Three chapters in the course of two days. You welcome y'all. And I just didn't want you guys waiting forever for the next chapter, so yea. I'm not going to reply to reviews on this one, so yeah.

I close my eyes and shake in fear, my stomach clenching the knot tighter. I felt like I was going to throw up.

"Ceas! What the fuck are you doing!" Cairo yells. I clench my eyes tighter in fear. Where they going to kill me?

"I'm taking care of this slut Cairo, why don't cha help?"

Cairo is silent for a second, and I hear a grunt and a body hit the floor. I open my eyes to see Cairo standing over Ceasar, fist's balled. "What the fuck you mean take care of slut's? I know you aren't talking about Kiona. You better go check that hoe who gave yo ass herpes!" He harshly barks at Ceasar.

Ceasar gets up, and stares Cairo down. I gulp in fear. Not for myself, for Cairo. He was so much smaller than Ceasar. Most people were.

"Get the fuck outta here Michael, with what little balls you got left. And go get your ointment from the clinic." He says coldly.

Ceasar briskly walks out of the room, harshly bumping shoulders with Cairo, who kept his gaze on the wall. The door roughly slams, shaking the door frame.

Cairo walks to me and unties the tape bounding my hands to the bed.

"Oh God Kiona, I'm so fucking sorry." He says, pulling me into a big bear hug. I feel him put his head in the crook of my neck, and I swear I feel tears.

"Cairo." I say my voice cracking. My throat hurts a little from screaming, but I'm glad that he saved me. I feel tears prickle my eyes. He was crying. He shakes slightly, but he was crying.

"I fucked up Ki. I let him do that shit to you. I fucked up so much. I swear to God I'm sorry." I rub his back

"It's ok. I'm over. Thank you. I don't know what he would've done if you weren't there." I say reassuring him.

He pulls away from me, and I look into his wet eyes. "You forgive me? Scum like me? What's wrong with you? I let him do that shit. I knew it was wrong, but I let him. Nobody fought him or told him no, so I didn't. I just followed them, like that shit was ok. It's not. And now look. Your fucking leg Kiona. Your fucking leg! Oh God." He says. "I'm going to Hell, He's taking me to Hell. God please forgive-"

"Cairo… stop. You aren't going to Hell. God and I forgive you." I say to him. He looks at me skeptically, then breaks down again.

"You're a fucking angel. You an angel." He sobs into my chest. I hold his head like a mother would hold her child. He needed this, seeing as he never really had a mother's love. His mother and father are heroin addicts, and he never stayed long enough to be with them.

Feeling tears slip down my eyes, I place my chin against the back of his head. We stay there, until he pulls away. He clears his throat, and puts on his thug mask back on.

"Uh, don't tell no one I cried ok?" I nod and give him a look.

"Where were you?" I ask. "When we raided the base, you weren't there."

"I had to get away. I was guilty, so I was going to go back to Chi, but I wanted to apologize to you first, and once I finally found out where you were, I heard screaming. Then all that shit happened. I'm so glad he didn't do anything to you. Did he?"

I shake my head. "He just kissed me. Or well, attempted. Wait didn't you say he had…"

"On his dick. From Tasha." My eyes widen. "Riley." I whisper, I get up, and Cairo looks at me.

"After they broke up, her and Ceasar got together. That's when she caught it, cuz she was tryna get at me, but it slipped before she could. I asked if anyone else had it, and she just said it was after Riley, and Ceasar has it."

I take a breath in relief. "What, you and Freeman?" Cairo asks. I shyly nod, and he gives me a smile. "Better than any of the crew. I don't want you to talk to any of them. Me neither." He says sadly.

"Cairo, you…you're saying not to talk to you? Even after you saved my life? You sound stupid as hell."

"Kiona, I'm going back to Chicago. I'm not staying here. I can't stay here." I sigh. My eyes move to the floor sadly.

"Keep in touch Cairo. Please." I say sadly.

He tilts my chin to look at him. "Course Ki." He says giving me a smile. "Don't ever look like that again. You better always have a smile on your face. And if Freeman fuck something up, tell me, and I'll be here in a second and beat his ass, ok?" I giggle and nod. He kisses my forehead, and I smile sadly at him.

I hear the door open, and Riley is standing in the doorway, staring Cairo down. Cairo gives him a curt head nod. "Take care of her nigga." He says, holding out his hand. Riley looks at it with an eyebrow raised, and looks at Cairo's face expressionless. Cairo shrugs, and walks past Riley into the hallway. I sit on the bed twiddling my thumbs.

"We gotta talk." Riley says.