Dirty DNA (G Street Chronicles Presents) (24 page)

“Damn girl, what are you trying to do to
me?” he groaned. His body tightened and I was matching his thrusts.
I wanted to make him feel as good as he was making me feel. I
gripped the sheets as he lowered his head near mine and kissed my
collarbone.

I whispered my response to him. “I am trying
to make you love me the way I love you!” That was it. He was unable
to fight the urge to cum and he came.

If I had died right then it would have been
worth it. I was in love with him and now he knew. He was the one
reason I didn’t want to leave DC. I thought about asking him to
come with Neko and me. I knew, deep down, that if I had asked him
he may consider it. Before drifting off to sleep, I heard him
whisper, “I think I am falling in love with you too.”

We laid there until I drifted off into a
deep, peaceful sleep. I woke up hours later with a smile on my face
and Dread standing in the window watching the happenings on the
streets below.

“Is everything alright?” I asked sitting up.
I pulled at the covers that were twisted at the foot of the
bed.

I must have startled him because he looked
shocked to see me staring at him. “Everything is good. I hope I
didn’t wake you. I just couldn’t sleep. I got some shit on my
mind.”

I stopped fidgeting with the sheets and
walked over to him. I wrapped my arms around him and rested my face
on his back pressing my bare body against him. “You care to share?”
I asked.

“I never met anyone like you YaYa. I am so
glad that you came into my life. I am just going to hate that you
are going to have to walk out of it. I wish I could change the
circumstances that are surrounding us.”

“Well, can you come with us?”

“How am I supposed to do that? My life is
here. My career is here. Not to mention my career is finally
starting to head in the direction I want it to go.” He turned to
face me.

“You can continue your career from anywhere.
You don’t have to be in DC to have your career. I just can’t be
here. There is nothing here for me but you. My family is gone and
all I have left is Neko.”

I could tell he was in deep thought. I knew
he wanted to jump ship with me, but he had so much to lose if he
fled the area with me. “I can’t say ‘yes’ to it right now YaYa.
This is kind of sudden don’t you think? I need some time to try and
move things around. Do you even know where you are headed yet?”

I hadn’t put any real thought to it. I
didn’t know where I was going to go. I knew it could not be some
old country hick ass town. I still needed to live. I finally spoke
up. “I don’t know where I am going. I hadn’t even thought that far
ahead. I just know I have to go. I have to get out of town before I
get caught up in some mess that I had nothing to do with.”

“Well, why don’t you lay low and figure out
where you are headed first. Stay out of sight and formulate a plan.
At least know where you are going to be headed. I cannot promise
you that I am coming with you right this moment, but if I knew
where you were going maybe I could visit or join you later.”

I perked up with the thought of him joining
me later. I needed to put some serious thought into where I wanted
to go. I still had insurance money to collect and leaving at that
moment might be detrimental in retrieving what my father owed me
and Neko. Collectively, Neko and I were about to be two million
dollars richer. We needed that money to make a fresh start.

A few hours earlier, I had wondered if
coming to see Dread was a smart idea, but being with him at that
moment let me know it was a great idea. He knew how I felt about
him and he made me step back and think some things through. I
needed to get a better plan rolling besides just running from my
problems. I had too much money at stake to just run. I had over
four-hundred thousand in cash on hand, but the two million in
insurance would make life somewhere else much sweeter. I could
re-build and live good for a while. I started to relax just a
little. I hopped back in his bed and hoped he would join me for
another round before I went back to the raggedy-ass motel to tell
Neko that we needed to hang around a little bit longer.

Dread and I sexed until the sun came up. He
was fast asleep when I crept out of his apartment. I left a note on
the pillow letting him know that I would be in touch and not to
worry. I jumped in the car and headed across the bridge. I need to
let my baby brother know we needed to figure out our destination
and that we needed figure out how to collect the money due to us
from our father, without our “so called” sister trying to murder us
before we could collect.

The Waterfront

SW Washington, DC

I arrived at the motel a little after 8:30
a.m. Neko was standing on the landing. He appeared to be mad as
hell. A bit of remorse for my actions crept in the back of my mind.
I knew I shouldn’t have just rolled out without telling him where I
was going. After all, I was the one who had made it clear that we
needed to stay together at all costs. I knew it wouldn’t be in my
best interest to tell him where I had been. I didn’t need, nor did
I want, any more uneasiness between us. I got out of the car and
walked up the stairs towards the room. Sliding the key in the slot
and entering the room, Neko was right on my heels.

“So, it’s aight for you to up and disappear
and not say anything? If I do it, I bet you would be ready to lose
your fucking mind!” He hollered.

“No, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have left
without telling you where I was going. I just drove around. I
didn’t go anywhere specific. I needed to get my thoughts together.
I got to thinking we don’t have a plan Neko. We don’t even know
where we are going to go once we leave here. We haven’t even put
any thought to the insurance money that Daddy left us either.”

At the mention of the money, Neko calmed
down. Once we were inside the musty room I took a seat on the bed
and pulled the policies out of the bag. “We need to make sure we
handle this first before we leave,” I said dialing the phone number
that was listed for the insurance company.

I lit a cigarette and waited through
numerous options before I got to a live person. After verifying my
information, the woman on the line verified the policy totaling one
million dollars. She asked for a copy of the death certificate. I
let her know I could fax that to her office. I jotted down some
information and gave her my bank account information and she said
that in about two weeks the money should arrive in my account. I
inquired about Neko and she said she could only speak with him
regarding the policy. I passed him the phone and I guessed that the
lady on the line was taking Neko through the whole spiel she had
taken me through.

