Chapter 19
"Who the fuck are you and why are you following us?" Miracle demanded. The woman didn't answer. Skylar pressed the blade harder against her neck and blood seeped from the wound. "Well?"
"I'm looking for a boy named Skylar Kennedy," she said after she gave in. "My boss wants him."
Skylar got flashbacks from when he was at Lex and tensed up. Skylar pushed her down and her knees hit the floor. He tossed her hat to the side and grabbed a handful of her hair. "What does he want with him?" Skylar demanded as he pulled her hair.
"H-he wants him to join the m-mafia," she whispered in a heavy Italian accent as blood stained her shirt. "He heard f-from someone that he's a g-great assassin."
Miracle stood in front of her and looked down at her. "Are you suppose to be an assassin?" She nodded. "Are you new to this?" She shook her head. "Damn, Italian assassins suck ass."
Skylar rolled his eyes. "It depends on the person," he replied.
Miracle grabbed the woman's phone and looked through the messages. She hummed in satisfaction after a few minutes. "We have everything that we need, Skylar," Miracle said to him. The woman was in shock when she knew that it's Skylar's who is holding the knife against her throat.
"What now?"
Miracle shrugged. "Kill her, I guess."
Tears formed in the woman's eyes as she heard that. "Please don't! I beg you!" She sobbed.
Skylar frowned and forced her to stand up. "Walk," Skylar ordered and pushed her to one of the stalls. Skylar slit her throat deep enough for her to bleed out quickly. He closed the door and cleaned the knife at the sink.
"Can we ditch this place before the cops come? It's almost 12 and I'm pretty hungry."
Skylar nodded. "If I have to guess, they'll be here in 15 minutes or so."
Miracle looked around lazily. "Do you think that we're the reason why people need more security cameras around? Because there are hardly any cameras in this place except for the souvenir shops."
Skylar cleaned the water off the knife with his clothes and looked at it in awe. "I'm keeping this," Skylar said as he closed it. They went out of the bathroom and back to their friends.
"Hey! It's time to go," Miracle announced.
"But why?"
Skylar hit Parker on the head. "Don't you want to eat?" Parker's expression changed and he was the first one to begin walking to the exit. When their distance between the Colosseum became larger, they heard sirens approaching them. Police cars stopped at the Colosseum and an ambulance followed them. People were running left and right. Miracle, Skylar, and Jumin were the only ones who didn't look back at all the commotion.
"Did you two-"
Skylar cut Parker off."I killed her. It had to be done," he replied. "Can we go look for a place to eat? We're hungry."
"Sure," Parker mumbled.
45 minutes later
"That woman is a fucking idiot," Miracle laughed as she cut her lasagna up in tinier pieces. "Who puts all her info on their phone? Only a dumbass."
"So what did you find?" Jumin asked.
Miracle put her fork down and grabbed the phone. She showed it to all of them and turned the screen on. "Tons of messages with even the last name of their boss in them! But they're in Italian though." Miracle laughed loudly.
Jumin shushed her. "People are looking at us! Do you want me to make a scene?" Miracle shut up and silently ate the rest of her food.
"Let's continue this conversation at the hostel," Skylar sighed, mildly irritated. They all nodded in agreement and continued eating. After they paid their bill, they went to a shopping district next to their hostel. They stayed there for a few hours looking at the shops and buying souvenirs. Parker moaned loudly as he swallowed the gelato that melted in his mouth.
"This is the best ice cream ever! Right, Kyung?"
Jumin nodded ecstatically and he used his thumb to wipe the gelato from the corner of his mouth. "We have to go there every day!" He licked the gelato off his thumb as his eyes wandered around. His brows shot up when he saw a shady man glancing at them at a cafe. Jumin narrowed his eyes out of suspicion but ignored him. Miracle and Skylar have seen the man too and also ignored him.
"Try some. It's really good." Skylar held his gelato up to Ashton's face.
Ashton slowly backed away. "No, I'm fine," Ashton replied with a nervous smile.
Skylar looked down at the floor. "Oh, okay," he mumbled. Ashton sighed and grabbed the gelato out of Skylar's hand.
Ashton's face scrunched up as he licked it. "It's all right," he muttered as he handed the gelato back to Skylar.
"I told you so," he beamed.
Yukine walked out of a pizzeria with two full bags of pizza boxes. "They're done!" Miracle took both of the bags. "Wait, Miracle. I can carry them myself."
She shook her head. "No I'll carry them for you," Miracle smiled.
Jumin glanced at the couples and the pizza boxes. "So who's gonna buy drinks?" Every one of them went silent and eyed the others. "Here's a good idea. Parker and I can go while you four can go to the hostel."
"So who is going with them?" Skylar asked.
"I think that they'll be fine on their own," Ashton replied as he wrapped his arm around his waist.
"Are you sure?" Ashton nodded. "Fine then. You two can go, but don't do anything stupid."
Parker and Jumin found it very insulting to be compared to little kids.
"Let's leave these losers, Kyung." Jumin nodded in agreement and they walked to a convenience store. As they walked in, the first thing that came up in their minds is how weird it is.
"Oh my fucking God. It smells so bad in here," Jumin muttered as he grabbed a shopping cart.
