He Brings Out The Hood In Me 4

by Nikki Brown

  K.C. Mills Presents

  He Brings Out The Hood In Me 4

  Nikki Brown

  © 2019

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  Everything

  Riding down the long dark road to the farm house gave Mega a little time to reflect on his life. He had been blessed to say the least. To have run a successful drug business and pave the way for his sons to be able to open legit businesses was unheard of where they were from. To say he was proud was putting it lightly.

  Then his mind switched to his wife, their relationship had been so strained since Ziva came into their lives. Intimacy and communication was the foundation of their union, and it was now the two things that they were struggling with. Mega hoped that tonight all of that would change, he just wanted his family back.

  “What the fuck?” Mega said as he pulled into the driveway of his home. Smoke was surrounding the front door of the house. Fear penetrated his heart the minute his eyes landed on Siya’s car. Something’s not right. Picking up the phone, he immediately dialed 911, quickly told them what was going on, and gave them an address.

  Jumping out of the car with his phone in his hand, he ran to the front door. When he grabbed the knob, it was so hot that he had to draw his hand back. The pain never registered because his adrenaline was so high, he needed to find a way in that house and fast.

  “Sir is everything okay?” He could hear the dispatcher, who he forgot he was talking to, yell through the phone. His mind was one figuring out a way to get in the house.

  “Just get here, my wife is in the house. I can’t get in the front door!” he yelled frantically.

  “Sir just wait for help, they’re in route.”

  “Fuck that!” He threw his phone on the ground and leaped off of the porch. The minute his feet hit the ground, he heard something from the distance. Praying that it was Siya getting out of the house, he took off to the back. A feminine silhouette took off towards the woods. The person was too tall to be his wife, but he knew who the figure belonged to. Mega bit down on his back teeth as tears rolled down his eyes! Guilt riddled his heart at the thought that she had done something to Siya. I should have been here! He thought as rage burned within him. He wanted Ziva dead and bad and if it was the last thing he did he would grant his wish.

  “HEY!” he yelled and started towards them but the sound of the fire alarms going crazy stopped him and he turned towards the house. His heart was beating to the beat of his fear at the thought of Siya being hurt. He couldn’t lose his everything, Siya was his everything.

  Bursting through the back door, the smoke hit him in the face instantly bringing about a fit of coughing. Lifting the collar of his shirt across his nose, he made his way through the house. Crash! Something falling to the ground caused him to increase his speed in the direction of the sound. When he got to the living room his body froze and dread slowly slithered through him. Knots formed in his stomach as he took in the seen before him. The memories, the precious memories but right now the only thing that mattered was his wife.

  “Siya! Baby!” his voice cracked as he called out for her. He tried his best to keep his mouth covered so that he wouldn’t take in anymore smoke than he already had. “Oh shit!” He yelled out when he noticed her sprawled out on the floor surrounded by flames. “No baby.”

  With a sinking heart, he tried his best to think of a way to get to her. She was in the center of a ring of fire and it was closing in by the second. He knew that his window for saving her was dwindling so he did what he knew he had to do.

  “Arggghhhh!” he yelled as he rushed through the standing flames. Unable to miss them, he felt the burning sensation through the black slacks that he wore. “Oh fuck!” Crash! Mega jumped back as a bookcase that was nearby fell over and on top of Siya’s arm.

  “Ahhhh!” Siya was in and out of consciousness due to the pain that her body was in, and the smoke that she inhaled made it difficult to hold her eyes open, but the minute she felt something fall on her arm, her eyes popped open. She flew into a fit of coughing mixed with moans of agony. “Help ME!” she screamed and then coughed some more.

  Hearing the distress in her voice put some urgency in Mega’s actions. “Ugggghhhhh!” He yelled out as he grabbed the bottom of the bookcase that was now engulfed in flames and tossed it off of her. He could smell his flesh as his fingertips burned from touching the open flames but none of that mattered to him, only Siya.

  Once she was free of the debris, he lifted her and ran through the fire that was closing in on them. She moaned in between coughs as he made his way through the fire. He took off down the hall that he had just came from. His visibility was very limited, the thickness of the smoke made it hard for him to see where he was going but he wasn’t gonna stop. Not until the both of them were safe.

  A loud crash caused him to jump as he finally made it to the back door, he cringed at the sound. He held Siya close and pushed through the back door. Their house was destroyed, everything they worked for was gone and that hurt him, but not as much as the possibility of losing his everything.

  “Baby! Baby!” He laid her down on the ground, she screamed out in pain.

  Mega bit down on his bottom lip so hard that he drew blood. His heart hurt for her and he couldn’t help but feel as if this was his fault. He was kicking himself for not just coming with her when she left. Leaning down placing his forehead on hers, he wanted to absorb everything that she was feeling. He wanted to take all of that pain away from her. He couldn’t lose her. He didn’t think that he could make it in life without Siya. “Hold on baby, please just hold on.” His tears drifted down his face and settled at the collar of his shirt. “I need you baby, you gotta hold on.”

