T H E S H O C K

t h i r t y - t h r e e

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Elijah Ricci

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The clock is ticking, the rain is pounding on the window. I can vaguely hear a heart beat. Her heartbeat. I pull my hand down to her chest and feel her heart pumping, faster and faster. I gently stroke her beautiful hazel hair. 

We need to work on finding out what the rest of their plans are. Sitting around and acting like nothing is happening is making me irritated. 

I pull out my phone and text the group chat. 

"Damn there's 17 of us in this?" I whisper to myself. 

I guess it makes sense though. Gianna's 3 bestfriends are on their way back from Greece. We've filled them all in on whats happening so they aren't shocked when they get back. Lorenzo's main men are all here, which makes 8 and then Gianna and Lorenzo make 10, Lauren and I make 12, Aria and Leone make 14 and Emilio, Alonzo, and Diamond make 17. We're flying Diamond in soon. 

"Meet me in the living room in 5!" I texted. I heard the noise go through and waited. 

I lay her head down peacefully and carefully slip out of the room. She cried so hard that my shirt got soaked. That was the last thing I cared about. I care about her safety more then anything, and for now on, no one and I mean no one is going to lay a finger on her. 

I hear footsteps moving above me and loud voices. It sounds like muffled yelling. When I get upstairs I finally get to hear what all this noise is about. I go into the living room and see everyone there. But Malcom and Derek are fighting about God knows what. 

"Dude what the fuck? You know I was gonna eat those!! I basically claimed them!" Malcom yelled. Derek shrugged. "Your name wasn't on them." He said and continued to eat the cereal. 

We all watched as Malcom ran into the kitchen and came back. 

He runs back in with the box of cereal. "Yes mother fucker! I did!" He yelled. 

We all laughed as we watched Derek just sit there frozen. Malcom walked over and took the bowl out of Derek's hand and he switched the spoons. 

The laughter died down and Leone started talking. "So baby bro, what did you need to talk about?" He asked. I sighed. 

"I wanna know why things are going so slow with this whole Russian thing?" I said.

 Aria had a confused look on here face. "What do you mean?" She asks.

"I mean, Lauren got kidnapped, they have a bounty basically on you and my brothers heads, and your own sister just got threatened! Not to mention that they could go for our parents next." I said. 

"I'm sorry Elijah, we just got Lauren back and I think we all just wanted a quick break." Aria said in a sassier tone then usual. I'm starting to get irritated.

"I just think you guys stopped caring." I said in all honesty. "What?" Aria said. 

"We got Lauren back. But think about it! Think about how your best friend just got drugged and sexually assaulted Aria! Just think! She sat in a room for weeks, crying and cold and afraid of what the next thing that they were gonna do to her! Are you not thinking about all the girls that they could be doing the same thing right now to?" My voiced started getting louder. 

She stood up. "Well I'm sorry Elijah for taking a break and thinking about myself for once. Gianna has been typing on her computer non stop, trying to find locations and pin points! Lorenzo's men have been training day after day!" She yelled.