Loyalty Over Royalty
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Kim: Hey baby cakes wyd?? (send)
She figured she wasn’t too busy because Carmen instantly hit right back.
Carmen: Hey bae!! Getting ready for my nieces 14th birthday party. I was just about to hop in the shower. Wassup wyd? (send)
Kim’s smile instantly turned into a frown, she just knew she was going to be able to see Carmen and get her a good session in before work.
Kim: A party this early?? It’s only noon! I wanted to see you today. ?????? (send)
Carmen: Awww boo I’m sorry! And I have to go early because I have to help my sis out with setting some things up. I can come by after the party tho.?????? (send)
Kim: It will be late I have to close tonight. I probably won’t make it home til about 11 or 11:30. (send)
Carmen: I’ll make something happen. But I’ll TTYL boopie I gotta hop in this shower I jus got it running lol (send)
Kim: K. TTYL have fun. I would say tell your nieces happy birthday but they don’t know me yet. Lol (send)
Kim tossed her phone onto the bed and headed into the bathroom. After taking a tinkle, she walked over to the sink and washed her hands with the orchid apple Bath & Body Works foam hand soap. She then grabbed her Colgate toothbrush and the Crest Pro-Health toothpaste. After wetting the toothbrush and adding the toothpaste, she began to brush her teeth. After brushing her teeth, she grabbed her Ambi face scrub and began to exfoliate her face. After getting her hygiene together, Kim headed to her kitchen. She opened the cabinet and got a bowl, grabbing a spoon from the drawer right after. She reached on top of the refrigerator and grabbed a box of Honey Nut Cheerios then reached inside and snatched the milk. After preparing her bowl of cereal, she walked into her living room and turned on the television after plopping down on the sofa. When her 50 inch Sanyo flat screen TV came on, it was on her favorite TV show, Martin. It was the episode when he won man of the decade and Gina broke out from the avocado mask. Kim instantly began to laugh hysterically.
As she continued to watch and finish up her cereal, she could hear the mailman walk upon her porch and place mail in her mailbox. She got up, went to place her bowl in the sink, and headed to get the mail. When she got it, she noticed a pink slip from Laclede Gas Company. “Shit! I forgot to call and pay this muthafucka!” she cursed herself. She ran into the bedroom and grabbed her phone. She then snatched her Furla bag off of her nightstand and grabbed her wallet out. She then dialed the number to the gas company and waited for a representative. She hated paying through the automated system. After about three minutes, a rep answered.
“Thank You for calling Laclede Gas my name is Destiny; how may I help you!?” she chirped.
“Hi, I would like to pay my bill!” Kim replied.
“Okay! I will be happy to assist you with that. Can I have the account number and the full name on the account?”
“Yes! Account number 956349900 and my name is Rasheeda Kimberly Smalls!”
Chapter 21
“Since we in the club for now, might as well get another round. I know it ain’t nothing in ya cup, so give it here baby let me fill it up, fill it up. Go girl it’s ya birthday, open wide I know ya thirsty! Say Ahhhhhhh let me hear you say Ahhhhhhh! And we don’t but no drinks at the bar, we pop champagne cuz we got that dough let me hear you say Ahhhhhhh! Say Ahhhhhhh!”
The sounds of Trey Songz hit record blasted through the speakers of Kyra and Notorious’ huge back yard. It was the twin’s 14th birthday party and they had gone all out. Kyra and Carmen had put together one of the biggest Luau parties ever, and the twins had definitely brought damn near half of the city out. Kyra and Carmen decorated the backyard perfectly. They had Tiki stick torches sporadically throughout the yard. They made a cute little colorful Tiki bar, and served all kinds of virgin tropical drinks. They had all sorts of games such as limbo, volleyball, water slides, kick ball, and potato sack racing. They even set a few flammable lily pads on fire and threw them in the in-ground 20×40 swimming pool. To top it off, they hired professional hula dancers.
The girls had on their grass hula skirts and coconut bras, and the boys had on their colorful floral swim trunks. Everyone wore Hawaiian Lei’s around there neck, and some of the girls wore Lei head pieces. The food consisted of grilled jerk chicken, beef, shrimp and pepper skewers, Char Sir Pork, crispy egg rolls, barbecue chicken, and pineapple pizzas along with a tropical fruit salad.
