Oliviaturned to look at the murderer. She was a really beautiful girl, her eyes werea crystal blue, her long, wavy dark brown hair was perfectly done into aponytail, her slightly tan skin matched well with the tattoos she had all overher arms. The girl was beautiful, like nothing Olivia had ever seen. Not thatshe had seen much girls though.
"So...girl,what's your name??" The murderer asked with curiosity filling her eyes.
"O-Olivia"Olivia whispered.
Themurderer gave a half smile and nodded, then she began to look away(probably tothe others girl) and seemed in deep thought for a moment. Olivia couldn't take thesituation, she was afraid to die. So she asked:
"W-whatw-w-will y-you d-do -t-to m-me?? W-w-who a-are y-you??" She couldn't helpbut sttuter non stop. The murderer smirked.
"Whoam I you ask??" Then she made a pause, laughing a little. The continued:
"Name'sAce. Ace Hart"
The namesuited her, but what surprised Olivia was the complete name, "AceHart", clearly it almost sounded like a joke. "Hart" and theword heart matched perfectly together, and let's not forget about"Ace". Ace Hart. Ace of Hearts... That's why this namesuits her. Olivia's thoughts were interruped by Ace, she walked until she wasbefore Olivias frightened gaze. Ace obviously noticed it, and chuckled.
"Whyso nervous?? I won't harm you if that's what you're thinking." Then she turnedto look at the other girls and contiued "I have a better idea with what Ishould do with you."
Thisstatement alone made Olivia begin to tremble again, her forehead was becomingwet of sweat because of the nervouseness.
"Girls,do any of you have that thing??" Ace asked. A red haired girlnodded, she was to the left of the girl who threatened Olivia with a gun
"I do,always carry with me in case of a emergencie." The red head smirked,amused by Olivia oblivious look. Olivia wanted to know what thing they weretalking about but surely she wouldn't like it.
Red headpicked something out of her backpack, it was a rag. Olivia asked herself whatwould they do with that rag. Her questions were answered when the red head gaveAce the rag and she came closer to Olivia.
"Itwon't hurt, just make you sleep. In a good way okay??" Ace raised the ragclose to Olivias nose before she could protest or even think of it. Suddenly,her legs grew weak and a strong desire to sleep envolved her body. She heardAce say something.
"Well,sleep in a not so good way to tell you the truth." Then, blackness.
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Olivia wokeup with a massive headache. Her body felt like pure jelly-o and she couldn'tmove properly. She wondered what happened to her to feel this way. Suddenly,realization hit her. She was kidnapped!! By a group of girls!! The first thingOlivia thought was to scream for help, but it wouldn't help her, wherever shewas, she was sure nobody could hear. Then, she began to wonder about all thethings she read and watched about kidnapping but doing it was a bad ideas, shebegan to panic.
What if mykidnappers want to kill me??
What ifthey sell me on black market??
What if Inever see my father again??
The lastthought made her cy. Not that she wasn't about to cry, but it worsenedeverything. Olivia remembered how foolish she was to think that going out byherself would be a unforgetable experience. She was just so stupid to thinkthat!! If she stayed at home, obeyed her father, maybe she would still be unhappybut still with her dad. Olivia cried harder, sobbing uncrontrolably. Then sheheard a noise coming outside of the door. Then, it opened revealin no one elsebut Ace.
"Soyou are awake huh?!" She walked to Olivia and sat at the corner of thebed. "Look, I know you might be feeling horrible now, but you'll get usedto it okay?" She told Olivia, her voice was almost reassuring, but hereyes held almost no emotion at all.
How couldshe murder a man, kidnap a her and still be able to tell this?? Olivia was exasperate.Ace sure had the courage to do horrible thing and still come and try to peaceher mind.
"Aren'tyou going to talk?? or scream?? claim for help? beg for freedom?" Aceasked, raising an eyebrow. Her tone was similar to that one when Olivia and herwere in that poor neighborhood. Ace was daring Olivia to do something. Oliviaaccepted the dare.
"Whys-should I scream f-for help?? I-It would result i-in nothing" Oliviatried her best to conceal her fear along with her tears. With no success. Acealready percepted it all.
"Yousure can't fight but still can try to stand up for yourself. Good" Acesaid, but Olivia noticed that it was more to herself than to her.
