as always thanks to those who take the time out to review. to the others who read and don't leave a review, I hope you're enjoying it. there is a little bit of violence in this but not much. I kept it short and sweet to set up for the time jump in the next chapter.
March 25, 2009
"You want me to help you with what?" Nik looked at Juice from her spot in her bed. "Why don't you just go handle it yourself? It's what you do for a living."
Juice shook his head. "I don't kill women for a living… I want to avoid killing a woman." He sighed and ran a hand down his face. "All I'm gonna need is for you to show up and get crazy with her. Like hit her or some shit."
"Oh! Is that all? What about me makes you think I can even throw a punch?" She sat up and looked at the young man. "Juice, I'm not muscle and I'm not sure I even want to help you. You've been paying some bitch to listen to you talk when you could have been talking to my sister! The mother of your unborn child! Your soon to be wife! You remember her right?"
"Come on Nik… Just help me. I'll never ask for another favor. Ever again." He clasped his hands together and looked at her. "Please, just help me get rid of Gigi before she does something stupid. I know I fucked up, I just don't wanna have this come out."
The blonde groaned and kicked her blankets off. "Fine, take me to this Gigi… I'll grab the knife and my gun."
Juice paused. "I thought you weren't a fighter?"
Nik scoffed. "I said I couldn't throw a punch. I never said anything about not being a fighter. Plus, I'm grabbing a gun and a knife… If I'm going to scare a bitch, it's going to be with my two favorite things my family sells. She's going to be treated like she's a man, she wants to try to fuck up my sister's family? I don't fucking think so. Grab tarps, rope and a shovel. We're going to need all of that if shit goes wrong."
"Seriously?" He looked at her as she pulled on a black hoody. "Okay, I guess you're being very serious about this. I'll meet you outside."
SOA
"I'm so excited." Nik slipped her knife into her boot and looked at Juice. "I've got this huge ass adrenaline rush and we're just sitting in a moldy ass motel room. I would fuck with you too if you met me in this place."
Juice shook his head and looked at the clock, knowing Gigi would be arriving any minute. "You're just going to scare her… I don't think you need to kill her Nik. It seems a little too permanent."
"I didn't flash my tits to the night guard in the motel office for that security tape for nothing Juice." The blonde looked at him and smirked. "We're going to have some fucking fun. I won't kill her unless I absolutely have to."
He groaned and looked at her. "You're so sadistic… I can't even deal with you right now." He jumped at the knock on the door.
"A little jumpy." Nik chuckled and moved into the small bathroom. "Go, let her ass in."
"Hey." Juice smiled as he opened the door for Gigi. "I'm glad you could make it. Such late notice and a new spot."
Gigi shrugged. "I'm just glad you finally texted me back… I thought you were going to keep ignoring me for your pregnant girlfriend. She looks even prettier pregnant, she was so nice to me too. Tipped me for giving her water, it was a free drink."
He smirked. "I got a special surprise." He sat her on the bed before moving towards the bathroom and grabbing Nik. "Gigi, this is Nik."
"Hi." Nik smiled shyly at Gigi.
Gigi shook her head. "I thought you were a faithful guy but look at you, cheating on the pregnant girlfriend with this perky little blonde."
Nik shrugged. "I'm the pregnant girlfriend's little sister." She moved in front of Juice and eyed Gigi. "We're here for a little party… You're going to listen to me, I need you to stay away from Juice and I really need you to stop trying to insert yourself into his personal life. You're supposed to know better than that. You're an escort, you know not to show up in a man's personal life. He pays you for more than just a few hours of conversation."
The brunette scoffed and pushed at the blonde. "You brought her here to try to scare me?" She looked at Juice. "Unbelievable. You brought me into your personal life when you started spilling your guts to me. I love you Juice, I'm not going to sit around and allow you to throw your life away on some bitch you can't even bring yourself to talk to."
"Love?" Nik scoffed before tugging Juice back towards the bathroom and locking the door behind them. "Juice, you're so fucking stupid, you couldn't have gotten a fucking sane escort to spill your guts to? This is bad."
Juice shrugged. "I guess I have that effect on women."
The blonde smacked his arm and shook her head as she walked back out of the bathroom. "Alright, Gigi, you have two options, you disappear on your own, you die by a bullet, or you die by my knife." Nik pulled the knife from her boot and held it up. "Sharpened it just for the occasion."
Gigi shook her head. "You're threatening me? Nice try… I don't scare that easily. You think he's the first bad guy I've gotten mixed up with? Sweetheart think again… I'm not scared of you or of him. I'm leaving." She stood up, only to be pushed back down by Nik. "Let go of me! I will tell his girlfriend! You won't kill me!"
Nik rolled her eyes and moved her knife across Gigi's throat and let the brunette slump to the floor. "She would not stop talking." She wiped her knife on Gigi's shirt before slipping it back into her boot. "See, I told you putting the tarp on the floor would come in handy."
Juice looked at Gigi then up at Nik. "I can't believe you just did that! That wasn't the fucking plan Nik!"
