Chapter 15. The whole thing.

CHAPTER 15. The whole thing.
QUILL
"What are you doing here?" I asked, not believing my eyes. Who was I seeing? The guy who use to come everyday at the cafe? I couldn't believe it. "Are you okay?" He asked, avoiding my answer. As I sighed. They pressure in my stomach growing but I can't go inside that junk. "Use that one! The last one. No one uses that."He said, when I didn't wanted to but ran towards the restroom because the holding back was being an ache. I ran inside finding it not so clean but bit dirty like the one before either.
I sat relieving myself.
What was he doing here? How does he know this place? Was he planted there to find me? Is that the reason he is here? Because he belonged here already.
I came out of the restroom, when he was still standing and smoking in the air. Relying on the wall. He became stiff as he walked a step ahead, his eyes resting on me and he was partly smiling. He inhaled his cigarette and exhaled, "What are you doing here?" I inquired him when he jerked his shoulders, "Just doing my duties. What else?" He tried to keep avoiding and looked the other way.
"No, I mean here," I asked being specific when he looked the other way and then back at me, "Just having a smoke. The conversation in there really gets on my nerves," He said pointing with his finger over the warehouse like, at the corner there were many man in there too, who looked at me and him. "That place?" I asked him little confused when he, coughed, "That's the place where the soldiers seat and hang out around. The bathroom you used was for the soldiers. They just clean the soldato's not the associates." He explained when I nodded taking in the information.
"You can always use it," He said, and took a smoke in with a big breath. Looking at him smoking, I realised that he had many tattoes on his arms and he was good at smoking too. He never smoked at the cafe and he never wore anything less then wrist lenghth. I guess this is why? But why? Did they really sow him to keep eyes on me? If they already knew me why were they shocked to look at me in the abandoned building?
"What was the cafe thing then? Did they ask you to keep eyes on me?" I asked him directly. When he laughed and shake his head, "They didn't even knew I use to go there every week." He replied to me when I gave a nod, "They why did you always go through four hours of traveling?" I queried further when he smiled.
And had a long halt, inhaling the smoke again and releasing it, looking up suddenly in my eyes, "The coffee it was really nice." He replied to me making me frown and laugh, why did his words say something else then his wierd look at me?"Really?" I again asked when he nodded, again relying on the wall. Looking at him smoke, somewhere near my chest even I wanted to have a hit.
I enter my hand, fingers like scissor, when he stared at my fingers, "Let me have one too?" I asked him when he shake his head. "Come on? If you wnat give me, associate down there will," I shrugged him when he sighed."Jade would have hated it!" He said making me frown. And surprised. He extended the hand towards me as I took the cigarette from his hand and sinked in the heat and smoke all from my neck to my chest, the heat making me release all the bump in my chest.
I handed him back, exhaling out. When he smoke and chuckled "You smoke well, as Jade use to tell." He again mentioned him, making me think about him. When he taught me, it was just out of fun. But when he actually caught me doing it outside of school? I still remember his wrath! That was one of the angry self I had seen of him, in fews.
He handed me, when I took from his hand and again inhaled, and walked towards the wall, relying on them too," Did you know Jade well?" I enquired him when he nodded, and I handed him the smoke, the other soldato's eyes on us. It kind of made us uncomfortable, but who cares? "What kind of soldier Jade was?" I asked him out of curiosity, taking the smoke, inhaling the peace, "Was he like the soldato of associates? Who treats woman like snack every night? Or-"
"He was a really nice man, to be honest, we all thought that he didn't even belong in this kind of place. All the other soldier use to be envious of his humanity that he maintained in mud."
"Truely? Or are you just saying because I am his sister?" I asked, turning, facing towards his shoulder when he threw the smoke on the floor and stepped on it. "I am not lying! He really was a nice man! He had a sister he cherished. Do you think? He will hurt any other woman?" He interrogated back, making me nod in agreement. When I again relyed on the wall. Repeatedly nodding in agreement. One of the other soldato walked towards us, with his eyes on me and smirk on his lips. But became normal after looking at glaring blonde head. His glaring eyes was really scary making me shunned at this side.
"You are Jade's sister right?" He shouted from distance, I turned to see blonde before responding him. He didn't say or do anything so I assumed that it was okay to reply to him, "Yeah, but right now I am supposed to be in the den," I explained. But that caught blonde with a hurt look. "Oops! We know!" He shrugged when I just got uncomfortable with the still handing cuffs in my hand. "Did they harm you?" Blonde asked me from by the side when I shaked my head.
