"You. What information do you have?"
Vladimir sat in his tall black chair looking at his minions. It had been three weeks and he asked his people to collect intel on the enemies. They killed their shooter then stole and slaughtered his men at his warehouse. Vladimir was not going to let them off easy, he wanted them to feel pain. The one he was addressing stood in front of his boss shaking in fear. He had nothing for him.
"Um... I... he... he has a club..." The guy answered nervously.
That wasn't the answer Vladimir was looking for.
"Yes. Yes I know. Empire." He answered. The man breathed in relief feeling as he got off. That was until a bullet impaled his skull just a second later. The body crumpled to the floor and the room fell silent. "Now. Who wants to give me useful fucking information about this fucking gang! They got Zach, I need something!" He screamed. He began waving the gun around waiting to shoot anyone else with a stupid answer.
"He opened another club. The Blue Moon. A strip club." The blonde spoke up first feeling as he gave a good answer.
"A strip club? What would he want with that? I want you to go down there and find out what he's doing there." He saw his face light up. "Don't get no fucking ideas. Don't be looking at the whores and giving them money. Go there, find out what he's doing and leave. Do I make myself clear?" The blonde man nodded. "What's next?"
A young boy stepped up. "Related the club, there are four girls. They go by the names of Emerald, Diamond, Ruby and Sapphire. I have pictures too."
He pulled out an envelope of all four girls entering and leaving the club.
"What does this have to do with Ghost?" Vladimir questioned annoyingly.
"These girls have been seen with these men. It seems as if they're in a relationship with each other. The dread with the blonde, the Asian with the Asian, the younger one with the black girl and the leader with the light skin girl."
Vladimir sat back in thought with this new information. He looked at each picture and smirked. He had them. He knew how to get to them. Here Ghost and his little friends were carelessly relaxed and walking around with these girls. Even if they were just whores, he still planned on killing them. He was going to kill them all.
"You did well Blake. I am proud. You did better than that son of a bitch." He referred to the dead body on the floor. "You will go with Andy and find out more about the girls. Am I clear?"
"Yes boss."
"Good. Now. Get out my face!" Vladimir screamed to the men in his room. They all hurried out of the room to leave their boss alone.
Vladimir sat looking at the pictures again just so he could get a good look at them again. They were very sexy girls, no wonder they became the sluts they are. Girls with looks like them are only good for these kinds of things. It makes him wonder if he should keep them to pleasure him and his men before slitting their throats. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
"Soon, your little gang will fall little boy... you don't deserve any of your shit!" Vladimir shouted. He pulled out a knife and stabbed the picture of Ghost hitting him right in the forehead. As he looked at the shiny blade, another thought popped into his mind and he smirked. He picked up his phone and began to make some calls. He was going to destroy The Panthers.
"Yes mom, we know. We will be there soon, let me just finish getting dressed." Huey sighed as he rubbed his forehead at his worried mother. "I won't forget. Love you too bye."
Huey threw down his phone. Today was his grandfather, Robert Freeman's birthday and the family were throwing him a BBQ with all his family and friends. Huey wanted to wear all black today but decided to be nice and wear purple for his grandfather who continued to believe he was a pimp. He wore black jeans, black and purple Jordan's and a black shirt. Today was meant to be hot but he didn't care. As he was tying up his laces, he saw he was getting another call but this time it was from Caesar.
"Caesar." He answered.
"Sup negro! You ready?" Caesar energetically asked.
"Yeah. I'll be down." As simple as that, Huey hung up and left his apartment to go to his friends.
Once he stepped inside, he saw his brothers and friends had also incorporated purple into their outfits. Hiro had a purple Dragon Bull Z t-shirt with purple vans and ripped jeans. Riley had grey shorts, a different pair of black and purple Jordan's and a purple Kenzo t-shirt. Finally, Caesar had jean shorts, a Lakers top and white air forces.
"Nigga I still don't understand why you wearing white shoes to a BBQ." Riley shook his head as he looked at his older friend.
"Because a nigga can buy another pair if it gets dirty." He smirked making Riley roll his eyes.
Hiro checked the time. "Well we're already on your people time and we should leave now because we still have two more stops to go to."
"The fuck you mean 'your people' time?" Riley questioned.
"Riley you know what he means. It started nearly 2 hours ago. And what do you mean 2 stops, we only have one." Huey raised his eyebrow.
Caesar smiled so big it scared Huey which said a lot. There was a very short list of things that scared Huey Freeman.
"Spit it out Michael." Huey demanded. He needed to know what the boy was hiding to the very last minute.
Caesar threw his arm around his friend as they began to walk out, his mysterious ways making its way through his smile.
"Well I may or may not have invited a group of girls to come with us."
Huey stopped.
"You do not mean..." He started but was cut off by his brother.
"Yeaaaahhh! My girl coming." Riley jumped in grinning from ear to ear.
"I thought I was the only one that has a label on shit. You together together?" Hiro asked.
Immediately Riley went quiet, he let that part slip. "Well. We haven't said anything about it. I don't know what she want sometimes, she just so confusing but don't worry, if I still have that ass in 2 weeks I will wife it."
"Wife? A bit extreme isn't it." Caesar teased.
"You know what I mean nigga."
"Whatever. How are we going to introduce them to our mothers? You know they already had a mothers meeting about the strip club thing. You think they don't chat shit together?" Huey said.
"They won't be saying much once those girls are carrying their grandchildren." Caesar pointed at him.
"You really thinking about having babies right now?"
