“What shit Terrell? Fluffy’s soft voice came through the phone
. “Man what you want?” he said climbing out the truck.
“I hear you got a little girlfriend, she know about me?” she asked putting extra emphasis on ‘little’.
Terrell knew that Bianca had to have been the one to tell Fluffy about Phoenix because they had ran into her one night at the movies. Not that Terrell gave a damn that she said anything it’s just he hated everybody in his business, but because Williamsburg was so small that’s how it was.
“What is there to know about you?” he asked knowing he would piss her off.
“Yea well you can play games if you want too, but either you tell her about me, or I will and you know if I tell her, it aint gonna be to pretty” she said with a laugh.
“You threating me?” Terrell asked stopping dead in his tracks, because everyone knew he didn’t take threats to well.
“Now come on baby, you know I don’t make threats, but I do make promises” Fluffy said laughing before hanging up the phone. Terrell knew he was going to have to deal with Fluffy, because she would not stop unless she was happy, but right now he had other shit to deal with.
“What’s up?” He spoke to the hostess as he walked into the restaurant. Spotting Polo and Old School he headed and walked to where they were. “What’s up?” he greeted as he sat down.
“Aint shit” they both said in unison.
“Terrell ya boy popping molly’s and shit,” Polo said, and it wasn’t that Terrell didn’t believe him; he just knew Polo always had a bad taste about Renz so he had to make sure it was true.
“Rell, that nigga gone out his mind, he was with Pac man a lot before he was killed. They said Pac man was going around saying they did a job together, which left two people dead” Old School said.
Terrell’s mind was on 1,000 but it seemed like it sped up when he heard that Renz and Pac man did a job together. ‘Could it really be the same job that left one of Geno’s girl dead, and him in the hospital? Could Renz be that fucked up that he stole from him, and tried to kill his blood?’ Terrell thought to himself.
“I know this shit hard to take in, but if that nigga really popping molly’s you know he capable of doing anything cause that drug will fuck ya whole head up” Polo said truthfully. All three of them knew what a molly could do to you, because they were dealing it at one point.
“Damn” was all Terrell could say as he thought about Renz his best friend, his brother from another mother, actually being his enemy now. They all continued to talk; Terrell still didn’t know how he wanted to approach the situation. He knew how he should approach it, but because of who it was, it was fucking him up.
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It was a little after 10 when Terrell walked into the house, and as soon as he stepped inside his phone began to ring. “Hello?” it was his twin sister Chavon, she and his mother was the only two that he didn’t say “Yo” to.
“Are you busy?” she asked when he placed the phone on speaker as he walked upstairs.
“Nah, but hang on a sec” he said walking into his room, he didn’t want to wake Phoenix up, because she had just recently stopped with that jumping in her sleep shit. “Aight, what’s up?” he said when he walked into this room. He knew it was something because his sister never called him this late, hell she never called she mainly text.
“You fucking with that girl that live out here where I live?” Chavon asked, and he assumed she was asking to be looking out for him like she normally does.
“Yea and her name Phoenix” Terrell said as he slipped his shirt over his head.
“She’s a prostitute Scooter” Chavon said almost not wanting to tell him.
Terrell damn near choked on his own spit when she said that, he surely was not expecting that. “Hell nah” he said thinking Chavon had to have had her mixed up with someone else.
“Real shit Scooter, she used to hang around Butter, you know Geno’s Butter? And we all know if she was hanging around her it was for one reason” Chavon said matter factly.
‘You have got to be fucking kidding me’ Terrell thought, he really had taken a fucking blow. “Good looking Chavon” he told his sister before hanging up the phone.
‘Oh shit wait, the same fucking night Geno got shot, Butter was killed, was the night Phoenix called me all frantic. Was Phoenix really one of Geno’s hoes? Terrell thought, as he rubbed his hands across his face. “Fuck man, this shit can’t be real” Terrell said as started rolling him a blunt. He wanted to call Geno right now, but he knew the hospital turned the room’s phone off after a certain time so he would have to wait until morning.
Terrell lay back on his bed as he smoked the blunt, shit was starting to add up, but while it was adding up it was seriously pissing him off because he really liked Phoenix. “Fuck” he said out loud as he blew out the smoke, morning couldn’t come fast enough.
Chapter 24
Phoenix opened her eyes and stretched, rolling over she looked at the clock it was a little before 7:00 am, she couldn’t understand why she was up so early but hey she was now. Climbing out of bed, she went to the bathroom and then headed downstairs. When she reached the bottom stairs, she could hear Terrell on the phone ‘damn does he ever sleep?’ she thought with a smile.
She never eased dropped on any of Terrell’s phone call’s but she stopped dead in her tracks when she heard him talking “Geno, yo what’s good fam?” she heard him saying she couldn’t hear what Geno was saying but she could have sworn her heart stopped beating. “You know a chick named Phoenix?” Terrell asked, but all Phoenix heard was her name. She wanted to run, but she couldn’t her legs felt like stones, ‘Had Terrell set her up? Was he in with Geno the entire time?” Phoenix thought to herself as she stood there shaking like a leaf.
Phoenix went to turn and run back up the stairs but she wasn’t fast enough because Terrell was right there the moment he got off the phone. “You got something you want to tell me?” he based; the kindness Phoenix normally heard in his voice was no longer there.
She could only shake her head repeatedly, hoping Terrell spared her, her life.
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Geno had just gotten off the phone with Terrell, and he had asked him a few questions pertaining to Phoenix, and even though he had said it was for nothing he wasn’t stupid. “When I get the fuck out this hospital, I will be going to claim what the fuck is mine. If she thinks her ass will be living the luxury life, I got another thing for her, I own her ass’ Geno thought as he lay in bed furious he couldn’t get to Phoenix ass now. “And I was thinking she was dead, when I am done with her, she will wish she was dead.” Geno said out loud, wanting to get to Phoenix ass tonight.
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Renz sat in his living smoking a blunt, he had just recently popped a molly and both his heart and mind were racing. He hated the fact that he had stolen from his best friend, and killed two people (he still didn’t know Geno was alive), all because he was trying to get to the top. Renz knew he was too far gone, and even if he wanted to he couldn’t stop ‘no use in stopping now, I might as well fight an take it all’ Renz thought as he inhaled the smoke from the blunt. He knew he was going to have to go to war with his best friend but he was willing to do that because “money is the root of all evil.”
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Margaret, quickly walked through Nashville’s Greyhound bus station, she had gotten her ticket and was headed to the bus, so she could be on her way to her destination. Margaret had not too long ago gotten out of the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville TN; she had been locked up since Phoenix was 17 years old, for abuse and a numerous of other charges. Phoenix had gotten on the stand and testified against her grandmother; Margaret was sentenced to six years in prison but had only served five because she had gotten out on good behavior. Every day that Margaret was behind bars, she hated Phoenix even more, and because of that she was on a hunt for her ass. Phoenix would pay for everything she did, and for also causing her so much trouble when she was you
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of Greyhound we thank you for choosing us for your traveling needs, we have a long 21 hour drive, but we will make it worth it and as comfortable as possible. So sit back and enjoy your ride, with our finally destination being Williamsburg Virginia” the bus driver said over the intercom before sitting down. ‘Yea It’s time for revenge, granddaughter or not’ Margaret thought as she got comfortable in her seat to enjoy the ride.
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Everyone is after each other, no one trusts the next, who will survive and who won’t? But the most important question is, will Phoenix and Terrell make it out of the obstacles thrown their way, or will they crack under pressure. Phoenix has a chance to be different will she change or fall back into her old way’s and continue to fall into her mother’s footsteps?
To Be Continued……
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