Simina's cries stopped in her throat as she saw the gun. Not a word would come out of her mouth.
"I'm going to tell you like my mama told me. I brought your little spoiled ass into this world, and I'll take your little spoiled ass out of it. Now, who the fuck am I?" Malika yelled.
"M-m-m-my m-m-m-mama," Simina whimpered.
"And who the fuck are you?" Malika yelled again.
"A child."
"Now apologize to me, bitch!" Malika screamed as she started crying.
"I'm sorry, Mommy," Simina cried.
"You take the phones, PlayStation, N64, stereo, and that money you been saving into Malik's room, and leave it in there," Malika said as she wiped her eyes. Simina was still sitting in the corner crying. "Now, goddamn it!" Malika screamed.
"You promise you ain't going to hit me?" Simina asked.
"Girl, if you don't move your ass, me hitting you is going to be the least of your problems," she threatened.
Simina unplugged her games and the TV, and started to push the TV stand. She got as close to the wall as she could while passing Malika. After another ten minutes, everything Simina held dear was stored in her brother's room.
Malika went to her room and cried. She never thought in a million years that she would have to do her baby like that. Simina was Malika's best friend. They were all each other had since Simina was born.
Present
When Malika pulled into the Benz dealership, Sin walked out.
"Is that Uncle Sin?" Ebony asked. Simina and Quesha's heads snapped up.
"Sister, let me out! There goes Daddy!" Quesha screamed, trying to hurry up and get out.
Simina opened the door and flew out. "Daddy!" she screamed and ran to Sin. He hugged his oldest. Then Quesha, who was now 11 and in the sixth grade, came running, and jumped in his arms like she was still a little girl.
"Whoa, Princess. You ain't a little girl no more," he said as he held his girls.
Malik, who was now 10, came walking up looking dead on Sin, from his walk to his smile. The only thing different was Malik's braids, which were in a design and touching the center of his back. Sin pulled him in and hugged him. When Sin saw Ebony walking up, he knew Mario was going to have big problems. Ebony, was Charmaine's twin. Sin opened his arms, and she came to him.
"Welcome, home, Uncle Sin!" she said and kissed him on the cheek.
When Simina walked over to Mario to hug him, he saw how much more she had filled out. She was thicker than her mama.
Malika and Sin went inside and completed the paperwork.
"So now we got another Benz?" Malika asked.
"Not yet. I bought this for my mother's birthday," he said.
"Oh, she is going to love this. Look, I don't want no shit outta you, so I'm going to tell you what your daughter did, and what I did to her," Malika said and told Sin the story. Just telling him made her eyes water.
Sin was pissed off. They walked out, and Sin walked up to Simina gritting his teeth and snatched her arm. "If you ever put your hands on your mama again, I will beat your ass! Do you hear me?" he asked.
"Daddy, you're hurting my arm!" Simina cried out.
"Man, let my sister go!" Malik said as he got in between Sin and Simina. Malik was already 5-8, three inches taller than his 14-year-old sister was.
Sin snatched him by his shirt and held him away. "Boy, I will…"
"Let him go!" Simina screamed, pulling Malik back to her.
The way it was going down would be cute if the situation wasn't so serious.
"Ya'll down for each other, huh? Well if you don't answer me, you and this little nigga gon' get your asses beat," Sin said.
"I won't do it no more. She already beat me up. Am I going to get in trouble again?" Simina asked.
"Come on, bro," Sin said to Mario, and they went back to the house.
Sin sat at home with his family catching up on what's been going on with them. Simina went to her room, and didn't come back down. Sin went up and knocked on her door. When she opened it and saw Sin she went and sat back at her desk. He walked in and closed the door. He leaned against the wall and just looked at his daughter.
"Daddy, whatever you have to say, please say it. I know I was outta line, and I deserve whatever punishment you and Mama gave me," Simina said.
"Look, baby girl. I'm going to give it to you raw and uncut. If I would have been here when you put your hands on your mama, I would have put my foot in your ass. You don't do that! We are a family and we gotta be tighter than that. You been acting grown since you got here. I should have checked you a long time ago, but I didn't. So we'll blame that on me. Early tomorrow morning me and you going somewhere. I'm going to give you some responsibility. Since you wanna act like you running shit, that's what you gon' do." He looked at his daughter and laughed.
