Lethal Bride - Season 1 - Episode 17

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Lethal Bride - Season 1 - Episode 17

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NINJA
She sat down heavily on the
bed and ruffled her hair a bit.
She heard a little noise at her
door, her eyes went to the base of the door, she saw someone’s shadow, her eyes
moved up and she saw the knob of her door move. For some reason she got scared a
little and feared the face she would see would be the face of Bruce haunting her. The door opened and Easton’s face peered in, “errr, I forgot
something. Please dress up
nicely, we have a guest”, she frowned
“male or female”
“female”. She smiled “a special
someone or just a friend”.
“does it matter”
“of course it does. I want to know who my boss has fallen in love with”. He shook his
head, “you know that
wouldn’t happen anytime
soon. So please just come
down and dine with us. Don’t forget to be polite”. With that, his face disappeared and her
door was closed again.

She made a funny face at the door
and slumped on the bed
At 6pm she slipped into a red mini gown, her feet wore gold flat shoes, she packed her
hair into a high bun, she wore
a diamond s--d earrings. She
looked at her right wrist, it
felt empty, she pulled out a silver bracelet from her jewelry box and wore it. She
looked at it lovingly and
remembered her mother. The
lifeless body of her mom came
to her head with blood spilling from her mouth. She remembered before the
bodies of her parents were
taken into the ambulance she
pulled out the bracelet from
her mom’s wrist quickly.

She slammed the jewelry box
shut and inhaled. She pushed
the thoughts of her parents
away from her head and
walked out of her room,
down to where she was waited for. As she stepped downstairs she heard the
laughter of a female, she got
curious and increased her
paced. Immediately she got
into the dinning room she saw a blonde laughing with a glass of wine in her hand and using
the other to play with his
beard. She cleared her throat loudly.

“oh! Hello” came the friendly voice of the beautiful blonde,
“we have been waiting for
you”, Easton got up and pulled
a chair out for her, and
gestured for her to join them.

In a way Crystal hated the loud attractiveness of the blonde. She sat down right
across the blonde and looked
at the properly la!d out table.

She didn’t feel hungry she just
respected Easton.

Easton cleared his throat, “Crystal, this is Alicia, my special friend friend”,
“hello”, Alicia was quick to
respond. Crystal ignored her
and turned to Easton, “I don’t understand the meaning of special friend. Does she mean
anything to you or just a friend you screw when you are bored”. He felt
embarrassed, he wasn’t expecting her to behave and sound rudely. He covered it up
by laughing, by this time Alicia’s face had lost it’s sparkle, she dropped her glass
down and glared at Crystal, Crystal in turn glared at her.

“Easton you can’t sit there and
watch her insult me”, Alicia
got disappointed that he
didn’t say anything about Crystal’s behavior. “Alicia darling don’t let her
bad mood to disturb, she had
a rough day today that’s why
she’s like this”

“Easton she is indirectly calling
me a w---e, didn’t you hear what she said”. Crystal got up and looked at Alicia straight in
the eye “sorry for ruining
your dinner for you”, she
took up her own plate and
stomped out. Easton watched her in total confusion, before
turning to assure Alicia that
the rest of the evening would
be a pleasant one and excused
himself to check on Crystal.
He tapped on her door softly before going in. He met her lying in a foetal position,
“Crystal, what was that back
there?, why did you behave
like that?. She got up and
looked at him, “I’m sorry Easton, I just lost it
back there. I’m not just in the
right frame of mind. Please
help me tell her I’m sorry.

Go back to her and have a
wonderful evening don’t let me ruin it for you”. He sighed and closed the door.

All she thought about was her new
mission.

A week passed, her most anticipated day came. Rueben and Francesca were downstairs waiting for her, all dressed in black leather
clothing, black hand gloves,
with different pistols hiding in
their clothes. Easton became impatient, he wondered what kept Crystal from coming
down at the specific time
given to her. Finally they
heard her running down the
stairs. As soon as she came in sight, they all burst in laughter; she was wearing a
ninja regalia.

“seriously Crystal, you must
be high on something really
strong”, Francesca said still laughing.

“for Christ sake, go and
change into something more
befitting for the occasion, we
not samurai’s” Easton pleaded.

Crystal kept a straight face and went up slowly to change into another outfit.

On getting to the house, they
saw cars parked everywhere;
they got closer to the house to see what was happening. To their amazement a party
was going on, most of the men wore a tuxedo and the women did their best to
reveal all their curves with
the clinging dresses they wore. Crystal mouth dropped, how the hell were they going
to steal the painting? Without
raising an alarm dressed the
way they were. Rueben dialed Easton’s number on his cell phone, “boss, there is a
problem”

“what is it?”
“there is a party going on
here, the house is parked full
to what I see, very wealthy personalities are here.” Easton
kept mute for a while.

