A text from her pulled me out of my thoughts of yanking Teddy’s tongue through his ears.
My Person:Be safe, and I’ll be waiting on you to return. I love you :)
Before I could reply, Zoo started talking.
“Oh this nigga bold as fuck!” Looking up from the text that Bri just sent, my eyes landed on Teddy standing in the front of the building. This nigga had on a bulletproof vest, some shorts, with some Nike slides. He should’ve known I had no plans on attempting to shoot at his vest anyway. It was straight head shots for him. I’d make sure that nigga didn’t pass go ‘cause ain’t no two hunnid to collect in hell.
Sin opened his door first and jumped out. “Man, this nigga about to do the most. Hurry up and get out.” I threw the passenger door open and ran across the street with Zoo right beside me.
“Aye, bitch-ass nigga!” Sin yelled, making everyone standing in front of the building look towards us. When Teddy looked at him, then saw Zoo and I, that nigga took off running.
“They about to skin that nigga alive!” someone yelled as we all took off after him.
Teddy was cutting corners and jumping gates, not even knowing this was shit we loved to do as kids. Ain’t no gate our asses couldn’t jump. Even with Zoo still not being back at one hunnid percent, he did what he knew how to do best—use one fucking hand and brought his ass on.
“Sin let off a shot that hit Teddy behind the knees, blowing that bitch to the front. He fell harder than Rodney did when Jody bent both of his knees back with bullets inBaby Boy.
“Fuuuck!”
“Don’t start that crying shit now. You wasn’t doing all that shit when you were out there lying like you popped me and my cousin.” I kneeled and pressed the gun against his temple.
“Mann, I ain’t say shit. They lying on me!” Teddy cried.
“You fucked up my night. I had just proposed to my girl and you bring yo’ crackheaded ass out and fucked the night up. We spent that night in the hospital instead of in some pussy,” Sin let out before shooting Teddy in the feet. A loud cry bellowed from the pit of Teddy’s stomach.
“I wasn’t getting engaged, but my bitch been mad at me since I jumped in front of yo’ funky-ass bullet,” Zoo told him then let out two shots, one in each of Teddy’s hands.
“And for me, I just don’t like yo’ ass. Fuck they reasons, mine matters the most. My girl don’t feel safe with you walking the streets and that’s enough for me.”
“Fuck that bitch and what she feels, I don’t—” Teddy spat but the rest of his sentence didn’t make it out of his mouth before I stopped him from thinking.
Pointing my gun, I emptied the clip in his head and kept pulling the trigger, allowing the clicking sound of the clip being empty to continue. The entire time, I prayed more bullets magically appeared in the clip. He needed to feel this shit a little more.
“That’s what the fuck I’m talkin’ ‘bout. Fuck that nigga thought process up. Like you gon’ let him talk shit about yo’ girl and you just stand up here and listen. He had you fucked up, cuz,” Zoo yelled.
“I’m mad as hell I only got to shoot that nigga in the foot,” Sin fussed all the way out of the alley while sending Gatah a text at the same time.
“As long as that nigga not here to keep lying on my name like he riddled me with bullets, I don’t give a fuck how many shots I got in.”
“Y’all should have left everything to me anyway. Let’s go. I should go order some shit from his brother’s restaurant. That food smelled good as fuck when we ran by.”
“Yooo, that’s sum dirty shit. Kill that nigga brother then go order some food from his ass.” Zoo laughed hard as hell all the way to the car.
“What Gatah say?” I asked Sin as we pulled off from the restaurant.
“The crew already bagged Teddy’s ass up by the time we sat our asses in these seats. They wasn’t fucking around when they said they’ll always be close.”
“I hope yo’ ass can sleep better now. Maybe I won’t have to go to another one of those therapy sessions wit' yo' ass again and I can stay alive longer in your dreams now.”
“We’ll see by tonight. If I wake up from another dream, be dressed early because I’m going back to the therapist.”
“Yo’ ass lucky that couch softa than my girl’s ass or I would stay my ass at home. That nigga already gave me an appointment to bring my ass back and you already know I ain’t going. He got me all the way fucked up.”
“Zoo, if they gave you an appointment without you asking for one, then they saw something that you couldn’t. Get the help.”
Zoo waved Sin off, and I already knew he wasn’t trying to hear that shit. It wasn’t long before he was dropping me off at Bri’s house and Zoo to PJ’s. This is a night I’d been waiting on for a minute now, and I prayed I could finally get my life back. Bri and I were finally in a good place, and I wasn’t trying to fuck that shit up again.
CHAPTER 9
