Long As You Know Who You Belong To

by jwppublishing

  Her emotions got the better of her, and that caused her to act on impulse and assume shit that wasn’t actually happening. She was fucked up in the head—trust— but I had been halfway in love with her looney ass at some point and that made me feel some type of way about killing her.. But Hero had to go, and she rode hard for her father. Once I got him out the way, there was no way that I could keep up a relationship with Nakami, even if I wanted to. She would find out who was behind his death if it was the last thing she did, and I didn’t need her gunning for me. So I was getting rid of all of my problems once and for all.

  “Grey, my son.” Hero reached out for a hug. I rolled my eyes as I embraced him and then sat down across the table.

  Every Tuesday we met at the same restaurant, sat at the same table, and were served by the same waitress. Hero was a man of routine and discipline and, no matter what else was going on, we never missed a Tuesday meeting. I had begun to rely heavily on these meetings and was grateful that Hero never broke habit.

  “What’s good, Hero?”

  Hero wiped his forehead with the napkin on his lap and smiled slightly. “How’s my daughter?”

  “As far as I know, she’s good. Still working on that business you had her handle.”

  Hero frowned. “Business? What business?”

  “I don’t know. She called a couple days ago and told me that she was going out of town on your word to take care of something for you.”

  Hero fell silent. Now I was wondering what was up. Why did she lie to me? The fuck was she doing out of town if she wasn’t doing what she said she was doing?

  “Grey, what’s going on with store three?” he asked out of the blue.

  Damn man! I just knew that nigga Grizzy couldn’t keep his mouth closed. I shook my head. “Damn, Grizzy told you about that shit?”

  “After some coercion.” Hero attempted to laugh but ended up breaking into a coughing fit. I pushed his glass of water towards him.

  “Take a sip, man.”

  Hero took the glass and downed the whole thing. After catching his breath, he continued. “Why did Grizzy have to tell me anyway? Why wouldn’t that be something that I would have been made aware of as soon as you found out?”

  I sighed. I was getting tired of his bullshit. Hero was the connect, the plug, the resource. He wasn’t supposed to be my mothafucking boss! I was my own man! I calmed the rage brewing inside me because I didn’t need people to see me lose my cool. “Hero, man. When are you going to let me fly solo? I ain’t never seen a connect be so involved with shit,” I stated plainly.

  “My reputation and freedom is on the line every time a transaction is made. I made a mistake years ago that reminded me that, although I’m am not required to get my hands dirty, sometimes it’s very necessary.”

  “You don’t trust me? I can fuck your daughter and walk her down the aisle, but you don’t trust me with your business? That’s says a lot about where your priorities are.”

  Hero’s normally light-brown colored skin was starting to turn an ashy shade of yellow. I looked on with concern as he wiped his forehead again.

  “My daughter is a grown woman. And while I don’t like to hear about her getting fucked, that’s her business. My money and my product is my business whether it has exchanged hands or not. Thank you for making sure my priorities are straight, though,” he smirked.

  I chuckled lightly to keep myself from flipping the table over and knocking him in his shit. I flagged over our waitress. She came running quickly, her titties nearly bouncing right out of her shirt. “Aye, we’re going to need those drinks sooner rather than later. Oh, and you can bring those crab cakes too.”

  “No problem, sir.”

  She smiled before she scurried off, and I smiled to myself. I had been hitting the lil’ chick off with a couple racks to poison Hero ever since I found out that he was forcing me to propose to his daughter. It was a slow death, and it was the reason why I had been stalling with Nakami for so long. It was my only option. Hero was always flanked by at least two trained killers at all times, even more when he was at his home or on the road. He had more security than the president.

  I had thought about getting some of my foot soldiers to do the work, but they were all loyal to Hero because they had heard or seen what this looney nigga was capable of. Plus, if I wanted to take over his business, I didn’t need his niggas knowing that I had their boss slumped. Although this nigga was insane, most of his people were loyal. If they knew that I had killed their leader, nothing would stop them from coming after me. They needed to think that this shit was an accident; his death couldn’t be tied to me in any way. Which meant that when the waitress met me tonight to get the last of her money, she was going to be surprised that she received a bullet to the dome instead.

