Still Sheisty: Part 2 (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
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Still Sheisty, Part 2
T N Baker
STILL SHEISTY
This is a work of fiction. The authors have invented the characters.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coinci-dental.
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Compilation and Introduction copyright (c) 2004 by Triple Crown Publications
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Library of Congress Control Number: ISBN# 0-976234904-0- Cover Design/Graphics: www.MarionDesigns.com Author: T.N. Baker
Editor: Chloe A Hilliard
Production: Kevin J. Calloway
Consulting: Vickie M. Stringer
Copyright (c) 2004 by Triple Crown Publications. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except by reviewer who may quote brief pas-sages to be printed in a newspaper or magazine.
First Trade Paperback Edition Printing December 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Printed in the United States of America
DEDICATION
To my daughter Tiana, I love you.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you Jesus, for giving me the strength to complete my second book. With you, I know any and everything is possible.
To my editor, Chloe A. Hilliard, girl, I think you are just WONDERFUL! I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with someone who listens, takes the time to explain, shows interests and makes herself available to me at all times. To me it don't get no better than that! I thank you so much.
To my mother Audrien Cox, Ma, I thank you for never leaving home without a flyer for Sheisty. Your support means the world to me I love you!
I would like to take all my loved ones names from Sheisty's acknowledgements and place them here. Unfortunately I can't, but everybody knows who they are and what they mean to me.
The love is still the same. I would like to thank all my family on my fathers' side. I feel whole now that I have you guys in my life.
Aunt Cleo, Uncle Sherman and all my cousins a.k.a The Fabulous Baker Boys and Girls. I love you guys. Let's keep in touch. To my good friend Michelle Jackson, thanks for always lending an ear when I need one and for the great advice, also.
You are a beautiful person in and out. - Love Neish!
To my friend Liz, I got nothing but love for you baby. To Richard Holland, your friendship is a very special one to me.
Thanks for all the pep talks and encouragement you've given me. Love ya! To my publisher, Vickie Stringer, thanks for being patient with the completion of Still Sheisty and for showing me the love.
To all my TCP Family, much love and success. Keeping doing the damn thing.
Special thanks to Ka Shamba for keeping me informed with dates for all the book signings. Shannon Holmes, I'm glad were cool, now. Al-Saadiq Banks, thanks for the advice when I was going through tough times in this business. I wish you much success.
Special thanks to Masamba on Jamaica Ave. for supporting Sheisty. Keep pushing those copies. Much love. And to all the readers that supported Sheisty...I thank you for the bottom of my heart. Big Tone...you know I love you, right? I also thank everybody that I might have forgot who play a part in my life, it's not intentional so please don't take it personal.
PROLOGUE
Epiphany
"I closed my eyes and squeezed the trigger. Not knowing whether or not my shot was a successful one. I felt a burning sensation pierce through my chest. "Noooooo," I screamed as I was thrown to the floor from the strong impact. Instantly I could feel the warmth of my blood leaking from the stinging wound.
My eyes started getting heavy. The pain was too much to bear............
Keisha
I opened the door to my bedroom and right away tears started to fill my eyes as I watched Tucker sitting on the edge of the bed watching the video tape from my bacholorette party............
Shana
I followed Smitty to the door on his way out and before I could thank him for covering my ass he turned to me with a devious smirk and said, 'You owe me nigga!' From his look alone I knew I was in for the bullshit.
CHAPTER ONE
"Oh god, please noooooo-," were the last words Epiphany whispered as tears fell down the sides of her face and she lost consciousness after the shooting. C-God damn near pissed himself; his heart pounded rapidly. For a moment he thought he was shot. Fortunately for him, Epiphany's aim was way off because she closed her eyes when she squeezed the trigger.
"Yo man, c'mon we gotta get the fuck up out of here," Ness screamed. C kneeled down beside Epiphany and felt remorseful.
Finally, he felt her pain. In any other situation he wouldn't have given a fuck, especially when it came down to his life. But this wasn't just any situation and as much as he tried to front on Epiphany, he really did care for her. He had no intentions on killing her. He just wanted to shake her up enough to get her to talk. C-God looked down at the papers still clutched in his hand, confirming Epiphany's pregnancy and felt even more fucked up.
"Yo, fuck that bitch. Lets role, dawg!" Ness yelled in a panic.
Finally, C snapped out of it, grabbed both guns and together they fled the scene doing eighty down South Jamaica's residential back streets.
