Fire In My Soul

An old building , quiant neighborhood , no CCTV cameras and ignorant tenants . The perfect spot just as he promised . From my room , one registered under a fake name , I had a clear view of the restaurant . A picturesque , were it not for the dirty dealings and it's reputation , the place could pass for a vacation spot . The place was deserted , clearly it wasn't known to many and the few that did were clever enough to keep their distance . And this worked perfectly for me , vengeance was calling . 

Far below in the streets , a black Cadillac Escalade was parked at the end of the block . Him , Marcus , probably not his actual name, would pick me up when the job was done . Marcus was the only person from the organization I had met . I knew there was a bigger boss , a lady as I had heard . GELL's , as the group was named , whole purpose was to eliminate criminals , the kind of criminals that had power and thought could get away with anything . 

GELL had found me barely two years ago , a broken powerless mess yearning for revenge. 

 Having been taken in at St Anne's orphanage at the age of five , all I knew was that I had a twin sister and our mother died in a road accident . My twin , Ella had been adopted barely a week after 'mother superior' found us. That was the last I heard of Ella , until I found her twenty years later , rather she found me . 

Ella at twenty five was a dark haired lady , sterling grey eyes , chocolate complexion , 5'4 in height, my exact duplicate just that my hair was shorter  and my slim structure couldn't compare to her perfect shape. Being reunited with my only family gave me purpose , a new life , hope and happiness . 

July 15th, I am literally glowing with excitement . For the first time in twenty years, I get to have my sister by my side on our birthday . On a Friday evening , a month after our reunion .We had numerous ideas but settled for the mall , shopping, games and later movie night . Ella had chosen the movie , a horror where a deaf girl, a writer, living alone in a house deep in the woods goes through a night of pure terror and cheats death at the last minute , Hush. 

9pm we are settled each with a bowl of popcorn as the movie starts . The night has some disturbing chill to it probably thanks to the movie , we should have settled for the romance one . 

Halfway into the horror mood our horror started, literally . One gun shot then another, the terror from the movie forgotten now living the fear,  families trying to get away , lovers holding on to each other , dark blood flowing under the dim lighting , utter chaos . Lying on the floor , the seats as our cover , I couldn't move , couldn't think . Ella's voice more like an echo to my ears as she tried to flip me back to reality. 

" We have to go Nalla , come on let's run "

" We'll be dead before we reach the door Ell "

" And we'll die if we don't make a move soon , we have to go " 

" I can't..." 

" Take my hand "

" No "

" Look , I'm not trying to ask you to marry me , I'm trying to save your life !"

I reached out to take Ella's hand , the  movie scenes, still playing, flashed the entire theater for a minute and I saw him but couldn't move fast enough to change anything . A built man between 6'0 and 6'2 in height , a scar running down his face and a grin more disgusting than a used condom. A gun  fired , my sister falling into my arms as everything around me faded . A complete blackout. 

I woke up two days later , in a hospital bed , my sister lost . The entire theater had burned down and part of the building collapsed . I moved from hospital to hospital but the name Ella was nowhere in the surviver's list nor was her body in any morgue , she must have been burned to ash and buried in the building's remains . For months I mourned , and put up a search for the scarred guy from the mall . The search connected me to GELL , coincidentally we had a common enemy , Morhan Frank  , the scared man and leader of a rising terrorist group. GELL had the resources and I had every reason to be the one pulling the trigger. 

I clocked my gun , finger on the trigger , gun pointing to the restaurant's entrance . We had traced Morhan's activities , he had a meeting with a drug lord and what better place than Peak restaurant . In an hour , he would be done and out , plan was to strike before he got to his car. And as  we predicted he stepped out in exactly one hour , all I had to do now was pull the trigger . A rush of beautiful terror hit me , for two years I had waited for this moment . I had a clear shot. A gun was fired from my direction , bullet hitting Morhan's head , in seconds he lay in a pool of his own cold blood , but I had not pulled the trigger. 

" Hello Nalla " 

" Ella ?.. " 

Across the room stood my supposedly dead twin sister , a gun in her hand , window open, smiling as if she'd won a lottery and not killed after returning from the dead. How did she get here ? I didn't hear the door open nor notice her walk across the room , yet here she was. 

" I'm sorry I ghosted you , I'm back now , fulltime " 

" Sorry ? Ella I thought you were dead , for two years you didn't think of atleast   assuring me you're safe ? " 

" I had to be sure we share the same interests , the lesser evil. Allow me to officially welcome you to GELL . Or you could say Group ELLA .

 Take my hand , we need to leave this place Nalla. "

Who the hell is my sister?