"Did someone take a piss in here?" Parker questioned. Something gold caught Parker's eye and he went to it. "No way," he gasped as he grabbed the package. "No fucking way! Ferrero Rocher! The chocolate! They have it!"
"The chocolate is from Italy what did you expect?" Jumin scoffed.
Parker ignored him and grabbed a few packages. He stood back up with his hand full and tossed them into the cart. "What did you say?" He asked.
"Never mind." They continued walking until they somehow found the drinks. They grabbed a few different bottles and tossed them in the shopping cart.
Parker held a bottle of spa up. "Should we buy this for Ash?"
Jumin put another bottle of cola in the cart and tossed some cups in it too. "Water for Ashton? Yeah, good idea." They walked to self check out. They scanned everything and the price showed up with an Italian sentence.
"What the fuck does that say?" Jumin asked as he tried to pronounce the words.
"How the fuck am I supposed to know? Maybe Ash would know. He's part Italian." Parker was ready to dial Ashton until Jumin stopped him.
"Did you forget? He doesn't know how to speak Italian!" Parker turned his phone off and looked at the screen. After a second, he snapped his fingers and turned on his phone again.
"Google translate can help us!" He opened the app and took a picture of it. He highlighted the words and they were translated to English.
"It says "Do you want to pay in cash or do you want to pin?"" Parker told and Jumin clicked the "pin" one.
"So who's gonna pay?" Parker held his fist up. Jumin did the same thing.
"Rock paper scissors shoot!" Parker played rock as Jumin played scissors. Jumin grabbed his debit card and paid for it. They put the things in the bags and went out of the convenience store. They made their way to the hostel.
"We finally left that disgusting smelling store," Jumin yawned as he stretched his left arm.
Parker ate one of the chocolates. "What do you want to do when we get back?"
Jumin shrugged. "Maybe give Min control because he wants to watch an anime called Stone with you and Miracle. Who the fuck calls an anime Stone?"
"Dr. Stone," Parker corrected him. "It's called Dr. Stone. Even you would like it."
"I doubt it," Jumin scoffed. "I don't watch bullshit for little kids."
Park's eyebrows shot up as he vigorously blinked. "Excuse me what the fu-" Parker felt raindrops hitting his head. "We have to finish this conversation later. It's going to rain!"
"Chill out. It isn't the end of the world if we get a little soaked of the rain," Jumin replied.
"There's real Italian pizza waiting for us," Parker said. Jumin perked up and they both began sprinting. In 3 minutes, Parker opened the door of the hostel and he heard the rain pouring down.
"Wow," Jumin panted as they were walking to the room. "I was really considering to walk in that downpour." When they stood in front of the door, Jumin knocked twice. The door opened and they saw Yukine.
"You two finally made it! We've been waiting for you guys so we can begin eating." Parker and Jumin took off their shoes and put the bags next to the table.
"What the fuck?" They both said when they saw Miracle pinned down by Skylar.
"Miracle challenged Skylar to a one on one because she was too hungry to wait on you two," Ashton explained.
"I only lost because I'm starving," she yelled.
"You've eaten more than me at lunch and yet you're like this for at least 5 minutes already," Skylar replied and he got off of Miracle. Miracle dashed to the table and grabbed a slice. She sat on the ground and she wolfed it down. The others followed Miracle but ate the pizza normally.
"Should I call my dad?" Skylar asked. Miracle and Ashton nodded as Parker and Jumin ignored him. Skylar dialed Roy and put him on speaker. Roy answered after a few seconds.
"Hey, Skylar! How's everything?"
"It's been good today," Skylar smiled. "We got some info of the person that wants people to follow us."
"We got a whole fucking phone!" Miracle yelled with pizza in her mouth.
"Was that Miracle?" Roy asked as he chuckled. "What did she say?"
"She said that we found a phone with all the information on it," Skylar replied. "There are many messages with even the name of their boss in it. We got it from the woman that was following us."
"Is the woman a threat?"
"Not anymore," Skylar muttered. "She was a beginner, so it didn't matter. And I got a cool pocket knife from her. It's one of the most beautiful pocket knives that I've seen and I'm keeping it."
The other side of the line was silent. "Could you sent me a picture later?"
"Sure. Anyway, almost every message us in Italian. Ace is useless in that department, even if he is half Italian." Ashton narrowed his eyes at Skylar and Skylar raised his eyebrow. "And I'd be a pain to use Google translate. What do we do?"
"I know a little Italian and I know someone from Italy who can help us," Roy responded.
Miracle swallowed her pizza as quickly as she could. "Really? Who?" Miracle asked.
"An old friend of mine. We used to train together back in the day."
"You have an Italian friend?" Skylar questioned.
"Yes. We visited him when you were just a baby."
"Do you think that he can help us?" Miracle asked.
"He does know a lot about the mafia, but he's busy these days. But he can definitely hook you guys up with weapons. I'll ask him tomorrow. In the meantime, send all the info on the phone to me."
"Okay. Goodnight."
"Goodnight. I'll talk to you tomorrow," Roy said and hung up.
Skylar turned the screen off. "So what now?"
Miracle turned to Parker. "Do you want to watch it?" Miracle asked as she turned the television on.
"Hell yeah."