All this shit was making Shannon sick to her stomach. They decided to fall back this Thursday night, cause Zane, Nisha, Jasmine, and Dizzy were coming into town. Dizzy stayed in the cut because he was insane. This nigga was serious with the artillery. He didn’t bullshit when they needed to go to war. The nigga was six foot five, one hundred and fifty pounds, light skinned with green-gray eyes and diamonds in each ear. His swag was on one thousand. The boy looked like a gangsta version of the singer Prince and he wasn’t shit to play with.
The knock on the room door was expected. Mack was in Shannon’s room, he opened the door facing his crew. Zane smiled at him, and grabbed him in for a hug.
“Man if ya’ll don’t move the fuck out my way with that gay ass shit, I’m gone pop both ya’ll ass.” Jasmine and Nisha was shocked at the way Dizzy was talking, cause the nigga was silent the whole damn flight.
“Oh you got vocal capability now?” Nisha said.
Jasmine chimed in, “It’s alive!” They all fell the fuck out laughing, always playing too much.
“Aye you hoes don’t know me. I will fuck you bitches up.” He barked at them.
The three of them stood there yelling and arguing. Mack was dying laughing at Jasmine trying to hit Dizzy and Nisha holding her back. Dizzy just keep saying “You got me fucked up.” That was the funniest thing about Dizzy, as crazy as he was he would never hit a woman. Even if she hit him, he would just curse her the hell out.
The shit didn’t make no sense. It seemed like a room full of siblings, not a certified squad. Shannon had even got sick of the bullshit. She yelled, “Everybody shut the fuck up!” Her mind was already all over the place, and she wasn’t about to let them drive her crazy.
“Who the fuck she think she is?” Dizzy asked eyeballing her.
“Look, you behind the wall bitch ass nigga. I’m Shannon that’s the first thing you need to know, and secondly I’m not to be fucked with, ever.” She was close to him and looking up in his face.
He looked down at her and said, “You make my dick hard talking to me like that.” She smiled and backed away from him.
Zane was about to pass the fuck out, he needed some air. “Fellas let’s head to our room. We have some planning to do, so that we are prepared for tomorrow. You ladies should try to get some rest too.” The three men exited the room in full swag mood.
Jasmine shook her head at them as the left. Nisha of course was ready to hit the ground running. Dallas told them to lay low cause shit was gone take place Saturday, they had no more time to waste on this bullshit. “Where are you going?” Shannon asked Nisha.
“Bitch I’m going out. I know Cash ain’t the only one balling out here.” She was priming her little slim body, hoping it looked good in the sleek black mini dress and it did.
“Dallas told us to stay in tonight and Friday night cause Saturday we move.” Shannon was big on the orders set in place because it was designed to keep them safe.
“Fuck Dallas, he don’t own me! I’m not a hoe he got on the strip.” She walked out the door.
“He owns us all.” She shook head at the closed door.
Jasmine didn’t give a fuck, “That’s on that bitch. But who’s about to go to bed is me.” Shannon laughed at her sister, knowing that this would all be over with soon. She was just ready to get back to her daughter.
Jay was on the other side of town, playing house with her nigga. He had stepped out while Mariah was in the guestroom sleeping. The smell of fried chicken, smothered potatoes, sweet corn, collard greens and golden honey cornbread woke her.
She came to the kitchen. “Wow it smells amazing in here!” Mariah chimed; her and the baby were hungry.
“You ready to eat ma?” Jay asked like a regular ole Suzy homemaker.
“Yeah aunty.” Mariah had been calling her this for a few weeks now, so she was used to it. She fixed a plate and handed it to her. The child was eating like she hadn’t eaten in months. But those babies will do that to you.
“Girl slow the hell down. If you choke and die, your uncle gone kill me.” Jay joked.
The word kill made Mariah think of the phone call she heard Jay having a few months ago. The woman she was looking at now was not the same woman she overheard. This woman really loved her uncle. She knew that one day she was going to confront Jay and what better time than now. She would be moving to her new place in a few days and moving on with her on life.