  Siya’s eyes fluttered back in her head, her breathing had become shallow. Mega took a minute to take a look at her. His bones in his body shivered with rage as he noticed the blood coming from her head. He looked down at the arm of his shirt and it was saturated with her blood.

  “No! No! No! open your eyes baby, you got to look at me.” Mega deep voice roared in anguish. You could hear the pain that he felt dancing along the octaves of his baritone. Sniffing back tears he moved the hair that was in her face out of the way. She had a bruise on her jaw, and it looked as if her arm was broken. She had a really bad burn on her forearm, he hated himself right now for the position he put her in. There was no doubt in his mind that this was his fault. “Come on baby, I know it’s hard but look at me.”

  His eyes traveled in the direction of where he saw Ziva run to. He could feel anger bellow in the pit of his stomach. There wasn’t a hell hot enough for where he planned to send Ziva. She was going to hate the day that she ever laid eyes on anyone with the last name Maler and he put that on his kids.

  Right when Mega got tired of waiting on someone to get there to help them, emergency personnel flooded the yard. As soon as they saw the condition of Siya, they administered oxygen and loaded he
r up in the ambulance. One of the EMTs tried to look at Mega’s hands but he wouldn’t let them. He told them when he knew that his wife was good, then and only then would he worry about himself. They tried to warn him about infection, but he wasn’t trying to hear it.

  Once they got to the hospital, she was wheeled back, and he was forced to sit in the waiting room. A nurse came out and talked him into letting her at least dress his fingers and cover them. Reluctantly, he allowed her to, but he refused to move from where he was.

  After the nurse had him wrapped up, he sat back in the chair and closed his eyes. The sight of Siya laying in the middle of that ring of fire rushed his mind and the tears that flowed from his eyes were for his wife. He released every tear that he could because when the last one fell; nothing would surround him but death until Ziva took her last breath.

  “Wah gwan? (“What’s up?)” his thick accent resonated through the hospital waiting room pulling Mega out of his thoughts. Every syllable that left his lips raised Mega’s pressure that much more. Whipping his head around, he came face to face with Marlin, Ziva’s stepfather and the family connect.

  When Mega’s eyes met his, all he saw was red. He rushed him and threw him up against the wall of the waiting room and placed his forearm against his neck. Click! Click! Click! Mega turned his head slightly to see three guns pointed at him but he didn’t care.

  “Why the fuck are you here Marlin?” Mega said through clenched teeth. “Where the fuck is Ziva!”

  “Mi come to check pan yuh (I came to check on you.)” Marlin barely got out because Mega’s arm was pressed against his voice box. “Mi tap by di yaad an see all di babylon mi kno sup’m wrong, mi make sum calls and come here. (I stopped by the house and saw all the police; I knew something was wrong, so I made a few calls and came here.” Marlins frail frame was no match for Mega’s thick one, as much as he wiggled to get free, he just couldn’t. “Mi cum inna peace mi bredda (I come in peace my brother.)”

  “Back up before mi blow yuh brains out! (Back up before I blow your brains out!)” The gunman that was closest to Mega leaned in and said to him. Mega cocked back and elbowed the dude with so much force, it sent him flying back; and just as quickly returned his forearm back to Marlins neck with just as much pressure as before.

  “Put the guns down.” Marlin pointed at his guys, they hesitated but eventually put them down. The one that Mega knocked out had a mug on his face, and it was something about his eyes that Mega didn’t like. The one thing that made his family successful was the fact that they fed off of people’s vibes, and dude was giving a bad one. “Messa, put di gun down now!” Marlin yelled in his thick accent. Messa. Noted. Mega thought. “Move yuh bumbaclot arm mi a come here to warn yuh. (Move your muthafucking arm, I came here to warn you.)”

  Mega looked around at where he was and slowly released Marlin, he had never crossed Mega before and he didn’t think he had now. He believed him when he said that he was there to warn him because their loyalty ran deep. His emotions were running high because of his wife and in his mind Ziva was Marlin’s responsibility, that was the deal. Mega wanted to kill her all those years ago but Marlin assured him that she wouldn’t be a problem, yet here they were.

  Taking a few steps back Mega’s chest rose and fell, his chest became tight and vision became a little blurry. He hit his chest a few times before he focused back on Marlin.

  “My wife is in there, fighting for her life because that bitch tried to set her on fire.” He pointed at the door where they wheeled Siya back. “If I hadn’t of been rushing to get to her tonight, she would be dead.”

  The white of Mega’s eyes turned bright red and his pupils took on the darkest shade of brown possible. If you were walking by and saw his face you would think that he was something out of a paranormal movie, he looked that crazy. Every vein that was visible was out and thumping to the beat of his racing heart.

  “Mi looking fi har too (I’m looking for her too.)” Marlin tapped his chest.

  “What the fuck do you mean? She was your responsibility. Why is she here?” Mega closed the gap that was in between them and the guys that were with Marlin closed theirs and Mega turned to face them. He didn’t see fear in any of them except the one that Marlin referred to as Messa. “I’m gonna kill her!” He watched the men and again the only one that nonverbally responded was Messa. When his eyes moved to Marlin, his were void of any emotion.

