Side Chic 2 (A Ratchet Mess)

by West, La'Tonya

  “Nothing much, I cooked a lil food on the grill and shit. You do remember what today is right?”

  That’s when it hit me! Today was his birthday! “Oh snap, happy birthday man!”

  “Thanks, I was hoping that you would come through. Ever since you and Skeet stop fuckin’ with each other you don’t come through no more.”

  “Man, I’m just trying to stay out of trouble.” I admitted. “I can’t come through today though because I have my kids with me.”

  “Man, you don’t have to stay long. Just come through and get a plate or something and drink a beer with me for my birthday. Shit don’t feel right without you here!” He confessed making me feel bad. “I don’t have shit to do with what’s going on between you and Skeet. That’s between y’all but you and I have been friends for a long ass time so I feel like what y’all got going on shouldn’t affect you coming through to holla at me for my birthday”

  “I feel you man but it ain’t like that.”

  “Well come through then, just for a few minutes.”

  “Alright, I’ll be through in a lil while but I’m not going to stay long.”

  “Aight, that’s what’s up.” We hung up.

  “Pops do you think ma will watch the kids for about an hour so that I can go over and holla at Casper for his birthday? I won’t be long because the girls don’t have but a bottle a piece in the diaper bag.”

  “Yeah, go ahead. We’ll watch them but don’t be long because neither of us has any breast milk if these babies get hungry after that bottle is gone.”

  I laughed at my pops. “Alright.”

  “Bring Ms. Lola over here and place her in my other arm. We are going to lay here and look at TV.” I did as he said and then left.

  Tre

  As I headed to Casper’s crib, I had a bad feeling. I started to turn around and go back to my parent’s crib but I decided to go ahead over to holla at him since it was his birthday. I took out my phone and called Lala.

  “Hello.” She answered after the third ring.

  “Hey, I was just calling to let you know that I am going to run over to my boy Casper’s crib for about an hour. It’s his birthday and he wanted me to come through and drink a beer with him but I’m not going to be over there long.” I told her.

  “Okay…Tre, don’t get drunk because you have to go back and pick the kids up.”

  “Oh, I’m not. I’m only going to drink one beer.”

  “Okay, well call me when you are on your way so that I will be ready.”

  “Aight.” I hung up and turned up the radio.

  When I got to Casper’s crib there was a nice lil crowd there. I parked on side of the street and got out. I walked up into the yard speaking to a few people that I knew along the way. I spotted Casper and the rest of the crew up by the porch. I walked over to where they were and gave everybody dap. To my surprise, Skeet spoke and dapped me up too. Kisha was standing next to him rolling her eyes.

  “What’s good wit’cha birthday boy?” I asked Casper. “How old are you today?”

  “I’m twenty-seven years fuckin’ old!” He shouted! I could tell he was damn near wasted. He wasn’t feeling any pain at all! “Get you a beer man! Somebody give my nigga a motherfuckin beer!”

  Tamika walked up to me and handed me a cold Bud Ice. “Here you go.”

  “Thanks.” I said taking the beer from her.

  Casper grabbed Tamika around her waist from behind and pulled her back into him, kissing her sloppily on the side of her face! “Look at my baby, ain’t she finer than a motherfucka! I swear I love this woman to death!”

  Tamika tried to break away from Casper but he wouldn’t let go. “Move Casper, you’re drunk!” She yelled screwing her face up and still trying to break away.

  His hands were all over her like those of an octopus. He was rubbing all over her titties in front of everybody! “Oh be quiet and stop frontin’ you know you love it when I’m drunk” He laughed kissing on her neck! “I’m going to tear that pussy up tonight! You gone give ya man some birthday sex baby?”

  “Man, you are fucked up!” Tyson teased. “You don’t need nothing else to drink!”

  “You can say that again!” Tamika agreed finally breaking a loose from Casper’s grasp. She fixed the short baby blue sundress that she was wearing and switched off across the yard.

  “Damn Casper, your ass is bent!” I laughed. I don’t believe that I’d ever seen him that fucked up before.

