Chapter 3
His jaws tightened as the three walked up to him.
"Welcome back to the outside world, War" Capri patted him.
"Where were you? The motherfuckin cops released you since 10am and you refused to let us come pick you up" Ashton said, patting him too.
"Had to settle some personal scores" Warren replied curtly, his voice too, too deep.
"What personal scores?" Konstantin demanded instantly.
"Leave it that way, Konstant." Warren replied, a clear tell-off which made Konstantin simper.
"My surveillance cameras says Evelyn Ortega is at the drive-in cinema, and Ixora Rhodes is on her way to meet her" Capri read out from his phone.
"Shall we go burst a skull?" Konstantin said, his eyes shinning with mad interest.
"Or two" Ashton added, same freak in his abnormal eyes.
"Or four?" Warren's lips spoke.
"You mean we're including her divorced parents? Can this night get any fuckin better?" Konstantin smirked.
"Delicious" Capri muttered, cracking his fingers.
Warren led the way out of the hideaway, and they followed.
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[Drive-in Cinema]
The drizzle already stopped when Romeo arrived.
He found a good spot to park in, and Ixora stepped out, searching Evelyn's car with her eyes.
Evelyn drives a yellow sports car whenever she's out at night like this, so she began looking for yellow among the numerous cars.
There are so many cars tonight, mainly because the movie showing is the London remake of culpa mia.
Ixora was about to dive deeper when Romeo came out of the car and covered her with a dry, warm coat.
"I don't need it, thanks anyways" she told him, returning it before going deeper into the place, the sound of the onscreen movie clattering at the back of her mind.
She came here with Evelyn and Nadine several times before, and she knows Evelyn loves parking at the middle since she's an attention whore, so she went to the middle space.
It wasn't hard to find Evelyn's yellow glittering car, and she rushed over, opening the door to peep in.
"Xoxo!" Nadine squealed.
"I knew you'd come after seeing the pictures" Evelyn chuckled. "Where did you park your car?"
"For real? You lied and sent him to jail, and the truth came out just yesterday. He was released today and you weren't punished cos you're from the oh-so-great Ortega family, and you're here seeing a movie? Have you no conscience?" Ixora said, her anger showing through the sharpness of every word.
"Wait...you came here to say this?" Evelyn came out of the car, her crop top barely covering her bra.
"We should go beg, at least." Ixora said, and Evelyn gasped, swinging her yellow iphone.
"Beg? Me? Evelyn Ortega? What do you think the media would say about that? So what if he spent three years in jail?" She arrogantly snickered.
"The fûck?" Ixora came closer.
"I said what I said! He turned me down when I humbly asked him out. How dare he? Cos he's hot? Well I'm hot too and every guy in this city wants my number so he should have thought twice before saying no to me! The three years in jail is for turning me down so I say he deserves it" Evelyn replied remorselessly.
Ixora's anger ballooned at every word that came out of Evelyn's mouth, so much that she couldn't contain it.
She slapped her hard on the left cheek, and Evelyn staggered on the car window, her eyes dilated.
Nadine quicky got down from the car, getting between them.
"Girls, please. Not here" she said, trying to make peace.
"Xoxo, you slapped me?" Evelyn gasped again, still holding her red cheek in disbelief as the sting multiplied.
"Yes I did! Are you insane? You dragged me into it remember? You made me testify falsely against the innocent guy you idiot! And you aren't even feeling any remorse? You're a bîtch, girl!" Ixora snapped.
"If I ever beg that guy, then I'm not Evelyn Ortega, and for this slap? You'll pay tenfold!" Evelyn smacked, rushing out of the place.
The rain started again like it has planned to ruin all tonight.
"Calm down, girl" Nadine faced Ixora.
"Calm down? Don't do that" Ixora glared, adjusting her face cap before going after Evelyn.
Nadine also went after her, and Romeo came out of the car, following them too.
Evelyn was already walking towards the road, and Ixora had to walk faster
"Evelyn stop right there! Evelyn!!"
"After slapping me? You better get off my back!" Evelyn shot back.
"Evie!!" Ixora yelled the short form of her name.
"That won't work, I said stop following me!" Evelyn yelled back, crossing the road already.
Ixora ran faster, and she was about to enter the wet road with her when it happened.
A jalopy car whose driver has lost control of it's wheel entered the road like a drunk, and it felt like a dream as it drove into Evelyn.
Ixora froze up as she watched Evelyn's body roll down the road, her blood flowing on the sleek asphalt.
"Evelyn!!!!" She screamed in unison with Nadine.
"Darn it" Romeo muttered, running into the road as the jalopy driver came out, crying when he saw who he had hit.
Evelyn Ortega is not to be messed with, the richest girl in this city for the matter.
Nadine rushed into the road too, but Ixora? She's still rooted on her spot, still feeling like it's a dream.
It's not real.
That's not Evelyn on the road, is she?
The collective honks of cars and bikes penetrated into her ear in a cacophonic tune, and that alerted her
It's real! She's not dreaming.
"No" she muttered and was about to run into the road too when something perched on her shoulder.
Her steps faltered, and her bones emptied out their marrow as she looked up to see a dove, holding a paper on it's beak.
The dove dropped the paper, and it fell in Ixora's palm before the bird flew away.
The rain got heavier, pounding the shell of her ears as she looked down at the paper.
Rainwater is starting to wash away the black ink, so it's crawling around the white spaces, but she can still see what's written in it.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CRY BLOOD? YOU SHOULD LEARN IF YOU DON'T. YOU'LL NEED IT, LITTLE LIAR"
Raw fear licked her neck, and rain strokes finally tore the note apart in her palm, spreading the tatters at her feet.
