ALICE ROMANO
It's been a month since that day Ace agreed to let me train, I have learned many things from Arthur in these days.
"Are you ready yet? We are getting late Alice" Issac shouts
"Yes I am coming give me a minute" I say and tie my shoe lace in a hurry. We are going on a ride me with Issac while Noah and Nate are joining us in their own cars.
I reach the front door. Issac sighs seeing me " I thought you will be taking an hour more"
Rolling my eyes I go to the car "please I hardly took a few minutes"
"yeah sure" he says and starts the car while we wait for the twins to come
They pull up beside us. "Let's race Issac" Nate says
Issac nods and they start the car with the count down while me and Noah are enjoying the ride with the windows down.
Exiting the gate they stop the car "Let's meet up at our ice cream shop whoever comes first can eat whatever they want and the one who looses should pay" Nate suggests
"ok cool. Let's see" Issac says
After the count down by Noah they start the cars.
"We have to reach there before them, I want to eat good amount of chocolate ice cream" I say
"We will win look at them they are behind us." he says pointing to the car from the mirror
"Ok " I smile happily
"Do you want to drive while we head back home?" Issac asks
"You think I can manage?" I ask
"Yes after all you learned from the best. " He says
I scoff " Well it is true I have learned from you but we will only know that you are the best if you win the race" I say
"We will bambina, just chill and be ready to eat your ice cream" He says and increases his speed
I laugh leaning back and enjoying the speed and wind.
In 10 minutes we reach the ice cream shop followed by the twins
I get down and jump up and down in joy " We have won now you are supposed to pay for whatever we want to eat"
"If you would be this happy on us loosing a race we would be loosing everyday sorella" Noah says
"no it would not be fun if we would do it every day, and it would be cheating too" I say
Nate laughs "Sure let's go"
"I said we would win" Issac said from behind
I nod at him " yes yes you did"
"So that means I am the best" he says to me
Nate raises his brow " You just won by luck Issac"
"No that's not true, I won because of my absolutely flawless driving skills" Issac argues
"I agree and he is the best" I say
Nate looks at me " Don't do this he will not forget it"
I shrug "Ice cream timeeeeee "
"3 chocolate ice cream cones for me please" I say to the one taking orders
"3? Isn't it a little too much?" Nate asks
"What no it isn't 3 is just like" I show him three fingers " look not even one hand"
Issac laughs and says "you see she is right and we deserve it after our victory"
"you will catch cold if you eat 3 ice creams bambina" Noah says
"No I will not pleasseeee Noah" I say
"Ok as long as you are happy and don't get sick. If anything happens then I am not going to say anything to Elijah " Noah says
I smile at him "nothing will happen I promise" I say
"ok fine princess Alice " Nate says
"come on do it fast and take them to the cars and let's eat it there" he looks at me " if you can that is" he continues
all three of them give their orders.
"excuse me " the man calls us and hands us our ice creams
Nate looks at me and gives me 2 of my cones " can you take one more or do I hold it for you ?"
"I can take it but if you want you can hold it for me Nate, Come on I even have space in my hands see" I say and show him my empty hand
"Fine take it" He says handing my ice cream to me
"if you are done can we sit and eat it in our car in peace if you don't mind" Issac says
We nod Noah and Issac lead the way and Nate is behind me
we reach our cars and lean on it and eat our ice creams peacefully talking to each other.
Nate clears his throat and I look up at him " what"
"Let's go and sit in the cars while you finish your ice creams peacefully, there are so many people here, looking at us. It looks like we are going to eat your ice cream"
I shake my head and continue to eat these tasty ice creams and they start talking about something.
I am eating my last ice cream when Noah says " let's go it's getting late"
"No wait for me I am going to finish this here and then let's head home. Issac said he will let me drive on the way back home" I say
"Alice you can drive some another time, sit and let Issac drive we are leaving now" he says in a serious tone
I nod my head " ok"
" don't head straight home and split up at the highway " Noah says
"ok" Issac says and gets into the car
"What is going on?" I ask
"uh" he looks at me " We are being followed" he says
"oh ok" I say and lick the ice cream
"Whattt?" I ask and look in the side view mirrors there are 5 black cars following behind Nate's car.
"so what are we going to do, are you sure we can get rid of them?" I ask
"Yes we can get rid of them Alice, after all I am one of the best" he says
Rolling down the window I look at the cars following us "You think we can escape?" I get tensed
"Yes you can relax and have your ice cream" he says
I roll my eyes and throw the ice cream out the window, as soon as I turn towards Issac I heard a crash. I look around and see one of the cars have crashed into a tree.
"Well seems like one of them are enjoying my ice cream" I giggle
Issac looks back "We still have some of them on our back, let's call Alex" he says
I try to call him but the call doesn't connect. "It isn't working "
"Jammers, I think they are using jammers." He says slamming his palm on the steering wheel
After a while we get separated from Nate and a few of our followers.
