River

Lying in my bed feeling the random shining through the window trying to awake me from my deep sleep. I moved a little feeling my sore and stiff so I rolled over to my side to stretch my back a little, but once I rolled onto my side the shoulder and arm felt tiny soft tingled touching my arm. I instantly sit up opening my eyes shutting the quickly at the blinding bright light and the piercing pain that pulsed in my head. I rubbed my face trying to figure out what was going on, as I slowly opened them again and looked around. I looked to my right and could see Jane on the ground next to me, next to her was Tiffany, as Mark laid next to her.

I rubbed my face trying to wake up more and figure out how we had ended up here and where here was. I pushed myself up to stand realizing my shoes were gone as I glanced at the others seeing we all didn't have shoes. As I fully stood up I felt my stomach drop and the sickening feeling start crawling up my throat as I moved quickly away from the others to the next closest tree. The vomit came out as soon as I leaned against the tree. I dropped to my knees as I heaved more, and the pounding in my head throbbed with every breath I could catch. Once I felt safe I was not going to barf again I moved away from the puck so I couldn't smell the potent odor. I crawled my way back to where the other where sleep and stopped at the tree setting up against the trunk.

I rubbed my face again trying to remember anything from last nights, but it was all foggy and I couldn't remember much. I looked around trying to figure out where are, and I realized we were at the park we had been at yesterday after school. I checked my pockets for my phone, but it wasn't there all I had was my wallet and my gun. As I continued trying to remember how we got here.

8 HOURS EARLIER

I sat in an isolated interrogation room for about an hour alone handcuffed wait for someone to come in and try to interrogate me. This waiting game the police tried playing was irritating and I couldn't stand just sitting here, wasting my time. I wanted to know what was happening, where Jane was and when I was going to be allowed to go. I knew Dante lawyer was here, he was chatting with another man who looked familiar, but I only saw a small view of his profile before I was shoved into the back room. I continued to sit here tell the door opened and the lawyer came in closing the door behind him. I pulled the chair out that sat across from me.

"so you and Jane set Jonathan canton son's car on fire" the lawyer said as he looked at me with raised eyebrows as he read over the paper in front of him "well lucky Jonathan, has pulled the charges David tried pressing against you, and you will be released in about an hour" he said as he shoved paper back into his briefcase

"what about Jane?" I said watching him organize

"well the trespassing and vandalism charges have been dropped as well, but the state department is going after her with arson charges because she set a car on fire, which was followed by an explosion once the fire reached the gas tank, as well as causing damage to the neighboring property, but they won't be pressing charges and have been dealt with" he said looking annoyed "it will take be a little longer to get her out, but she is safe in a holding cell now" he said standing up "I will see you in a few days or when you two decided to get yourself arrested again" he said chuckling as he walked out

once he was gone another cop came in and took the handcuff off as I got up stretching after sitting in that uncomfortable chair for so long. He directed me down the same hall I had been in a few days before when I had gotten arrested for the incident in the mall. While walking I got to the office area where the cop that arrested me the previous time was sitting chatting with other cops. Smiled and waved at him as he glared furiously at me. I felt satisfied as I finally got outside and looked around. My dad and Dante were not here this time, I didn't have my cell phone or gun with me to call someone to bring me a car. I saw a payphone and dug in my pocket for my wallet. Luckily I had enough change to make a call. I pushed the change in and punched in the numbers hopefully it was correct

"Hello" He answered quickly sounding amused

"Hey Mark it river I need another favor" I said as he started laughing

"I'm guessing you're at the station in old downtown" he said laughing

"yeah, come bring me my gun and phone I left in your car" I said as I could hear him saying something to someone,

"sure be there a few" mark said hanging up as I went and sat on the bench outside the station

I sat on the bench for a long time while I waited for Mark to show up and waiting for Jane to come out. It seemed pretty busy with people walking around into shops that were around the police station. Cars passed by with driving staring at me with curiosity, while police cursor passed by with cops glaring at me his passion. After a while, I was getting really irritated that Mark was taking so long, but as I watch for his car a man came out of the station and stopped and looked at me. He was the same man who I had seen talking to the lawyer when I was drought in earlier

