It is What it is: A Hood Love Story

by B. , Ivory

  Los walked over and interrupted the little interrogation Carmen was trying to give Lucky. “Baby girl here.” He handed Lucky a caramel Bailey drink. “Lucky Luck,” a males voice called out, Lucky turned her head to see Nice sandwiched in between two chicks that were all over him looking as if they were willing to take it a couple of steps further after the club. He had a gold bottle in one hand trying to get his two step on. “Yeah you see ya boy! Tell your cousin this what she missing.” Lucky frowned her face up and started cracking up. While Lucky’s head was turned Los gave Carmen a look that spooked the shit out of her. She got up quickly and walked away. When Lucky turned back around Carmen was headed towards the door with her girl following behind.

  Los looked at Lucky for a long while and thought to himself he was lucky to have met her and have her as his girl. For sure, she could’ve had any other nigga in the club. Some niggaz that were getting paper as well, not on his level but they were gettin it, and would have surely spent it on her. But even if he didn’t meet her when he did and ran into her as some other niggaz girl, he knew he would’ve surely taken her from the dude quick.

  Lucky looked up at him and smiled “Baby what’s that look for?” “Nothin Lucky I’m just thinking. Come here,” Los patted his leg. Lucky smiled before easing onto his lap. He took off one of his chains and put it around her neck. It was huge on her and looked out of place on her neck. The rose gold chain was thick and the cross that hung from it was heavy and ridiculously covered with diamonds, it was one of his many chains that people knew him by. Lucky chuckled thinking about how silly she must’ve looked with the chain on. They shared a long and passionate kiss right there on the couch with a little audience from onlookers watching the free show.

  Carlos pulled her up and started making steps towards the door. Damn near the entire VIP room followed. “Where we going?” “ Down stairs.” Lucky’s eyes got big and she felt a little nervous when she realized he was taking her to the main dance floor which was packed to capacity. As soon as they got on the floor people parted like the red sea. Los and the whole crew took spots in the far end of the club. The dj was playing one of Meek Mill songs. That’s one thing Lucky loved about Philly, they supported the artist that came out of Philly to the fullest, it didn’t matter that the song was hella old everyone was dancing to it.

  “What up, I see y’all Griz Roc niggaz in da buildin!” The whole group Lucky was with started whooping and hollering. The group had made a sort of fort around her and Los, making her feel safe. Lucky started dancing and Los was all up on her ass moving with her. “We gonna take it back!” The dj screamed then he started playing Snoop and Akon ‘I wanna Love you’ the dirty version. Lucky and Los were all over each other, everyone around them was dancing but still on point watching to make sure nothing popped off. “I see you whining and grinding up on a niggaz pole!” The dj screamed. “All my niggaz that’s gettin fucked tonight!” All the dudes that were around Lucky started making a whole lot of noise including Los. “Damn ma! Don’t do that. You gon make me come the fuck off this stage moving like that!” the dj screamed. Lucky stood up on her tippy toes in the direction the dj was looking at, to see a thick dark skinned chick shaking it all up in front of the stage. Los started rapping in her ear to the old 50 song that was now playing “The Henny got me feeling right. My mama gon you can spend the night. I ain’t playin I’m tryna fuck tonite. face down ass up come on.” After that statement Los grinded all up on Lucky’s ass causing her to giggle. He is so damn nasty. How the hell can he go on like that? We just sexed before we left the house.

  Los was all over Lucky. And every time she looked up it was as if a new set of eyes were staring in their direction, mostly females. If they wanted a show Lucky was giving them one. Lucky didn’t care though she kept dancing, backing Los down with her ass. “I see you my nigga!” The dj screamed at Los and Los threw his arm up while continuing to grind all over Lucky’s behind. Lucky turned around to face him, they stared at each other for a long minute, and it was as if they were the only ones in the club even though the club was packed enough for the fire marshal to shut it down. Lucky lifted his chain off of her neck and placed it back on his. He had to duck so she could get it over his head. She held onto both sides of the chain pulling him into her. They shared a long and intense kiss in the club in front of everyone. Lucky could feel herself start to get excited while Los hands roamed all over her body. She broke their kiss and smiled up at him.