  I had tried to hire an outside hit, but as soon as they heard that Hero was the one that I wanted dead, they declined. The nigga was really untouchable. This was the only way for me to get at him. And by the way he looked today, I could tell that it was working. When the waitress came back, thallium would be in his water and inside of his crab cakes. The crab cakes would take a while to digest, so while I was at the crib chilling with my feet up, this nigga would be somewhere taking his last breath. And I couldn’t have been happier.

  Nakami

  March 2015

  I had been following this bitch for three days, and I was growing hella bored. Today would be the day that I made my presence known. I watched as Blu walked out of the mall with a stupid amount of bags in tow. I had no doubt that she was spending the money that I had so graciously allowed her to make on the baby that was growing inside of her with half of my man’s DNA. The thought made me shake with anger, and it took everything in me not to take out the .45 that was in my purse and light the bitch up. But we needed to talk first.

  So I hopped into my rental car and followed her. She was staying at the Westin Kierland Spa and Resort, so I had since left my much nicer hotel to lay-up in a chain hotel. Ew. But I needed to have access to the hotel at all times, so I had to bite the bullet. I followed her back to the hotel and watched her take all her things inside. I waited around in the lobby for twenty minutes before I made my way to room 478 to surprise my “best friend.”

  Butterflies built up in my stomach as I took the elevator up. Despite what I was about to do, I had love for Blu. She was the only other person in my life that had ever meant something to me outside of Grey and my father. Although she had violated me, those feelings of the sisterly bond we used to have still lingered in my heart.

  The elevator finally stopped, and I walked off and down the hall to her room. I knocked and then stood to the side of the peephole so that she couldn’t see me. A smart person wouldn’t have opened the door if they weren’t able to determine who was outside. She proved she wasn’t that smart when she swung the door wide open.

  “Hey boo!” I smiled widely. I didn’t wait for her to extend an invitation to come inside; I just pushed right past her.

  “Nakami! What…what are you doing here? How did you know I was here?” She closed the door and faced me with a puzzled look on her face.

  I hated to admit it, but she looked beautiful. She wasn’t showing yet, but her skin was radiant and she looked relaxed and happy. Dressed in a lime green, black, and white Parker dress and black L.A.M.B. wedges, and with her hair in a neat halo braid, she looked almost angelic. Stupid bitch.

  “Oh, Grey told me that you were coming out here.”

  “Grey? I didn’t tell Grey where I was going.”

  Damn. I was sure that she had clued her baby daddy in about her whereabouts.

  “Fuck this nice shit,” I said before I pulled out my .45 with an attached silencer.

  “Kami! What the fuck?” She stared at me with wide eyes but didn’t move.

  “I should be asking you the same thing. When were you going to tell me that you were pregnant?”

  “What? He told you?”

  “He didn’t have to. I w
alked in on ya’ll discussing the bastard baby the other day.”

  “I…I… I don’t understand why you’re so upset.”

  I walked close to Blu and grimaced. This trick had to be kidding me. She was carrying my man’s baby, and she didn’t know why I was so upset? The thought sent me reeling and, before I knew it, I had slammed the butt of my gun into her head and she dropped.

  Kimani

  March 2015

  I pounded on Grey’s door like I was the fucking police. Someone was going to give me some fucking answers today. I had been to Blu’s house every day since Nakami had dropped the bomb on me, and she had been right; Blu had dipped. I called her until my fingers got tired, and I received her voicemail every time. A nigga was beyond frustrated, but I wasn’t giving up until I got to the bottom of this.

