Chapter 5: You Do What You Can

All I'm saying is when Xzibit brings that car back you goin' be bitches.

What did you call me?!

No, no... I mean "bitches" like you gonna have so many bitches that's what niggas gonna call you. No disrespect.

No disrespect? You just called your granfather "bitches"!

Yeah, but I don't mean "bitches" in a desrespectful way. I mean it as a general word for women.

And you're gonna let him get away with this?

It's ok. Just this once.

Granddad, I'm just sayin' you might have to change your middle name from Jebediah to Bitches. Is all I'm tryin' say. No disrespect.

Riley Freeman, Granddad "Bitches" Freeman, Huey Freeman

(The Real)

Riley's POV:

The next day was very awkward. We all seemed too caught up in our own thoughts to actually concentrate. Me I was focus on how horribly C-Murph looked, like she been crying for hours I was also mentally reminding myself not to hug her and tell it was all ok cuz it wasn't.

"Sooo….." I said breaking everyone out of their train of thought. "What we gon do? Cuz if we just gon keep sittin here ima just go back to sleep."

"Right, ok well lets split up. Group #1 Will stay here and look up online anything they can and will think is useful, Group #2 will go over to Jazmine's house and interrogate Ceaser- we've made her room into a detective sorta thing, and Group #3 will go to the scene of the crime and look for whatever they can find everyone got it?" Huey asked.

I may have never admitted it, and may never because to me it's sorta gay, but I sometimes did admire how he took control of things like right now. Either way though he still a bitch.

"So who's going to be in what group?" Daniel asked.

That was one of my favorite niggas; me and him lately have been getting in all kind of trouble. I snickered, just yesterday we went to party with Ed & Rummy damn so many girls of course none of who I flirted with because at the time I was with Cindy and now… I shook my head and tried to listen to what was going on.

"Well why don't we just choose. Ok so there are 8 of us so two groups of 3 and one group of 2." Sophie suggested.

"Well I wanna be da one online cuz that ain't even much and I feel like shit today." I said yawning.

"Ok who wants to go with Riley?" Huey asked looking around.

No one raised their hand. "Well fuck y'all too!" I said flicking off everybody.

"Come on someone needs to go with him." Huey said.

"I-I will." We heard a shaky voice go. I turned my head and saw Cindy sitting there staring at me hopefully. I shrugged my shoulders as if I didn't really give a crap.

"Iight whateva." I mumbled.

"Ok Group 2 interrogation who's it gonna be?" Jazmine asked.

"I guess I'll do that." Daniel said with a shrug. "Second easiest thing to do." He sent a smirk my way which I returned.

"Oh in that case I am defiantly doing it too no way is he gonna be in my room alone." Jazmine said sending a glare to Daniel.

I swear they little petty fights crack me up. Daniel tease her just like I used to and it's hilarious. "Oh come on Jazzy all he wanna do is save a couple of pieces of your hair from your hair brush." I teased trying to keep a straight face.

"Yea I've always loved me the poofy hair." Daniel said winking and air kissing her.

Jazmine eyes got wide as her hands fell up to her poofy hair. As soon as she did that it was over me and Daniel was on the floor rolling. Man it took a while for us to catch us breaths.

"You guys are such jerks!" Jazmine said angrily rolling her eyes. "I swear I never got why you dated him." Jazmine said turning to Natasha and pointing at Daniel who was till laughing. "He's such a child." She added.

Natasha gave her a "what are you gonna do" shrug. "It comes with the territory." She said quoting the words Daniel had told her before they started dating.

"Ok, ok Tasha handle that," Sophie said gesturing over to Daniel. "And Cindy handle that while the rest of us figure out what we're gonna do." Sophie said gesturing over to me.

There was this weird silence as me and Cindy just stared at each other awkwardly. Apparently she hadn't told anyone and neither have I, it did just happen yesterday so who was to tell everybody was gone doin they own thing.

