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Ines P.O.V.
"To cover up you need to get to your H.O.D's office and tell him you'll be resuming your studies, you can, of course, decide to take the exams with your mates or just take everything to the next semester"
"I'd rather write with my mates," I said to Mrs. Patty while signing forms on her desk "You've been so helpful, thank you, ma'am"
"Glad I can help, now who was that young man, tell me about him"
"I don't really know much," I said absent-mindedly, which I shouldn't have because my response said a lot about my habits, I looked up and saw Mrs. Patty judging me with her eyes
"I mean, I have never slept with him or any random man, but I met him recently and this is the second time..." I should shut up now.
"Just take these forms, print these sets, and go to your course representative, he will have you catchup; also be safe"
"Thank you, ma'am!" I said getting up with the stack of files close to my chest and heading to the door I pushed it open, I heard a sigh from Mrs. Patty and when the door clicked shut, she said "Kids these days" and it made me cringe, what's going on in that woman's head.
I had to catch up with so much academic work, but instead of focusing, I couldn't help but recall yesterday night when Vivian came back around midnight, I was so shocked, but then I told her she could've just stayed with him overnight. And now in class, instead of her reading for both of us, her eyes were visibly droopy.
"Vivian, how am I going to catch up if you keep playing with this your man friend"
"Girl, you're lucky I still put the school into consideration" she answered laying her head on the table in front of her, she was sitting right beside me so I poked her face lightly with my pen
"So why did you stay out so long, what were you doing with Damien"
"Just giving me some elderly protection, you do know I'm 16"
"Drop it," I said facing the lecturer, I might not look it, but I genuinely want to become a medical doctor or at least someone with a first-class degree.
After classes, I forced Vivian to sit and teach me all she knew, at the back of my mind, I was thinking of all the stuff I had to finish with the admins, sign and stamp that
"So, if you eat pineapple, you might just taste different when a man is giving you head," Vivian said bringing me back to reality
"that doesn't sound like something you were taught in class," I said
"You know, I can't help but think about the night when you went missing, for two nights I heard nothing from you and I searched everywhere, I thought you were trafficked, it just shows how capable the mafia could make someone disappear without a trace"
"Right," I said imagining it wasn't Crest that took me, what if it was someone else, it sent a shiver down my spine when I was unconscious anything could've happened to me unintervened.
"Be careful Ines" Vivian said and I sigh
"Since we are done here, you take these files," I say giving her a stack "And I'll take these for signing, chop chop, we can study this night"
"I'll be chatting with my man," she said getting up and leaving me speechless.
****
Walking out of my admin's office, I felt elated by how smooth the process went, surprisingly he told me to drop everything and that he would handle it himself
"Thank you, sir," I said closing his door behind me, there I was thinking I would have to pay him to do all that, now I could keep my bribe in my pocket
Walking down the hall back to class with a big smile on my face, I suddenly stopped when the double door of the school conference room opened, a bunch of people in suits and corporate clothes walked out, I was surprised when I saw Crest coming out amongst them, he was behind the crowd
I loved how I was meeting him everywhere lately, I didn't greet or say anything, his demeanor wasn't inviting and I wasn't ready to disgrace myself, so I watched like a little-fan girl as he talked with some staff and then glanced at me with a raised brow, I took it as my cue to walk up to him
"Hi, how're you?"
"I'm okay, how about you"
"I'm okay too, and to what does this school owe this pleasure"
"Nothing much to say about the school honestly, I hope you've been able to catch up"
"Yeah, things are strangely easy which is quite lovely" As I said that, I really wanted to blame all the good that had been happening to me on him, but then I didn't see it for myself
"I'm about to travel back to my hometown," He said and I adopted a questioning look
"This isn't your hometown?"
"You would've surely known about me if that was the case"
"Not to brag" I added for him and he chuckled
"Excuse me," he said and walked away, I waved goodbye at him and when he was out of sight, I wondered why I didn't get his contact, dropping my hands to my side I wondered why he didn't ask for mine, he was so strange
I need to get his; I resolved walking in the direction he left in, I looked around in the hallways and I did not see him, it was as if the group of staff disappeared into thin air, walking through where I pegged he passed through, I ended up trekking to the outsides of my university, he was still no way to be found, just maybe I'll ask Vivian for Damiens contact and everything will play out cool
After concluding my thoughts, I looked back at the school doors, uninterested in going back, I decided to walk out the gate and reach a nearby cafe, I looked around and thought of my 2 months at the hospital, I sighed and said "Freedom is so underrated" and just as I concluded my nose was covered with a rag from behind.
