I Got Your Back- Teflon & Tatiana’s Love Story

by Shvonne Latrice

  “I’m guessing your mama pissed you off,” he said in a low sexy tone.

  “Yeah, but it’s nothing new. She always takes up for my older sister Paige and this time I’m fed up with it.”

  “I know how that bullshit is.”

  “Your mother is the same?”

  “My mother and father, actually. They feel like anything bad that happens to my little brother Sebastian is my fault. Even though the nigga is twenty-five years old, somehow I’m responsible for everything he does that’s negative.”

  As I listened to him explain his situation with his brother, I realized we had a lot more in common than I thought. We were both the black sheep in a way.

  “Hmm, your life sounds just like mine. Whatever Paige does, it’s okay, but when I do something it’s a problem. If we both do something, somehow I was the influencer even though I’m three years younger.”

  “How old is she?”

  “She’s twenty-eight, same age as you. I’m the same age as your brother.” I chuckled. “Did he do anything recently? I remember you mentioning him in the bar both times we interacted.”

  “He got locked up back Los Angeles and I’m trying to build my cash flow to help him with that shit, you know? But my parents seem to think it’s my fault that he got knocked and that I shouldn’t have left the state, regardless of the fact that it was the only way for me to get money.”

  Merce’s parents were annoying the fuck out of me and I’d never even met their asses.

  “What’s your real name?”

  “Calvin. Calvin Capers. Now what did your sister do?”

  28

  Merce

  I stared down at Jadynn lying in my lap, waiting for her to answer my question. Whatever her sister had done seemed to be bothering her and for some reason I wanted to be her shrink right now. Because honestly, telling someone outside of Teflon my problems with Sebastian and my parents, felt good and I wasn’t even as bothered as she seemed to be.

  “She…” her voice trailed off as she adjusted her body. “She slept with my boyfriend, well he’s not my boyfriend anymore but he was.”

  “Damn what the fuck?” I frowned down at her as if she were her shady ass sister. I was still stroking her hair because it was soft as hell.

  “Yeah, and they’re together now.”

  “You miss him?” I swallowed the lump in my throat, hoping she said no strangely. She wasn’t my bitch or anything, but I didn’t want her missing her ex, especially not one that would do her dirty like that.

  She shook her head no, brushing against my lap.

  I was about to speak but she began softly crying. Turning her onto her back, I lifted her just enough so that I could hug her tightly. I’d never encountered some shit like this, because the bitches I had been fucking with, I’d never spent time talking to them for them to get emotional. And as far as Savannah, she wasn’t really the type to cry. Jadynn was different though, softer, more feminine, and I liked that shit. If I wanted to date another nigga I would.

  “Jadynn, calm down shorty. It’s okay to say you miss that nigga, I ain’t gonna trip,” I said while still cradling her small frame as it jerked. I didn’t know why I said what I said, but it seemed like the truth would relax her if she got it out.

  “He raped me!” she sobbed into my chest, prompting me to stiffen up.

  “What?” I yanked her from me and glared into her eyes while holding her shoulders in a tight grasp.

  “He came over here, he was mad, and he threw me to the floor…” she began bawling to the point where she couldn’t finish her sentence, so even though I wanted to press her for more details, I just brought her back into an embrace.

  “What was his name?” I decided to ask once her violent crying got a little calmer.

  “Russell. I was gonna forget about it, but I got pregnant and I had to get an abortion last week. My sister wouldn’t care though, would she?”

  My fucking ears were burning as she spilled more information. This nigga had me fucked up and he didn’t even know me. And I shouldn’t have cared but I did. Jadynn was obviously traumatized and I didn’t like that shit.

  “What’s his last name?”

  “Why?” she sniffled, pulling back a little bit.

  “I’m just curious.”

  “No, you’re not just curious. I can’t give you his name, because you’re gonna do something to him. That’s sweet but don’t.” Her voice was low and innocent, as she touched the side of my face with her soft ass hands that smelled like sugar and flowers… or something like that.