“Yo, yo, yo I wanna give a big happy 14th birthday shout out to the twins, Za’Keyla and Za’Kayla! Their parents got they party live and direct on Hot 104.1, they brought the city out with this one!” the hottest DJ in St. Louis, DJ Cuddie screamed through the microphone. Notorious had hired him to DJ and broadcast his baby’s party live on the radio. He wanted to make sure they had the best birthday ever.
“Man, you and yo wife really did the damn that with this one!” Stebo complimented as he walked up to Notorious and embraced him.
“I ain’t do shit but hire the DJ! This was all my wife and my sister’s doing, you know they gotta do everything extra big!” Notorious laughed and took a sip of the Remy V.S.O.P he had in his red plastic Dixie cup.
“Shit, well whoever did this shit did they muthafuckn thang! Look at the girls; they having a ball!” Stebo said, chuckling as he pointed over at the twins who were mingling and dancing with their peers.
“That’s all I wanted was to see my babies have a blast. Wait til they see they gifts though Unk!” Notorious said confidently. “They gon lose they mind.” He continued laughing.
“I can’t wait to see. What you get?!”
“You’ll see, be patient!” Notorious replied playfully. The two continued to sip and bob their head to the music as they enjoyed they the party.
Kyra and Carmen stood in the kitchen smoking a blunt filled with Cherry O.G, as they looked out the crystal clear glass patio door. “Man sis, we did that shit!” Kyra said, inhaling a thick cloud of smoke.
“Fuuuuck yea we did! Bruh came through with DJ Cuddie though; I can’t even stunt!” she replied while grabbing the blunt Kyra was passing her way.
“Yea, my baby did come through! I know the twins feel all famous and shit!” Kyra laughed.
“Hell yeah! They already think they the shit! They really gone be fucked up now, ole spoiled brat asses!” Carmen laughed as she passed the blunt back to Kyra.
“Girl bye! Don’t do my babies like baby Shad bad ass ain’t spoiled! Speaking of my nephew, where the fuck him and Whack ass at?! They better be coming!” Kyra spat.
“Girl, now you know they coming! Baby Shad will never miss his favorite and only little cousins’ birthday party! They went to the barbershop and to get them a gift. They should be on the way, if not pulling up,” Carmen confirmed.
“Aw ok, I was about to say!”
“You was about to say what?!” Whack barked playfully, as him and baby Shad strolled in the kitchen coming from the front door, startling them from behind. Kyra and Carmen turned around swiftly.
“Heeeey bruh and nephew! I was just asking Carmen where yawl were!” Kyra said excitedly, as she embraced them.
“Wassup sis, you know we had to make a grand entrance! Where we sit the gifts?” Whack asked, as he embraced his wife right after embracing Kyra. He then gave her a juice peck on the lips.
“It’s a gift table out back bruh; just sit em on there!” Kyra replied, as she grabbed a fruit tray and headed put the patio door.
“Wassup son? Son, yo haircut look nice!” Carmen complimented baby Shad.
“Thanks ma, where the twins?!” he asked, as they were walking out onto the large built on Patio deck.
“Aw shit, son, iono; they out there in that crowd somewhere, go find em boo!” she said, as she jigged to “Ratchet” By Short Da Prince, another one of the city’s hottest DJ/Rap Artist.
“Aye yo we hit em wit that whop, whop wow.
Whop, whop, wow. Wow, wow, whop, whop, wow.
Ole Ratchet ass hoe, Ratchet ass hoe, Ratchet ass hoe, Ole Ratchet ass hoe!”
After a few hours of partying, Kyra and Notorious went to the DJ booth and grabbed a microphone. DJ Cuddie cut the music and Kyra proceeded. “Hey yawl! We wanna thank all of you for coming out and celebrating our babies’ birthday with us! Yawl definitely showed up and showed out! I wanna thank DJ Cuddie for hosting live. I wanna thank the photographers for the filming and photos, I wanna thank the caters for the delicious food, and last but definitely not least, I wanna thank my sis and best friend Carmen for helping me decorate and put everything together! At this time, I would like for Keyla and Kayla to head to the top of the patio so that we can bring out the cake and they can open gifts!”
