Pulse: They Were Taught To Hustle, Not To Care. NEW ADD 8/20/14!!

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Saturday, October 10, 2007
Chapter Twenty One: Red Zone
Floyd "Lock" Rhames


"Im just saying, you were man enough to put it there. That doesn't make me happy about it" Des said as she grabbed her purse from the counter. Some how the conversation ended up on Keke & I.

"Des that shit happened before we even met. I gotta handle mines"

"Im not saying you shouldn't! But I mean, how do you even know that it's yours? Huh?"

"I dont. But I'ma feel like shit if it is and I aint do shit while she was carrying it, so yeah I'ma buy the baby a few things here & there. Aint like Im going all out"

"Alright Floyd, whatever works for y'all"

"Dont give me shit ma', I get enough from moms & the guys. I'on need it from you. All I need for you to do is sit back and chill wit' me, and keep lookin beautiful" I said as I kissed her lips.

"Speaking of beautiful, my appointments at 10, so we need to leave, like now" she said whipping the lip gloss from my lips.

*** In The Car ***

"So you headin out with the girls after?"

"Yeah, probably ride with Kaylee, going shopping so uhh, mami needs the card" Des said with her hand out.

"What?"

"Looking this good is not cheap!" I laughed and gave her the card as I pulled up to my moms shop. "Oh what, I give you the card & get no love?"

"My bad babe" Des leaned over and kissed me. "Alright be good-...who is that?" Des looked over at the door to see Keira mean muggin as she walked in.

"Nobody, trust me"

"Mhhm, whatever, be good"

"I always am girl" Des gave me a look as she closed the door. I shifted gears, ready to pull off when somebody tapped my window. I looked over to see, Aldon. I rolled down my window, "You need som'?"

"Son we need to talk"

"Nigga learn names. It's Floyd"

"Floyd, can I talk to you? Come ride with me"

"Nah im good" I pulled off as I watched him back away from the car. This nigga. I blew the horn at Kaylee and Ben [T.I] as I flew by. I slammed on brakes as Ben waved me to come back. I backed up to him. "Whats up?"

"You headed to Saints?"

"Nah, got some business to tend to, why?" Ben got in the car.

"Not any more. We meetin up there"

"Shit" I cursed as I shifted gears once again. Looking at my phone, I saw all the texts & missed calls.

***

I pulled up to see everybodies cars already there. We were late.

"You know what this shit all about?" I asked Ben

"You know Saint dont discuss shit over the phone"

We walked into the living room where Rome sat waiting on us.

"Everybody's in Church waiting on y'all" he said.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Some nigga tryna make a come back in Semaj's name" Rome replied.

"Who?"

"One of the nigga's we put down a while back" Ben added

"Yeah, some family member"

"Im gettin sick of this shit" I spoke

"Correct me if im wrong but weren't you the hypest one when shit was going down? Get on ya job man, you aint Floyd in here, its Lock and nothing else. Dont shit else matter when you in here" Rome said hitting me on my chest. "Remember that" he said as he opened the door to Church.

"Lock, Agee, glad you two could make it. Thought I was going to have to go get you myself" we both nodded and took our seats. That only meant he didn't appreciate our tardyness. "Semaj Combs, a human trafficer of young girls, was killed three months ago. Yes, LRA brought him to his death. Now Semaj isn't our problem, but his nephew, Candonn, is"

"This happened three months ago, why this nigga so late?" one of Saint's soldiers asked.

"Candonn took the time to build himself a lil army for the time he hasn't existed, to us that is."

"So where this nigga at?" Rome asked

"That's the thing, last he was seen he was uptown, in New Jersey" Saint said.

"So we know everything about this fool, except where he is?" Torrence spoke.

"We're in a Red Zone. Everybody's more of a potiential threat now than ever" Saint spoke.

Red Zone was the worst. In every mission, you knew your target, you knew your timing. You knew when to do something and how it had to be done exactly. You were on some snipper shit, hell, you were a snipper. But now, red flags up. Any nigga could be thee nigga, and the worst part was, he could easily spot us, before we could spot him.

"You all know what Red Zone means, every person is a danger to your most prized possession. Whether it be a mother, a sister, a girlfriend or a father. They're more of a target to get closer to you. No man ride's alone. No man leaves without checking out. We've lost enough to know we aint losing nobody else." Saint spoke.

"What about X?" Rome asked, "Dont nobody know where it is but us, I mean, it's big enough"

"Think about that shit, Kaylee, Des, Janae, Tiff, Tori, her baby and they momma nem'? In the same house? Nigga please" I said throwing my hand up as everyone laughed.

