Ghost

It's the next day and I'm at my moms crib checking in on her and my lil brother. we still looking for this nigga Kane. We got everyone of our people keeping a look out everywhere for him or anything suspicious. And the fact that two of my traps was shot up and I know that he did it, he already signed his death wish.

Over five hundred grand was destroyed in them traps each so yeah he dying.

Kev looking for a new place for his mom cause he feels it's not safe for her which is understandable. I'll do the same if it was me. But knowing mama brooks she gonna want an explanation for moving.

My moms the same way, stubborn. But she my best friend and I can talk to her about anything and get her support.

My little brother is fifteen and almost as tall as me. I look out for him especially cause me or my moms don't want him to be out here doing what I'm doing. He a smart kid, grades good and he good at football so I told his ass to stick to that shit and get out when he make it.

Right now I was sitting on the couch eating some Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and watching Netflix.

The front door opened and my mama Valerie walked in with my little brother Antonio behind her. I stood up and went to the kitchen sitting the bowl in the sink and grabbed the bags she had and took them to the kitchen and sat them on the counter.

"Baby, I thought you would be gone by now" she said taking her jacket off and hanging it up.

"Nah, not yet mama" I said looking through the bags.

"Ain't nothing for you, get out my bags" she said smacking my hand away. "Came to see if imma cook huh, you high" lshe said washing her hands and drying them. I started smiling.

"Isn't that what he always do?" Antonio said going up the stairs.

"Go do yo homework" i yelled to him.

"Uh huh I ain't cooking today but this Sunday I am so I expect you to be here"

"Yes ma'am. How you been mama?" I said sitting at the table. She sat down across from me.

"I'm good baby, how about you? You better be going to school and not in these streets all day Anthony"

"I'm good. And ma I am. And you know we need the money cause it's helping"

"Of course baby, but you can do it the right way. You choosing this path. The wrong one at that. I don't want a call from someone saying my son been shot or killed" I sighed and leaned back in the chair. She give me this speech every time I come visit her.

"Mama I told you I'm good as long as y'all good. Y'all gone be set. Ima make sure you have what you need and imma make sure Tony have what he needs cause he need it so y'all can leave Chicago"

"And what about you? You gone stay here and rule it forever?" I shrugged leaning forward on the tables sitting my elbows on it.

"What happened to Basketball? You was great at it, Colleges still wanted you after you got arrested. I still don't understand why you gave that up" she said shaking her head.

"Ma we already talked about that, you bring it up every time I come.

I knew if I tell her about the emails I got from them colleges she wouldn't let me leave if I didn't accept one. I still haven't decided if I wanted to or not, So imma wait.

"And we gonna continue to talk about it cause you don't listen, You hardheaded" I got up and went to the fridge to get me a bottle of water opening it and drinking from it.

" I want the best for you and your brother...I always did" her voice cracked and she looked away from me.

I hate seeing women cry, especially my mama. So I went and hugged her. "Ma, I promise imma do better. Imma be good" I said rubbing her back.

"You better cause you not too old to get beat Anthony" she said wiping her eyes. She the only person who can get away with calling me by my government name.

"You need a girlfriend. Someone you can relate to" I let her go and sat down.

Here we go again.

"I'm straight. I don't have time for a girlfriend" I said finishing the rest of my water bottle. I aimed for the garbage can and threw it and it went in.

"I want my grand babies" my eyes went wide and I laughed out loud shaking my head.

"I'm not having no kids mama" she waved me off.

"Oh chile please, everyone says that and fail. Hell, I said it" She said chucking. "But I don't want you to have none with these little whores you be messing with" I started cracking up.

"Ion be doing that. I'm careful but I'm gonna head out in a minute mama"

"Mhmm remember about Sunday and what I said" she said getting up and going upstairs.

I needed to get dress before I went to the trap with Kev so I went into my room to my closet to fine me something to where.

My phone vibrated and lit up in my shorts so I checked it an seen texts from an unknown number.