Jay was washing dishes and humming when Mariah said, “Can I ask you something?” She could tell that Jay want to say no.
“Sure baby girl, what’s good?” Jay’s heart was beating like the bass drum on the drum line.
“Why did you come here from St. Louis?” Like a dummy Jay had told her and Cash her real home town.
“To change my life for the better.” Jay was praying she bought that lie.
“So was the phone conversation you had at the restaurant a month ago the way you planned to better your life?” Mariah had stop eating by this time and was staring her down hoping she didn’t continue to lie. She had really grown to love Jay and understood why her uncle was crazy about this woman. She treated him like a king on the throne. He never had to ask her to do thing. If he did, he never had to ask twice!
“Mariah, I…” Jay couldn’t believe she was in the bathroom with her when she made the call to Shannon.
“Jay please just tell me the truth. I never told my uncle, cause when I was about to he displayed so much love for you that I couldn’t bring myself to tell him. Now I know why he loves you, cause I do too, but it won’t stop me from killing you right now and telling him why I had to do it.” She placed the 40 glock she had on the table for Jay to see she wasn’t bullshitting.
“Ok Mariah. I can tell you why I’m here, but not who I work for,” Mariah raised her eyebrows and Jay continued, “Used to work for.” She rephrased the statement.
“Tell me everything.” Something told Jay this was a life or death situation. And she better speak now or forever hold her piece.
“I’m with the Duffle Bag Bitches. That may not hold much weight here but in the Lou mention that name and people will tell you that you’re asking for trouble.” She informed the young lady.
“So what do you do?” she was intrigued by Jay’s title.
“We set hustlers up and take what they have. All of it when possible.” She felt like shit telling this to the niece of the man she was supposed to set up.
“So the conversation I overheard is why you’re here then, am I correct?” Mariah had turned in to a baby boss. She was loving every minute of it too.
“Yes!” Jay lowered her head.
“So I should kill you right now. Right?” Mariah was trying to feel her out.
“If that’s what you see fit to do ma.” Mariah loved her heart.
“I want to see my uncle happy. Can you do that?” She asked.
“Yes Mariah, I can do that.” She was telling the truth, she loved him.
“Really?” She was just dragging the shit out to see what Jay would say.
“Mariah, I ain’t gonna beg you for my life. When my crew tracks me down, I’m as good as dead any fucking way. I fucked over the only people that ever gave a fuck about me.” She was beginning to get pissed off now.
“Why?” Mariah needed to know what would make someone do that, especially for someone they barely even knew.
“I came here with every intention to take your uncle down. Once I got to know him, I fell for him. I can’t tell you why, but I do know I got a whole crew of people mad, hurt, and disappointed with me. I can live with that if it means spending the rest of my life with this man. That’s my word. I can’t make you believe me, all I can do is show you, if you give me the opportunity.” At this point Jay was done explaining herself and Mariah knew it.
“One thing I need you to do.” Mariah said. She wanted them to be together but if Cash ever found out she lied to him, he would lose it.
“You have to tell him the truth. He hates a liar.�
� She schooled her on the man she loved.
“I can’t, he will hate me or even kill me!” Jay began to cry.
“He loves you. It will hurt him to his soul, but if he really loves you he will respect your honesty and forgive you.” Mariah knew her uncle very well. He was the closest thing she had to a dad.
“What if he doesn’t love me?” Jay didn’t want to hear the answer.
“You’re dead!” Mariah wanted to see if she loved him or her own life enough to take the gamble.
“I will tell him.” Jay knew that she would have to pay for her actions one way or another.
Cash came walking in, pissed that he had take-out food in his hand and his house smelled like Thanksgiving Day. “Baby damn, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you cooked. I’m just so used to living alone.” He leaned in for a kiss. Jay greeted his lips with hers.