"We cant let this disturb our surroundings. No one should know. Anyone will snitch under pressure, fear, or money. Remember what I've taught you. Remember what you've learned from personal expeirience" Saint spoke. "You can only cover something up for so long. X was a good idea, it's a secluded area and the only eye's that have seen it are in this room. But as you know, you cant put all your money in one place, this works the same way."

*** At The Shop With The Ladies ***

"Hey Amani!" Kaylee baby talked to Tori's chubby bundle of joy. "Look at those cheeks!" she said as she rubbed Amani's fat cheek with the back of her index finger.

"She hit two weeks yesterday, the doctor was surpirsed because she's moving so fast" Tori said.

"I see, she's already gettin chubby. So, how does it feel to have the extra weight off?" Kaylee asked. Tori's face lit up

"This six weeks cant go by fast enough! Im telling you! Just four more left, trust me, I will be on it! Im talking upside down, right side up!" Tori said swaying her hand in the air.

"Mommy & daddy gonna be keeping you up?" Kaylee baby talked to Amani, "It's ok, you can be at Auntie Kay Kay's place"

"You too crazy for your own good" Nae said as she blew her nails. Everyone was just about done.

"Hey Des, you riding with me right?" KayKay asked.

"Yeah that's cool" Des said looking out of the window with a confused expression on her face. "Any nobody know who this guy is? He keeps staring in here like he's ready to blow us up"

Everybody came rushing up to peep out of the window.

"Yo Nae, aint that Tyson?" Tiff asked. Nae's face twisted up, she hadn't even bothered to move a muscle. Peeping out of the window, Tiff stood correctly.

"The hell does he want?" Nae thought as she pulled the shops door open as the women in the shop continued to peep.

"Y'all so damn nosey" Tiff said backing away. 15 seconds later, she was back at the window.

"And you call us nosey" Ria said.

*** With Nae ***

"Tyson? What are you doing here?" Janae asked as she wrapped her arms around herself, the cool air chilling her skin.

"I been thinking about what you told me" he said as he leaned against his car.

"I wasn't waiting for a reply. That shit you tried to pull at Rome's party was dirty" Nae said rolling her neck as her eye's pierced through his.

"You wanna tell me how? Im protecting you -"

"I'ma grown ass woman now! I dont need protection Tyson. Just let it go"

"I just want you to hear me out" Tyson said as he turned around and opened his door. "Come on, get in"

"What? Why?"

"It's freezing out here, it's warmer in the car" Janae cut her eyes at Tyson, and back the shop's window.

***.In the Shop.***

"What the hell is she doing?" Tiff asked herself as she watched Janae get in the passenger side of Tyson's car. She watched as he pulled off.

"Just what the hell was that about?" Khi asked.

"The hell if I know, all I know is, Rome better not catch her with him" Tori said. "His ass is crazy"

"What you mean crazy?" Tiff asked. She barely knew Rome at all. But she knew all about Tyson and his resent triflin acts.

"Just protective crazy, he's hung around Ty, maybe a bit too much"

"All of'em crazy if you ask me" Keira said.

"Well nobody asked you" Khi said with attitude. Khi knew about Keira trying to get at Torrence, thank God they never really had anything, according to Torrence.

"Nobody asked you to comment" Keira said.

"I'm a grown ass woman, I say what I wanna say when I feel like it, I need permission from no one!"

"Dont get fiesty with me because yo' mans a dog"

"Oh, you must have been one of the bitches then! It's all good though, I got mines. Ima let you sit over there and look stupid"

"Enough!" Kailen spoke as she entered the shop from the back door.

"She's the one with her legs wide open, she even fucked Floyd!" Des's eye's darted at Kiera, when Khi finally realized what she said, it was all too late. Des just rolled her eye's. The bitches before her were just mistakes.

"Uh uh! This is a business place! Dont bring all that in here!" Kailen said as she sat her bags down at her booth. "Jesus Christ"

**Soon after the ladies were about to load up, Des with KayKay, Tori with Khi, and Tiff waiting on Janae .**

"I'll meet y'all there, I'ma wait on Nae" Tiff said as waved bye to everyone.

"Alright, call if you need anything" Khi said before exiting the shop.

Tiff grabbed her phone and dialed Nae's number. Hearing vibration behind her, Tiff turned around to see Janae's cell making circles ontop of the counter. Tiff ended the call. "Damn Nae." Grabbing the phone, she raced out of the shop and into her car, speeding down the street wondering where the hell Tyson & Nae could be. She dialed Tyson's number, only for it to go directly to voice mail. "Fuck!" Tiff yelled as she made a sharp right turn headed towards Broad St., Tyson had a small spot there. Turing into the small aparment complex, she spotted his black Charger and parked a few spaces down. Tiff grabbed her purse, taking the gun Mikhail had given her a week before out of the glove compartment, placing it in her purse. Tiff approched the staircase where two men sat at the foot of it.

