Codeine and Fully Automatics

by Ghost

  Mikey sounded really confident, and because he did, I got to feeling the same way. I wasn’t the type to put false hope into nobody, but it was just the way he looked when he talked about her that convinced me. He was all in, and so was I.

  Chapter 12

  Alicia hit me up three days after me and Mikey had spent two days straight getting the Rebirth aluminum foiled and bagged up. We were looking to push straight dimes. That way the feens could get just a taste of what we had to offer before we flooded the area with it. By the end of the second day I was tired and ready to go to sleep. But we went from bagging and foiling, to collecting all our bread from Smoke and his crew. Mikey had them spread out at a few traps in Memphis. He wanted to make a run to Jackson, Mississippi so he could pick up a few bricks of girly, but I declined. At the same time, he was hitting the road with Korky to make that trip, Alicia was hitting my phone saying we needed to meet up so we could talk.

  I met her at nine at night on a rainy Saturday. I knocked on the door to their apartment, and she let me in after a few minutes. I rushed past her and into the house. Happy to be out of the rain.

  “Dang, I ain’t know it was gon be raining like that. Had I known I would have met you somewhere that was half way. I’m sorry.” She took my coat and hung it on a coat rack.

  I stomped the rain from my Jordans in their door mat and took them off altogether, along with my fitted cap. “What’s good Alicia? You made it seem like its an emergency.”

  She guided me toward the couch. “Have a seat Phoenix. Can I get you something to eat, or drink?” She stepped half way to the kitchen, looking at me over her shoulder. She wore a night gown that stopped just above her knees. As usual, that ass was poked out like a beer gut. She was on bare feet. Her pretty toes had French manicures to them.

  “Shawty bring me a shot of that syrup. I know Mikey got some of that shit lying around somewhere.” I grabbed the remote from the table and turned on the big television that was hanging on their wall. I saw that whoever had been watching the television before me had been watching the Raised as a Goon movie. It was paused. I pushed play and sat back.

  Mikey and Alicia had this apartment decked out with expensive furniture, and leather couches. Across from me a fireplace was roaring. The wood crackled loudly. I could smell the scent of burnt wood. Alicia stepped back into the living room shaking the bottle of Sprite up and down. “I don’t know of you like yours shook up, but Mikey do. If not, I apologize. Here you go Durty.”

  I took the bottle and twisted the cap off. “Dis the only way to get that shit mixed right shawty.” I turned the bottle up and swallowed it in big gulps. It was strong just like I liked. The medicine taste was heavy. The aftertaste was even worse|. I couldn’t help smacking my lips. “So, what it do boo?”

  She blushed and sat on the loveseat across from me and crossed her thick thighs. Her night gown rose just enough to show the under side of her left leg. The skin looked soft, juicy, and forbidden. “I don’t want you to freak out, and remember I’m just telling you this because its your right to know. I don’t know how this is going to effect things, and I’m scared to look that far into the future. But Phoenix I love you. You’re my big brother. You have a major piece of my heart, and you always will. And...” She lowered her head, then stated to bite in her index finger.

  “And what? Why you stop there?”

  She sighed. “Phoenix I’m carrying yo baby, and I’m scared half to death to tell Mikey. I know that is going to be catastrophic for everybody, but I don’t know what to do. And I’m freaking out.” Alicia covered her face with her hands.

  I got up sat beside her and placed my arm around her body. “Damn, that’s heavy Alicia. I mean something like that crossed my mind, but I didn’t think too far into it. How many months are you?”

  She uncovered her face. Her eyes were misty. “I’m twelve weeks. Keep in mind that my wedding night was barely a month ago. That was the first time that me and Mikey had ever been together. Sooner or later he’s going to add up the dates. When he does, he’s going to kill me. I love him so much Phoenix. I don’t want to lose this good man. This world is too cold for me to be out there all alone trying to raise a child. Man, y’all dudes got it so easy. All y’all gotta do is fuck something and its over with. Meanwhile us women get the short end of the stick at every turn. We’re the ones who are left with the child, the dilemma, the drama, and at your mercy unless we can fend for ourselves which in most cases in the ghetto we can not. These white folks ain’t even trying to give us section eight or food stamps if a man is anywhere involved in the picture. Its designed for the black woman to fail at all costs. And that stinks.” She covered her face again.

