Bella
It was close to closing time, and I was waiting on Ms. Tanya to pick up Ka'shad. This was starting to be more frequent and I almost felt obligated to see what was going on in their household.
As usual, I told shad that his mother was late, and we were going to my house. I locked up my building and called Ms. Tanya for the tenth time. Hearing it go straight to voicemail, I sighed.
"What you want to eat shad? McDonald's or a home-cooked meal?" I asked shad from the back seat.
"I want you to cook bell!" He exclaimed excitedly. I had no one to cook for besides myself so I cherished the times I got to cook for shad.
"Home-cooked meal it is.."
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ABDUL
"Did you ever talk to the owner of shorty daycare?" Zameer spoke, hitting our 3rd blunt for today.
We were smacked right now and the last thing I wanted to talk about was how ole girl bailed on our meeting.
"Nah," I sighed rubbing my face. "That made me feel uneasy as fuck, like how am I suppose to know that my daughter will be safe there?"
"Yo ass don't trust nobody." Zameer laughed. "Lil mama will be fine. stop worrying."
I gave him that 'STFU' look.
"You don't have kids so you really wouldn't understand, anyways did you know that Harlem know shorty from the club?"
"Who Bella?" Zameer responded, sipping on his drink.
"So das' her name? Damn, I thought it was Sabrina or some shit.. and since you know her name then that means you know her too."
"Yeah, we all know her."
"Everybody except me." I mumbled.
"Did you sleep wit' her?" Zameer asked.
"Yeah," I smirked. "But that's beside the point, I came to talk to you about some business we need to handle,"
He nodded at me, waving his hand telling me to continue.
"You know our brothers coming down tomorrow.. they want us to do something for them."
Zameer groaned. Hell, I don't blame him. Our brothers Zoe and Roman been tryna get us into the game since we were sixteen.
Zoe love was just like zameer. A lover never a fighter. If you make them mad enough they'll go fucking crazy. Just because he was a lover doesn't mean he didn't have a couple kills on his belt. People took that as a joke, thinking he was soft. This nigga was ruthless but not as ruthless as
Roman McGyver. Roman was always a go-getter. We never struggled because of him. When our dad left, he stepped up. He knows mama ain't proud of his decisions. I guess that's why she strung out on crack now. Feeling like a failure took a toll on her I guess.
Roman and Zoe have been bros for as long as I can remember. I guess that's why me and Zameer are so close. People use to pick on Z, and Zoe would always flip the fuck out stating that Zameer needs to "man up" or "grow some balls". You see Z ain't heartless like his brother and since we know they ain't fighters, Zoe's fights always had somebody in the morgue.
Zameer didn't want a mother having to identify her son all because his punk ass bullying people. Z always said, nose leaking and mouth bloody, "you gone get yours."
And that's where I come in. Back then I slept niggas left and right, I dared them bitches to try me. Initially, Zameer told Roman to get me to fight Z's bully and Roman was skeptical at first because I got into way too much trouble back then.
I was down for it regardless. I didn't care about shit. I had major anger issues and was stressed out to the max and I needed the stress reliever.
I rolled up to Z's school and caught that nigga in action. It was a big ass crowd around them and I was baffled that no one tried to stop it.. but that's black folks for you. Always instigating shit.
I ran up to that nigga Charlie and starting whooping his ass. Till this day me and that nigga still got beef. Tafari and Harlem don't understand it but they always behind me when and if that nigga tries some. I didn't even know Z like that at the time but I was fighting like he was my kin. School security started running up to us and I grabbed Z and we ran to my car.
Safely inside and the school out of sight, I said "you ight?"
He only nodded at me and we been bros ever since.
"East you know I don't wanna be in that shit, but if you agree to do it... I'm one step behind ya'."
I nodded knowingly at him.
Let's go make some money.