In too Deep 2

Chapter 26 - Unexpected

Shona popped into the wholesalers to pick up what she needed for the bakery. She paid for her goods and had one of the store workers wheel her very full and heavy cart to the car. "Thank you" Shona said to him sweetly, as he put the goods in the trunk for her. "I could take you with me and you can unload the car at the other end if you like," she said with a laugh.
The guy smiled at her, he was young of school age, doing his Saturday shift. He seemed very nervous and Shona just wanted to make him feel better.
"No, okay... well here's a tip instead" she said and shoved some money in his tabard pocket.

"Sorry Miss, we are not allowed to accept tips," he said with the money in his hand to give back to her.

She looked around. "I don't see anyone here, who is gonna know" she smiled.

He smiled back and accepted the money. "Thanks Miss," he said happily.

"I wish my 14 year old was as polite and well-mannered as you" she said as he headed back inside. "She is a lazy ass good for nothing so and so." She said to herself, she did like helping people out who had been helpful and kind to her.
She was about to get in the car and she wasn't concentrating fully as she reached over to the passenger side to pull her cellphone out of her bag. It caused the door to open wide just as a sports car pulled in beside her, causing her door to scratch all along the side of the other car.
"What the hell!" a woman said as she jumped out and looked at the damage. "Excuse me...
Shona turned to look at her unaware of the fuss.
"Shona?"

Shona continued to get in the car, not saying a word and looking straight ahead with a bitter taste in her mouth.
"Shona, you do realise this is Shane's car..." Dionne said to her.

"Well he is gonna be mighty pissed when he reialises that you don't know how to drive!" she was about to shut the door and Dionne stopped her.

"Please... can we talk?" Dionne said to her. "I know that the night at the club seemed off to you but... it was nothing against you or Maggie... It was a business meeting...

"Well, what kind of business meeting means that you have to be fed fruit, unless you're disabled and have lost the use of your arms...  and the other bitch gets to talk down on me and my friend?" She stared at her.

"Listen, Beano and I, we go way back... but he is all about Maggie the same as Shane is all about you... He is really looking forward to being a father..."

"So where is he then, I mean if I meant that much to him, why hasn't he gone all out to try and find me? He knows where my daughters go to school, he knows my car, he paid for it... he could easily find me if he wanted to but he hasn't... so that speaks volumes to me" Shona told her.

"Okay... he did try to look for you but, he stopped because he thought that you didn't want to be found... you blocked him and he wanted to give you space, in the hope that you would go to him when you cooled down, to at least talk to him and find out the truth" she said to her. "He is a good man Shona... despite what he is involved in and I know that you don't know much about that... I just think that he deserves to be listened to before you jump the gun"

"Jump the gun? If this is what life with him is like then I don't want to be a part of it... I don't want to sit at home and not know what he's up to... which is exactly what would have happened that night... me stuck at home like the idiot while he is out with women up close and personal for whatever reason... without a damn care for my feelings... I have been that dumb ass bitch sat around thinking my man is doing good and doing me right, to find out later down the line that I'm the last thing on his mind... pregnant too, yea... that happened before... so you can see why I'm just a little dubious and cautious when it comes to these kinds of things... And Maggie, she is hurt... she can play the fun character, can take a joke, and can mostly take anything... but when she saw you and him, and him feeding you at the table..." she shook her head. "She changed that day, she is not the same Maggie anymore."
Dionne just went quiet.
"Now if you excuse me, I need to get on" she said. She looked at the damage to the car. "Tell him it was me... and tell him he can add it to my debt... because I don't wanna owe him shit... I will pay him back monthly even for the product that I lost him... I don't need his charity" she said and pulled off.

Dionne made a note of her license plate number and she called Shane.
"Dionne?" he said, answering.

"Boss, guess who I just had a thorough and frank conversation with and she was pulling no punches either"

"Who?"

"Shona... she umm, she scratched up the car... not on purpose" she quickly followed up. "She is expecting you to look for her... I think she thinks that you don't care... maybe you could find her... I took down her license plate just in case"

"Is she okay, does she look well?" he asked her.

"Yes she does... she looks fine... but you don't need to take my word for it, find her!" she said and ended the call.

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Shane had been in the office with Beano and they had both heard what Dionne had said. "We can run a check on her plate and then we'll go and talk to them, right?" Shane said to Beano. "But first of all I wanna know why all these mother fuckers are not at these damn traps.. They are being headed up by school kids... get hold of Gerrard and send him out for them.

Beano called Gerrard and put the call on hands free. "Man where the fuck is Leo and Demi?"
"Well rumour has it that they've been chilling at some girls hangout.. Some store on fifth...I can get you the details"

"Who the fuck... are they selling for her, whats the fucking story?" Shane said angrily.

"I don't know man that's why I am saying we should head there and fucking rattle em" he added.

"I am sick of double crossing mother fuckers right now!" Shane said and shook his head.

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Shona got back to the cake store and she saw Maggie laughing which was nice to see. Leo was leaning over the counter talking to her. "Where have you been, you've been gone ages?"

"To the wholesalers" she looked at Leo with a grin. "Seeing as you are out front making the place look untidy instead of in the back like I told you, would you be a honey and go and get the bags from the trunk?" she asked him. She handed him the keys. He smiled and rolled his eyes but he did it anyway.

Shona looked at Maggie. "Guess who I bumped into"

"I don't know...

"Dionne...

"Don't you even mention that bitches name in front of me... Beano tried to tell me this shit and that shit about her and...

"Will you listen!" she said abruptly and Maggie stopped ranting. "I don't know why you just don't go face to face with the man and have it out with him...

"Maybe I'm not ready to right now" Shona heard and gave her a hug....