"What's so funny?" she asked.
"She gots a mean fight game, huh?" he asked.
"I ain't messing with her no more. She kicked my ass, Dad. I thought she was going to kill me!"
"You know she feels bad for that. After she did it, she cried all night. Baby, your mama loves you more than anything, but sometimes you gotta give your kids tough love. I on the other hand will more than likely have to do your brother like that, but I'm going to really fuck him up. So be on point. You ain't gotta worry about me putting my hands on you…unless you do some way outta pocket shit. Now go on in your mama's room, and apologize for that shit you said to her earlier. I ain't mad about that, because you thought she was creeping with some sucka. After you spend a little time with her, go get your stuff and bring it back in here. You got your ass kicked. So why be on punishment too, right?" he asked.
Simina walked over to Sin and hugged him. "I love you, Daddy," she said.
"You better, because your mama's mad at me for letting you off punishment six months early."
"Damn, she was going to leave me on punishment for six months?" she asked.
"Fa sho."
Chapter Eighteen
The King Is Back
At 9:00 Simina had just finished putting the last touches on Malika's hair with the comb. She put Malika's hair back into it's natural curly state and put it into braids at the front and sides for a few inches, and left the rest curly.
"Malika, hurry up, man!" Sin said as he walked in the room wearing light-blue Girbaud jeans, a white T-shirt and butter Tims, and serious bling. He grabbed the beige fitted hat and put it on backwards, and the beige leather coat.
Simina left, and Malika took her robe off. As she stood naked in front of Sin he thought seriously about giving Simina the keys to his Navigator and telling her to take the rest of kids and go stay at Mario's. He was ready for round two.
Malika put on a black g-string, a matching black bra, and skin-tight brown Marc Jacob jeans, which she couldn't zip so Sin had to help her. She put on a brown silk tank and black over the knee Manolo boots. Malika was really going to hurt them. She put on the four-carat emerald cut diamond ring, her diamond tennis bracelet, the three-carat diamond earrings, and her ladies presidential with the diamond bezel. Malika slipped on Sin's three-quarter length black leather coat. Sin grabbed their phones and his gun, and they walked out.
Simina and Ebony were downstairs watching the wide plasma screen. "Mama, ya'll look like ya'll some celebrities," Simina said.
"Pumpkin, ya'll know the drill," Malika said, and they walked out.
They got in Malika's S500 with Sin driving, and they left. When they got to their club, the line was around the block. Sin pulled up and the valet, Rafee came over. "Boss, welcome back!" he said and hugged Sin.
"Rafee, you aight? My wife gave you the raise, right?" Sin asked.
"No doubt. Ms. Malika done looked out, and she holding it down."
"Come up to the VIP and pop a bottle with me later," Sin said as he and Malika walked hand-in-hand to the door.
Sin saw Geneva and some super bad Spanish chick, and waited for them. When they got into the club, Sin sent Geneva and the
girl that kept staring at him to get their photos taken for their VIP passes.
"Ol' girl looking at you like I won't beat her muthafuckin' ass," Malika said to Sin.
"Pooh, don't start that insecure bullshit. It ain't na bitch in here that can hold a candle to you. Plus, what I want with one of these sack chasers? You've been tried, tested and proven. I know I ain't got to worry about you doing some outta pocket shit. I should be the one getting mad. Look how this nigga just openly gawking at you like I ain't standing here," Sin said as he grabbed her ass while mean mugging the dude. Ol' boy must have gotten the picture because he quickly turned his head.
Fred, the bouncer, and Kira, the manager stepped up. Kira looked like a Megan Good copy with butt. What really appealed to Sin was her big pretty pouty lips.
Malika made the introductions. While Fred was escorting them to the elevator that would take them to the VIP, a gang of people were welcoming Sin home. The bouncer at the elevator slid a card through the swiper and the doors opened. They got on and Kira waived her pass in front of the card scanner, and the elevator went up. When the doors opened, Sin saw that his pride and joy, the VIP was looking even classier than before.
