Mafia In The Day

Her hair moved with her. She was the richest woman in the city, no one knows what her deal was but her father's company was known for forgetting. Financial things are done with little to no effort.

They were about to be her’s,
she walked along the sidewalk to her building, she always walked to her building.

In her stiletto shoes, she always had a small bag and an umbrella by her side. when you saw her she looked very 1940s and she knew she was one of the best businesswomen. She is very secretive and she always has gloves on. Most people think that he has a germ thing but she has a secret.

Hi, my name is April. I got paid to get dirt on the most wanted and the most looked up to by the woman on the earth, Miss Aphrodite. I’ve been doing this job since Friday. It is currently Monday and I have had no success in finding dirt or even any failure in what she does. She walks and she talks like a

goddess, she might as well have powers.

She was perfect when I was little; she had everything I ever wanted to be and had the world.

A man came to me three days ago. It started on Friday morning. There was a long hot day, I knew I needed ice cream. So I tried to look presentable then I realized that one of my shoes had a hole in it. But it doesn't bother me.

I put them on and went to the restroom. I hate looking at the mirror. I hate my reflection, I stared at myself seeing all my imperfections as none of the only normal things I do anymore.

Staring at myself reminds me that I am alone when I live. I opened the cupboard and grabbed my toothbrush. When I noticed I made a grave mistake I set my toothbrush down and flossed my teeth. I had no idea that I was out of mouthwash. I had no more money on hand, I looked at my desk across the room.

I knew I needed a job, I needed to work and there was only one way of getting work. So I went out and started putting out flyers. Flyers in places to let people know that I was a personal investigator and that I was good at what I do. I have always gotten the picture they wanted and that they were even a good picture if I say so myself.

I walked up to my next stop which was my nearby ice cream shop and I went in. It was a very vintage ice cream shop. It almost looked like the Victorian era and I thought that it was cool.

Plus the ice cream was in a nice cup with a silver spoon. I enjoyed the theme, I walked up to lady claire as I like to call her. she asked what I wanted “what would you like today, ma’am” I looked at her and looked at the ice creams she had and picked

“I would like the original flavor, vanilla and strawberry” she looked at me, smiled, and walked up to the ice cream container. “Would you also like today's special ice cream?” I know I never got anything different but there is a time for a change and I should be a little lost. But oh boy was that my mistake, I looked at her and said “way why not?” She smiled and went to a big ice cream bucket and scooped up something white and black it was almost grey but it had black things in it. I had no idea what it was.

I looked at it and smiled, I thought I was going to hate it but when I took a spoon full of it and put it in my mouth all the flavor this ice cream had I loved it I asked her “what type of ice cream it this” she walk up to me and said “why my dear it's oreo ice cream” “it's good ice cream” I said while taking another spoon full.

I paid with the little money I forgot in my pocket and then walked out of the ice cream shop. I was walking down the steps when on the floor I saw a twenty-dollar bill. I picked it up and saw what was on it, it read for what you're about to experience. I thought it was funny but then again I didn't believe in karma, I thought it was something people want to believe in like gods. I had no idea what it meant.

I started down the steep street toward downtown and when I got halfway down the hill of houses I saw the trolley coming and I thought I should ride on it but there was no one on it so I made a run for it. I was running when a car came into the street out of nowhere.

My ice cream spilled on the street and without noticing something from my pocket dropped a card, my business card. I kept running and made it onto the trolley. As the trolley was going down I saw a man in a suit getting out of the car and staring out at me going down the hill.

I thought it was creepy but then again he could have run me over, I found a seat in the empty trolley and sat in it. I waited for my stop and got off of it when I got to my destination. I got off seeing the herd of people about to get on and placed on my earphones.

I turned on my phone and played music, I was walking down the street about to make a turn when I saw a man in a very big car with golden rims getting off and walking into a small bookstore in all I thought was that I was about to see what was happening but I knew if I did something wrong they would most likely make me pay for damage and things that I can't afford. But I was also intrigued but as soon as I looked I saw a man staring at me. He was right next to the man in the suit but this one looked like a bodyguard. I thought I was staring for too long.

I noticed something about the bodyguard. The most unusual thing was that he was blind. I thought to myself how he could be a bodyguard but what if it colored contacts to make him seem like no threat but then the man put his sunglasses back on.

I was guessing to cover his blindness so this man was blind and I couldn't tell if he was faking it or didn't want anybody to know. But there was also no one on this street but me staring so I kept walking with my hood on and glanced now and then.

I saw the man in the business suit looking at me and that made me uncomfortable so I kept walking faster. My bones felt a chill and it flew past me moments later. What if that was a drug deal or something. I mean why would somebody be at a small bookstore that had no more than kids' books.

