by Andrea Sad'e
"Oh my God" I said to myself and got emotional. I looked Slick and he was smirking at me. I gave him a kiss and walked into the house. The house was beautiful and by the time we were done with the tour of the home, I was in love.
"We'll take it," Slick said to the lady.
We signed some papers and left the house to go shopping for furniture. I was beyond excited!
Now it was time to head to the doctor.
Rayna
"Stopppppp, babeeee," I told Ace as he tickled me, knowing that was my weakness. "Babe, guess what," I said to him.
"What?" he said, raising his eyebrow.
"Gena's pregnant."
"Say what?"
"Yea, we're about to be and aunt and uncle."
"Damnnnnnnnnnnn, that's crazy but I'm excited for them," he said, looking at me in a weird way.
"What? Why you being a creep?" I said.
"So when do you want to start a family?" he asked me.
"Uhhhh, I want to go to college to be a nurse so I can have my own career and my own money and I want to be married first. That’s why I take my birth control faithfully."
"Okay, I can respect that. how long you got in college?"
"Well, I finished my high school classes early and started doing dual enrollment in high school, so I almost have my AA in nursing already. After that, nursing school is about two years. I have one more semester to get my AA in nursing and then nursing school, so about two and a half more years," I said, breaking everything down to him.
"Oh that's not long at all," he said.
"Nope, it's not," I said, sliding down the bed and walking to the shower.
"Where you goin?" he said, standing up.
"To take a shower, silly," I said with a slight chuckle.
"Not without daddy," he said, getting up, but I ran in the bathroom and closed the door.
"HA!" I said, laughing. I peeled off my clothes and got into our huge tub and turned the jets on. I laid my head back and relaxed in the water. After about 15 minutes, I started to wash my body with Dove soap and then my favorite Sensual Amber Bath and Body Works body wash.
After washing, I brushed my teeth for the second time today and I walked out of the room only to feel myself being pushed down on to the bed. I screamed and looked up and Ace was standing there with his towel around his waist, still wet from the shower I assume he took in the other bathroom.
"Move," I said, trying to get up because I hated when he scared me like that. He pushed me back down and climbed on top of me, kissing me on my neck. The smell of his Old Spice body wash mixed with these kisses had me feeling some type of way.
"Why you always getting her excited?" I asked Ace, referring to my girl down there.
He ignored the question and kissed all the way down my body until he reached my other set of lips. He started breathing on them for a couple of seconds, which made me get even more excited. He parted my lips and exposed my hardened pearl. He kissed it then made circles with his tongue. He put his tongue inside of me and it sent me up the wall. It drove me insane. After about 10 minutes of this nonstop pleasure, I had cum a couple times. He took his stiff nine inches of thickness and got ready to go inside of me but I stopped him and flipped him over in the bed so he was now on his back. I wanted to pleasure him.
I had never done this before but there’s a first for everything, right?
Ace
"What are you doing?" I asked her.
"Shut up," she said.
She was looking sexy as fuck so I shut my ass up and let her do what she wanted to do. I laid back with my head propped up on a pillow and watch her lick down my stomach. She got down to my man and licked the tip. that shit made a real nigga shiver. She took half of me into her mouth and then the whole thing. I was speechless as she did her thing, letting go and doing her best to give me the best head I had ever received in my entire life.
"Damn, Rayna," I said out loud.
After about 5 minutes, I had to move her head because this new side of her almost made me bust with the quickness. I flipped her on to her back and rammed all of me into her. She arched her back and moaned out loud which gave me the okay to keep going. My phone kept ringing but I ignored it. I flipped her over and put her legs over my shoulders. She sometimes had a hard time taking it this way but she was gone have to take this shit today. I went in deep and she started to run.
"Nah, ma, stop running from me," I told her and kept going.
She was moaning and creaming all over me. I felt her walls contract and saw her eyes roll to the back of her head. As soon as she did that, I pulled out and shot my hot liquid all over her belly.
My phone rang for the 6th time and I decided to pick it up.
"WHAT!" I answered.
"Yo boss, Mark and some niggas just ran through and shot up one of the trap houses. Two of our workers got shot and is headed to the hospital. He took some money and a couple of bricks. Man, you gotta come quick," Marcus, one of our top and most trusted workers, yelled into the phone.
The phone was on speaker so Rayna had heard it all.
"I gotta go," I said and got outta the bed quickly once she nodded okay.
"I told this boy I was gone spare his life but I guess he ain't gone be so damn lucky," I said to myself cocking one of my guns.
This shit was finna get outta hand. My workers might be sleep on their jobs but you better believe I ain't getting caught slipping. Mark taught me a lot but I was way better at this game than he was. I called Slick and told him to meet me at the trap quickly and sped down the street.
Chapter 11
Mark
"Three hundred thousand," I said, counting the money I had jacked from my brother's trap house. I’d hit them right after everybody got done selling for the week and I knew I'd be hitting something.
I didn't get a lot of money but I got something, enough to show his ass not to fuck with me. I didn't need the money. I just wanted to show him not to fuck with me.