The first person he saw was Carlos. They hugged, and Sin held Malika's hand and walked to the back table.
"Big cuzzo, what's up nigga?" Shaqui yelled and got up and hugged Sin.
"What's crackin'?" Sin yelled. He hugged Hashi and his girl, Angel, Hasahn and his girl, Brianna, Tayshaun and his girl, Tyisha, and Tariq and his wife, Ayanna.
"Ya-ya, we need to chop it up," Sin said.
"You can take me to lunch Monday. Let's say, 12:30," she said.
Sin walked up and hugged his brother. "Good lookin' out, June" he said. Sin had Mario feed June with a long handle spoon while he was gone. He let June get the work for 10 a key. June moved the work and split the profit with Sin.
Malika was picking up money from June, Sha, and Shaunté, whom she couldn't stand because of how she bragged about how she was taking the baby up to see Sin on conjugals. She was picking up money from Lisa and Yanna too.
Mario looked up and saw Geneva come in. He immediately looked at Malika to see if she was paying attention. He slid away from their table and headed Geneva and her friend Elaina off, and directed them to another table where they all got familiar.
Unfortunately, Malika did peep them. She moved away from Sin while he was talking to Hasahn. She stepped up to the table where Mario and the females were and sat next to him.
"Big bro, what's really going on?" she asked as she looked at Geneva. "Geneva, right?" she asked.
"Yes," Geneva answered.
"I wanted to talk to you about something else anyway. You remember that blue CL600 my husband was looking at?" Malika asked for Elaina's benefit.
"Yeah, I remember. He said he was going to come back and get it for his birthday," Geneva said.
"I would like to order it with every option on it. His birthday's next month on the 15th. So that means we have a month."
"Come in tomorrow and we'll do the paperwork."
"I get off at 2." Malika said.
"That's fine. Will you be needing financing? That's my girl, Elaina's department," Geneva said.
Malika looked Elaina up and down. "I don't think so. I'm paying cash."
"That car fully loaded is going to cost you 125,000," Geneva said.
"So, you better be ready to count," Malika said. She gave Mario the 'I'm watching you' look then left.
The DJ played DMX & Eve's Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Guys. Malika took Sin's hand and led him down to the dance floor. As they were grooving, Sin saw something that he knew he had to be imagining. He focused again, and sure enough, it was Bo, Marv, Max, and some cat Sin didn't know coming in.
"Go up to the VIP and get Sha, Hash, Tayshaun, and Hasahn! Then go to the office and stay there. Some shit about to jump off," Sin told Malika.
"Sin, be careful," she said and kissed him and hurried to the elevator.
Sin kept his eye on the enemy. He discreetly pulled out the Glock 45 and racked the slide.
Sha, Mario, Hash, Hashan, June and Tayshaun all got off the elevator and came face to face with Max and Bo and company. Sin walked up behind them.
"You niggas must be high to come up in here!" Sha said.
"Nigga, this shit ain't ya'll shit! We can come up in here if we muthafuckin' want to," Max said.
"Nah, bitch ass nigga, that's where you wrong," Sin said. Bo and Max turned and saw Sin and got spooked. "You didn't see the name on the sign? It says Sin, muthafucka. You and this hot (snitching) ass nigga already living on borrowed time. I suggest you take this pass I'm giving ya'1l and go spend it with your families, because I'm killing you niggas."
Max nodded at somebody, and Sin heard guns cocking. Tayshaun, Hasahn, June and Sha all pointed their guns at Max and Bo. Sin and Mario pointed theirs at them also. Sin was going to fuck the dude doing the electronic scanning up. There was no way that many people should have gotten in with guns.
"Check, nigga!" Shaunté said as she moved in and stood in front of Sin with her gun pointed at Max.
"Is it going to be a mate?" Sin asked.
Max motioned for his boys to put their weapons away. The crowd sighed with relief. Sin had just noticed that the music went off, and everyone was looking at them.
As soon as the bouncer in front of the elevator saw what was going on, he contacted Kirk in the electronics room.
Kirk zoomed in with a camera. He picked up his walkie-talkie. "Code two, VIP elevator!" he yelled. His men knew a code two meant there were guns in the club and a potential threat. When they got there, they saw that there were at least twelve guns out.
