Juicy: The Complete Series (24 page)

“So tell me what you were really thinking,” he smirked.

Pandora took a deep breath, “Ugh, I was thinking that if the State
’s Attorney should at least be living a little hotter than this. Instead of like a pauper.”

“A pauper huh, hmm nice word, I see someone is as intelligent and as stupid as my daughter,” Ivan laughed, “And for your information, I don
’t live like a pauper because obviously I have more than you. Anyway my wife and I agreed that we’d spend our money wisely, that way we could retire early and comfortably.”

“Wait, excuse me? Are you trying to call me dumb?”

“Well, you live your life like a smart, dumb criminal. You have the beauty and the brains but you choose to do absolutely nothing with it.”

“Oh, I do something with it, Mr. Smear.”

“Ivan. Please call me Ivan.”

“Well I
’m not dumb, Ivan. There’s a whole lot of shit I know how to do.”

“Really? Interesting. Then tell me your story. Why are the police charging you with murder?” Ivan leaned in on his desk awaiting her answer.

As Pandora spilled out what actually happened that faithful night Sun lost his life, she could not help but get the feeling he had already heard or somehow knew the story already. She ended and the room filled with air. He stared at her awkwardly but oddly enough she was not uncomfortable.

“So because he didn
’t respect you, you killed him?” Ivan asked taking another sip of his drink.

“No he
’s dead because he rapes women and then throws money at them to shut them up,” Pandora snapped.

“But was it your place to judge him? You took the law into your own hands without even giving him his day in court.”

“He would’ve gotten off!”

“How do you know that?” Ivan yelled back banging his hands on the desk, shooting her a stern eye.

It was the first time that she realized the severity of what she had done. It had finally set in to her feeble little brain that she could actually go to jail and do time for her anger, for her actions on that night. Apart of her was scared while another part of her wanted to flee the country. But she had no money and the cops seized the little money she had left. Her thoughts ran crazily in her mind as she stood there staring at the drunken lawyer waste his life away at the bottom of another glass.

“Oh my God,” she gasped, “What am I going to do?”

“I’ll tell you what we’re going to do. We’re going to go in there and tell them it was self-defense. Then you’re going to pretend that you are indeed the sweet, young lady that we are going to dress you up to be and gain sympathy from the judge.”

“Do you think you can get me off, Ivan?” The sweet tone in her voice made Ivan double back to check and make sure she was the same person.

“I’m gonna damn well try young lady. As a matter of fact I believe I can keep this thing from going to trial.”

“Oh my God! Are you serious? That would be so…I would forever be in your debt if you did,” Pandora batted her eyes, “So, I
’m just curious, what did happen to your wife?”

“Ah yes the so-called love of my life. Well, she got tired of me cheating, tired of the long trips away from home and tired of the lonely nights. So now I
’m the one with the lonely drunken nights,” he said realizing there was no more liquor in the bottle for him to pour into his glass, “All I have to pacify the fact that her mother abandoned us for a twenty five year old Latin bastard and is now fucking him on a beach somewhere, not even thinking about us, is this good old glass.”

“Oh wow, I
’m so sorry!” Pandora covered her mouth.

There were no other words Pandora could say after that. She felt for the man and knew that was the whole reason for his self-medicating. It was that that attracted her forcing her to rise from the chair and venture over to his desk. He leaned back in the chair interlocking his fingers and gawking at the young girl standing in front of him. His eyes showed signs of tears but his pride refused to permit them to appear.

“I’m so sorry.”

“Eh. It is what it is. It
’s been over two and a half years now. You can’t make the heart do what the heart doesn’t want to do,” he shuffled a few papers on his desk fighting back his pain.

“Have you thought about moving on with your life and finding someone new, someone that can make you happy?”

“Oh gee, Pandora. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that,” Ivan smirked rolling his eyes.

“I
’m just saying, maybe you need someone to take your mind off of her. It doesn’t have to be someone you love just someone you love at that moment. You get what I’m saying?” she bent over slightly staring into his beady eyes.

“Yeah I get it. I need to go out and buy me a whore.”

“You wouldn’t have to buy one if you just fixed yourself up a bit. I mean look at you. What woman is going to want a sloppy drunk man? The only thing you have going for you is that you have money and your name. But that’s not enough,” Pandora retorted watching as he nearly passed out with his head hunched over to the side.

“I can
’t do it,” Ivan slurred, “I’m not ready.”

Pandora lowered her head then turned around prepared to leave. Her feet stepped on a few pieces of paper that had flown onto the floor from the pile. She bent to pick them up and could not help but to be nosey and read them. They were quickly snatched away, leaving her dizzy from the quickness. Brushing it off, Pandora looked over at his glowing brown skin as she headed towards the seat he fell in.