"Nigga you must of been soft on that chick, but yo it was either you or her nigga, look at it that way." Ness was the type of nigga with a big ass mouth that didn't know how to leave well enough alone. "If I ain't come up in there when I did, your shorty might of murked you dawg, for real, but I had your back though."
C-God just sat there wearing a screw faced look on his face, thinking about the 'what ifs' as he listened to Ness in silence.
Deep down C-God knew Epiphany would have kept shooting at him until she killed him. So yes, he felt Ness reacted the way he was supposed to when he shot her, but C didn't want to hear him boasting about it. Obviously the look on his face wasn't enough because Ness didn't catch the hint; he just continued to go on and on about the incident until suddenly C snapped.
"Shut the fuck up, damn! A nigga can't even think straight, with you running the fuck off at the mouth. Just don't say shit else to me until I ask you to and pull this muthafucka over at that payphone right there."
Ness did what he was told - shut the fuck up and pulled over. It was C-God's duty to live his life coldheartedly. He never cared too much about anybody, except his parents. Outside of them the rest of his family was cool but if they crossed him they could easily be killed for doing so. But on the real he was all bark with no bite, only nobody knew it because they never put him to the test. It was his older brothers that were the truth back in the days. Nigga's ain't fuck with his three brothers or whoever they considered to be family. Pop, Black Russ and Lloyd were well-known and now 'legendary gangstas', ranking with some of the best that ever terrorized Queens. They were ruthless with no respect for a person's life, killers without a cause. If they weren't feeling you for whatever reason, then they didn't give a fuck about you or your family and in their presence you better had shown fear. Unfortunately, living that life came back to haunt them, leading to Pop and Russ's brutal deaths and landing Lloyd in prison for life with no chance of parole. Still, C-God felt since he was the last breed of the notorious Hinderson brothers he had something to prove. He had to own up to his family name and the reputation they paved. For some reason, his conscious was eating away at him tonight and that ain't supposed to happen to no Hinderson.
C-God picked up the receiver on the pay phone using the papers he took from Epiphany's purse and with a piece of tissue covering his fingertip, he dialed the police. He always thought with a criminals mind. Disguising his voice in an unrecognizable high-pitched tone he called for an ambulance in hopes that Epiphany might still be alive.
Epiphany briefly regained consciousness, oblivious to the sounds of the loud sirens as she lied still in a pool of her own blood. An ambulance and three police cars arrived at the scene shortly after the call was made. The cops entered first and took a look around, then signaled the paramedics with an 'okay, the coast was clear'. When the paramedics entered, the police suggested they tend to the girl first, besides from the looks of things it was obvious that Malikai was already deceased. The EMS
workers immediately ran over to Epiphany and checked her vital signs.
"She's still alive," one of them shouted. "Start an IV, her pulse is weak, this is not good. She's losing a lot of blood. Let's get a move on it fast!" Lifting Epiphany onto the stretcher he continued, "We're losing her; let's get her to the hospital now!"
CHAPTER TWO
Keisha stood in the bedroom doorway completely appalled.
Her heart fell into the pit of her stomach and tears instantly fell down her face. As she stood there, her fiance watch her give herself to another man--performing and receiving sexual pleasures on camera as if her name was Janet Jackme. She froze; stuck on stupid, puzzled as to how the videotape she destroyed managed to resurface again. She searched for the right words to say. She wanted to say something, but what? "I'm sorry." No, that wasn't gonna cut it. There was nothing to be said. She fucked up and she knew it. She felt like she had just slid down a razor blade, right into a pool of alcohol. Tucker's face was filled with a rage that she had never seen before. A rage that put fear in Keisha's heart. She was afraid to say or do anything so she continued to watch him watch her fuck and suck on another man in ways she had never done with him since they'd been together. He never ever thought about putting his hands on any women, let alone Keisha, until now. Fuming, he was to the point were he really wanted to hurt her. Tucker jumped up, snatched the VCR from the top of the 52" screen TV and frisbeed it into to the wall close to were Keisha was standing. Keisha jumped out of the way and into the hallway as the VCR crashed into the wall and then hit the floor.
Water flooded his eyes and his heart was filled with pain.
This was the ultimate feeling of betrayal, but he would never give her the satisfaction of seeing him cry. No one for that mat- ter. His militant father instilled in him as a boy that a man ain't supposed to cry. A strong man sucks it all up and keeps it moving. By now, all types of distasteful thoughts ran through Tucker's mind, but he never said a word. He simply looked at Keisha with such anger and disgust. If looks could kill she would have suffered a painful death. Keisha was still standing in the hall, afraid to move or say a word. She wasn't sure what to expect from this furious side of Tucker. Keisha's mother, Loretta, and her son, lil' T, were awakened and startled when they heard the crashing sound. She jumped out of bed, grabbed the baby and rushed from the bedroom to see what was going on. Right outside her door she spotted Keisha near the doorway of her bedroom crying.