  “Please, Jadynn.”

  “No my sister loves him and if he dies she’ll go out of her mind, and then so will my mom and it’ll just be a mess. And he’s not worth it.”

  “I promise I won’t kill him,” I offered a forced smile. I wasn’t gonna kill homie because I got paid to do that, but I was definitely gonna ‘talk’ to him.

  “I know you think you’d be helping me, but you’re doing enough right now.”

  We stared at one another for a few moments, before I kissed her lightly. I pecked her a couple more times, before our tongues came in contact. While holding her, my free hand groped her body, making sure to get a nice handful of her ass. She didn’t have a huge one but it was enough for me to grip so I was with it.

  As our kiss became hungrier, I let my hands travel up to grip her breasts, which I already knew weren’t in a bra. Once I’d felt those up enough, I traveled down her body and into her shorts, touching between her legs, which made her jump.

  “Would you like some wine? I have wine.” She was holding my wrist in her hand, silently telling me not to go any further.

  “Aight.” I nodded, removing my hand from her bottoms.

  She got out of my lap and made her way into the kitchen to get the drink. While she did that, I just scanned the room, hoping my dick went down soon. While doing so, I spotted a letter from a credit union that was addressed to a Russell Thorne. I checked to make sure she was still in the kitchen, then grabbed the letter, folded it in half, and slipped it into my pocket. I was gonna get at that nigga whether she wanted to help me do it or not.

  * * *

  In the middle of the night…

  Jadynn and I were asleep in her bed; well she was because I was too anxious to go to sleep. I’d hit one of my boys up and asked if he knew who Russell Thorne was. He was one of them niggas that knew every damn body in Cleveland, as long as they didn’t live in the super nice parts of town. Jadynn’s place wasn’t in the hood, but it wasn’t the best area either.

  Anyway, after telling him I needed more information on Russell Thorne who used to fuck with Jadynn, he let me know that the nigga had gotten a job working for Target overnight. He claimed his shift was anywhere between 12am and 3am, because that’s when niggas saw him pulling up to Target usually.

  Slipping out of the bed quietly, I grabbed my jeans and slipped them up. My dick was going through it being next to Jadynn, especially when she would move and press her body up against mine. I wanted to smash too damn bad. You’d think a nigga hadn’t had any pussy in forever.

  Once I was dressed, I left out of her spot, headed to the Target on W 117th to get at this nigga. When I pulled up, I thought I saw him sitting on the bench outside, eating a sandwich, but since I wasn’t sure of his features, I checked my phone once more. After comparing the photo sent to me by the homie, to the nigga sitting there looking like he wanted to kill himself, I came to the conclusion that it was him. Getting out of the car, I tucked my gun in my waist. I hadn’t planned on using it, but you never know.

  “What’s good?” I spoke to him as I sat at the other end of the bench.

  “Sup,” he responded dryly while scanning his pathetic sandwich before taking another bite.

  “Are you Russell Thorne?” I raised a brow.

  “Who wants to know?” his face was balled up as he looked to me.

  “Me nigga that’s why the fuck I asked and judging by your reaction, you
must be him,” I low-key snapped even though I was trying to stay calm. Just thinking about the shit he’d done to Jadynn had me angry as hell all over again.

  “Aye man, I don’t know what the fuck your problem is, but there is no reason you should be looking for me. I don’t even know you and whoever sent you, I don’t know them either.”

  “Nah you’re probably right,” I nodded. “I just heard some shit about you that I didn’t like so I thought I’d come and holler at you.” I had my hood on, making sure to shield my face from the obvious ass cameras outside of the place.

  “You ain’t heard shit—“

  WHAM!

  I stood to my feet and punched the shit out of him, causing him to drop his sandwich and spit blood.

  “Nigga what the fuck is wrong—“

  WHAM!

