"Have a good day" Shella said happily as a customer exited Villanueva's store.
Zhul and Shella had arrived at Villanueva's a few hours ago. Shella caught up with Ricky then asked if she could help. So he had her greet the customers and help zhul around the store.
"Wow zhul your job is the best" shella shouted to him. zhul was busy sweeping up the front of the shop. He didn't even here Shella speak. His mind was on Angel. He had the bad feeling in his gut that she was in trouble but he had no idea what to think or where to look for her. He began to think he was paranoid or just dwelling on angel because she broke his heart.
Suddenly a black Nissan Maxima pulled up next to him. He assumed it was a customer but he couldn't see inside because the windows were tinted. Then the driver set window came down and relieved Demmy.
"Hello Zhul" he said plainly. Demmy gave him a cold look. He didn't have many interactions with Demmy but Zhul did not like him.
"If you have business with Villanueva, you can go inside" zhul said.
"My business is not with your employer, I have someone who would like to speak to you" he answered. Zhul raised his eyebrow at him. A part of him was hoping it was Angel. She seemed to be the only thing on his mind. Then the passenger door opened and Zhul saw Bobby step out of the car. Zhul's eyes widened when he saw him.
Bobby was had a huge black eye and he was holding a bloody towel to his head.
"I'll leave you two to talk" Demmy said. "Thanks" Bobby mumbled.
"You didn't get any blood in my car or my carpet, it's the least I could do" Demmy said before putting up the window and speeding away.
Now there was just zhul staring down bobby and bobby refusing to meet zhul's eyes. shella saw zhul with another young man and recognized him as the man from angel's pictures.
"What the hell do you want?" zhul spat. bobby finally looked at him. bobby really didn't want to go to zhul for help. After all zhul was the one who stole angel's heart.
"I need you to help me" bobby growled.
"Why would I help you?" zhul snapped. He hated bobby with all his being. He couldn't believe that his enemy was coming to him for help.
"Because I can't save her by myself" bobby said. zhul could feel his stomach turning. He knew who bobby was referring to but what could have happened. zhul lost all control of his emotions. In one swift move her grabbed bobby and pinned him to the tall fence that stood by Villanueva's shop.
"What happen to angel" zhul hissed. He was looking at bobby as if he could kill him.
"She was kidnapped" bobby admitted. zhul could feel his blood boiling. Although he knew he should be focused on angel's, he couldn't help but think this was bobby's fault.
"Why?"zhul yelled. bobby didn't want to answer that question he knew he would probably be punched for it.
"She was trying to protect me" and after bobby said that zhul punched bobby right in the face.
"ZHUL!" shella yelled running over to them. zhul ignored her and glared at bobby. You piece of shit" zhul started. "angel fights everyday trying to help you and defend you and you let her get kidnapped. Why the fuck would she need to protect you? What the fuck did you drag her into? I don't understand how she can still be in love with you!"
The last sentence zhul said had bobby confused and a bit irritated. "Are you fucking slow carrot top? angel doesn't love me. She broke up with me a week ago, so she could be with your scrawny ass"
zhul was dumbfounded by this information. "If you know angel, you would know that she protected me because she is good person and had a big heart. A heart that I almost destroyed" bobby finished.
zhul tried to process the information he was hearing. He thought all this time Angel was still in love with bobby.
"I came for your help, because I know how you feel about her, and if it's the same way she feels about you then you will move the earth and the moon the save her" bobby stated. zhul looked at bobby then let go. zhul had been trying to make angel jealous for a week, purposely trying to get her to feel the same way he did, he had no idea he was hurting her just as much as he was hurting.
"What's going on with angel?" Shella asked worried. zhul looked at the worried expression on her face then looked back at bobby. "Don't worry about it, we are going to get her back, Now bobby, tell me exactly about what's going on."