"Oh my God! Who the fuck even cares? She had to go! She wasn't going to run off afraid. She would have fucking made your life miserable. She would have made it her fucking mission to tell my sister that you were cheating!" She shoved Juice back. "Now, unless you want to be in a grave next to this bitch, help me get her out of here and shut the fuck up."
"I knew I should have asked Happy." He grabbed Gigi's purse and rifled through it, pocketing anything that had to do with him. "You're such a cold blooded killer. She didn't even do shit…"
Nik rolled her eyes and looked at Juice. "I just got rid of a problem that would have cost you not only Bri but your child as well. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you or why you even did this shit but if she were to find out, she would have packed up and moved. You want that shit to happen? If you cared so much about this little fucking slut, then you wouldn't have even let me bring a knife to a meeting that was supposed to scare her. Unlike you, I will eliminate anyone and everyone who threatens to shatter what makes my sister the happiest. You're so fucking lucky that I want her to stay happy otherwise I would go straight to her with this shit." She bent over and rolled the lifeless brunette up. "I don't care if you don't help me with this shit. I did what I needed to do for my family which is more than I can say for your sorry ass."
April 3, 2009
"Alright kid." Bri touched her belly and smiled. "You've only got a few weeks left in there. I'm ready for you to get here my dear. You have a big sister, her name is Monica. I call her monkey though because she clings to people like a little spider monkey. Your dad, he's pretty cool, he's going through some things right now. He doesn't think I see it but I see everything. Keep that in mind when you try sneaky shit when you're a teenager. Your aunts, Nik, Svet, and Jacey are going to love you to death. They're really going to spoil you and that's awesome, don't get Nik and Jacey confused, they're both feisty blondes. Svet is a brunette like me. She's wild though." She paused and looked at her reflection in the mirror before smiling again.
"You always make it a habit to talk to him?" Nik sat down on the floor in front of the mirror and looked up at her sister. "You better be telling him about how gorgeous his Nik Nik is and how much she's going to kidnap him and show him off like he's my own child."
"Yup. I've actually been writing him letters and shit. Ever since I found out that I was pregnant." The brunette lowered herself to the floor and smiled. "It's cute… It makes me feel like he'll know me even better when he's old enough to read the letters."
"He's going to read those letters and realize how hormonal you were while you were pregnant with him." Nik ran her hands over the fluffy white carpet and looked at her sister before touching her belly. "It sucks that I won't ever know what it's like to be pregnant and have a child."
Bri nodded and furrowed her brow. "I forget you went through that whole ordeal… I'm sorry about it babe."
The younger woman shrugged and laid on her back, touching the scars on her lower stomach. "It's alright. I mean, who would have ever thought about anything like that happening? I have no functioning lady parts. I'm basically like a woman who's gone through menopause and her ovaries shriveled up."
"If it'll make you happy. If I have another daughter, I'll name her after you… If you ever want a child, I'll have one for you." The brunette smiled down at her sister. "I want you to know, that I got you babe."
Nik smiled and nodded. "I know you do. You better have a kid for me, I want a boy. In like a few more years. I'll be coming to claim what is mine." She sat up and hugged the pregnant woman. "I think I'm going to look into adoption when I'm ready for children. So many children in Russia looking for a home. I think I'll adopt three or four."
"There are American children who need to be adopted. Just get a couple of those and call it a day." Bri kissed her sister's cheek. "You'd make a good mom when you get out of your wild child stage."
"Ew! An American child?" Nik scoffed. "Don't insult me like that. I want a little girl with a cute Russian accent like Monica's. Her accent slays me everytime she talks."
"She does have the most amazing accent for a six year old who hasn't been in Russia for like a year." Bri laughed. "She's my heart… Are you aware that Happy and I co parent her? She's like his daughter basically."
"I can see that. He's fucking amazing with her. They got a weird bond that you don't see too often. I mean the only similar dynamic is you and Aleksandr. He is your father more than our own father is. That's how it is with Happy and Moni. He's her Aleksandr." Nik smirked.
"I know! It's beautiful and weird all at the same time because of the shaky start we had but I couldn't even imagine them not being close. It killed me when she thought that Happy didn't want her around because of Camryn. I'm glad he settled that whole deal with her. I'm glad she has him. He's good for her." The brunette trailed her fingers through her hair and smiled. "Be nice and try to get your nephew out of me early. I'm so uncomfortable."
Nik shook her head and rubbed Bri's belly and smiled. "He needs to cook at least two weeks more then I'll talk him out of there. You don't want him here a whole month early. It'll be bad if that happens."
Bri nodded and laid on the floor, bending her legs at the knees as she moved her hands over her belly and sighed. "I'm just so eager to get him out. I'm so uncomfortable and can barely even more anymore. This is horrible. I just want my son!" She shook her head and yawned. "Nap with me." She grabbed her younger sister's hand. "I want you to stay with me and nap Nik, please?" She watched her sister lay down next to her and smile. "Thank you."