  I rubbed her back. “Shawty I don’t know why you writing me off as a dead beat, but that ain’t in my nature by no means. If you got my seed inside of you I’ma definitely hold you down. Shid even if it wasn’t my baby, I’d make sure that you were good. I care about you Alicia. I always have.” I kissed her cheek and continued to rub her back. Even though I wasn’t focused on it I could feel that she didn’t have a bra on. I imagined what them titties looked like the last time I’d seen them. Caramel colored, with big, dark brown nipples.

  She turned to face me and wrapped her arms around my neck. “What am I gon do when Mikey puts the pieces of the puzzle together? You know he gon kick me to the curb for sure. That’s if he don’t kill me first.”

  “He ain’t gon kill you. That’s my nigga, but you my baby mother. Ain’t no nigga about to put his hands on you in no way.”

  “But that’s my husband Phoenix. I love him. We ain’t been married a month. I’m so bogus for doing this to him. We both are.” She sat back and looked me in the eyes.

  I moved her hair out of her pretty face and wiped away her tears. “So, what do you advise?”

  Alicia shrugged her shoulders. “All I need to know is that you got me if he does kick me to the curb when he finds out. Just make sure I’m good until I can get on my feet. Be a father to your child. A damn good one at that. We don’t have to be together. This is all I ask. Can you do this?”

  I nodded and sank to my knees. Slowly kissed her thighs one at a time. “I got you Alicia.” More kisses, moving toward the inner portions of them. “I got you. I’m not gon let him hurt you. I’m not gon hurt you. However, you need me I got you. I’m not trying to fuck up nothing that y’all got going on. To be honest you ain’t gotta say nothing to him at all if you don’t want to. I’ll support you in either way. I’ma make sure my baby straight though. And you too.” More kisses. That codeine was fuckin wit me. That and her scent. I missed Alicia’s pussy. I wanted to see if I could get some while she was all vulnerable and shit. I licked along her inner thigh and kissed the crotch of her pink panties. Her lips made a prominent indentation inside of them. It looked so good.

  Alicia rested her hand on the back of my head. “What are you doing Phoenix?”

  I had to think fast. I was feening for that cat between her legs. I kissed the crotch with a bit more force and yanked the panties to the side. Her dark brown lips popped out, freshly shaven. “You’re my baby mother now Alicia. That mean I got a stake in this pussy too. I been crazy about you since forever. I ain’t trying to break up no happy home. You know I can keep a secret.” I licked her box, spread the lips, and moved my tongue up and down her groove swallowing secretions of her essence.

  “Unn. No, stop. We can’t do this Phoenix. You promised. You promised that when I got married that we would be done with doing this shit behind his back. Oh! Baby! You promised.”

  I pushed her knees to her chest and got to eating that pussy hungrily. I had her lower lips wide open. Her slippery pink exposed. Me darting in and out of it.

  She held my head. “Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. No. Stop. Uh shit. Stop Phoenix. Stop. This ain’t right. Uh.” She threw her head back moaning.

  I had two fingers going in and out of her pussy at full speed, while I sucked on her jewel. She was so wet it was like she was peeing in
my mouth. I loved it. Swallowing every chance I got. I could feel that forbidden juice running down my throat and it drove me insane.

  “Phoenix! Phoenix! I’m cuming already. Uh shit. Damn you. Damn you!” She fell backward.

  I sucked harder on her clit, fingering her in a blur. She shook and moaned loudly. Juices ran out of her hole and on to the seat cushions below her ass. After she came hard, I licked all over her thick thighs. All the way to her calf muscles sucked them, and trailed even lower to her pretty toes., sucking them one by one. Wasn’t nothing like a bad sista with some pretty ass toes. A bitch feet had to be right or I wasn’t fuckin with her, and Alicia’s were one hunnit all across the board. I sucked them toes with lust. Then I stood back and dropped my pants stroking my piece. “Suck this Alicia. Come on baby.” I slipped my hand between her legs and started fingering her pussy again. My thumb was running from side to side across her clit.

