Raunchy (28 page)

Monkey opened the door and I saw him give a pound to someone I couldn’t really see. I cut a couple slices of apple pie, and placed them on our plates as I waited patiently to see who came over.

“What are you doin’ here, man?” Monkey asked. “I didn’t know you were in town.”

“I come at a bad time?” When I heard that voice, my heart dropped.

“Naw, wifey in the kitchen makin’ apple pie. Come on inside and meet her.” I knew that voice like I knew my own face. I heard it many, many times before. “Harmony, come over here baby.” Monkey said to me.

I slowly walked over to the door and my legs felt like water underneath my body. I wanted to run but where could I go?

“How you doin’, Harmony? Long time no see.” He looked at me evilly. What really tripped me out was that I saw Nut and Cherry standing behind him. They looked strung out and not kept together like they normally did.

“Oh my, GOD!” I screamed falling down to the floor to hold Monkey. His blood poured out of his body and drenched my shirt. “Why did you do that?!!!!”

Monkey looked scared as he gripped his stomach. He was still gasping for air when Kali said, “Nigga, die already!” And shot him in the throat.

I jumped up against the wall and Kali walked up to me, placed one hand around my neck and kissed me in my mouth. The hatchet he carried was still on his back and I wondered if he would use it. His breath tasted nasty and I hated him all over again.

“This some wild shit.” He released me and stood a few feet away to observe me. “The moment I give up on trying to find you, you come right to me.”

“What do you want?”

“My baby!”

Nut and Cherry walked inside and they both grabbed me by my arms and pushed me to the floor. When I was on the floor, Nut took Kali’s hatchet off of his back while he held me down in her place.

“How did you know I was here?” I cried. “Why can’t you just leave me alone?!”

“I found out when you dropped off the last shipment.” He smirked. “I couldn’t believe my luck when Domingo told me about this fine as bitch name Harmony. Who was pregnant…” He paused. “I thought to myself, ‘Self, there can’t be two fine ass pregnant bitches name Harmony in the world.” He continued. “And you know what, I was right!”

“You’re the connect from DC?”

“Yeah. I got my own operation now. Since you fucked shit up with me and Jace, I had to go off on my own.” He said. “But once I found out you were working with them Houston boys, I moved heaven and earth to get to you.”

“And you are one of my best friends. Why do you think I killed your grandmother? And your uncle? And your dog?” He paused. “I killed everybody who has ever caused you a problem.”

Kali pressed his hand over my mouth and I could not begin to describe the pain I was in. It was totally unbearable. I felt them tugging and pulling at my body but didn’t know what they were doing. Then out of nowhere, Kali takes the hatchet and slashes me across the face.

My face burned. My stomach burned and I wanted to die. After awhile I didn’t feel the pain anymore. Just extreme pressure, before I passed out cold.

The Deli

Jace

After five location changes I knew this was the place for us to be. There was a leak in my organization and I wasn’t having any more excuses. I tightened down on my circle and now we were eight deep including me. After Massive poisoned and killed over twenty people at my party, which caused the cops to fuck with me every day of my life, I couldn’t make money as easy as I could before. This change was necessary for the operation. We even tried showing him the same consideration he showed us by poisoning him, too. But every piece of food he ate, was inspected. Even the clothing he used was brought in by a special linen cleaning company.

When I got out of my limo, my bodyguards Kevin and Antony checked my surroundings thoroughly. When the coast was clear, I followed them into the Gee’s Deli on Good Hope Road in Southeast DC.

“Hello, sir. Everyone’s in the back waiting,” said Paris, a neighborhood girl I trusted to run the counter. She was young and dedicated to moving up in the ranks. Since there wasn’t a lot of places I could use a female, I told her to start with lookout at the deli. If she continued to prove her loyalty, I’m sure I’d be able to find her something else. There’s one thing you can never have enough of and that was loyal people.

“Thanks. Is my cousin here?” I asked.

“No, he called and said he wasn’t feeling well again.”

Ever since the poisoning, Tony had been off. We were able to get him to the hospital in time for them to help him, but his mind had never been right since. Massive killed all those people to get to me and failed. And it was only because I had Kreshon and Paco get some beer from the outside, which I drunk instead, that’s why I was still alive today. Mostly everybody else who drank Massive’s poisoned liquor died.

As I walked toward the back, Antony stayed at the door to deter any customers from coming inside and Kevin followed me. We were closed until our meeting was over because I had a few things to discuss with my squad in private.

“Aight, if he calls come back and get me.” I told Paris.

