Luciano stared at the darkness in surprise as if wanting it to come back on. He was still staring in the direction where he saw Alita and Rocco and he feels he should take his shot.
With one hand wrapped around Arianna, He pulled out his gun and was about aim in it towards their direction when he flinched.
“Fuck it, Jordan” he winced.
“What did you say?” Arianna asked confused.
“It’s not you” Lu replied immediately “I just remembered something,” he said as he pulled the trigger of the gun.
“If you shot, you might hit Alita,” Jordan said “and I don’t know how many people have this ignited glass”
Lu puzzled, he slowly put the gun inside his pocket as He stared around the room in surprise.
“How can you see me,” Lu asked.
“because I and standing right next to you” Jordan touched Lu’s shoulder “You take out the packet, I will create a scene ”
Before he could get to finish what he was saying, he pulled out Lu’s gun and released double shots in the ceiling.
“Nobody move!!!!!” He shoots more.
Just like any other interrupted party, the ladies began to scream and run all over the place. Nothing else could be seen for every one was pushing and stepping on who so ever that got unfortunate and fall.
It was until Jordan grabbed Lu’s arms and pulled him towards the door that he knew he had to run. Even still, his free arm was still round Ariana who didn’t try to wiggle or free herself. She just stayed still and let time kidnap her, she must think that he is her Knight in shining amour.
“I can’t see a damn thing” Lu complained as they run.
“But I can” Jordan replied in surprise “just hold on, I will see for both of us,” he said.
Immediately he had said the last word, there was something like a thud and he cringe. It’s a good thing, Lu could not see his face if not, he would want to smash his head too on whatever he had hit his head.
As he paused for a few seconds before moving a few steps backward and running towards the door, Jordan had expected something from his boss but nothing happened. Not even a groan or cuss words, the Lu he knows can take pain but slamming your head on the wall hurts like when you hurt your toes.
Even the devil can tell how he felt when he was thrown down from the sky.
“You didn’t check out for the third eye,” Lu said “Good thing, she passed out”
The way he sounds looks like he was trying to hold his laughter. How funny to imagine Arianna hit her head against the wall while running with her Knight in shining armor and fainted.
It felt like an everlasting run from darkness until they found themselves in the middle of a dry street. Immediately, their car drove and stopped right in front of them and they hopped in without hesitation.
“She made everything easy for us” Jordan chuckled as the car drove off.
“No!” Was the short and grave reply from Luciano.
Jordan stared at Lu in confusion before looking at the girl sleeping on his body then the driver that seems to not be paying attention to what they were saying. He blinks, once, then twice.
He cleared his throat as he moved his hands in front of his face as if trying to form out the right words he need to use.
“She wanted to be alone that was why she asked another person to act like her so she could be free from the soul sucklings” Jordan explained unsurely “I still don’t get how it doesn’t look easy” he placed his index finger on his lips.
“I missed her” Lu lamented “Alita was fucking right in front of me but I could not do anything” he buried his head in his palm and gnashed his teeth.
He pulled the mask off his face then yelled. His fingers grabbed hold of his hair and he pulled hard, he kept yelling not knowing if it was because of the pain from his hair or the pain that he saw Alita but could not get her.
“I could have gotten her” He whispered “Just one shot, Rocco would be down and I would have gotten her Instead of this useless spoiled bratttt” he stressed the last word with his teeth clenched.
“We both knew there was nothing you could do at that moment,” Jordan said sadly “I too wish I can spank his bald head for Shooting at my phone but if I had done it, the whole place would have been locked down and we get apprehend”
He wiggled his fingers, not knowing if he should follow his heart or not. After seeing how unwelcome Lu’s face looks, he carefully placed his palms on his thighs and rubbed them.
“Now we know who she is with,” Jordan said, “we can easily trade the girls and if Zeno doesn’t want, he gets it HURT!!!” He yelled the last word.
His sad eyes fell on Arianna’s face as he couldn’t continue staring at Lu’s angry face. His boss’s jaw bone kept moving and he wondered if he had something in his mouth or that is how he show how sad he is.
His eyes brightened as he quickly brought out his laptop and placed it on his thighs after he open it. His fingers ran on the keys for some time before he stare up at Lu’s focused face.
“At the party” Jordan started “We were not alone” he tilted his head to meet Lu’s surprise gaze “There were this set of people that wanted to get Arianna before we did” he explained.
Lu’s brows connected, he looked at the girl’s face then Jordan who had his usually serious face.
“I didn’t see any suspicious-looking men aside from her father’s zombies,” He said “Except they are with the zombies” he suggested.
Jordan scoffed, he faced the laptop at Lu and pointed at some group of girls taking pictures with the supposed Arianna in video footage.
“They had weapons!”
“The door scanned everyone for guns,” Lu said boringly as he watched the video “You better be serious” he warned.
With the same boring face, he saw himself as he was heading towards the girls. He would not be able to tell who the handsome-looking man with a clown mask is.
His left chin lifted as he smiled to appreciate how handsome he is.
His faint smile increased until he noticed one of the girls passed a handkerchief to another girl and they were about to raise it up to the assumed Arianna’s face then stopped as someone turned to her.
“Is she okay?” Lu suddenly asked “The fake Arianna, is she okay” he specified.
Jordan was more than puzzled as his jaw dropped and he stared at Luciano like he was from another dimension. It was just so overwhelming that he had to blink and wipe his face to be sure he was not daydreaming.
“Don’t piss me, Jordan” Lu said dryly.
“Did Alita do all this to you?” Jordan asked, “As in, I can’t believe you are worried over a girl we don’t know?” He said unsure “Where was Alita when I stole from you? I would have been forgiven without all this-” he points around the car trying to get the word.
“Shut up and say no word till we reach” Lu ordered.
Even as at that, Jordan admire the new traits of his boss that he could not stop beaming at him like a teenage girl in love.