  “Damn, you ready to go home? I’m tired,” Los said. Lucky burst out laughing “Boy you so damn phony, you know you not tired. You just want some good good.” Los started laughing “Yeah you got me.” The Dj started playing ‘Suck it or Not’ by Cam’ron and Lucky screwed her face up. She didn’t like the song at all. She couldn’t stand it, it was so disrespectful. “This some old shit for my niggaz!” The dj screamed and the dudes in the club went wild. ‘My dick harder than a muthafucka. You don’t what? tell that shit to another sucka.’ Lucky stood and listened to Cam’ron rap before shaking her head. Chicks were dancing to the song and niggaz was singing it to them like it was a love song. Los continued to rap along with the song. Lucky looked over at Jah and he was going absolutely crazy with Nice right along with him. There was a group of chicks around the both of them but Jah wasn’t paying them any mind. He was rapping along with the song as if he wrote it. “Baby girl I’m in love with the twat, missionary, back shots, pop it off, rock it off, I tell you right now if my cock is soft, but I want head before and after, top it off, on ya knees, show you how to top a boss.” All of a sudden Los’s voice rose on that part. Lucky thought about the time she had first given Los head. Yeah he had to teach her to rock him off. She felt offended although she knew Los wasn’t intentionally referring to her. And just when she thought the raunchiness and disrespect couldn’t get any worst “Oochie Wally” came on Uhh, that was Lucky’s cue to take a bathroom break. She could never stand that nasty ass song either.

  “Pa I’m going to the bathroom,” she screamed over the music. Los grabbed her arm “Nah let me go with you.” She looked in his eyes and could see lust seeping out of them. She didn’t trust him, nor herself right now. She wasn’t trying to be the talk of Philly being known as the chick that let Los smash in the club bathroom. “No baby I’m good, I’ll be right back.

  ” Lucky turned to leave and niggaz moved right out the way for her. They knew she was there with Los and she must have meant something to him cause she was rocking his chain and no broad had ever done that. She made it to the lower level of the club and was surprised that it was like a totally different club down there, they had a different dj and the dance floor was just as packed as the one upstairs. Lucky was able to squeeze past a couple of people to slip into the ladies room.

  Shyanne stood opposite the dance floor from Lucky and Los and she was seething. Shyanne was so mad she was shaking, to see Los carrying on with the little bitch like that had her wanting to throw up in her own mouth. She had been fucking with him for over a year and he had never kissed her. And as far as him making a scene out in public and showing affection towards her that was out of the question. She watched Lucky cut across the floor and go towards the lower level of the club. When Shyanne didn’t see anyone follow her she could not believe it. She tapped her girl Shawntay aka Big Tay and pointed towards Lucky “Oh yeah!,” Shawntay screamed. They both left their spots to go and follow Lucky down stairs.

  Lucky was washing her hands in the sink and looking up at herself in the mirror when a big tall shriek looking chick stepped from one of the stalls. When Shyanne stepped out of the stale next to the one the beastly looking chick stepped out of Lucky recognized her from jump, Lucky barley forgot a face. From the look on Shyanne’s face Lucky already knew that shit was about to pop off. She spun around because she wasn’t about to let no bitch get the best of her from behind. She barely turned her body around before Shyanne came charging at her. Shyanne came running and swinging at Lucky as if she were insane. Lucky start
ed swinging back and caught Shyanne in the face a few times, but it was as if hitting her crazy ass only made her angrier. Lucky couldn’t understand it, Shyanne was fighting her with so much force and intensity as if Lucky had done something to one of her family members or something. “Biiiitch!,” Shyanne screamed as she grabbed onto Lucky’s hair. Lucky continued to swing catching Shyanne in the face repeatedly. It was to no avail as Shyanne seemed to shake those punches off as if they felt like pillows. Shyanne swung and caught Lucky on the side of the face. Then she tried to dig her fingers into Lucky’s eyes. If this is why Carlos is so attracted to this green eyed bitch. I will dig these muthafucka’s out! Shyanne thought to herself. Lucky shut her eyes just in time. She knew she had to get this crazy bitch away from her face, cause she was fighting dirty. Shyanne had stopped punching all together she was just adamant and focused on trying to tear Lucky’s face to pieces with her bare nails. She was finally able to grab onto the side of Lucky’s face and sink her nails in dragging her fingers down both sides of Lucky’s face with force. After feeling the sting of Shyanne’s nails in her face, Lucky began to black out, and really go hard on Shyanne. “Bitch get the fuck off me!” Lucky screamed kicking and punching Shyanne. “Nah bitch! you ain’t gon be getting the best of my girl.” Lucky heard someone scream. Before getting hit in the side of her head and her hair yanked into a vice grip. Lucky’s head began throbbing instantly.

