Part 19

Part 19

Waking up to banging at the door, King puts on some shorts, grabs his gun, and told me to stay put; all with authority. It’s hard for me to hear anything, so I climbed out of bed and started getting dressed. There’s something wrong but I just don’t know what. You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach; yeah that one. I have it and had it last night also, I was so focused on King that I ignored every sign I should’ve acted on. I packed a small portion of the money and product in one bag; the bags with our clothes, I split the bundles of cash up between the two of us in case we get split up. I heard the door close just as I was getting the last bag zipped. I reached for my gun, lifted my arm, finger on the barrel not the trigger, and waited to see who was going to enter. King walking slowly with his head down, I put the gun on the bed and ran to console him.

“My King, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?” Wiping the tears away forming some of my own.

“They’re not coming back.”

“Who’s not coming back?”

“Abuelo and Beast, they fucking ditched us. We just got a notice that we need to leave by tomorrow.”

“King, sit down.” Guiding him towards the bed.

“We aren’t ready, we don’t know the first thing about these streets. Yeah we played a little but what do we do with shit starts to really get real, then what do we do?” King crying out, face turning red, face flooded with tears.

“They taught us all that we needed to know, when they dropped us off with $200.00, it was a sink or swim project. You can tell in their faces they didn’t plan to come back. All we have is us and us is all we need; but right now, I need you to pull it together, and be the King you are supposed to be. While you hold me down, I lift you up, and we have some major planning to do.”

King wiped his face, stood up, and told me he would be back. I have no clue where he was going or what he was doing but I know that I needed to plan for the both of us. I called our runners and lab rats and told them to meet me on the roof top in ten minutes. I’m hoping by the time I leave the apartment King is back to go with me, if not, I’ll take care of it on my own. I needed to triple our profit but I also know that there are places our runners can’t go because it’s someone else’s block. Which only meant, we needed to add something else to our street business, and the only thing that comes to mind are women willing to sell their bodies for money. We have to do, what we have to do, survival is my main focus. 

Right when I was leaving out, King was coming in. I told him that I called a brief meeting with the runners and lab rats on the roof top. He just looked at me, said nothing but looked at me the same way he did the first time he hit me. I backed up, enough to get out of his reach.

“King, what’s wrong?”

“Did I tell you to call a meeting?” He said, walking slowly towards me.

“No, you walked out. I didn’t know where you were going so, I took the initiative.”

“Next time, don’t do shit unless I tell you too, do you understand?” King said, holding my shoulders tightly, gritting his teeth.

“Yes.”

“Yes what!?”

“Yes King.”

“Next time, it better be yes my King.”

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so little in my life. I don’ t know what happened in this short time to make him flip this way. Yeah, I went through that thing with my parents but, he’s the first person I loved like this, and for him to turn and treat me like I’m beneath him. There’s nothing I can do or say, I just followed behind him, and said nothing. I figure once he calms down I can discuss with him how I felt and we can go from there. We get to the roof top and he request all money and unsold product to be back to him within two hours and he would have a conversation with them in a week on what we are going to do from there. Everyone looking at me to say something, because when it comes down to it, the fact that is he taking everything from them is also taking food out of their homes. I looked forward without making any facial expressions, fighting back the tears from how he made me feel. At the end, I stood there until they all exited, even King. I stayed up there to look at the view and try to calm myself, because at the end of the day, I love my King but I will not fall with my King because of his bad decisions.