"We only getting older. We might as well start sometime soon." He shrugged.
"Yeah. I would love to sit and continue this talk about babies but we got shit to do so leggo." Hiro pushed his friends towards the cars and off they went.
They first picked up a few presents for their grandfather which was some simple clothes and a good month supply of his prized orange juice. The same one he beat his sons and grandsons over if they drank some. They then went to the girl's house to pick them up. As they rolled up, Huey beeped his horn to signal he was outside and it only took them a few minutes to come out.
The outfits were enough to make all their jaws drop because they knew they would have the best-looking girls at the BBQ.
Cindy's straight hair fell to her waist, a white Levi top, ¾ jeans and white Nike's. Ming wore her hair in a high ponytail, black jean skirt, a yellow off shoulder top and white and black Superstars. Royalty wore a dark purple wig, grey cycling shorts and crop top and white air forces. Finally, Jazmine had on a simple red summer dress with sandals, her hair in two buns and sunglasses on top.
They all strutted out in style making the boys watch them intensely.
"We some lucky niggas man." Riley said next to Huey.
Huey didn't say anything but knew his brother was right even though he knew all this was wrong. They shouldn't be coming. They were too close already but these girls seemed to have put a spell on them and now they couldn't let go.
"Hey guys!" Jazmine greeted as her and Royalty jumped in the car while the other two went with Hiro and Caesar.
"You good Mariah?" Riley asked, causing her to roll her eyes. "You looking hella fine baby." Riley smirked as he looked Royalty up and down. "Looking like a fine ass grape."
Royalty and Jazmine laughed. "You crazy nigga. Thanks."
"Your fat ass likes it so you can't stay mad." He smirked.
"I will hit you upside the head from this backseat, don't try me." Royalty pointed at him but he just laughed and turned his attention back to the front.
"So Huey. What should be expect from your family?" Jazmine asked as she saw they were getting close to the destination when she could hear the light sound of music.
"Everything." He simply answered.
"What?" The girls said in confusion.
"What this nigga trying to say is, we crazy motherfuckers but we the best people you will ever meet." Riley smirked at them. His smirked scared them but it was too late to run because they were already here. They just had to hope for the best.
As they all jumped out the car, three girls walked past them and gave a flirtatious glance at the brothers.
"Hey boys." They smiled before strutting their way towards the back and purposely swaying their hips in their direction.
It was obvious what they were trying to achieve and it didn't sit right with Royalty or Jazmine. "Hey boys." Royalty added a fake giggle as she mocked the girls that just walked past them, making Jazmine laugh.
Huey sighed, knowing it was going to be a long day.
"Let's just get it over with."
The eight of them walked around the back and immediately, people turned to greet them. The girls watched how the boys all said hello to people around them and did their best to quickly introduced them to their family and friends. It was overwhelming at first but they knew they would have to be used to it since it was going to happen all day.
"Oh my goodness! My babies!" Everyone turned to see a large black woman running towards them. Within seconds, she managed to pull all four men into a tight hug and somehow managed to kiss them all on the cheek despite her smaller statue. "Look at you, getting bigger by the day. Thank you Jesus!" She stepped back and smiled at them before hitting each one of them.
"Ow Aunt Cookie! Why you do that for?" Riley complained as he rubbed his arm.
"Because look how long it has been since I have seen any of you."
"You know we have been taking care of things. Its been crazy." Huey told her.
The older woman sighed before holding onto both of her nephew cheeks. She was about to say something more until she saw four girls standing behind them. Cookie grabbed onto their ears tightly and pulled them down to her height.
"Who are these girls and why is they with you?"
Riley screwed up his face and answered her. "They our girls' man shi- ow!"
Cookie had slapped him again before getting a grip back on his ear. "You know not to be swearing around me. What was you thinking about bringing them here with the things you do? We all know Raven was fine because she was born into this. She knows this lifestyle. I expected this from Riley but not you Huey."
"Hey!"
"I know aunt Cookie. You can blame Caesar for that, he invited them and Hiro is the only one that in an actual relationship. We're all just friends." Huey told her.
Aunt Cookie sighed and walked over to Caesar and Hiro and slapped them both too causing the girls to look at them all shocked. Within two minutes the boys have been slapped at least 4 times. She then went to greet the new guest.
"Hi, my name is Cookie but you can call me aunt Cookie like everyone around here calls me." She smiled at them and they smiled back.
"Hello aunt Cookie! My name is Jazmine and this is Ming, Cindy and Royalty."
"Ain't you some beautiful women. I don't see what you be doing with these clueless boys."
"Trust me, I ask myself that every day." Royalty joked.
"That's not funny girl." Riley frowned.
"Don't listen to him. Now go say happy birthday to the birthday boy, I have to continue cooking." Aunt Cookie gave one last smile to the women and a glare to the men before walking back into the house.
"And that's aunt Cookie for you. Come on, you still gotta meet the rest of the fam." Caesar smiled.
They walked over to where Huey and Riley's grandfather was dancing with a much younger woman.
"Grandad." Huey called but got no answer. "Grandad." Nothing. He sighed. "Grandad!"
"What you want little nigga?!" He shouted back as he looked over to his grandson who he was purposely trying to avoid. He had a cutie on his arms and didn't need his grandsons butting in.
"Damn. We just wanted to say happy birthday that's all." Hiro shook his head.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Thank you. Now if you excuse me, I got a girl here I would like to dance wi... well hello cutie pies." Robert Freeman stopped when he saw who was behind his grandsons. All four girls came in different shades just how he liked and was about to approach them when Caesar stepped up.
