The warm liquid dripped down the inside of my thigh. My head was thrown back against the mirror, eyes closed as a mix of pleasure and pain washed over me. I felt lost inside myself. Everything was hazy and all that was left in the foggy room was the sounds of heavy breathing. I had once again allowed myself to be swept up in the passion of the moment. Trevor had once again caused me to let my guard down.
He kissed my forehead and I attempted to smile. "Now, where's all that shit you was talkin' earlier?" He whispered in my ear, making me melt into him even more. I shrugged and pushed him off of me. "Let me help you down," he said, grabbing my waist and placing me on the floor; my knees felt weak. We both just stood there in the middle of the bathroom, looking at each other, not speaking. "So, um...Look, I got some place to be," Trevor started as he picked his D&G jeans off the floor to put them back on," and i don't really know when i'll be able to swing back this way." I just rolled my eyes. Him having to leave suddenly didn't even come as a surprise anymore. This is how it had been lately.
I had met Trevor at a neighborhood park. He was there with a couple of his friends playing basketball, I was exercising. He came up to me with this dumb ass pick-up line that had us both in tears for a good three minutes. We both made it clear that it was nothing more than lust and that we would probably never actually have anything more than that. We started out great. Casual sex here, meet and greet there but something had changed. As we got to know each other we started spending more and more time together. Trips out of town, going to the movies, shopping sprees, he had even gotten me tickets to every one of his basketball games at the local college. I fell for him hard.
That was all over six months ago. Since then, I had met his parents and he still pushed the subject of wanting to meet mine. That would never happen. I kept putting it off and the more I did, the harder things became. We would stop talking for days at a time. Arguments over petty things were now an every day routine. How could my sunshine become a level three hurricane that fast?
I was adopted. He didn't know that. I knew of my real parents, had even met them once. No wonder my life was so fucked up. They were addicts. They did everything but I think that heroin was their favorite. The first time I met my mom, she offered me a baggie full of work; I refused. I was eighteen and I just sat there and watched as she emptied the contents of the bad onto their dirty kitchen table. I never took my eyes off her as she heated up the drug in a burnt spoon and sucked it up into a syringe that looked like STD city. My eyes were glued to hers as she tied off the portion of her leg that the needle would go in. It looked like she had been using that same leg all her life. There were many needle marks and a vein that was so big it seemed to come out at me. That needle pushing into her skin made me feel like I was being stabbed in the heart. I left before the high could even consume her. I had seen enough. If this was my family then maybe I had been better off in the system.
"Bay?" I heard Trevor calling me. I looked his way and shook my thoughts to the back of my mind. "Damn girl! I been talkin' to you for five minutes. Get your head in the game," he grumbled as he tied up his Gucci sneaks and pulled on his gloves.
"What you say?"
"I said don't forget dinner with my peoples tonight. Dress casual but still be looking fine as hell."
"Yea, I got you."
He walked over to me, moved my braids to one side, kissed my neck and walked out the front door. I went through the house picking up my clothes and turning out lights. The was a loud banging at the door. Trevor must have left something. They kept on banging on the door as I ran to open it. "Hold on! Damn," I cursed as I unlocked all the locks. I was surprised to see my foster brother standing in front of my door, bent over trying to catch his breath. I moved so that he could come in.
"Yo, Rache, I gotta crash here for tonight," Mecka stuttered as he looked over his shoulder before closing the door and locking all the locks.
"So you gonna play dumb now?"
I stood about ten feet away from my prisoner, who sat in the middle of the dim room. All of the windows were blacked-out and the room was lit by a single blue light. Six of my trusted street soldiers stood in front of me. Three on the left, three on the right, leading right to my prey. Each of us held a black semiautomatic weapon, equipped with silencers. I chuckled to myself. Silencers, good for keeping two things silent: the sound of bullets leaving a fully loaded chamber and the unlucky fuck who's body the bullet later entered. I walked toward the man strapped to the chair.
"I hear you have a lot to say to me. Is that true? Is there something that you want to say to Yung Taz?"
The man mumbled something while shaking his head from side to side, tears streaming from his eyes. I smacked him with my pistol. "Stop crying like a little bitch! I ain't even did shit yet," I screamed in his face. He became silent.
"That's better."
My soldiers started to laugh until I turned to stare at all of them.
"What have I told ya'll about that shit. Nothing is funny about this shit that we do. Ya'll must wanna be sitting in this fucking chair?? Huh??" They too became quiet. I turned my attention back to the man in the chair. He had lifted his head up and was looking around like he was looking for an escape route. It was my turn to laugh. "Look, dude, you wastin' major time. Time is money. You waste my time, you waste my money. And I don't like wastin' money."
I backed away from the prisoner and stood in the middle of my men. My second in command stepped up and stuffed a dirty cloth in the man's mouth. I nodded for him to continue.
"Word on the street is that you think Taz ain't doing shit. They saying that you keep running ya lips about how she don't know shit. About how nobody should be scared of her 'cause she a female. How she ain't got the game on lock That true?" The man's eyes got big as he just stared at us. Once again, he was waisting my time. "Man, just blast this nigga. Pick a spot and shoot," I said, waving my gun at the helpless guy. That got a response out of him. He started rocking in the chair, trying to scream through the cloth, tears falling everywhere. That made us all laugh.
I aimed my pistol at his head ready to end this shit once and for all. I let my soldiers squeeze off their shots first. It was like the matrix. The sound of bullets whizzing through the air seemed to stop time. The man in the chair cried out in pain as he rocked harder and harder. Blood was everywhere;I smiled. His right ear was gone, as were most of his fingers and toes. There was a big hole where his left knee used to be and one of his arms was barely hanging on. Every thing the hollow points hit basically knocked him loose. I shook my head as I tried to decide if I should chance leaving him alive so that he could bleed out, teaching him a lesson. I decided not to. I had heard of some freak shit like this happening before and the person actually lived through it. I didn't want that.
I raised my gun to his head and squeezed off the last two shots, sending his brains against the shelves and back wall of the room; the body went limp. I tossed my gun to one of my soldiers and walked over to the body. "Sorry, dad," I mumbled as I took in the mangled pieces that were left in the chair," but business is business. You taught me that, remember?"
Everyone was quiet as we exited the room through a side door, quietly making our way through the night and back to our regular lives. We headed back to my 2010 camero z28 where I handed each soldier two stacks before driving off into the night. We were all meeting up at Club Heaven & Hell in Washington, DC later so I wanted to get home and change before the festivities began. Plus, I had over a dozen missed calls from my fiancé, Sly so I had to get home before he did.
As I sat at a red light, I placed my head on the wheel, breathing deep. My schedule would be jam packed for the next couple of days. I had to keep the streets in check, cater to my man, plan a funeral, and mourn with my family. Damn! I needed a body double.
::NOTE:: Man #'s 2 & 3 revealed. Sorry for the long wait but ENJOY! Oan: The place all of this takes place in is in or around Baltimore & Langely Park, Maryland with an occasional visit to D.C. areas.