"Damn ma, I see you eating gooda' than a muh'fucka" one of them said as she proceeded pass the two of them. Slowly, she walked towards Tyson's door. She could hear Tyson and Janae arguing. The echo of a hard slap rang through the breezeway where Tiffany stood. "Janae!" Tiffany screamed as she banged on the door. She stepped back, and shot at the door knob. Janae swung the door open. "What the fuck is this shit?!" Tyson roared as he looked at the shot up door. "Com'on, Tiff" Janae said. Tiffany looked at Tyson one last time before proceeding.

"What the fuck was that about?" Tiffany asked as she hit the cruise control button. They had finally made it to the highway, on their way home, ditching shopping with the girls.

"Tiff, honestly, I really dont even feel like talking about that shit right now"

"That's some bullshit, Nae. Why would you even get in the car with that fool?"

"I didn't know he was gonna pull off! And when I realized it, it was too late. What did you want me to do, jump out of a moving car?"

"That's never stopped you before" Janae looked at her friend out of the corner of her eye in irritation. But she knew Tiffany all too well. She wasn't gonna stop untill she got what she wanted.

"I guess I just wanted to know what he had to say. I dont know T, damn"

"Fuck what he has to say! His ass is a fuckin stalker! Dude is wildin out B. You need to watch that shit. Me and him aint been the best of friends either. I'll pop his ass real quick, you know how Brooklyn do. " Tiffany said. Janae only lightly laughed. "You gonna tell Rome?"

"I'ma wait, I mean, maybe he'll just get the point and go on" Janae looked out of the window, "never thought it would end up like this though. We were all so tight"

"Tyson always had loose screws. He wasn't wildin like he is now because your dad basically put him in security over you. Nigga just obsessed with the shit now. You know he followed you and Rome to the shop. Tyson hasn't been down here that long to know where you get your hair done at. I'm telling you watch him Nae, he too damn timid."

Tiffany took the next exit and made it to their building. The two women walked down the hallway, holding there door keys in their hands. "I cant wait to see my baby" Janae smiled as she thought of Coffee, her puppy.

"Damn demon dog" Tiffany laughed as she unlocked her door. "Call me if you need me, but then again I might not hear it. Mikhail's coming over" Tiffany said as she swayed her hips in her doorway.

"Amess" Janae laughed as she opened her door, "dont keep me up either!" Jane said as she closed her door.

***With Floyd***

"Nigga where you been? I been sittin at this damn bus stop for over an hour waiting on you!" KeKe bitched as she wabbled her way to his car. Floyd looked away, damn near ready to pull off and say fuck it, but he had too much to lose. "Oh you cant get out and open the door?" KeKe asked as she stood infront of it, snatching the door open when Floyd didn't budge. "Im so sick of you treatin me like this" KeKe said as she folded her arms.

"Treating you like what?"

"Exactly! Im pregnant with your baby! Whether you like it or not! You aint gotta walk around with the proof nigga I do! I get looked at like I should be a shamed of myself every fuckin day Floyd, not you! Sittin here thinking I got someone good, nigga you just as dumb as the rest of them. Im pregnant with your child and you got me sittin in the doctors office by myself! Freezing my ass off at a damn bus stop?" KeKe said nearly in tears. For the first time Floyd actually thought of her feelings, like she had some importance. And she was right, but that didn't justify the fact that she lied about her age, just to get him caught up, so he thought. "And you just gonna sit there? And look stupid?" KeKe continued, "Ugh, just take me home, I'd rather deal with my mother's bullshit than this"

Floyd pulled up to KeKe's house which sat on the corner of Summervill St. in Toulminville. Her house was small for 4 people to be living in it. It was a dirty white, powder blue shutters, with the weeds growing up around it, & a screen door only connected by the bottom screws with the bottom sceen torn out. There was more dirt than grass, and dirty litte Playhouse toys & Big Wheelz scattered across the front yard. A steal grey fence wrapped around the corner lot, with a rusted door that scretched when pulled. KeKe's mother stepped onto the front porch dressed only in a pink robe, along with her Dollar General pink house shoes, hair rolled up in pink rollers, smoking a Newport. She stepped aside, letting her 'man of the night' exit. He put his hat on and tucked some folded bills inbetween her breast. KeKe sighed, disgusted with her mother, and probaly herself too, seeing how she was headed in that direction as well. She closed her eyes tightly as the man crossed the street infront of Floyd's car. Rubbing her now protruding belly, KeKe pulled the door handle.