Sin and his folks tucked their guns. Kira rushed over to Sin and he leaned down and whispered something in her ear.
"Escort these gentlemen out," she said to the bouncers.
Max gave Sin a look of hate. Bo didn't even make eye contact.
"Max, you fucking with that weak-ass nigga. He get pressed by the police, he telling," Sin said.
After the enemy was escorted out, Sin whispered some other stuff in Kira's ear before he and his clique got on the elevator.
"Drinks on me!" she yelled to the bartenders.
Kira tapped her earpiece and looked at the DJ. Juvenile's song, G-Code came on pounding. Kira looked at Big Fred. "Have someone go relieve Greg of the scanner and bring his ass to my office," she said as she called for the elevator. She got on and went to the fourth floor. She got off and went to Sin's office where everyone was.
When Fred knocked on the door, Kira opened it and stepped to the side. Fred pushed Greg in. Sin pushed 'play' on the remote, and the wide screen showed a picture of Marv sliding Greg some money, and he and the others passing by Greg without getting scanned.
Sha walked up to Greg and put the Sig Sauer to his head. "Empty your pockets, bitch," he said. Greg took about a gee out his pocket.
Sin stood up and opened the office door. "Kira, you might not want to see what I'm about to do this nigga," he said.
"Boss, I'm a big girl," she said and licked her lips. The look she gave Sin made him want to take her down right then. He shrugged his shoulders and shut the door.
Sin grabbed a lead crystal paperweight and wrapped it in a cloth napkin. He walked up to Greg and swung it, and cracked his kneecap. Greg screamed out and fell to the floor.
"Nah, Cuzzo that ain't the one," Sha said as he looked around the office. His eyes stopped on a steak knife on the counter where the sink was. He walked over and grabbed it, some salt, and a bottle of Bombay from the bar.
"We ain't fixing to get all that blood in my office," Sin said. Everybody looked at Sha like he was crazy. Sin went to work on Greg's body. When he got tired Sha started in. When it was over, Greg was barely hanging on to his life. Most of his bones, from his feet to his shoulders, to his hands, were broken or shattered.
"Get him out of here," Sin said.
Later on while enroute to th
e house, Sin thought about what he did and felt bad. He was only going to fire Greg at first, but he got to thinking about if some gunplay had jumped off and innocent people got hurt or worse if Malika got hurt. He looked at her and squeezed her hand.
Malika looked at him, and read what was in his eyes. "I love you too, baby," she said.
When they got home, they had a slow deep session then went to sleep.
The next morning the alarm went off at 6:00 waking Malika up. She slipped out of the bed and went and got in the shower. When she got out, she put on a red thong and bra, a pair of tight fitting blue DKNY jeans, a DKNY T-shirt, and some DKNY sneakers. She brushed her teeth and took the scarf off of her head. She kissed Sin then left to work.
Sin got up at 8:30 and planned his whole day out as he took his shower. When he got out of the shower, he put on loose fitting blue Polo shorts, a crisp white T-shirt, a blue sweater vest over that, and some white and blue Air Max. As he brushed his teeth his phone rang. "Yo?" he answered.
"Sin, you could have at least called a nigga and told me you were out," Davy said.
"Nigga, you lucky I ain't seen you. You outta pocket for them bullshit-ass grades. Meet me at my mama's house at 3:00," Sin said and hung up.
He put on his ice and grabbed his gun, phone, two-way and white Cal hoodie and went downstairs. Quesha was in the family room on the computer. Sin came up behind her and saw that she was on a music preview website.
"Daddy, can I go to my mama's house this weekend?" she asked. In light of what happened last night he wanted to say "Shit no", but he didn't want to deprive Quesha of spending time with Kesha.
"I'll let you know later. Why don't you go upstairs and get dressed. I'm going to get the other kids something to eat. Be ready to leave when I get back."
Sin picked the phone up and called Denny's and ordered everyone their favorite meals. He walked out of the house and went and got in his mom's SL500 and went and picked the food up. When he got back 30 minutes later and took the food in, Quesha was dressed and ready.
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