Za’Keyla and Za’Kayla did as they were told. Whack then came out the patio door rolling a huge four layered stacked red velvet cake with white cream cheese cake icing and all sorts of colorful pretty edible Lei flowers on it! Once placed on the table, Kyra requested for the crowd to sing happy birthday. After that, they opened gifts. The twins opened baby Shad’s gift first. It was matching Marc Jacobs hand bags with the matching tennis shoes. Kayla’s were pink and Keyla’s were green. They then opened all of the other gifts that their friends brought, which consisted of money, jewelry, clothes, shoes etc. Notorious and Kyra saved their gifts for last but she decided to let him go first. Notorious handed them his first gift. The twins opened the powder blue boxes and were in awe of the custom made rose gold Tiffany lock and key necklaces; they were beautiful! They noticed engraved numbers and their names on the back but didn’t bother to ask what they meant. Little did they know, the keys were keys to $100,000 each.
Notorious then handed them each a small black bag. After removing the black box from the bag, they noticed a crown symbol on the top. “I know this ain’t what I think it is daddy!” Keyla shouted in excitement. Notorious remained silent with the biggest Kool-Aid smile plastered upon his face. When the twins opened the box and revealed the two matching baby face Rolex watches, they began to jump up and down on Notorious. “Thank you, daddy, thank you!” they sang in unison. Kyra put a devilish grin on her face and spoke into the mic.
“Yea, yea, yea that was cute and all but now it’s time for me to bring out my gift! DJ Cuddie, drop that shit!”
“Bring em out, bring em out, it’s hard to yell when the barrels in ya mouth! bring em out, bring em out!”
DJ Cuddie dropped the beginning of T.I and Swiss Beats song “Bring Em Out” as Carmen drove a red 2012 BMW 328i wrapped in a pink bow into the backyard. The twins and Notorious damn near fainted. All of their friends went insane.
“This is you guys’ learning car! Happy Birthday from mommy babies!” Kyra said into the mic proudly. The girls screamed thank you and kissed all over her before running to their brand new ride. Notorious just looked at Kyra smiling as he shook his head. He had to admit, she did the damn thang!
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“What is this and why did I find it in the cup holder of my car, Whack?!” Carmen hissed. She was confronting him about the dope she found in the small glass tube. Whack’s eyes bucked as he looked at it in her hand. He had to think quick.
“I was dropping one of my customers off at the metro link, they had asked for a ride. Let me get that, the nigga shol asked about the shit too,” he thought of a rapid lie.
“Aw okay, tell me something, you had me scared for a minute bae! Had me thinking you was getting yo nose dirty and shit!” she said, as she crawled up into their California King. They had finally made it in from the twins’ birthday. The party lasted a lot later than expected, so she had to tell Kim she’d see her another day.
“Now, you know all I fuck with is that GAS!!” he said as he grabbed her cradling her in his arms as he began to kiss all over her. He then faced her and looked deep into her eyes. “I Love you punk!” he told her.
“I Love yo too!” She replied.
“Okay now LET’S GET NASTY!” he said playfully and the pounced on her.
Chapter 22
Notorious and Whack had been back in the Lou with the product they copped from their new connect for a few weeks now. Business was booming and the two couldn’t be more satisfied. Notorious still hadn’t heard from his cousin Manny. He was starting to become worried. “Man, you still ain’t heard from that nigga Manny either?!” he asked Whack in concern.
“Nah, ion know wassup with that nigga! I been tryna call his ass but the nigga ain’t pickin up,” he lied. Whack and Manny had been talking every day. The same day he and Notorious came back from Miami, he went and met with Manny. Manny told him how he lied to Notorious about them being out of dope, when really he took the last two bricks to take with him to Atlanta. Notorious didn’t think anything of it because he knew they were running low with their old connect being gone. Manny also told Whack he was tired of working for Notorious and he was ready to become his own boss, so he dipped. Whack felt him. He was in the process of putting his own plan together too. No one would ever see it coming either.
