My name is Aleksandra Luna Kostas. I am a Seventeen-year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia. Long, brown hair, gray eyes, tanned skin, whatever. One thing many people didn't know about me, though, my parents run one of the most feared gangs in America. My older brother, Belator, is supposed to take over the whole thing with his girlfriend, Gloria, in a few years, but for now, they stick to second in command.

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''Aleks?'' Gloria walks into my room and looks at me.

''Why aren't you ready!?'' She squeals while rushing to my makeup bag. ''I was waiting for you, Gloria.'' I giggle and she rolls her eyes playfully.

''Whatever. Your mom is coming up in twenty, and the ball is in thirty. We need to get you ready.'' She smacks my ass as I walk to the bathroom.

''Fuck you, Glore, fuck you,'' I mumble and undress. I step into the shower and, well, you know the rest. When I walk out, I slip on my undergarments, which consisted of strapless, white, lace bra and a white, lace thong. I look over to the mirror and put my hands on my hips.

''I wish I had a body like yours,'' Gloria says, walking up to me. ''Yeah?'' I whisper. I had scars all over me from when I was kidnapped years ago. That, and my weight, was probably my only problem that I had with my body, but they make me feel really ugly. I had just covered up the scars on my wrists and put some amazing skin-like coverage stuff on them, so no one would see the cuts.

I trace a long scar going from the top of my abdomen to the top of my right thigh. ''Don't think about that,'' Gloria says and takes my hand to drag me to my vanity table.

''So, this party is white and dark blue themed, so, women wear white, and men wear dark blue,'' Gloria says while rummaging through my makeup draws. ''White smokey eye with matte navy blue lipstick. Good?'' She asks and I nod.

After Gloria had contoured and completely caked my face, I had to pick out my shoes. I instantly went into my closet full of shoes. I search through all of the boxes, eventually finding my white round toe Jeffrey Campbell pumps. I walk through the door and back into my room. ''Found them,'' I say and put the box on my bed.

''Perfect,'' She says while looking at them. Gloria pulls the bag that has my dress in out of my closet and puts it on the bed. I unzip it and look to see a white Chanel two-piece. The top was a white crop top with beads and pearl sort of things, all sewed on in swirls. The chest piece was a kind of mesh fabric and had some crystal like things on it. The skirt was floor length and had a slit going up to the middle of my thigh. The top of it had the crystal things all around it, along with some pearls and beads. The outfit went perfectly with my heels.

''It's gorgeous,'' I gasp. ''I know, those are real crystals too,'' Gloria says and smiles. She picks the skirt up and undoes the five little buttons at the back. She hands it to me and I slip it on. She does the buttons up and then twirls me around to adjust the top of it. She then pulls the top out of the bag and undoes the ten buttons on that. ''I put that on and she does the buttons up. I grab my shoes and put them in front of me, slip them on and straighten my dress out.

''I just need to do your hair,'' Gloria says before curling my hair and putting it into a half-up-half-down do. I put my diamond raindrop earings in and then my shark tooth necklace, along with my diamond marijuana belly button piercing and my diamond and gold claw nail rings.

''You look beautiful,'' Gloria says as she tucks a piece of her beautiful brown hair behind her ear.

''Than you,'' I whisper and look down at my outfit. I looked like a princess jut came out of a fairytale. Too bad I didn't feel like one.

I rub the tattoo on my hip. Fortunately, it showed when I had the dress on. It was just a simple handgun, showing that I am in a gang.

''Oh my gosh!'' A squeal came from the door. I turned around to see my mother standing there, her hands on her mouth. ''You look absolutely gorgeous, darling!'' Tears were leaking out of her eyes now. ''Thanks, I hope dad thinks so too,'' I whisper. As soon as I say that, my dad walks through the door. He looks me up and down before looking at my mother. She tucks a piece of her red hair behind her ear before walking out of the door. He then looks at Gloria, she nods before giving me a hug and giving my father a kiss on the cheek. ''See you downstairs, dad.'' She whispers before walking out the door.

We stand in an awkward silence for a few moments. My dad clears his throat before standing up from sitting on my bed and walking over to me. He takes my hand and looks into my eyes. ''Aleks, when I tell you that you are one of the most beautiful girls to me, I mean it. You are my oldest daughter, and I will love you forever. Whatever happens tonight, I hope you benefit something with it. I love you, Angel.'' He kisses my forehead and hugs me. I wrap my arms around his torso, yes torso. My father is extremely tall. and in heels, I'm only about five foot, eight inches.