  Lucky decided to go for broke, she had nothing to lose. She charged at Shyanne knocking her back into the bathroom door. The door flew open and all three of them toppled onto the ground outside the bathroom. Within seconds a huge crowd formed around the girls. Lucky managed to jump to her feet quicker than the other two girls. She started unstrapping her Gucci sandals as the big girl got up and charged at her like a football player. Lucky swung the stiletto using it as a weapon catching her in the head with her heel. The big girl was swinging on Lucky, and Lucky was swinging right back with the heel. Big Tay’s punches felt like being hit with a brick but Lucky’s adrenaline kept her swinging. Every time Lucky came down with the sandal she made sure she was digging her 5 inch heel into some soft fleshy part of the girl’s body. After two minutes or so the girl began to tire and get weak from the gashes in her head. There was blood all on the floor and running down Big Tay’s head and face. Lucky was using that stiletto heel as a deadly weapon for sure. Lucky was sweet as pie but when pushed to the point of fighting she blacked out. In an attempt to help her crony Shyanne jumped on Lucky’s back punching her in the head and pulling at her hair. Lucky dropped her sandal, reached over her shoulder grabbing a handful of Shyanne’s weave and flipped her over her shoulder. Shyanne landed on her back right in front of Lucky.”Daaayum! Yo, she fuckin both them bitches up!” Someone screamed.

  A couple of feet away Desiray was sitting at the bar in the area where they were playing reggae music. “Oh shit! girl I think it’s a fight! Look at everybody running over there.” Desiray took off running before Nona could say anything. Desiray was in shock of what she was seeing Lucky was going toe to toe with Big Tay. Big Tay was known to be a bully, she bullied a lot of chicks mostly with her size. She was a brawler and homely looking as hell. Her and Shyanne were roll dogz, it seemed like an unlikely pair because Shyanne was so pretty and Big Tay so big and ugly, but they both had ulterior motives for being friends. Shyanne hung with Big Tay because Tay was her muscle. Shyanne had a lot of mouth but couldn’t fight a lick. Big Tay hung with Shyanne because she believed it made her look better, when in reality it made her look even worst because the contrast was so obvious.

  Los was upstairs when he started seeing people and security run towards the exit to the lower level. He got an uneasy feeling about this and so did Jah. Jah grabbed one of the girls who had just come from the stairwell from the lower level. “Yo ma what the fuck is going on down there?” “Jah it’s nothing, just some dumb bitches fighting and scrapping over a piece of dick, you know how it go in the club.” “Umm hmm, but that one broad that was thuggin it out with them bitches did have some fly ass Gucci heels on. I have to give it to her though, she was handling hers.” her friend chimed in.

  Los was in a state of shock Gucci heels? He knew that could only be one person, none of these other broke bitches were up on their shoe game. Him and Jah looked at each other. “Oh shit!,” Nice said. They all took off running down stairs. Los’s heart was beating out of his chest. He cursed himself with every step he took for letting Lucky go off by herself. He was scared to even see how she would look. He knew bitches could be real grimey and he prayed that whoever she was fighting didn’t do her dirty and put a blade to her face out of hate. He knew she didn’t deserve that and it was behind his doing. But he swore on everything he would deal with whoever laid hands on his baby.

  Desiray was in shock, she ran back to the bar “Nona! That’s your cousin over there fighting Big Tay and that other bitch she roll with Shy!” Shasona looked at Desiray for a minute “My cousin who Ty?” she said with hatred. “No. The other one, the one with the real nice little shape and green eyes. The one that look a lot like Ty,” Desiray said in a panicked voice. She thought that Shasona should show a little more concern and set shit off. She was ready to throw down if her girl was fighting but to her surprise a smile spread across her face slowly. “So let that lil bitch get that ass whooped. Maybe after this she’ll keep her nose out of the air.” Desiray mouth dropped. “But…yo Nona, it was blood over there. I don’t know who bleeding, but what if it’s your cousin?” Nona just shrugged her shoulders before sipping on her drink like she didn’t give a fuck, which she really didn’t.