"W-whatyou're going to do with me?" Olivia asked
"Youwitnessed a murder, not only that but you witnessed ME murdering someone. Andnow I can't let you get away." Ace said seriously, Olivia once again beganto tremble, ready for another cascade of tears.
"Don'tpanic though. I won't kill you, you're more valuable to me alive." Oliviafelt a little relief, but still felt fear. What could Ace do?? Try to exchangeOlivia's freedom for her father's money?
"No, Iwon't exchange you for your father's money." Ace said, like she could readOlivia's mind. "I'll use you for another purpose" Olivia's eyeswildened, what other purpose could she have to her aside from exchange??
"I'lltell you later what I have in mind for you. Now let's eat something, you mustbe hungry. You slept for one day." Surprised, Olivia nodded
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Ace's housewas big, with luxurious mobiles and clean appearence. Olivia wondered how shemanaged to aford it all, but to a girl that can kill and kidnap, it shouldn'tbe a surprise that she had such a big home.
"Youcan sit there and I'll bring you a sandwich." Ace pointed to a sofa in theliving room. There was a girl already seated there, it was one of the girlsOlivia met before. The girl glared at her but noticing Olivia's fear, smirked.Hesitant, Olivia sat besides the girl. Soon Ace came back with a plate with asandwich and a glass of juice.
"Hereit is. You can eat, I didn't poisoned it." Olivia nodded and began to eatthe sandwich. It was delicious. But with hunger, everything turn delicious.
"Sonow I want you to meet the girls." Ace then shouted to the other girl come"GUYS, COME HERE NOW!!" She ordered and instantly three more girlsappeared and took a seat at the living room.
"Girls,this is Olivia, our guest" Olivia almost rolled her eyes at the wordguest. "She'll be living with us from now on. I want you to treat her likeyou all treat each other" Olivia almost choked, she didn't know that Ace'splan inclued her living with them. But the tone in Ace's voice showed that shewasn't kidding.
"Thisis my gang Olivia, the White Tigresses." Once again, Olivia's eyeswildened and she almost choked. Gang?? These girl were in a gang?? Oliviacouldn't believe her ears. She then looked at all of the girls, all were prettyand didn't look like they belonged to a gang. Bad girls maybe, but not a gang.What Ace was planning after all?? She said Olivia was a guest but it surewasn't even the point of iceberg. Did Ace want to turn Olivia into a ganggirl??
"Now,everyone say your names to Olivia." Ace demanded.
"I'm Trinity,nice to meet you!" The first girl who spoke had black hair and a sidecuton it. She wore nerdy glasses but Olivia could see her warm gaze and smile. Sheseemed to be the nicest of them all so Olivia smiled too. It was easier to likeher because she wasn't with the gang, kidnapping her.
"I'm Morgana,but everyone calls me Mo" Said the red head that gave Ace the rag theyused to kidnap Olivia. Olivia just nodded, not wanting to associate with her,she was still resentful about the all "smirking at my disgrace"thing.
"Myname is Nikki." Said the girl besides Olivia, the one who smirked ather.
"AndI'm Ray." The girl who pointed a gun at Olivia earlier said, hervoice was a "annoyed with all of this" one. "Now that the little"presentation party" ended, I'm getting out." Then she walkedout of the living room. Ace huffed at her action.
"Nowthat you know everyone, you might want to know what I'll do with you"Olivia nodded. "I will say this loud, clear and without rambling: I wantyou to be a part of my gang"
Oliviagasped, she knew it!! But how?? How could Ace expect that a girl like Oliviacould do things a gang do?? She surely wasn't the right person to do thatjob.
"W-what?WHAT?? You want me to be a part of your gang?? But how? Why?? " Oliviatook a pause to breath. "You said yourself that I can't fight!!"
"Iknew she would freak out about it, I warned you Ace" Trinity said,receiving a glare from Ace in return.
"Butyou can stand, or at least try, for yourself. Besides, you witnessed me killinga man, I can't let you go or you'll call the cops on me. Or worse, you'll bekilled!" Ace said
"Ipromise, I SWEAR, I won't call the cops on you!! And why would I be killed??Or..you wouldn't kill me, would you??"
"Isaid I won't kill you, and when I say something, believe it. Cause it's is thetruth. And to answer your question I'll have to ask another. Do you know whothat man was??" Olivia shook her head.
