ME AND HIM ✔️

Pt.27

I nod my head as I inhale the smoke. Letting it run down my throat, before blowing it out.

"What story?" I look to my right, to see a confused expression plastered on Diego's face.

"It's nothing you two-" I motion between Diego and Alex "-need to worry about." I look back at Ivan "continue."

Flashback

Ivan's POV

We're on the doorstep of Harlem and Elizabeth's hours. Just me, Ruella, and our new baby girl. Ruella rings the bell, and a few seconds later, the door opens revealing Harlem. Harlem's hair is messy and he has dark bags under his eye.

"New baby tough?" Ruella asks.

Harlem nods his head and smiles a bit, "he's a lot of work, but he's a blessing. And plus, the girls love to help." He says, talking about his two older daughters.

"What did you decide to name him?" I ask.

"Nadine." He answers.

Nadine.

Kind of sounds like a girl name.

"Oh that's lovely." Ruella smiles.

"What about ya'll, what did you decide to name your baby girl?"

Me and Ruella share a look. A soft smile makes her way onto her lips, "Lorna."

"Aw that's cute. Anyways, come in, come in." He steps to the side, allowing us to go in.

As we go deeper into the house, we make it to the family room where Elizabeth sits on the couch looking tired as ever. She has a towel covering her chest, and I can see the bottom half of the baby's body.

"Hello luvv," Ruella says walking towards her.

"Oh hello, my love." Elizabeth says, allowing Ruella to embrace her.

3 months later

Ruella and Elizabeth are finally up to going out and getting drunk again. About time. I've missed going out with her.

-

We arrive at the bar. The loud music and bright lights make me wanna hide, but I remind myself that this is the first night Ruella's coming out after giving birth. So I'm doing this for her.

We all make our way towards the bar and order. We drink, have some shots, and decide to go to the dance floor.

Ruella holds my hand, dragging me to the center of the room. She sways her body against me, going with the rhythm of the beat. Suddenly the music shuts off. In fact the whole room shuts off. The lights go out and the darkness takes over.

"What happened?" Ruella asks.

"I don't know." I keep her close to me, making sure not to let her go.

Suddenly loud noises begin to erupt. Not just any noises. Gunshots.

I hear bodies drop as people begin screaming and running around. I can't see anything. All I know is that people are dying.

I hold onto Ruella tightly. I run through the room and manage to get to the bathrooms. I take my phone out and turn the flash on. It's only then that I see Harlem and Elizabeth huddled to each other. They look up at us. Elizabeth pulls Ruella down with her. I crouch down next to Harlem, "what the fuck is happening!"

"The French are here." He returns.

"Your correct." An unfamiliar voice says. The lights turn back on, and we're met with a tall pale man. His head is bald and a gun rests in his hand. "You." He says, motions to Harlem, "stand up." Harlem stands and walks towards him. "I want you to choose between the blonde, and the black haired girl." Harlem looks towards me, I shake my head. This is a trap, I know it. "Don't look at him. I want you to choose, or I kill all of you." Harlem looks between Ruella and Elizabeth. The bald man, hands the gun to Harlem. "Choose. Or I will."

"If you want ven think about it, I will cut every fucking bone out of your body! DO YOU HEAR ME HARLEM? DONT YOU FUCKIN-"

BOOM

Rue's POV

"UNO OUT" Aniyah yells as she slams her card on the table.

The boys were still in a meeting and we got bored. So we decided to play some games we found in a random closet.

"That's like the fifth time she won!" Kaylee groans as she pushes herself deeper into her chair.

"I'm getting bored of this. Why do the boys get to be in a meeting and we don't? Is it because we're women? That's very sexist" Aniyah says in a joking, but serious matter.

"I'd rather it be the boys than me." After I said that, Kaylee and Aniyah both turned their attention to me. "What? It's not like I enjoy this 'life style'. I wanna be able to be my own person. Not have to owe anything to this 'brother hood' we like to call a mafia." I let out a breath as I finish saying everything that was on my mind.

"Ok, well, enough of all this angst. Let's talk about something else." Kaylee suggests.

"Ok, how about we talk about some dress ideas."

Dress ideas?

"Uhm, what do we need dress Ideas for?"

"Oh, you didn't hear? We're gonna be going to a charity ball next week." Aniyah says.

Another week of no school? I'm gonna have to call A few friends and make sure Im not missing anything. I'm not gonna be able to pass if I'm gone half of the school year.

And this is my last year in school too. I have to make it count.

Almost forgot to post, lol😒

-Brooke ♥️ Sunday, 9/12/2021

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