by Styles, T
Silence.
“Nothing. I got to check some shit out first. Don’t let anybody know that they’re there.”
Kali said he stayed in a mansion. But there was no way she would let him live with her after what he did to her.
“You know that ain’t even in the talk.”
“Keep it that way.” I told him. “Is your boy still seeing her?”
“I think so. As a matter of fact, I think he put her up in a hotel somewhere out Maryland. They seem to be getting serious.”
“Do you know which hotel?”
He seemed hesitant to give me any information at first, but he knew better than to keep it from me, too.
“Yeah…She at the Holiday Inn out Laurel, Maryland.” He paused. “You want me to tell Shaggy to leave her alone?”
I thought about what Kali said about him and Kreshon fucking Harmony. And how they could possibly be the father of Harmony’s daughters. If Paco did do me wrong, and fucked Harmony, and it turned out his son was fucking his own sister that would be on Paco not me. But if it turned out that Jayden was my daughter, I’d have to decide if I wanted to kill Paco instead.
“Naw. He seems to like her a lot, and I want to keep shit quiet right now.” I paused. “But I’m ‘bout to roll. I’ll holla at you later.”
“One.” Paco said giving me a pound.
When he left I knew I had to finally see Harmony again. I told people she stole from me because I wanted them to think that was the reason I wanted her. Truth was, I never got over her and I wanted to know about my kids. But if she was back with Kali, I may have to leave both of them for dead.
Not So Friendly High
Jayden
Jayden stepped into Friendly High School looking fly. She had a Gucci bag which hung from her arm, diamond earrings in her ears and a silk blouse on her back. Shaggy had definitely looked out for her. Still, he always made it known that they were not together. He had lots of girls he fucked on the side, and didn’t want people thinking the wrong thing about them. So they both agreed that she would act as if she didn’t know him when she saw him in the halls. And she had so much on her mind that she didn’t care. Besides, he put her up in a hotel, kept her fresh and let her have her own space. To top it all off, he still didn’t get no pussy and she was quite the virgin. So what more could she ask for?
When Jayden walked to her locker, she looked a little further down the hall and saw her sister Madjesty. A group of girls surrounded her and they pointed at the same thrift store dress Jayden saw her in when the caseworker was at the mansion. Jayden felt terribly when she looked at herself and than her sister’s clothes.
Going to her rescue, she rushed down the hall and pushed one of the girls confronting Madjesty. When Jayden looked at the girl she pushed, she saw Toni, the same girl she had a problem with at McDonalds.
“I swear, I can’t shake this bitch if I tried.” Toni said pushing Jayden back.
“Leave my sister alone!” Jayden said. “You always fuckin’ with somebody!”
“Jayden, stay out of it!” Madjesty said. “I can fight my own battle.”
“No!” Jayden told her. “She shouldn’t be fuckin’ with you! I had a problem with her when we first moved here from Texas.” Now a huge crowd surrounded them.
“If this is your sister, how come you got her lookin’ a hot ass mess?” Toni laughed, with her friends right by her side. “What kind of sister are you?”
Jayden was so mad at her comment, that she slammed Toni against the locker while Toni’s friend’s started jumping Jayden. Madjesty seeing them get out on her sister, grabbed a pencil out of her book bag and stuck it into the flesh of Toni’s leg.
“Ahhhhh!!!! HELPPP!” Toni yelled.
Three security guards saw the incident and grabbed the sisters and took them to the principal’s office. While Toni was taken to the nurses office.
“You two stay right here and don’t move!” One of the security guards said leaving them alone.
Madjesty gripped her stomach and doubled over. “Are you okay, Madjesty? Did they hurt you?”
“They didn’t get one lick off of me.” Madjesty said clenching her stomach again.
“Then why is your stomach hurting? Every time I see you, your stomach is messed up.”
“I don’t know. But it’s been bothering me a lot lately.”
“You should ask mama to take you to the doctors. Something could be very wrong and it’s been going on too long, Madjesty.”