"Grandad, this is Jazmine, Cindy, Royalty and Ming." Caesar introduced.
"And what are you knuckle heads doing with these cute girls?" Their grandfather stared them down.
"Why does no one believe we can have such good-looking girls?" Hiro threw his hands up in the air in defeat.
"Because you're all some bunch of bitch ass niggas."
The girls couldn't contain themselves and began to burst out in laughter. Everyone seemed to be getting onto the boys today and it was just hilarious to witness.
"I have no time for this." Huey shook his head as he saw his parents talking to his uncles so decided to go over there. "Come on Jazmine."
Jazmine was shocked when he reached out for her but she grabbed his hand and let him walk her to where ever he was going with Riley and Royalty behind while the other four went into a different direction. She could feel everyone staring at them as they walked through the crowd and they all had shocked facial expressions.
"Huey, where we going?" She asked but he didn't need to answer because she saw Huey's parents standing in front of her by the drinks table.
As she laid her green eyes on them, she couldn't believe it. Thinking back to the picture she saw in his house all she could say was black really didn't crack. They looked exactly the same as they did nearly 10 years ago. His mother's skin was clear and glowing in the sun and his father was looking sharp as ever. As she looked at the two men around them, she knew those were Huey's uncles because the family resemblance was uncanny.
"Uncle Dom. Uncle Rio." Huey and Riley nodded to them which they gave back. "Mom. Dad."
"Sup sons." Their father pulled them into a quick hug as he patted them on their backs while their mother gave them kisses on the cheek.
"I miss having my kids in the same place at the same time. How you doing?" Mackenzie smiled showing off her dimples.
"We doing good. This Royalty and Jazmine." Hearing the last name in the sentence made the parents look at each other in surprise.
"Jazmine? As in the one you took out on a date Jazmine?" Their father questioned in amusement as he saw the embarrassed look on Huey's face.
"Yeah. That Jazmine." Huey couldn't help but to admitted.
Jazmine decided to introduce herself.
"Hi, it's very nice to meet you." She smiled and waved at them.
"Likewise." Christian smiled back.
"We have yet to hear about you Royalty. This one been very quiet lately which is unlikely of the boy." Mackenzie crossed her arms as she stared down her last born.
"I don't be saying my business like that." He tried to defended himself.
"Nigga the streets know your business. Stop playing." One of the uncles said.
"You trifling uncle Rio." Riley frowned.
"We just playing with your bitch ass." Dominic laughed at his nephews annoyed face. "I hear you met at the club."
Jazmine and Royalty looked shocked. Did everyone know about them?
"Um yeah we did." Royalty answered.
"Well Empire is a good place to go. I'm surprised its only now they saw some beautiful women as yourself." Mario smiled.
Knowing their uncle was wrong, the brothers shared a quick glance at each other. Before they could agree and move on, Robert came back over with the same woman on his arms.
"I knew you four looked familiar. You them Gem girls at The Blue Moon. How my knuckle head grandsons get with you? You tore that stage up! Them reveals yall did and those dances, made this old man happy. I will be seeing you again tonight to really bring my birthday to a close. Anyway, I got some Spades to play, I will talk to you later."
Not realising how awkward he just made things, Robert walked away without a care in the world.
The group of adults all stood the frozen but the only thing that was moving was their eyes as they looked at each other shocked.
"Oh, you mean you met at the club club. Ok. Respect." Mario nodded, not being the one to like silence.
Mackenzie finally snapped out of her shock. "I was hoping I didn't hear right but I guess I did. I'm going to go talk to Raven's mother so if you excuse me." With that, she walked away but not without her sons seeing the disapproving look on her face.
"Don't think too deep into that. It's all cool. It was very nice to meet you girls trust me. I hope my sons are treating you right and introducing you to the family." Christian jumped in trying to lighten the mood.
"Thank you Mr. Freeman-"
"Please call me Christian or Chris."
Jazmine continued. "I mean Christian. We have already met his cousins because they came to the um... club and I met Coco because Huey and I looked after her while Dante was busy." Jazmine smiled despite the tense air a second ago which made Huey wonder how she managed to do it.
"You already met my grandbaby? Wow. I am shocked." Dominic looked at her in disbelief.
"I am really tired of everyone being shocked today." Huey mumbled.
"Yes she is so adorable. She is a bright child." Jazmine smiled.
"Yeah she is a fire that one just like my two granddaughters." Mario grinned.
Christian looked at his brothers and shook his head. "You don't need to rub it in my face that you have grandchildren and I do not which reminds me. You two need to hurry up and have some, I'm not getting any younger and I know you will be the first to have the son of the family."
Huey and Riley felt the heat rush through their body at their fathers' statement. They expect this from their mother not their father.
"I'm still young! Let me live." Riley frowned.
Their father shrugged. "That means your swimmers are working just fine. Put them to use instead of just shooting them-"
"I think it's time we meet up with their other friends', bye." Huey had to cut off the conversation before his dad could get even more humiliating.
He pulled the girls away from the dying of laughter men who thought it was hilarious to be talking the way they did.
"I can already tell this is going to be a very very long day." Huey sighed as he rubbed his forehead.
Jazmine, whose face was slowly turning back to its original colour after turning red at the grandchildren situation, gave Huey a warm smile.
"Come on Huey. It's not that bad. At least they didn't call us a whore like my family did."
Huey raised an eyebrow. "They called you a whore?"