  Lucky was breathing like a fire breathing dragon. She looked down at Shy who had landed on the floor in front of her. Without hesitation she started stomping the shit out of Shy with the foot she still had a shoe on. Big Tay got back up and charged at Lucky ramming her into the wall in back of her. Lucky thought a Mack truck had hit her. “Ayo break that shit up!” A big burly voice boomed. “Why the fuck y’all letting these bitches jump that girl?” A big tall dude came busting through the crowd, matching the sound of his voice to a tee. He grabbed Shyanne who was in route to jump back in the fight mid-air, holding her back. Big Tay had Lucky pinned up against the wall with her elbow in her neck restricting air from flowing through Lucky’s lungs. She cocked her fist back and was just about to punch Lucky in the face “BAAAM!” a loud crack ripped through the air. Lucky blinked twice when she saw Big Tay get dropped by a blow to the face. Everything was a blur, it happened so fast it took a few seconds for her to realize she hadn’t been hit and it was Los who had K.O’d the big manly chick she was just fighting. Los wasn’t stopping either he had this crazed look on his face that Lucky had never seen before and he was stalking after the girl even though she was knocked out on the floor unconscious. “Yo, yo, yo chill nigga chill!” Nice yelled grabbing the back of Los’s arm but he was still able to stomp on Big Tay a few times as she lay on the floor.

  Lucky’s legs buckled, she slid to the floor gasping and trying to catch her breath. Jah grabbed her before she could hit the ground. “Lucky, baby girl you a’ight?” She couldn’t even answer, a wave of emotion came over her after all the adrenaline from the fight started to subside, Lucky started bawling. “Damn!” Jah said, running his hands over her head and face looking for injuries. “It’s a'ight Luck. You a'ight,” Jah tried to assure her as he pulled her into a tight hug to console her. Lucky held onto him tight and cried into his chest wetting up his shirt. Los could hear Lucky crying and he got even more out of control, his face was contorted up into a almost demonic scowl and his brown eyes turned deadly dark. He was trying to make his way to Shyanne but the whole wolf pack was holding him back upon Nice’s orders. Any other time Nice could calm Los down, but this was an exception of the usual, Los was just out of order.

  “Let me fuckin go! I’m tellin y’all niggaz I’ma pull out and body all y’all muthafuckas if y’all don’t get the fuck out my way!” Nice figured that so he grab
bed Los’s burner off of him minutes ago. Los was so far gone and angry he hadn’t noticed. “Los calm the fuck down, Look after Lucky bruh,” Nice said. “Shyanne is you fuckin crazy? I’ma break ya muthafuckin neck bitch! You put ya hands on mine! Is you fuckin crazy?!” Los barked glaring at Shyanne in anger and disbelief. “Nigga you would kill me over that little bitch?!” Shyanne said crying. “Fuck you Carlos. I don’t know why I love you, fuck you. And you the dumb bitch!” Shyanne screamed looking at Lucky with hate filled eyes. “Ask this nigga where he was earlier today, I’ma tell you, He was at my house with his dick down my throat biiitch!” “Oohhs!” is all you heard coupled with laughter. Lucky’s head shot up from Jah’s chest. She looked towards Shyanne to make sure she had heard her correctly. That oh shit look on Jah’s face didn’t go unnoticed as Jah tried his best to move Lucky out of the hallway quick so she wouldn’t hear what else Shyanne had to say. Lucky pushed him away and stood firm wanting to hear what else Shyanne had to say. Shyanne saw the look of shock and hurt on Lucky’s face and took joy in knowing that she had caused it. “Yeah bitch! don’t act surprised, while you was sitting at home waiting for this nigga, he was with me! I was right there when yo pathetic ass called for him to come home. He told you he was with Nice, nah bitch he was running up in me!” Lucky looked over at Los and he was frozen completely still. She had called him earlier and he did say he was with Nice. “You think you got him, but he stay coming over to get fucked! You know what that says to me? It says that he can’t get a fuckin nuff of this good shit!” She said pointing to her pussy not caring that she had a short dress on with no panties. The dude that was holding her back was having a difficult time as she flared around showing all her personal business. “Stupid hoe! It’s not just me, bitch! He fuckin her, she pointed to a dark skinned pretty girl that was standing off to the side watching the show. When the girl was called out she looked shocked and pissed. Her, her, her, and plenty more bitches that aint even in this club tonight. Ain’t shit special about you Lucky Charms,” she taunted. Calling Lucky a name that only Carlos affectionately called her, a name that he called her just earlier that day when she called to check on him and he obviously lied about his whereabouts. “Yo, go head with that bullshit!” Nice spat. He didn’t know what else to say to defuse the situation. Shyanne had officially blew up Los’s spot. She didn’t put that nigga on blast, She put him on turbo blast.