"My name is Rhea Rodriguez and you are in great danger."
2 DAYS EARLIER...
Bianca/Victoria P.O.V
Jasmine gave me one last look as she unplugged her phone charger from the wall. "You ready?" she asks with a small smile and I nod silently.
Jasmine and I decided to book the earliest flight we could back to town which was tonight.
"So when will you guys be back?" Hazel asks from the door way to the room.
I couldn't help but see the sad look she had plastered on her face, I don't blame her. This apartment is so large and empty, it's most likely to get lonely, sure she has leo, but it's not like he is here all the time.
"Soon," I reply her with a soft smile on my lips in an attempt to reassure her, even though I'm very sure we won't be returning soon, or if the case gets worse ever. She frowns slightly at my words and tilts her head to the side with crossed arms.
"Is it okay if i drive you guys to the airport? You know, just to wish you farewell on your trip back to your family for your cousin's burial."
That's the best lie we could come up with, we were under alot of pressure at the moment.
I notice Jasmine roll her eyes from beside me but she thankfully doesn't say anything.
"We'd appreciate that, thanks," I tell her with a polite smile and Jasmine immediately let's out a loud cough. I turned to her and I couldn't help but notice the terrifying glare she aimed at me.
"I really don't think that's nec-"
"Can i come too?" Leo asks with a hopeful look in his eyes as he pops into the room, interrupting Jasmine mid sentence.
"It's not like we are the ones dying or anything, we didn't ask for an entourage," Jasmine mutters irritately and I hold back a laugh.
"But I wanna come," Leo whines.
"Yeah, me too," Hazel says with a similar tone.
Sometimes I forget they are twenty three and twenty four year old adults.
"I even let you guys crash our anniverary," Leo says as a way of persuation.
Jasmine's mouth opens in shock, "firstly, you didn't let us, you had no choice. And second of all, you loved us there so there is no reason to black mail us because of that," she says stubbornly.
"But this isn't even fair, how come Victoria gets to go," Leo pouts.
I give him a weird look, "um, it's my cousin. I'm kind of supposed to go," I tell him.
"But...but..." Hazel trails off.
"Life isn't fair, and don't bother begging anymore, you both are not going with us and that is final," Jasmine says.
I muffle a laugh and lean on a wall with my side.
"What do you have against us coming?" Hazel asks.
"I'm driving, and if I see your face I might accidentally hit a tree," Jasmine dead pans.
I cough.
"Why?"
"Because you are repulsive and you irritate me."
Uh-oh
"I'm not ugly!" Hazel snaps with red cheeks.
"That's not cool Jasmine," Leo steps in to defend his girlfriend.
"That's enough Jasmine," I tell Jasmine with a serious expression on my face, "Leo, Hazel, you can come."
"What?!" Jasmine yells but I shush her.
Leo grins and blows a kiss at Jasmine while Hazel just glares at her, "you were saying?" Leo asks Jasmine cockily as he placed a hand around Hazel's shoulder.
Jasmine sucks her teeth, "what the fuck Bi- Victoria, you're supposed to be on my side!"
"Your stupid side can suck my clit," Hazel replies and leads Leo out of the room.
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"I heard their food is great," I hear Leo say from the passengers seat.
"The best," Jasmine replies, "I once ate a sandwich at the restaurant and almost didn't want to leave."
"A sandwich?" Leo asks even though he heard what she said perfectly well and did it for the sake of annoying us.
"Yup, a sandwich," Jasmine replies.
"Well have you tasted their water? It's to drown for," Leo says.
"Oh God," I mutter under my breath. This has been going on for thirty minutes straight, (the airport is pretty far from where we stay). I'm pretty sure Leo and Jasmine have made the most stupid sexual innuendos for every restaurant I can think of.
Jasmine moans, "ohh yeah. I wish other water would taste like that, I bet no other water is as wet as theirs. I wonder what their recepies are-"
"Okay, that's enough," Hazel says from the back seat. "We get that you guys are trying to annoy us, well you've won. You can both shut up now." Jasmine and Leo let out a laugh.
The car is then engulfed in a comfortable silence as faint music played from the radio. I didn't recognize the song but I liked the beat so I vibed to it a little.
"I think we should stop to get something to eat," Hazel suggests from beside me. "I know a diner ten minutes away from the airport and you guys still have two hours till your flight," she drawls suggestively.
I don't say anything because I really don't mind if we go or not and leave the decision to Jasmine.
"I don't know... I'm not really in the mood for food," Jasmine replies hesitantly.
"They have cake," Hazel adds.
Jasmine's face then turns serious, "let's go," she says and Leo leads us to the diner.