  “Nuh eff mi a get har fos. (Not if I get her first.)” Marlin’s tone was so dark and demented that it caught Mega’s attention. He listened as Marlin ran down everything that happened back home. He knew right then that shit was about to get real.

  Where is she?

  “The gi—girl walked in the house. She said that she was your friend and that y’all worked together,” Amber sniffed. She was so distraught that she could barely form the words that she needed to tell them what happened. “I told her you weren’t home and wh—when I went to shut the door, the man pushed it and made me fall.”

  “Where was Isis?” AD seethed. He prayed that they didn’t do any of this in front of the baby. That would kill him if she had to see anything like that ever again. She was already scarred from the shit that her bitch ass daddy did to her mom. If she saw any of this, he promised that he would make him pay for it even more than he already would.

  “She was right there on the couch.” AD’s fist tightened. “He slapped me and pushed me down and walked over to her. I could see the fear in her eyes, she was so scared. I jumped on his back and tried to fight him, but he was too strong. Then that bitch pulled me by my hair to the ground and the two of them kicked and hit me while Isis balled up in a corner. Sh—she-” Amber burst out crying, she sobbed uncontrollably.

  AD felt bad from what she had went through, but in his mind, the only thing that mattered was the fact that Isis was missing, and he needed to get her back. He wouldn’t stop until he did. He leaned down to kiss Icelynn and then headed for the door. She grabbed his arm.

  “No! You are not leaving me. I’m going, I don’t give a fuck what you say.” She pulled him back and walked towards the door.

  “Should I call the police?” Amber said in tears.

  “NO!” AD and Icelynn said in unison.

  “I’ll call a friend of mine from the police station over here and just tell him exactly what you told me. He will tell you what to do.” AD gave her a warning look.

  Amber didn’t know what to do, she had never been in a situation like this before. She babysat to put herself through school. Most people’s kids she watched were from the projects like she was, but she was excited when she was referred to Icelynn. Their house was always clean. Isis was a little firecracker but overall, she was a really good girl. This was by far the easiest gig that she had but she didn’t know if she would be returning.

  The gentleman that Icelynn was with right now scared her for some reason so even if she wanted to run straight to the police station. Something was telling her not to, especially if he had friends there.

  “Wh—what if—if they come back.” She stammered.

  “They won’t, Officer Barret is on his way.” AD said tone void of any emotions. He was trying his hardest not to spaz on the girl, but she was irritating him with all these questions. Icelynn could sense it.

  “Just please Amber.” She turned and left out the door. She shot Magic a text asking if she’s seen Dimples and she text back immediately and said that she was there cleaning out her locker. Icelynn told her to keep her there until she got there. “Bitch was dumb enough to go to the job.” Icelynn’s veins quickly filled with hate and the only thing on her mind was hurting Dimples and Salem. “Take me to Onyx!” She demanded the minute they slid into his car. AD got on his phone and made a few calls for Spiff and Vinny to meet him at the club. Spiff said he was already there, and Vinny said he was babysitting, to give him a minute.

  Icelynn sat in the passenger seat with her lips tucked in her mouth trying her best to hold in her sobs. The more s
he thought about the fact that he had her daughter, the harder it became to hold it in.

  “Oh God, he has my baby!” she cried out scaring AD causing him to swerve. When he got control of the wheel again, he grabbed her thigh. Glancing back and forth between her and the road, his heart broke for her.

  He loved Isis and he knew how she felt, that was her daughter. She carried her for nine months, nurtured her for seven years for her to be snatched by the same monster she saved her from. That would mess with the strongest person.

  “We’re getting her back tonight,” AD said with so much conviction. “Ion give a fuck if I have to tear this fucking city up. Isis will be home with us.” Icelynn couldn’t explain it but she believed him. She believed everything that he was saying, and she was grateful. She was grateful that he had come into their lives when he did. She didn’t think she could have gone through this alone.

  “He’s evil,” she said below a whisper. “He doesn’t care about Isis; he will hurt her. You don’t know the things he’s done.” She folded over in the seat and released a gut-wrenching scream.

  Her scream pierced through AD’s ears and straight through is heart. He really didn’t know how much more he could take as a man, but he knew that now wasn’t the time to crumble. Pain and turmoil seemed to be a revolving door in this life and his strength to push through it was incomparable.

  “Icelynn, did you hear what I said?” He looked over at her and rubbed the back of her neck causing her shoulders to shiver.

  “Oh God, he’s gonna hurt my baby!” She cried even harder.

  “ICE!” he yelled making her look up. “Did you hear what I said? She’s coming home tonight.” Icelynn nodded because she truly did believe him, but she couldn’t help thinking about what Salem could be doing to her daughter, their daughter. “Do you believe me Ice?”

  “Yes baby, I believe you. I trust you with everything in me,” she revealed her truth.

  “I need to ask you something, and I don’t want you to get mad. Aight?” He glanced at her and the look in her eyes let him know that she knew exactly what he wanted to know. Nodding her head slowly, she looked straight ahead and prepared for his question. “What did he mean when he said that you had something that belonged to him? I didn’t feel like he was talking about Isis, was he?”