“Ivan. Ivan,” she called but all she got in return were grunting noises.

She climbed on top of his lap slowly, one leg at a time then leaned in to kiss the man on his lips; they were soft and sweet tasting from the liquor. Her opening throbbed, as she had longed for a powerful piece to drive into her for weeks. He was not her ideal candidate to relieve her stress but her body needed it and from hearing Ivan
’s situation his body needed it to. Pandora saw it as doing a favor for a friend; after all, he was providing her with free grade a counsel and he genuinely wanted to help her. She nibbled at his neck then made her way back up to his lips while she attempted to unbutton his pants. The thought of Oxy’s words never entered her mind.

“Hey…hey. What are you doing?” Ivan whispered oscillating his head from left to right trying to snap out of his drunken coma.

“Shh. Don’t worry, momma’s gonna take good care of you,” Pandora assured between pecks on his neck.

“Mmm, no, I need you to stop,” Ivan breathed.

“You like this baby?”

“Stop…”

“I can’t wait to slide down your—“

“OFF!” Ivan stood up as she slid to the floor.

He seemed to be suffering palpitations heavily, trembling at every limb. Ivan ran his ringers across his hair panicking and hoping that Oxy could not hear what was going on in their house. His eyes scoured the room while Pandora peeled herself from the floor totally confused and adorning a shitty look on her face. She was obviously upset but a part of him did not care.

“I need you to go,” Ivan cringed still searching the room with his eyes frenziedly. “I need you to go, now!”

“What the fuck did I do? I was only trying to help you?” Pandora pleaded.

“No you belong to…I am old belong to…ugh, please just leave.”

“I just thought it would be nice if we could make each other feel good. You know help each other get over our problems,” Pandora replied seductively as she removed her shirt, revealing a nice set of perky brown tits enveloped in a lace purple bra.

“No girl! Don
’t you understand? Here let me fucking help you!” Ivan pulled his desk drawer open and pulled out a .38 pointing it right at her. “I need you to leave now!”

“Ha, ha, you couldn
’t hurt me. You couldn’t hurt a fly. You don’t have it in you. It’s gonna take a lot more than that to scare me, sugar. But don’t get your panties in a bunch, I’ll leave. But you will regret not hitting this ass later,” Pandora blew a kiss at him then left the office heading back upstairs.

In the room, she laid on the floor, staring up at the ceiling as the heavy metal music finally died and the IPod cycled itself down. It may have been pretty forward for her to come at him that way but she did not care. When her lips throbbed down below they had a mind of their own and she was not going to ignore its cravings. She actually did not mind giving him any seeing all that he had been through. Still, her kindness would come with a price and that would be him getting her a not guilty verdict. Feeling herself drift back off to sleep, she bounced up needing to get out and bend some corners before it got too late.

“Hey. Hey Ox, get up,” Pandora yelled as she crawled over to the side of the bed, shoving Oxy in the head.

“Huh…wha?” Oxy grumbled.

“Get up bitch. You can sleep when you’re dead. We got work to do so get dressed.”

“Tell me something I don
’t know.”— Lexi

Diamond shuffled around to the side of the house hoping to be able to hear the noises within. The windows were all shut but she knew from past experiences that neither he nor those cackling bitches of his could keep quiet at any hour but the sleeping one. She moved slowly as not to alert the ones inside but she had to admit for it to be early in the day there was not one sound coming from the house. Usually his minions are rotating the house, cooking and cleaning and making sure everything was in order for when Tino woke up. But on this day the house sounded as if it was lifeless.

She was about to cease her snooping until she heard faint voices in the backyard. Moving quickly yet as quiet as a ninja she headed for the back area hoping to not only get a glimpse of who was back there but also over hear the conversation. Her body pressed against the wall of the house like moss as she slowed her breathing and prayed no one saw her over there, even with the sun casting all sorts of shadow.

“Yeah nigga, you got these bitches on lock don’t you?” A heavyset guy addressed Tino as he puffed on his cigar.

“Man these hoes ain
’t worth a damn. They just looking to get somethin’ for nothin’ you understand what I’m saying,” Tino responded as the men laughed, “Shit they’re gonna have to be gone and find themselves somewhere else to live, a nigga getting’ too old for this shit.”

“Awe man you straight trippin, but you don
’t look too good though, nigga, you straight?”

“Man, its nothin
’. I just need to take my ass to the doctor and get this cold in order you feel me.”