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The car had finally stopped. Joshua, Ranz, Kyve and a tied and blindfolded Angel had arrived at Las Noches. Ranz picked angel and had her over his shoulder. angel couldn't move much because of how tight the rope was. She could speak because they taped her mouth and she couldn't see because they blinded her. But she could feel was fear. She didn't know what these men would do to her. They were ready to kill their own man, so they could do anything. They all walked in and arrive at the Throne room. Ranz put angel down and began to untie her. angel contemplated running after he untied her completely but these guys weren't stupid. She knew they would probably just shoot at her.
Once her blindfold was removed she realized she was in a huge room. It was all white, with a large white table with surrounding white chairs. At the head of the table, there was a man sitting there. He was wearing a white suite with a black rose in his front jacket pocket. He had chestnut brown hair slicked back.
"Joshua" the man said. He had a relaxing and calm vice but there was something scary about it. "Who do we have here?" He asked referring to Angel.
"This is Angel…Perez" He said smirking. The man raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"And what do we owe the pleasure of her company." He said standing up. angel could feel herself shaking. Who was this man? Why did he seem so intrigued by her?
"She was Bobby's whore" Joshua stated.
"Joshua that is not the right way to speak of a woman, especially of her nobility"
Joshua smirked and said "You are right"
The man was now in front of Angel. She was afraid. She was so sure he would pull out a gun and kill her right then and there.
"Hello My dear, my name is Rusty Flores" he said. Angel's eyes widened in fear when she heard his name. Rusty noticed this and chuckled.
"So I'm guessing you have heard of me." angel simply nodded her head.
"Well, no need for the boring introductions, welcome to my home,Claveria Cagayan ." Rusty then signaled for someone to come. In a matter of seconds a little woman with black hair ran to Rusty.
"Make sure there is a room available for Miss Perez here." The little woman nodded and ran to the opposite direction she had come from.
"A room" Angel finally spoke up. She was obviously scared though. "How long do you plan on keeping me?" Rusty simply ignored her. "My brother is Franz Perez; he can give the money Bobby owes and much more." angel pleaded.
"Speaking of bobby" rusty said completely ignoring angel. "Is he dead yet?" He asked looking at kyve and ranz.
"No sir, joshua decided against doing so" Kyve answered. Rusty raised his eyebrow and looked at Joshua. "Why did you not kill Bobby" Rusty asked.
"Bobby seems to care about little Miss Perez over there, I thought it would be funnier to see him suffer.
"That's not very nice joshua" rusty stated. He then turned to angel.
"Don't worry, your pretty little head about your brother, I will call him and when he gives me what I want I will let you go, I promise." rusty said. angel felt relieved. Although most of his family was not speaking to him, Franz still had access to their money since he is CEO of the cooperation.
"What the fuck is she doing here?" a new voice said. Angel was shocked to see Alec glaring at her.
"She is our new guest, and I believe one of your classmates." Rusty answered.
"I thought you were gonna kill Bobby, not take his bitch too."
"Actually we didn't kill Bobby," Kyve cut in.
"Why the hell not?" Alec yelled.
"Please no yelling, it isn't your concern what we chose to do" Joshua said.
rusty nodded. "Why is she here?" Alec asked again
"Angel has a job with us" Rusty stated.
"A job?" Angel questioned. She did not want to sell any drugs for him.
"Yes, you will entertain my male employees after a long day of hard work." Rusty  said walking away.
"I don't understand" Angel said.
Rusty looked at her and smiled. "Every night one of my men will come to your room and spend two hours with you, what they chose to do with you in the mean time is completely up to them" His smile tuned into an evil smirk.
Angel couldn't believe what she was hearing. He wanted her to their own personal whore.
"And if I refuse"
"I will kill you" Rusty said simply "Then kidnap your sister and use her instead, "You and Mhadz have a very strong resemblance you know"
"How do you know my sister?"
"This is Rusty Flores," Joshua explained. "He knows a lot about the Perez family, even the poor bastard who tried to take us out, Sherwin Perez."
