I woke up and checked my phone. I was immediately blinded by the light. I close my eyes and look away.
"Fucking hell." I mumble.
I look back and see it was 5:45 am.
Little later than I wake up, but that's fine.
I'm still tired but once I wake up I can't go back to sleep. I grab my phone and get up.
I need coffee.
I put my silk pajamas on and put my slippers on. I was super hot when I went to bed, so I slept naked. I mostly sleep naked in the summer but today I was just hot.
I went to the bathroom and washed my face.
I say hi to Shawn who was guarding my door.
I go downstairs to hear people in the kitchen. I go into the kitchen to see my dad, aunts, uncles, and Nonno up.
"Good morning Sage. Didn't expect for you to be up this early." Zio Roman said.
"Good morning. I usually get up earlier, i slept in." I say.
I look for the coffee mugs once I find them I sigh.
Why the hell are they so high?
I mean i'm 5'9 and can usually reach things, but the height of the cabinets were just absurd. I put my hands on the counter and push myself up.
I grab a coffee mug and put it back on the counter and climb back down.
I turn around to see them staring at me, "What? It's not my fault they're up so high." I say and go over to the coffee.
I pour the coffee to the brim and check to see if it was too hot. When it wasn't I braced myself for the nasty taste and chugged the whole cup.
When i'm done my face scrunched up in disgust and I put the cup in the sink.
"Not a fan of coffee?" Nonno asked with a chuckle.
"It's fucking disgusting." I mumble.
"Hey dad is it cool if I go on a run?" I ask and get out fruit from the refrigerator.
"Sure sweetheart, as long as you bring Shawn with you."
I groaned, "Why do I have to bring him?" I ask.
"Because he's your bodyguard and he's here to protect you." He said.
"But I don't need protection. Plus he keeps calling me Ms. or ma'am and it's weird cause he's like twice my age. And he's at my door 24/7 like does that man ever sleep?" I ask.
"He's just doing his job sweetheart, that's all."
"Whatever." I mumble.
I have no problem with Shawn, but I like to be alone when I run.
I go back upstairs, "Hey Shawn." I say.
"Ms. Sage." He said and bowed.
"Do you like to run?" I ask.
"I love to run." He said.
At least I finally got a response out of him.
"Cool. I want to go running, is that okay with you?" I ask.
"Of course Ms.Sage." He said.
"Sage. Please just call me Sage." I say and go into my room.
I get ready and we go downstairs. "Bye we're leaving." I yell and shut the door.
Shawn wasn't actually bad. He kept up and stayed silent as we ran so at least it wasn't terrible. Maybe he can be my running buddy.
I went to the gym and saw Marco in there running on the treadmill.
When he saw me he stopped and turned it off.
"Hey twinny! Want to work out together?" He asked.
"Sure what are you doing today?" I ask.
"I was doing my upper body and core today. What were you doing?" I ask.
"I was doing my upper body and cardio today, but I can do core. So what are we starting on?" He asked.
"My stomach hurts so bad," Marco whined as we exited the gym. I wiped my forehead off, "Come on i went easy on you." I say.
"That was easy?" He asked.
"Yeah I cut out three exercises for you." I say.
"Why do you train so hard?" He asked.
"I'm a gymnast I have to have muscles," I say.
"I'm starving," He mumbled.
I went my separate way and went to my room.
"Ms. Sage your brother asked for you downstairs for breakfast." Shawn said.
"Can you tell him that im taking a shower first?" I ask.
"Of course Ms." He said.
"Thank you Shawn." I say and enter my room.
I take a shower and comb out my hair. I do a side part back ponytail and put on a black nike sweatsuit and my black ugg boots.
I put my jewelry on and do my makeup.
School starts tomorrow. I need to do my hair. I'll ask to go to the hair store so I can do my hair myself.
I exit my room and go downstairs.
Lorenzo made me a plate and I sat down in the dining room.
"Nice run?" Alessandro asked.
"Yup," I say and put a pineapple chunk in my mouth.
"Do you wear anything else but black?" Fredrico asked.
"When I feel like it." I answer.
I need to go do that assassination, do my hair, get caught up with emails, pack my bag for school tomorrow, and pick out an outfit.
Definitely going to do an all nighter.
"So dad," I start off.
"Yes kid?" He asked.
"Can I go to the store, I need a few things." I say.
