I sat on the edge of my bed with my toes barely touching the floorboard, watching a Law and Order: SVU re-run. I was dressed in all black, from my leather jacket and crop top underneath, to my leggings and socks. My Yeezy Boost 300 sneakers were on the ground next to my feet. My brother appeared in the doorway.
"I'm headed to the docks now", he paused. "You should drive the Sentinel and take Allie, just in case."
"Why? I never drive it. And you were the one who didn't want Allisha to go in the first place. Now you're changing your mind?"
He sighed and leaned on the door frame. "Just for extra protection."
I sat up straighter and looked at him. "You feel like something's gonna go down tonight?"
"Why you always gotta question everything?" he threw the keys to the Land Rover Sentinel and I caught them. "Just for once do what I ask." He turned and left before i could reply.
I bent down and slid my feet into my sneakers. I had no idea where Allisha was and our house was really big so I was not about to search all over for her. I pulled my cell phone from the pocket of my leather jacket and dialed her number.
"Hello?", she answered.
"Did Vido tell you that he changed his mind about you going?"
"Yeah, I'm ready. Just waiting on you."
"Alright I'll meet you in the garage", I said before hanging up.
Allisha sat with a M16 rifle in her lap on the hood of the Sentinel, Vido must have told her which car we would be taking. She was dressed in all black as well, just like my brother and I. Whenever it came to making drops or moving shipment, we always wore all black. It made it easier to move about drawing the least amount of attention to ourselves.
"What's going on?", I asked while beckoning to the gun in her lap.
"Vido wants us to be prepared 'just in case'."
"Prepared for what?"
"I dunno", she shrugged. "He wouldn't tell me, but I overheard one of his conversations half hour ago. Some of the guns coming in are a special shipment from the Czech Republic. DJ and Vido were planning on doing the drop tonight but the two of the guys who were supposed to collect 'em showed up dead not to long ago."
"Shit. So whose crew did these guys belong to?"
"I'm pretty sure I heard Vido mention the name 'Raul'".
"Well let's hope that nothing else goes wrong tonight."
She nodded in agreement and hopped off of the car and we both got inside of it.
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We'd been driving for about fifty minutes when we pulled up to the warehouse. As usual it was deserted around this time with the exception of the security guards.
I pulled up in front of the large metal gate, waiting for it to open but it didn't. I honked the car's horn twice to alert them that I was here but still nothing happened.
"Tweety, why won't they open the gate?"
I saw one of the guards walking towards us. He didn't look familiar. I froze.
"Allie, you call DJ. I'll call Vido and see who answers first", I said pulling out my phone and dialing the number.
"What? Why?"
"I think this is a set up."
She didn't even respond she hastily dialed the other number and put it on speaker. I looked at another security guard, he didn't look familiar either.
"What's up?" It was DJ who answered on Allie's phone.
"Do not come to the warehouse!" I urged.
"Fuck you mean?", he asked.
"We're being set up. Take the shipment somewhere."
"You're joking right?"
The guard, or imposter tapped on the widow. I looked at him but responded to my brother. "I wish I was."
"Vido's in the car behind me. I'll let him know. So where yall at?"
"At the warehouse, where else?",Allisha replied.
"I'm still heading that way. I aint gone leave yall there without backup."
"We dont need back up. We're leaving right now", I replied while putting the car in reverse.
The tints on these windows were very dark, the guy at my door wouldn't be able
to see what I was doing.
"Shit!", Allie mumbled after she looked behind her.
I looked in the rare view mirror to follow her gaze and saw that a jeep had parked horizontal behind us, blocking us in. I focused ahead of me. There was a few feet between the gate and the car. I put the car back in drive.
"You can't be serious!", Allie said.
"If you have a better idea now would be the perfect time to share it", I replied sarcastically.
I drove forward right up until there was only a centimeter left between the gate and car. I hurridly put the car in reverse before the jeep had time to play their next move. I pressed hard on the gas pedal, backing up and slamming into the jeep, causing it to move. I didn't let up, I pressed down again. I heard the sound of my tires screeching against the tar pavement. Im sure the outside smelt like burnt rubber.
I had cleared enough space to get out of the area. I put the car in drive again and pressed gas, turning the car towards the main road.
"I can't believe that worked."
"I'm a badass driver", I boasted, flipping my hair.
"Bitch shut up."
"It's the truth. Why you think I always drive and you always ride shotgun?", I laughed.
Clink. Allisha and I heard the sound of something metal hitting against our car. I looked in the rearview mirror. Two SUVs were on our tail. A few more clinking sounds were made.
"They're shooting at us!"
"Well now is the time that you be that badass driver", Allisha said.
It's a good thing Vido instructed me to take this car because it was bullet proof. I increased the speed at which I was driving at. I needed to lose these guys. The best thing was for me to get on the freeway. It would be harder for them to chase me if I were to zip in and out of traffic lanes with other cars to help me block them off.
"What do they want?", I asked.
"They probably think we have the cargo on us."
After driving on freeway for about five minutes, we didn't see any sign of the vehicles who were following us or any other suspicious looking vehicles.
"I think we're in the clear, for now."
DJ had given us an address to meet him at and we arrived there shortly. It was a dilapidated building with a few familiar looking cars parked in front. DJ and Vido walked out of the building to meet us as we got out of the car.
"What the fuck happened?" Vido exclaimed looking at the dent in the back of the car. "Yall know how much this shit cost?"
"Would you rather have a dent in your car or two dead sisters?", Allie asked.
"Yea! I did what I had to, to get out of there."
"We can discuss car repairs and whatever went down later. For now, we need to figure out where we're gonna move our inventory since people already know where we stash it," DJ said authoritatively. "The good thing about this is that the goods are stored in a safe. They may have been able to break into the warehouse but they won't get into the safe."
"Looks like people are after this new order we got. We need to make sure this is under top protection until it's sold", Vido added.
"How much is it worth?", Allisha asked.
"Two million", Vido replied.
"Im thinking bout going up on that price for all the hell this order cost us. I had to travel half way around the world for starters", DJ complained.
"I wanna see these guns", I said.
We all walked back into the building. It was empty minus some of my brothers' workers and a large opened steel crate.
I leaned over it and saw neatly packed assault rifles.
"They're CZ-805s. The 2016 models, very rare to find on black markets right now", Vido said from behind me.
"And we've got a guy who's willing to buy them all", DJ added dapping Vido.
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