"Hello River" the man said walking toward me extending his hand as I glared at him "Oh excuse me, I'm Jonathan Canton," he said smiling again at it finally clicked in my mind why he looked familiar

"nice to meet you Mr. Canton" I said standing up and shaking his hand, yes I hated his son, but it's not his fault and I couldn't be rude to him after he got most of the charges dropped and he worked for Dante

"I'm sorry for the mess my son caused you, I'm sure whatever he did, to warrant your action's was well deserved, he has been very upset for the last year about the decision me and Dante have made" he said checking his phone as he spoke

"I do not know what decision that was made" I said as he smiled

"Oh that right you were still at the boarding school, but David has been acting out against Dante and I after we made the decision not to give David my place once I retire, the job will be going to my younger son Anthony he is a freshmen this year at your old school" he said as he typed away on his phone "David be very upset since we told him he wasn't taking over and has been being a little brat about it, but he just not right for the job he fails math and is a coward, and I told Dante and he agreed to send Anthony who understands my work far more than David could.

My. Canton kept rambling on as I thought about what he said, David wasn't going to be taking over after his father retired. It all fell into to place as I realized David was only with Jane because he was not getting what he wanted from his dad. I felt the need to strangle that pest, he was about to get away with convincing Jane that he was in love with her to get Dante power.

"Well I must be going, have a few meeting to attend, do you need a ride somewhere?" Mr. Canton said as I shook my head

"no, I have a friend coming and I still need to wait for Jane" I said feeling angry at the new information I had learned about Jane and David

"ah yes, I guess Jane still in custody, don't worry too much she will be let out soon I know the judge on her case and he owes me a few favors. Well I was nice to finally meet you River" he said as he walked away from me toward the parking lot

I sat back down on the bench as Mr. canton walked away, as I tried not imagining killing that bastard David. Trying to use Jane to get power and money by pretending to love Jane so he could take over because he wants getting his daddy position. I looked up at the car that pulled into the parking lot and stood up when I saw Mark's car. I headed toward the parking space they parked in as Tiffany jumped out of the car and came bouncing toward me.

"did you and Jane really set David's car on fire" she said with an exciting tone, as mark got out of the car laughing

"mostly Jane set the car on fire, I just made sure she wasn't stopped" I said leaning against the trunk of the car as mark stood next to me

"still that is like so awesome, where is Jane at?" she said looking around

"she still inside, it is going to be a few before they release her" I said taking the cigarette mark offered

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"why are you out and not her?" she asked as I chuckled

"we'll see, when he copes showed up David's car wasn't on fire, and when they told her to freeze she let the match, he told her to drop it and she did, it just happened to have landed on his car" I said as mark laughed more

"see why couldn't we have stayed that would have been so awesome to see" Tiffany said whining

"because Tiffany, would you have really wanted to go and face your father when he is as angry as Dante and River dad" Mark said as he looked at the ground

"Dante and y dad are angry?" I said in shock as I hoped I didn't hear him correctly

"not so much angry that you guess got in trouble, more mad that you two went and set David who is Dante's bankers son car on fire, which could have potentially caused a problem" he said as played on his phone

"shit! I didn't even think about the problems that might have caused for Dante" I said pinching the bridge on my nose irritated at what I had done and what I allowed to happen.

I let my emotions get involved into this mess I let this happen. I hated and was jealous over the idiotic boy who I couldn't see what the actions allowed to happen could have done to Dante to my parents to Jane. I was disappointed in myself and hated that I wasn't able to keep my emotions out of it and just think logically and know I had disappointed Dante and my parents. Tiffany jumped off the car as I heard her scream, as I looked up to see Jane and another girl walking out followed by the lawyer who waved me over as they came down the stairs.

