" dad you can't do this to me-"
My father turns to face me. He has already torn apart my room. All my clothes in a airport sized suitcase. He glares at me for a second before handing me my bags. Then he finally speaks.
" Marianne do not argue with me this is for your safety. I already lost your mother. I refuse to stand here and let you die. You mean so much to me and I won't let general 48 ruin the only thing that makes me happy."
My dad drags my suitcase to the car as I look around my room. My bed is even gone. It's pathetic: I can protect myself.
What is my dad so afraid of anyway?

I snap out of it as I hear a loud gunshot. It makes me jump ten feet out of my trance. I head onto my balcony and look down. There is a squad car that has the same gang logo my father warned me about.
It can't be! General 48 has found us already....

More bullets are shot from general 48s gang. My father's security guards falling to the ground helplessly as they are shot to death. Tears form in my eyes as they shoot the maid:
She has a loving husband and two children.
I rummage through my purse and pull out a smoke grenade. A little present my father gave me for my seventeenth birthday. Just last night I had turned seventeen, I was a normal seventeen year old. Now as I stand her I'm starting to think this is why my dad was sending me away: to protect me from the grasps of general 48 and his gang.

" Up there! Get her!" Snarls a man wearing a large green cloak. He glares up at me as I realize it's general 48 himself.

-I HAVE TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT-
The rival gang members run to the front door and inside. If I run out of this room they will catch me. I'm trapped on this balcony. I try to hold the screen door shut. But the gang member is ten times stronger than me. He yanks the door open joining me on the balcony. He stares at me with a mischievous grin. A baseball bat in the clutch of his hands.

I back away in fear. Is this it? Is this how I'm going to die?

" Well aren't u a cutie...."
The guy pauses instantly. I hear something: he hears it too. It sounds like it is getting closer by the second.

We both look up there's a chopper ten feet above our heads. Someone throws down a ladder: it nearly hits me in the head.
" Let's go!!" Yells a girl from inside. I squint my eyes trying to figure out who she is. But the sun only allows me to get a glance of the ladder.
Is she talking to me?

" Mari! Hurry up!!!" The girl yells down at me. I snap out of it only people who are in my dad's gang know my nickname. Whoever this girl is she came to save me. Without hesitation I begin to climb the ladder: trying not to look down below. I'm terrified of heights.

Finally I reach the top. The mysterious girl helps me up onto my feet. She is very pretty: hazel eyes with long light brown hair down to her back. She was wearing dark lipstick and a jacket that had large letters embroidered on the back
The letters were spelled out writing
'the house of gangsters'.

" Mari I said are u okay??!"
I snap out of my trance and nod at the girl. Then I take a seat and buckle up.
She sits next to me. Only for some reason she doesn't buckle up.
" My name is Becky call me beck's. We're going to get you to safety alright strawberry shortcake?"
" Wait what do u mean by where?"
I ask out of curiosity
She nods her head: gesturing to the helicopter driver.
It Is a tall boy.
He looks to be about my age. He's got what looks to be a army vest on. On his neck is a tattoo of what looks to be the ace of spades. He glances back at me for a second, then he gives me a reassuring smile
" The names ace!
Don't worry your in good hands kiddo!"
I nod my head as the helicopter flies away. I look out the window and down below. Chaos spreading in the front yard of my once known to be house. Which is now on fire. All I could think about is my father. Did he make it out safely? Or did general 48 get ahold of him?
Or worse what if he was killed.....

" Your father texted me: he said he's going to be out of the country for a few months. Looks like you will be staying with me and the others for a while."
I turn to face beck's: curious by what she meant by that. I stay silent for what feels to be ten minutes before speaking again.

" What do u mean by others?!"
My voice hollers over the choppers loud noises.

Becks grins as I know not of what she is about to say.

" The house of gangsters"