Rumours

[Koops]

She blushed too and frowned at him, totally embarassed, she could see he was sort of flustered to though, and that made her feel a little better. "I'm not your nurse, I was just giving you advice." Reo growled at him under her breath, not wanting Red to hear her. "And it is too my business! He's my boss." She snapped and huffed at him nastily, she felt someone come up behind her and stiffened, tilting her head back to look up at a confused Red.
"This man wants to see me? Let him in." He said and grasped onto one of the womans shoulders and moved her out of the doorway so Vex could come inside.

[Milk]

Vex's eyes narrowed at her nastiness. Well, wasn't she as pleasant as ever. But that made him smile a bit, and he relaxed, only to stiffen when Red touched her. Red could not touch her. No no no...OKay, yes, but still no. "Thank you, Red," he said and stepped inside. "My boss wanted me to meet with you to make a proposal."

[Koops]

"A proposal, well, let's talk about this in a more comfortable environment, the living room." He grinned and let go of Reo before leading Vex away to the living room and gesturing for him to take a seat. Reo followed and took a seat on the far end of the couch, she was going to listen to this too, whether Vex liked it or not. Red took a seat across from them on the loveseat and sat on the very edge, leaning forwards slightly. "Let's hear this then."

[Milk]

Vex sat down on the couch and made himself comfortable, grinning at Red. "Well, sir, my boss who is currently in a rival gang wants to find a way to work with you. We are fully aware of your cornerstone on the drug industry here, and in exchange for various, um...services, all we'd ask is for a small..." He paused to look at the contract. "My boss is awful with numbers written and numbers said, one moment....25 percent of profits made in this town...Also, if you agree, you'd have someone worshiping you every single day," he promised and grinned. THis was a kiss-ass manuver, yes, but he really wanted this to go well so he could hang with Reo more.

[Koops]

Red's eyes narrowed at the proposal and he leaned back in his seat, one leg crossing over the other and his hands folding in his lap. "Services, what type of services." He questioned, when it came to work he was seriou, but later on he would be back to his light hearted self again. Reo was glaring at Vex at this, she didn't like this at all.
"25 percent of the profits in this town. Red. You really don't make much here, and since the whole ordeal... And the bills." She told him, biting her bottom lip.
Red nodded in agreement, closing his eyes and waiting for Vex to tell him what he was offering.

[Milk]

Vex grinned and placed the contract in front of him. "Rumors are that you need protection- we can provide that- and ammo- another service..." he paused. "We also heard that you were...lacking in cocaine sales? We just got a shipment in from a different dealer, and would be more than willing to donate the cocaine to you- for 25 percent of the profits in this town. We could get you some more drug-runners too...We're open to what your needs are..."

[Koops]

The man grabbed the contract and started to read it, not letting anything go unnoticed, he wasn't going to get jipped into something. When he finished reading he passed it to Reo who read it over just as slowly, her face set into a frown. Red sighed heavily, if he didn't do this then things could get bad, and even though he was lacking financially already he'd have to do it. "It looks like i've got no choice." He commented and took the contract back from Reo and grabbed a pen from the coffee table and signed it before holding it out to Vex.
Reo stood up and looked at Vex, anger radiating off of her. "25 fucking percent. I can't believe you'd sign that bullshit. Don't bother paying me until the hospital bills are over with, your wife is more important." She growled and stormed out of the living room and into the hallway.
The red-haired man couldn't help but smile to himself at Reo's blatant concern with what was going on, "She shouldn't worry so much, it could be worse." Red chuckled lightly, that was pretty much what he felt about everything that was bad.

[Milk]

Vex hummed. "I didn't know you were already that pressed for money. If you wanted to argue for profits from our gang, we'd probably have been happy to exchange something..." he mumbled as he took the contract. "I'll tell my boss...The cocaine will be here by tomorrow evening, if my boss was correct about timing- he's awful awful awful with numbers..." He sighed to himself. "Sorry about your wife. I hope she gets better soon." He said sincerely, knowing the timing of this couldn't have been any better. His boss sucked sometimes. "I'm sorry for this going on now, rather than later...I'll probably be back tomorrow with more information to get the meshing over with." Vex bowed his head and waited silently to be excused.

[Koops]

"Don't worry about it, everything will work out fine." Red replied smoothly and gave Vex a big smile. "I'll see you tomorrow if you do come around, and tell your boss I said thanks for the proposal. It helps." He was quiet, watching Vex for a couple moments curiously, not sure what he was waiting for, he wasn't really formal when it came to anything like this.
Reo popped her head into the room, "Get your ass out of the house, asshole!" She was frustrated with his stupidity, she moved to the front door and opened it up, tapping her foot impatiently on the ground, she needed to talk with Vex about this.

[Milk]

Vex looked over at her and walked away after smiling once more to the bossman. He walked out and waited for Reo's wrath to rain upon him like the apocalypse. Of course, now he'd never win her over. She hated him. He looked at his feet, and the picture perfect cottage that had in his head been the home to him, Reo, and their five children (he liked kids, shuttup), was now back to normal- aged and ruined for no one. He sighed again, crossing his arms.

[Koops]

She walked out of the house and slammed the door, moving clase to Vex and slapping him in the arm. "You! You... Oh, you!" Reo was to flustered to get any other words out, she hit him a couple more times on his arm and gave a growl, stomping one of her feet on the ground hard. "Why did you even make the offer? How did you even know what Red needed? Who the hell did you talk to? I know this is the first time you've spoke to him and you haven't bought drugs from him either." She wanted to scream at him, but held that all in, if he pissed her off further she'd let it all out.

((nighty night))

[Milk]

Vex let him hit her and silently waited for her to finish her physical abuse. He looked away towards the lamp-lit street and closed his eyes once she finished. "Who I spoke with isn't your business, my boss told me to make the offer- I just run messages and stuff, and I'll probably buy drugs off of him sometime soon. I heard he also has...good supplies," he said, wanting to hide his new friend from trouble. "It's just rumors, okay? This place is full of them...I heard one the other day about some guy from the strip-club!" He settled down for a moment. "Look, if you want to get pissed at some, just take it out now on me."

[Koops]

She glared at him and grabbed him by the shoulders, pulling him close and smelling his shirt. "You were at the bar..." Reo trailed off and brought her face close to his, smelling his breath. "Your shirt smells like pot, but your breath doesn't." She was figuring out just who had spilt the beans about Red to Vex. "And I am pissed at you, and i'm going to be pissed at you for quite a while. By the way, don't tell me what to do!" The woman shoved him away and glared at him even more coldly.

[Milk]

Vex frowned at her sniffing around, literally, but let her do what she had to do. He stumbled back and his eyes narrowed before he bowed his head agian. "I'm sorry," he said and bowed. "I'll see you around." With that, he turned and left.

[Koops]

She watched him leave still scowling and glanced over towards the house, Red was looking at her through the window with a disapproving look on his face. He opened the window and stuck his head out, "Reo, you weren't supposed to shoot the messenger. It wasn't bad anyways, I don't care about who told him anyways, it's fine, news spreads fast in this place." He told her with a loud sigh. "Apologize the next time you see him." After he gave her this instruction he closed his window again.
Reo felt guilt wash over her, she had shot the messenger. Vex had just been doing what he was told, and he had even tried to tell her that. She roughly combed one of her hands back through her hair and gave a groan of annoyance at her idioticness. "Damn it." The woman swore and started to walk down the street, shoulders hunched forwards. She wouldn't go find him tonight, because it was late and she needed sleep, but she'd see be at Red's house again the next day, and she'd try to catch Vex is he did go there.