Walking into the building was quite refreshing. It was a bit chilly, unlike the burning temperature outside. We all chose a booth near a the corner of the room of the diner.
"How many times have you guys been here?" Jasmine asked from beside me as she looked around the diner.
The place is really nice, it had an 80s theme that worked great for a diner. The floors had black and white checkered tiles with the brown wooden tables and red seats in each booth.
"This is kind of our second home, it's also where we met," Hazel explains.
"And I used to work here," Leo adds, "but not anymore."
"why not?" I ask curiously. This place is amazing, and it looks like a good paying job seeming to how classy yet simple it is.
He shrugged, "got a better job."
I deciced to ignore the fact that Leo doesn't have a job and spare him the question. He probably doesn't want to talk about it if he had to lie his way through the question. I started to play with the napkin when a waiter came.
"Welcome to Isabella's. I'm your waiter, Debby, what can I get ya all?" The waiter asked nicely with a fake southern accent. I cringed at the fact she's probably forced to talk like that. Maybe the job isn't all that after all.
I looked up at the girl, she was tall and petite with brown skin. Her natural curls were in two braids and she had large framed glasses on her pretty face.
"How about your number?" Leo jokes. I noticed how it didn't affect Hazel at all, she was too busy bad eyeing the waiter.
Debby rolled her eyes at his words.
"Leo, will you ever change?" she asks him with an unimpressed look on her face.
Leo shrugs and kisses Hazel sweetly on the cheek, "I did, but only for her," he said smiling adoringly at his girlfriend. It seemed like he said that to prove a point to the Debby chick.
Jasmine and I just sit back and observe.
I noticed Debby stare at the couple with a familiar look on her face, a look I've encountered many times before; jealousy.
What happened between these three?
"Okay that's enough, I'm gonna loose my appetite," Jasmine says with her nose buried in the large menu as an attempt to kill the tension, "I'll have the chocolate cake, and for drinks I'll just have a... Chocolate milkshake," she says as she closes the menu and hands it over to me. Jasmine and her love for chocolate.
"Good choice," Debby says, scribbling the order down in her small note pad.
"I'll have the banana split," I say and a frown found my lips at the price. There is no way I'm paying that. "Leo," I call sweetly, catching his attention. "You're paying right?"
He scrunches his nose, "what? Hell n-"
"Yes he is," Hazel cuts him off, "right baby?" Hazel says, staring at him dead in the eye. I noticed the way she dragged the 'baby' just to irritate Debby.
"Yh I guess," he replies in defeat.
I smiled and looked back at Debby who was watching us all with a pained and amused look on her face. "Banana split it is," I tell her happily and close the menu.
"But that's expensive!" Leo says.
"We'll have the usual," Hazel tells the waiter, ignoring Leo's complains. "I'm sure you should know since we order it everytime I have a date here with my boyfriend," she adds with obviously shade. I hold back a snicker.
The poor girl winced.
"Your food will be here shortly," Debby says with a rush as she walks away like she wants to be as far away from us as possible.
I notice the lovebirds busy with eachother and turn to Jasmine. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" I ask her.
"Yup. Something definitely went on between those three."
"You think we should find out?"
"Nah," she says dismissively, "we have more important things to worry about."
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"Lord I'm so full," I groan and stared at my half empty bowl of the banana split.
"I told you that you wouldn't be able to finish it now you have to pay for it yourself," Leo tells me with a smirk and I suck my teeth.
The deal is if I finish it he'll pay, but if I don't, I'll pay. But the problem is that I underestimated the size of this thing, I think I'm going to explode and shit myself at the same time.
"I gotta go use it," Jasmine says and makes her way to the lady's room.
Just as she's out of sight I here her phone ring from inside her fanny pack. I unzip it and check the caller ID.
Michael.
Why is he calling her? I thought he doesn't contact her.
"Who is it?" Hazel asks curiously.
"Um...no one important," I reply dismissively. She just shrugged and went back to what she was doing on her phone.
Two more seconds pass of me staring between the phone and the bathroom with a conflicted expression on my face.
Should I pick up?
Will Jasmine be mad?
But it could be important...
"I'll be right back," I tell Leo and Hazel before I leave the booth.
I walk out of the diner and into the small parking lot, then I pick up the call.
"Hello?" I say unsurely.
"I believe I called Jasmine, not you Bianca," an unfamiliar but rich and deep voice says monotously.
My eyes widen and I look around me, "h-how did you-"
"That's not important, now give the phone to Jasmine," he instructs.
"You're Michael right?"
"I believe you are not blind and saw the caller ID," he says with a bored tone.