“Jayden, I see your life has changed, but mine is still the same.” She said with an attitude. “When have you ever known Harmony to take us to a doctor?”
“Can I do anything, Madjesty? Maybe I can get Shaggy to take you for me. He’s really cool and will do anything for me.” Silence. “Madjesty, please talk to me. You’re shutting me out and I’m not the one who hurt you.”
“I want you to stay out of my life. Me and you aren’t family anymore.”
Her words hit Jayden like a sack of rocks on her heart and caused her to cry. “But…I…I don’t understand why. You’re my sister.”
“And I hate you for it! You left me alone. You left me by myself to deal with her on my own. Do you know what it’s like to live with a mother who hates you?” Madjesty cried for the first time ever. “We said we’d never leave the other’s side, Jayden. And you broke your promise.”
“I’m sorry. But…She put me out. She told me to leave.”
“You lying!” Madjesty said. “Mama said that boy told you to go with him and you paid mama five hundred dollars to let you leave.” She cried harder.
“That’s not true!”
“You didn’t stop one time to think about me.”
Before they could continue their conversation, Mrs. Crimply, the school’s principal came into her office.
“I don’t know how you two behave in Texas, but this type of behavior will not be tolerated at my school.” She said picking up the phone. “What’s your mother’s number? I need her to come get the both of you today.”
Jayden’s stomach turned the moment she walked into the mansion. Unlike Harmony, Jayden didn’t have fond memories of Concord Manor.
“Madjesty, go to your room,” Harmony said with an attitude, as if she was a good disciplinarian. “I’ll call you when dinner is ready. And don’t bother turning on that TV since you’re suspended from school, you’re going to be suspended here, too.”
Then she walked to the kitchen as Jayden stayed in the foyer. “Jayden, come here.”
“I’m about to call Shaggy to come get me. I’m not staying here with you.”
“Come here now. I’m not asking you, little girl, I’m telling you.”
Jayden followed Harmony into the kitchen while Harmony took a can of spaghetti out of the cabinet, opened it with a green electric can opener and put it into a pot.
“I see you’ve been taking care of yourself,” she said turning the eye to the stove on low. The heat hit the pan and the spaghetti crackled quietly inside. “That’s good.” Then she opened the cabinet over the stove and twisted a bottle of vodka and took two gulps. She didn’t bother using cups anymore.
“I’m fine. If that’s what you’re asking.”
Harmony downed some more vodka and said, “Looks like you’re doing better than fine to me. I sure wish I could buy Gucci purses and stuff. Life has served itself to you on a silver platter, huh?”
“What is this about? And what do you want with me?”
“Money. I want money, Jayden. You are still my underage daughter, and you don’t get to do what you want.”
“I’m not scared of you and you can’t run my life. Because I finally understand that you are nothing but a jealous old bitch!”
“You know what, at first I may have denied that accusation, but maybe you’re right. Look at me and then look at you. You have my face.”
“And yet you hate me the most.” Jayden combated. “Maybe that means you hate yourself, too.”
“I’ve h
ated myself since my father died,” Harmony said stirring the food.
Then she reached into the cabinet and pulled out a knife. “I wonder how pretty your face would be, if I sliced it? Then we could have matching faces. Wouldn’t that be great?”
Jayden’s heart banged loudly in her chest and she backed away. “Don’t worry, I got something better planned for you.”
It was obvious that Harmony loved playing mental games on Jayden. Then she put the knife back in the drawer and reached under the cabinet to pull out a bottle of antifreeze. Then she took a spoon and stirred it into the food on the stove.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Jayden screamed.
“Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.” Harmony said with a finger over her mouth. “You can stop this if you want to. You really can.”
A tear ran down Jayden’s face. “Why are you doing this?”
“Because I can.” Harmony said drinking more vodka from the bottle. “I brought her into this world, and I have the ability to take her out of it.”
