High School Never Ends

Strictly, I was led to a small room at the other side of the warehouse. Trix opened the door and allowed me to enter before closing the door behind me.
“Aria?”
“Vic!” I exclaimed before running over to hug him. “Jesus, we were so scared. Tony got messed up.”
“Is he alright?” Vic asked, wide eyed
“He is now. Broken nose, though.” I giggled
“What about Mike?”
“He seemed to take the news pretty well, but I think he was more shocked than anything.”
“As long as he didn’t freak out.” Vic chuckled
“No, he seemed alright. They didn’t let either Tony or Mike in with me though.”
“They like to keep this place pretty protected.” Vic sighed. “Can I leave yet?”
“Hopefully.” I breathed
Suddenly the door opened and in walked the dealer.
“How you feeling, Vic?”
“Good. Ready to get out of here though.”
“It’s a good job your friends came to collect you then, isn’t it?” He chuckled
“You’re letting me go with them?”
“I don’t see why not. Now that we understand your situation and you understand ours, we can work together.”
“Sounds like a plan!” I beamed
“So, Aria, I’ll see all of you at 10:00?” He suggested
“Yes, sir!”
And with that me and Vic were allowed to leave the warehouse.
We were meet by a grumpy Tony and desperate Mike.
“Ari, you’re okay!” Mike beamed, hugging me tightly
“The deed is done.” I giggled
“Where’s my hug? I was the one that was kidnapped, remember?” Vic pouted
“You got him out? Shit, Ari.” Mike gasped before he hugged his brother
“There’s a lot we need to go over with you guys. You’re gonna have to call Jaime.”
“Aria, it’s like 2 in the morning.” Tony pointed out
“Yeh, but we have 8 hours till we need to be back here. Look, we need to explain everything and it’s pretty urgent so let’s just get going.”
“Aye, aye captain!” Mike saluted “So, let me get this straight… They want us, as in us five, to deal drugs to make the money?” Mike asked in disbelief
“Correct.”
“And you agreed on behalf of all of us?” Vic questioned, also in disbelief
“Affirmative.”
“You’re insane.” Tony muttered
“Yeh, I am Tony. I know. Please, if anybody has any other suggestions go ahead.”
Silence.
“Exactly.” I stated. “This is the only way. We’ll be fine as long as we don’t fuck it up.”
“But what if we do?” Jaime asked
“Optimism!”
“It’s not a very optimistic situation, Ari.” Mike frowned
“Aria, I really appreciate all the effort but this is too far.” Vic explained
“Please. We’ll do it for a weeks, tops. Then after that week we’ll have all the money we need to save Vic’s life. C’mon.” I pleaded
“Right, we’ll talk to this dealer guy at 10:00 and see what all the conditions and catches are.” Mike reasoned
The guys nodded.
“Can we talk a minute?” I nudged Mike
He nodded and I followed him to his room.
“What’s up?” He asked as he closed the door
“It’s… It’s this note.” I replied, pulling the crumpled note out of my pocket and showing Mike
“A note?”
“Yeh, I found it on the windshield of the car before we took Tony to the hospital.”
“Oh. Why? What does it say?”
I handed him the note and watched as his face expressed a million different expressions before ending on confusion.
“I don’t understand. What is it?”
“It… It’s…” I couldn’t even bring myself to say the words.

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