"Yup. Right to my face. Said we wouldn't be shit for the lifestyle we chose and were glad I got my father's last name and not theirs to tarnish it." She shrugged as if it was nothing. "Let's not dwell on the past. I want to have some fun!"
"There's nothing fun to do." Huey told her.
"What black people get together isn't fun? I know you lying." Jazmine crossed her arms over her chest as she looked up at Huey.
Before he could say anything, Ming, Hiro, Caesar and Cindy came back from where every they went.
"Ay man, I saw your moms. She didn't look to happy." Caesar told them.
"Yeah, she tripping bruh. Mad about some girls. Walked away when she found out they strippers." Riley spoke up first.
Hiro snorted. "For real? Damn. That shits crazy. Anyway ladies, you stay here while we get you something to eat."
The roommates found some seats and sat down as they waited for their food to be brought out to them.
"So, who did you two meet?" Royalty asked.
"We met their parents. They were... nice I guess." Ming shrugged.
"At least you didn't have the birthday boy run up half way through the conversation and tell their uncles and parents that you a stripper."
Cindy and Ming's mouth dropped open. "No fucking way."
"Yes fucking way." Jazmine confirmed. "If you saw the look of disappointment on their moms face while their uncles thought it was hilarious. They even talked about having babies!"
Cindy burst out in laughter. "I guess we got lucky Ming."
"Damn straight. Did you hear what their aunt was saying to them when we walked in?" Ming asked.
"No I couldn't really hear anything. What she say?" They all leaned forward so they could hear clearly.
"She was cussing them saying they shouldn't have brought us here because of the gang and shit." Ming explained.
Jazmine shrugged. "I don't blame her. We dumb as fuck but they too interesting to give up now. Things have just started getting good."
"Girl. All you've done is kiss a little here and there." Cindy squinted her eyes at her friend.
"Baby steps Cin. I can feel it."
"Where? In ya vagina?" Royalty pulled the same face as Cindy.
"I hate you all. Really and truly." Jazmine rolled her green eyes. "But seriously. I know what I'm talking about. Royalty and Riley would be a couple by now but they're both too hard-headed. You do know when you're in a relationship you can still fuck. It's not going anywhere." Jazmine smirked.
Royalty pointed to the strawberry blonde. "You know what. If you wanna go we can go."
Before the two could start their pretend fight, the four men came back with two plates in each of their hands.
"It's about time you get back. A bitch hungry." Cindy licked her lips as she saw her the contents on her plate.
"That's right girl. Taste that seasoning." Caesar teased.
"Shut up." She tried her best to say but she had already stuffed her mouth with mac and cheese.
They all sat and ate their food, enjoying each other's company and the music playing in the background. They talked about all and random things, forgetting their problems for a second.
"Jazzzyyy!"
The group heard a little girl call the mixed girls name and turned to see Coco followed by another little girl that looked around the same age.
Jazmine held her arms out and the girl happily ran into them. "Hey Coco! How are you?"
"Gooood!" She answered. The other little girl went over to Riley and sat in his lap.
"Sup Tay."
"Hi Riley. I miss you." Her light brown eyes looked up at him with a frown on her face.
"You can blame your daddy for that."
Confused, Cindy spoke up first. "And who are these two cuties?"
"This is Coco. The one I was telling you about." Jazmine smiled. "These are my friends, Ming, Cindy and Royalty." They all looked at Coco and they shared a smile with each other.
"This is Anthony's daughter, Tay. She's 4." At her name, she hid away from all the eyes on her. She was much shyer than Coco who was the outgoing and hyperactive girl.
"You all so pretty." Coco stared in awe at all the girls in front of her.
"And you are just adorable and you Tay." Royalty grinned.
"Thank you! I picked my shoes." Coco began to swing her feet showing off her silver, glittery Dr Martens.
They were going to continue talking to the young Freeman's when Anthony walked over.
"Hey everyone." He greeted. "I hate to break this up but you two have to eat, come on. You can talk to them later."
"Aww. Do we have to?" Coco frowned.
"Yes Coco. You don't want your dad to come for you now do you." Anthony raised his eyebrow.
"No."
"Right. Now, let's go." He held out his hands for them to grab onto which they did. "Later guys."
The eight were left alone again talking about every and anything.
"Marvel is better than DC, hands down." Riley shrugged.
"How are you just saying that crazy shit out loud. We have endless amounts of God's!" Cindy threw her hands up in defeat.
"As do we." Royalty jumped in.
"Superman alone could wipe out the Avengers if he really wanted to." Ming smirked. "Superman can run endless laps around Quicksilver. He could run around the whole of earth before he could run around the whole of Europe."
"All we have to do is throw a little Kryptonite at him and he's done for the count."
"All we need to do is take away Iron Man's money and he is useless."
"But wouldn't that be the same with Batman?" Riley smirked.
"The only difference is, without the suits, Batman would win." Caesar smirked back.
Hiro laughed. "He ain't lying."
"If we talk about movie success, who has it better?" Jazmine grinned.
Huey spoke up for the first time in a while. "Marvel. It is undeniable that they do good with each film they do and have the highest grossing film. DC has yet to reach the top 20 overall films."
"Well that's some bullshi-" Cindy started but paused when she felt Royalty abruptly stop her.
"It's that time!" She shouted. Cameo – Candy began to play and Royalty was already running into the middle.
Caesar shook his head but stood up. "Damn she fast." Jazmine and Riley followed him as they heard the DJ play the song from the beginning again.