He noticed that her face was covered in tears “What’s the matter shawty?” He couldn’t stomach a woman’s tears.
“I just asked Jay to be my baby’s godmother.” Mariah chimed in as she took the fast food out of his hand and began to eat it, as if she hadn’t already eaten.
Jay looked at her in shock. Cash was excited. “Aww that’s great I love the family love up in here.” He hugged Jay and wiped her face.
“Yeah she caught me slipping and I got all mushy. But I am honored that she asked me.” Jay played along with the song and dance routine.
“We all have to go out to dinner tomorrow night to celebrate this unity.” Cash was cheesing so hard.
“I won’t be able to make it Unc. I’ll take a rain check but you and Jay should still go.” She was letting Jay know this was her time to come clean.
“Cool I’m gone hold you to that rain check Miss Greedy.” Cash laughed at her.
“I will be looking forward to it.” Mariah exited the room backwards so he wouldn’t see the gun she held behind her back.
Zane needed to be alone, so he had a room all to himself. He was glad as hell that he wasn’t on the New York trip and was close to Shannon. His mind was wondering when the phone began to ring early Friday morning. He knew it wasn’t Dallas because the orders were already in place and there was no need for them to speak until they returned home. He picked up the room phone and just held it, “Zane I know you’re there.” Miesha the front desk clerk said into the handset.
“What do you want ma?” He was rude but didn’t give a fuck at the moment.
“Damn, wow really?” She was with all that extra shit. If she had any class about herself she would have hung up and kept it pushing.
“Girl I am not in the mood for no extra shit today, so make it quick.” He was about to hang up.
“I want to see you.” She loved this man; he just wouldn’t love her back. And like a fool she just couldn’t let go.
“No.” He wasn’t in the mood. He wanted to handle business and go home.
“Why?” She was almost in tears.
“It’s time I stop playing games with your heart and let you free. I will never be the man you want me to be. After this weekend, you may never even see me in this state again. Go find someone that will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It just ain’t me.” He kept it one thousand with her.
She began to cry and speak. Her words fell upon deaf ears because Zane had hung up. He knew that his actions were wrong. He also knew that trying to break it off with her sweetly would only cause her to beg him to stay as she had before.
He was still lying in bed and his cell phone rang this time “Mack’s number popped on the screen. He picked up. “Speak.” Zane was in dick mode for real.
“What up nigga?” Mack was used to his crazy ass and paid him no mind.
“Shit, chillaxing.” He stated blandly.
“Me, Jasmine, and Dizzy about to go get breakfast, come eat with us.” Mack was the happiest gangsta he ever knew.
He laughed “No man, maybe I will catch ya’ll at lunch.” He assured him.
“Cool family, rest on.” Mack was about to dead the call when he heard.
“Where’s Nisha and Shannon?” Zane thought their mood may have been like his.
“Nisha, that little bitch went out last night and Shannon still sleep. She said she would link up for lunch too.” Mack smiled knowing that Zane couldn’t see him.
“Good girl Shannon. I know Dallas told everybody to lay low. So where is Nisha now?” These damn women were working his nerves with their hard headed asses!
“She ain’t back yet.” Mack was ready to end the call so he could go eat.
“Ok, she should show up soon it’s still early.” Zane shook his head and hung up.
He rolled over on his side as he lay in bed naked, with his morning wood at its all-time high. Hell, he thought about it, maybe he should have gave Miesha a lil taste this morning before turning her loose. His golden honey hard body was wrapped in a sheet. He was planning on trying to get a few more hours of sleep, but a knock at the door killed that dream. He was hoping it wasn’t Miesha. He walked to the door naked and snatched it open, Shannon’s mouth flew open at the sight and size of his dick. He laughed “Girl come in and quit looking at my dick!” He grabbed his basketball shorts that were thrown across a chair in the room.
“I’m sorry, I just didn’t expect it to be that big, I mean for you to be naked.” She was blushing now.