My brother had always been a favorite of everybody and then he started to run my business better than I did when I built this whole operation. Nah, shit ain't going down like that. When I gave him the business, I expected him not to be able to handle it and try to hand it back to me or run to me for help often, but none of that happened, and because there were two of them, they had out smarted everything I'd put in place.
I just couldn't handle him being this much better than me, so I was going to bring him down. I gotta pull at his heart strings, though. He’d always been a real sucker for the people he loved so I gotta go for his heart. I finished thinking out my plan and gathered the money I had made and took it to my safe. Time to put this plan in progress.
Ace
After I went and checked on my trap houses, making sure everything was cleaned up, locks were changed, and the safe combinations changed, I headed to the hospital to check on my boys. When I got there, Slick was standing by the window talking on the phone.
“Wassup?" I greeted him after he hung up his phone.
"This was all yo brother, man. What the fuck he gave you this shit for if he was gone do all this?" he said, sitting down and rubbing his hands down his face.
"I don't know, man, but we gone find out cause this nigga getting a little too bold for my liking. Brother or not." I looked at Slick and he looked like he was in deep thought.
"How the boys doing?" I asked, referring to our workers who got shot.
"They good, flesh wounds. They're about to get discharged. Stitches were the only things that were needed."
"Well, that's good to hear."
"Yea, but Ace, man, imma tell you right now. When we run up on these niggas working with your brother, OR your brother, I ain't leaving no damn flesh wound. They fuckin up my money and I have a family to take care of now. I can't have that shit, mane."
"I feel you, man. As much as I'd hate to murder my own brother, I feel like imma have to gut his ass, cause we ain't giving him back the business. We done made too many changes to better
this shit. He gone have to feel me first."
With that, we got up and went to visit our boys in their rooms. They were bandaged up and ready to go home. They left with their families and Slick and I went in separate directions. This shit finna’ get rough.
Mark
10/15/2015 was a day to remember.
I looked into her beautiful eyes. My baby girl had just been born and she was a beauty, it was crazy because she looked exactly like Ace when he was little. I shook that thought and just enjoyed this moment.
Ahleya Briyana Rowland. I'd been laying low since I hit Ace and Slick’s trap house. I had to be careful because them lil niggas were smart as hell. I was pissed when my boys told me that they hadn't killed the niggas in the trap house. I didn't need them telling that I was there. I wanted them to have to wonder and let me go on about my day with a little pocket change.
I handed Ahleya back to her grandmother because her mom was asleep and said I'd be back in the morning, I needed to go home, wash up and get some sleep. It was already 2am. I got in my car and watched my hands tremble and sweat rise on my forehead.
I had to hurry and get home. I drove to the hideout condo I had been staying at that nobody knew about but Taylor (my wife). Yes, I’d married her almost a month ago but nobody knew about it. I just had to make sure that if anything happened to me, she would get everything in order to take care of Ahleya.
I walked into the house and went right up the stairs. I opened my drawer and pulled out just what I needed. I prepared the white powder and put my head close to the tray and took a deep breath in. My nose burned for a second and the next thing I knew, I felt slob coming from my mouth because the high felt that good. I’d kept this habit of mine hidden. I had been snorting drugs since I was about 18, but nobody ever knew.
I guess I really was a product of my parents. The same drug plus more that took my parents away and caused me to raise a one year old at the age of sixteen is what I resorted to when times got hard. Looking at Ahleya tonight made me want to quit all this shit but the addiction had its hands around my neck and every time I tried to stop, it squeezed me harder and harder.
There was no way I could stop now because I had to be my strongest to beat my brother and Slick. I snorted another line and everything went blurry. I was beyond high. The feeling was amazing.
*3 weeks later*
Gena
"Happy four months, God mommy slash Auntie's baby," Rayna said, talking to my now protruding belly.
I swear my belly grew overnight, and since I was pretty small, I was showing a lot. We were on our way to my gender reveal party. Slick and I had managed to keep the gender a secret since the day we found out at the doctor a few weeks back. My parents were not happy about me getting pregnant this soon but I didn't live under their roof anymore so they got over it. My brother was disappointed but he got over it as well and was coming to the party to support me, too.
"Get in, thick mama," Rayna told me as I slowly got into the car.
"If" by Destiny's Child came on the radio and we sang at the top of our lungs until we reached the venue that the party was being held at. As soon as I walked in the door, I spotted Slick and Ace moving some things around. They were so supportive.
I looked across the room and saw my parents and my brother. They all ran up to me and rubbed my belly, telling me how beautiful I looked and how much I was glowing. Slick came up to me and rubbed my belly, giving me a kiss in the process. out of the corner of my eye, I could see Chris walking over to Rayna and I knew this was not gonna turn out well, so I grabbed him and told all my family to get ready for the reveal. they all gathered at the table and Slick pulled out the box that had the huge balloon in it with my baby's name on it.
“3....2....1!” they all said and we opened the box that revealed a white balloon with ‘Kenyah Ciara McNeil’ written across it in pink letters. Everybody said, "Aww," in unison then started clapping and hugging Slick and I. I looked over at Rayna and she looked at me with tears rolling from her eyes.
"My baby and I are going to have the same middle names, oh I'm so emotional. I love youuuu!"