"If you bring Shawn or one of your brothers or cousins then yeah," He said.
"Can I go?" Gabe asked.
"Yeah, okay we can go now." I say.
"Gabe doesn't count?" He asked.
"What? Why not?" I ask.
"Because he's five." Dad said.
"Five and three quarters," Gabe corrected him.
"In dog years he's old enough." I say.
"But he's not a dog." Dante said.
"Nobody asked you." I say.
He glared at me and threw a grape, I dodged it and stuck up my middle finger.
"Who wants to go with Sage?" Dad asked.
Fredrico, Marco, Antonio, Dante, and Dorian raised their hands. Gabe stood up on the chair and put it two hands.
"There you go. You can take all of them," Nonno said.
"Whatever." I mumble and sink down in my seat.
We were now at one of the hair shops in Brooklyn. "What are we doing here?" Gabe asked as he held my hand.
I need hair to do my hair. He looked at me confused, "That made no sense," He said with a head tilt.
"Maybe it's because you're fully white," I say.
"Hey! I'm not white! Mommy is Mexican and Daddy is Italian." He said.
"Well you're white passing and technically you still got some white in you." I say and opened up the door to the hair shop.
"I don't want to be white." He said with a pout.
"Well that's really unfortunate for you." I say.
"What are these?" Dorian asked as he picked up a edges brush.
"It's a brush for your edges or baby hairs," I say.
He looked at me confused, "Never mind you won't get it. Just put it back." I say.
"Look at this wig!" Marco said, I turned around.
"What's your name b.o.b so they calling you bob?" He sang as he shook his head from side to side.
Antonio and Fredrico also grabbed a wig and starting rapping along.
I leave them alone and me and Gabe go to find the right hair for me.
I got five packs of pre stretched hair, gel, a rat tail comb, jewelry for my hair and oils. I payed for the stuff and looked back to see the boys taking pictures in the wigs.
"Put the wigs back and come on." I say.
We get back to the house and Gabe and I went up to my room. I put on Spongebob for him and go into the bathroom.
I wash and blow dry my hair. Before starting on my hair I go downstairs to get myself a snack.
"What the fuck happened to you?" Fredrico asked.
I stuck up my middle finger and went into the kitchen. I grabbed some snacks from the pantry and a couple waters.
It was 10:30 pm and I just got finished with my hair. My fingers fucking hurt.
My family left at 7 since they lived 30 minutes away and there was a lot of traffic since there was an accident earlier. Everyone 18 and under had school also.
I did simple box braids with wooden beads at the end and a heart on the side of my head.
While I was doing my hair I also hacked the system of the hotel that Leon is staying at. He was at the bar right now talking to a business associate. I couldn't see his business associates face, but the back of them looked really familiar.
I quickly get ready and open my balcony window. Alessandro thought I wouldn't notice him adding extra guards underneath my balcony.
I go back in my room and grab a half drank water bottle and launch it.
I hear it crash onto the floor. I look down to see the three guards heads all turn to it. "Who's there?" One asked.
When they don't get a response all three of them go over to it. I quickly take off my heels and climb down and start running to my motorcycle.
I enter the hotel and go to the bar section. I see Leon and the business associate he's still talking to. I wait five minutes, just watching them converse.
His associate got up and left out, going in the direction of the bathroom.
I quickly go to the bar. "Hi can I get a whiskey on the rocks please?" I ask as I sat down.
The bartender nodded. I sat down completely ignoring Leon's stare and faked fixing my dress. I crossed my legs and looked around.
"Excuse me." Leon said.
I look in the direction of him, "Leon Smith." He said and held out his hand with a smile.
I don't know why someone wants to kill him. He's fine to be a drug dealer. I looked into it, he doesn't human traffic, but he does do drug and weapon trafficking. He's 21, no kids, no wife, no family, he's a loner.
"Tiana Black," I say and put my hand in his. I go to shake his hand, but he brings my hand up to his face and pressed a light, soft kiss onto my hand.
"Beautiful name for a beautiful girl." He said.
I smile at him and the bartender puts my drink down. I grab the drink and down the whole glass with a straight face.
"Give this lady another drink, on my tab." Leon said.
"Didn't know you were a brown liquor girl." He said.
"I do both," I say.
"So what are you doing here?" He asked.