Angel couldn't believe what she was hearing. Sherwin Perez was shella's father who died a couple of weeks ago.
"You killed him?" angel asked shocked.
"No" Alec answered. "I ruined his brakes on his Ferrari and he happened to crash" He said smirking evilly at angel. angel was frozen in fear. These men were ruthless and cold hearted.
"I call dibs for tonight" joshua said winking at angel. angel could feel herself gagging.
"No" rusty said. "We will pick someone at random every night" angel knew she had no say in this. All she could do was hope and pray Franz would get her out in time.
"Lord Rusty" the little woman from before had returned. "The room is ready."
"Excellent, Kyve escort Miss Perez to her new room" Rusty said. Kyve picked Angel up again but this time Angel screamed.
"PLEASE LET ME GO!" Angel cried as she was being taken down a dark hallway, she looked for a quick second and saw Demmy looking at her indifferently.
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"So what did you call us here for zhul?" brix said walking in. He was the last of the guys to come to Villanueva's.
zhul called Marison, Gerand, Adrian, Kent and Brix to Villanueva's shop in order to fill them in on what was going on. zhul lied to villanueva and told him the guys had something important to work on for school.
"Since you're all here now, I think someone else should tell you why you are here" zhul stated. They all looked at him confused then the door to the room opened revealing bobby who was leaning on Shella for support since had just taken pain killers for his head and he was a bit woozy.
"What the fuck is bobby doing here?" Adrian asked standing up defensively. Gerand got up too angered to see Bobby.
zhul just stood there quietly while shella helped bobby into the room. shella had cleaned and dressed his wounds. She sat him down then walked to the corner of the room.
"Is someone gonna explain why this scum is here?" Gerand asked impatiently. When Bobby didn't answer, he looked to zhul for an answer.
zhul sighed. "It's about angel" The color from everyone's faces drained. They knew it had to be bad, if zhul and bobby were being civil towards each other.
"What happened?" Kent asked.
"She was kidnapped by Joshua Danuco, one of Rusty's men." zhul explained. Gerand and Adrian quickly stood up.
"HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN?!" Gerand screamed. Zhul looked at Bobby, "Care to tell them?" Zhul growled. Seeing them get angry made Zhul wanna get mad too, but he just calmed down.
After Zhul found out why and how Angel was kidnapped he attacked Bobby once again. shella had to stop him by begging and telling him to think about angel. But it got worse when Zhul was trying to find away to leave and find Angel. Shella finally got him completely calm when she suggested calling people Zhul could trust to help him get Angel back.
Adrian who got tired of Bobby being quiet decided to hit Bobby. Adrian dove on top of Bobby and kept hitting him in the face. "STOP IT" Shella screamed but Adrian ignored him. Zhul signaled for Marison to help him break up the fight. Marison obeyed and picked up Adrian off of Bobby Zhul held Bobby back from attacking and that's when Gerand came and punched Bobby in the face, he was going to hit him again but Brix and Kent held him back.
Shella then walked up to Gerand and slapped him and did the same to Adrian. "You guys are both idiots! You shouldn't be beating each other, you two should be finding away to save Angel" She yelled. They calmed down a bit when they realized she was right.
"Are you ready to talk now?" Zhul asked Bobby as he let him go.
"Look Carrot top, I don't come here to get beat up, by all of Angel's friends" He growled.
"Then tell us why Angel has been kidnapped and why you are here" Kent  said firmly. No one had ever heard him sound so demanding before.
"I was about to get killed for not paying my dues to Rusty Flores, but angel came to protect me, so they took her instead probably to make me suffer because they knew my relationship with her." bobby finally confessed.
"So she is a hostage?" Brix asked.
"Well, knowing Rusty, he is using Angel to get to her brother."
"Uncle Franz?" shella questioned.
"Uncle?" bobby questioned back surprised.
"Yes, Franz was my father's cousin. My father was Sherwin Perez" Shella stated. Bobby remembered that Rusty had Alec kill a man with that name but he refused to bring it up.
