Joining Them.
I felt a bitter chuckle escape my lips.
Never heard of those before.
Evie
We didn't transfer schools to meet you just for you to start acting all embittered and shit.
Roshan/Ace Black
Excuse me?
Roshan/Ace Black
Repeat that, I like to believe my ears failed me.
Kai Castles
Don't give him creepy info Evie, we sound like stalkers.
Kai Castles
You hacked into the registration system!
Evie
You prepared the fake NINs and IDs!!
Vivian shot me a glance that clearly meant- "Help me!!"
Vee/Vivian Stone
OK, shut the fuck up you two.
Vee/Vivian Stone
Since these children can't think straight, let me make something clear.
Vee/Vivian Stone
Our parents don't know about this.
Rebellious children? Interesting.
Roshan/Ace Black
Continue.
Vee/Vivian Stone
Look, the three of us are destined to become the heads of our family syndicates.
Vee/Vivian Stone
it's something we've always known.
Roshan/Ace Black
How does this concern me?
Kai Castles
We have enemies, within and without our personal circles. People who would gladly like to see us wrested from the seat if power.
Evie
But even before we met each other, we were all thinking of ways to hold fast to our positions.
Vee/Vivian Stone
Then it came to me.
Vee/Vivian Stone
The one thing none of the heads have been able to achieve- peace.
Vee/Vivian Stone
If by some miracle, I thought, if I could get the three biggest mafia families to become my allies, No dog would dare dispute my claim.
Roshan/Ace Black
Clever. And I assume you contacted these two and got them on board with your plan?
Vee/Vivian Stone
I did my research and found out the Castles and Forrest's also had two young impressionable heirs my age who had people against them.
Roshan/Ace Black
How fortunate for you.
Roshan/Ace Black
Again-what do I have to do with all this?
Roshan/Ace Black
Sadly for you, my dad would rather turn into a radish than make his heir.
Evie
Apparently he wants his beloved Nicki to get married to one of his allies and become co-head with him.
Roshan/Ace Black
Then why aren't you telling her all this?
Kai Castles
Actually, we wanted to.
Kai Castles
But we couldn't be sure if she'd go along with us, so we used different tricks and Vee went incognito to get close to her and find out more about her.
Kai Castles
So we could determine if it'd be worth revealing ourselves and our goal to her.
Evie
In conclusion, she's a twisted little turret and would never join us.
Roshan/Ace Black
So that's why you've come to me? How do you know I won't refuse.
Kai Castles
Oh we've been keeping an eye on you.
Kai Castles
And we like what we see.
Roshan/Ace Black
You forget one crucial thing.
Roshan/Ace Black
I'm not the heir.
Evie
Wouldn't you like to be?
It was a possibility I had never considered.
Me become the head? Me take the reins instead of Missy?
Why did the idea oddly appeal to me?
Not the idea of being the head, but the idea of working along these three?
Roshan/Ace Black
And if I don't?
Evie
You'd be a good leader.
Evie
You're quite smart, perceptive. You don't trust easily, and best of all, you don't believe there's good in the world.
She said this so cheerfully, like it wasn't a bad thing.
Vee/Vivian Stone
What Evie means is you don't have to be the head. Just take over from Missy and surrender to us or whatever.
Vee/Vivian Stone
I don't particularly care for taking over the world like some syndicates, but I love the complexities of the whole gig.
Vee/Vivian Stone
I mean, it's obvious your family doesn't value you.
Vee/Vivian Stone
Why be their doormat when you could easily become their worst nightmare?
Roshan/Ace Black
Aren't you all basically using each other?
Kai Castles
Isn't that how all amazing friendships start?
Roshan/Ace Black
Big promises from a bunch of teens on a rooftop.
Roshan/Ace Black
How do I know you won't betray me?
Roshan/Ace Black
Leave me to the wolves?
Roshan/Ace Black
Or this isn't a ploy from my beloved father to test my loyalty?
Kai Castles
If it was the second option, trust me- you've failed.
Evie
And leave you to the wolves? Seriously Roshan? We need you, we can't afford to cut you loose at random. Be logical.
Vee/Vivian Stone
And as for betraying you..
Vee/Vivian Stone
You don't have any guarantee.
Vee/Vivian Stone
But we want you to trust us.
Vee/Vivian Stone
If you can, that's what's gonna make this work. Trust.
Kai Castles
You smell any sort of fishy tricks, pull out. We won't stop you.
I looked at the three of them.
They were obviously not going to drop this. And from the sound of it, if they spoke the truth, they had more to loose than me.
These were a bunch of strangers, offering the world on a silver platter to me.
I thought of Nicki, Missy and Father.
I had known them all my life. Was I ready to betray them? To take over and become part of a world that could easily kill me?
Was I ready to become a true villain to my family?
Sighing, I groaned already knowing my answer.
Roshan/Ace Black
Call me Ace.
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