“Mama, you’re killing her. Don’t you care?” She sobbed. “She is your daughter.”
“I know.”
Jayden hated herself for crying when she saw the pleasure in her mother’s eyes. She really was, mother monster. Not wanting to give Harmony any more satisfaction, she wiped the tears from her face. “How long have you been doing this? How long have you been putting stuff in her food?”
“For a while.” She said. “But enough small talk. Let’s talk about what you can do for me, for a change. I expect you to give me a thousand dollars a week to allow you to live where you want to, and to allow Madjesty to stay here.”
“You want me to pay rent even though I don’t live here?”
“Exactly.”
“Mama…”
“If you don’t give me the money,” Harmony interrupted. “I will kill her. Slowly. It’s as simple as that. And if people blame me, I will put the blame on Kali instead. He’s not supposed to be here anyway after what he did to me, so it’ll be easy for people to believe me.”
“What if I tell them you poisoned her?”
“Then I’ll use this instead,” she said opening a drawer in the kitchen with a key, removing a gun. Then she dished out a bowl of spaghetti and placed it on the counter. “But be clear, if you tell anyone about this, anyone at all, including your little boyfriend, there will be trouble for you.” Having made her point, Harmony placed the gun back in the drawer and locked it.
Jayden put her hand over her mouth in horror while Harmony laughed. Then Harmony yelled, “MADJESTY! COME GET YOUR FOOD!”
Jayden and Harmony shared quiet looks, as Madjesty removed the poisoned food off the counter and went upstairs to eat it.
“I hope you know how serious I am.” Harmony said. “My money, or your sister’s life. What you wanna do?”
L.A
Kali
Kali walked and pushed Cherry through the gates of Massive’s mansion in L.A. It was quietly tucked into a part of city not many people knew about. Massive liked it that way. But Kali was quite aware of where he lived, considering he’d been working with him for many years. Jace and his crew didn’t know that Kali was responsible for every murder in Rick and Jace’s crew. He was even responsible for conducting the hits on Rick’s crew member’s family. Kali’s hands also killed both Herb Dayo and Sick Sense and their bodies would never be found. But lately Massive had been putting the pressure on Kali to kill Jace but he needed to weigh his options first.
“Kalive, it’s nice to see you,” Massive said to him after giving his doorman the authorization to let them inside. “What brings you here?” They shook hands and Kali pushed Cherry inside of the living room, next to a couch. Then he took a seat and Massive sat across from him.
“I wanted to talk to you about a few things. That is if you have a few minutes.”
“Sure.” Massive said drinking a glass of very expensive bourbon. “Can I get you some liquor? Or coffee?”
A maid sat a cup in front of Kali and Cherry without waiting on their responses. When she poured their coffee, Massive began speaking.
“So what can I do for you?” Massive eyed Cherry carefully and then the large Gucci purse that was nestled in her lap.
“First, I wanna thank you for lookin’ out at the prison. I didn’t believe shit would go so smooth.”
“It’s easier than you realize to fake a death and escape. Money rules everything.”
Massive had orchestrated someone else to be killed in prison by fire, who was Kali’s same body type. The man was burned so badly, he was unrecognizable. Then he had the same guards involved, help get Kali out of prison. Although the other man was listed as an escapee, Kali was listed as deceased.
“Yeah, well I appreciate it.”
“Outside of your lady friend here, you didn’t let anybody see you back at home have you? You don’t want too many people knowing you are alive.”
“No. Nobody knows I’m back,” Kali lied, looking at Cherry from the side of his eyes.” She knew like he did that everybody knew he was back, even Harmony, the one person he wasn’t supposed to be around. “I did have to connect with Jace though. So I can get him for you.”
“Good, I needed one of my best men free. It’s good to know you’re keeping a low profile.”
“I am.”
“When can you deliver him to me?”
“Well now I have more access to him, which means I can finally hand him over to you like you’ve asked. I’m just going to need more help to do it.”