I roll my eyes at his attitude, "well-"
"Give Jasmine the phone kid," he snaps.
My mouth drops, "kid?! I'm twenty three, I'm not a kid," I snap with a frown on my lips.
"Right..." He trails, obviously uninterested.
"How old are you anyways?" I ask him curious.
"Twenty six," he replies, "now could you give Jasmine the phone?"
"Whatever you want to say to Jasmine you can say it to me. I am also in danger you know," I tell him.
He lets out an agravated sigh, "Asher did warn me how stubborn you are," I hear him mutter.
My heart skips a beat at his name. Asher told him about me? He remembers me?
"Did you say Asher?" I say.
"Did I stutter?" He replies.
My frown grows even deeper, "you're very rude."
"And you're very annoying," he replies. I open my mouth to speak but he cuts me off again, "you might want to save that comment for later and look behind you, Jasmine doesn't look happy..." He trails off and the line goes dead.
Just as I remove the phone from my ear a hand lands on my shoulder startling me, "what the hell Bianca! You can't just be standing out in the open!" Jasmine yells as she turns me towards her. Her facial expression doesn't seem pleased.
I looked around again. How did he know?
I handed Jasmine her phone, "Michael called," I tell her.
She looked down at the black screen, "I know," she simply replies.
Before I could ask how she knew, Leo and Hazel are already walking out of the building.
"We should get going your flight is on an hour," Hazel says and we all approach the car.
Leo takes the wheel and drives us into the street and back on our way to the airport which is about ten minutes away.
Jasmine sits at the back with me this time, "why didn't you tell me he called," she asks quietly.
"I didn't want to bother you," I reply.
She rolls her eyes, "cap, what is the real reason."
"I just wanted to know what's going on, that's all," I reply with a shrug. "Are you keeping things from me Jasmine?"
She chuckles and I could almost feel the faint nervous vibe that flowed with it. "Just...give me the phone next time, alright?" She asks me with her eyes boring straight into mine.
Something in the way she looked at me made me feel there was more I didn't know.
"Are you keeping things from me Jasmine?" I ask her again but with a louder tone this time.
"No, no I'm not," she says quickly, "it's just that, Michael sent me a text saying someone was planning to kidnap us at the airport," she says.
My eyes widen, "the fact you didn't tell me that earlier means you're keeping secrets, Jasmine," I spit bitterly. She knows better than to keep things from me.
"I was going to tell you, I promise," she says.
"And you didn't because?"
"I didn't get the chance."
"Cap."
"C'mon Victoria, do-"
"Then why the hell are we going to the airport if there's a kidnapper there waiting for us!" I interrupt with a louder voice.
She shushes me, "that's the plan, we aren't."
"Everything alright there?" Hazel asks, noticing our hushed conversation.
"Um yeah," Jasmine replies absentmindedly and turns back to me. "Leo, take that right," Jasmine instructs.
"But the airport is straight down," he says.
"Just do it," she replies in an annoyed tone.
Leo shrugs, "whatever," he says and mumbles somethings under his breath.
Leo takes the turn, "where are we going?" Hazel asks. "You could miss your flight."
"Yeah Jasmine, where are we going?" I ask with a glare as I waited for an answer.
Jasmine opens her mouth to speak but Leo beats her to it, "um jaz, this is the end of the road," he says as he hits the breaks.
We were in a long alleyway with a brick wall ending our journey.
Jasmine then scrambles towards the door but I grab her arm, "what's going on Jasmine?" I ask, growing angry at her.
So she is keeping things from me.
"I'll explain in a minute, I promise. Just stay in the car," she quickly replies as she rushes out of the car.
Leo rolls down his window, "um Jasmine!" He starts akwardly, "I don't think this brick wall is the airport."
Just as he finishes his sentence a sleek black car pulls up behind us.
I noticed Leo and Hazel saw it too.
Every second I spent staring at the expensive car it felt like time stopped. Everyone was quiet and frozen in this circle of silence.
After what felt like forever Jasmine slowly struted towards the parked Ferrari, her black heeled boots clicking against the cemented ground as she swayed her hips to the echoing sound. She stops a few meters away from the car.
A man slowly emmerged from the driver's seat and I felt my breath hitch in my throat because even though I've never met this man before I couldn't help but guess who he could be and I knew I was right.
Michael.
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AN
Don't kill me.
I know I disappeared...but I'm back and that's all that counts... right?
*Laughs nervously*
Here's the next chapter, I will be updating often, I won't let you down don't worry.
Don't forget to wash you hands! Please stay safe and stay at home.
Lots of love💜💜💜
Elizi ❤️