"So what all Franz has to do is pay Rusty off" Adrian concluded. Bobby simply shook his head. "He is going to use Angel as a hostage and ask in turn for her safety, the power and influence the Perez family has over philippines." Bobby finished.
"I don't understand" Marison simply said.
"He is going to make Franz use his power and influence to have the Rusty drug ring be the only and the biggest one in the country."
"How do you know this?" Gerand asked.
"Demmy is one of his most trusted men, and I happened to ease drop on a conversation he was having with Rusty." Bobby said shrugging.
"Okay so what do we do, first we have to find Angel-" Zhul started but was cut off by Bobby. "She is at Claveria Cagayan, Rusty's Head quarters and home."
"How do you know, he could have changed his location" Adrian argued.
"Demmy told me he saw them bring her" Bobby said firmly.
"So how are we gonna get her back" Gerand said.
"First you need help" a new voice said, everyone turned to see Ricky with a smirk on his face.
"How long have you been standing there?" Zhul asked.
"Long enough, now if you want to save my favorite customer, there is someone else you need to seek for help" he said playing with his fan.
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Angel sat on the queen size bed in her "new room". It had white walls and a small window near the ceiling with bars on it. There was a bathroom, with no window just a tiny vent.
Angel sighed to herself there was no way to escape. Suddenly her door opened to reveal an angry Alec.
"What do you want" Angel said sacred. She didn't fail to notice how angry he was that she was brought here.
"I'm here to get entertained and to have my revenge." He said sadistically as he approached her.
"Revenge? What did I do to you?"
"My girl is in jail because of you!" He said lunging on her. Angel was now pinned down to the bed with Alec hovering over her.
"How is it my fault? She attacked me!" Angel said trying to get out of his grip but he held her firmly.
"Well that might be true but if it wasn't for you she wouldn't have acted like that"
"You're just mad because she cheated on you with Bobby" Angel said hoping he would realize this had nothing to do with her.
"You damn right I am, now I'm going to make him feel what I felt, by fucking the shit out of you until I get my anger out, but be warned I can get rough at time" He said whispering the last part in her ear. She got chills just listening to him. Next thing he pulled out a pocket knife and cut open her school uniform shirt and ripped the side of her skirt, slicing her thigh in the process.
Now Angel's bra and panties where exposed and she had a rather large cut with blood slowly spilling out. Alec smirked at the sight in front of him. "This is going to be fun." He leaned down to kiss her but was automatically pulled back. Alec was shocked when he found himself on the floor. Angel sat up and saw there was a new person.
"Demmy?" Angel choked out. Demmy looked at Angel with his same cold expression for a few seconds then looked over to Alec who was completely angry.
"What the fuck is your problem?" He yelled.
"It's not you turn to be entertain by Angel, from what I remember your name wasn't called" He said. Alec scoffed then looked at Angel. "You are one lucky bitch" He said then left the room.
Angel wanted to say thank you, but she shouldn't, Demmy was probably the enemy. Before she could think of any words to say he left the room. Once the door was closed, Angel whispered a thank you.
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"Are you sure about this?" Gerand asked nervously. Zhul, Bobby, Gerand, Adrian, Kent, Marison and Brix stood outside of a twenty story tall glass building.
"Of course I'm sure" Ricky said as he sat in his huge minivan. He had driven all of them here. "I need to go but good luck to you all" He said. zhul was about to say something but Ricky had already sped away. Zhul sighed. "Let's just get this over with"
All seven of them walked into the building. It was mainly glass and marble all around. Zhul walked up to the receptionist desk where a small woman sat, there were a couple of security guard near her watching the young men intently.
"Uh Hi" Zhul said to the woman.
"Hello Welcome to Perez Corp. How can I help you" She said smiling. Zhul was a little freaked out by her peppiness.