  I hit his ass again and after gaining some of his composure, he rose to his feet like he was about to do some shit. Before he could even swing, I hit his ass again making him collapse to the floor. The beating continued as I kicked and punched on his ass like he wasn’t shit… he wasn’t shit.

  “The fuck—ah! Yo!” he yelled all kinds of incomplete sentences as I went in on his ass. When I felt like I’d finally had enough, I stood up straight and stared down at his beaten body and face. He looked up at me with his one good eye as I grimaced at him.

  “Leave her alone,” I gritted.

  He was confused at first, but when his crinkled brows returned to their original place, I knew he understood exactly what the fuck I was talking about.

  “Ah!” he cried out when I kicked him again. I flashed him my gun by lifting my shirt, before backing away and running off to my car.

  I was thankful that when I got back to Jadynn’s she was still asleep, because I’d taken her keys in order to be able to get back into her crib. After removing my clothing, excluding my t-shirt, socks, and boxers, I climbed back into the bed and slept like a baby. I needed that.

  29

  Tatiana

  Teflon, Merce, and I were sitting in Teflon’s living room, discussing what our plan was gonna be. I had two more days left on my business trip and Brevin was gonna be expecting me once they were over.

  I wasn’t sure how this was gonna work, because it didn’t seem like Teflon had been doing much but making weird phone calls and spending time with me. Don’t get me wrong, I loved being up under him and vice versa, but I wanted to make sure that he and I would end up together and not be ripped apart by Brevin and his people.

  “Tef, man she has to play the part, that’s the only way,” Merce explained. He was sitting in the La-Z-Boy chair, while Teflon and I sat on the couch. I was hugging Teflon’s muscular bicep while resting my chin on his shoulder and admiring his handsome side profile.

  “There has got to be another way.” He stared down at the floor in deep thought.

  “It’s really not man. Brevin is gonna be looking for her and she has to go home to him or he’s gonna get suspicious.”

  “I don’t want her in the house with that nigga, especially not alone. Nah, if she goes back to him for play, then so do we.”

  “What do you mean?” I leaned down to look into his face. His already slanted eyes were squinted as he stroked his beard.

  “What I mean is Merce and I will figure out a way to work for his ass again and get back into his house. That way I can keep an eye on his ass, while working him over,” Teflon explained.

  “Aye I’m with that. He’ll think everything is good and the whole time we’ll be waiting to pull the rug from under him.” Merce leaned up and nodded at Teflon with a smile.

  “Then it’s settled. I’m gonna hit up Groove and let him know that I thought about what he said, and I’m willing to come back and work for Brevin.”

  “Wait he asked?” Merce squinted his eyes.

  “Basically. Groove told me that Brevin still needed some people, niggas like you and me, and said that Brevin was open to it being us.”

  “Are you sure?” I chimed in. Brevin was not the forgiving type, and with the way Teflon fucked him up, I couldn’t see him willing to call it water under the bridge just yet.

  “Yeah, I’m sure. Groove is my cousin before anything, so he wouldn’t be telling me some shit if it weren’t true. And he especially wouldn’t tell me to set me up or some shit.” Teflon pulled a blunt from this box holding a bunch of pre rolled ones and lit it.

  Merce grabbed a blunt from the box and did the same, before both guys rested and smoked. I sat there, wondering if this shit was gonna work. I had faith in my man, but I also knew that Brevin was nothing nice. However, he was only as tough as his men were so if anything Teflon and Merce needed to get at them first.

  Around 11:45pm that night…

  “Mmm, ahhh!” I called out as Teflon rammed into me from behind while holding my hair.

  I had no choice but to grip the sheets and bite down on my lip so that I wouldn’t wake all of Cleveland. He was so far inside of me, hitting every single spot that I was sure that I was about to be speaking in tongues. Reaching around the front of me, he spread my legs wider and forced my face back into the pillow. He then gripped my hips, pounding into me as he began to call out himself.

  “Tatiiiii shit!” He grumbled just the way I liked.

