A Child of a Crackhead (13 page)

J-Rock heard the doorbell ring at his door. He got up and walked to the door and looked through the peek hole. There she was. Shelly lost weight, but her ass was still there he thought as his dick got hard just by the sight of her thick ass. He opened the door and Shelly stepped forward and fell right into J-Rock and knocked them on to the floor. J-Rock looked up not knowing what was going on. He got chill’s running up and down his spine when he looked up to see Black Ice standing over them. “Get up Shelly!” Black Ice ordered her. Shelly nervously stood up leaving J-Rock on the floor. “Take this and be on your way.”

Black Ice told Shelly. He handed her a small zip lock bag full of crack with his devilish smile on his face. Shelly grabbed the bag and walked out the door. Black Ice slapped her on her ass while she walked by him. Then he closed the door and locked it while his gun was still pointing at J-Rock.

“Get the fuck up!”

J-Rock did what he was told. “Walk to the bedroom. If you make any funny moves, I’ll blow so many holes in your head. You’ll have to have a closed coffin at your funeral.” Black Ice ordered J-Rock.

Once in the bedroom, Black Ice made J-Rock lay on the bed. He took duck taped him to the bed wrapping his arms, chest and legs tight to the bed. “So you want to kill and rob me?” Black Ice yelled.

“No Black Ice. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me.” J-Rock begged him.

Black Ice hit him in the nose with the butt of the gun making it bleed instantly. He pulled out his six inch knife and grabbed J-Rock’s cheeks so tight that he was forced to open his mouth. Black Ice put the knife in his mouth and started cutting the inside. J-Rock squirmed trying to get away from Black Ice’s grip. His mouth was full of blood. Black Ice dropped the knife on the bed. He used his hand and grabbed J-Rock’s tongue and pulled at it.

J-Rock’s screams filled the apartment. He felt his tongue being ripped out of his mouth. J-Rock laid there crying and squirming around while blood was pouring out of his mouth. “See you thought you can taste the money on my block. Now you won’t taste shit in your life now as a matter of fact!” Black Ice picked up the knife again. He grabbed J-Rock by the head and put the knife up to his eye. J-Rock squeezed his eyes shut. But, Black Ice used his thumb to open his eyelids. He stuck the knife in his eye. “Now, this will be the last thing you will ever see!”

Chapter 27

Michael watched both women walk down stairs to the basement with a duffle bag in each hand. Michael stood by the door on top of the stairs as his mother and her cousin hid the bags. “Damn, Rachel, these are heavy. How much money is in these bags?” Janet asked.

“Altogether there is about seventy thousand dollars, but there are some handguns in there too.”

“You took the handguns too?” Janet asked with a concerned voice.

“You never know I may need them, but I doubt it.” Rachel replied.

“Rachel you’re going to get really mad and angry at me because I’m going to lock you in a room until I feel all the cravings are out of your system.” Janet wanted to make Rachel understand what she needed to do to help her.

Rachel looked down at her feet. “Do what you need to do to help me. I need to get better for my son. He needs me and I know I need to change this from within myself.”

“Rachel you can’t blame yourself it was Black Ice who did this to you and together as a family we’re going to make it pass.” Janet assured Rachel.

The next few weeks were hell for Rachel. Her body was cleaning out her system. She screamed and yelled to come out so that she could go and find some crack to smoke. She pleased and cried, but Janet never opened the door. The only time she opened the door was to give Rachel her meals.

Michael’s heart was breaking hearing his mother go through all the emotions. He wanted to help her, but didn’t know how.

He spent the day playing football in the backyard with Janet’s boyfriend Jay Jay.

Michael hated all men because he thought they would be just like his father. But, Jay Jay turned out to be really cool. Michael enjoyed running around in the back yard.

There were no back yards where he came from to go play. For the first time, he enjoyed being a kid. After a day of football with Jay Jay, Michael would sit by the bedroom door where his mother was locked in. He heard her cry and talk to herself. His heart ached he couldn’t stand hearing his mother cry. “Don’t cry mommy. I’m here for you. I love you. You can do this mommy.” He started to cry.

“Don’t touch me. Don’t touch me, Brian. Leave me alone.” Rachel yelled.