"River, Dante wants you two home immediately. Is that clear?" the lawyer said as I nodded in agreement, as he headed off in another direction in the parking lot

"oh my gosh Jane I'm so jealous I wasn't there to see David's face," Tiffany started gushing

"it was so much fun, I wish you could have been there it was almost as fun as that time we accidentally burnt your kitchen down trying to cook" she said as they both laughed, but my eye drifted to the girl who was quiet, that come out with Jane

She looked older than I was had long black hair that was pulled back wore a lot of makeup that made her look unattractive well to me at least. She was wearing giant high heels and a short skirt that showed off her nice long legs that were mouth-watering. She also had on a very tight top that was low-cut that showed her cleavage off to get attention, which was also nice to look at. I could see a few tattoos on her, one that jumped out at me was Jane father family allegiances symbol on her arm.

that made me feel more comfortable at least she was somewhat trust able and there had to be a good reason she was here I wonder if she was a social rank climber, her tattoo being on her arm meant she was a lower ranked someone who is not invited to the big house unless there to be killed there the one that are almost at the bottom of the pyramid, but had more power than those with the tattoo on the backs. My tattoo was on my left chest over almost over my heart, which meant I was right ranking, but I was not part of the inner circle where Dante and his wife, Jane, the lawyer, the banker, his dumb son, and a few other important people, did have them they didn't have a tattoo branding himself to show their loyalty they just where ingrained in them since they were born.

"Oh Tiff, this is Mercedes, she super nice" I heard Jane say which got my attention pretty quickly because it sounded like a strippers name, and the uneasy feeling about this girl became stronger, what was the deal, but I shrugged it off because I need to get her home

"Jane we got to go, your father wants us home as soon as possible" I said as all three girls stared at me like I was insane

"fine, but I promised Mercedes a ride to my uncles club" she said as I rolled my eyes and looked at mark who surged

"it is on the way, and I doubt Dante will notice or care if you're a couple of minutes late getting home from the police station" he said as I nodded he was probably more irritated about other things to be timing us.

they turned and started walking following mark who walked ahead of them as I followed behind them as I kind of wanted to look at Jane backside for a short time. But I was distracted by Jane knew-found friend as something bothered me as she had walked past me with the other girls. I noticed the edge of a tattoo on the back of her neck which made me nervous about this girl and what she was up to. So, I kept a watch on the back of her neck as we walked as her hair swung revealing a bit of the tattoo each time she stepped. I had a feeling I knew what the tattoo meant based on the way she dressed and her name that I suspected wasn't her real name and why she wanted a ride to Jane's uncle's club. I watched and waited for her hair to move enough to show me what the tattoo was of and once it finally did, I took a large step to catch up with her quickly and grabbed her pony-tail yanking it up revealing the tattoo fully. The girl screamed a little as I pulled her hair as she stumbled into Mark's car I made sure to hold her hair so she wouldn't move away from the car.

"River! what the hell are you doing?" Jane screamed as I glared at her as mark came back around and I could see him straining at the tattoo on the back of her neck

"Jane did you know your new little friend here is a prostitute that is owned by one of your fathers men" I said pulling it up higher to show her what I was talking about

"River let her go now, don't give a shit what she does, I owe her and she wants a ride and she is getting a ride" she yelled at me

“How the hell could you owe a prostitute any type of favor” I said suspiciously glaring at her, and Mercedes pushed me so I would let go of here

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"How the hell could you owe a prostitute any type of favor" I said suspiciously glaring at her, and Mercedes pushed me so I would let go of here

"for your information Mr. Bad-ass, while Jane was in the general population holding tank with other girls, let us say in business terms there my competitors want your precious Jane here lovely expensive shoes" she said as I glared at Jane as she rolled her eyes, I had told her not to wear those shoes "I, being the super wonderful person decided it might do me some good to help out Dante's daughter and look here she got me out of jail and a ride back to work" she said with a smirk and I crossed my arms irritated at Jane

"whatever lets go then, and I don't want to see you snooping around for anymore favors after tonight we clear" I said in a threatening tone as she raised her hand in surrender

"you won't see me again I can assure you lover boy" she said as everyone started getting into the car I sat upfront because I was agitated by the hooker and Jane.

we drove for a long while until we reached Jane uncle dean's club, it had only been a few days since I had been here, where I was sent on my first assignment to retrieve Jane. Mark pulled up out back as Jane got out of the car so Mercedes could get out. I just wanted to get back to the big house soon and face the punishment that I was coming. As Mercedes got out I heard Tiffany door open and Jane door close quickly as Tiffany leaned in the car.