“Man, that nigga ain’t never pulled no shit like this before. Ion know what the fuck goin on but I know something not right. I promise that nigga betta be dead! If he ain’t, he gon wish he was when I catch up wit his ass!” Notorious seethed. He was boiling. He was starting to feel like Whack and Manny was on some disloyal shit. They both had been acting real funny style lately, but he couldn’t figure out why. He hadn’t been anything but good to them. They all were on the same payroll so it wasn’t like one was eating more than the other. What they did with their money was their own business; he couldn’t control if they fucked it off.
“Man iono, I hope the nigga ain’t dead; we need that nigga,” Whack continued to play dumb. Notorious grew silent as he clenched his jaw and gritted his teeth. He was trying so hard to keep his composure.
“Nah, we don’t NEED no muthafucka. One of the lil soldiers will be happy to get promoted. Long as yo ass get yo panties out, yo ass we’ll be straight!” he barked, then stormed out of the spot. He was done for the night. He wanted to just go home to his family; they always made everything better.
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Steve was coming in as Notorious was storming out. “Damn, what’s up with that nigga?!” he asked Whack, who was standing there with a smirk spread across his face.
“Man iono, I guess the nigga got his period.” He laughed, not caring about Notorious’ attitude. Steve gave Whack a mean once over.
“Aw well, you wanna take me over to my ole lady house over on the east side? Shit, I was gon ask nephew but I see he not feelin shit,” Steve said.
“Yea Unk, I got you, you ready now?”
“Yea, I’m ready; shit, it’s getting late. She probably mad, I was supposed to been there!” He let out a lil chuckle.
“Aw iight, well I’m ready. Jus let me lock up real quick.” Whack locked up and they headed to his 2 door root beer colored Bentley.
After about a 30-minute drive, they made it to the east side. Steve had Whack pull into a dark alley. They drove up a lil ways and pulled into the back of a house that looked vacant. “Hold up nephew, I gotta take a leak,” Steve said. He got out and went on the side of the house. Whack phone vibrated in his lap and it was a text from Carmen.
Carmen: Where u at?
Whack: Be there shortly droppin Unk off at his chic crib.
Carmen: ok well hurry home I miss you??????
Steve hopped back in the car as Whack was replying to Carmen’s text. After hitting send, he looked up to ask Steve was he ready and was staring down the barrel of his .45.
“Whoa Unk, what the fuck is you on?!” Whack said and threw his hands up.
“Shut the fuck up nigga; I ain’t yo fuckin uncle. You might be able to fool my nephew and my lil niece but you can’t fool me. I know exactly who you are!” Steve hissed. He was ready to put
a hole in Whack’s head.
“What the fuck is you talkin about Unk? I’m family and you gon try and do a nigga?! You had this shit planned the whole time huh?!” Whack began to chuckle.
“You damn right! If you think I’m just gon sit back and let you take my nephew out, you got another thing coming! Now, get the fuck out! LIL BLACK!” Steve spat, letting him know he knew exactly who he was. Whack did as he was told and got out. Steve walked around the car, never taking his gun off of Whack. When he got behind him, he demanded him to walk towards the entrance of the vaco. When they got inside, he stood in front of Whack and pointed the gun directly in his face.
“So, you jus gone shoot me? You ain’t even gon hear my side huh? My wife is yo niece and my son is yo great nephew, you think you can live with this on yo heart?!” Whack laughed. He noticed Steve still had the safety on his gun.
“They’ll get over it and I will too!” (click, click) Steve tried to fire but nothing happened. Whack then quickly removed the .38 snub nose from his waist. (Pow, pow, pow, pow) He let off four shots into Steve’s chest. Steve reached for his burning heart and quickly fell on his back. Whack stood over him as he gasped for air.
“Yo old ass forgot the safety!” (pow, pow) He let off the last two shots into Steve’s head and he died instantly. Whack then ran to his whip and headed back across the bridge.
Chapter 23
Whack laid sleep in their California King as he was awakened by the sound of Carmen’s screams. “How? When? Where did they find him?!” she yelled. As she heard the news about her uncle’s murder. “Whack said he was taking him to some chick house and that was the last I heard!” she cried hysterically to the person on the other end of the phone. Whack got out of bed and went into the bathroom where she was.