I looked back to see but they were gone, the car and the people were gone. Know that makes me feel uneasy but there are silent cars but I hate those. I shook my head and looked at both of my sides. No one was there so I guess I'm good but then I felt someone staring at me, I looked up and a figure was in the room and blocked it and it was gone. “Wow, it feels like that fantasy novel I was reading.”

I turned back and walked faster. I thought I was being followed so I went to a very public place in the center mall. I hated malls but this one was very oldish. It had those trolleys but in the air and it was a steampunk mall. With the stores being very modern but the only rule was that you can't
eat gum in here although many try the robots here will detect gum even if you didn't know you had it. I walked down the stairs to the coffee shop called lun de la rosa.

I have no idea how to pronounce that but it was good coffee. I waited in line for about five good minutes. I looked around and children were playing on their phones.

Man, I thought why are kids always on their phones? What is wrong with parents? But then I remembered my only heaven was my phone growing up. But that was because my parents were annoying but when you lose those annoying people, you wish they would annoy you one last time.

I dozed off into the thought of my family but then came back because I heard someone calling me. The man at the cashier was calling me. He said “what would you like to eat or drink today? '' I was funny because he had a steampunk hat and gloves.

I m in confusion he looked at me worried “ma’am would you like anything to eat or drink” then I realized I had been standing in line “oh yes sorry I would like a flare catolroli with extra caramel” he took out a pen and paper and wrote everything down but it on a toy train and pressed a button and the train went over the door through a hole I the wall.

“Well, that be everything ma’am” “yes, how much” he looked at the board and then looked back to me “ that would be three silver” I looked at my wallet and good god I had four pieces of silver left on me, what an embarrassment that could have been if I had no money and I already made people wait for me.

So I handed him the money and he gave me a copper piece. I moved to the side waiting for my drink to come out. After two minutes a long train came out of the back and it had a drink on it and names with it.

I saw mine right away, but I still checked if it was mine. And yes it was so I reached for it when I woman came and grabbed it “hey that's mine” she looked at me and said “ oh no it's mine read idiot” and looked at her and said, “ oh on sorry you must be clinical, no let me guess you a dummy”

this woman looked like she was going to kill me but I didn't care she had my drink and there was no way she was going to get away from me. I grabbed her hand and put the drink to her face and said “read it '' she looked and it said my name, not hers. I grabbed my drink and let her fall on the floor.

She yelled out “ what the hell is wrong with you”. I didn't care what people thought of me, good or bad it was the way it was. I kept walking towards the stairs when I saw the same man walking with his bodyguards but women were trying to talk to him and yelling out to him.

I thought this was funny but I needed to go to that side too so I went and took a deep breath and went into the crowd. Women were shoving each other side to side.

I swear I was swimming in A pool of water well until I fell in front of him. He looked at me in shock, I felt like I hit my head. I was rubbing my head. It hurt like a brick fell on me. I was so angry. He handed out his hand and I got up myself “no thanks' ' I said I got up and looked at him.

The women behind me were screaming at me to get away from me.

I looked at them and said “stop, I don't like him, he's all yours girls'' then I patted him on the shoulder and walked off. I could tell people were staring at me for what I have done, the only thing that mattered was my coffee. I held my hands up to my face and tried to smell it but then I noticed I fell.

And I had no coffee in my hand, I looked back and I saw him walking with my coffee in my hand but he wasn’t walking towards me but about to go into the trolley.

I ran to him and fell on him my luck. I was still feeling dizzy, I was running and out of mo where I blacked out when I woke up I was on him in the trolley my drink was still safe. He had it reaching up high. I tried to get it but then I fell off of him. The trolley started to go,

“nowhere is the trolley taking us” I said with me still catching my breath and I was also dizzy. I looked at him and then I tried to get up but almost fell he grabbed me and helped me down he sat on the floor with me and handed me my drink

“is there anywhere I could take you, I have a car waiting”

I looked at him unimpressed

“no it's fine you’ve done enough”

he looked at me confused I looked away out of the cart. I looked back at him but he was not looking at me anymore but on the phone talking to someone

“what is she doing now on, don't let- no I'll be right there keep her there until I arrive”

I was curious to see what that was about but right about now I wanted to get out of this cart and get home so I can go to bed and I would get paid today or have a job waiting when I get back.

I hoped that I would never see this man again. He was nothing but trouble and bad money, to be honest, he was most likely in some shady things. “The least you could do is not stare,” he said looking hostile at me, “I wasn't staring at you,” I said, intimidated at him

“I was looking next to you at our stop.”

I pointed to the trolley stop. We were only a few moments from it. And on the button of us was a swarm of women coming to beat me up. And I had nowhere to go when the trolley came to a stop. The doors opened and the swords of women were racing up the stairs to kill him.

He saw this. I only glanced at him but then he took my hand and dragged me towards the outside of the mall. I was trying to let go but then as he got me I was sitting in a car, I had almost no memory of getting in but I was in a fancy car.