"there is only one car behind us" I say
He nods " We are supposed to have more than one car if we were being followed by cars?" he gets confused and slows down in the process
A black car pulls up beside us and throws something in the car.
"Issac Issac " I get panicked, he looks at me and the thing
"It is a smoke bomb or something I guess" Issac says
"What what do you mean, What are we gonna do now?" I say as soon as I say this the car starts getting foggy
"throw it out, let's throw it out and park the car somewhere if we drive like this we will surely get into an accident" Issac says
I release a long breath and search for that thing as soon as I find it I pick it up and throw it.
"I threw it. Now what?" I ask
"let the smoke get out as soon as it is clear we are going to up the windows" Issac says
"let's just park the car somewhere and windows yes right let's up the windows now" I say and press the button and the glass comes up protecting us from any other thing
"Aliccee!! Are you crazy how am I supposed to drive with all the smoke in the car" Issac shouts
"Just park it here then, we are going to die anyway" I say
he slows down the speed switiching on the indicator, moving to left and parking somewhere
"Lock the car so we are safe till it get's cleared" I say coughing a little
"hmm Are you fine?" he asks coughing
"Yes, I don't think it was just a smoke bomb, I am feeling dizzy" I say
"Me too I think I am going to faint soon" He says
"I think-" I say and faint
*few minutes later*
I wake up and find something heavy on my lap, a box which wasn't there before. I tap on Issac's shoulder. He doesn't react.
A slap on his cheek wakes him up " are you fine bambina?" he asks as soon as he wakes up
"yes relax I am fine Issac, but" he looks at my face
"What what is wrong are you not feeling well do you have a headache, let's go to the hospital. " he panics
"no no look" I say and point to the box which is still on my legs
"What the hell where did this come from" he asks
"I don't know I didn't check it" I say
"let's call Noah or someone and let them know about the situation first and don't open it now" Issac says
He calls someone this time it rings making me frown.
"hello where are you both, are you fine is Alice with you?" Ace asks
I look at Issac and whisper " are you crazy why did you call Ace you said you are going to call Noah "
"yes I did call him but Ace answered it what do I do " he whispers back
"Hello? are you there, answer me" Ace says increasing his voice
"uh yes we are here we are fine. We are coming back home now" Issac says and hangs up
I look at him "What what do you want me to do, if I would say anything on the phone he would panic, let's go home and explain everything to everyone at once" he says
"Ok fine, what about this box" I ask
he shrugs " I don't know let's keep it and see what we are going to do once we are back"
I nod and lean my head on the window as he drives back home
As soon as we reach home Elijah rushes to my side and opens my door
"Are you fine are you hurt anywhere?" he asks
"I am fine but I got a" I look at the box " A gift I guess?"
"what gift? were you not being followed?" Elijah asks
"let's take the box out first and see if it has anything dangerous" Issac says and takes the box passing it to Robert who was standing with others
I get down the car with the help of Elijah "blood" he points at my leg "did you get hurt bambina?"
"no no I am fine Elijah don't worry" I say and we enter the house and sit in the living room
"What happened when we separated?" Noah asks
Issac tells everything that has happened. While Noah says that the cars only followed them for a few minutes after they got split up.
"We tried calling you but we couldn't contact, then we couldn't do anything except wait for you to reach us back" Nate says
Robert enters with the box " Capo there is nothing dangerous in the box but we haven't checked what is inside the box"
I get up from the sofa I have been sitting on and grab the box from Roberts hands
"so now that we know we are safe let me open the box and see what is it" I say
"absolutely not" Alex says and takes the box
"fine you open it but atleast let me see" I say
"no I don't think it is something good princessa" Ace says
I look at him "Please Ace."
"ok fine let us see and then decide" he says and opens the box
I get excited, and stand on my toes to see.
Ace turns red seeing the content and throws the box away
All of them start scolding and cursing in anger as all my brothers and dad saw it, but I didn't I slowly move to the box and flip it over and see a doll; a bloodied doll with my name is pinned to the box with white crushed papers below it.
I detach the doll from the box and empty the box and find a paper folded and sticked to the bottom of the box.
I sit down on the floor and open the paper and start reading it
Baby doll
I have missed you dearly and I am going to meet you soon. And we will re live and enjoy how we did in the past.
I am going to enjoy my life with you. I will keep you in your room.
see you soon my baby doll I love you and I will do whatever I could do to get you.
I scoff loudly when a tear escapes my right eye I wipe it off, getting up I move to the kitchen and all of my brothers follow me.
I turn on the stove and hold the paper above the fire.
As the paper is half way burnt "Alice" Ace comes to me making me loosen my grip on the paper