"I'm here to talk to Franz Perez" Zhul stated. The woman gave him a puzzled look, while the guards tensed up and glared at him.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"No one is directly allowed to just come in and speak to Mr.Perez," The lady said timidly. "Do you even have an appointment kid?" one of the guards asked me.
"Uh no but-"
"Can you call Mr. Perez and tell him Zhul Alexis is here to see him about Angel." The lady gave him a suspicious look but began to call. She knew Angel was Franz's family.
"Hello Mr.Perez, I am sorry to bother but there is a Zhul Alex-" the girl stopped and Zhul could here Franz's cold voice. The girl gulped and said. "Yes Sir Mr.Perez."
"He said you all may come up" She said nervously. Zhul was confused on how Angel knew there were more people with him.
"Thanks, where is his office?" Brix asked.
"I'll show you" the other guard said, they all followed behind. They took the elevator all the way up to the twentieth floor.
The guard walked up to a woman and whispered something to her. She nodded and the guard signaled for the guys to follow the woman.
The woman who everyone assumed to be Franz's assistant guided them to two large mahogany doors that had Franz Perez engraved in a gold plate. The woman knocked and they all heard a voice behind the door "Come in". The woman opened the door and allowed the seven young men to enter Franz's office.
It was a hug office; two out of the four walls were glass windows. Franz had a very old but expensive looking desk. He had pictures of himself shaking hand with other people all over the walls. Franz was sitting at his desk looking at a manila folder with some papers in it. Zhul noticed on his desk there was a picture of Franz and Mhadz on their wedding day with a young Angel.
The assistant closed the door and left.
"Hello Mr. Perez" Gerand greeted bowing, Adrian, Kent, Marison and Brix followed what Gerand did but Zhul and Bobby did not. Mainly because Bobby didn't respect Franz and zhul didn't have time for formalities.
"Look, Franz-"
"That is Mr.Perez to you" He said glaring at zhul.
"Whatever" He continued. "We need your help, angel has been-"
"Kidnapped by Rusty Flores" Franz finished shocking everyone in the room.
"How did you-"
"He called me an hour ago demanding my cooperation." Franz said getting up. He then looked at Bobby and No one saw it coming but the next thing they knew Franz pinned Bobby against the wall holding a samurai sword to his neck.
"I am guessing you have something to do with my sister's kidnapping" Franz said. His voice remained the same but there was something scary about it.
Bobby gulped and nodded slowly. Franz glared at him then released him. He walked back to his desk and placed to sword there.
"I'm guessing you came here because you all want to help save Angel." Zhul nodded. Franz sighed. "Very well, but I need some law enforcement" Franz insisted.
"Rusty has control of most of this city's police department" Bobby argued.
"Do you know who I am?" Franz asked him. "I don't rely on this petty police; I have philippines covert Ops under my influence. Something no one knows."
Zhul could feel himself getting anxious. Don't worry Angel, won't let anything happen to you.
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"Zhul" Angel mumbled to herself. She was laying on the bed crying. She could have sworn she heard Zhul say her name but she shook it off. She jumped when she heard her door open.
She looked up to see Demmy with what looked like a first aid kit and some clothes. "I would have been here sooner but I didn't know where they kept the first aid items and I didn't exactly know where to find clothes to fit you."
Angel sat up confused on why Demmy would bring these things. She was surprised when Demmy got on his knees and grabbed her thigh. She was about to scream when she noticed he was observing her wound. He then proceeded to clean her wound. Angel couldn't believe what she was seeing; he was actually taking care of her.
"You should probably wear the clothes I brought you; I don't think you like to be exposed like that." He said without looking up. Angel quickly tired to cover her body with her clothes. Demmy simply smirked and continued to clean her wound. When he was done he handed her the clothes he had.
"Go change in the bathroom" He ordered. Angel took the clothes and nodded. She had to admit she was shocked by his actions. Demmy was never really mean to her, but he wasn't very nice. But this was different he acted as if he cared. Angel looked in the mirror when she finished putting on the clothes. It was a simple cotton white dress that came to her knees. It was a size too big but comfortable.