I hated them but the swarm of women was coming when the car started to move, I was looking back to the sword of women and somewhere running on the street “is the crazy” said while turning back to sit down “ no there clinical” he said sitting in the far end of the car.

He slid forward towards me and I stood still. He had a trusting feeling towards him, but I trust no one, especially not people like him, rich swimming with money, and in the shady shit I am trying to get out of.

Yes, I was in the shady business for a while, he looked at me and said

“where do you live”
I looked at him confused but then I got what he meant
“no it's fine drop me off at the next trolley stop going south”
I said to him while he was looking at his phone then he pressed a button “did you hear that” he said looking at his driver “yes sir” the driver then took a turn to the trolley stop.

“Thank you,'' I said and under my breath, he looked at me and said “would you like me to replace your drink?

``I looked and I almost didn't notice I didn't have my drink. “ No it's fine ''I said, waving my hands. “I will be in a good room here” the car stopped. I opened the door and got out by head still hunting but I tried not to show it. I bowed and closed the door the car felt.

My head was pounding but I made it to the trolley. I had almost forgotten that I had to jump off the trolley and jump on it. It never stops unless there is a car in front of it. I saw the trolley coming.

I ran and jumped on it. Today was a very weird day and I was losing my mind. I sat and stared at the ceiling of the trolley, it looked as though it was shining in circles.

A few moments later we came to a halt. There was traffic, I checked the time it was only two pm but the kids that have school got out now. I should have gone home after the creep and the dealing, but no I had to get

.

I a coffee that I didn't even get to drink, great what an amazing treat I would have had to go to the coffee shop next to my house that would have been much faster.

I kept walking till I hit my house, a small apartment complex on a very nice street. People think that only in the city you can see cool places but the earth is amazing in itself.

I walked in “welcome back”, said a woman sitting behind a desk. I knew she was kind to me when I arrived but now she seems very old and always in a bad mood.

“Thanks, nice to see you, Linda,” I said as I waved and walked away. In front of the elevator were a group of people and their kids. I mean I know that it was time for kids to start coming to their homes but why do kids have to live here in this apartment? I stared down feeling something and a girl was looking at me.

She was about eight. I want to say holding her mom's hand and with her other hand, she was holding her phone. I looked back up and kept my head looking only at the elevator.

When the bell rang for the elevator to open its doors there were people inside the elevator getting out so it was like traffic in there.

I tried to get in and once I did I felt squashed by the number of people in this elevator, more people I see in a year and they all fit in one single elevator.

I was standing there looking up at the ceiling wondering, how could they let this many people in here without checking if we are dying of hot air or something.

Like I mean what if one of us was scared of small spaces and they got cramped in here, I mean I guess she or he would have been screaming by now. But still, it wouldn't hurt to check on us once in a while.

When the elevator came to my stop I had to swim my way out, lots of people were trying to move but there was no way out of there everyone was already trying to breathe as it was.

I bumped into a man wearing a suit and was in front of the elevator, I looked at him as I was falling. His eyes met mine and I fell on him. Everyone in the elevator was looking away, the elevator doors started closing. I could feel looks and laughs coming “watch where you're going,” I said

“yes, I'll do that,”

the man said I got up and landed on the wall. He got up and started looking at me “are you-'' I walked away.

I was walking towards my door. I could feel him staring. I got ready in case he tried to attack me. but even if he was going to attack me he doesn't seem like the type.

I mean he is wearing a suit and he will get his men to do his dirty work for him. I went up to my door and unlocked it. I looked back to see him walking towards me.

“You live here, are you lady winters,” he said my heart skipped two beats “what did you say”

I grabbed him from the color and brought him towards my face “what did you say”

I repeated he looked confused “oh sorry, you look like a friend I know,” he said, looking away from me. ``I have a job for you,” he said, waving an envelope.

I grabbed the envelope and opened it. There was money in it, lots of it.'' What do you want me to do? ``I said while counting the money.'' May I come in” he said, looking at the hallway camera.

I moved out of the way and opened my door. I led my hand inside “thank you” he said walking into my apartment. “What is it you want me to do?” is said, sitting on my desk in the corner of the room.

He walked up to me and put a file on my desk "this is the person I want you to get" he said looking out the window. I looked in the file and a woman's picture was in here. She seemed familiar to me

“so she is the person you want me to what” I said looking through pictures of her at her favorite places and talking to people ‘ i want you to get anything on her, no one has ever gotten dirt on her”

he said slamming the desk “how far are you willing to pay me” I said smirking I looked at him his face was willing and determined. I knew I could get tons of money off of him “I will pay for everything” he said

“okay this will take months I need to get close to her” I paused “sorry I don't talk about my methods a lot”

he waved his hand “it fine whatever means necessary” he said I only looked at him “whatever you say, but why do you want dirt on her” I asked confused “I seem to me she helps anyone she can”

he looks at the door “do your job” he said while walking away. I looked back at the file, I knew her but where I felt like staying away from her. I felt something in my heart telling me to pack up and leave but another part of me is waiting for me to remember her, from where I have no idea.

