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So here I stand outside this apartment complex about to do what I always do get the order and then make the drop of the smack get the money and return to Frankie and get my cut. This is how it has been for the past 4 years and I don't think I can do anything else now he won't let me I know far too much about his criminal enterprise to ever let me leave I'm stuck, but there are worse places to be stuck at least I get all the drugs I can do and plenty of money my mistake was thinking I could embezzle a little off each deal to try and save up enough to make a break for it and hide for the rest of my life. That obviously can't happen now or ever so better make the best of it. With that I took the final drag on my black n mild and flicked it into the street turning towards the building looking straight into what my life had become an endless string of random apartment tenements and low level dealers that I sold to so they could take the product delude it and then sell the diluted stuff to the masses. Boy mom sure would be proud of my.

Entering the first set of doors I see that the hallway is cluttered with people smoking pipes and shooting up with whatever drug they had available to them a few started asking me if I could spare some cash or even if I was holding each time I would politely decline the request and continue into the building. Finally I reached the main apartment in the building it literally took up half the building by itself. Knocking on the door I noticed a few of the transients looking to me and whispering back in forth. Obviously they had been here a few times while I stopped by because I distinctly heard one say "the mule is here, good drugs will be available soon" man I need to start watching myself, these are not the kind people that you want to be able to recognize you.

Just as I was finishing my mental note the slide door that was at the level of the face opened and asked who I was looking for I just turned rolled my eyes and yelled "Damn it Murph just open the damn doo so I don't have to stand in this hallway all f'ing night." With that the door swung opened and there stood Murph, a scrawny looking guy with wild blonde hair and for some reason always wearing a robe, Murph quickly took me into a hug pulling me inside closing the door behind me.

"Fred my 14th best friend in the whole world I am so very very happy to see you man… and not just because you're carrying my H either just that your presence is in my presence lifts my aura like 10 experience points man seriously I mean that."

"Murph as usual I have no fucking idea what the hell you are talking about but whatever it's nice to see you and it is just because you have money for the drugs I have by the way" we both laughed ad he embraced me again saying how funny I was, even though I was completely serious.

We went into what was as close to a living room as the place had and I set my duffel on the table and slide the zipper open and show Murph what it was I had brought "here it is your order for 5 kilos of our best black tar heroin valued at about $150,000 dollars a key so for the bag I would need $750,000 right now and don't try and give me a story because Frank is not in a generous mod right now trust me."

"Freddie your doubt in me is unfounded and erroneous my friend would I ever try to jerk you around I mean seriously we used to be roommates the 2 years we went to school brotha come on now what is up with the negativity I don't like in in my home you know that so leave that nasty shit at the door please huh"

This was true Murph and I did share a dorm room for two years in fact I'm the one who got him into the business when we were expelled from school because we were both doing too many drugs to actually go to class and now he was the biggest commercial dealer in the city and I was the 'the mule' for the biggest drug lord in the state delivering his product to the dealers who sold to the masses.

"Alright man whatever you say but I will need to see the money first you know how it is" Murph just smiled and went into a back room and came back with two rather large duffel bags and he opened them up showing me that he had the cash on hand to which I just smiled and nodded while counting the money in the bags.

Twenty minutes later it came out to the total of seven hundred and fifty thousand like it was supposed to "looks like it is all here and this bag is all you're here you go friend" as I started to gather the bags of money Murph grabbed me and sat me in a chair and pointed his hand toward a mirror that was now on the table with four rather large lines laid out.

"Come on man you have to help me do a sample run... come on I know that you want to" I was rather high already from my morning activities but Murph just isn't the kind of guy that you can say no to so I just smirked and took one of the hundreds out of the duffel full of cash rolled it into a tube shape and took up one line as I felt the burn up my nostril I grabbed my nose and snorted a few more times to get it through my sinuses and then repeated the process with the second line and handed the tube to Murph who did the same thing.

I then unrolled the hundred and placed it back in the bag.

In this time Murph had started pacing around the room like a crazy person muttering to himself and continually saying "Man you gotta realize that business is not personal man just look at the companies out there capitalizing on the weak investors and stupid people just taking their money they see it the same way I do some times man business is business and you can't take that shit personally man you feel that well do you man do you feel that you know that business is just about business and it has nothing to do with you or me or any thin that has to do with being friends sometimes as a business man you get in over your head and have to do shit you know man, even though it may not be the best for some people involved it's just business man just business you know what I mean or what man" I just took him in his ramblings were concerning

"Well man I guess bu….."

just then he started up again "business is no place for a friend ship man no place even though friendships are important business is business and if someone won't do business sometimes you have to make them do business man you know!" with that last statement he slammed his fist down on the table causing everything to move just slightly and that is when I notice that right next to his hand under a magazine was a pistol that was pointed directly at me. I just stood there frozen in my place while staring at the gun, how had I missed that on the table was it there the whole time. As my mind searched the possibilities my eyes slowly drifted up towards Murph who had also noticed that the gun had come uncovered and at that moment tour eyes locked together and I pleaded to him with my eyes why man why? The next few seconds went really fast as I saw him start to reach for the gun I grabbed at my 1911 pistol and drew. We both had our guns pointed at each other my hand slightly trembling at the weight of the gun and the gravity of the situation I have found myself in. "why are you doing this man I thought we were friends man" Murph just took his free hand and rubbed his chin "we are friends man we are but I'm in trouble and this is the only way out man Frank said he would clear all my debts if I just took you out of the equation man, so you see it's like I was saying friendships have no bearing in the business world man none."

"But we don't have to do this just put the gun down we can figure this out just put the GUN DOWN!"

"Can't do that Freddie I just can't do that"

In that instance we once again locked eyes and in that single moment that couldn't have lasted more than five seconds I felt a strange calming come over me as I knew what was going to have to happen in this instance. I took a slow deep breathe in and slowly exhaled releasing it from my lungs BANG…BANG…BANG…BANG, and it all went black.