Blood Brothers

Chapter 24: Word is Bond

Markell could hear the urgency in Jordan's voice and scrunched his face up in confusion as he prepared to make a U turn.

"What's going on?" He questioned as he made his way to Noah's apartment

"Just get here as soon as you can, he needs us right now Kels." Jordan said somberly

"I'm on the way." Markell responded before ending the call

As he got on the highway and made his way to Noah's place, Markell couldn't help but wonder what in the hell was going on.

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Markell made it to Noah's apartment in less than fifteen minutes. He used his key remote to lock his car doors as he made his way inside of the luxury apartment building and headed towards the elevator. His nerves started to get the best of him as he entered the elevator and pushed the number three for the third floor. As the elevator reached the third floor, Markell took a deep breath before getting off and walking straight to Noah's door. He knocked twice before the door was swung open by Domonique.

"Dom what the fuck is going on?" Markell asked surprised by his presence

Dom shook his head, "That's what we trying to figure out, come in here man."

Domonique opened the door wider so that Markell could enter the apartment, he closed and locked the door behind him as he followed Dom's lead. Markell couldn't help but notice that the kitchen was a mess as they passed by it, dishes were piled up in the sink, the trash overflowed the trash can, empty pizza boxes and other to go food containers scattered the counters, and a rotten smell stunk up the place.

"You got here quick as hell." Jordan said as they entered the living room

Markell looked around in disgust, the living room looked just like the kitchen, a mess. Maybe even worse. Empty shot glasses, beer bottles, and a bottle of half drunken whiskey sat on the living room table. Markell heard snoring and noticed Noah knocked out sleeping on the couch. He wore a pair of gray sweatpants, a white t-shirt that had stains all over it, and had one sock on his left foot while his right foot was bare. Drool spilled from his mouth as he slept, his glasses were on the floor, and his usual nicely shaped goatee and fresh haircut was now wild and outgrown. Noah looked horrible.

"What's going on with him? What the hell is going on with this apartment, it's dirty as hell. Where is Rayne? This shit is completely off." Markell rambled as he looked around in confusion

"Questions we don't have any damn answers too." Dom answered, "This nigga has been off the grid for about a week, not answering no phone calls or texts so I decided to check on him today. He wasn't answering the door when I knocked so I used my spare key to get in, and I found him like this. That was about an hour ago, I called Jordan and he called you. We can't get this nigga to wake up."

"And we know he ain't dead cause his ass is snoring loud as hell." Jordan added

"This shit ain't like him at all." Markell looked at Noah, "Y'all tried to get in touch with Rayne?"

"Multiple times, but her phone just goes straight to voicemail." Domonique answered

"We gotta wake him up." Markell said before going to the kitchen

He navigated through the mess and went towards the cabinet to grab a cup. After turning the kitchen sink on and making sure the water was cold enough, Markell filled the cup to the rim before turning the sink off and returning back to the living room with the cup in his hand.