The bartender set another drink down in front of me, I grab a straw and slowly sip on it. "Business trip for my father. What about you?" I ask.
"Business trip also. What do you do?" He asked.
"I have my degree in tech. My father owns a tech company and he's resigning and giving it to me next month. So he's preparing me with the workload and meetings by me traveling and doing most of the work for him." I say.
"Tech? Smart girl." He said with a smirk.
"What do you do?" I ask.
"Retail and sales. I own a retail company that fixes up houses." That wasn't a lie, it was a cover up for the drugs.
"Retail. That was my mother's passion, but she later got into designing clothes before she passed away from cancer." I say.
"Oh i'm sorry to hear that." He said.
"It's okay. It happens to everyone right?" I say and pat his thigh two times. I finish my drink and stand up.
"Well it has been fun, but I think i'm going to call it a night." I say.
"Wait! Why don't we go up to my hotel room, get to know each other better?" He asked.
"Sure," I say.
"Great." He said.
He pulled out two hundred dollar bills and puts the on the counter.
He stood up and put his hand on the small of my back and lead me over to the elevators.
We went up to his room and started talking for a little before he leaned in a kissed me.
As the kiss exalted, he slowly took off my trench coat. I slowly unbutton his white dress shirt. His hands slowly traveled up my hiked dress.
I slowly reached up and tried to get my knife out.
Before he could unzip the back of my dress there was a knock on the door.
He broke the kiss and sighed, "Let me get that sweetheart. Go hide in the bathroom." He said.
I got up off of him and he pulled out a gun from his waistband. I faked being shocked, "Why do you have that?" I ask.
"Protection, now go hide in the bathroom please." He said.
I walked to the bathroom and closed the door. When I hear the hotel room door open I open up the bathroom door.
"Hey man where did you go? I was looking for you all over downstairs." I froze when I recognized the voice.
Why was Dante here?
"Yeah man this girl had spilled something on my shirt so now i'm up here changing." Leon said.
Dante chuckled, "Cool just meet me downstairs in five," Dante said.
"Oh and one more thing," Dante said, then I hear three gunshots go off.
"Don't steal from the wrong people." Dante said and I hear the door close.
The gunshots weren't as loud, he had a silencer on his gun.
I go out the bathroom to see Leon gasping for air as there was four bullets in his chest.
Dammit.
I take out my knife, there was no way he was going to survive, so I finished the job. I slit his throat and close his eyelids.
Now I have to look into my family. I was putting it off because I thought Alessandro was just a business man, but now there's definitely something going on. He has to have a double life, all of them.
They could be in the mafia or the drug cartel.
Oh well, it's not worse than me.
I put on gloves and finish cutting off his head. I put his head in a black bag and change out my bloody outfit. I put on an all black, long sleeve jumpsuit and put on my trench coat.
I exit the hotel and get on my bike, driving back to the house.
Dante got back and I started to delete the footage of him being at the hotel.
A person, a girl caught my eye. I couldn't see her face when she walked up to the bar. She was talking to Leon and they both stood up. I gasped when I saw her face.
I instantly take my computer up to dad's office.
I bust in the office and see him and Ace talking. "You guys have to see this." I say and put my computer on the desk.
I run back the footage and point to Sage. "You see her?" I ask.
"Yeah what about her? She just looks like a regular girl." Ace said.
"Just watch." I say and hit play.
When she stood up and turned around Ace let out a small gasp as Dad's eyes widen.
"No way," Ace mumbled.
"But I just checked on her, she was in her bed sleeping." Dad said.
They go into the elevator and they go into his room. I switch to the camera Dante hid in his room. They were talking for a little before the started kissing, I started to fast forward it.
"Wait go back," Ace said.
I paused and went back a little, "Stop." He said.
"Now zoom in on Sage," He said.
I zoomed in, "She had a knife on her." Dad said.
What was she doing with a knife? Better question, why was she even there in the first place?
They both looked at the door and she got up off him and went into the bathroom.
I switched to the other camera that shows the front door and Dante shoots him. After Dante left Sage came out of the bathroom.
Before we could watch the rest the screen went black.
"What the fuck," I mumble.
I try to go back, but all the footage was deleted. I try to recover it, but it says error.
We all look at each other.
Something is definitely up with my sister.
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y'all was on my ass about editing another chapter so here it is.