"Oh yeah we decided we're going in for a bit" Tiffany said as my anger flared as her door closed

"River relax, let's go in calmly and get them, making a scene will not be good" mark said

I got out of the car quickly furiously, to look toward the club's entrances to see all three girls running towards the door. Slamming the car door and walking quickly after them, was not in the mood for these games or antics. As I approached I could see the girls finally reach the front doors as a mood of flashed starts and I lose sight of them from the bright lights. I quickened my pace almost to a run and I noticed mark beside as the paparazzi was going crazy. I realized the news was probably buzzing with reports of what we had done, and I really didn't need for the press to get a hold of the fact that only a few hours after our arrest we were clubbing. I approached the crowed and shoved myself through the swarm of flashing light to find the girls in the center halted and blocked by reporters screaming questions.

I grabbed onto Jane arms and pushed through the crowed of people scream asking me questions shoving care in my face. I was becoming even more mad as the seconds went by, and I finally just shoved one of the reporter out-of-the-way he fell to the ground and I was able to get to the bouncer who was holding the door open waving us forward. I kept a firm grip on Jane and I hope she had grabbed someone to get through. Once safely inside I turned and glared at Jane who was looking directly at the ground and refusing to look at me. I glanced at the prostitutes who was adjusting her top. The door opened again as I was blinded by the flashing light and mark was raging Tiffany win who looked shocked at the press is reaction.

"what the hell were you thinking Jane?" shouted at her as other people who were in the club's entrance stared at me

"relax dude, we're just trying to have a little fun" the stupid prostitute said

"Was I talking to you? Why don't you go about your business here" I said in nasty tone hopefully she understood my distaste for her work, "Jane we have to go, I'm sure everyone picture is being plastered all over the news and your father is probably ferrous now and was coming here himself to rip our heads off" I shouted at her

"River calm down" Mark said

"Calm down, easy for you to say you're not the one who just pissed off Dante, I am, I'll calm down once I get this idiot child back to your car and home"

"Go to hell river" Jane said storm off down the hall as Tiffany followed quickly after her

"Real smooth Casanova, you know that girls never going to open her legs for you if you keep being mean like that, girls like to be romanced not be called names" Mercedes said as I was about to follow Jane down the hallway, but her words pissed me off more

"Nobody asked you prostitute, beside I don't need 'dating'" I said using air quotes on the word dating "from a person who is a hooker, plus I'm not here to romances her, my job is to keep her out of trouble and make sure she is safe, and your job is not to give advice it to suck dicks for money" I said storming off down the hall after Jane

once got into the main part of the club I scan the area looking for Jane because we need to leave immediately if not sooner. It took me a few moments to find her, but I was able to find her essay once mark came in and pointed to the end of the bar that was kind of darker than the rest. I walked over following mark as Tiffany turned and gave me a death glare which I fully expected that, just upset her best friend by calling her an idiot, which she is.

"Jane lets go, your father going to kill us" I said standing next to her as she glared at me

"like hell am I going anywhere with you, if you want to leave so bad you know where the exit is" she said turning away from me

"Let the girls have a drink or two, then we will leave, sound reasonable to everyone" Mark said stepping in, as Tiffany and Jane nodded and I agreed to only because it meant after two drinks they would leave and I can get Jane safely back to the safe house

"fine let's drink our two drink and go" I said sitting down next two Jane as mark took the seat open on the other side of Tiffany, as I watch dean come walking down the bar head straight toward us, as I smirked maybe he will set her straight and kick her out and send her home

"why look what the cat dragged in to my bar" dean said stopping directly in front of us "do I even want to know why you set cantons son car on fire?" dead asked looking at Jane who pursed her lips together

"nope" was all Jane said as he raise an eyebrow at me and I shrugged

"whatever I hate that little punk anyway coming in here acting like he owns the place only my little Jane can do that" he said pinching her cheek as she slapped his hand away "I'm guessing ya'll want drinks?" he said pulling up bottles from below the counters "only a couple, Dante pretty mad at you two and I want you all gone be the time 2am comes around

