"Ace...Kingsman" As soon as the name left his lips, Adelaide froze.
Kingsman. She had heard that last name multiple times before, and it wasn't associated with anything positive. The Kingsmans were known for their underground crime syndicate. Weapons trafficking, drug trafficking and many, many more. To put it simply, the Kingsmans were the head of the Italian mafia.
Founded by Maria Kingsman in the late 1800's, the Mafia has been passed down in the family over the years. Jackson Kingsman, Ace's dad, has been running the the business for over thirty years, and ever since then, the Italian Mafia has been on top. If Adelaide were to disrespect a Kingsman or a friend of one, her dead body could turn up at an icecream parlour and nobody would ever be able to find her killer, even though she was the president's daughter.
Emilia had also recognized the surname as well, back when she first heard it, she just figured it was because he was popular so she might've heard people talk about him, but being recognized by your schoolmates and by the president's daughter are two different thing. One, Adelaide doesn't even go to public school, and two she looked so shocked when she heard his name, a little scared even, where the hell would she know him from?
"Kingsman...that's-" Adelaide could no bare to say anything else.
"Yes" was Ace's simple reply. Bringing more fear upon Adelaide if possible. It was one thing to think something about someone, but it was a whole other thing if that person actually confirms your thought.
After a few second with the three just standing in absolute silence. Adelaide finally cleared her throat before speaking: "Well then, it was nice meeting you Mr. Kingsman. E-milia, glad you could make it, I hope you enjoy." was what she said before hurriedly taking off.
"Well I'm loving this evening already" Emilia mutters softly. "Hey, why did she look so scared just now? what? do you live in a family of serial killers or something?" Of course, It was a joke, but for some reason, Ace's heart beat started speeding up. Normally, if anyone else made a joke like that, he would just give them a sinister smirk and reply "Yes", but Emilia wasn't 'anyone else' she was his girlfriend. More or less. However he just laughed it off as if nothing was the matter.
"Ha ha, very funny babe. My family owns this small tech company called Kingsman Tech, so she probably recognized the name. And did she look scared? I thought she was born with that screwed up face." Ace smirks, causing Em to laugh, and take her phone out from her purse. Opening the google app, Emilia immediately searches 'Kingsman Tech' and to her surprise, it was no 'small' tech company. Kingsman tech was a multi billion dollar company that has been creating different technologies for almost twenty years.
Emilia looked at Ace as if he had grown three extra heads.
" 'Small' tech company?" she asks, showing him her research. Ace face showed signs of shock, as he did not expect Emilia to google it then and there. He scratch the back of his neck before sighing, deciding to come clean.
"Okay, okay, fine. My dad is the owner of the infamous multi billion dollar company, Kingsman tech." He said. "I just don't like to tell people about it."
"Why not?" Emilia asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"I just don't want people to look at me differently, it's stupid, you wouldn't understand." he says.
"Actually, I do understand." Emilia replies matter-of-factly. Ace just gave her a questioning look to elaborate.
"You feel that as soon as people find out who your parents are then they will freak out and act all weirdly polite. Suddenly everyone just seems fake." She explains, and Ace nods.
"How do you know all this? Wait, you're not secretly super rich too are you?" Ace joke.
Em laughs before continuing: "So then, how did everyone at school find out who you were?"
"Obviously the teachers knew, my full name was in the system, and I can be pretty unruly sometimes, so it's not a surprise that my name has been called over the intercom multiple times, so, yeah."
"Oh. What about all our friends? were you not worried that they too were all fake?" It was a great question.
"Honestly? At first I was, but then, I got to trust them, not to mention, they couldn't give two f*cks about my identity since their parents are all rich." Ace chuckles.
"No wonder you guys were called the Elites." Emilia laughs. "Guess I just came and broke the chain with my broke a*s" she giggled.
"It was never about that though, we were all going through some s*it and was just there for each other, at the end we all just grew on each other I guess, and now we can be there for you and Abby." Ace smiles...SMILES!?!?! all of a sudden this kid transforms into a Cheshire cat.
"Thank you."
"Your most welcome." Ace comments, playfully bowing, slightly. "So, do you want to get out of here?"
"And go where?"
"It's a surprise." Ace added. Emilia thought for a moment before saying: "What about all the others, I can not just leave them, I brought them here." Good thinking Em.
"We can text and tell them we're going, come on."
After a lot of convincing, Emilia finally decided to oblige, and they both left the event after informing their friends that they would be leaving via group chat. The friend were of course cool with it as Alec and Michael were off stuffing their faces with rich people foods, and the rest were actually enjoying themselves. I mean, it's not everyday you get to attend a party at the White House.
When the two left the building, they hailed a taxi, which Emilia was doing for the first time in her life, but managed to make it unnoticeable. Ace whispers the address into the driver's ear before taking off.
"Where are we going?" Emilia questions half way through the ride.
"It's a surprise, come on, it's my turn to surprise you for once."
"Okay"
Approximately fifteen minutes later, the car abruptly stops at the side of the road and Ace got out first and very gentlemanly opens the door for her.
"Thank you." Emilia says awkwardly looking at their location. Ace pays the driver whom immediately left after getting his money.
Ace leads Emilia towards the trees by the roadside, taking her to the forest. Then Emilia makes a sly comment:
"Is this where you murder me then tell everyone I went missing?" she jokes.
"It is actually." Ace responds before taking out his knife and stabbing her in the chest.