Chapter one

I walk out of the now exploded building and towards my bike to this cool soundtrack I found on one of those soundtrack apps. I'm crazy and I know it. I've almost been caught more times than I count because of those soundtracks. I climb onto my Kawasaki Ninja H2R, a.k.a. Raven, rev her engine and sped off into the night. The name's Nova, yes that Nova, Welcome to my awesome world.

PS: I'm an assassin

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After the breakup I got accepted into SIT (Sigma Institute Of Technology) and I'm currently in my final year as a robotics engineering student. I know you're curious about me and how I became an assassin at 19. Well, it's always been one of my fantasies growing up, and of course, it seemed impossible. When I was 14, I had a bucket list and my bucket list was mostly filled by things I want to learn rather than fun things, so of course I had to do them. I started by learning kickboxing and then proceeded to becoming a black belt in martial art, sword play, archery, dagger throwing etc. But they were all for fun, I didn't think anyone was gonna waltz in on my training session and offer me a job to kill people, but that's precisely what happened.

I was at the gym, doing tai chi when I suddenly felt someone watching me, not malevolently, just watching, observing and probably waiting for me to finish my session so he/she could talk to me. I stand up and move towards my weapons rack (the gym has an armory room, and I took some weapons I'll use for training that day. They even have an indoor and outdoor shooting range). I took two shuriken and in one swift move, I threw a shuriken on each side of his face, very close to his ears. I heard him take a sharp breath before I turned towards him and said in a menacing voice I've been practicing for days in front of the mirror, “Who are you and what do you want?” I asked and then giggled at how absurd my voice sounded. I asked again still laughing, I looked up at him and I thought I saw his lips quirk up in a half smile, but I wasn't certain because he was in the shadows.“I have a job for you” the unknown man said, I stared at him with a “what the hell” look. “Seriously dude, firstly, I don't remember applying for a job and secondly, I don't even know your name or who you are, what if you're a serial killer” I said with a smile. “The name's Adrian” he said as he steps out of the shadows, “huh?” I asked in a dazed tone. The dude was fucking hot, he has dark messy brown hair and dark golden brown eyes coupled with a muscular physique, he could easily get into any girl's bed. I snapped out of my daze when I saw him smirk, asshole. “Huh” I asked again, more firmly this time. His smirk morphs into a grin and I sneer at him,” I said my name's Adrian”. I softened my features a bit and said;“cute name, you're hot too, typical fuck boy”. He laughed and said," you amuse me”, “great you claim to want to give me a job, and then you call me a clown”. I guess what I said was funny because he started laughing hard before I punched him in the gut and said, “quit laughing, okay”. He stopped laughing, lookedatmeandstartedlaughing again, he suddenly grabbed my hand and I instantly went into defense mode. I grabbed his hand in an attempt to twist it, but he gently pulled me into his embrace and wrapped my hands around him holding me firmly.“Relax, you're safe” he said and my body instantly softened, i somehow believed him even though I just met him. “You know, you intrigue me” he says in a low voice, “how?” “Well for starters, you barely know me, you're in my embrace forcely I might add, and you're relaxed, no alarm bells ringing in that pretty little head of yours, why?” “I dunno, I just feel comfortable, safe even though I barely know you”, I look up at him and ask “I'm i safe?” “Yes” he replied without hesitation “good”. I pull away from him and say in a serious tone “what did you come here for?” “I've already told you, to offer you a job” “what job, I didn't even apply”, he held my shoulders and said in a bored tone “you've said that already” I replied him in the same tone “I know” he chuckled and pinched my cheek till it turned red “oww, what'd you do that for” I squeaked and punched him in his stomach, the fool didn't even flinch. “ You're too cute” what. “Cute eh, I'll show you who's cute” I said shaking my fist at him, and he actually had the audacity to laugh at me. “Do I look like a fucking clown to you”I said poking him in the chest “no, but you sound like one” he responds, finally gaining his composure. Before I could respond he said “would you like to be an assassin?” I moved closer to him and pinched his cheeks until I saw it going red then I said more to myself than to him“it's not a dream”, then I said to him” please could you repeat that for me” “would you like to be an assassin?” “Seriously” I asked my voice filled with excitement “yea” then he asked with caution “you do know what an assassin does don't you?” Are you fucking kidding me“ how could I know what an assassin does, I'm still in kindergarten silly” I said in a sickly sweet tone then finishing up with a glare. He chuckled and said “see, cute”, I ignored him and said “so, when's my first job” I said with excitement “today” he said, and then he turned serious “are you okay with killing people” “of course but only if they were bad people, my blade of bullet won't be stained with the blood of the innocent” “sure, your first assignment is to kill Mr. Santiago” “ I've read about that man, he has been involved in a lot of cases most of which are child trafficking, drug trafficking, smuggling of weapons and a lot of other illegal activities. He's never been arrested because he covers his tracks, he also has a good number of judges, governors and bad cops in his pocket he's a prick” I finished and I saw Adrian looking at me with an impressed look. “I'm gonna enjoy working with your new bestie” I sighed and said haughtily “just try to keep up okay”, he slapped my hand off his shoulder and glared at me. He cleared his throat and said, “so, do you have any idea how to get to him” “oh I forgot to add one thing, he's a womanizer so the only way to get to him is through a woman”. Adrian smirked at me and said, "I'll send you his location, time to doll up buttercup”.