A/N: Whoa! I know it's been a long time. I decided that it was time for me to get back to my writing. I know that some of the reviewers may not come back but I know that there are those faithful few out there. I'm writing in hopes that some of my favorite writers will decide to come back too. Cheery Dear, Lowryder, Ringles, I'm talking to you. Lol. Hope you all enjoy and it's great to be back.
Tay had been lying on the bed singing old Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle songs to keep her mind occupied. She snapped up as the door opened. She ran to greet Nia who had tears streaming down her face. "Nia, what's wrong?"
"I'm leaving and you're staying."
"It's okay. I'll be fine. The good thing is that you get to leave."
"But you don't."
"As long as you're okay Nia, it's all good."
"I don't can't leave you Tay."
"You can and you will. You're not in a coma and you're not dead. Be happy. I know Jimmy will. Tell Mike and Tej that I love them and I think about them everyday."
Nia nodded before hugging Tay. She was escorted out the door. And as the door closed, Tay now knew what it felt like to be truly alone.
Nia was escorted back into the room that she was previously in. "I've been thinking about what I can do to you to get my message across. Now I know. Have you ever read the Iliad by Homer? Even a drug lord has to read sometimes. In the book, there is this invincible warrior named Achilles. Nobody could defeat him. He had only one weak spot, his heel."
Nia followed him with her eyes as he circled her. With a move so swift that she barely noticed it, he picked up a butcher's knife and slashed open both of her Achilles' heels. Nia didn't know what happened until she felt her face smack the ground.
"You know with the way yours is looking, I don't think you'll ever walk again. Verone laughed before putting the knife down and pulling his cell phone out of his pocket. "Give me your boyfriend's number."
"No."
Verone picked up the bottle of Cognac that he was sipping and poured them on the gashes. Nia screamed in pain. "When I ask you a question, you give me the answer I want. Got it? Now what's your boyfriend's number?"
Jimmy had been sitting in the garage listening to the new Ludacris CD when his cell phone rang. "Hello?"
"Pick your bitch up at Tarpon Point in 20 minutes." The phone clicked off before Jimmy could get a word out of his mouth.
He called Brian's phone, and said, "Yo Bullit, somebody just called and told me to pick Nia up at Tarpon Point. We got 20 minutes."
"A'ight. I'll be at the garage in two minutes." Brian closed the phone and hit a U-Turn in the middle of the street. There was no point in calling Bilkins cause there was nothing that he could do.
Nia had passed out sometime between giving Verone the number and being pushed out the van. She woke up when she felt her head hit the hot, hard concrete. She was in so much pain. Her legs hurt causing her whole body to ache. She closed her eyes and hoped to find some kind of relief in sleep.
Jimmy spotted her from the window of the Skyline. He jumped out before Brian could even stop completely. Brian got out and checked her pulse and looked over for injuries. As he looked at her legs he became angry. He couldn't believe that someone could actually do that to her. He touched her ankle and saw her twitch in pain. "Nia? You gotta wake up and stay awake. We're gonna get you to a hospital but you gotta stay awake. Okay?"
Nia nodded at him as Jimmy picked her up and walked towards the Skyline. Jimmy hoped that Tej and Brian saved a piece of Verone for him because he had definitely messed with the wrong one.