Angel walked out of the bathroom to see Demmy standing by her bed.
"Thanks" Angel said. Demmy looked at her then looked away.
"No problem. As long as you put in a good word about me to Darlene" He said. Angel couldn't help but laugh at that statement. Demmy finally fell for someone, and it was funny to think sweet old Darlene did that to him.
Angel sat on the bed and Demmy remained in his same spot. This made Angel a bit nervous. "So, are you watching me or something?"
"Do you know how to play chess?" he asked ignoring her first question.
"Yeah, I'm not too bad at it" Angel said a bit confused by the random question. Demmy then bent down behind the bed and pulled out a chess board and took out chess pieces from his pocket.
"How about we play?" Demmy suggested.
"Are you sure, I mean Rusty is going to send a guy in here soon, and I don't need you getting in to trouble"
"I was chosen" He said simply. Angel gave him a confused look. "I was the first man chosen to spend two hours with you for the night"
Angel felt such a wave of relief. She smiled and took the chess board. "Then let's play"
They set up the pieces and began their game. Angel tried to concentrate but she had so many things she wanted to ask him.
"How did you get caught up with rusty?" angel decided to ask first.
"I was an orphan, I didn't want to stay at the orphanage anymore so I ran away, I met rusty when I was seven. At the time he was just a local drug dealer, working the streets of cagayan, I was his look out. The police would never suspect a kid as a lookout."
"So you have been working for him for eleven years?" angel asked with amazement.
"Yes, I have"
"So you don't plan to help get me out do you?"
"I have a loyalty to rusty" Demmy answered. "But I have a loyalty to bobby too."
"How can you have a loyalty to both" angel asked completely confused.
"I do anything they ask of me. bobby asked for a place to stay and I gave it to him. rusty ask me to find traitors and I do. bobby never really betrayed rusty so I never deemed him a traitor.
"So you try and please both sides?" angel asked a bit irritated by his answer.
"I simply do what is asked of me; I will do what bobby ask and what rusty ask."
"What about darlene asks?"
"What does she have to do with this?
"I'm asking, because I wanna know you is worthy of your loyalty, I feel like you would be a traitor!" angel snapped. demmy just looked at her indifferently.
"I don't know where I belong" demmy replied. angel was taken back by that statement. "I don't know who is a true friend or not, so I play both sides"
"I know you might be confused but" angel said placing her hand on his. "I can tell you, rusty is not someone who will stay true to you. bobby might not say it but I know he appreciates your friendship and everything you have done for him. darlene likes you, probably a lot more than you know, and I appreciate you too, and I consider you a friend."
demmy looked at her puzzled, he never had anyone, say these things to him.
"Thank you angel" He said, that was something her never said to anyone. angel smiled "Now lest get back to this chess game" demmy nodded but before he started he said something to angel, something that gave her new hope.
"Don't worry I'm pretty sure zhul is coming to save you"
angel looked at him with wide eyes demmy smirked at her "So you do love him?" angel simply blushed and that was enough to give him answer.
"I know what you are thinking, but I never cheated on bobby, so you did that spying for nothing.
"Physically you didn't cheat but emotionally you did, so why aren't you going with zhul to prom?" angel looked away when demmy asked that question. What could she say?
"How do you feel about him?" demmy asked.
"I love him, it's actually kind of scares me. He is mean, arrogant, annoying, his hair is crazy and he calls me midget. But he is also sweet caring, thoughtful and I love his crazy hair. He makes me smile and has the warmest presence about him. I love being with him and every time I away from him I lose a little piece of myself. When I'm with zhul, I forget everything bad in my life, I even forgot bobby" angel laughed at that last part.
"Well, zhul will probably be the one to save you" demmy repeated. "Why do you think that?" angel asked. "I am pretty sure he loves you like you love him and…"
demmy said looking angel right in the eye "His name does mean 'One who protects'"