  You could hear our skin smacking together throughout his whole apartment, along with our loud moans. My juices spilled over and since this was about the fifth time releasing, my inner thighs were now wet. Yanking me up by my hair, he bit down on my shoulder and began to suck hungrily while winding his hips into me. I just whimpered, because I was close as hell to tapping out.

  “You’re so little but so sexy,” he groaned in my ear before sucking it. Throwing me back down, he started beating it up doggy-style, while grasping my torso. “Look at you taking this dick,” he moaned.

  A few moments later, I was releasing again and he was spilling inside of me. We sat in the same position, panting like thirsty dogs for a second, before he slid out of me and planted the most sensual kiss on my lower lips from behind. It was so slow and deep that it made me shiver.

  I turned on my back and collapsed as he went to the bathroom to grab some warm wet towels. He returned and cleaned me, which I thought was so sweet of him. He then used his towel to get himself right, before climbing into the bed with me. He kissed me gently, before going in with a little more passion and pulling away.

  This ‘business trip’ was the shit.

  * * *

  Jadynn and I were eating lunch at the Blue Point Grill. We hadn’t had time to just chill and eat in a long time. I was in the hospital after miscarrying and then kind of went right into hiding with Teflon. As far as her, she was being a little bit distant during that time, but I was dealing with my own shit so I didn’t really take the time out to see why.

  “Have you talked to Paige?” I got right to it because that was what I’d been wondering. I couldn’t believe her ass had been sleeping with Russell. She was always jealous of Jadynn and me too I felt, but I never thought she would stoop so low.

  “Hell no. She tries to call or text me here and there, but I ignore her ass every time. I just can’t see our relationship returning to what it used to be.”

  “I can’t blame you.” I sipped my drink. “So I have to tell you something.”

  “What?”

  “Teflon and I are kind of a thing.”

  “Umm, I knew that shit already. That nigga has had his eyes on you since he first met you Tatiana. And the way he stuck by you in the hospital, come on now. It’s always been so obvious.”

  “It has?” I smirked because hearing this was flattering.

  “Yeah it has! The first day I met him when we were having breakfast together, he just stared at you the whole time, no matter what, even when I was talking. It may have been love at first sight. But what about Brevin? How is that working out?”

  Jadynn and I had been away from one another for too long. I mean we’d seen each other while working, but we co
uldn’t exactly take that time to discuss anything. We’d texted one another certain details that were happening, like me catching Gloria and Brevin together, but nothing else really.

  “Well Merce and Teflon have a plan for that and somehow he and I will end up together, meanwhile Brevin will just kind of go away.”

  I noticed when I mentioned Merce, her body language changed.

  “How is that possible?”

  “I don’t know, but I trust them both. What do you think of Merce?” I decided to fish.

  “He’s umm, he’s very…” She began grinning and chuckling when I cocked my head at her ass. “Okay we’ve been chilling but nothing more. We kissed though and shit almost started popping but no.”

  “Why’d you stop it?”

  “Tatiana!”

  “What? I wanna know! When Teflon kissed me my legs just parted for him.”

  “‘Cause you’re a hoe,” she giggled. “But no, I had to get an abortion Tati.” Her facial expression changed. “It was Russell’s.”

  “What? When? Why didn’t you tell me?” I couldn’t believe my best friend was going through all of this shit while I was laid up getting sexed.

  “Because I didn’t think you would approve after what happened to you.”

  “Why did you sleep with Russell after what he did Jadynn?”

  “I didn’t want to Tatiana, he just did it, and then he left.” She shrugged one shoulder as if it were nothing, but I could see in her face that she was bothered by it.

  “Jadynn, you need to tell somebody or something!” I yelled louder than I’d intended to. I was floored right now and felt like killing Russell. I may have been small but maybe I could still knock his ass around. Rage gave you strength at times.

  “Relax Tati, I’m okay now. I’m really trying to forget about it, which is why I don’t talk about it nor do I try to think about it. You’re my best friend and I’m looking for you to make me feel better and to keep my mind off of it.”