"Or not." Sophie said noticing the awkwardness. I was ready to be asked questions but she just gave a questioning look to both of us before turning back to the others. "I guess that leaves me, Natasha, and Huey to look at the crime scene." Sophie said.

"Ha, Ha! Huey's with all girls!" Jazmine teased poking him in his ribcage.

"Oh the same way you're with all boys?" he asked.

Jazmine stuck her tongue out at him but gave a victorious smile.

"Iight lets get dis ova wit." I said standing up. "Come on bab- I mean Cindy." I said stopping myself before the word "babe" could get out.

She looked at me eyes wide as if catching my mistake, she shook her head probably thinking there was no way I could say something like that after what had went down between us she should be right but she wasn't.

"Alright well come on guys let's get this on a roll." Jazmine said excitedly jumping up. She walked over and placed a kiss on Huey's cheek. "See you later sweetums." She cooed walking out the door.

Huey rolled his eyes. "Just imagine how she gon act we ya get hurr pregnant." I said.

His eyes got wide thinking over the possibility. "JAZMINE I DECIDED WE'RE NOT HAVING KIDS!" he yelled after her.

The rest of us shared a snicker as they all walked out the door. I turned to Cindy as she sat on the ground avoiding my eyes.

"Come on da computer in Granddad room." I said standing up.

"Won't he be mad at us for going in his room?" she asked.

"One he ain't even hurr. Two he can suck my big toe like I give a fuck about what he gotta say." I said cockily.

A small smile played across her lips. "That was so gay." She murmured.

I rolled my eyes playfully. "You knew what I meant."

We walked up the steps and went into granddad room. I sat down at the computer only to realize I didn't know what to be looking up. "Well what the hell am I suppose to look up?" I asked.

She shrugged her shoulders. "Probably look up when the incident happened, look at the info they provide then go to images and see if we can spot out anything weird about the photo." She said.

I nodded then quickly got to work. I was looking up stuff but suddenly felt eyes burning into the back of my head. I turned around and saw Cindy staring at me intently.

"What?" I asked.

"Are we gonna avoid talkin bout dis?" she asked.

"Uh yea." I said.

She rolled her eyes. "We have to talk bout dis." She said.

"Well I don't want to." I said turning back around.

She walked over and forcefully turned my chair around. "Sury but dats not really yo chose." She said her blue eyes piercing into mine. Wow I wonder how that turned me on.

"Fine den what ya gotta say? Seems like you got all you had to say out yesterday." I said remembering what she called me.

Her eyes softened as she backed away a little bit. "I told you I was sorry, I didn't mean it. Reezy…Riley I would never hurt you." She said softly.

"Yea I'm sure you didn't mean it." I said unconvinced. "But ya still said it and what I said wasn't a lie. We need some time apart and you can spend that whole time apologizing but its not gonna change anything." I said.

She looked as if she could crumple then and there. "Riley please-" She started but I cut her off.

"No." I said turning around back to the computer. I knew it was mean but I needed to stop it there or I might just have forgave her right then and there. I needed her to figure out a few things and I did too. I heard a sniffle escape her lips. "Crying won't help either." I said still not turning around.

"Then what will?" she asked.

I spun around to face her. "Right now nothin, but maybe one day ya realize that ya can trust me and then we can get back together." I said again turning around to face the computer. I didn't hear anything for a while before she squeaked out.

"Okay."

I looked through the info first not finding much just the same old same old, the suspect died (yea right), the bodies were nowhere to be found (mostly because the body was at my house today) another body was found (wait what?). I read the description and figured out the description matched a boy at my school named Theo.

"Hey Cindy come over hurr. Doesn't this description match Theo? Like right to the dot?" I asked scooting over to give her some room to look at the screen.

"Yea it does. Weird…." She mumbled as she continued to read. "Ok I'l write down his name and tell Huey later you should look at the photos now." She said turning around to find a pen and paper after a while she came back. "I can't find no paper." She said.

"Ima just write it on Microsoft Word then." I said opening it.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa I suggested it I write it." She said pushing me over.