  “Yeah, I am feeling good.” He laughed too. I stood there talking to him and the rest of the fellas for a while and drinking my beer. I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at the time. I’d been there for over an hour. “I’m going in the house to take a piss and then I have to go.” I told Casper.

  “Go ahead on in the house man! You know you don’t have to ask me if you can use my bathroom! We are like family.”

  I went inside and used the bathroom. On my way out of the bathroom, I bumped into Tamika who had been standing at the door. “Damn girl, you scared the shit out of me!”

  “Hmph…anyways can I see you tonight?”

  “What?” I snapped looking at her like she was stupid. “Girl, move out of my way!” I tried to walk past her but she jumped in front of me.

  “Why?”

  “Tamika, go ahead on! It’s your man’s birthday and you are in here acting like a hoe, begging me for some dick!”

  “You have a nerve to be calling somebody a hoe when ya babymama fuckin Skeet!”

  “Whatever, that’s her! That ain’t got shit to do with me!”

  “Why are you trippin’ Tre? Come on…” She reached out and rubbed my chest but I knocked her hand back. “Don’t front like you didn’t like the way that this pussy used to feel, the way that you used to be moaning when you were fuckin’ me…”

  I heard something click and looked up, Casper was standing there swaying back and forth holding a pistol. He was staring at me through drunken hate filled eyes. “You ain’t shit nigga! You and me are supposed to be like brothers and you are fuckin’ my girl? Gotdamn it, Tre! You know how much I loved this girl! How you gone do some shit like this?”

  I opened my mouth to speak but I didn’t get a chance to say anything before the gun went off. I thought that I’d been hit but when Tamika fell into me I realized that it was her that had been shot. I looked up just in time to see him pulling the trigger, the first bullet hit me in the shoulder, the gun went off again and I felt a bullet rip through my stomach. I fell backwards onto the floor and then another one hit me in the chest after that everything went black…

  THANK YOU’S

  First and foremost I would like to thank God for everything. Without him nothing would be possible. I thank him for blessing me with this wonderful gift to be able to write and entertain people with my stories. Secondly, I would like to thank my three beautiful babies, Ny’Ajah, Camari, and AnTeyvion. You three are the reason that I grind so hard and continue to strive for more and to become a better me. I would like to thank my mom, Angela Taylor and my dad, Paul Hill. I am thankful for and appreciate you both. To my grandmothers Ann West and Mable Hill, I love you both and thank you for being there for me whenever I have needed you both. To my sister and my best friend Tinika Taylor, I love you more than life itself. You are my rock, the one person I can depend on when everyone else in this harsh world has turned their backs on me! I treasure every moment that the two of us spend together.

  To all of my aunts, uncles and cousins, I love you guys. R.I.P to my uncles Steve and Calvin, I miss you both very much. A special shout out to my uncle Al Kelly, even though we don’t get to see each other much anymore because of our hectic schedules, I love you to pieces and thank you so much for the love and support that you have shown me. Thank you to my sister from another mother Denise Mason, I love you girl and appreciate you. Thanks for listening to my constant drama lol even though I already know what you be saying in your head when I be yapping…lmao! To my cousin, Teresa Porter (my late
night, early morning riding partner). Thanks for being there for me the times when I have needed you the most to just be a listening ear.

  Now I’d like to thank all of the fans who have followed my work! Thank you to each and every one of you who has ever purchased any of my work or just taken time to read an excerpt of mine. I appreciate it. Thank you to Cash who has believed in a sista since day one. I can’t begin to express to you how much your friendship and constant advice and support means to me, I love you and will always treasure our friendship.

  To all of the wonderful authors who have supported me or just given me advice, thank you. Aaron Bebo, Jason Hooper, Aleta Williams, Authoress Redd, Andrionna Williams, Candice Stevenson. There are a few of you who have been some real riders so I definitely have to shout you out. Kendra Littleton, Brandi McClinton, Novie Cuteyez, Sharon Blount, Skeet the Poet, Karen Patterson, Chyna Blue, Raychelle Williams, Shayna Williams, Judy Richburg, and Shaniqua Townes. Shout to one of the best book clubs BRAB! You guys rock!!! Thank you all so much. If I have forgotten any one I truly apologize. I suck at this lol. Please know that it wasn’t intentional.