"You not coming Huey?" Jazmine asked.
"I don't dance."
Jazmine rolled her eyes. "I will make you one day." With that, she walked up to where Royalty was excitedly waiting for the song to begin again.
Huey sat and watched them dance. Caesar was having the time of his life and was exaggerating every little step as well as throwing in extra moves, making them laugh from where they were sitting. Riley was all over Royalty causing her to giggle but she tried her best to not let him distract her no matter how hard he tried. Then there was Jazmine. Her light caramel skin was glowing in the blazing sun which made her look more radiate as ever. That smile that Huey couldn't believe was 100% genuine, was on show and smiling at all his family and friends around her despite her not knowing them. It was as if she had known them for at least a year, he didn't know how she could do it.
The song came to an end and they all came back over with smiles all over their faces. Riley had Royalty pulled into the side as he threw his arm around her shoulder and was talking into her ear.
"Did you have fun?" Cindy smiled as Caesar came over to sit next to her again.
"Of course baby. Whenever that song comes on, a nigga gotta get up. Maybe I will teach you one day." Caesar flirted, causing her to push him away from her.
Jazmine spoke up with a large grin on her face. "Let's just enjoy the time we have left before we have to go work."
The sun had set and it was now the girls time to take their leave. After they danced some more with the family, they basically completely forgot about the people who brought them there. It had been so long since they had been to a party that was all about family, making them wonder if it was time to go back home but that was to think about later. Royalty was dominating the dominoes table, showing off her skills that she had learnt back in Jamaica, Jazmine couldn't stop dancing, Ming talked a lot with Hiro's parents and Cindy spent her time giving people a run for their money in a game of Uno which was very intense.
They couldn't believe how welcoming people were being to them but they didn't wish for it to be any different. This was the best scenario they could think of happening but like all good things, it had to come to an end. They had to go to work.
"Thank you so much for having us! It was very nice to meet you." Were just a few things they continued to say as they made their way out. When they got to Mackenzie Freeman it was a bit awkward but they all kept their smile on their faces.
"Bye mama." Riley leaned forward to give her a hug and a kiss like the good son they raised him to be.
"Bye baby. Come see me soon ok. I feel as if I deserve some spoiling since you boys don't know how to stay in my good books lately." She smiled but they knew she was being very serious.
"We'll see." Riley smirked as he gave his dad a quick hug.
Their mother crossed her arms making the girls laugh behind them. "We'll see my ass. I best find some new shoes or some shit in my house very soon. You know my size."
Christian pulled his wife into his arms and kissed her neck. "Come on girl. You know they out here doing their thing."
Mackenzie hummed. "Yeah sure. They can find time for their mother like they find time for them girls."
Huey sighed. "I know. We apologise. We will make it up to you, promise." Now when it came to the woman who birthed him, Huey was undeniably soft. He couldn't be his usually closed off self because she would pull him up on that. "We need to be going now."
Aunt Cookie had come over to get her goodbyes as Caesar and Hiro took their turn to say bye.
"It was lovely to meet you girls. Don't hesitate to come by again." She had pulled them all into a loving hug making them turn red from the sudden lack of air.
Jazmine was the first to speak. "We will thank you. Bye aunt Cookie and Mr and Mrs Freeman."
"I told you call me Chris." He smiled. They nodded and made their way to the car to wait for the boys to come out.
Aunt Cookie's face became serious.
"Now I am going to say what I said before." She pointed at each male in front of her. "Protect them girls at all cost because if you don't, they will get hurt and I know you are some good boys but you have to remember who you are. You are a leader of a whole gang Huey! Remember as long as you shall live there are people out there that want to hurt you. Don't act like I don't be hearing what is happening in them streets. Just be careful nephews. I am going to clean up, goodnight." With that, she walked away with Mackenzie following behind but not without her giving them a look that said 'listen to what she said'.
Christian stepped up. "I know they waiting for you. Go. I will see you later."
Silently, they all walked out of the backyard and got into the cars to drop the girls off with a lot on their mind.
Huey was sitting at the bar on his own deep in thought. All day he was told to be careful. Has he not been careful? Has he really been slipping? Maybe Raven was right from the beginning. The girls were a distraction from what really mattered. He knew something was off but he chose to ignore it which was something he always hated to do. He was being stupid, irresponsible and reckless. His father should be disappointed in him. He was screwing everything up. Huey should have realised it sooner. They were going down a fucked-up path, they didn't need to have the girls strung along. Maybe he was never meant to find a sweet girl like Jazmine. He needed to find a girl already in the game but not even his father did that.
"Damn. I never thought you could look more depressed."
Huey looked up to see Raven smirking at him. He had seen her at the BBQ but didn't expect to see her here.
"What you doing here?"
She shrugged. "I saw the conversation you were having before you left and it didn't look too good so I decided to come and cheer you up since I am a good friend and all."
"I'm fine."
"Sure. You have been getting lectures left, right and centre as if you are two. Trust me, I know how it feels." She patted him on the shoulder before order a drink. "Now, our people are getting restless. What's the next move Ghost?"
He turned his natural red eyes towards her. "Good question..." He breathed in before getting serious. "They are planning something. I know they have. I have been slacking and they know that. I need to find anywhere else they are hiding their stash. Remember that piece of shit you caught? Yeah, that shipment is coming in next week, I heard they had to delay it because of the last robber but we getting that shit too. We need to be on top of our game because I feel like some serious shit is going down. I ain't fucking around no more. My head is back in the game. I am not letting shit get in my way anymo-"
"Huey! Huey!"