“Mommy, I’m here. I’m here.”

Michael yelled through the door.

Rachel heard his voice and snapped back into reality. She was flashing back to her rape from her Uncle Brian. She wiped the tears from her face and walked over to the door and sat down next to it. She placed her hand on the door as if Michael could feel her through it. “Mommy, are you okay?”

Michael asked sniffling.

It amazed Rachel how much her baby had grew up and how he always tried to be her protector. It also hurt her because she knew he had grown up before his time. She swallowed the saliva in her mouth. “I’m okay baby. Don’t cry. Mommy was remembering what happened to me when I was pregnant with you.”

“Why do you and Janet always cry and scream at night?” Michael asked.

Rachel got quiet. She had no idea that Janet still had nightmare about what Brian did to them. She was going to have to talk to Janet about that. “Baby, I’ll tell you about that later. I don’t know if you will understand.”

“I’ll understand mommy.” Michael said slowly.

“Well okay. Just don’t say anything to Janet. Brian was our uncle. He lived at Momma’s house when both of us were left there by our parents. He was a bad man. He used to hurt us a lot. In fact, all the kids that lived there. Remember when I told you to never let anyone touch your private parts?

Well that was what our Uncle Brian did to us.”

“I’ll bite him mommy. I’ll beat him up.” Michael yelled while swinging his little fist with anger from what he just heard.

“He’s no longer around or should I say alive. He’s dead.”

“How did he die, mommy?”

Rachel sat there nervously thinking back to that day as she stood in the alleyway and watched Black Ice pull out Brian’s windpipe from his neck. “I’ll tell you that part when you get older.”

“Okay mommy.”

They spent the rest of the night talking back and forth through the door.

They did that every day until Rachel was better. Rachel started gaining her weight back and her skin cleared up. She started to look like the beautiful woman she was.

Michael and Rachel spent every day talking.

Their relationship grew closer than it was before.

Janet stood by her cousin and helped her get stronger. All of them together were the happiest they have ever been. Rachel crept downstairs into the basement and went behind the stairs to where the duffle bags were. She opened the bag and took three stacks of money. Michael followed closely behind his mother without her knowing.

They were getting so close lately that he didn’t want to leave her side. “What are you doing?” Michael asked.

Rachel jumped from being startled by the sound of his voice. “Boy, don’t be sneaking up on me like that. You hear me?”

she said. Michael watched his mother take the money and zip back up the bag, but not before he got a chance to look in it. He saw the money and the shiny guns. “We’re going shopping today.” Rachel said with a big smile while grabbing his hand and leading him back up the stairs.

“Really mommy, we’re going

shopping?” Michael asked with excitement.

“Yes baby.” She nodded.

Rachel, Michael, Janet and Jay Jay left and spent the day shopping in Sunrise Mall. They bought brand new clothes that all of them could carry. Michael was so happy that he was getting all these new clothes.

Chapter 28

Black Ice inhaled the cigarette smoke full of crack as he sat in his white Lexus on a block next to Kings Highway. He waited for Caesar and Ace to come and drop off his money. He started to think about Rachel and Michael and wondered where the hell they were at. It was well over a month.

Then he started wondering where Roxy was too. He was going to kill them when he did find them. Black Ice looked down in his hand at the piece of paper he held. He found the paper in Rachel’s jeans pocket at his apartment in Bedstuy. He read the 516

number over and over. That could only be a number in Long Island. Rachel doesn’t have any friends there.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Black Ice

thoughts were interrupted by his car being shredded up by bullets. Bullets whistled passed his head as he covered up close to the seat. He crawled to the passenger side and opened the door. He crawled out of the car down to the sidewalk. He pulled his 38

special-revolver from his waist and slowly pulled his head using his car for cover to see who was shooting at him. Bang! Bang!

Bang! He sat back down low ducking his head and taking cover again from the shots being fired at him. Bang! A shot rang out hitting him in the side of his shoulder tearing through his flesh knocking him over. Black Ice quickly aimed his gun at the direction the shot came from while lying on his back.

Black Ice was shocked. He saw Caesar running towards him firing off shots from a 45 handgun. Black Ice snapped out of shock. “You mother fucker!” He yelled while squeezing the trigger of his 38 special.