"Keisha is everything okay," asked her concerned mother.
Keisha didn't respond, instead she took it as an opportunity to get out of Tucker's sight. Making a run for the bathroom she locked herself inside and cried like a baby. Loretta was curious as to what was going on. She assumed that maybe it was just a heated discussion about the wedding postponement. Since there wasn't any sign of domestic violence she felt no need to get involved, so she headed back to her room. Tucker had no sympathy for Keisha or her tears and at this point, all he felt for her was pure hatred, but he would never hurt her because of his son.
'Let me just get the fuck up out of here,' he said to himself, quickly gathered up some of his belongings and broking out in a hurry. He wasn't sure if his anger would allow him to honor the fact that she was his baby's mother. Once the sound of Tucker's truck sped off, confirming that the coast was now clear, Loretta laid Lil' T in the bed and came back out of her room. She knocked gently on the bathroom door.
"Keisha is everything alright?" She whispered again.
Keisha wasn't alright, her life was over. She opened the door and fell into her mother's arms for comfort.
"He's gone and I don't think he's coming back." Keisha stuttered as she cried.
"What happened?"
"The tape, he saw the tape."
"No! Keisha, how? I thought you got rid of it."
"I did, I did. And there's no way possible, that could be the same tape. Somebody had to set me up. One of the girls at my bachelorette party, posing to be my friend, set this whole thing up and my stupid ass fell for it. Now he's gone and what am I gonna do, huh? How am I ever gonna get Tucker to forgive me?" She asked her mother, hoping and wishing she could give her all the right answers.
"Keisha, you know Tucker loves you, just give him some time. He'll come around so you guys can at least talk and try to work things out. In the meantime, you need to be strong and try to keep it together, not only for you, but for that baby boy in the next room. Don't make the same mistakes that I did. You know what you did was wrong, but we all make mistakes. I know you love him and he knows it too. Understand that that was a pretty big bomb you dropped on him, so he's gotta be devastated and full of hurt right now. You' re the mother of his son, a son that he loves more than anything in this world and nothing will ever change that. Just give it some time, he'll come around. You just have to pray for the best and prepare for the worst just in case he can't find it in his heart to forgive you. If he can't, then you just got to find a way to move on." Loretta said stroking her daughter's head while she cried in her arms.
Keisha listened to her mother's words, but at the same time she didn't feel like she could manage life without Tucker. She went and got her son from her mother's bed. Holding him close, she reminisced on how happy Tucker was when she told him she was pregnant. Their son, lil' man, was the bond that she and Tucker shared; a bond created out of love. A bond that because of her stupidity might be the only thing she has left of Tucker.
Before shutting her puffy red eyes and get some sleep, she made a promise to herself to find out which one of those bitches was responsible for causing this misery.
CHAPTER THREE
Epiphany's father had a terrible ringing in his left ear all evening. Old folks used to say that when you heard a ringing sound in your ear that was the sound of death bells and someone close to you was gonna die. Jay Wright didn't believe that ol' superstitious shit, but for some reason tonight's feeling just wasn't right. Those feeling were confirmed when he was awakened in the middle of the night by the doorbell. He jump up out of bed and rushed down the stairs to see who it was. It had to be some bad news 'cause nobody rang his bell that time of morning since he left the drug game three years ago. When he reached the door, he opened it slightly and peaked out to find two police officers, one black and one white, standing there. He assumed something might of happened to his brother Ramel, who took over his position when he retired from the game.
Before he could speak one of the officers addressed him.
"Good morning Sir, I'm officer Johnson and this is officer Riley we're sorry to bother you at this time of morning, but are you Jay Wright?"
Epiphany's dad hated the police, but he kept his composure because finding out their reason for being at his front door was more important.
"Yes officer, I am. What's going on?"
"Mr. Wright, I'm sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news, but your daughter Epiphany and a young man were found shot in her apartment around midnight. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Your daughter was severely wounded and rushed to the nearest hospital. We don't know the status of her condition but she was still alive when she was admitted to the hospital."
"AWW FUCK! FUCK HELL NAH ! NAH, NOT EPEE!" Jay Wright punched his fist through the wooden door. His wife awakened from her sound sleep when she heard his loud out-burst. She threw on her robe and came running down the stairs.
Hearing her husband yell out like that could only mean that something terrible had happened.