"I am telling you, being in a relationship is better than just playing girls." Derek said.
It was the same argument with him everytime. And right now it started because I was checking out the new girl that started at my gym. I made him a bet that I would have her in my bed before the week ends.
"Nope. Why should I stick to just one girl when I have plenty of girls that want me? In a way I am only being fair." I said.
"How is what your doing fair?" He asked with confusion.
"If I stay with just one girl, I am depriving other girls of me so I have to be fair by being with all of them."
Derek just looked at me and rolled his eyes. "You're a sick man."
"Hey, I'm a sick sexy man. You always forget the sexy."
"I don't forget it." He said with a smirk.
I smacked him on the arm and turned my attention back to the lady who I saw yesterday who was now running on the thread mill.
She caught me staring at her and gave a little smile. Then I knew I had her. Girls always smile at me when they want me.
I smirked back at her but instead of approaching me, she just looked away. She was literally the first girl to not get attracted to my smirk. Maybe she was one of those girls who played 'hard-to-get'
"Stop staring at her dude. You are freaking her out." Derek said.
I just rolled my eyes. "I'll go talk to her right now. I am sure I'll get a date."
"Okay then." He answered sarcastically.
"Just wait and see." I said and walked up to her with plenty confidence.
"Hi. I am Tony Caraballo. Owner of the gym. But you can call me Ballo." I said smoothly, a grin on my face.
"I am Camilla Rúiz." She replied with a small smile. She had a really thick latina accent.
"Nice to meet you, Camilla. So I was wondering if I can get your number and call you sometime."
She dropped the dumbbells she was using and moved closer to me.
"Oh, honey. It's gonna take a whole lot more than that for you to get my number." She said. The statement hit me like a huge blow. I have never, never been rejected before!
"Playing hard to get, huh?" I said with a smirk on my face.
"No, I am not just an easy woman. Like the ones who are staring at you right now." She said pointing to women who were in fact staring at me. I smirked cooly at them and turned back to face her.
"Well at least let me take you to—" she held up her hand to silence me.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to get back to my work out."
I walked away with my pride all battered and bruised. I have never in my life been rejected by any girl in my entire.
When I got to where Derek was standing, he was laughing his head off!
"For the first time ever, little Ballo's charm didn't work." He said and kept laughing whilst I was getting fucking pissed.
"You have problems man. Besides, she didn't reject me. She's just playing hard to get. She'll come around, they always do."
"Dude, she gave you the 'don't talk to me hand'."
"The what?"
"Welcome to the world of rejection. You'll get use to it." He said still laughing.
I pushed him hard and walked past him to my office. I was really pissed and I needed a bottle of Jack Daniels to calm me down.
How the fuck do I, Tony Caraballo get rejected like it just doesn't happen.
I looked out the window and saw her walking away to her car. She was most definitely going to pay for this.
I will make her fall in love with me, get her in my bed and break her heart! Nobody, rejects Ballo and gets away with it.
"Dude, chill out. You're hyperventilating again." Derek said.
"I'll mess her up, you'll see." I said through gritted teeth and stormed out.
Derek's POV
As I watched Ballo walk out of the gym, I sighed knowing a storm was coming. Ballo had really bad anger issues and it was worst when his big ego was bruised.
He'd gotten into a lot of trouble because of his temper and he's been to three different court ordered anger management classes. It all started when his parents died, he's just been a very angry boy. And we've both seen a lot of shit in this life but we stuck together.
Which was why I didn't like to see him this way, worst when he said he'd ruin Camilla. I knew he'd do it. A storm was coming and I knew I would be in the middle of it.
Oh, brother.
𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓪'𝓼 𝓟𝓞𝓥After getting my twins ready for school, and dropping them off, I went to the gym which was a new thing that I loved to do.I am a twenty one year old who is a successful owner of a beauty store, I used to be married but I am not anymore but that is a story for another day.But to cut the long story short, I don't want anything to do with any man for a long time.Which is why when Tony Caraballo approached me at the gym I rejected him the way I did. Truth is, a couple years back if he'd approached me, I would have fallen at his feet but not right now.Plus he was a player, he was really popular for using and dumping women in the worst way possible.Just as I was entering the gym, I number into Tony. He gritted me with a wide grin that showed his perfect white teeth. There was no denying that he was a really good look
Sometimes I wish I could break my alarm in the morning. I woke up with a terrible headache. I told myself I would never go clubbing on a work day but anger had driven me straight to the bar. I had to sober up before going to work because if Derek found out that I had been drinking because I was angry, he would freak. He was only a couple of months older than me but he treats me like his child. I rolled out of bed and when I was standing up straight, I felt as though someone had dropped a huge stone on my head. I dragged my feet to the bathroom where my medicine cabinet was. I took an Ibuprofen from it and waited for it to work in my system. Ten minutes later after the headache had lessened, I was about to take my bath when my phone started to ring. No surprise that is was Derek. "Hey baby." I said after I answered the call. He made a gag no
It was one of those days when I woke up with that hollow feeling in my chest. When I had the same dream that turned into a nightmare when I woke up.It would always start with me coming from school and seeing my mom standing in front of the door. I'd grin widely and rush to her. She'd pick me up in her arms and kiss my cheek."How is my little prince doing?" She'd ask."I'm fine mommy."Then we'd go back into the house. She'd help me with my homework. Feed me cookies and milk, then in a couple of hours, my dad would be home. With always a new coloring book for me or a new ball or something.I'd play with it for some time and then be sent off to my room to get ready for bed.After I am done getting ready for bed, my mom or dad or both of them would come into my room, read me a bedtime story and tuck me in. Then I'd fall asleep in the dream and wake up in real life,
It was another boring day of work, work, work. Derek had decided to keep me busy so I wouldn't even have the time to go to a club or even thinking of having a drink.Yes, in the past I might have had some issues with alcohol but I was totally fine now and Derek needed to understand that.I was in bed all huddled in my duvet and ready for bed when a phone call came in, interrupting my peace. This is why you should always put your phone on airplane mode in the night.I looked at the caller ID to see that it was Brian again. I grinded my teeth in frustration. Of all the fucked up people in this world to call me, it had to be the fu****."What do you want?" I asked with anger in my voice. I had zero tolerance for the bag of shit."Chill, would you? You don't want to end up in another court ordered anger management class again, do you?" He asked with mischief. I could tell by the sound of his v
I never thought in my whole life that any woman can look so good in just jeans and a hoodie but Camilla pulled it off perfectly.After we finish getting ready we went outside to of Camilla’s house. We were going to my house so I could shower and get ready. But when Camilla saw my bike, she freaked!“There’s no way in hell I am getting on that thing.” She pointed at my bike like it was bile.“Shhh. She’ll hear you.” I said and patted my bike softly as though the bike could really be hurt by her words.Camilla rolled her eyes, “I don’t are about how my words affect your bike. I am not getting on that bike.”“Fine. Then how do you propose we get to my house then?” I asked with a snort.“I’ll take my car and follow you behind on your bike.&rdquo
I walked up the hill, the bright afternoon sun hitting me hard, sweat dripping down my back and my chest. I was soaked. But I couldn’t stop, I never stopped till I got to the top.It was just a few more kilometers to the top so I dragged myself up. I liked the feeling of the sun burning on my back. I was so glad that I had put on some sun block and I was wearing a tank top and shorts, I would have had a heat stroke and the worst case of sun burn.Twenty minutes later, I had finally reached the top.I sat on a rock and took a big gulp of water from my water bottle. The water was cold and I felt it flow through me.I was hiked every time I had something on my mind. It helped me clear the cob webs from my head.I had just had another of my realistic dreams about my parents that I fucking hate. Every time I had that dream, it made me feel angry and
Camilla's POVI was at the hospital with Derek the doctors said he would be discharged in three days but he would need to be on bed rest for a month.I had been in the hospital for over an hour and I hadn't seen Tony. I don't even know why I wanted to see him I just did. Not like I came to the hospital to see him because that's not it. I was friends with Derek and I did care about him. But it was still weird that Tony wasn't here."Where is Tony?" I asked Derek."I really don't know. I haven't seen him since yesterday. I'm a bit worried though. Knowing that guy he is probably up to something stupid or he's in a Ballo trance again." Derek said.She gave him a questioning look. "A Ballo trance?" she questioned."Yeah. I probably shouldn't be telling you this but when our parents died, Ballo didn't really handle it as well as I did.