“you guys, come back and
dress for the occasion”
“okay”. Rueben relayed the
information, Crystal frowned “I don’t like parties like this”
“you just sounded like a party
popper”, Francesca laughed.

They got back to their black van and Easton drove on a top speed back home. They changed into expensive dinner wears, wore colognes that
smelt rich. Both women wore
light makeup. Rueben looked
handsome in his grey tuxedo.

“now, we are ready to crash a party” Rueben laughed.

They all rushed back to the van to
find Easton standing with a
large square wooden board in
his hand. They looked curious.

“what’s that?” Crystal was quick to ask the question.

Easton smiled.

“you know as your boss, I am
smart with a very high
Intelligence quotient”. He
turned the board towards them, they all gasped. “You stole the painting already”,
Rueben sounded very shocked.

“no I didn’t dumbass, Its just
a replacement. Once you steal the painting, you replace it with this; no one would spot
the difference. Now go and
don’t ask me how I did it, I
always have ways”.

Rueben took it from him and rushed into the van, Crystal and Francesca got into the van
and pulled it shut. As they
drove back to the party,
Crystal told them to find a
way through the back of the house, so that it would be easy for them to carry the
replacement in. As soon as
they got to their destination
they wasted no time to
execute their plans. Francesca and Rueben carried the replacement while Crystal
walked briskly in front of
them holding a tranquilizer
gun. Every guard she saw got
tranquilized. Soon they were at the back of the house, she tried to open but it was stuck,
she looked at Rueben and smiled
“Ruby, can you help me
please, I don’t want to destroy my expensive shoes, and it’s worth a fortune”. He
shook his head and dropped
the replacement gently with
Francesca supporting it.

Crystal stepped back as Rueben kicked the door open.

“Yaay, my hero”, Crystal
teased. They got into what
seemed like a store. They
dropped the replacement
there and walked in majestically to join the party.
Waiters stood at strategic
places, each of them held a tray with wine glasses filled with wine.

They decided to split up but within an eye range. They blended in their different position, laughing
and starting up a conversation
but looking out for any
human and digital threat.

Soon when they thought everything was cleared, they gave themselves signals to
meet at the store room.

“you and Crystal remove the
painting and hang the replacement, I would cause a distraction, please be quick
about it, after it’s done, we
disappear” Easton instructed.

They nodded and got to
work. He got back to the
party and looked for a perfect spot to stage distraction.

He got a spot and cleared his
voice. “ ladies and gentlemen”,
no one paid any attention to
him, he cleared his throat
again and raised his voice so high.

“ladies and gentlemen”, most
people turned to look at him,
he smiled, “I am here to give a
toast to a wonderful host, it’s
a beautiful party, filled with delicious menu, a spacious and a beautiful home. He has been
a very good friend to me”
murmuring started and he
could hear few giggles especially from the women, one was bold enough to talk
“It’s a she not a he”, he felt a
little embarrassed but laughed
about it “of course I know I
was just teasing, she is a
strong woman”. He raised his glass up and everyone followed “we toast to a
happy life” the sound of
clicking glasses were heard he
looked around for Crystal and
Francesca, he saw them giving him the OK sign, it was time for them to leave. He was
about to leave when he felt a
hand on his shoulder, he
turned round to see a woman
of about sixty years of age, “who are you young man, I have never seen you before”,
his palms became cold. He
cleared his throat, “I came
here with a friend ma’am, I
just wanted to put a little life, I saw people in different clusters, like there was a
division between them, just wanted to unite them by giving a toast”, she smiled and
gave a pat on his back, “thank you”, she walked away slowly.

He walked away briskly; he got to where
Crystal and Francesca were. He
placed his arms on their
shoulders; he raised his eyes to the painting on the wall, “d--n! No one would spot
the difference”. A man
brushed Crystal shoulders
mistakenly and couldn’t utter
any form of apology. She got annoyed and pushed Rueben’s arm from her shoulders and
followed the man, his legs were longer than hers’ so she had to walk faster to keep up
with him. Finally she closed the gap and tapped him on his back,

“Hey mister, don’t you have
manners”, the man turned
around, when she saw his face
she felt like drowning at that instant. “Bruce!!! You died”, he looked confused and sq££zed
his eyebrows “who is Bruce?.

Sorry miss, you got the
wrong person”, he walked
away from her quickly. She kept staring and didn’t move until she heard Francesca
voice, “what is it?”

“I just saw Bruce”