  She jerked. “Ugh. You get on my nerves Phoenix. You know how I feel about you, but I’m married now.” She sucked my dick into her mouth and got to handling her business, while my fingers continued to go to town in her kitten. She was laid sideways suckling away. One leg raised. Her pussy was so wet that it was making noises.

  I pulled my fingers out and licked them clean. My eyes closed as she brought me so much pleasure that I was on the verge of cuming. I couldn’t let that happen. I had to have some of that pregnant pussy. I had to see what that was about now that I knew it was my shorty she was carrying.

  I pulled out of her mouth, stroking my dick. It was covered in spit. I got between her thighs, and lined my dick up with her puffy labia, and slid into her silky, scorching cave.

  She sat up and moaned. “Awwww, no. I’m married now Phoenix. I’m married.”

  And because she was, I got to long stroking that pussy like a complete animal. I was obsessed with that taboo shit. Mikey was my nigga. I loved the homie with all my heart. I’d fucked Alicia about twenty times before this time, and it had always been good. But since I was fucking my right-hand man’s wife it made the pussy feel ten times better. I think I was cursed with that forbidden shit or something. It ran heavy in my bloodline. I remembered how good Alicia had looked on her wedding day and imagined that I was fuckin her in her wedding dress. I got murdering that ass. Pushed her knees further to her chest, and watched my dick go in and out of her lil box that was dripping wet and making all kinds of noise.

  Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.

  “Unnnn. Unnnn. Slow down! Uh-fuck! Phoenix! Phoenix! Phoe-NIX!” She started to shake like crazy.

  I kept pounding. My seed was building up in me. I held the side of the couch and gave her ten hard strokes. Growled out of breath, and came as hard as I could, splashing her womb. We fell to the floor, me kissing all over her lips, and neck. I pulled her gown strap down and exposed a succulent breast and trapped the nipple in my hungry mouth.

  She rubbed all over my chest, breathing heavily. “We gotta stop Phoenix. We gotta stop this shit right now.” She pulled me down and we got to tonguing each other.

  I gripped that fat ass and pulled her body to mine. She felt hot. My hands ran all over her lower back. Then I was cuffing her ass again. She felt so soft. Her scent rose to intoxicate me. I sucked her neck. “You’re my baby mother now. You belong to me Alicia. Don’t get that shit twisted. You hear me?” I licked all over her neck.

  “Yes Phoenix. Yes. I hear you.”

  “Don’t tell Mikey nothing. When the baby come just say it’s premature. Bruh won’t be none the wiser. You’ll see.” More sucking and licking all over her. Then I was back between her legs pounding away at that pussy.

  Chapter 13

  Another two weeks passed. Me and Mikey found ourselves held up in the trap outside of Orange Mound hustling hard. In two weeks, we’d made fifty bands a piece, that wasn’t including the paper that Smoke and his crew were making for us with the white. This was strictly the Rebirth money that Nastia had supplied us with. Originally Mikey projected that we’d only make something along the upper end of seventy bands, but we were just above a hundred stacks, and I still had a zip to go. Our dimes were small barely above a nickel, but the work was so potent that the fiends were running back and forth copping them by the hundred sack. Our trap was jumping like double Dutch.

  Mikey came from out of the back room with a fist full money. “Nigga I told you that in no time we’d be eating like fat bitches at a buffet. Was I lying?”

  I’d just finished counting fifty-three thousand dollars by hand. “Hell nall, you wasn’t. This Rebirth is popping. That white bitch need to quit playing and hit us off right. That way we can flood the Brooklyn chapter of our crew, and Smoke nem. If we can get this Rebirth into everybody’s hands that is working for us, we’ll be rich in no time. What’s the hold up with her?”

  Mikey bent the knot and put a rubber band over it. “We should be getting a shipment in Wednesday night. The only thing is that before we do, she wanna holler at you. Alone.” He bucked his eyes and sat across me, untwisted the cap to his drank and turned it up.