The leader got cut off when he saw two girls running towards him. He looked up and saw his brother running towards the private rooms which made him worried.
"What?"
They were both panicking and on the cuff of tears. "It's Diamond and Emerald! These two dudes tried to hurt them and said your names and-" They didn't have time to explain as he already jumped up. His gut feelings were coming true.
"Raven. I need you to do me a huge favour. Shut everything down now. All customers and all girls out now."
Raven nodded before jogging over to the DJ booth and took the mic before he could stop her as Huey ran to the back.
"Hey motherfuckers! Sorry to spoil your night but you need to get the fuck out. Don't try and fight and argue, you just all need to get the fuck out which goes for employees too. If you want to continue partying your night away, go down to Empire, I will hook you up with some free shit to make up for this." She said and as soon as everyone heard free, they were already out the door. Raven got out of the booth to make sure the girls in the dressing room heard too, all while wondering what was happening in the back.
10 minutes before
Diamond and Emerald had been summoned to a private room as usual. Emerald had on black shorts, silver heels and a silver bandeau. Diamond had on a white thong under her white, short skirt and a blue crop top that stopped just under her breast paired with clear heels.
"You ready sis?" Diamond asked her partner in crime.
"I stay ready." Emerald smirked.
They walked inside and saw two white boys. One had blonde hair and the other had black hair.
"And who do we have here?" She asked seductively.
"My names Andy. This is Blake, he's new to all this." The blonde smirked, looking them up and down. His boss told him to not spend money on them but he couldn't help it.
Blake sat there nervous as fuck. He hoped that he didn't have to do no field work when he joined the gang. He just hoped to help with things here and there plus he hasn't even been fully trained yet. Maybe he should have let someone else present the information.
"Cute names for cute boys." Diamond smiled as she went and sat on Andy's lap.
"Thanks baby. I like yours too." He smiled back. They could hear a slight Russian accent but didn't pay much attention to it.
Emerald saw how scared the other one looked so sat next to him but put her manicured hand on his chest.
'He looks like a baby.' She thought. 'As long as I am getting paid.'
Music began to play so Diamond moved her hips to the song while stroking her hands over her body. Emerald unfortunately had the difficult one which meant it was harder for her to do her job.
"Your friend over there forced you to come out?" She asked as she stroked his face causing goose bumps to form on his cheeks.
"Uh- yeah. You can say that." He replied nervously.
"Don't worry, I am not going to hurt you." She smiled sweetly.
"Stop being a little bitch Blakey! Live a little, you know I am." Andy shouted as he pulled out some money to throw over the girl.
Emerald rolled her eyes but turned back to the young boy. "It ok to be nervous. I won't do anything too crazy."
What they heard next shocked the girls to the core.
"Is this how you fuck Reezy?"
The whole atmosphere in the room dropped to a painful low. Diamond froze as well as they shared a look.
"Don't act so shocked. We know you fucking Ghost. Cheeky one ain't you."
"I think we're done for the day." Emerald stood up but as Diamond tried to, things went sideways.
As Diamond tried to jump up and run, Andy pulled out a knife and slashed it across her exposed stomach causing her to scream in fright as he pushed her down to the floor. Emerald stood there shocked as she saw her little sister on the floor crying and clutching her stomach with red liquid pouring from in between her fingers. Andy looked down at the crying girl and laughed while Blake looked horrified. This was not supposed to happen. Emerald had to snap out of her shocked state and do something to get them both out of there. She saw the unopened champagne bottle and knew she could use this. Within seconds she picked it up, swung and hit him right across the head. Once his head made contact with the bottle, his eyes shut and his body slouched. She was happy the bottle was here.
"Come on! We need to go!" By now Emerald had tears running down her face but had to do her best to be strong enough to get them both outside. She helped Diamond up and threw one of her arms around her shoulder and helped her run outside. Blake was in there checking on Andy but they didn't care.
"He fucking stabbed me Jazz. I am going to die!"
What felt like hours later, they were finally made it outside. "You're not going to die!" Jazmine shouted back. She slammed the door shut and locked it, hoping to keep them in there long enough.
"Oh my gosh! Diamond what happened?!" Emerald looked up and saw the frightened face of Rose and Daisy as they looked at Diamonds white skirt stained with blood.
"Listen! I need you to get Riley and Huey asap! Tell them the person that hurt us mentioned them by name." Emerald snapped at them. They nodded and raced outside. She turned back to the injured girl. "Let me see." Her green eyes stared deep into her mixed eyes. Diamond nodded and moved her shaky hand. "Ok. Ok. You good baby girl. Everything is going to be ok Roy Roy." Jazmine did her best to convinced Royalty but was about a second away from breaking down completely herself.
"Ok Jazzy. We good. We good..." Royalty breathed out.
"Ay I heard- Fuck baby!"
Riley had ran around the corner and was already kneeling down next to Royalty.
"The motherfucker stabbed you?!" He screamed, obviously fuming. All Royalty could do was nod as she began to cry again. "I got you don't worry." He turned to Jazmine. "You can fix her up?"
Jazmine's eyes grew in size. "Um I think so- I can try." She said nervously.
"That's good enough."
Just as fast as Riley, Huey ran around the same corner and stopped at the sight in front of him. Jazmine and Royalty covered in blood.
"What happened?" He asked but without even knowing what happened, his blood pressure began to rise.
In the back, they could hear the music stop and Raven talking on the mic but didn't concentrate on what she was saying as they were focused on something else.
