TASTEFUL REVENGE

Revenge

IRENE'S POV

‘Sweetie’ I heard a strain of voice and turned to see it was my dad.

‘DAD!’ I screamed. ‘Let me call 911’ I said as I scrambled for my phone but was immediately stopped by my dad.

‘Ge..et, revenge’ he said as he held me tight. I could care less about what he was saying and called 911 anyway, and they were already on their way.

‘GET REVENGE’ he yelled now with all his strength.

‘Dad stop talking and save your strength. Help will soon be here’ I said ignoring what he said.

‘You need to leave now’ he said.

‘No dad I am not leaving you and mum’

‘You have to leave now or you may end up like us’ he said, and I was so conflicted and scared.

‘Go’ he said, and I scrambled to my feet and ran out, I hope they don’t die, I would come back for them. I was scared the person that did that to them would also come for me and kill me, but I still did not want to leave my parents alone, I did not know what to do, so I just stood in front of the house and waited.

911 came minutes later and dragged my parents out. I followed them to the hospital and secretly prayed nothing happened to my parents.

I stood in the lobby as I watched my parents drag away to the emergency room. I was so scared, I could not lose them now, I haven't spent enough time with them to just lose them like this.

‘Sad right’ a husky voice said beside me. I looked over and saw it was a man. He looked tough and sturdy. He had a scar on his forehead and had a sharp jawline.

‘Excuse me’ I said, sniffing.

‘Both parents dead’ he said, and I was taken aback. How did he know about my parents, and what did he mean by dead.

‘They are being operated on’ I said, being defensive.

‘I highly doubt that’ he replied, and my heart skipped a beat. I rushed over to the door of the room my parents were being operated on and was approached by the doctor in charge.

‘How was the surgery?’ I asked scared’

‘I am sorry miss, but we lost both of your parents’ he said and everything went silent as I fell on my knees. His words replayed and echoed in my head.

"I am sorry miss we lost both of your parents."

" I am sorry miss we lost both of your parents."

It was as if my world had stopped. Everything stopped moving, I could not hear anything, could not feel anything, apart from the hot stream of tears rolling down my cheeks, and all I could hear was the sound of my own heart beating.

"I am sorry miss we lost both of your parents."

Those words replayed in my head over and over. It could not be, it was not possible, we were just celebrating my birthday, I could not accept this.

‘NO!’ I yelled ‘NO!, NO!, NO!’ I yelled. Let me see my parents, they can’t be dead, we were just celebrating, it is not possible’ I screamed as I tried to force myself into the emergency room but was stopped by some nurses. I screamed out more as more tears rolled down my cheeks’

‘It can’t be, they said they loved me’ I yelled, and the nurses tried to calm me down, but I was not having it.

‘Painful’ the voice from earlier said, and I turned to see it was that same man. I rushed towards him and held him by the collar.

‘How did you know this would happen?’ I yelled at him

‘I know a lot of things, young lady’ he said calmly with poise.

‘Things like what?’ I asked again

‘Like who killed your parents and why they were killed’ my heart skipped a beat, he knew who killed my parents?, how did I know I could trust this man, the first rule my dad always told me was not to trust anybody.

‘How do I know I can trust you?’ I asked, not breaking eye contact.

‘Because I worked closely with your parents, and we basically did everything together’ he said.

Truth was, I didn’t even know what my parents did for work. All I knew was they went for some time and come back. They were hardly ever around, which implied their work was strenuous.

He seemed to notice me contemplating and brought out a picture of him and my parents, smiling together and just enjoying the moment.

‘They looked so happy’ I said, with a weak smile on my face.

‘They were, and you can avenge their death’ he said.

The words my dad said earlier came to me, ‘GET REVENGE’ and I was taken aback. I wanted revenge, but how was I going to take revenge, I was just a weak girl who just clocked 18, with no family and no one by my side.

‘And how would I do that?’ I asked

‘By becoming an agent like your parents’ he said swiftly, and a surprised expression formed on my face. I was shocked. Agents? that was the last thing u expected my parents to be. Yes, they were secretive and all, but this was next level.

‘Excuse me?, Agent?’ I said surprised.

‘Irene your parents were agents, well spies technically and they helped take down bad guys, you can train to become an agent and take down the people that killed your family’ he said and my eyes twitched.

I knew my parents were cool, but this cool? I never could have thought. The way he talked, he seemed to know for sure who killed my family.

‘And who killed my family again?’

‘The DENERO family’ he said sternly. I knew that family, they were the most influential family in the city, they had fleet of companies everywhere and really powerful. I hated them because of how I heard they treated people, and now I hated them more.

‘Let’s do this’ I said mindlessly with only one thing on my mind. REVENGE.