Addicted to a Dirty South Thug 2

by Shan

  Me: About to roll through and pick the kids up. You still getting them or nah?

  Send.

  I sent Cassidy a text to make sure that everything that had happened to Dae hadn’t stopped him from handling his business. I waited a few moments for his slow ass to hit me back, but when he did, I nodded and tossed my phone to the side.

  Cassidy: Bring they little bad asses here. I got something I wanna show them.

  Later that night…

  Me, Cassidy, and the goonie Tramell all walked into Parkland Hospital and headed straight to where KaeDee had told us they were keeping Dae. He was in their critical care unit, and his status had yet to change. We handled the situation with Fariq earlier perfectly. Them niggas never saw us coming, and we got shit handled within minutes. The goonie Tramell had a muthafuckin’ score to handle with them bitches, and you would’ve thought this nigga was Al Pacino off of Scarface. I chuckled at the thought of it.

  I had to tell the young one to calm down so that I could get me few rounds in, but Tramell was lit. I knew that I could never handle that without taking him along for the ride. Once we body dropped them niggas, we took them out to where Cassidy and another one of the goonies from the crew was waiting and threw them niggas in the dirt. The day should’ve been ended celebrating the fact that we handled that business, but I couldn’t go another minute without coming through to sit by my brother’s side. Fuck it, I had brought the drinks with me too.

  Dae hated them punk ass Arabs, and I know he would be proud to know that they were no longer going to be a problem. Shit, we may never know who gave them the drop on us that helped them hit our spot, but I was always going to keep my eyes and ears open for that info. Once a snake, always a snake, and I wanted to be sure that, whoever it was didn’t get too far from me.

  Once we made it inside of Dae’s hospital room, I spotted KaeDee standing in the corner of the room. He sat in the window and stared out of it while a guard stood on the other side. Dae was hooked up to all kinds of machines that quietly beeped in unison. I shook my head as I walked over to him and kissed him on his forehead. I could hear the guard shuffling behind me, but I didn’t even care. This was my blood; my young one was near death, and I needed him to know that I was sorry for what I had done. I know that I had apologized when I visited him, but he needed to hear me say it again. I wanted him to know again that I was sorry for giving up on him too.

  “Bruh, pull through this shit man. For real, Dae. I’m sorry man. I fucked up, and I need you to come through this. I got the kid at the house, and I was gonna holler at you about changing that little nigga’s name. That dude is a soldier bruh. I can already tell he got your heart. I need you to come through bruh so you can raise your son yourself,” I said, as I grabbed his hand and knelt down on the side of the bed. “I’m sorry man, and I love you.”

  “He gonna be straight,” Cassidy said, as he came and stood on the other side of the bed and I nodded.

  “Yea, he gonna make it. No worries,” Tramell commented and stood next to Cassidy.

  “He just taking a much-needed rest. When he pulls through, he coming out on the other side stronger than ever,” KaeDee said as he came and stood next to me. I pulled out the Goose that I had inside of the paper bag and handed everybody one of the little plastic cups I had gotten from the liquor store. We poured up and sipped even though my ass didn’t need to drink shit else. Even though the bruh was laid out and in bad shape, I was in a good place right now. I had the lady that I wanted on my team, and she made me the happiest man alive. I had really been thinking long and hard about taking things to that next level with her.

  Back when me and Selena were together, I put a ring on her finger just to get her to shut the fuck up and stop nagging a nigga, but I never asked her to marry me or even had plans to. The shit that I had planned to do with Cuba when I did do it, I was gonna do it right. She deserved that much. All I could think about was how I was gonna keep her ass pregnant, and even though she was an emotional mess when she was knocked up, I just knew this shit was about to beautiful. I was ready.

  Chapter 26

  Cassidy

  3 months later…

  Can’t play no games with these niggas.

  Can’t play no games with these niggas, they’re so fake and phony.

  Can’t play no games with these bitches, they treat me like I’m Tony.

  Can’t play no games with these niggas.