“Are you sure this time, Kalive? I don’t want any more mistakes.”
“Yeah. I’m sure.”
“And how do I know I can trust you?”
“Haven’t I gone over and beyond the call of duty for you already? Wasn’t it me who took out most of Rick’s men and their families and half of Jace’s crew?”
“This may be true, Kalive, but one may think because you went so far to prove your loyalty to me, that you aren’t loyal to anyone.”
“I’m loyal to the right people as I am to you.”
“I hear you, but it’s difficult to vouch for you.”
“What does that mean?” Kali shifted a little.
“There’s nothing worse than a man who betrays the one he was originally loyal too for someone he doesn’t know. He’s the lowest of scum of the earth as far as I’m concerned. At least the young man, Jace, has some loyalty.”
“Don’t fuck with me?” Kali said standing up.
Massive laughed. “So what did you think you were coming here for, to kill me?”
“What?” Kali said surprised at his question.
In actuality his plan was to see how much more he would give him to kill Jace. If it was less than five hundred thousand dollars, he was going to put a bullet through his head, no questions asked. And the gun he would use to kill Massive was nestled comfortably under Cherry’s ass. When Massive’s men checked them for guns, they didn’t bother to lift her to check up under her body.
“You heard me, Kalive.”
“And stop callin’ me Kalive! It’s Kali!”
Massive laughed and ten men appeared from within the home. What was weird was that Massive didn’t appear to give them any sign.
“Kalive, you’re out of your league.” Then he focused on his men. “Take them downstairs. I’ll give orders later on what to do with them next.”
Four men manhandled Kali and a fifth man took Cherry’s purse out of her lap and pushed her toward an elevator within the mansion.
“Get your hands off me, mothafucka!” Kali yelled. “Get the fuck off me!”
Massive’s laugh could be heard until they made it to the elevator and the doors closed. Cherry was scared and didn’t know what would happen next. She just hoped that they wouldn’t lift her up and find the gun under her lap.
“You don’t know who you fucking with,” Kali yelled at them.
The men remained silent as they put them into a dim room within the basement. When t
he door was shut, with a closed fist, Kalive banged on it repeatedly. When he was tired, he turned around to look at her and smiled.
“What? What’s so funny?”
“Just wait.”
What Cherry didn’t know was that he planned everything up to this point. Lifting her up, he pulled the gun out from under her seat and looked at his black Chopard sports watch and waited. Ten minutes later, loud noises could be heard from upstairs. He only hoped they’d know where to find him. But the moment the thought entered his mind, someone kicked in the door.
“Sorry, I’m late, homie.” His cousin Vaughn said coming inside. “But we had to take care of the situation upstairs first.”
“I can’t believe this shit really worked.” Kali said.
“I did…I told you he didn’t have no respect for you. He thought you were dumb.” Vaughn continued. “Now you ‘bout to make a come up. And all of them wet boys, including Jace gonna learn to respect you.”
“Exactly,” Kali said. He walked out the room and pushed the elevator button.
“Kali,” Cherry yelled, seeing them at the elevator from the room. “Bring me over there, too.”
“Wait a minute,” he said pushing the button again when it didn’t light up.
“Fuck is up?” Kali said looking at his cousin.
“I don’t know. Maybe we should take the…”
Right before he got the words out, one of Massive’s men came from out a side door and blew Cherry’s head off. He then aimed at Kali and his cousin, fired and missed.
“OH SHIT!” Vaughn ducked and caught the dude in the chest with a hot slug.
Kali ran up to the shooter and fired two more shots in him before the elevator opened. He couldn’t even look at her body. They got on right away and Kali was beyond hurt. Cherry’s murder was fucking with him seriously.
“The linen vans we hijacked are outside,” Vaughn said as they ran from the elevator, through the living room and out the door. It was his idea to steal a couple of vans from the company Massive trusted to wash his linen. His one obsession at not getting a taste of his own medicine caused him his life.