Who the fuck cares about what should or should not be done? Not Rafael, for sure. Not when his loins are churning with a burning rage, not when he can almost feel himself choking with frustration. It is aching, if truth be told. He feels it, sitting on that crappy bench protected by a huge willow - which might be the only nice looking shit in that forsaken hole of Russian district. Also known as the last place on Earth were a Nuova-Camorra prophet should hang out.  Problem is, when you are like Rafael and are quick to yield to your emotions, you kind of forget how to properly think and make the right decision. Like, not realising that it is an absolutely bad idea to drag a friend into your mess. Especially when the aforesaid mess occurs in an area where the target on your back is getting wider and wider as time goes by.

« Dude, you comin’ or nah? I won’t wait forever, y’know. » The greek boy is not necessarily afraid of the dark and of sitting on his own with no one around. But who likes waiting, really? And it has already been 15 minutes since he last texted his friend who was supposed to appear 15 minutes before that. So maybe a call would invite him to be in a hurrier hurry? Of course, no one picked up. So, of course, Rafael is leaving a message. Just in case. « I hope you’re not on the piss or whatever shit like that. You better have the best reason you ever came up with, you fool. » Oh come on, it is all for good sport. The boy might be slightly easy on the crudity, but that did not stop him from loving his friend from the bottom of his heart. Hell, I would say it shows even more the depth of his affection… Still, the only excuse he will probably accept is that Archie got hit by a fucking asteroid which stopped him from being on time. It is full of gentleness that he smacks his finger on that little red phone on the screen, quickly hiding his iPhone into his back pocket. Thing is, he did not really explain to Archie why he had to come here and help him at two in the morning… But that is what bros do, is it not? Having each other’s back even in the dead of night? It is certainly a tad bit pushing it too far, to be angry of waiting when you warned your friend so late but eh, Rafael is not really known for his patience, especially not when there is a urge of breaking some noses raging in his stomach.

⊹ OUTFIT OF THE DAY + glasses ⊹

   

Okay so Archie might be a young man, full of vigor and youthful energy but sleep was still pretty important. So being woken up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason was hard. Needless to say that Archie was a little bit surprised and a lot confused. He was not usually late, you couldn’t really do that in his field of work, but tonight was apparently the exception. He had taken some time to properly wake up and get dressed before leaving his house and going towards Ashmill. Which was not a good thing in itself. The last time he had been there, it had been a crazy experience and he did not particularly want to walk right into the person who had literally tried to end his life. So he went slow, double checked every corner, pocketknife safely tucked in his sleeve, just in case. And he may or may not have gotten lost. And stumbled on a cat. Which he had to stop to pet, obviously. So yeah, he was late and Rafael was going to be pissed.

As he was getting closer to their meeting place, he was still feeling quite jumpy and his phone was buzzing in his pocket like it was possessed. Shit. He had missed a couple texts and a phone call.
Was Rafael actually serious? Threatening him not to wait for him when he was the one who had woken him up and told him to come without any reason?
Thanks God they had been friends for a long time and he could get away with pretty much everything. Rafael was indeed one of his best and oldest friends, someone he knew he could count on despite not seeing him that often and sometimes in weird situations such as this one. It was kind of the basis of their relationship and Archie knew not to argue to much with the Greek boy if he wanted to get out of the situation uninjured.

He could now see the see the huge willow tree where they were supposed to meet in the distance and started to walk a little faster.
“Dude what the fuck? What are we doing here? Why in the middle of the night?” he said, breathless from walking so fast.
“Also the last time I came here didn’t go too well so if we could move the fuck on that’d be nice”, as soon as the words left his mouth, a loud gunshot noise surprised both boys. This night was going to be such a shit show.