“Right, right, aye, so whatever happened to that dark haired bitch you used to fuck with? I would
’ve loved to have that walking around my crib butt hole ass naked baby,” the man’s belly chuckled as Diamond brought her eye slickly around the corner.

“Man that bitch dead yo, straight up.”

“Fuck you mean dead, nigga? You axed the bitch, Tino?”

“Man, she had to be dealt with, caught her stealing. She wasn
’t nothing but another little crack head hoe, just like the rest of them. She wasn’t special,” Tino said as he coughed up blood into his handbag, which was already full of it.

“Word, damn that
’s fucked up, I was really feeling her man. She was right, thick in the waist and she didn’t have any stretch marks on her stomach or her titties,” The man bowed his head as if he was doing it as a moment of silence for her.

Diamond
’s disgust grew for Tino as she stood there listening to him lie about her. She was far from a crack head and even though there was a little truth behind her being a whore she most certainly carried herself with class. She did not get with men who did not have money and could not provide for her the miniscule luxuries she was used to. In her eyes, that made it all better. The men seemed to be wrapping up their conversation and heading inside. Diamond reached behind her back pulling out Kojack’s gun securing it in her hand.

“Don
’t move motherfucka!” Diamond yelled crossly, pointing the gun straight ahead.

As she looked around at the air she was pointing towards she realized that she had jumped out a second too late. She wanted to wait until the big dude went into the house before she cornered him but as the cold air slapped her face she quickly understood that her plan was not as well thought out as it seemed in her head. Feeling a bit of defeat and exhausted from all of her planning and coming up short, she tiptoed back to the car trying not to be seen.

“Shit!” she screamed loud and wildly in the car, “Why the fuck?”

Her fingers started the car almost immediately as if her mind unconsciously knew that she could not wait to get out of there. Beyond infuriated and exhausted from failure and lack of sleep, she slowly pulled off wishing she had set a bomb underneath his house so she could watch it explode. The metal of the gun pierced her back while she sat in the seat prompting her to toss it in the glove compartment in a forceful manner. She took one last look at his house deciding that the best time to deal with Tino was when he least expected it, in his bed.

****

Kojack walked through the double automatic sliding glass doors of the hospital heading straight for the information desk. Diamond had not given him any knowledge on how to get to her room, just expecting him to show up and magically get there. Annoyed, he tapped his finger on his cell to call her and retrieve the information she should have given him beforehand.

“How the fuck are you going to tell me to get up here and see about her when you didn’t even bother to give me the room or floor number?” he bellowed tossing his hand in his pocket to keep his composure.

“Hey! Don
’t fucking start with me, alright! I’ve had a bad fucking morning. Tell Lexi I had to go home because now I don’t feel well.”

“Fuck all that. What room is she in?” he yelled once more.

“236! 236! Sheesh!” Diamond screamed as she hung up the phone, launching it across the car.

Kojack stood there looking down at his phone for a minute before realizing that he was hung up on. He hated for that to happen to him even though he has dished it out on more than one occasion. He darted for the elevators and waited for his turn to load as the crowd moved slowly inside one of them. It was as if the elevator moved like the speed of lightning as Kojack exited once it reached the second floor.

He headed down the hall weaving through the heavy traffic of doctors, patients, and nurses searching the door plates for room 236. His eyes glanced over a plate that was partially covered by a doctor and a nurse standing in front of it as they gazed down at a chart. Kojack felt he was in the right place and as they moved walking inside the room his feelings were confirmed. He wanted to walk in but part of him needed to brace hisself for whatever it was he was about to see.

“Ms. Burden, how are you feeling?”

He heard the dark skinned doctor speak while adjusting his glasses.

“A little better,” Lexi responded groggily giving Kojack the notion that her illness was not life threatening.

“Well I’ve got your test results back here and I would like to talk to you about a few things,” The doctor rambled in his thick African accent while he fumbled through papers.

The pale thin Caucasian nurse stood there beside the doctor ready to assist him when needed. A shadow being cast over by the door broke her concentration on the doctor, taking a look in Kojack
’s direction. He stood there unable to move as she walked towards him looking like she was about to scold him to death.

“Sir, can I help you?” she asked with her angry eyes meeting him before she did.

“Uh, I’m here to see Lexi,” he responded.

“Oh. Come on in. We were just briefing her about her results. Now if she doesn
’t want you in here you’re gonna have to step out for a minute. Okay, Hun?”

Kojack nodded in agreement as she led him into the room. Turning the corner slightly, he gawked down upon Lexi wearing a hospital robe, lying back against the pillow. She had not even taken a look up to see who the nurse invited into the room. The nurse reached over, touching Lexi on the shoulder alerting her to Kojack
’s presence as the doctor continued to fumble through his medical chart.

