THE MAFIA REDEMPTION DANCE.

Who called me? What did they want? Was

pping so I could "fit in" immediately. My hand reached for the blue

Without hesitation, the person leaned in for a kiss-then another. It was the kin

the taste o

tt

s sh

kissing me with passion, hol

y you didn't miss

But then I remembered my parents'

his mother, and I couldn't fall for it. Yet... i

he said, adju

ed long ago-the feeling of love. Still, I

I asked, trying to fo

afety, please leave," he

n't safe

cking eyes with him. Hi

f your little gir

esit

a threat. I won't bother her,"

he's not my girlfriend-it's

s

never the typ

I sa

ed, teasing, though I knew e

comes to my parents. You have to

t pisse

t of school. What did you choose to do? Ghost me! You were some

warned your parents about the attack, but they didn't listen! I defied my

his shirt, rev

m, Zara!"

ened?" I a

against my father... the night you crawled away. I refus

ed his eye

e. Never once imagining the boy who once stood up fo

a?" he asked, buttoning his s

ouldn't you write or call me?"

cked my phone and killed every guard I sent to you.

ell down

rds didn't change the fact that his parents w

I r

ignoring Agatha's knock

n the mood. I wanted to drown in my sorrow and

phone

the mission. You're here for information, not love. I'll send your pock

lt

y number. But how did he know ab

s watc

s mystery

But his message snapp

was here for revenge. An

onflicted a

y week, where those who didn't make the cut would be expe

. I had to st

ust the judges, but students and even

had allowing my body to b

e going and comforted my hear, I had replayed it severally and t

fening. It reminded me of my golden days.

ed out, I

l men. He never came to school, which

little spy, I ha

ting caught