Neko told the woman he had no bank account
and that he would prefer that the money be sent to my account. The
woman let him know a notarized letter needed to be faxed with the
death certificate to ensure we were not trying to commit fraud. I
made a mental note to make sure we got Neko a bank account as soon
as possible. We both agreed that was a smart thing to do. Then it
hit me to ask the woman holding our future in her hands if she
could check the information for Pajay Clayton as well.

The kind lady on the line put me on hold for
what felt like an eternity. I paced back and forth. I am sure I had
worn a hole in the dingy carpet. Once she came back on the line she
stated that she was not supposed to give me any information on that
policy. I wanted to curse at her and call her ugly names for being
so, “by the book.” Before I could part my lips and throw insults at
her, she did tell me that someone had called inquiring about if the
death certificate had been sent in for the policies? She let me
know that was all that she could tell me, and I thanked her for her
time and hung up.

I was glad that I held on to my anger just
enough to find out that
Pajay
was trying to get her hands on
what she thought was rightfully hers. I rubbed my temples because
they had started to throb with the thoughts of that bitch trying to
take money after she had destroyed everything my father had worked
so hard to get it. Then she had him taken out, just to get the
money. What was even more puzzling was the fact that she knew that
she had money coming to her.

Every time I started to think about all the
things that Daddy had hidden from me, I started to feel sick. I
questioned if he ever loved me as much as he said he did. The kind
of betrayal I was experiencing was unforgivable. My stomach was
churning. I had been feeling awful lately. I was sure it was the
stress due to the severity of the situation. I focused my attention
on Neko trying to hold the sick feeling at bay.

“I guess we won’t be leaving here so soon
after all.” I said.

He nodded and left out of my room without
saying another word. I was really getting sick of people and their
attitudes when all I was trying to do was my best to survive. I sat
down to try and ease the queasy feeling. I had way too many things
swirling through my head. I felt like such a loser having to run
with my tail between my legs. The only thing that seemed to be
working for me was the fact that I was about to be richer than I
could even imagine, and the possibility of Dread coming with me.
Just thinking of him made me smile to myself. The churning in my
stomach was starting to slowly subside and I turned over to try and
get some much needed rest.

I woke up a few hours later and from the
looks of things it was growing dark outside. I had slept yet
another day away. I scooped up my phone and checked for any missed
calls and messages. It was the same things. Epps had called trying
to get my location so he could “protect” us. He had left several
voicemail messages and texts. I guess at some point, he would have
figured out that his services were no longer needed. I had also
received a text from Dread thanking me for an incredible evening
and that he could not wait to see me again soon. The last text I
had came from a number I didn’t recognize; and it read, “time’s
up!”

I threw the phone on the bed and pushed the
eerie message to the left. I knew it was from her. I just didn’t
have enough energy to focus on who “she” was anymore. I figured the
best thing for me to do was to lay low, collect our money, and get
the fuck out of DC before the black sheep of the family killed us
all. I laid there wondering what could have happened that had
caused Daddy to never claim her. Apparently he knew who she was
because he wouldn’t just leave money to some person he didn’t know.
It didn’t make sense. Maybe her mother was just a one night stand.
I let my thoughts run wild wondering of who Pajay was and where she
had come from and why she was after me. I had always wanted a
sister or brother and now that I had both; I wasn’t sure I wanted
the sister. She damn sure didn’t want to be bothered with me,
unless it was at my funeral.

Lux Lounge

New York Avenue

NW Washington, DC

Two weeks went by and Neko and I were really
held up in the motel. We had sent off the information the insurance
company required of us, and we were just waiting on the money to
hit the bank. All we could do was sit and wait. I was feeling sick!
I had been feeling really ill and I felt drained of all energy. It
had gotten to the point where all I could do was sleep and feel
nauseated. I was always tired and the never ending feeling in my
stomach was starting to send me over the edge. Neko knocked softly
on the door and I mustered all the strength I could to get out of
the bed and answer it. I let him in and flopped back down on the
bed.

“Damn, why you look like that?” He asked me
with his face balled up.

“Look like what?” I shot back.

Needless to say, I had not been out of the
room in about two weeks. I would get up to get small items I needed
to survive, so I hadn’t really looked at myself or bothered with a
mirror for that matter. My days consisted of checking my bank
account, waiting on that money to drop, and watching
Maury
.
Neko’s displeasure with my outwardly appearance showed all across
his face.

“You need to get up and get out of this room
YaYa. You look like shit. What are you doing just sitting in here
eating? You look like you have gained about twenty damn pounds in
here loafing around.”

I smoothed my long t-shirt trying to hide my
embarrassment about the way I looked. I ran my fingers through my
hair which I had not taken a comb too. I just felt weak. I felt
like someone had knocked all of the life out of me and I no longer
cared about anything but getting out of the motel room with my
life.

Neko was going on and on about us leaving
and I could see his mouth moving, but I didn’t hear a word he was
saying. I was too busy fighting the urge to vomit. I had been doing
a lot of that in the last two weeks. It hit me all at once that it
was beyond time for Mother Nature to pay me a visit. I had been so
wrapped up in laying low and getting the money that I hadn’t even
thought about my period. I figured going out to the
CVS
would do me some good anyway being that I had been held up in that
room for weeks. I barely knew what day it was.

I gathered myself enough to head out to the
store. I covered my eyes with my shades and walked out of my motel
room door. Even with my shades on, the sunlight made me feel like I
was being exposed to any and everything. I felt vulnerable. I moved
quickly towards Neko’s room and knocked softly. I had already
decided to try and keep the peace with him by letting him know
every move I made from there on out. However, I ended up making no
moves. I stayed in the confinement of my room. Neko came to the
door rubbing his eyes trying to adjust to the bright sunlight that
was penetrating through the open door. He was shirtless with only
his boxers on. He must have been sleeping.