718-461-7583: you an asshole 😠
You didn't text me back last night Ghost -12:31pm

718-461-7583: fuck you den🖕🏽12:32pm

718-461-7583: I miss you!😩 answer me! I'm here in Chicago -12:33pm

I don't have many numbers in my phone only important ones like my mom or Kev and them. So I was clueless to who this was. Cause I deleted text threads and blocked Candice clingy ass.

Who this - 12:35pm

I sent that text and hopped in the shower. An hour an half later I was dressed and out the door after saying bye to them.

I got in my car and buckled up. I rolled a few blunts earlier and put them in the glove compartment so I opened it and got two out. I lit one and put the other behind my ear.

I checked my phone and the unknown number texted back and Kev so I opened his.

Kevin: hurry the fuck up we waiting - 2:07pm

So continue then - 2:08pm

I went to the other message and opened it.

718-461-7583: Really? You didn't save my number? Its Monica 🙄  - 12:36pm

I forgot all about shawty.

My fault
Wassup ma - 2:10

718-461-7583: whatever. I'm here in Chicago Wya? 🤔 - 2:11pm

What the fuck.

I shouldn't have smashed this girl but I was stressed and in the moment. But I ain't think she'll pop up like this in the city.

But since she here and I ain't want to be rude. I think I'm the only person she know here so I'll see what she on and scoop her up.

Wya - 2:13pm

718-461-7583: at Denny's - 2:13pm

Stay there - 2:14pm

After sending that I hooked my phone up to my aux cord and played Hardaway by Derek deShon and drove to Denny's.

          About ten minutes later I pulled up and shot her a text telling her to come out. A few minutes later she walked and seen me and smiled. She opened the passenger door and hopped in.

"Wassup ma" I said looking at her. She was a lil dressed up but she still looked good. She gone be cold as fuck tonight though.

"Hey boo. Where we going?" she asked putting her seat belt on. I drove off to the trap.

"To my office. meeting my homie there"

"okay, what we doing after?" She said leaning closer to me.

My plans I had today didn't involve her. She just popped up here without telling me ahead a time. So when I have to dip I'll just drop her off to her hotel.

"What you tryna do?" I said coming to a red light. I stopped and looked at her.

She slowly licked her lips and getting out her seatbelt and reached over and started unbuckling my belt.

I already knew what she came here to Chicago for so I didn't stop her. I leaned back and and let her do her best.

    
      About fifteen minutes later we pulled up to the trap and I cut the engine off. She was fixing her make up in the mirror.

"This your house?" She asked looking out the window at it.

"Some like that" I said hopping out and shutting the door and walking up the stairs and I felt her close behind me. I put in the code and used my key to unlock the door and held it open for her.

She stood there and I walked pass her dapping my guards and a few homies who was in the living room.

I skipped up the steps and down the hall to the last door which is my office and held the door open letting her walk in first.

"This is nice, what do you do?" She asked sitting across from me. Before I could answer the door opened and Kev walked in.

"About damn time, playing in yo ass-" he stopped mid sentence and looked at Monica then he looked back at me.

"She finna work here ?" He asked starring at her.

"Nah nigga, This Monica remember?" He raised his eyebrows shaking his head no then snapped his fingers.

"This the chick from Brooklyn you smashed in the basement right?" I glared at him and he put his hand over his mouth.

"I'll be down there in a minute" he nodded and walked back out. We heard him laugh out loud.

We sat here in silence for a few minutes when she broke it.

"So you told everyone we had sex?" she asked.

"Not everyone"

"Why would you though? It was a special moment" she said and I furrowed my brows.

"They already knew. And ma, fucking in a basement bathroom, at a party that was neither of ours wasn't a special moment" I said lighting another blunt.

"So it was all just a fuck to you? You felt nothing? She asked looking at me.

"Pretty much" I said shrugging. I didn't want to lie or lead her on so I rather just be honest with her.

She leaned back folding her arms shaking her head. "I came down here to become more than what we are now and your basically telling me you felt nothing" I chuckled and she frowned at me.