I turned on my computer and searched her up, now I know where I remembered where she saw her. Then I started reading about her family or more like her father owns a multibillion-dollar company known overseas as well in other parts of here.

They were a big building, I started searching and to my surprise, they were hiring a new personal assistant for the CEO. I, if I was sure he was her brother, getting close to him was going to be a piece of cake.

I started working on my closet and moved out of my horrible apartment. It was a good thing it wasn't under my name. I know that if I try to get this name they would do a whole background check on me so I have to pay someone to take a few things off my records

. I used to work in an underground company the FBI was looking into but they never found anything so I was in the clear. But that was a few years ago and I got into an accident so I hardly remember anything before that.

I get jumpy when someone knows me. I don't remember them. I try to pretend they're weird, so they don't keep bothering me. I hardly remember

Anything from that time, and to be honest something or some part of me s=wonders if there was a part of me that I don't know.

Anyway, I was searching on the web for anything to help me land the job, I finished reading everything but once I checked the time it was 5:27 am it was late, or as I would put it it was early to be up.

I brushed my teeth and went to bed. Once I woke up, I looked out the window and smoke was coming from the apartment next to me.

Something inside of me was telling me to leave so I followed my instincts. I packed what I had and took only clothes, feeling that something was happening so I rushed.

Then I walked to the elevator. I felt like running so I took the stairs. It was only four stories so in about twenty-five minutes I was outside the building. I started walking towards the trolley then I heard an explosion and the whole building caught on fire.

I ran and called the police and they came as soon as they could. I checked the time and it was already 9:46 am.

It was early in the day. But it was also a good time because it was so early in the day people were still inside and the ones with kids were out. This was one of the few perfect moments in the day to kill.

people were running everywhere, lots of people were missing. I wished I could help but I had things to do. I called a taxi cab and when he got there I went in and told him the address I needed to go to.

We were driving I was looking out the window and staring at the smoke we were leaving I thought “all those people whom I could of help, or that I could have seen die” then I heard a voice the taxi man spoke

“were here”

I looked outside yup we were here I should have noticed

“thank you, keep the change” I pulled out a hundred-dollar bill I know the ride was only forty but I need to get out and leave for my next appointment. I had to go and get dressed in something more appropriate for the visit.

“Oh, how could I forget,”

I said while rushing into the building good day ma’am” I heard a voice say from the desk I looked over and say the desk there was a great big desk with five people helping others

``good morning,” I said while walking over trying to seem sophisticated here she only looked at me. “Do you need your room keys' ' she said, looking at my clothes.

``Yes, if you could please hurry,” I said, looking at the doorway, in a way it seemed as if I was running from someone.

She only turned around and went to a block and grabbed my keys ``here you go” she said smiling at me. I grabbed my keys and headed towards the elevator where there were few people.

Waiting in line was only a good three so it was not about to squish, I checked the number on the key and then looked at the floor number I was on one of the tallest floors. It was the second tallest but there was a problem with this.

I knew I wanted the second floor but there was none left, I knew that you had to go through my floor to get to the last floor which got owned by a rich teenager but which one mattered to me. When the elevator door opened I walked in.

There was a calm feeling until one of the women was on a phone call and she started yelling at her boyfriend. She screamed that she would be up there in a second, then the weirdest thing happened.

We both pressed the 99th floor. She gave me a serial killer look, then hung up the phone.

“Why are you going to that floor” she screamed I only looked away and kept my distance

“ear you not going to answer me” she demanded at me to talk to her she was talking or screaming I couldn't tell but when we got to our floor a man was waiting there he was putting on his shirt he was finishing the last button

“hey Cora'' his voice sounded familiar to me “ who is Cora'' she said yelling “and who is she''

she was pointing at me but I had already walked off. I was about to open my door when I heard footsteps running.

I turned and instinctively I swept down and made her trip. I got up and I felt something in my unlocking a memory come to me.

It was a dark room with one light on. I was on a phone call.

The telephone was the one with the button that you have to put your finger in and move clockwise until you use the stopper. I was on a call with a guy “did you get it” I said “ of course anything for you bo-

I heard a voice from the guy “hey lady are you okay” he was shaking me awake I was standing there looking at him

“ya sorry is she okay,” I said looking on the floor then I hear the elevator ding I look up she was getting on the elevator “sorry about that” I turned and opened the door and closed it immediately. My apartment was cozy but it felt empty.

There was lots of luxurious furniture but there was a big gap of things but I ignored it.