"will be gone soon uncle dean daddy said to be home by midnight and it's only eleven" Jane said taking her drink and heading toward the dances full as he eyes fell on me

"so in truth, don't lie to me, how it going?" he said as he wiped the counter which didn't need it and mark got up following after the girls

"it's not what I was expecting my job to be, but it's not bad, hate the school, hate be stuck babysitting Jane and I feel I could be doing more useful things" I said as he nodded in agreement

"I said that from the begin before Dante decide to assign you to Jane, but my brother thinks tradition is more important than what is good for you" he said as I took a drink of the beer

"what traditions are you talking about" I said kind of confused

"Oh its dumb and not important really just basically getting you ready to take over for your parents and the tradition of passing down jobs to children, its dub" dean said quickly as he tried keeping himself busy and I nodded that was a dumb tradition because sometimes other people are better for the job then their children "well I got some work to do I'll see you some other time" he said walking away quickly as I turned and looked around to see Jane,, Tiffany and Mark chatting at a table near the dance floor

I walked up to them as they stopped talking the second I sat down which is irritating because I know Jane was probably bitch about me and mark was trying to defend me. After a long awkward silence Jane got up announcing she was going to go dance for a little while and Tiffany followed her into the dark large crowd of people. We both stayed silent for a long time as we watched over the girls dancing.

Do you have to be so mean to her?" mark blurted out of know where

"I'm not being mean I'm doing my job" I snapped back at him

"I know you take your job very important, but give the girl a break you guess seemed to be getting along better earlier now you're at each other throats again" mark said as I took another drink

"I'm not here to be her friend Mark, and you not here to be Tiffany either, I have already screwed up and I might lose my job because of what I let this happen earlier, I'm not going to let it happen again" I said glaring at the table as I didn't feel like watching Jane anymore

"you need to relax river, Dante not going to re-assign you because you made a mistake you human everyone messes up sometimes I'm sure he has done the same more than a few times himself" Mark said as he patted me on the back

"no it's not okay for me to mess up mark, its not the same for you or the other guy, I have to please Dante as well as my parents. They expect more from me then just one of the heads, being less the perfect is like failing in a major way" I said as mark signed and did not respond

Mark didn't need to because what I said was true, his parents worked for Tition, but not at the same rank mine where they were just common criminals in our world. I was the best at everything to make my parents proud and to make my parents proud meant making Dante proud. I worked hard as possible to try to beat or at least come close to beating all the boarding school records which were healed by Dante, to prove to him that he didn't make a mistake by offering me a position with him. What happened today and the other night was me failing and i was not going to let anything after this point deter that. Jane might hate me for it, but it didn't as much as what Dante thought and my parents.

I continued sipping my beer tell it was empty and I debated get another one tell I say the prostitute Mercedes on the dance floor talking with Jane and Tiffany. Jane seemed really excited about whatever she was saying Tiffany looked unsure about it, but still smiled to pretend she was happy about, it made me nervous and I was about to get up and break up the chit-chat they were having. But they both ran up the stairs off the dances floor and came to the table and sat down and started sipping their drinks. Tiffany still looked very nervous as Jane looked happy. I felt very nervous about what those two were up to because whatever it is I knew wasn't good.

"I'm going to get another drink, you guess want another?" she said excited as I debated saying no because the way she was acting

"thanks Jane, just bring us another round" mark respond as both Jane and Tiffany ran off to the bar

"they're up to something?" I said to marks as he just shook his head

"no, they're just having fun, look its their second drink, which means we leave once they're done" mark said as I nodded and the fear of facing Dante crept up my spine

the girls came back a few minutes later as I was still unsure about their actions, but as Tiffany handed me another bottle and I drank it quickly just want to get out of here

8 HOURS LATER

I sat against the tree as I tried to remember what had happened last night, but I could remember much after I had finished my second beer. I glanced at the two girls wondering if they had something to do with it, but I had no idea as the pounding in my head became worse. I took a deep breath and grabbed Mark's leg and shock him a little. He sat up startled looked around confused as I did, then leaned over and barfed which woke up the girls that looked around stunned and confused.

"anyone care to explain how we ended up here?" as they all looked around with a confused expression I had.