The Mafia King

Aliza’s POV They say that life is like a book, and I guess this is my story… I was walking back from work when my phone rang. I work in a small coffee shop near my house because it’s the closest job. I couldn’t risk getting a job that may cause me to walk alone at night, because I could get kidn*pped, robbed, or even killed. Ever since the mafia took control over our society, we have been living in hell. Only the people who agreed to be associate with them got the chance to live normally. Many of us were offered to work for gangs and mobs, but refused. My parents taught me to do well, even if it costs everything. However, many people didn’t want to fight against this corruption, some couldn’t even if they tried. The mafias stopped working on the down low and chose to over throw the government. They almost succeeded but they were offered control alongside the governments of the world if not even more. Countries with more powerful mafia like the US, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Russia were completely controlled by them. Anyone that refused to work with the mafia was put in a lower social class and the highest social class belongs to the mafias and their families. We couldn’t do anything about it, if we did our income would be cut off and we would be targeted for killing. All of this happened about 6 years ago when I was 15 years old. At that time I lived with my parents and me. Two years after the world was flipped upside down, my parents were asked to join a mafia in NYC because of their skills in computer science engineering, which I learned from them. However, they refused because their morals wouldn’t let them harm people and participate in illegal and inhuman events. Both of them were hunted down for about a year, making us move around the states, until they were killed when I was 18 years old. That left me and my brother, now 23 years old, alone and vulnerable. We got through it, our life was going back to normal, until my brother suddenly disappeared from my life. One morning I woke up and he wasn’t home. He was 21 at that time and I was 19. He was the main source of income for both of us, so I had to find a job. I moved back to NYC where I stayed at my old family house, found a small wage income from a coffee shop 1 block away from my house, and started my life from scratch. For the past 2 years I have been making friends with the people in my neighborhood. After what the mafias call the revolution, they all lost most of their jobs and it became a poor neighborhood. Even with all our struggles, we learned to support one another, so now we are like a family, we go over to each other’s house of someone can’t afford a meal that night, we help each other if the bills were not getting paid, and we supported each other like our life depended on it. Most of the time we get attacks from smaller gangs that seek money and power, but we had nothing to lose, so we protected each other and nursed anyone that had gotten injured. But let me be honest, not all gangs are bad. Some of them are Robin Hood, steal from rich give to the poor. Some of them make friends with us. Which takes me back to where I am now. I got off track way too easily but hey, at least you got a history lesson and a backstory. I was coming back from my morning shift, when my best friend, Annika called me. I took my phone out of my pocket and answered. “Hey Ali.” “Hey there.” I replied. “Are you free now?” “Just finished my shift, you want me to come over?” She hummed a ‘yes’. “On my way.” I closed the phone and got in my car. Technically my brothers car that he left when he disappeared, I never knew what happened to him. I searched everywhere I could but I never found anything. I drove while listening to the radio because I hated silence. Soon I reached her house and parked my car. I knocked on the door and was greeted by the one and only Jaxon, Annika’s boyfriend. They started dating 3 years ago, and yes, she knew that he was in g**g. He is like a brother to me, and he would protect us no matter what, not that he needed to protect Annika, since if your connected to aging member your off the hook. “Hey there kid.” He engulfed me in a bear hug. “You’re only a year older than me.” I hugged him back. “ALI!” Annika yelled from behind Jaxon while running towards me. “Hey Nika.” She hugged me so tight my soul probably left my body. “Come in, I made pasta.” --- After we had dinner, we sat on her couch and started playing Uno when Jaxon’s phone rang. He got up to answer the call. “Hello.” We heard him say as his voice faded. I suddenly notice his opened laptop siting on the couch he was on. I chuckled, stood up and put the laptop in my lap. “What are you up to?” Annika asked confused. “Just checking out this website Jaxon has opened, he didn’t sign in so I’m going to get in.” “How are you going to do that? You don’t have a username or password.” “That’s why I have these.” I pointed at my head and waved my hands. ‘I can use his IP address to connect to the last time he signed in here or I can find a way to enter their system so I can browse it without an account, it’s like I’m invisible.” I explained to her. “How do you know all this?? What would u use this for anyway?” “My dad taught me what he knew and I learned the rest. I can use it if I want to stalk someone or if I want to ruin someone’s feed. After a few more minutes of coding and cracking into multiple systems, I realized that thus was a heavily guarded website. But what can I say? It intrigued me more since it didn’t even have a name on its link, hell I couldn’t even copy the link, which was a first. Suddenly I got the link to the command code that acted as a key portal to the website. “YES!” I entered the website as an incognito device. “Don’t get yourself in to trouble Ali.” Nika warned mw looking up from her phone. “Don’t worry about me I’m invincible.” She rolled her eyes at me while smiling. I started looking around the website I just hacked into and realized that there is some drama going on. “Who the hell is the imperium empire…? They ship things, do they work with sss or something?” “They could be like an online shop for rich people.” Nika laughed. “But why do they study chemicals if they’re an online store? Scopolamine, foxy methoxy, benzo fury, crocodile and dragonfly? They could be a medical online shop.” I read out the names of the so called products they ship. “I don’t know Ali, just leave it and come eat some chips with me.” She threw me a bag of chips. I ignored her and started reading about their conflict with another online shipping company called Ultores, the Imperium Empire seems to want some information so they can stop the Ultores from stealing their shipment. So I chose to dig even deeper than I other online store. I cracked into the other store’s website and started checking out their products. I found out all the information that seemed to relate to the other store. Here’s what I understood the I.E (Imperium Empire) has shipments for their customers that the Ultores stole to decrease their sales and income, which to me sound like jealous b***h behavior. The I.E wants to find out some information about the Ultores so they can find a way to eliminate them. They needed some coordinates, data frames, and IP addresses. Mr. Imperium Empire, I got you. This entire time Jaxon was on a very important call, he was arguing like the person was in the room. I continued doing what I do for the next 3 minutes, and since base as the I’E’s website, it was easier for me. “Holy s**t I got it… I GOT IT NIKA!” “Got what??” “Some information about some online shop called Ultores that was stealing stuff from another online shop called the Imperium Empire.” “YOU DID WHAT!?” I turned around to see Jaxon froze in shock. “What? I’m sorry I know I shouldn’t have touched your laptop I promise its fine.” “Tell me what you did, tell me everything from the start.” He looked so frightened. I explained to him about the tea between the two online shops and his mouth was gasped open the entire time. “You. i***t. Count yourself as dead at this point.” He put his hands in his head. “Why…?” “The online shops you’re talking about, are real mafias.” And that my friends, is how I got a heart attack. “They are rival gangs, the Imperium Empire is run by the mafia king. He controls everything and anyone he wants. He is even stronger than most powerful nations combined. He wouldn’t care if it was an accident. He said slowly. “You mean…” Nika said. “Yes. You messed with Lance Gonzales Mafia Empire.” Once those words left his mouth. I was speechless. Like my tongue was nonexistent. I messed up terribly. “We will find a way out of this.” Nika tried to sooth and calm me down. It never helped. The most ruthless and powerful man to ever exist, is going to kill me. I trespassed on his property and I’m going to pay with my life. “I’m so dead.” I managed to whisper.