Shadows In Durango

Chapter 20

*****Sofia's POV*****

"So how was it? Chilled and calm compared to what your old class was?" Emma skips towards me giddily, as I exit the storage room looking and feeling somewhat disheveled.

"Whatever it was... it looks like you've been working hard!" Emma suddenly laughs, as I force out a smile - with my mind doing overtime trying to catch up with everything that had just happened. On that note, the door opened from behind me, revealing Vincent as he emerged from the same room causing Emma's eyes to grow the size of saucers, instantly stepping out of his way. Vincent dusted off his large hands, squaring out his shoulders from behind us, looking somewhat amused with himself as usual.

"Don't sweat it about bringing me lunch Sofia, it seems that I'll be making you work hard in other ways now." Vincent winks, as some nearby girls begin to whisper and take notice of our exchange. Crap... that's all I need... rumours about me coming out of the storage room with Vincent! As if people would believe it anyway right? He wouldn't go near the likes of me...

"O-Ok..." I respond, licking at my drying lips as he laughs and shakes his head in amusement, tossing his black jacket over his shoulder and beginning to walk off: causing every female in passing to almost collapse at his feet.

"No way! Was he seriously the only other student assigned to work in the storage room out of the whole school?! What are the damn chances of that?! Are you ok? Was it torture?" Emma rambles the second he walks off out of ear shot, as I finally feel as though I can catch my breath.

Taking a moment, I close my eyes over, exhaling slowly before opening them back up again to find a concerned Emma staring back at me.

"I just don't know what to do when he's around me... he loves tormenting me in every single way! At first he seemed annoyed that I was even there and then he said that he doesn't want me to change to laundry when I offered to switch! He even made comments about my ass at one point just to humiliate me!" I rant to my friend, as we walked towards the lunch hall together in a hurry.

Emma was shocked but also engrossed in my experience, as I confided in her to hear me out.

It took off a lot of anxiety and pressure, knowing now that I had someone to rant to when I so desperately needed it.

"He's awful!" Emma shakes her head and grits, as I somewhat oddly feel bad at her words.

all

me a job when I desperately needed it

predict him and it stresses

you approached him to ask him to switch seats as though it were nothing this morning!" Emma states in disbelief, still struggling to understand my

to

with them anyway? Why is everyone so on edge around them? I mean, I can understand Vincent, but Daryl seems sort of... sweet?" I admit, feeling my cheeks blush ever so slightly when hearing the word out

that he was going to

my spine... knowing that his evil little brain would be doing overtime to come up with a number of ways to torture me either through the

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only tell and right now, it was useless to

school then they pretty much run the rest of town! I've heard rumours that Vincent's parents are big time gangsters... but they are rarely ever in town which is a good thing. Vincent lives in a huge house with Daryl and a couple of other guys. They've done some bad things you know?" Emma explains, her

family are gangsters?! Crap... if things weren't bad

and explains why everybody seems to either cower or swoon

rumour can be... being a 'gangster' isn't a title I would wish upon anybody and for his sake, I

bad stuff?" I push further, as we approach the queue and are

of the time I'm just in the background listening, but I heard that they sell and beat people up for not

panic, as she hushes me and looks around to ensure that nobody nearby had heard our

I've heard anyway!" Emma confirms, as my heart

head in disbelief of what she was telling me, pushing

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definitely could pass for a major drug lord in town but not Daryl... he