''I love you too, daddy.'' He pulls back and puts his hands on my shoulders. He looks me over and mumbles. ''You're so beautiful, you take after your mother.'' He kisses my head and holds his arm out. I wrap my hand around it and we walk out of the door.

''You both look gorgeous,'' My father says to Gloria and my mother. ''You look rather dashing yourself, babe.'' My mother pecks his lips and smiles. ''Let's go,'' My brother, Bellator, says as he walks through the door.

''You look gorgeous,'' By brother whispers to Gloria as he pecks her nose. ''You look pretty amazing too,'' Gloria says as she starts to fix his outfit a bit. Both of the happy couples tart to fuss over each other, while I stand there like a statue. Frozen and out of place. I run upstairs and open my draw to get my knives.

They were mini diamond shaped knives with a chain handle and a little circle at the top. The case was black leather with my name on it in white. I put them in the sides of my underwear, knowing they are the easiest place to take them out from if someone decides to attack me. I pick my phone up and run downstairs to see the couples staring at me at the top of the staircase. ''What? Are my knives visible?'' I start to check my sides as they stare at me.

''What?!'' I shriek and they just laugh. ''Let's go,'' They say and I nod. We head out to the cars. I slide into my Ferrari and start the car up. I drive to the end of the driveway, where my dad and brother cars were.

''First one there wins?'' I ask them through our open windows and they both nod while smirking. ''You're both going down,'' I say and they shake their heads. ''On three?'' I ask and they nod.

''One...'' I rev the engine and smirk.

''Two, three!'' I pull off, my foot going half way down on the gas pedal. I speed off, I hear them all shout saying I'm a cheater, but I just smirk and laugh a bit.

I dodge cars and overtake a few others. A few honks and swear words were shouted at me as I drove through red lights. I just curse and beep back at them. When I get to the mansion, I slow down as I reach the driveway, my brother and dad not far behind. I roll into the drive just before my father and brother.

''You cheated!'' My brother shouted as we got out of the cars. ''Whatever, you guys were just slow,'' I said as I threw my keys to the guy who parked our cars around back, I also gave him twenty bucks as tip. He smiled and shook my hand. ''Look after my baby,'' I say as he steps into the car.

''No, you're just a cheater!'' He shouts again. ''You said on three!'' She shouted and I giggled. ''And I went on three!'' I giggle-shouted back.

''Yeah! You said it straight after two!'' My dad said as we walked up the stairs. I laughed harder and looked at him, ''And what does three come after if it doesn't come after two?'' I say and they sighed. We walk into a room full of people dancing and talking. I follow after my family as they walk over to a man talking to other men.

''Ah, Mr. Kostas, what a pleasant surprise!I didn't think you would turn up!'' The man says to my dad. The other men scatter and leave us alone.

''Good evening, Shadow. Thank you for inviting us tonight. I know you have met my wife, Desdemona, and my son and his girlfriend, Bellator and Gloria.'' Dad says as 'Shadow' shakes Bell's hand and 'bro hugs' him. Bell and Gloria then walk off after Shadow had greeted each other.

''And I don't think you have met my eldest daughter, Aleksandra.'' I look into his eyes and butterflies immediately erupt in my stomach. ''Good evening, Aleksandra,'' He says as he takes my hand and kisses it and smirks as he looks up into my eyes.

''Good evening,'' I whisper and smile a bit.

''Darling, this is Shadow Dawson. He is the leader of APF506,'' My mother smiles at me.

''Yes, he is leader of the most feared gang on the sphere, don't piss him off.'' My father whispers in my ear and kisses my cheek. I nod and take his hand.

''Daddy!'' A voice from behind us squeals. I turn around and see my younger sister, Ameliana. ''Angel!'' My dad says and hr runs over to her as my mom walks extremely slowly after. I make a sour face at her as my talks about traveling. Tears raise in my eyes. Dad always loved her more than me. That sappy moment my dad and I had earlier, it meant nothing. He was just going to ship me off on another mission tomorrow and spend all of his time with her as I'm away. No matter what I did, I could never beat her at anything.

''Are you okay?'' A hand presses to my lower back. I jump in shock and smile, wiping under my eyes. ''Yeah, I'm fine,'' I smile and look up to see Shadow.