"Well I don't really give a fuck who suggested it I'm writing it." I said pushing her back.

"Well you should cuz I'm writing it." She said this time shoving me hard.

"Oh so its that way huh?" I asked standing up. I ran over to the petite girl and picked her spinning her around. She gave out a squeal before full on laughing as we spun around. I finally let go and she flew through the air landing on the bed. Before her dizziness wore off I ran to the computer and typed in Theo's name.

"Cheater!" she yelled finally getting up and stumbling towards me.

"Yea and so?" I asked with a smirk.

We both stared at each other eyes locked thoughts swirling through our minds. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden she was a few inches away from me so close I could smell the scent of the gum she was chewing. Her phone rang and we both jumped from the sudden sound. I saw her cheeks go red as she answered the phone.

"Yea?...What?!... No don't try to explain there is no way ya can explain dis!...I don't give a shit don't call here again!" she yelled into the phone hanging up and throwing it against the wall.

I stared at her unfazed yea I knew Cindy had anger problems hello we looking at a Mcphearson here but I didn't know how to calm her down. Usually I would hug her or something but we wasn't goin out so I couldn't do that.

"What up?" I asked. She mumbled something that I couldn't hear. "What?" I asked.

"MY MOM IS ENGAGAED TO ED! UGH!" she yelled angrily falling onto the bed.

I stared at her amazed I mean yea her mom had dated everyone and they cousin but she was so low as to mess with Ed? That's low. I walked over and pulled her close to me in a hug.

"I'm sorry." Was the only thing I could think to say.

"Yea me too." She said pulling away. "You don't have to pretend to care Riley we ain't goin out I get it."

"But-"

"No really its iight come on lets go back to finding info fa Ceez." She said cutting me off.

"Iight I guess-"

BANG, BANG, BANG!

"What was that?" Cindy asked turning to the door.

"I don't know." I said warily. "Stay up here." I ordered going down the stairs. Two men were standing there each wearing all black. They stared at me unfazed as I walked down the stairs. "Aye get the hell outta hurr!" I yelled. They stayed where they were staring at me as if I wasn't even there. They turned their backs on me and started shooting again. "Naw, naw nigga." I said running down the stairs. I started to punch one of them but to my surprise he caught my arms tight. He stared at me dangerously before starting to punch. His friend jumped in too punching me. I didn't know where the punches were coming form and I tried to throw some only to hit air. It felt like getting punched with steel every time they hit me but there was nothing I could do. I fell to the ground still getting punched.

"AAAHHH!" I heard Cindy yell.

The punches stopped as the men ran out of the house when Cindy yelled. I should of followed them but the only thing on my mind was getting to Cindy.

"CINDY!" I yelled back running up the stairs. There was only one thing on my mind. Must. Find. Cindy. Must. Find. Cindy. It played over and over in my head. I busted into the room just to see Cindy get knocked to the ground and the man jump out the window.

"Cindy!" I yelled again running over to help her up. "What happened?" I asked.

"They, They, They came and I don't know they didn't say anything I tried to stop them but look." She pointed to the computer.

It was bashed in and the cord connected to the wall was cut off. They came here for a reason. "I think we just found out who they were." I said.

She nodded her head. "So what now?" she asked.

I shrugged my shoulders. "First get this out before granddad get back then wait to Huey and Ceaser get back to tell them what happened." I said.

She nodded then looked at me fearfully.

"What?" I asked.

"They're not coming back right?" she asked.

I shook my head. "I'm not sure Cindy." I said softly before bending down to pick up the pieces of the computer. "Come on." I said.

Jazmine's POV:

"We know you know who stole the money so tell us!" Daniel demanded banging the table in front of Ceaser making him flinch.

I gave him a confused look. "What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Oh I don't know I just hear that a lot on TV." He said grinning.

I shook my head. "Move over comrade." I said giving him a small nudge. "Ok Ceaser this can go really easy or really hard you choose." I said giving him a fake glare. I turned around and saw Daniel staring at me. "What?" I asked.

