The Story Of Renee

Chapter Nine

Finding old friends

Renée

Today I woke up still thinking of Alex. Is that good or bad? This whole therapy shit got me thinking about him a lot and I don't know why? He hasn't been on my mind like this in so long it's really starting to bother me and I got to do something about it. So sense I'm such an intuitive person I decided I would act upon these feelings and look Alex up and see if I could find anything that would lead me to him. I know if I just saw him all these mixed feelings would get answered. I'm scared to see him though I mean it's been about ten or more years since I've seen or spoken to him, is it possible for us to just pick up where we left off. Right now I can't think about all that. My gut is just telling me to find Alex and to find him now. After I got out of bed I took a shower, brushed my teeth, and got dressed. I put on an all white loose croop top, black joggers and my Oreo Jordan 5's. I fixed my hair up into a bun, put on some jewlery not to much tho just earings and a charm braclet. After I was dressed I grabbed my phone, my purse, and some money out my secret stash and headed towards the kitchen were I saw Nae digging threw the fridge like a wild animal "Hey boo wassup?" I said smackin her on the ass. She looked up from the fridge and nodded at me and went right back to lookin for food. I already knew what time it is when she act like that. "What time you came home last night?" I asked her " I dont know one, two or three. Four maybe? Hell I don't know I been up all night." She said laughing. "Who you was with?" She shut the fridge and had a bunch of snacks in her hands then looked at me "Why Nene? Huh dose it even matter I went out got high got drunk and enjoyed my time now leave me alone so I can eat." She said and walked away. I did nothing but shook my head Nae can't seem to get it through her head that she's getting older and needa chill. I mean I know we still look young but damn. I just hope she still not hanging with them ratchet ass females she called friends she had before I got locked up. I grabbed a water bottle out the fridge and a fruit bar out the cabinet "Nae I'm gone!" I yelled at her "Yeah yeah! Bye!" She replied back. I walked out the house and got in my car pulling off. My first stop would be city hall. Why you ask......well because at city hall you have the right to access all public records so I'm going to go down there and get what ever I can on my dear friend Alex.

City Hall

I walked into City Hall and went straight to the first receptionist desk I saw. "Excuse me miss." I said in my sweet white girl voice. She looked up at me and smiled "Yes ma'am how may I be of services to you?" I returned her smile "Well I need to access public records so I can find an old friend." She nodded her head "Ok well I'm going to need your identification card and social security number. Then you must fill out this packet here." She placed a packet, a clipboard, and a pen on the desk. I gave her my liscense and social then went to sit down to fill out the papers. Once I completed the packet I returned it to the receptionist. "Ok ma'am here is your I.D and your vistors pass...once you put that on go down the hall to the right three doors down is public records access room and there should be someone in there to help." I nodded and thanked her then grabbed my I.D and vistors pass off the desk and headed in the dirrection she pointed me in. I walked into the room and saw a man sitting at a desk. I walked up to him. He had on glasses a suite and was chewing bubble gum. He was chewing stank as fuck, like he had to be a punk. No man chews his gum like that. "Hello sir." I said politely. "Hi how may help you today?" He said still smacking his gum. "Umm I need to access some records." He never looked at me his eyes stayed glued to the computer screen. He began typing and asked me the name of the person I was looking for. "Alexander Thomas." "Ma'am Alexander Thomas is a common name can you be more exact like by telling me his middle name." He said as if I were stupid. I rolled my eyes. "Alexander Trelvon Thomas."