  Shit had gotten too weird since Nakami came over. I woke up the next morning with a slight headache and a sticky dick sitting outside of my pants. That mystery had been solved when I had looked through my phone and found the video of Nakami and me fucking. Or should I say of Nakami fucking me. I was out cold. Bitch must have slipped something in my drink. I guess that was her get back for Grey knocking up her bestie, but shit, I didn’t want any part of that. Grey was still my brother regardless of what he did, and I just wasn’t cut like that.

  I banged on the door again and waited a few more seconds before my phone rang. It was Grey.

  “Fuck you at?” I barked.

  “On my way home. Why?” he answered.

  “I’m at your crib.”

  “Oh, ok. I’ll be there in five.”

  I hung up without saying another word because I had another call coming it. It was blocked, and I was hoping that it was Blu.

  “Yo.”

  “Damn still the same, huh?”

  Fuck. “What do you want, Vicious?”

  “A chance to make it up to you. I’m sorry, I swear I am,” she whined. I was losing my patience with everything and everyone, including her.

  “What part of ‘I don’t fuck with you’ don’t you get? You’re messy, bro. And I’m good.”

  “So you really want to be with that stripper bitch?” she asked, sucking her teeth.

  “How you know?”

  “Baby, please. You don’t make a move that I don’t know about. I can’t believe that you would rather lay-up with that used pussy hoe instead of me. She’s just a trick bitch looking for a come up.”

  I had heard enough. I disconnected the call and turned my phone on vibrate. I wasn’t in the mood for shit unless it involved the answers to my questions. I paced the winding driveway for a few minutes before Grey’s Audi R8 came speeding in. He parked and hopped out, walking towards me with a smile on his face. “What’s up, bro?”

  “You tell me.”

  He unlocked the front door and walked inside. I followed him.

  “What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked.

  “You just out here getting bitches pregnant?”

  Grey stopped walking and turned around to face me. He looked shook. Guess keeping a secret that big will do that to you. “Nakami is pregnant? How do you know?”

  I laughed at this nigga’s attempt to deflect. “Naw, nigga. Blu is, though.”

  His expression changed from worried to confused. “Yeah, I know that. But what does that have to do with me?”

  “How would you even know she was pregnant unless you was the one that knocked her up?!” I screamed. His nonchalance was pissing me off.

  “The fuck I look like?” He looked at me like I was crazy. “Why would I be fucking Blu?” I asked.

  “The same reason you would have been fucking Ginae,” I spat.

  That shut him up. He didn’t think I knew about him lowkey sexing my old chick, but I did. I didn’t want to believe that he had went there again with Blu, but apparently I shouldn’t put anything past him.

  “Look man, that was on some drunk shit. She came on to me, and I tried to get her to stop but she-”

  “That shit is old, bruh. But you know how I feel about Blu. Why would you even…” I couldn’t even talk anymore. I could feel myself getting choked up and angry, and I didn’t even want to go there.

  “I didn’t! Where are you getting this from?”

  “Nakami. She heard ya’ll talking the other day at the club. And she came and told me.”

  “She…what?! Oh, fuck. Man, no.” He walked into his office and I followed him. “Blu came to tell me about the pregnancy, but that’s your kid.”

  “Look, I know about it now. You ain’t gotta lie. Just tell me why, bro.”

  “I’m not lying. Look.” Grey pulled up his laptop and hit a few buttons. He spun the computer around and it displayed a video from his club. He hit the space bar and the video started to play. I watched as he and Blu walked out to the patio and listened as Blu spilled her feelings to him about the baby and me. I couldn’t help the tears that escaped when I realized that I actually had a kid on the way by the woman I loved. I couldn’t believe this shit.

  The video came to an end, and I looked up at Grey. “Man, I’m…”

  “Aye, I’m sorry bro. About Ginae and never telling you about that shit. That was wrong. And I shouldn’t have hid this stuff about Blu from you either.”

  “You good. But why would Nakami think that the kid was yours?”

  “Who knows? You know the broad ain’t right upstairs.”

  Suddenly I thought about the video and the text that she sent me. I felt horrible. I know that she had drugged me, but I had still stuck my dick in her and that shit shouldn’t have went down.