"Chill. I got it" Floyd, finally speaking up, said as he unbulked his seat belt.

"I've been doing it by myself for this long, it wont make a difference now. Funny though, I wasn't by myself when I got in this situation, was I Floyd?"

"Look Im tryna help you out"

"By opening a damn door? I've been opening this same damn door for the longest now. Do something for me that I cant do for my self"

"Give you common sense" Floyd said under his breath as he looked away.

"Excuse me? Was that common sense? Common sense wouldn't have either of us in this situation, so yea I'll give you that, but shit, you cant throw it at me with out throwing it at yourself!" KeKe took a deep breath, "Look, if I cant count on you to be there with me & my baby, then you aint gotta worry about us, I'll get a lawyer"

"Oh you can afford lawyer's now?" Floyd said sarcastically.

"No, but Im sure they'd love to hear our age difference, dont you? They will put your ass under the jail. All im asking you is to show up and be there for me when I need you. Dont make me go there Floyd cause I will" KeKe grabbed her bag and got out of the car. Floyd looked away as she closed the door. The rusted gate scretched, her foot steps sounded as they collided with cold cemet-made stairs, the screen door scratched the porch as she pulled it open, her front door closed, and Floyd pulled off. He knew the routine, even by sound. Ready to get away from this side of town, Floyd headed down Cotton St. and came out near the interstate.


give me your thoughts!! hope you all enjoyy!

Ha! I was waiting on more! And i'm glad u liked my other comment but...

I hate the fact that they are endangering innocent people but that is the price you pay when you live the life they live.

But is anyone truly innocent in this story because they all knew what they were getting into (harm wise) when they started dating these men and condoning their behavior!

Tyson seems like he is gonna be a problem but it ain't nothing my boy Rome can't handle(I think).

Kiera has met her match (can someone body this already?) Lolx
And I like Tiff because i'm originally from N.Y. so I know just how to do when people start getting ignorant!

I have no comment for Floyd...His whole situation is just a hot mess!

Upz...

okay my review!!

Even though me and Nae beefed out (lol love you Nae!) i think she should tell Rome...
Im really not trusting this dude Tyson...i just get a bad feeling about him!

Well im glad that me and Floyd actually talked about him and Keke...but i know its not over wit that situation...but i think our relationship gon grow a lil more since we talked on it!! but idk...
Still not sure cause of the whole me and Rome situation!

Im totally not diggin this Red Zone shit!! i mean somebody could really get hurt...then they dont even know who this lil nigga is!! scary shit right there lol!!!

Oh and me and Floyd has to talk about him and Kiera!!


But great add....cant wait for the next one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love this add.
Omg what did floyd get himself into with keke??? smh
All i know is that he better be there or he goin to jail!
ADDDDDDDDD more soon

absolutely loving these reviews!!!!


so much more to come tht i cant even wait!
jaw dropping surprises to come upp =)

more reviews please!!!

i lovee my character Tiff !
lol shee acts just likee me
forreal.
i thinkk Nae should tell
Rome . Tyson miqht fkk
around && qet between
they relationship && den
all hell would breakk loose
thenn!
add soon

the next couple of adds are gonna be bumpy so hold on tightt
typing them upp now =)

loved the reviews! thankz!

ready for the next add!!
bumpz

Page 17

maybe this time!!

so im bored im bout to go back and read the whole story !!
Page 17 where you at??

dezzy.baby1 wrote:so im bored im bout to go back and read the whole story !!
Page 17 where you at??

oh yeaa, yur bored lol but i do tht too! i 'wow' myself, im at the comp like "damn this is gudd" lol
helps me figure out what shudd happen nextt

and yess!! page 17!!!! thankies!!!!

I havent forgot about this story
Sooo ready for the next add!!!!!

Yes.I been waiting on tht
So where Nae go. I hope his moms husband
Dnt act up on the cruise ..add. asap

yes!!!! Been waiting on an add so I had to comment before I even read it! Be back with another comment when I read it!

Is something wrong with Nae!
and they still havent found out who this dude is??
omg ready for the next add!

Yes another add would be perfect
right about now since i don't know
what happened to me...lol and they still
haven't found the fool who trying to kill
us...add asap

Nothing bad has happened to Janae, she's finee. but no one has really had time to hang out bc of Carson. prob add tomorrow! =) thnkz for the lovee!

upz