"Mmm," I mumbled, a pungent smell assaulting my senses and stabbing to my brain, before I was restrained by more men and shoved in a van before it closed I heard Vivian scream my name; my eyes were now seeing swirls of rainbow colors.
****
"Shit!, shit! shit" Vivian screamed as she saw the man gag Ines with a rag "Ines!" she screamed to alert her, but it was too late and everything happened so quickly when the van left, pedestrians were left confused trying to make sense of the scene, Vivian stared at the Van making sure she got the numbers then immediately she made a call while stopping a cab.
She got in the cab and ordered "Please follow that van sir" Annoyed the call didn't go through, she got even ticked by the driver's response
"I'm sorry ma, I just saw what transpired, I can't follow a robbery," The taxi driver said
"So why did you stop?" Vivian yelled getting out immediately "Get out! fucking coward"
Immediately she puts on her phone tracking Ines, luckily no one had thought to get Ines's phone, running back onto campus as fast as she could, Vivian got into her car and sped out immediately tracking the Van that took Ines, Vivian's heart was pacing, as a lone bodyguard this was the first time her client was kidnapped; this was clearly a new experience, she placed a call to the personal assistant of the Waterson mansion
"Hello, Mr. Reuben, I need backup at the moment, Ines has just been kidnapped" She rapped
"What?, It was a distraction all along," he said suddenly
"A distraction? What do you mean" Vivian said wondering what his distraction had to do with her priority at the moment
"Presently in the Waterson's half the men were sent out to fight against Shawn, most of the guards and men are not hom..." He said and before he completed she cut the call
"What the heck am I gonna do now" She said anxiety rising in her heart, what if I can't help, what if it's too late, I'm so unqualified, what if I'm not enough, she doubted herself strongly but even when she did she pressed the pedal speeding even more to catch up, she wondered if she should call Damien but she decided against it calling Mr. Waterson instead
"What is it?" he picked up immediately sounding out of breath, as the personal bodyguard to Ines, Mr. Waterson couldn't afford to miss her call on the first ring
"Sir, Ines has just been kidnapped, currently I am tracking her device"
"I see why beating his team up was so easy, it turns out this was just a minor distraction, send me the coordinates, and I'm on my way..." From the phone call, a gunshot echoed and for a second Mr. Waterson went silent, Vivian didn't know if she should stop the car or keep going, but she squeezed the steering wheel and her heart skipped
"Sir?" she called out
"You'll have to reach there and hold out alone, backup will come shortly" With that he cut the call
'A little reassurance wouldn't kill you' she mumbled "Hey Oliver" Vivian called out to the smart car voice assistant
"Oliver here, how can I help?"
"Send the co-ordinates of Ines's location to Mr. Waterson," she said coming to a halt in front of a junkyard, from the compartment of her car, she opened it taking out two guns
"Sorry, I didn't quite get you, can you repeat what you said"
"Fucking hell..." She said trying not to hit the screen with the butt of her gun "Tell- Mr. Waterson -Ines- is-in-a-junkyard-at-6th-Avenue" she spelt out
"Telling Mr. Waterson Ines is in a junkyard in 6th Avenue" The bot restated and started loading, Vivian came out of the car locking it, the black sports car shaded in the silhouettes of a pile of junk
Looking around, Vivian stuffed one gun in the holster under her thick hoodie, she was wearing cargo pants and sneakers, always dressed in black, in outfits free enough for an instant mission, she held a gun in her right hand, using her senses to scan her surroundings making sure there was no camera and no one in sight.
As she crawled through the floor, she shot every witness through the head with a gun that had a silencer, those were; the guards in front and the other two who saw the guard's demise, entering the junkyard successfully she saw the truck Ines was taken in, the double doors wide open and the environment dilapidated.