''I know how it feels, second best. My father gave me APF because my older brother turned it down.'' He says while looking down at me. I stared at his plump, kissable lips and blinked a few times. ''Yeah,'' I said, looking away.

''Aleks?'' I look in front of me to see Ameliana standing there, staring at me. ''Welcome home.'' I sneer and walk away. ''Wait! Aleks!'' She shouts after me. ''Just leave me alone, you spoiled brat!'' I shout at her. She stops and looks at me as if I just killed her pet dog right in front of her. Her face then turns into a red hot mess as she lunges towards me. I hold my arms out and flip her above me.

''Always the Attention whore, I see?'' She smirks as she gets up. The music instantly stops and everyone turns to look at us.

''I'm the attention whore?! Whenever you're home, I get no attention what so ever! I'm always shipped away when you're home from traveling with your boyfriend!'' I scream and grip her arm. I pull a knife out from my skirt and slip the cover off. I pull her back towards me and hold her hands behind her back. I put my knife to her neck and smile.

''Maybe I am a bit of an attention whore?'' I sneer.

''Aleks put the knife down,'' Gloria says from behind me. I look down at my sister, who has a look of horror on her face, and take the knife away from her neck, only to kick her to the ground.

''You bitch!'' A male voice says. I look towards the doorway to see Carlton, her boyfriend lunging towards me. I jump and yank his arm and hold him in front of me. I then hold the knife so the point is on his chest.

''Don't piss me off, Carlton Matthews,'' I say and kick him back. My dad runs to my sister and starts asking her if she's okay. She just fake cries and smirks at me when he looks away. ''I hate her,'' I say to my brother and Gloria. ''I know, she always gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants it,'' Gloria says and my brother agrees. We send death stares towards my sister. If looks could kill, she would be eighteen feet under right now.

My father walks over to us with a scowl on his face. ''Why do you always do something like this to your sister!?'' He screams at me. I wince slightly and pick up my knife case. I slide the knife into it and put it back in my skirt.

''Because she deserves it,'' I say and look at him straight in the eyes.

A sudden sharp pain erupts through my face and my face is sent flying to the right. Gasps were heard throughout the room and then murmurs. ''My God, Aleks I'm so sorry-'' I cut my father off by looking at him, my hand on my cheek and tears in my eyes.

''Y-you hit me,'' I whispered and look toward Bell, who was red with rage.

''You lay your dirty, blood-stained paws on my sister again, and you will be the one getting the slap.'' He says, gripping onto my father's neck.

I look over to my sister to see her laughing slightly and my mother staring at dad in shock.

''I-I'm leaving,'' I say to Gloria and run out of the room. I run to the guy who looks after the cars and he passes me my keys. I hug him and give him another tip, but this time, thirty dollars. He looks up to my tearstained face and hugs me again. ''It's okay.'' He whispers and gives me a napkin. ''Call me if you need a friend.'' I look at the napkin to see a number written on it.

''Thank you,'' I mumble and run to my car.

''Wait! Aleksandra!'' I hear Shadows voice from behind me, so I look around to see him running up to me.

''Are you okay?'' He whispers to me. I shake my head and burst out crying again. ''Come here,'' He says and hugs me. I cry into his chest as he rubs my back and hair soothingly.

''Wanna go somewhere private?'' He asks and I nod my head. ''Give me your keys,'' I give him my keys and he lifts open the passenger door for me. ''Thank you,''

After about ten minutes of driving, we finally park at a place in the forest. ''Trust me, this place is not what it seems.'' He whispers to me. He jogs around the front of my car and opens the door for me. I take his outstretched hand and pull myself out.

He smiles at me evilly and puts his arm around my back. He then frightens me by bending down and putting his arms around the back of my knees and lifting me off of the ground and holding me bridal style. I giggle and put my arms around his neck. ''You alright?'' He asks, smiling at me. I nod and smile back at him.

''Let's go!'' He says, twirling me around and sprinting off, dodging trees and jumping over logs.

I giggle the whole way through and keep my head buried in his chest. My arms are still wrapped around his neck, my gold nail rings tickling the back of his neck slightly. We soon stop and I look up to see a beautiful cave filled with pillows and blankets.