"Thatman was Ricardo Vasquez, one of the most respected drug lords around. Or at leasthe was. But he stole something from me, and he paid with his life. Don't thinkI killed him out of nothing, I planned for months my revenge." This madeOlivia shiver, Ace was a dangerous girl. At first glance, she seemed just acommon bad girl, but there was more to her than meets the eyes. And it'sterrifying.
"Hehad a lot of connections, so if you witnessed his murder, you could beassociated to it. And believe me when I say it, if they, or better, when theyfind out, your life outside my protection is over. So you better reconsideratemy propose cause If you don't, you better choose what kind of coffin youwant." Ace said dangerously. All the other girls in the room lookedat Olivia with curiosity, waiting for her answer.
"I-I-I..."Olivia couldn't speak. She was terrified, so she instead of saying something,she got up and ran away. No one made a effort to stop her though, besides,Olivia only went to the balcon anyways.
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Oliviadidn't know what to do, in one moment she was with her father, safely livingwith him, but in another, she was with a girl gang deciding if she shouldaccept their proposal. If she denied, she could go back to her life and herfather. It wouldn't last long though. If she accepted, she would live, butwithout her father. It was a difficult decision.
"Havingdoubt about what you want, no?" Ace appeared besides Olivia
"Yeah..."Olivia muttered
"Youknow, the gang life isn't so bad. Okay, maybe you'll still have some survivalproblems, but you'll know how to fight back. You'll learn things about yourselfthat you never thought existed."
"Butwhat if I don't want it?? What if all I wanted was to be a normal teenagegirl?"
"Then,just say no to me. But answer me before: if you want a normal life, why didn'tyou already said no to my proposal??" Olivia scoffed, obviously Acecouldn't understand the meaning of self preservation.
"Isn'tit obvious?? If I go back to home, I'll die. You said so."
"Yeah,but with all the money your father has, you could easily change places."Olivias eyes wildened. How did Ace knew that her father was rich??
"Youmight be wondering how I know that. Well, I made my homework about you. You'reOlivia Werneck, daughter of George Werneck, one of the richest man in thecountry. How I know your full name? I read in your diary. Great writting by theway." Olivia was tired of Ace's little games, so instead of surprised, shewas beginning to feel something she never felt. Anger, true anger.
"Soyou know my name huh?? And you problably read my diary entry too. Yeah, rightnow you might be thinking that I'm just a foolish, naive girl who thought theworld was a happy place anywhere you go. And believing it, I ended up kidnappedby a group of girl who call themselves by a ridiculous name and that, aside fromkilling and kidnapping, are capable of doing worse things. And to top it all??I'm pratically on the run for my life and have to decide if I want or not be apart of a world of crimes, drugs and wrong doings. That's it? That's what youwanted to hear? You wanted me to admit that right now I'm hopeless?"Olivia exploded, she couldn't take it no more. Ace clapped her hands.
"That'sit!! What I wanted to see!! What I knew was inside of you begging to be free!!I'll admit it, in the moment I looked at you in the eyes, I realised I neededyou in my gang. Not just because what happened or the fact that I'm shorthanded, but because I saw that you had some fire inside of you. And now finallyI could see that!" Ace was clearly proud. Olivia was far away from thatthough, she felt ashamed. She never talked to someone that way before. Shedidn't want to feel what she knew she would if she stayed with Ace. She didn'twant to feel like a bad girl.
"Itwas just a weak moment of mine. I'm not like that okay? I'm not a bad girl likeyou!!" Ace raised a brow, she knew what Olivia meant by that.
"Youknow Olivia, I'm a bad girl. You're right, you shouldn't want to feel likethis, to be like this. But if you look the right way, you will want to . Tellme, is this the first time you speak your mind?, what truly has on it?I guessthat the answer is yes. Cause you're the kind of girl that doesn't mix withgirls like and the others. Cause we are the kids your father doesn't want youto associate with, we are the kids that everyone think it's cool to be like, weare the kids everybody fears, we are bad girls."
Oliviastayed silent, she didn't have the guts to deny what Ace said, it was all true.Even if she didn't want it to be.
"Youthink being a bad girl is wrong? Something to be ashamed of?" Acecontinued."But Olivia, I can show you incredible things, I can showyou how to be a bad girl. And you're gonna love it"
"Howcan I love something that only will make me closer to hell?" Olivia asked,she was skeptical. Ace just chuckled.
"Darling...goodgirls might go to heaven when they die, but bad girls, might experiment heaveneven before death."