  “Fuck she wanna holler at me about?”

  He shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know, but she did me the same way. I think she just wanna pick your brain a lil bit. Either way you ain’t got nothin to worry about. Y’all basically family. Maybe she want to properly introduce you to your cousin. I mean who knows man?”

  I was stuffing my pockets with money. I didn’t know what she wanted with me, but I sure ain’t have no problem finding out. If she had me lining my pockets like this in a matter of weeks, then I could only imagine what getting a good understanding with her would feel like. I was most definitely gon use the whole Taurus being my uncle as a crutch with her, especially since it seemed like she had a weakness for him.

  “Man, we about to take this city over, bruh. You know we gotta holler at them niggas in Black Haven for that dumb shit they pulled with your whip and baby mother. The fire done died down a little bit, so I’m thinking we wait a week, and make ‘em taste these fully automatics. What you think?”

  I had a heavy heart for Toya suddenly. Nobody had heard from her in nearly a month. I was sure that she was dead. How could she not have been? “Bruh I say we keep getting this money first. Shawty say its gon make a few moves to get the law off my back. I wanna get in good wit her so she can stand on her word. If she dead set on putting us in the game, then the last thing we need to do is to be beefing wit a bunch of bum niggas. You feel me. If anything, we could let Brooklyn handle them chumps. Its money over Bitches. And that’s all them niggas is a bunch of bitches. I smoked two of em already. No sweat off my brow.” I finished stuffing my pockets and stood up. “Tell shawty I’m ready to meet her whenever she’s ready. The sooner the better. In the meantime, I’m finna go check on Shantê. I need to spend some time with her.”

  “Yeah, that sounds like a plan. I need to spend some quality time wit the wife too. Gotta get in the habit of talking to her stomach. That way I can develop a relationship with my child while its still in the womb. Man.” He sighed. “I can’t wait until that baby is born. I’ma give it the world Phoenix.” He rested his hand on my shoulder.

  I stood up and hugged him even though I was feeling some type of way. I felt jealous that he was preparing himself to be a father to my child. Wondered what things were going to be like after the baby was born? If he ever found out the truth, I was sure that one of us would lose our life. I had to get as rich as I could with bruh before we became mortal enemies over the baby that was brewing in Alicia’s stomach. It was most definitely inevitable. For the time being I would play my roll. I had to think about Shantê. “Bruh its a beautiful thang. That’s why we gotta get our money right now before the baby come. Its like you said before, we can’t be in these streets forever.”

  Mikey hugged me tight and stood back. “Now you see what I meant when I was saying that a few weeks ago. These streets is short term. We gotta think long term. So yeah, you gotta work yo magic on shawty.”

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  That day, when I got back to Kamaya’s crib, she was all over me on some super emotional shit that threw me for a loop. I had never seen her so emotional before. As soon as the door opened Shantê ran full speed into my arms.

  “Daddy. Daddy. Daddy.” She ran and jumped into my arms, hugging me as tight as her little arms could muster.

  I planted kisses all over her face. Fell to the couch with her. “Hey baby. More kisses All over her pretty face. “I missed you too. You wanna go shopping?”

  Kamya stomped her foot. “Okay. Okay. Its my turn. Don’t forget about me Phoenix. Damn.” She reached for my wrist and tried to pull me up.

  I sat Shantê on the couch and embraced her. Before I could turn my head, Kamya kissed my lips. Sucked them. Then hugged me. “Damn I been feening for you all day. It seems like you been gon forever. I hope you know I’m coming shopping wit y’all.” She kissed me again.

  Shantê turned her head side ways in curiosity. Then she straightened up and frowned. “Don’t be kissing my daddy. He’s mine. Not yours.”

  Kamya rolled her eyes. ‘Did you hear what I said Phoenix?”

  I laughed. “Yeah, I heard what you said lil cuz. Its cool. We gon all roll out. I wanna hit you wit a few fits too and get you right. Come on.”

  Shantê stood up and crossed her arms in front of her. “But I don’t like nobody kissing on my daddy but me, and not like she did. Yuck.” She stuck her tongue out of her mouth and close her eyes.