  That Rick Ross featuring Future track No Games blasted through the speakers, and I looked around as everybody was having a good ass time. Khi and KaeDee had put together a New Year’s party slash homecoming for the kid, and I was having the time of my life. Even though I had been home for a little minute now, this time had seemed like the best time to welcome a nigga back in the field.

  Walking out that cell to my freedom wasn’t really even the same as it felt now because I really wasn’t free then. I had to come out fighting for my life all because of the decisions that I had made in the past. I had been harboring around secrets and telling lie after lie just to save face, but I was glad that everything had come out and that it was all behind me. When the dust finally settled, and that nigga Fariq was in the dirt, I took Tangie to Ocho Rios, and we chilled for a good minute while I got my head together. I ain’t wanna leave at first being that Dae had been still in critical condition, but I felt like it was something that I had to do.

  In the past, I had taken too much for granted. Nigga was wilding out with a bunch of different hoes and not giving a fuck about this free air I breathed. I was body dropping just ‘cause I knew I could and just really didn’t have a care in the world back then. Somebody set my ass up and forced me to take a fall and that was some more shit that I still had to deal with because I didn’t feel like it had anything to do with Fariq. Thinking back on it, he seemed madder than me that I was being arrested. I ain’t know who would want to send the kid to jail, but now that I was free, I was gonna take some time to look over my case to see what was what.

  Tangie was my only light back then, but I didn’t even treat her right. All I did was dog her thinking that none of my shit was going to ever come out. I possibly had a baby out there that I had yet to locate the mother and I had lost a son and was forced to do my entire bid by myself because of my decisions. That shit my pops was talking about that day we saw him was muthafuckin’ real behind them walls. That shit did turn a nigga into an animal, but that was not the way I wanted to be. I was working on being calmer and smarter than before, and I was definitely working on treating my woman right. I was 25 years old, and I wasn’t getting any younger.

  “Who the fuck invited her?” Tangie said to me, as we both caught Briana as she stormed into the spot. Khi rented out this huge ass venue and had invited the whole muthafuckin’ neighborhood to come through. I ran across so many old faces from back in the day that I was forever saying hi and reminding niggas that I had been gone for a minute. I had got so tired of telling the same story over and over again that I had yoked Tangie up and hid in the corner with her.

  “Shit the flyer was posted up everywhere so I’m sure she saw it somewhere,” I told Tangie as I felt all over her booty. She was wearing this tight ass bandage dress that had every curve poking out in all the right places. Her hair was curled tight to her head in her signature short cut, and her little round face was looking a little plumper than usual.

  “Babe, you pregnant,” I asked her.

  “I’m about to go warn Cuba that this bitch is here. I’ll be right back,” Tangie said, as she looked back at me and smiled. I noticed how she dodged my question, but it was cool, I’d find out later. She walked away to look for her cousin, and I pulled the blunt I had been waiting to blaze from behind my ear. I put the fire to the gas and took in a huge toke just as KaeDee walked up.

  I shook my head and chuckled at the fact that this nigga had really hooked up with this police chick. I told that nigga not to bring that bitch around me, but he claimed she was cool and wasn’t re
ally tripping on nothing we be doing. He knew I was one paranoid ass nigga, so I didn’t put nothing past nobody. I put the blunt out and would save that shit for later. The bitch seemed like a looney to me though, but I was convinced that KaeDee liked them that way. He told me the story surrounding her husband Deitric, and all I could do was shake my head. Somehow, I knew that shit was about to turn some shit up, but we just had to wait and see.

  Fuck it though, because if he was happy, then I was happy. The nigga wife had really left him out here fucked up. She had some explaining to do, but of course her ass was six feet under. I had only got to meet Deonna one time, but she was good people from what everybody had said about her. She was just a real live criminal and all her shit had caught up to her.

  Sadly, KaeDee never got to give it to that nigga Tyrin. The feds had picked that dude up, and he was now doing time back in Miami, on what I hear, from charges that had to do with that dope shit. I had told KaeDee not to even worry about it, because his time was coming, and trust, the bruh was gonna be waiting.