He rolled his eyes and sat down in a seat next to me and across from Ceaser. "Ok Ceez let's get down to business. Is there anything you remember from the guy or guys that took you?" he asked.

Ceaser looked around nervously. "I'm not saying anything." He said.

I stared at him surprised. "Come on Ceaser don't worry they won't find out." I said sweetly.

He banged the table making me jump. "I told you it was all a lie I didn't steal anything!"

Now I was confused. "Ok we all obviously watch way too much Law and Order." I said.

Ceaser cracked a grin. "Sorry I thought it would be funny." He said.

Daniel chuckled next to me but stopped when I sent him a glare. "Seriously Ceaser do you remember anything?" I asked sitting a recorder on the table.

This time he did stare at me nervously as if debating on whether or not to talk. Finally he nodded his head. "Yea um one of the guy's right hand was scarred up. The other guy well I don't know he didn't have anything wrong with him and he didn't say anything." He said.

I nodded over to Daniel. "Write down all that." I said.

"We have a voice recorder why would I write it down?" he asked.

"Because I said so." I said.

He rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say general." He said giving me a salute before starting to write down what Ceaser said.

Ok is it just me or is he being strangely nice? I shook my head, no that was just my imagination had to be because he hated me and I hated him that's how we worked out. Right?

I shook my head as if shooing the thoughts away. "Ok um did any of them say anything, anything, even if it's something small will be of use." I said.

"Um yea they actually did say something. It was in a different language though." He said quickly.

Me and Daniel shared a look. "Ok well do you remember what they said?" he asked leaning forward.

"خطأ معلوم خيرٌ من حق مجهول." he said.

Me and Daniel gave each other a confused look. "Ok well we'll just look online and see what that says." Daniel said writing down the proverb.

"I already know what it means." Ceaser said cockily.

We stared at him intently waiting for him to say more which he didn't. "So what is it?!" I exclaimed after a while.

"Oh," he said being jolted back to reality. "It means 'A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.' I have no idea what it means though." He said.

"Ok well what did you say to make them say that?" Daniel asked.

"I just kept begging them to take me back home and I kept telling them that they were making a mistake." He said.

"Well that explains part of it, but what about the other part?" I asked.

Daniel shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe they really didn't know why they had to take them, you know an unknown truth." He said.

I nodded my head thinking over what he said. "Its possible, ok Ceaser anything else?" I asked.

"Yea one more thing." He said.

"Well?" I asked.

"Just before they faked the accident I was able to pull off one of their mask." He said.

Ok huge and important news. I leaned forward interested. "Ok and what did he look like?" I asked.

He looked at us seriously. "I knew who he was." He said softly.

"Who was it Ceez?" Daniel asked.

"Theo." He replied.

My eyes got wide as the situation hit me. Theo? What did Theo have to do with anything? Why was he in the car? I had just seen him at school yesterday. There were so many questions that I didn't know the answer to.

"What now?" Daniel asked.

I reached forward and turned off the recorder making sure it was saved. "Now we wait." I said leaning back thinking about everything that was just told to me.

Natasha's POV:

It took forever just to get to Ceaser house because we decided to walk. I felt like the third wheel that no one really wanted there. I knew that Huey, although he tried to hide it, hated me for what I did or didn't do for Ceaser. As for Sophie? Sister or not she barely liked being in the same room with me, I can't say I blame her I was a coward, what I did was wrong and I wish I could change it but I didn't know how to.

"So I was thinking about it and there might be some things still in the house." Sophie said.

Huey shook his head. "Why would there be anything inside? Everything went down outside." He said.

"Well yea but Ceaser might have kept something hidden inside and since the house was abandoned when he left I bet its even still there." She said with a smirk.

"Hm, evil guys wanting us, abandon houses wow anyone else thing our life just turned into a soap opera?" I asked trying to crack a joke.

