“Oh, I got something for that ass.” Tony claimed from his garage. The nigga was holding a Mack 10.
Things were about to get real in the battle field. I never saw that day coming and I couldn’t do a damn thing to stop it. A part of me wanted that nigga Khalil to suffer for terrorizing my ass, but I didn’t want my man to get locked up behind it.
“Raven, you need to sit down.” Tameka told me calmly. I guess that she was perfectly fine with our niggas gearing up for combat. I couldn’t get with that. I was about to put up a fuss when my baby kicked, reminding me that I had another life to consider. So, I copped a squat on a chair in Tony’s garage.
There were a few guys as young as sixteen eager to put in work. I wanted to tell everybody to just go home, but I knew that Jah wasn’t having it.
“Baby, I’m about to put an end to this shit today.” Jahrein told me as he knelt down and gently stroked my cheek.
“Jahrein, I want you to use your head. Don’t try to handle shit in broad daylight. That is throwing bricks at the penitentiary.”
“Raven, we got this.” he tried to assure me.
“Yeah, Raven, we got it. We can’t let the nigga make it this time. I should’ve let Jah blow his brains out that night he came over here with the drama a few months ago.” Jared added.
I didn’t quite know what he was talking about. “When did he come with some drama?”
“You know. The day him and Jahrein got locked up. He came over here talking cash money shit. He was telling Jah to stay away from apartment 215 on 1960 because he paid all the bills in that bitch. He swore that Jah had been over there because you wouldn’t answer his calls. I knew the nigga was crazy then. Jah pulled out his pistol ready to blast his ass. I stopped the nigga. How the fuck can a nigga try to charge up the next nigga overtheirwife? I was like Raven aint nothing to play with.” Jared told me as he shook his head.
“So, he told Jahrein where I stayed?”
“Shit it wasn’t hard to figure the shit out after he got through running his mouth. Jahrein said that he was going to ride around in that area until he found your car. Somebody had already told him that they spotted you around that way so he had a general idea of where to look. Then in the end all Sherlock had to do was use that GPS tracking device to locate the Benz.”
“Oh.” I nodded. I knew thesomebodythat he was referring to was Tyra. Who else had seen me with Khalil out near my apartment?
I saw all the signs of a potential problem with Khalil but looked past it all. That was what had me in that fucked up position.
“Oh, shit! Jahrein, the kids.” I remembered. It was four o’clock and Jahrein, Jhyrah, and Jahrae were supposed to be picked up from school at 3:30.
“I called Ray-Ray when you was on your way over here. He went to pick all the kids up.” Jahrein said. It seemed as though he never slipped when it came to our kids.
“Oh.” I sighed. My nerves were on edge. So, I damn near jumped out of my skin when my cell phone rang.
“Hello.” I answered.
“Yes this is HPD. We received a call from you about a disturbance in the park.”
“Uh huh.”
“Okay, ma’am. Could you please tell me everything that you witnessed?”
I got a strange feeling. “Did you find the two men fighting?” I asked him.
“Well, no. We did however come across a crime scene. Is there any way that you could come down and talk to us?”
“For what?” I asked as my stomach became queasy.
“I would better explain in person.”
“Okay, hold on.” I placed my cell on mute. “Jahrein.” I whispered.
“Huh?” he responded.
“The police want me to come in for questioning.”
“For what?” he asked me.
“Something about the shit that just went down between me and Khalil.”