  KaeDee had come through on those murder charges for Daelan and had gotten all the charges dropped before the shit could even go to court. Apparently, the DA couldn’t get a hold of any of the witnesses, and the one witness they did talk to, which was Cuba, had claimed to not know anything. Not only that, the statement that got his ass locked up to begin with was recanted forcing the DA to have nothing to stand on. The only thing that they were able to get to stick was the assault charge against the officer, and with time already served, Daelan was free to go.

  He was still in the hospital, but he was doing way better. He was now breathing on his own, but had been in a coma since a couple of days after he was hospitalized. We was hopeful that he was going to come to though, because my moms said that the doctor had been reporting back with a lot more brain activity than usual so it was only a matter of time. All we knew that we was waiting on him before we made any moves against that nigga Tamar. Khi was persistent that we take that nigga down and I was down for whatever.

  “What’s up bruh, you good?” I asked KaeDee, and he nodded.

  “Yep, it’s almost that time. Wanted to make sure I had a good view.”

  “Yea, we got like six more minutes. Where the kid at though? I ain’t seen that nigga?”

  “Last I heard, he was out in the parking lot blowing on a backwood with Tramell. That nigga nervous.”

  “He should be. His crazy ass baby mama in the building,” I said, and KaeDee shook his head as he looked around.

  “Which one?” he asked and I pointed at Briana as she stood off to the side with a drink in her head.

  I looked at my cell to check the time, and it was now two minutes until midnight. I came out the little corner that I was in and stood next to KaeDee and his old lady. When I looked to my left, I saw Cuba, Tangie, and Tameeka in what looked like a heated conversation, and all I could do was slide my hands into my pockets. I watched as Tangie hopped into Tameeka’s face, but Cuba quickly pulled her away. I sucked my teeth and headed in their direction, but the crowd suddenly parted and blocked me from getting to them.

  “10, 9, 8, 7,6….3, 2, 1! Happy New Year!” Everyone yelled and the DJ dropped the Jagged Edge track Let’s Get Married on cue. I looked around and finally spotted Tangie pulling Cuba to the middle of the open space that had been created for her. Tangie had an angry look on her face that caused me to swallow back hard. I glanced over in the direction that I had seen Tameeka, and for the first time, noticed the little curve in her stomach. Fuck; I thought just as Tangie stormed my way.

  “This bitch says that she’s pregnant by you!” Tangie yelled over the music, and I nodded towards the middle of the floor to shut her up. Khi had came through all suave and shit with Brooks Brothers from head to toe. That nigga had pulled out all stops for Cuba, and that shit brought a smile to my face even with Tangie standing here ready to bite my head off.

  “Don’t act like you don’t hear me fuckin’ talking to you. Did you fuck this bitch Tameeka and get her pregnant?”

  Just as Tangie said that, it seemed like the DJ had stopped the music at the same time. Everyone looked our way, and it pissed me off, because I wasn’t trying to take this moment away from my bruh.

  “Can you shut the fuck up?” I said, angrily, as I tried to step away from Tangie, but she grabbed my arm.

  “Cass, is this bitch pregnant by you? Answer me?” Tangie yelled, and I quickly slid my hands back into my pockets again. I looked down at her and decided not to lie to her. I was on this new me shit and part of that was me owning my shit and not depending on lies to get me to the next lie.

  “She was just something that happened one time. Me and you wasn’t even together and…”

  Tangie slapped me across the face, turned around, and ran out of the room. I sucked my teeth and watched as Cuba looked as if she wanted to go after her. I shook my head no and nodded for Khi to continue.

  “Sorry,” I mouthed to them and watched the young one drop down to his knee in front of his girl.

  “Cuba Lance,” Khi said into the microphone, which caused the bitches in the crowd to melt. I looked around, and my eyes landed on Tameeka’s hoe ass.

  “You dirty bitch,” I mouthed to her as I gritted down on my teeth. The hoe had the nerve to smirk while she rested her hands on the top of her stomach. I took my hand and ran it across my neck to let that hoe know it was nothing. I had fucked this bitch one time in the muthafuckin’ Wal-Mart parking lot right after them niggas Fariq and his people tried to take our heads off. I had forgot all bout this broad. She had shot a nigga a few text messages trying to see me and shit, but I had ignored her ass.

