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The car smelled
like cat poo, but that wasn’t what was in Allys’ mind right now.
The streets
rushed past by, fast and without a second look.
Toni was
yelling at her, her eyes wide open with surprise, her voice
almost breaking from both shock and fear. “He did what?” Toni
screamed as she looked from Allys to the street and to Allys
again. “He went in alone?!” She slaps a hand on her forehead.
“Man! I told John the Yakuza were bad news.”
“Hey…” Allys
tried to say, but Toni cut her off before she could utter any
other word.
“Dante and I
had bad vibes about that job.” Toni mumbled as she looked at the
rearview mirror, paranoid already from being followed. “I told
him not to do it!”
“Hey, Toni.”
Allys started again, trying, looking out the window so that Toni
couldn’t see her expression, so that Toni wouldn’t look at her
and say she was crazy. “Remember when I told you about that
double déjà vu? How I had a flash about something and then it
became true later on?”
“Yeah,” She
replied. “Didn’t you say that it didn’t work sometimes?”
Allys remained
quiet about that for a moment, breathing out a heavy sigh,
before continuing. “Uh… Yeah… Sometimes…” She looked at Toni.
“But anyway, I had one again today, just after John called.”
“Really?” Toni
looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “Is it good? Or…”
“I don’t know,”
She replied, looking down at the air vents on the dashboards.
Shaking her head, she raised her view up. “Never mind about
that, it’s not important, we gotta worry about a plan to get
John out first, right?”
Looking at her
in silence, Toni didn’t say anything as she shifted her eyes
back on the road again. “It doesn’t work sometimes, right?” She
said, after a few seconds of silence. “So that means that your
vision still isn’t nailed down as true, so it may not happen
anyway.”
“Yeah, you’re
right.” Allys replied, as she let out another heavy sigh. “What
do we do now?” She said as she looked back towards Toni. “We
can’t stay here. We’ll have to get out of the city, and maybe
the country, and lay low for a bit until things cool down.”
Toni smiled at
that. “The oldest plan in the world.”
“Well, it
works, right?” Allys said. “John said that both you and Dante
were in on this until yesterday.” She paused as she thought
about it. “If you’re the driver then Dante was your cleaner,
just in case things went sour as they have now.” A pause, as she
looked back towards Toni again. “Can Dante get us all the way
out of the country within the hour?”
“Well, if he
wants to live, he better fucking do it.” She chuckled at this as
she picked up her cell phone. “Dante.” She said in the most
emotionless voice possible, as her voice-dial memory hurriedly
connected her to Dante’s line. She looked annoyed as she
listened the phone’s ring, and as soon as it was connected, she
spoke up. “Dante? Hey, it’s me. As I’m sure you already know,
we’re all in deep shit right now! Those fucking Yakuza are…”
And just as those words were passing by Allys’ ears, she saw
him, John, running on the opposite direction, on their side of
the street.
“Toni!” Allys
screamed at Toni. “Stop the car!”
“What?!” Toni
looked so surprised, she almost dropped her phone.
“Stop the car,
Toni!” Allys shook Toni’s arm, trying to make her stop. “It’s
John! Stop the car!” |
