Rozalyn (Includes Tamar Preview)

by Shan

  "Oh, but I do? How would feel if I told you I had sex with a few niggas every now and then, but they don’t mean shit!"

  "Why you taking everything I say and twisting it the fuck around?"

  "Rozalyn!" Kevin yelled from across the street again and was now beginning to come this way. I leaned in and kissed Rozalyn on her lips and walked around to get into my car. Kevin said something to Rozalyn and then came around to where I was at.

  "You caught up to twin?"

  "Tavon? What you mean did I catch up to him?"

  "I hear he’s the nigga I need to see about my little brother."

  I didn’t answer just jumped in my car, cranked it up, and drove the hell off. I couldn’t even be mad at Kevin for stepping to me like that because if it had been me then I would have done the same thing and I know Tavon would have done the same thing for me. Damn, would he have done the same thing for me?

  On the ride to the house, I started thinking about everything that had transpired over the past year and knew it was time for a fucking change. Dmitri had been in my ear real hard about coming to live in Miami for good so that I could completely put all my attention into the operation I was building down there.

  He said that he could get someone else to take care of things down here, but Miami was more important for now. I’d been shooting the idea down because Tavon wouldn’t go for that, but now I was starting to think twice about it. I just had to figure out how I was going to get my girl to go with me. There was no way I was about leave her here.

  ***

  After second guessing myself over and over again, I finally decided to go and see my damn brother. Not cause I cared about how he was doing, but because I needed some damn answers. That last time I saw Andre he talked about how somebody was paying him a quarter million dollars to kill me. I needed to know who, and if I should be concerned. Needed to know if he had something to do with that as well.

  Once I got into the hospital room; Brandon, Keylan, and my mom were all sitting around his bed. I couldn’t believe that he’d stooped so low as to sticking a needle in his arm. How was none of us able to pick up on that shit? He’d lost of lot of weight, but he’d been talking about losing weight since I could remember.

  It wasn’t like we were able to see any track marks on his ass because he mostly sported long sleeved shirts due to the tattoos on his wrist. We all been so busy doing our thing and handling business, I guess we never really took the time out to see that he was in trouble.

  "Hey, I need a few minutes to talk to Von," I said.

  My mom Cheryl looked at me like she had a feeling I was about to do something evil to him, but I gave her a reassuring look letting her know that she had nothing to worry about. Once everybody left the room, I pulled a chair closer to the bed. Nothing was said between the two of us for the first five minutes. I was waiting to see if he was going to confess all his sins to me like I was the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost or was he going to wait for me to say something.

  "Tell me none of this shit is true, Tavon. You putting a needle in your arm now?" I asked.

  "Some bullshit. It only happened a couple of times. Nigga didn’t really know what he was doing and look where it got me." Tavon said and laughed like it was a joke.

  "Yo', this shit is not funny my nigga. You trying to kill yourself?"

  "Yep, but I guess God said he’d rather my little brother kill me instead."

  "So, you did rape Rozalyn and kill my fucking seed?" I looked at him trying to hold back the tears. We’ve never been close but that didn’t mean shit, I loved my damn brother. When our father left when I was just thirteen years old; the twins was who I looked up to. I watched their every damn move wanting to be more and more like them every day.

  "You know Ron a be home soon. Five whole years and I won’t be able to see my damn brother when he comes home."

  "What the fuck are you talking about? That’s not what I asked you Von!"

  "You know the real reason why he locked up right?" Tavon laughed. "That bitch Shonda that you killed, Andre’s lil’ piece of game. Come to find out she was fucking all three of y'all. Some playa type shit us Andrews do, you know?"

  "Von, what does this have to do with anything?"

  "You supposed to be serving that time behind them bars not Ron. Everybody knew you popped her, but it was Ron semen they found in her so they accused him of killing her. All he kept saying was that he couldn’t let his little brother go to jail behind no bitch."

  "Y'all said he went to jail behind killing some nigga," I said confused.