"Well no one said you had to come with us you could always just walk back to the Freeman's house or better yet do what you do best, run." Sophie said.

Ouch, that hurt. My mind briefly traveled back to when Ceaser was being taken. How I just ran away without even the slightest feeling of regret. I rolled my eyes as Huey tried to hide the smirk forming on his face, yea he went downhill on the whole "let-me-just-look-mean-so-people-won't-know-what's-really-going-on-inside-my-messed-up-head" thing.

"Ok stop it." I said walking quickly in front of them to stop their path. "I get it ok? What I did was wrong but I had to live with it for a very long time. I've felt the guilt and it hurts ok? It fuckin hurts! So stop shoving everything back up in my face like I never gave two thoughts about it because trust me I gave way more than that!" I threw my hands up after my short little rant.

Sophie stared at me unfazed as if I hadn't said anything. She leant forward so that we were eye level and stared at me with a glare so strong I actually felt a little afraid. "Your pain is nothing close to what I felt, to what I'm still feeling. You wanna show that you're sorry then shut the heck up complaining and do what you can." She backed up and gave me a once over.

Is it possible to be deathly afraid and very nervous around your own sister? She rolled her eyes before stepping beside me and turning to talk to Huey again. I thought about what she said "You do what you can." Well I was going to do way more than that I was sure of it. We finally made it to Ceaser yep it definitely had the abandoned house look. Cobwebs, dust, and that natural gloomy look that although it was sunshiny on the outside it looked dark and sorta spooky.

"The universe has a sick sense of humor." Sophie mumbled looking at the house.

"What do you mean?" Huey asked.

"Cobwebs, I am terrified of cobwebs." She said shivering a little.

Huey laughed, like really laughed (which is weird because since when is he ever happy?). "Are so serious? Your afraid of cobwebs?" he asked.

"Hey don't make fun cobwebs means spiders and spiders have six legs! Hairy legs!" she said.

"Yea and so does Riley but you're not afraid of him." Huey joked.

Sophie giggled. "Ok come on let's get this done with.

I walked silently behind them. I had never seen Huey joke around like that with anyone besides Jazmine but that was his girlfriend. It was weird; it was like seeing this whole other side of him I've never seen, the happy side. I shook my head trying to clear them of my thoughts.

"Maybe we should look outside first." I piped up.

Huey thought it over before shrugging his shoulders. "Whatever." He said.

We quickly spread apart not really sure what we should be looking for. The grass at Ceaser's old house had grown really tall making it harder to find anything. I searched all around making sure to not miss anything. Still I didn't find anything. I went over it twice but still didn't see anything.

"Hey found something!" I heard Sophie call.

We all ran over to her. "What did you find?" I asked.

"A black glove." She said turning it over looking at it. "Hey it has something on the back." She said. "خطأ معلوم خيرٌ من حق مجهول. I wonder what that means." She said looking confused.

I was confused to obviously it was a different language but what language was it?

"It's Arabic." Huey said as if reading my mind.

"How do you know?" Sophie asked.

"I speak Arabic." He said. "It's an old Arabic proverb which means 'A known mistake is better than an unknown truth."

"Weird." I mumbled still looking at the glove.

"Ok so here's what we know, one of them was wearing a glove which could mean his hands was messed up and he was hiding it and since this proverb is Arabic that means they were Arabic." She said.

"Or it could mean that the dude was the punk rocker type and just like Huey he could speak Arabic." I said.

Huey and Sophie gave me a look I couldn't really read. "I'm just going to go with something was wrong with his hand." Sophie said.

"Ok well come on its time to look for stuff in his house." Huey said turning to the door.

We all followed him up to the house. Sophie gave a slight pause as if debating whether or not to go in but then she shook it off and stepped forward as Huey broke down the cobwebs. The floor creaked under our weight and it was so dark I could barely see Sophie or Huey.

"Note to self: Always bring a flashlight." I mumbled to myself.

"Hey does anyone else hear that?" Sophie asked.