I laughed at her because she was being typical emotional, dramatic Rayna. "I love you, too, sis," I said, giving her a big hug.
"LETS EAT!" somebody yelled and I went back to my seat while Slick prepared my plate for me. He was so helpful in making sure I had a healthy pregnancy. He made sure I ate right and exercised with me. I knew he was gonna be a great father to our princess.
Rayna
I was so touched that Gena would have Kenyah take the same middle name as me. I was honored. I loved her to death, man, and that would never change. Ever.
"Wassup, baby?" I heard as some hands grabbed me around my waist. Before I could even say anything, Ace ran up on him, delivering two punches to his jaw
"I’on play that bullshit, homie," he said, looking at Chris in his eyes.
"Nigga, she was mine first, fuck boy. You don't even look like you know what to do with all that ass."
Ace laughed and as soon as I saw Slick get closer, I knew all hell was about to break loose so I directed everybody out of the building, letting them know that the party was over and thanking them for coming. I closed the door because I knew they were about to get real ignorant.
"What you said, nigga?" I heard Slick say.
"Nah, I’on got no problem with you, fam," Chris said.
"Fuck that, nigga," Slick said, not changing his facial expression.
"Baby, stop. That's my brother," Gena whined, knowing that it didn't mean much to him.
"Now you getting real disrespectful up in here, homeboy. You don't want these problems so I suggest you just back the fuck up," Ace said to Chris.
I guess Chris felt disrespected so he spit on Ace's shoe and that was the wrong fuckin move. I guess Slick and Ace both felt disrespected because they both jawed him at the same time. I heard his jaw pop and I cringed. Ace took over and started wearing Chris’ ass out. I mean, beating his ass. I was embarrassed for Chris but he had to learn that he couldn’t step to everybody. Everybody ain't cut from the same cloth and I guess he learned that today cause Ace was beating that ass like Ali.
"Baby, stop. You got your point across," I said, pulling Ace off.
"So you defending this nigga?" he asked me.
"No, Anthony, but you know these people will call the police on yo black ass."
"Whateva, man," he said and punched Chris again.
"Okay, don't say I ain't warn you cause that 'hands up, don't shoot’ shit don't work for yo kind no more, patna,”' I said while backing away.
He got up and fixed his shirt. "Let’s go," he said.
I got in the car with him and I saw Gena get in the car with Slick. I could tell she was pissed off and I knew I'd have to call and check on her later. She didn't need to be stressed out.
*Later that evening*
Ace
Slick and I went to the traps to see how everything was moving while Rayna babied Gena. "Wassup, boss?" one of my workers said.
"What’s good?" I said with a head nod and Slick did the same.
We went in our office and got the books so Gena and Rayna could do their thang with them. We heard a baby crying and we both looked at each other like "What the fuck?" We walked out of our office and we heard a woman yelling.
"Take her. Take her, I just need a fix, man," she said.
I looked closer. "Taylor?" I said aloud.
"Y-yea."
I couldn't believe my brother’s lady was in here looking like a damn crackhead. "Where the fuck is Mark?" I asked her
"I-I dunno, he's out looking for a fix, too."
I couldn't believe my ears, my brother was on drugs? Wow.
"A-Ace, don't judge me. I-I have bad depression since I had Ahleya."
I looked down at the beautiful baby girl in her arms, she had on a bib that spelled out A-H-L-E-Y-A. She was my skin tone and actually looked a lot like myself with a head full of curly hair. With h
ow dingy her clothes looked, she looked like she hadn't had a bath in days.
"How old is Ahleya?"
"She will be a month on the 15th. She was born October 15th. Some people count it by weeks but I just do it to the exact day."
"Give her here," I said, looking at her. She was too innocent to live like this.
"What?"
"You better be glad I don't blow your brains out, Taylor, for trying to sell my niece for a damn fix. Now give her here," I said, louder this time.
She handed her over to me along with the dingy looking diaper bag. Slick and I walked past her and got in my Range Rover.
We went to Walmart and bought her diapers and wipes, a car seat and stroller, crib and some sheets to go with it, a bouncer, a shit load of bottles, pacifiers, cases of formula, distilled water, baby wash, powder, lotion, washcloths, onesies and pants with jackets to match and everything else she could need.
After we were done, we looked at each other and busted out laughing. We looked like some damn soccer moms in this bitch. I didn't know what I was getting myself into but I had a soft spot for my family and I felt like my niece was a part of me as well. I couldn't let her mother ruin her. She needed love and that's all I had for my family.
We got in the car and drove back to my house. We walked in with the baby. Gena and Rayna had a million questions and we explained everything that went down at the trap house. Of course, they started to cry like some water bags.
"Give her here and I'll go run her a bath while you get her stuff out of the car. did you get something to sit her in while she's in the tub?" Rayna asked me.
"Yes, I did, let me run and get it."
"Alright, ya'll. We out. Gena bout to damn near fall out she so sleepy," Slick said, grabbing her hand and walking her towards the door.
"I'll be over here tomorrow, Rayna, to play with this beauty. What's her name? Birthday?" she asked, grabbing her little hand.