  "That’s what he made us promise to tell you ‘cause he knew if you found out the truth you wouldn’t let him take the fall for you. Now you wonder when Andre started hating you, you fuck his bitch back in the day and then you kill her. Then you turn around and steal his bitch all over again," Tavon laughed.

  "You know why I killed Shonda and as far as Rozalyn goes her and Andre were broken up and they never fucked around. So what the fuck does all this have to do with you raping my damn girl and that nigga Andre trying to kill me? Did you have something to do with trying to kill me too?"

  "Trying to kill you? No, I didn’t have anything to do with that shit, but I was there when pops asked Roderick and Andre to do it though. He told us how you didn’t really spend any time in prison and how you was down there with Dmitri stacking paper and shit and wasn’t really worried about us.

  He said you were trying to start up your own shit and that you weren’t going to bring nobody but B and that nigga Key."

  "And you fucking believed him? You knew them niggas was going to try and kill me and you couldn’t say shit about it. You didn’t try and stop them! I’m your muthafuckin' brother! That don’t mean shit to you?"

  "The shit turned out to be true didn’t it? You did hook up with Dmitri and cross pops out didn’t you?" Tavon questioned.

  "So the fuck what. I wasn’t going to cross you out! You know how I feel about Tahj; I didn’t feel that way about you until now!" I howled.

  "He said you were worth more money to us dead than alive. We were all willing to make that sacrifice."

  I sat back, rubbed my goatee, and laughed at this shit in my head. Once again my pops was able to manipulate these niggas into doing what he wanted them to do.

  I never once thought about building an empire for myself. Every time I made a move, I thought about how I could get my brothers involved in it. What role would each of them be the best at? I may have started on the whole little project on my own, but I never once crossed them out and they all should have known that.

  "Von, I ain’t ever left you or anybody else for that matter out of anything I’ve done. I just split the money I got from Dmitri five ways! I gave you five million dollars the other day and told you to chill out and I had you! How the fuck you gonna do me like this?"

  "I never wanted you dead. Pops wanted you dead. I fucked up Tae! He manipulated me again. I let him talk me into that shit and I’m sorry bro! I can’t take it back but I’m sorry!" Tavon cried.

  "Did you rape Rozalyn?" I asked still waiting on that damn answer.

  "I don’t wanna talk about that shit. I admit that I knew about the pact to kill you, but I didn’t want it to happen bruh I swear!" Tavon turned his head away from me unable to look in my eyes.

  "Whose idea was it to rape her and kill my baby? Did pops orchestrate that—?"

  "Nah and yea. Shalea wanted some get back and we needed to get at Rozalyn. Shalea was still thinking we were still going after Rozalyn behind trying to kill you but we were on a totally different mission for. Just all part of the plan."

  "Raping my girl and killing my baby was a part of the plan. What part of the game is that?" I asked becoming more and more disgusted as my dope-fiend brother spoke. "What fucking plan, Von?"

  "A fucked up part of the game that I always told you to look out for," Tavon said

  "Why’d you do this shit Von? I mean, me and you don’t always get along but I would have never done
anything like this to you," I stated emotionally.

  "I told you to stay away from that bitch. You should’ve listened to your big bruh!" Tavon yelled. "She didn’t have anything to do with trying to kill you, but I found out she was pregnant. Latoya called Keylan that same day you were shot telling him that Rozalyn was at the clinic taking a test.

  I was just about to drop Keylan off when Latoya text him and told him that it was confirmed that she was. When I went after her it had nothing to do with you. I just wanted her and that baby dead; she was fucking everything up! I told you to leave her ass alone before the shit got to that point!"

  "Why? That was my baby and your fucking nephew," I said as a lone tear fell from my eye.

  "I don’t wanna talk about this no more. Look just do what you came here to do. Get it over with."

  I nodded my head at Von allowing more tears to fall from my eyes. He had to be dealt with and so did my pops and Shalea. My brother man, my big brother was after me this whole damn time, and after Rozalyn but for what?