A shot went flying by Caesar’s head making him duck low and take cover. Caesar returned fire. Black Ice jumped up to his feet while firing his gun. He thought if Caesar was firing at him from the side then who was shooting from across the street. As soon as that thought ran through his mind, Ace was seen trying to sneak up on him.

Black Ice quickly tried to grab another gun.

He realized he only had the 38 special that only held six bullets. No way in hell thought that he would need a gun today. He was only coming to pick up money from Caesar and Ace. He picked the meeting place and only brought the 38 special because he never left the house without a gun on him. Black Ice knew he had to think fast. He only had two more shots left and Ace and Caesar were closing in on him.

Black Ice rose and fired. One shot and took off running.

“Don’t let him get away!” Caesar yelled at Ace while he ran after Black Ice.

Ace was firing wildly and crazy at Black Ice. Black Ice looked back to see Ace and Caesar chasing him and shook his head. He ducked low while running in between cars.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Caesar 45 and Ace’s 9mm guns went off simultaneously. A shot his Black Ice in the back as he tumbled down to the ground. He rolled and got right back up.

“Shit, that nigga is still moving.” Ace screamed out of breath from running.

“I don’t know, but we got to make sure he dies.” Caesar replied while still firing at Black Ice. Another shot hit Black Ice in his shoulder.

Black Ice continued running thinking he just needs to make it to a main road. That pussy won’t fire at me in front of people.

He ran, but began to slow down. His body felt weak from losing blood.

“Look. Look he’s starting to slow down.” Bang! Bang Bang! The bullet entered his butt cheeks and Black Ice collapsed down to the sidewalk.

Ace and Caesar began to run faster to get to Black Ice’s body to make sure they finished the job. They heard police sirens and two cars pulled up and the cops jumped out of their cars. They started to fire and Ace and Caesar.

“Aw shit!” Caesar hollered while exchanging fire right back at the cops. The cops ran behind their cars. Ace and Caesar took off running down the block firing back over their shoulders to keep the cops from following them. They ran through the back yard of a house on the block and hopped a fence and ran towards Caesar’s car that was parked. They hopped in the car and pulled off slowly and a cop car passed them.

Black Ice felt the blood making his clothes feel soaked. He dropped the gun and kicked it while lying on the ground feeling like he was bleeding to death. He opened his eyes to see four white cops standing over him. All he could think of, was that is the second time I was saved by a bunch of cops from being killed as he passed out from the loss of blood and lost consciousness.

Chapter 29

Black Ice slowly opened his eyes, but it was painful and hard to do. It felt as if his eyelids weighed a ton. He tried to swallow, but he couldn’t he felt pain every time he tried. He realized that there was something stuck in his throat. He focused his eyes to see a tube jammed down his throat and nose.

He moved his right hand to pull out a clear tube that was stuck in his hand. But he couldn’t move his hand as he was handcuffed to the bed rail. He moved his hand around to only here the clanging sound of metal on metal. “What the fuck was going on?” Black Ice tried to say with a tube down his throat. He tried to figure out where he was and how he got there.

Flashbacks started to come to his mind at once. He could see Caesar and Ace running after him shooting and then.

“I see you’re up.” A deep voice said breaking Black Ice’s thought. He looked up at the door to see a man standing in the doorway. He knew that face well. The man walked closer and leaned down in his face.

“I finally got your black ass.” Detective Roy said while staring into Black Ice’s cold eyes.

“You’ve done fucked up you son of a bitch.

And I’m going to make sure you end up on death row. I know it was you that cut out James’s eyes and tongue. That’s a fucked up way to leave a man. You could of finished the job and kill him, but you wanted to live life and walk around that way. I also know the pair of hands that were thrown over a power line was the doing of you. I bet you even those niggas that were trying to hit on you five weeks ago has something to do with your ass.

Black Ice eyes opened wide and he tried to mumble the words ‘five weeks’.

“Oh you don’t know do you? Well your ass has been in a coma for a week from the blood loss from the bullet wounds you received. I’ll kill you myself, but there are too many eyes on you right now. My boss wants you alive. See we can’t prove you murdered those two cops in the projects.