He smiled “What do you want?” He was still rude as hell.
She just looked at him like he was crazy for a minute. “Nisha left last night and she wasn’t supposed to. I should have come and told you then so you could’ve stopped her.” She huffed.
“I ain’t no damn babysitter. If she wanted to leave that’s on her, she will have to deal with Dallas about not following orders.” He laid the law down.
“You’re right about that. What can you do, she’s an adult.” She had sorrow in her words.
“You okay?” He asked thinking his roughness hurt her feelings.
“Yeah.” She headed for the door.
“No you’re not.” He stepped in front of her.
She looked into his eyes, the tears she had been holding in for the longest came tumbling down. “How could she Zane? How could she?” She cried. Her face buried in his bare chest.
He knew the betrayal had done something to her. “I’m sorry Shannon, but I don’t know.” Her pain was his and he didn’t understand it.
“She just left us for dead. What if Dallas thought our whole crew was a part of this mess she caused?” She was broken behind this nonsense and it killed Zane to watch.
“Baby just calm down, okay? I know it hurts but in this life you have to understand that loyalty is hard to find.” He was hoping she saw his point.
“I know that. I waited damn near all my life to have sex for the first time and at twenty-one when I thought I found him, I gave it up, got pregnant and dumped all within six months. I know this world ain’t shit. I just never thought family would move like this.” She was walking around his room now.
He noticed that she was only wearing a night shirt with no panties under it. He shook his head to take the thought out of his mind. Now wasn’t the time. “Baby that nigga that did that to you, he was already sorry and to pull a bad bitch like you gave him confidence that he never even thought he had. Yes, Jay played us all, but who are we really to stand in the way of love?” This was the first time he had ever asked himself that. Yes Jay could have handled shit in a different manner. Nonetheless she had a right to fall in love with whoever she pleased.
“Love? She don’t even know this nigga, so how in the hell could she love him?” She was angry now, hoping Jay hadn’t found what she had been looking for her whole life.
“Love can happen when you least expect it and sure as hell don’t want it to.” He was pacing the floor now.
“You love the clerk and after this lick you won’t visit this city anymore? Hell she can come see you.” She wanted to be encouraging to him. He did listen to her cry about her baby daddy and
friend.
“I don’t love her!” He said coolly.
“Oh my fault baby, just thought you had fallen in love and wasn’t ready.” She was about to leave.
“I did and I’m not.” He said causing her to stop dead in her tracks. Something told her to keep walking but curiosity got the best of her.
“With who?” Her heart jumped in her throat.
“You.” He lowered his head.
“With who?” She walked close to him to look in his eye and see what they had to say about this ordeal.
“You!” This time he let her look into his soul.
“Oh ok that’s cool!” She turned on her heels to walk back to the door.
“That’s all the fuck you got to say ma?” He stepped in front of her for the second time this morning.
“Yeah. What you want me to say if you’re not ready?” She asked him with her arms folded.
“Make me ready?” He stepped close to her.
“I can’t.” She stepped back.
“You can!” He stepped closer than before.
“Why do you love me?” She wondered aloud.
“I don’t know. I ain’t never loved nothing or nobody before.” He was honest with her.
“What makes me so different?” She was flattered.
“I’m hoping you’re willing to let me find out.” His face was close to hers now.
The room was getting too small for the both of them. It was like they were gasping for air. “We can see what happens.” Shannon mumbled not knowing what she was agreeing too.
Zane lifted her head; she looked into his eyes and kissed him. The room began to spin in circles. Shannon allowed her tongue to enter his mouth. Their tongues danced around inside the two pairs of lips. Zane began to caress her thighs. She tilted her head back and moaned allowing him to kiss and bite her neck. Her pussy was dripping. It was running down her leg. Zane inserted two fingers inside her. She smirked cause she was tight. She hadn’t been touched by a man in over a year.
“Damn this shit is tight!” Zane realized what was happening and pulled away from her.
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