"We were just doing our normal thing when he mentioned you two as Reezy and Ghost. When we tried to leave, the blonde pulled out a knife and cut Royalty."
"Go to the back, get dressed and do your best to fix her up. Alex will have a better look. We will sort this shit out."
"Huey-" Jazmine tried to talk to him but by his harden facial expression, she knew that was not going to happen.
"Jazmine. Just listen to me. I need you to do this now. Don't worry about what is going to happen in this room." Huey told her sternly. He pulled out his gun as did Riley and the two girls couldn't help but stare at it, remembering the type of lifestyle they live.
All she could do was nod. With Riley's help, Royalty managed to stand and began to walk away with Jazmine.
"Let's do this shit." Riley didn't waste a second and burst into the room. "Which one of you bitch ass niggas hurt my girl!" He raised his gun ready to shoot if necessary.
By now, the blonde just began to wake up as the younger one jumped up shocked.
"Uh I um-"
"Uh uh nothing motherfucker! Answer my question nigga!" He roared.
The blonde chuckled. "I did nigga. What you going to do about it- ahhh shit!"
Riley had fired two shots. One in his knee cap and the other in his shoulder.
"I don't know who you calling a nigga but it ain't me."
Huey walked over to the younger one and pulled him up by the throat.
"Tell me what you fucking know." Huey stared deep into his eyes. Since Huey was taller, he towered over him making him look even more threatening.
"Don't tell him shit!" The bleeding man shouted through gritted teeth.
Riley was now overly pissed. "Shut the fuck up!" He screamed before putting three bullets in his head. That definitely will shut him up.
"Now. You have one chance to tell me what you fucking know, or he will make your brains spray all over this fucking room like your friend here." Huey lifted his gun and forced it into the only man standing mouth who began to quiver in fear. "I'm feeling generous which is why you're not dead already but if you don't start talking it will be soon rather than fucking later."
Blake couldn't stop shaking. He didn't want to die.
"I will tell you everything! Just don't shoot me please Reezy!" He sighed. "Vladimir knows you hang out with them girls. I-I was the one that supplied him with the picture of you eight. We were just supposed to check this place out and leave I swear! I don't know what came over him. It wasn't meant to be like this! I didn't want to come but Vladimir told me to! He told us to not spend no money and just look but he had to screw up the one simple order we had because he was thirsty. That's all I know I swear! I'm new, I'm just getting in on shit!" Blake blurted out in fear. He peered to the dead body of his former 'colleague' and wanted to vomit in his mouth.
Huey threw down the boy and stood over him.
"You're all useless pieces of shits." He raised his gun to the boy whose eyes widened.
"Wait wait wait- you said you wasn't going to shot me! Please Ghost." He cried.
Ghost looked over at Reezy and they both smirked at each other before he looked back at the crying boy.
"I said he wouldn't shot you. I didn't say anything about me."
"No no please!" But it was too late. A bullet had penetrated his lungs. He was about to choke on his own blood.
"Bitch ass nigga." Reezy spat on the one he shoot before turning around to go check on Royalty.
Huey stood there watching his rival gang members blood formed in his mouth. He could hear each struggling breath as he stared up to the ceiling, probably having his short life flash before his eyes. He watched the life drain from his face and felt satisfaction when he saw that it all had escaped his body. Huey turned and casually walked out the room and made his way to the back to check on everyone.
When he entered the dressing room, he saw that all four of them had now changed into tracksuits and jeans and crowding around Royalty who seemed a bit better. As he looked around the room to all the different faces, he knew he had a decision to make.
"Where are they?" Cindy asked angrily, ready to have a piece of them herself. She was about to commit murder.
Huey looked her dead in her eyes. "Don't worry about them. They not going to hurt any of you again."
Ming swallowed, not knowing the answer she wanted to hear. "Did you kill them?"
"Damn fucking right we did! Can't fuck with the gang nigga." Riley shouted.
Huey sighed knowing this wasn't going to be easy to say but it had to be done.
"You need to leave."
Everyone turned to him with confusion on their face.
Jazmine walked up to him. "Huey. What are you talking about?"
He took a deep breath trying his best to ignore the sweet strawberry smell radiating off her body.
"You can't stay here. All four of you need to leave Chicago tonight. Go back to where you lived, Miami, Jamaica, I don't care. You just need to leave tonight. We fucked up and dragged you into this shit now you're getting hurt. I can't have that shit on my conscience. I already fucked up one person's life, I can't do that to you."
They all looked at him but he couldn't look at any of them and turned his head away.
Jazmine walked up to him. "It's not your fault Huey. We will be fine-" She reached out to touch his face but Huey grabbed it and held onto it, knowing this was the last time he would be able to hold her.
"Jazmine. Listen to what I am saying. You, Ming, Cindy and Royalty, cannot be here. Remember that bag of drugs I dropped off? Yeah, that's the fucking Russians. They were two of them. They have pictures of you four with us and know we are close which is why as long as you associate with us, there will always be a target on you and I can't live with that and I know they feel the same." Huey paused and looked up to his brothers. Every single one of their faces read the same thing.
Ming turned to Hiro with her arms crossed. "Hiro."
Hiro took one look into her deep brown eyes but couldn't look at the sadness in them so lowered his head.
"Caesar." Cindy's blue eyes were icier than ever.
"I'm sorry." Was all he could say.
Next was Royalty who grabbed onto Riley's face to force him to look into her soul.