“Hun, this young man is here to see you,” The nurse whispered while pointing in Kojack
’s path.

“Hey, Lex,” Kojack waved smiling as if he was actually happy to be there.

“Hey,” Lexi responded half-heartedly.

“Okay…” The doctor began noticing the tension in the air, deciding to slice through it before he was unable to get his speech out. “Ms. Burden. You really need to slow down on the alcohol and drug abuse. Your system was full of miscellaneous drugs and for a young girl that is most definitely not a good thing.”

“Tell me something I don’t know,” Lexi said placing her head in her hands wondering why the hell Kojack was there.

“You are perfectly healthy, other than that and you are disease free,” The doctor continued pretending to ignore her smart remark. “Your pain was just really bad gas.”

“Again tell me something I don’t know,” Lexi smacked her lips with attitude even though she was elated to know that she was AIDS and HIV free.

Her hair was a mess and she bore no makeup, which pissed her off to the fullest. She had never before been caught dead looking anything other than perfect in front of him, even in the early morning. So the fact that she looked like shit drove her insane. Gently and inconspicuously she tried to comb her short bob down a little with her fingers but no matter how she looked she could not bring herself to look up into his eyes. Kojack stood there a bit relieved that he was there to listen to the results of Lexi
’s tests. He was happy that he did not have to fight with her to get one done.

“Fine. Here
’s something you don’t know, you’re pregnant. Congratulations. Oh and you were dehydrated as well. You might want to cut back on all things unhealthy and start thinking about the health of your unborn child. You also might need to call your parents and let them know that you’re here,” The doctor frowned signaling the nurse as they headed for the door.

“Wait! Wait. I
’m sorry I didn’t mean to get nasty with you before. This is just all so overwhelming right now. Can you tell me how far along I am?” Lexi asked turning her attention to the shocked look spreading on Kojack’s face.

“About 6 weeks Hun. I
’ll give you some time and I’ll be back in a little while,” The doctor smiled as he and the nurse left the room.

“6 weeks? Damn. Well, congratulations. That
’s great for you,” Kojack spat nonchalantly.

“Yeah, congratulations to you too motherfucka, because it
’s yours,” Lexi said rolling her neck and eyes simultaneously.

“Mine? How do you know that for sure, girl? Shit, you know how you get down.”

“Are you serious right now, Kojack? You are the only nigga that has hit this pussy in the last year so you’ve got me fucked up. I was fucking with bitches before I met you.”

“Man, how do I know that? You could be still playing games like you
’ve been doing,” Kojack thumbed his nose as the words flew from his mouth but a part of him felt stupid for questioning her.

“Is that why you came up here, to fuck with me? I know Diamond pawned me off on you but you didn
’t have to come, you know. All you know how to do is run the fuck away. So here’s your chance. Run.”

“Man you gonna stop talking to me like I ain
’t grown or something—”

“It will always be the age difference with you, isn
’t it? You just can’t allow your fucking heart to love me,” Lexi shook her head in disappointment, “And what’s fucked up is I can’t help but to love you and now I’m pregnant…GET OUT!”

Lexi
’s voice released an unspeakable torrent that he had never heard come from her lips. Her eyebrows were curled all the way over and she appeared to be breathing much like an angry bull, all that was missing was the smoke from her nose. She pointed to the room door just in case he did not hear her the first time, hoping he just got the drift and left. Her heart could not bear to look at his worthless ass any longer and she needed to mentally prepare to take care of her baby on her own.

“Lexi, I
’m…I’m…”

“Sorry? Of course you
’re sorry. Sorry motherfuckas are always sorry. I can’t believe I was stupid enough to believe you could ever love me especially after knowing how you ended it with Pandora. But that was me, being young and dumb and this is me being on some grown woman shit. Get the fuck outta my room and never come back.”

“Lex…”

“Diamond should be getting us an apartment soon and then you will have your fucking place back but for right now, I don’t want to know you exist,” Lexi crossed her arms and turned her head waiting for him to leave the room.

Kojack looked at her expression knowing that she was not playing and astonished by her sudden change in attitude towards him. He had to admit it was quite the turn on to see her so in control of her life. The very thought of her raising a kid that could potentially be his on her own flashed in his head. It was a thought he was not prepared to extinguish or live with. She was going to have to listen to him one way or the other because he refused to be absent from his kid
’s life.

“I
’ll leave but this ain’t over girl. We need to talk.”

“Nigga get the fuck outta my room!”