"Ma, you came here unannounced. And I haven't even known you that long to feel anything, sorry" I said honestly. She stared into space not saying anything.

"You niggas are all the same, fuck you, take me to my hotel" she said standing up. I looked at her like she was crazy and chuckled.

"And females like you are recyclable, and Nah I'll call you an cab" I said standing up. The door opens and my security guard Clyde walked in.

"Aye, Ghost them niggas is here. They in the meeting room" he said. I put my blunt out and placed it behind my other ear.

"Do me a favor and take her back down stairs and call her an cab" I said walking pass them and holding the door open. He waited for her and she was staring at me.

"Lets go ma, I got shit to do today" she rolled her eyes and followed him out and downstairs. I closed and locked my door and went to the meeting room.

I heard them chatting, so I opened the door and it got quiet when I sat at the end of the long table.

"So what's this meet about? Who the nigga in charge" I said cutting to the chase. The dude I'm guessing is the nigga who wants me to be his connect here in Chicago is his right hand man. He cleared his throat and spoke.

"He had another meeting today so he sent me to work this partnership out" he said.

"What's yo name?" I asked looking at him leaning forward on the table.

"Bobby"

"Well Bobby, tell him when he available to show up to this meeting HE begged and wanted to happen to hit me up or speak to him" I said pointing to Kev and I got up and everyone followed me out the door.

"show them out Clyde" I said referring to Bobby and two other niggas he came with. I walked downstairs into the kitchen.

You don't send the niggas that work for you to a business meeting you wanted to happen. I need to know the person who running shit cause if my shit start to come up missing, stolen, or short I need to know who I'm going after.

"You ready to help bag this shit up and what happened to Monique?" Kev said. I glared at him and he started laughing.

"Monica, and You a bitch" I said going downstairs to the basement and to the kitchen sink. I washed my hands and grabbed some gloves and put them on. Kev did the same and we sat at the big round table.

"Why you bring her ass here anyway?" he said in between laughs.

"She brought herself" I said sitting across from him. He had his brow raised.

"So she just popped up on yo ass"

"Exactly"

"Well what did she offered? What did she want?"

"Neck and a relationship" he let out a big laugh shaking his head grabbing the scales and sitting one in front of me.

"Wassup Ghost" I looked up and it was Caleb, Cody and Mike walking in.

"Wassup, where y'all been at" I said measuring the weed and placing it in little baggies.

"Workin the streets you know that" Cody said sitting down. I nodded my head.

"And Caleb and me was at my mama house eating" Mike said

"He got herpes pregnant" Caleb said laughing. Kev started laughing under his breath and shaking his head.

"Congratulations" I said smiling holding my laugh in.

"She not even pregnant so y'all shut the fuck up" Cody said in defense making us laugh more.

"I ain't gotta do shit" Kev said bagging the pills not looking up. And it got quiet.

Here we go with this shit.

These niggas never liked each other and Iono so I know this about to escalate and I'm not getting in it unless I have to.

"Nobody was talking to you nigga" Cody said standing up.

"Well you said "y'all" nasty dumbass" Kev said shrugging and continued bagging the pills.

"You the same dumbass who want my spot in this shit. Aye G, why you got this nigga here?" He asked looking at me. I grabbed my blunt from my ear and lit it and taking a big pull. Kev looked up at him then busted out laughing.

"Nah, you want MY spot cause yo punk ass don't have one. I been here since day one. You workin the streets to get money for your boss right here" he nodded to me. "Basically a fucking prostitute" kev said chuckling. Cody pulled his gun out and aimed it at him.

I sighed and leaned back in my chair and Kev stood up.

"Cody bro put the gun away" Mike said but Cody ignored him.

"Nah, let'em cause soon as he shoot me, imma beat his ass" I started cracking up and coughing. This nigga Kevin a troll.

"Dawg, put the gun down. And chill the fuck out" I said chuckling.

"Yeah, put that gun down pussy, and get knocked out like ya father use to" Kev said sitting back down.

