The Beneveti Mafia

7

It feels like I've been here for 300 years. Gollum has been brushing my hair so much I feel like my hair is starting to fall out.

"Okay Gollum. Can we stop brushing my hair now?" I say politely, trying not to make him mad because I have no clue how he reacts when he's mad. Not that I'm scared, but he does have an 'I'll assault you with a deadly weapon' kind of vibe.

"But Miss Brynn, we're trying to make you pretty for the master." He says in a scratchy voice. 

I knew that telling him my plan to marry a rich man would back fire.

"I think I'm pretty enough though, thank you." I said scooting my body away from his hair brush which is filled with my hair now. I'm bald, I just know it.

Next thing I know I hear the 'Wheels on the bus' tune being banged against the wooden door. 

Thank you jesus. 

Gollum gets up, unlocks all 15 locks and opens the door. Not looking at who banged on the door, he hid behind the large plank of redwood. 

I see through the door way, driver dude and...Enzo? 

Enzo walks over to me to take my hands out of the handcuffs. I can see his bruised nose and dried up blood that formed around his nostrils. 

As he was unlocking my handcuffs, I flinched towards him and he got scared. I laughed to myself and mentally did a victory dance since he was afraid of me. 

He picked me up by my upper arm and led me towards driver dude. 

"Thank god you guys got me out of there. Gollum was gonna brush my hair to death." I said to both of them as we walked down the mile long hallway again. 

"Gollum?" Enzo questioned, not understanding my reference.

"You know Gollum. Small, gray, skinny, 'My precious'." I mimicked the actual character from the movies. "Lord of the rings?" I questioned hoping he would finally understand. He just looked at me and shook his head with an eyebrow cocked up. 

"I've seen it." Driver dude says in a serious tone. 

"So you haven't seen The Sandlot and you haven't seen Lord of the Rings?" I questioned both of them. "Looks like we have to have movie night soon, because this cannot go unnoticed." I said trying to convince them into seeing the movies with me. No matter who you see those movies with, they're classics.

We've been walking what seems like forever to where ever our destination is gonna be. I've been trying to be aware of my surroundings so I can escape when I get the chance.

We finally walk up to these ginormous double doors that have this intricate detail lining around the door and above the door there was a quote "Pulvis et umbra sumus." (We are but dust and shadow.)

"We are but dust and shadow." I say under my breath as I read the quote. 

"You know what it says?" Driver dude asks kind of surprised at my knowledge of latin. 

"My parents made me go to catholic school and the only class I listened in was latin." I simply say shrugging off his judgment.

He knocks that secret knock I keep hearing and the doors slowly open as if we were in a movie.

I see this enormous room with a long table that could seat 36 men comfortably. I see three men at the very end of the table waiting for me it seemed like. Hopefully one of them is the millionaire. 

We started to walk down the table and after what felt like half an hour we finally reached the end of the table. 

I could start to make out faces, two of the guys were from me being captured and the other one was a face I've never seen before. I wish I had seen him before cause he is a site for sour eyes. 

The men stood up as we approached and sat back down when we all took our seats. I sat in between Beavis and Butthead (Driver dude and Enzo) on the right side of the table. 

"So," I heard a deep voice boom from possibly the good looking millionaire. "I hear you put up a good fight." He states as he takes a sip of his water in front of him. 

"I do alright." I shrug cause what guy would want to marry an angry fighter?

The supposed millionaire starts to laugh, like really laugh, hard. I was so confused. Why is he laughing so hard? His laugh almost makes me feel sick inside. It was a laugh like he could snap at any moment. 

"Is something funny?" I ask in a small voice. 

He composes himself and finally looks at me.

"You do alright?" He asks suddenly with a serious look on his face. "You almost destroyed 6 of my best men." He looks intently at me, almost threatening me with his eyes.

"Yeahhh about that. I didn't know they were your men. ha. ha." I tried to cover my tracks. I still don't even know who this guy is. 

"I want to see what you can do." He says with a deathly look on his face. 

"I'm okay. I promise I won't beat up any of your men anymore." I say almost pleading cause I feel like my life is in this mans hands.

"No. You will." He said plainly and I heard Enzo next to me choke on his spit.

"B-but Boss. She's different." He tried to explain to his boss. 

"I don't give a fuck. I want to see what she can do with those pretty little hands of hers." He gave me a smirk and looked me up and down. That sent shivers down my spine and not the good ones. I felt a wave of nausea come over me. 

I don't think I realize, I'm in a house filled with men. I haven't seen one woman here. 

With that we were off. I didn't even have time to disagree. I was already being picked up by my upper arms and led out of the door. 

"So, guys who is the lucky bastard that I'll be fighting?" I ask with a sweet tone to my voice.

Nothing. Damn, these guys really know how to ignore a girl.