  "Von, please tell me why. Why Rozalyn and why my shorty? Look at me bruh so you can see how bad this shit hurting me," I cried.

  Tavon turned his head towards me with a face full of tears as well, "I’m so sorry bro. I let him fuck my head up. I should’ve known he was out to get you and just trying to use us to do it," Tavon cleared his throat before continuing. "He was just upset when you made that deal without him. He knew that you were gonna eventually get the connect from him. That’s why he was trying to stop you before you made it happen."

  "What about Roz? What did she have to do with this?" I inquired.

  "Nothing. You know when granny had that big settlement right before she died. Remember she sued the hospital for the wrongful death of Papa?" Tavon asked.

  "Yea," I nodded my head confusedly.

  "The only thing she did with that money Tae was pay off her house. You remember in the reading of the will how she left everything to you and didn’t leave nobody else nothing," Tavon cleared his throat again. "She left all of the kids ten stacks in a trust fund."

  "Yea I know, all of y'all got it when y'all turned twenty-one," I said still confused as to what this had to do with Rozalyn.

  "Well she left all of us ten stacks but she didn’t leave you ten thousand."

  "Von, do I look like I care about ten thousand dollars? I wanna know why y'all—"

  Von cut me off. "She practically left your ass the whole damn settlement, Tae. The papers somehow went to pop’s address and with you fucking him over with that connect and receiving them papers just sent him over the top. He not gonna stop until you dead Tae."

  "Von, I still don’t get it. What does a trust fund have to do with Rozalyn and my seed?"

  "Damn! The trust fund was for 27 million dollars! We kill you and being you ain’t have no dependents the money would’ve went to mama, but nah you had to go and get that bitch pregnant which means the money would’ve went to her and that damn baby! She fucked up the whole plan! Can’t you see that!" Tavon coughed. "I raped her 'cause that was some sick shit Shalea wanted to see. All I wanted to do was kill that bitch! Then a few months later they were gonna come after you again."

  "Then what? You say it would’ve gone to mama then right? Y'all were gonna kill her too?"

  "Hell no! It would’ve been easy taking the money from her. She got everything she need and want anyway."

  "All this shit over a trust fund? You betray me, your little brother over a trust fund, Von?"

  "Pops was giving me ten million. He was keeping ten then splitting the rest with Roderick, Andre and Ricky."

  "Ricky?" I shook my head. "Him too?"

  "Nigga, they all brothers. What the fuck did you think? Tae, man I was just trying to get my money and sit the fuck down. I’m tired of all this hustling and killing muthafuckas. Twenty-five years old and I’m tired."

  "If you had never crossed me Tavon you could've been living real comfortable right now. I had you; I was gonna always have your back. You should know that. No matter what we’ve gone through I’ve always kept your pockets right and you can’t say that I haven’t. You ain’t gotta worry though, you about to be resting real good; real soon," I stood and kicked the chair I was sitting and left the room.

  My moms stopped me, grabbed both sides of my face and looked me into eyes. "What’s going on, Tae? What is going on?" she asked. "Tell me why you crying. What’s happening, Tae. Why am I losing all my boys? First Roderick, and then they find Andre dead on the damn freeway; now this! Tavon sticking a needle in his arm! What is going on, Tae? I want some answers!"

  I gently pulled her hands away from my face and looked down at my feet. I have never felt so much pain in my life. I felt like somebody just took my heart and twisted it before yanking it out of my chest. I may was ruthless when it came to the streets, but when it came to my family it was all love.

  I would’ve done anything for each and every last one of my brothers. I would’ve died for them niggas man. For them to do me like this was intolerable.

  Then to find out the real reason why my big bruh Taron went to jail disturbs the hell out of me. I was always told that he went behind some nigga he had beef with, but I never knew that it was over that whore Shonda. Talk about some shit that makes a nigga feel bad than a bitch.

  Taron wasn’t allowed to have visitors for some reason but the moment he came home which was in the very near future I was gonna have to sit down and talk to him about that. I could’ve taken my own damn charge.

