father got what he wants, like he always does