Four years ago...Ballo's POVDerek and I were about ready to graduate from High school. We were living with an African-American couple who adopted us because they didn't have any children. But they were mean set of people.Mr and Mrs Sheldon were the meanest set of people ever. They had adopted Derek and I for the purpose of turning us into their slaves. And Mr. Sheldon beat the crap out of us.So after Derek and I had graduated from High School, we left their house. We weren't fully eighteen yet so we had to escape.That's how we went from living in Chicago, Illinois to living in Los Angeles, California.Taking care of both Derek and myself was hard and I needed money to take care of both myself and Derek.Understand though, that I couldn't let Derek work. I felt like I was his guardian even though we were
WARNING: THIS PART CONTAINS SCENES THAT SOME READERS MIGHT NOT REALLY APPRECIATE (R18 PARTS). PLEASE TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS YOU PROCEED TO READ THIS CHAPTER. TONY'S POVThe alarm rings by 5 am on the dot but I am already awake. I have been awake for the past two hours because I was awakened by a nightmare. The same nightmare that always starts the same way; Everybody would be in the living room of my mansion and we would all be having fun and playing board games and generally having fun. Then all of a sudden, some faceless guys barge into the house and then they kill everybody except me. I start to cry knowing that it was all my fault and then I wake up sweating and gasping for air. This time though, I had succeeded in not waking Camilla up. God knows how much she needed to sleep, she had bags under her eyes, and her bright, big, beautiful eyes are now red. I laid back down and pulled her close to my chest. I inhaled her delicious vanilla strawberry smell and pressed a kis
Nail Tech by Jack Harlow~*~*~TONY'S POVIt's been a week since the whole incident and we are back in California. Andre said that there was really nothing for him in Mexico, so he decided to come back and fight with us. His wound was already healing but he was still getting a lot of rest. The drive back to my house from the airport was filled with silence. It was as though nobody wanted to speak. Coming back to California was like coming back to death because everybody who might possibly want to harm me was either living here or knew that I lived here. When we got to the gate of my house, I used the remote on my phone to open it and we drove in. Everything looked just as I had left it, at least on the outside. When we all went inside, it was a different story all together. Everything in the house was shattered. My Samsung UA11050 Television was wholly shattered. It was evident that the person who did this had every intention of hurting me. "Damn!" Andre blurted out. "How could so
TONY'S POVRed and blue lights flashed all over the place as the medics carried Andre on a gurney and took him into the ambulance. I entered the ambulance with him after I told Derek to go home with Camilla and the other guys.I had to go to the hospital with him because he had no other family besides me even though he tried to kill me, he was still my brother and in all honesty, I held no form of resentment towards him, I actually felt sorry for him.Andre was a boy who had been hurt by the actions of his father and he felt abandoned. He became resentful and bitter and sort to take revenge on people who didn't deserve it.I really felt for my brother and somehow in the middle of this crazy scheme, even though he had tried to kill me and he had forced my girlfriend to kiss him after kidnapping her, I still learned to love him.He and I weren't that much different. We were both scarred by things that
DEREK'S POVWe had spent days building the perfect plan and today was the day we would finally execute the plan. I was really nervous because the plan was shaky at best, we didn't know how tight the security was at the location where they were. Just because the guy was careless enough to call Ballo with his phone number doesn't mean that he's stupid. It was obvious from the way he handled the entire situation that he was very smart and very clever. But we really had nothing to lose from trying."Is everything ready for us to go?" I asked Juan-Miguel who had just finished loading some guns in the van."Yeah, everything is set. Carlos is coming over with the bulletproof vests in a bit."I nodded and headed towards the van.All these preparations reminded me of the time when Ballo and I were kids and we use to play 'soldiers' in a pretend war. We always pretended as though we were shooting the bad guys and we c
TONY'S POVThe days were losing meaning and I was slowly drowning in a dark pit. Ever since the day that Camilla had kissed Adriano, shit hasn't just been the same. I wondered what her reasons could be for committing such an act but I couldn't ask her.It had been four days since the both of them came to the basement. Since then, I had not seen or heard from Andre. My brother, though, was nice enough to send food to me so I wasn't left starving. But my bones were beginning to turn sore and I couldn't feel my legs anymore because it had been a little over a week since I had used them.The injury that I had sustained when Andre had punched me in the face had turned purple and I was afraid that it would soon get an infection.This point in my life has got to be the lowest point in my life since I became an adult. I had always fought so hard not to be that weak, helpless boy that I had been after my parents died.