  30: Shalea

  "Yea I like these. Baby, I gotta have these," I said to Tweek as I picked up a pair of Christian Dior shades. Things between Tweek and I have been going really well and to be honest I’ve only thought about Tae and his little Chinese bitch a few times.

  I wasn’t going to say I was falling in love with him or anything like that, but things were good. That nigga was spending paper. It wasn’t like that boss paper Tae had, but it was better than not having anything.

  He been talking about things were about to change because his new business partner was about to make a permanent move out here. Said that he’d heard big things about this cat and the type of cash he made for the last city he was in and was destined to do the same here. He said that over the last few months his pockets had doubled based off what ol’ boy had come down here and set up.

  His business partner has a hook up to some Italian dude that got grade-A heroin and coke; something these cats out here been dying to get a hold of but couldn’t.

  "That’s what you want then get it," said Tweek. He’d been playing around on his phone since we walked in the damn store and hadn’t paid a bit of attention to the sun glasses I wanted or the price on them.

  Fuck it. If he didn’t care then neither did I. I nodded my head at the store attendant that I was going to purchase the shades and then walked over to the collection of handbags that they carried.

  "So, when I’m a get to meet this business partner of yours. You been talking about dude for the longest and I have yet to see him."

  "That’s who I’m texting right now. He said him and his girl a be down this weekend to look for a house."

  "Damn, he booed up? I was hoping I could put Peaches down with him," Hell I was hoping I could put myself down with him if he making the kind of bread Tweek say he making; I thought.

  "What’s going on with Peaches and my brother? I thought they really hit it off."

  "Peaches ass his picky. She like to boss muthafuckas around and shit and that nigga wasn’t having it. She needs her a Clyde."

  "A Clyde?"

  "Yea like Bonnie and Clyde. She don’t seem like it but my sister crazy. She like one of them bitches that a run up in a bank with your ass and help you rob that muthafucka'," I said with laughter thinking about the time I rolled with Peaches and her boyfriend Jose, some Mexican dude she was fucking with a few years ago.

  He pulled in front of the corner store and told us to wait outside while he went and grabbed a beer
. After sitting there and waiting for over fifteen minutes, we spotted Jose's ass pulling out a 9 on the store clerk and his daughter.

  I started panicking and yelling at Peaches to jump in driver’s side and get the fuck out there, but instead she takes her 45 from her Prada handbag and walks up in there to assist his ass. I remember almost shitting on myself wondering if I should leave both of their asses. I couldn’t sleep for over a month thinking if the police was going to come kicking down the door and arrest me for accessory.

  "Yea, she don’t seem like the type," Tweek said.

  "She has calmed down a lot lately, but she is definitely the type," I said.

  "And what type of bitch are you?" Tweek asked as he finally took his eyes off of his phone and sucked my bottom lip with his coochie eaters.

  "I’m the type of bitch you keep. You ain’t know?" Picking up a Jimmy Choo bag I spotted when we first got here, I turned back to Tweek for his approval. I just bought a pair of Jimmy Choo pumps that would match this bag perfectly so I had to have it. Tweek nodded his head in approval and walked away texting away on his phone again.

  I grabbed the handbag and walked over to the counter where my Dior shades were patiently waiting. The clerk rung up my items and the total came to twenty-two hundred dollars. I placed my hand on my hip and waited for Tweek to come and pay the lady.

  "Damn, just for a damn purse and glasses. Yea, a'ight Ms. Kept Bitch."

  "What’s that’s supposed to mean? I can pay for it myself," I lied. After receiving payment for beating down Rozalyn and killing her baby I immediately ran here, purchased a condo, a car, and me and Peaches did a whole lot of damn shopping. I only had fifteen hundred dollars left to my name and I wasn’t trying to spend it on this.

  "Nothing, Sha," Tweek handed the money over to the clerk and we left the store.

  I really hoped this nigga wasn’t tripping 'bout no damn twenty-two hundred dollars if so I really would be glad when his partner arrives in town ‘cause I don’t know if I can do this.