"Whatever I'm out" Cody said leaving. we looked at each other and started laughing.

"Funny as niggas" Caleb said shaking his head. We continued bagging and Mike and Caleb started helping.

We been doing this for like three hours and already had seven duffel bags filled with products plus the ones up stairs my workers are doing. It was now seven at night so I stop to rest a bit and lit my half blunt. And I was hungry as shit.

"Where Elijah bitch ass at" Kev said taking his gloves off.

"Right here bitch, wassup bro" Elijah said walking in. He dapped us and sat down.

"Where you just coming from?" I asked.

"He just came from eating Chrissy's ass" the tall chick walked in with the dark skin girl I'm guessing is Chrissy.

"bro what the fuck. You missed the meeting. And Why you bring them here?" Kev said mugging them.

"Cause he can. And we came to rob you niggas" she said mugging with her fingers positioned as a gun at us. I chuckled shaking my head.

Shawty was funny as hell.

"Yeah whatever, where is Nae and Nicole?" Kev asked.

"In the car, she didn't want to come in so Nicole stayed with her" Kev and Elijah and me looked at each other. He got up and was about to held out.

"Where you going?" Elijah asked.

"I'll be right back" and with that he left out the door. I grabbed me a cup and the Hennessy and poured me some and downed it.

"Um okay...gimme some and what happened last night cause Nicole was on the floor sleep and I was knocked out" the girl Chilli said sitting down. I passed her a cup and the bottle and she poured herself a drink.

"And I was drunk sleep on the toilet. Embarrassing" Chrissy said covering her face.

We forgot she was in the bathroom through that whole situation and good thing she was. Elijah found her in there and helped her.

"I don't really remember what happened yesterday accept that I wanted to fight that bitch that was in Nae face" the tall light skin said.

"That's a good thing and you need to stop tryna fight everybody, you fifty pounds and Nae can handle herself" Elijah said chuckling.

"And my hands weight five hundred so I don't give a shit" she said rolling her eyes drinking from her cup. "And I know but still, she sensitive"

"I'll be back" I said getting up taking my gloves off and walked up the stairs.

"Now, Where you going?" Eli asked.

"To mind my business nigga" I said back to him. I walked out the basement and closed the door.

I walked up the second flight of stairs opening the door walking out and closed it behind me. I dapped a few people then left out the door.

I seen Kev at the car talking to Nicole and Nae was in the car. She was looking at me. I unlocked my car walking to it then hopped in. I opened my glove compartment and grabbed my blunt bag and grabbed me a blunt and lit it taking a big pull.

"A real stress reliever" I said exhaling. I watched them go back and fourth about whatever. My phone lit up and it was Monica texting me. I slide her messages off my screen and sat my phone in the cup holder.

I started my car up and my beamers flashed on them and they glared at me. I started cracking up and rolled my window.

"My bad bro"  the car door opened and Nae got out ignoring Kev and walked over to my passenger door and looked in my window at me. I rolled the window down looking at her.

"Can I come with you?" She asked moving her hair from her face. Kev was shaking his head and mouthing "No" to me and I smirked and unlocked the door letting her in. He was about to walk over to me but Nicole grabbed him. Nae, put her seatbelt on and I drove off.

Minutes passed and I didn't even know where I wanted to eat so I was just driving. She hasn't said anything at all, she was looking out the window. I stopped at a red light, So I grabbed another blunt and lit it. I leaned my head on the head rest.

"Why do you smoke so much?" She said looking at me.

"Why do you care?" I said looking at her. She shrugged and looked back out the window. Her phone lit up multiple times but she ignored it.

"Where you tryna eat at?" I asked putting my blunt out. She shrugged still not looking at me. I decided to go to Chick Fil-a on state street.

About twenty minutes later I pulled up and parked and hopped out. I walked over to her side and opened her door. She almost fell out but she caught herself.

"Could have least warned me" she said getting out. I closed the door and locked it. We walked up to the door and I opened it letting her walk in first. She went an sat at a booth in the back while I ordered. I got me a grilled Chicken