TONY'S POVThe days went by slowly and slowly. It was as though time had stopped moving at its normal pace and the earth was now tired of going around.My newfound brother did the same thing everything day. He came into the basement I was in and told me the same old thing, then he would tell me about how he would ruin my life, and then he would.I was really starting to think that this whole thing was a farce and this guy was just bored.It was seven-thirty in the evening when Adriano walked into the basement. But this time it was different, he brought in Camilla with him.I sat up straight and looked at her."Baby." I said in a whisper. I wanted to run to her and pull her into my arms and kiss her like crazy but my hands were tied to the stupid chair.Camilla didn't look all that different but she had bags under her eyes and she looked tired. I knew she wasn't sleeping much and it was pr
TONY'S POVBeing tied up to a chair in a dark and creepy basement wasn't my idea of the perfect evening but that was what was happening and there was nothing I could do to change it.My mind was racing with endless possibilities of what this Adrian dude had against me but I could find none.I knew I had an endless list of people that hated me but I didn't know why Adrian would be on that list.I had been in the basement for over two hours according to the calculations I made in my head, it was probably inaccurate but it was just a guess. Adrian had gone off to God-knows-where and I was alone with two of his gigantic men."So do you guys by any chance have any idea of why your boss wants to kill me?" I asked because the place and become too quiet and frankly, I was getting bored."Shut up!" The biggest dude to my right said."Okay. Rude much." I muttered. There was no way I would get
~*~*~*~TONY'S POVI walked a couple of miles to the spot where they had asked me to wait for them. I was ten minutes early but it was better for me to wait for them than the other way around.I was becoming nervous with every second that passed by. I was so nervous and my legs felt like they were weak.I couldn't remember the last time that I felt this scared in a long time. The last time I felt like this was when the night my parents die and the world seemed to be crashing around me. Then, I was a scared eight-year-old and I wasn't strong enough to defend myself.Now, I am twenty-one years old standing in a foreign country and I am more scared than I was that night. This time, the life of the woman I love is in the hand of a lunatic that won't disclose his identity.I was just starting to feel like I was on the verge of a breakdown when I saw an SUV like the one that picked up Camil
TONY'S POVThe place was dark and cold and it was just me in the house. I screamed out Derek's name but he didn't answer. My heart was beating frantically and I didn't understand what was going on. I had only been gone for a few minutes to get some milk, how did everybody leave in that small space of time? Where did they even go to?I searched Derek's room but he wasn't there. I went to the kids' room but they weren't there either.All the alarms in my head went off and I was frustrated. I tried to call Derek and the other guys but none of the numbers were connecting. I knew instantly that something bad had happened to them. First, I lost Camilla and now I have lost the rest of the people that I love.My phone started to ring loudly. I looked at the caller ID and it was Adrian that was calling me. "You have them, don't you?" That was the first thing I said when I answered the call. I sounded defeated because I knew that there was no