  Only time I had visited Tangie’s shop was when I was begging her ass to come back to a nigga and since then, I had stayed away from that bitch. I knew me fucking Tameeka was wrong being she was my shawty’s employee, but damn one time was all it was. It meant not a muthafuckin’ thing to me. A quick fuck to ease my horny ass mind after doing time in the Fed joint. Tameeka wanted to play games and try to fuck up a nigga’s happy home so I had some tricks for her ass too. I was trying hard to be different because I could really be a wild boy when I wanted to be. Got damn these hoes just couldn’t let me be great.

  “You dead,” I mouthed before I sucked my teeth and placed my attention back on the fam. What a glorious muthafuckin’ occasion.

  Chapter 27

  Cuba

  “Cuba Lance,” Khi said into the microphone, and I heard a few chicks hollering like they were at a Barry White concert or some shit. I smiled, but I couldn’t get my cousin Tangie off my mind. She had come to tell me that Briana had just came to the party, and I guess to make sure I was in place for Khi’s surprise proposal.

  It blew the both of us when that bitch Tameeka from the shop decided to announce that she had been sleeping with Cass and was pregnant with his baby. That was some hoe ass shit, and I hoped that Cass wasn’t out here living foul like that. Tangie deserved better, and the nigga had already done her dirty years ago before he got locked up. I shook their drama off my mind though and looked back down at my man as he pulled a box from his pocket. He opened it up, and the fattest ring I had ever seen in my life glistened under the light.

  “I knew that when I first laid my eyes on you that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. You was like my diamond in the rough. You everything a nigga could ever want and need in his life. Some days, you like one of the boys, and I can just kick back and crack jokes with you, and you crack them bitches right back. I always knew that you was my soul mate, Ma. I was telling that shit to everybody that would listen.

  I made a few mistakes along the way, but you stuck by my side, and I appreciate you for that. You’ve been a good ass mother to my daughter, and I just can’t get over how much you love my kid. I wanted to do this on this particular day at this time, because I wanted to make sure I brought this year in right. New year, new us type shit. I wanted to do it in front of everyone so that all these
hoes know I’m off limits and know that you’re my queen. I want these niggas to know what’s mine and that I ain’t playing no games bout that either. I love you baby; you’re a nigga’s backbone already, but what I wanna know is will you be the kid’s wife? Will you marry me babe?”

  “Bruh! Bruh!” I heard Cassidy yell from the crowd, as I wiped away the tear that slipped from my eye and nodded my head yes. Another tear fell and then another one, and I no longer tried to hide them. Khi slid the rock onto my finger, and I brought my hands to cover my face as I cried uncontrollably. I was just so overwhelmed with joy and happiness, and I couldn’t even believe that this was happening to me. After being with a guy like Rue, and spending three years of my life in jail, I never thought that I would find someone to love me the way I was supposed to be loved. I had wanted so bad to run from Khi or just push him away and leave him for every mistake he made, but I realized that I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t run away from something that was meant from me. I loved this man in front of me so much. I was ready and prepared to spend a lifetime with him.

  “Baby, stop crying,” Khi said, as he chuckled and tried to pull my hands away from my face, but I wouldn’t let him. I didn’t want everyone looking at me like this. I knew that my makeup was running and that my eyes were red from crying so hard. “I assumed that was a yes right since you nodded your head.”

  “Yes, yes, baby, I will marry you,” I said to him, and he wrapped me up in a hug. He held onto me for a long while, and the crowd began to disperse while others looked around for someone to dance with when the DJ dropped the track All My Life by K-Ci and JoJo. I began to giggle, as I looked up into Khi’s eyes.

  “I’m saying though; you don’t like my romantic side?” Khi asked, and I nodded as I stared at him. He stared back at me with those hazel eyes and smiled as he pulled a strand of hair from my face. “Don’t let that shit with Tangie them bother you baby. This about us right now.”