  “Aye, I gotta show you something,” I sighed. I took my phone out and showed the text and video to Grey. “I’m sorry, bruh. That bitch drugged me though!”

  “You having sex with her isn’t a big deal. You know that she on her way outta there anyway, but what is this shit she’s talking in the text message? ‘I knew you wouldn’t get the revenge we deserved, so I did it for you. People don’t cross me and get away scott free.’ Fuck is that about?”

  “I don’t even know, man. And to be honest, I don’t care. I just want to find Blu and make this right.”

  Grey paced the floor. “I don’t know where she is. She told me she was out, but never said where she was going.”

  “Damn.”

  We sat in silence for a moment. Suddenly, Grey stopped in his tracks. He then turned around to me. “You know what’s crazy? Nakami called a few days ago and told me that she had to go out of town to do something for her father. But when I talked to him today, he had no clue what I was talking about. You don’t think she would try to hurt Blu, do you?”

  “If anybody would have known where Blu ran off to, it would have been Nakami. Maybe she went to talk to her? She seemed pretty upset when I talked to her the other day.”

  “I don’t know, man. If she thinks that Blu is carrying my seed, there is no telling what she might do.”

  “Fuck!” I grabbed my head and started pacing in a circle. “What are we going to do? I can’t let anything happen to her, man!”

  “Hey, calm down. We’ll figure this out.”

  “Grey, my nigga, Nakami and Blu have been gone for three days already. There is no telling what already has gone down, and we don’t even know where she’s at!” I started to get frantic. I was useless if I couldn’t protect the people I loved.

  “Well, if Nakami really did go to find Blu, I know how we can find them.”

  “You ain’t said nothing but a word, nigga. How?”

  Blu

  March 2015

  My eyes fluttered open and I try to adjust my eyes to see in the dark. It was dark, with only a dim flicker from the broken ceiling light and from the crack in the boarded up window, providing a hazy view of my surroundings. I could tell it was dark outside. I began to move but realized that my legs and feet were tied to something and I couldn’t get free. The taut tape that covered my mouth prevented me from screaming, but it didn’t prevent me from freaki
ng out. I rattled and shook until the chair that I was tied to fell over. A muffled scream escaped from my lips when I realized that I had landed next to a dead body. The man’s eyes were wide open and held the same terror I was feeling. There was a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead the size of a dime. I didn’t know where I was at and how I got there, but I had to get out.

  But before I could make another move, I heard a door open and shut. I held my breath as I waited for my abductor to come into view. The lights flickered on, and I almost peed myself when I saw who I had come face to face with. Looking like she had walked straight off the runway, Nakami sashayed into the house with a bright smile on her face. She was dressed like she was going on a date, but she had a paper grocery bag in her hand that she sat on the table and a jug of what looked like gasoline in her other hand. She smiled at the fear that was evident in my eyes and walked over to turn my chair right side up.

  “Sorry about the mess. I’m just a terrible housekeeper. But you knew that,” she laughed.

  I looked around and counted two more dead bodies scattered around the room. I had the urge to throw up but held it in for fear of choking on my own vomit.

  “You know everything about me. You know that I would never be caught dead in last season’s clothes, that I used to fuck women for sport, that I despise liars, and that I honor loyalty. You are, after all, my best friend. You know me like the back of your hand,” she smirked. “So why…why oh why…would you fuck my fiancé?” she asked.

  I started trying to talk but remembered the tape was on my mouth. She had really lost her mind. What was she talking about?

  “Oh, I want to hear what you have to say. So I’m going to take the tape off, but I will not hesitate to put a bullet in you if you scream.” She pulled the gun from the back of her black Hudson jeans and let it rest at her side. “Nod if you understand.”

  I nodded slowly. She approached me and ripped the tape off my mouth like she would win an award for speed. I flinched, but I’d be damned if I’d give this crazy hoe the satisfaction of knowing that she hurt me.