Suddenly I heard the creaking from underneath our feet.

"Watch out!" I yelled pushing her away as the floor beneath us let out. I fell to the ground as the floor underneath me gave away. "Ow." I grunted standing up.

"Are you ok?" Sophie yelled looking down into the hole.

"Yea, I guess." I grunted standing up. "Here help me up." I said reaching up.

Sophie bent down and threw her hand down trying to grab me. "Ugh it's too far. Huey grab my legs." Sophie ordered.

Huey came over and grabbed Sophie by her legs pushing her farther down to reach me. When she finally reached me we locked arms as Huey tried to pull us up.

"Um thanks." I said to both of them when we were finally up.

"Yea well just watch your step next time." Huey said. Maybe it wasn't what I wanted it to be but it was something and I guess that's all I could ask for.

We started to walk a little farther when I tripped on something. "Damn it what is with me today?" I asked angrily standing up and looking to what I had tripped on. I t was a string connected to something. I walked slowly over to the object bending down.

"Natasha what are you doing?" Sophie asked.

I didn't answer to busy looking at the object. On the top was a red button. I probably should leave it alone in fact that's what was going through my mind right now but instead I reached over and pressed the red button. I heard a tick,tick,tick,tick beforw something above my head zoomed past us and out the door.

"What was that?" Huey asked walking over to me.

I started to say I don't know when I heard voices.

"Who's hear?" the person asked he had a strong Arabic accent.

My eyes got wide as I realized I had just sent out a signal.

"I know you're here so don't make me come find you." He said.

I started to panic as we all pushed each other trying to get to the door. Then there he was standing in front of us blocking our path. He looked really scary with his long beard and hair he stared at each of us daring us to move. I looked at Huey seeiing him tense up getting ready for a fight. I stood behind Huey and Sophie so the man never saw me.

"Look just leave us alone." Sophie said trying to be brave but her voice came out as a squeak.

The man smirked as if amused by us. He reached forward before anyone cn stop him grabbing Sophie. Huey got ready to attck but the man pulled out a knife holding it to Sophie's neck.

"Well, well, well if it isn't little Sophie." He whispered in her ear.

"Let go of me!" Sophie yelled trying to kick or hit him in anyway.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk you don't know how long Ceaser talked about getting to you. So I'm preety sure you've seen him because he's missing." He said.

"I'm not saying anything!" Sophie yelled biting him.

He pressed the knife harder on her throat making her scram. "None of that. My man will be here soon you two might not be Ceaser but your going to be of very good need." He said smirking again.

"Your not taking us anywhere." Huey said glaring at him.

I started to hear the soft pitter patter of foot stpes. The man heard it too s he smiled. "That's what you think."

Through this whole time I was inching closer and closer to behind the wall trying not to be seen So when the man snuck up on Huey and grabbed him I wasn't there to stop him.

"النظرةلههيويرجل حر." He said speaking Arabic.

"Get the hell off of me!" Huey yelled.

Huey was the strongest person I know no doubt but no way could he beat this. He looked like he ate body builders for breakfast and then worked out until he broke the equipment, he was scary buff. They started to drag them out the door not seeing me and not looking back. I stepped out of the shadows just enough for Huey and Sophie to see me.

"NATASHA! NATASHA PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE!" Sophie yelled.

I stared at her sadly, I wanted to help her I really did but I was scared. I knew I couldn't beat them and what good what it do for all three of us to be captured? I shook my head slowly no.

"PLEASE NATASHA PLEASE!" Sophie yelled again starting to cry.

I should've helped her she was my sister but I just couldn't. So I turned around and did the best thing I knew how to do. I ran.

Author's Note: I have no words for this chapter except wow. So much happened and it was so awesome. I can't believe Cindy mom id marrying Ed of all people it's crazy. And Natasha man even though I wrote it she just lost major respect from me. Anyways hope you enjoyed it and please please review. I don't have that many and its making me think you guys are hating my story so please R&R!