"No, I am soldato's daughter, middle class they can't touch me. Like a rule or something." I told him when he agreed, "Good that they know it." he murmured but I heard him, "Yeah, though the other one who just died in the morning, was being an asshole saying that they are dead who cares." I gloomily spat. But he got hyped. "They? What? Have they forgotten there place?" He got furious and almost running in when I caught him, "He is dead. He died. No one will harm me anymore!" I explained when he rolled his eyes trying to surpress himself. But suddenly he kept both his hands on my arms and looked at me intensely, "The next time some soldato or associate tried to come over you. Tell them you are my woman. They won't even dare to look at you anymore."His words astounded me making me freeze, but we were interrupted by the other soldato.
" Enough! Enough!"He laughed, parting both of us from each other. When we both stared awkwardness filled in." You are his woman and Jade's sister, come over. We have more then bun and milk, "He said laughing.
His woman? How come? That's like an impossible thing right? Why would he say that? Maybe because he wants to-
No! Shut up! Quill you are thinking whatever!
He wants tor protect me because of Jade! That's all! That's it. Don't run your imagination and believe in the truth you know. That's your reality
I told myself and paid attention to the guy in front of me. "I can't," I told him showing the cuff when he laughed, "That doesn't matter! Capo said for you to stay there not to always stick there. And we are soldiers, he won't mind." He said and laughed. Asking me to come, my eyes turning to look at blonde. Him, staring at me, "It's okay, you can come. I am there. And if you don't trust me, it's still fine if you don't want to?" He asked me back when I smiled. Shaking and agreeing to walk over the warehouse like place. All the soldiers that were half in number then associates, that were drinking and laughing sitting around a table with bear and snacks. Waved at me.
I walked closer when one of the soldier bought another wooden bench and kept around the table, asking me to sit. When I nodded and sat on it. With them. Blonde sitting beside me. "Taking the glass."
"Here," A soldier said handing me one too, but blonde took it away, "She won't, firstly because she is already feeling uncomfortable about here and second I don't wnat her too, she need to be in den tonight. I don't trust those scumbags."He gritted when the group laughed.
" Or just being a protective man? " The group teased him when he didn't reacted. " She is really pretty though! Looking at her, I am regretting not maintaining close relationship with Jade! "Another one spoke between them confusing me a little."Quill was it?" one ahead of me asked, making me nod in reflex. "Romeo and Jade were really close. That's why Jade trusted on him. Though Romeo really deserved it!" He again spat making me frown but I just looked down at the table.
"She is really nice. Now I get why you use to travel for four hours on your week off." the same guy said and sinked his drink. Making me chuckled, that's true then I guess, "Stop it! You guys!" He said fake angry and more flustered. "Quill? You can always come over, all soldiers are alot hundred times better then those associates. They are like animal. But we are too, though a little upgraded version. You can hang out with us and have fun. We won't harm you because it's our rule."The other one said making me nod and agree on his words.
"Do you know Romeo use to get really angry if we disagreed to give him week off." another mischievously said, "Also, he use to stand in front of the mirror two hours prior. Leo should I wear this one or not? Leo should I have my hair down or up? Leo, should i apply gel? Leo what kind of deodorant should I apply? Does she likes this metallic smell? What if she is infected? Leo this and Leo that! " another guy kept spitting making me blush and laugh at him, when he took my hand and stood, "You all are making her uncomfortable!" He aggressively said and started to pull me out when we heard behind of us, "We were making her or you?" they yelling, making me laugh loud. "Do. You want to see where Jade's bed is" He asked, trying to stop me from laughing and taking me at the open door warehouse with lots of bed visible. I nodded to him when his warm hand still had me clutch together.
We walked inside the open door, there were so many three floor beds. Up on long heights. With a all the man things scattered around. "This one is of Jade," He said pointing at the lower one. Making me tear up. Walked towards the bed and sat on it, sighing and feeling broken. Trying to surpress my tears. I didn't wanted to seem week. I touched his bed and the pillow. Picking it up.
His habit of keeping the most important things under the pillow, I chuckled and found a box with my name on it. I opened the box finding a half pendant of circle in the box. I picked it out, as I watched it, but a hand behind me, passed around my head and sticked the other half of circle. "Your brother promised me. That he will marry you off with me. And this was his promise."