"Riley Escobar Freeman."
Hearing his full name made it harder for him because he knew she was hurt.
"You know I will always have love for you baby." He said emotionally. Like his brother, he pulled her hand away from his face and put it in her lap.
The room was silent but Huey wanted to get them out of there as quickly as possible. He needed to get the home to pack their bags and send them straight to the airport. Obviously, he will supply them with money.
"Go to the car. We will take you home so you can pack what you need and take you to the airport."
They didn't even nod and made their way straight outside, not even giving a second glance to the men they were forced to leave behind.
"Man, this some ol bullshit!" Riley shouted once they were gone.
"We can never catch a break can we..." Caesar sighed.
Hiro patted his friend on the back. "The curse of the life we live."
Huey didn't want to dwell on it any longer. "Let's just get this over with."
The girls walked outside somber at the thought of having to leave just to stay alive. It made them wonder if they were being stupid thinking that they could be with gang members. Maybe they were, like every other girl that got caught up and was either dead or locked up. They could be one of them too.
Jazmine sniffed. "Where we going to go now?"
"I guess it's time we go back home." Cindy sighed.
"We haven't been back in years, let alone talk to anyone there." Royalty said.
"What choice do we have?" Ming aggressively wiped away her tears that she cursed for dropping.
They couldn't even continue their conversation about their next steps because a white van had pulled up out of nowhere with more cars. The dancers stopped in their track as they saw them all coming their way.
"Huey!"
"Riley!"
"Hiro!"
"Caesar!"
They all screamed.
Hearing their names, all four sprinted out of the club to automatically have to be dodging bullets.
"What the fuck man?!" Riley shouted. They had to duck under the few things in the parking lot to take cover.
"Get off me!" Cindy kicked and screamed as she was grabbed from behind but that was short lived as a cloth covered her mouth and her head dropped low.
"Cin-" Ming tried to call out but they got her too.
"Fuck!" Hiro shouted as he saw his girl getting grabbed. He jumped up and began shooting in their direction hoping he would drop her but they had already thrown her into the van.
"We're out numbered!" Caesar shouted over the non-stop gun fire.
"I don't give a fuck!" Riley said before shooting one in their chest.
Huey, not thinking straight and obviously angry, ran out from his spot and began firing at all different direction. It was helpful because he manged to get three people but another had gotten him, sending two bullets into his body. His body dropped to the hard floor all while Jazmine watched him go down.
"Noooooo!" She screamed. As she was about to run after him, two men grabbed her and Royalty.
"Ahhhh!" Royalty bawled as the man unknowingly put pressure on her wound but she didn't have much time to think about it because she got a sniff of the special chemical that put her to sleep.
"Don't touch me!" Jazmine clawed at the kidnapper's hands but he didn't budge. Instead, his friend that just had Royalty came over and covered her mouth with the drugged cloth. Within a few seconds, she was out for the count and thrown into the van with her friends.
"Fuck!" Hiro gritted his teeth as a bullet grazed his leg but he didn't stop fighting.
"Let's move!" One of them shouted in Russian. The ones that heard ran to get back into their cars while the last few were holding back the four top members of The Panthers as best they could.
Suddenly, Raven popped up and jumped on the one who grabbed Jazmine, back. They began struggling as he did his best to throw her off him but she was not letting go. She managed to get her hands around his neck and turned it into a sickening snap, breaking his neck. His body dropped to the ground with her still on his back. Raven was about to get up to fight someone else when she was pistol whipped across the head. Just as she was about to fall, the one who pistol whipped her picked up her body and jumped into the back of the van with her.
"We gotta extra one boys!" He called out to the two sitting in the front as they laughed and sped away from the scene. He looked at the five unconscious girls and smirked. They were about to win this war. Their boss would be pleased.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Riley was frustrated as he watches the van continue to drive away even after he tried shooting it.
"They got Raven too!" Caesar let out an irritated groan. "Hiro you good man?" He asked as he saw Hiro limp over.
"I'm straight. Just a graze."
"Man fuck this- Huey!" Riley shouted but then remembered seeing his brother dropped to the ground and not get back up. "Ah shit! Huey!"
He ran over to where he saw him fall and there he was trying to get up as blood flowed out his wound.
"Come on man you good." Riley reached down to help his brother.
As he was pulled up to his feet, he let out a moan of pain but did his best to hold it down.
"Where... Jazmine?" He breathed out.
Caesar dreaded what he was going to say next. "They got them bro. Raven too. We need to get you stitched up and you Hiro."
Huey didn't have time to argue because he was losing the fight to stay awake.
He was going to be very pissed when he woke up.
Ahhh a lot of things happened in this chapter. Nice and long for you all so I want you to review on evverything lool. As always, thank you for those who have been review, much appreciated.
To the Guest who said the park scene sounded like another story. Similar maybe but different. It's not as if I purposely copied it (even though I didn't) so I have no idea what you are talking about. Shade? I think so. Anywho, thanks for reading anyway.
Guest (Honestly): Trust me, this was never going to be a simple love story type of thing. As you said, he is a gang leader and being stupid so here are some consquences. After today, a lot of things will change, just gotta wait and see. Thank you for everything you said because trust me I did take it into account when writing this one which helped the flow of this chapter better (in my opinion). I am look forward to what you have to say next.
Not just looking forward to one review, I am looking forward to all. Next chapter may take a bit longer because I am going to much more busy but I will try. Can't leave you on that cliff hanger for to long. R&R.
Until Next Time
-TBG