"Ok" he continued typing. Finally he pulled something up and recited what was on his screen. "Alexander Trelvon Thomas born in Los Angles California year 1984 to mother Alexis Jasha Cooper-Thomas and father Trévon Trell Thomas, no siblings, graduated in the year 2002?" He looked up at me "Is that him?" He questioned "Yes sir it is." I replied. "Ok walk over there to the printer and everything your allowed to see will come shooting out." I did as he said and walled over to the printer and it began printing. A stack of about twenty pages came out. I picked them up and walked back towards the man. He took the packet stapled it and gave me a folder to put it in. "Ok ma'am you do know there's a fee to pay the papers you signed out front informed you of that so your total is $52.87." I gave him a 50 and a 5 dollar bill he gave me my change and I was free to go. Once I got in my car I couldn't wait to go threw the papers. I sat in my car for almost twenty-five minutes going threw all his information. They had basically everything I knew already except for everything that happened after my second year in college thats when we fell off. It also had his juvenile rap sheet which was like five out of the twenty pages. Alex was a bad ass jit I'm glad he grew out of it before he turned 18 because the shit he was doing would have got him serious time. The packet said after Alex's second year in college he dropped out then six months later his mom died of cancer. I swear I never knew his mom had cancer. It also said that three months after she died he was arrested but it didn't say why. The sheet also said he was released immediately on bond and he moved out of Los Angles. And that was basically it. But it also noted that he wasn't allowed to leave the state which means he's still in Cali jus not here in LA. I closed the folder and put it in my glove caparment. I decided I was going to find out were he was. But knowing how low key Alex is his number isn't gonna just be laying around in the phone book so I had to take dramatic measures and get a private investigator. But first I had to eat because my fat ass was hungry as fuck. I decided to stop by Chipotle and get me a chicken salad and call it a day. While I was eating in my car of course because I don't like people, I decided to google up some private investigators, and found one who had great reviews and the best part is his office was right by my house. So after I finished my food I cranked up my car and headed towards the private investigators office. Once I walked into the office I went up to the the desk clerk and asked for the investigator. She told me to have a seat because he was at lunch and would be coming in soon. After about fifteen minutes a man walked in and came up to me to introduced hisself. "Hi I'm Julius Brooks private investigator. If you follow me we can go into my office and discuss bussiness." I nodded my head, got up and responded with a hello, told him my name then followed him into his office. He gestured me towards the seat in front of his desk while he went around and took a seat in his chair. "Ok so what can I do for you today?" "Well I'm looking for old friend of mines." I placed the folder with Alex's info on the desk "This is his profile he no longer lives in L.A but I do know he's still here in Cali..do you think you can find him?" He began going threw the papers. After he went threw them he spoke "Ok I believe I can find him based of the information you gave me. It would be easier if you had a picture of him but I can work with this. For everyday I work looking for him it will cost you $35 so for every week it will be $235." Damn thats steep but Alex is worth it so I agreed. "It shouldn't take me long so give me two weeks maybe less and I should have his location for you." I nodded "Ok thank you." I said happily "No problem when you go out just give my receptionist your information and she will give you a packet to fill out and you'll be on your way." He shook my hand and I did exactly what he told me to do. When I was done with the private investigator. I decided to call Nae. It was now 4:00p.m so I had to check on her. I called her three times and no answer. So I just sent her a message telling her that I was just checking on her. I decided to do a little shopping at the mall since tomorrow I'm going to go visit my dad and his family it only made sense that I bring something for them you know as a friendly gesture. Once I got to the mall I headed to the Michel kors botique first. Sense he said he had teenage daughter I thought she would love a Michel kors side bag. I picked out the cutest one I saw and purchased it then headed toward Champs. He also had a son but sense I don't know this jit shoe size I just bought him a Jordan bag. I thought it was sexy. But I couldnt just give him an empty bag so I'm going to fill it with candy and money. For his wife I went to bath & body works and got her a bunch of perfumes, bath salts, body wash, and lotion. Once I bought everyone something I decided to buy my self something too. So I went into Macy's and shopped around for a while. While I was shopping I heard someone call me by a name that I havent used sense I got locked up. "Redd?! Redd is that you girl." I stood there as if I was a statue. Maybe if I didnt move or respond to the name they would think they got the wrong person. But with my luck Instead of thinking they got the wrong person this bitch comes and taps me on my shoulders. "Fuck" I mumbled under my breath, why am I always running into people when I go out. I mustered up the fakest smile I could turned around and said "Heyyyyyyyyyyy." "Damn I knew it was you. Why you aint tell nobody you was out?" The women said.

Shay was one of the girls I use to roll with before I got locked up. She was one of the people who was apart of the side of my life I wanted nothing to do with any more. This female and her sister Tay got me in hella shit. Shit, I regret hanging with them, they made me something I wish I never was. If I never got locked up I probably woulda been going down a path of no return, but I can't completely blame them. I chose to do the things I did. Thats the part of my life I never want Nae, uncle Tom, and Stacy to find out about. I was able to keep it a secret from them because when I got arrested there was no exact reason for why I tried to kill my ex so I just tol them he was abusing me and I couldn't take it anymore. But enough of that. I was still shocked I ran into this bitch. She's never on this side of town. Shay was bout 5"5 carmel brown complexion with a slim figure. Dont get it twisted doe she had curves. Shay always had a banging body. "Ohhhh I aint think I had to tell nobody I was out seeing how nobody cared when I went in." She laughed "Redd you know what you did of course I couldn't keep in touch after that." She said. "If I could recall the situation you helped me pull it off you wanted that just as much as I did so don't stand up in here pretending you innocent and shit." I said chirping my teeth "Girl get the fuck out yo feeling. You did time soo fucking what get over it. What you needa do is get back in da game and claim whats yours. You know Dre went into hiding right? That scary ass nigga. If you can get the goods you stashed and find out were he's at. You can walk away with the money and get him busted for having yo ass locked up." I shook my head "Man fuck you Shay you trynna get my ass in some shit. Why should I do that huh? So you can fuck me over after I'm done fuckin Dre over?" She looked at me like I was stupid "Redd what are you talking bout I aint never fuck you over before?" I laughed "Man Shay stop with the fuck shit ok. I know wassup, I know you put all that shit in my head so I can do your dirty work. You knew those hitman wasn't shit and Dre would be able to get away. And you knew he would realize I set him up and would come try to kill me and you was gonna take the money I took once he did but what you didn't expect was me stashing the money and getting away. Oh and I bet you ain't know that I knew you was fucking Dre behind my back. Yeah bitch I know....why you think I hid the money. But guess what I'm out the game and I dont want that shit so good luck finding it cuz I'm done." I rolled my eyes at her and walked away. She stood there shocked then I heard her laugh "We'll see each other again boo!" I turned around and flicked her off. She blew me a kiss. Damn that bitch grinds my gears. I just needed to go home and rest. This shit got my head hurting. It really bothers me when people underestimate me. She really thought she can pull one over on me. One thing bout Renée is she aint dumb by a long shot.

Once I got home I layed down and nothing but flashbacks of my past was swarming around in my brain. Why did I let myself get like that. Why was I soo stupid back then. The type of person I was with Shay was no were near who I really am. I was surrounded by people that couldn't give two fucks about me and let their evilness consume me. I thank the lord everyday I was able to get out. What Shay said to me got me thinking, I know she still want that money and she's the type of person that won't stop at anything to get what she want's. Messing with her she will do everything in her power to ruin me, just so she can come up on some quick money. I will never tell her anything bout that money even if my life depended on. I had a plan, and once I pulled it off Im done with this shit forever. But now I can't get a goodnights sleep because now that Shay knows I'm out and about shit bout to get real hectic. I know that bitch gonna run around the hood yapping that big mouth of hers. I guess it's true when they say once you get in the game you can never ever truly get out. You'll always have one foot in. Closing my eyes I fell asleep thinking of my past. I just needed a break from life period.