''It's beautiful,'' I mumble to him. ''I know, I made it with my young sister, Gabrielle, a few tears ago.'' He says as he sets me down on a cushion. ''How old is she?'' I ask. ''She's eleven next month,'' He smiles fondly at the thought of his younger sister. ''Oh,'' I smile wider.

''So, what was up with that massive scene back there?'' He asks me while taking my hand. I silently gulp the lump in my throat away and look up into his deep brown eyes.

''Oh, my sister, she...She seems to be my dads' favorite child. He seems to love her so much, he sent her away so she could travel. He didn't actually know, that it was my dream, to travel, to see the world. She took it in as her dream too after I told her. A few years later, she finally got the guts to ask. I was afraid because my father could get really angry, so I was always cautious around him. He didn't get angry at her at all, he actually offered to send her boyfriend with her too. I asked a few days later and my father screamed at me for trying to steal my sister's dream. The sad thing about it, he held it to me, telling me I was just jealous of my little sister.'' I was in tears in the end. Shadow pulled me to his chest and let me cry on his shoulder. Soon after, I pulled away and looked at him. ''So, what about you? What happened for you to be the least favorite or, you know...'' I mumbled.

''Well, you see, my mother and father had my older brother, and he was the good one, never got into trouble, had good grades. All that shit. I started to be the one to get good grades and things like that in school, he then started to get into trouble as he got older. Once, he had gotten expelled, and they thought it was their fault because they never spent time with him, so they focused on spending time with him and making sure he didn't get into trouble, they seemed to be forgetting about me. So I depended on myself, kept away from everyone, ended up harming myself on the way,'' He lifted up the sleeves of his shirt, where scar, after scar, after scar, after scar was shown. There were new ones too. I took his hand and kissed all the way down his arm. I then started rubbing the makeup off of my arm and peeling the botox stuff off, showing my old scars and my new, fresh cuts. I put my arm against his and leaned into his chest.

''Don't do it, you're too beautiful,'' He kisses my forehead and then take my hand.

''But then, my sister was born and they were paying alot more attention to her too. So I made more.'' He pulls up his other sleve. I kiss them cuts too.

''Can I have your number?'' He mumbles into my head. I nod and pass him my phone.

''Here,'' He passes it back and I look at the contact. It has the name 'Love <3 ToT' (That's a face, by the way)

I giggle and put my number in his phone after he passes it to me. I put in my number and the name 'Babe <3=8=' (That's also a body thingy, boobs, and ass thingy.)

He laughs as I pass his phone back to him. ''What time is it?'' I ask him and he looks at his watch. ''Eight,'' He says and I nod.

We sit there for the rest of the night. Talking about our lives, funny things, sad things, happy things, and he explains some gang stuff to me. I tell him about how long I've trained for, and what I can do.

My phone starts to ring. I look at the time to see its half-past one in the morning. ''Hello?'' I answer.

''Where the fuck are you!?'' Gloria, Bell, and my mother shout through the phone.

''I'm with Shadow. Why? Has dad found out I'm gone?!'' I spit and it goes silent. ''That's what I thought. When he realizes that I have been gone for... almost six and a half hours, ring me back.'' I say and hang up. Soon, Shadow get's a call too.

''It's my step-mom,'' He says and answers it before putting it on speaker.

''Hey, babe, where are you?'' A woman's voice come's through the phone. ''I'm with a friend, mom. I'll be home soon.'' He says and his mom agrees before hanging up after an 'I love you'.

''If you want, I can drive you home,'' I say while getting up, but he pulls me back down.

''No, not yet. And, if you want, you can stay with me for the night.'' He whispers against my hair. ''Really?'' I ask and he nods.

''Let's go.'' He says while helping me up. We walk back to my car and he lifts the door open again. ''Thank you,'' I peck his cheek before getting in the car.

''So, do you want me to take you back home to get clothes?'' He asks and I nod. ''That would be very kind of you,'' I say and he nods and smiles before grabbing my hand with his.

:Desdemona's POV:

I am pacing back and forth. I am getting sick of this. I am worried. I am not Ameliana's mother.

How could I be a mother to that little rat?

''Mom, what's wrong?'' Bellator asks me, stopping me from pacing. I sigh and tuck a piece of my red, curly hair behind my ear before sitting down. ''I'm going to tell you something, something that you cannot tell your sister.''

''Which one?'' Bell asks. I sigh again before saying something that I've always wanted to tell him.

''You have only got one sister.''