“Yes, sir.”

I moved toward the back of the deli but before I walked into the room, he walked inside to be sure everything was okay. When it was he said, “Everything’s good, sir.”

“Thanks.”

I walked inside and Kevin stayed outside at the door. Most of my crew was there and I was ready to tell them about the new direction we would be taking.

“What up, Jace?” Said Kreshon.

“How’s it going, boss?” One of my new men said.

I sat at the table they were seated at, and folded my hands. I knew they wouldn’t understand my reason for our next move but I was running shop and I was going to do what needed to be done.

“As you all know, we own pretty much all of Southeast DC.” I paused. “We are the single source for the manufacture and distribution of crack cocaine in these areas. But by the end of the week, we will be the single source for the entire city.”

“What?” Kreshon laughed. “I thought we were gonna move slow, especially after that attack from Massive.”

“Fuck movin’ slow. We moved slow enough and the money not comin’ in how I want it. It’s time to push.”

“Don’t you think we’ll get some flack from the people we distribute to?” Paco said. “They buyin’ from us but won’t be able to move it if we take their territories.”

Although me and Kali had our riff the night of my birthday party, I kept him on as muscle. He didn’t need to come to our meetings and I never invited him because I still couldn’t trust him, as far as I could see him.

“Kali and Tony Wop will be brought up to speed when its time.”

Prior to my decision to change things up a little, Tony Wop handled our connect. But ever since he got poisoned I had a feeling he was the reason we were losing kilos of cocaine at a time. He’d claim he’d have a package delivered of a certain weight, but when our customers got it, it would always be short. And I’m not talking about a little short, I’m talking kilos short at a time. Tony would claim it was our connect and our connect would tell us to fuck off when we told him we needed to weigh each individual pack prior to money exchanging hands. So I found a solution for everything. And part of my plan was taking Tony off the weight.

“So now what?” Kreshon asked.

“For starters this is our new meetin’ spot.” I looked around. “And whenever we transport, we will transport using one of the five company delivery vans we’ve purchased out back. The only ones driving the vans will be Paco and four other drivers I just hired. People will think we’re making food deliveries, when we’re delivering something else.”

“Because he had an issue when I requested that each kilo be weighed by one of our people before purchase. He claimed my pops didn’t do business that way so he wouldn’t handle shit that way with me either.”

“Or one of my men has been stealin’ from me.” I looked at all of them seriously. I wanted them to know what I was putting on the line for the sake of loyalty. They also needed to know with all seriousness that if I found out someone in my camp was stealing from me, there would be problems. I had come to the conclusion that I would be a far worst enforcer than my father ever could.

“We were talkin’ about a few things before you got here.” Kreshon started. “And I don’t know if you know it, but Kali been out of town a lot lately. I know he your peoples, but I think he doing a few business deals on the side.”

“I also want to let you know that I heard a few dudes say that Massive is building shops in Southwest and Northeast DC. This is what sparked my reason for takin’ over those areas. Not only do I not want this mothafucka gettin’ money in my city, but if we continue to allow him to eat here, he will eventually move us out all together. And with the new whips ya’ll driving, I know you don’t want that.” They all nodded in agreement.

“We moving on Southwest DC tomorrow night. With the other areas right behind them.”

“What?” Kreshon asked as they all looked up at me. “That ain’t enough time. Plus Porter Don ain’t letting up off them spots that easily.”

“Fuck Porter Don!” I told them. “Especially after I find out that this nigga’s working with Massive.” I could tell by the looks on their faces they didn’t know that.

“Jace, you the boss and I respect that. But you can’t go after Porter Don with the power we got by tomorrow. I’m all for takin’ some shit but that’s too soon.” Kreshon paused. “We don’t have enough man power.”

“We got enough.”

“How?” Kreshon laughed. “We only got about 100 niggas we can call on at any given time. The rest will have to be flown in from L.A. To fuck with Porter Don we gonna need at least five hundred niggas.”

They all laughed again. “Boss, I don’t mean to make light of what you sayin’ and definitely on what you’re tryin’ to do because I know it need to be done.” Kreshon started. “But we never had access to a thousand men.”

PART THREE

Present Day

Green Door – Adult Mental Health Care Clinic

Northwest, Washington DC

“Ms. Phillips, some of the things you did, don’t seem to have been necessary.” Mrs. Christina Zahm, said.

“Like what?”

“For instance, stealing the girl’s earrings, or leaving the baby in the house by herself. It’s almost like you enjoyed causing drama.”