SILAS'S POINT OF VIEW

I woke up in this bright ass room and my vision was blurry so for a moment I thought I was dead or something. When I finally started to see clear I could see Ivory and a lady dressed in white who I'm assuming to be a nurse talking in the doorway.

I lifted my arm to wipe my eyes and winced in pain. It felt like all of me was hurting and I didn't know what to do.

"I see your awake, we need to talk" Ivory said pushing my dreads from out of my face and I took a deep breath as she hugged me before sitting in a chair and looking at me with disapproving eyes.

"Can I have some water first? My throats dry" I say and she handed me a paper cup that was by her and I began drinking like I hadn't drunk anything in forever. I heard her sniffling and I looked at her for a second before lifting my hand to wipe her tears.

"Don't cry Ivory I'm okay and I'm not going anywhere" I try and convince her but she simply shook her head.

"You scared the hell out of me and I don't want you doing this anymore you haven't been seventeen for that long and I feel like if you keep continuing to do this you're going to die and I can't handle that Silas, you need to stop" She says taking a hold of my hand.

"The streets raised my ass and if I died today I'd die with a smile on my face, proud as hell to die for my homies these dudes are like my blood Ivory, they took care of me when NOBODY wanted to and I respect everybody I'm not going to just abandon them when they need me" I tell her in all honestly.

I use to be a shy ass timid kid who barely spoke in school and I never really had any friend I just always kept to myself but a person can only take so much shit until they just change and turn into someone they never thought they'd be.

"Remember when you told me you get scared? Silas you don't have to do this I promise you Jade won't be mad Rico and O won't be mad just tell me right now do you want to leave?" Ivory asked and I bit rubbed my eyes and stared straight ahead.

"Leaving won't fix shit but just make me a coward and I'm not going back to school Ivory that's not a place I'm comfortable in or where I want to be" I tell her looking into her eyes but she quickly broke eye contact and looked away.

The room grew quiet and I knew she was upset with me but that's exactly how I felt and I didn't see my opinion changing anytime soon.

I grabbed a hold of Ivory's hand and she looked up at me and I forced out a smile which she returned.

"Thank you for everything thing you do for me, I love you and I'd die for you whenever" I tell her kissing her hand and she laughed and nodded.

"Everybody was waiting for you to wake up, let me go gather them" Ivory said walking out of the room and I relaxed back on the bed in deep thought.

I prayed to god Jade had his shit together cause I won't be underaged forever. I chuckled as I looked up at the ceiling.

"I would of killed your ass if you died on me" O said walking into the room first and looking at me. I shook my head at his stupid ass, how the hell could he kill me if I was already dead? But knowing him he'd kill himself just to come to hell to make my life miserable just cause he felt like it.

"You know I wouldn't go out that easy" I say dapping him Rico and Jade. Rico helped me sit up in the bed to take some of the pressure off of my back.

"Dice and Dallas are dead and we took out one of Al's main trap houses and one of Will's a couple nights ago and now were working on getting their connect next" Jade said lowly and my eyes grew wide.

"Damn how many people have died from our crew?" I asked shocked as hell. I wondered why they had done this I could of sworn we stayed we'd move slow with all of this.

"Don't worry about it but who did this shit to you" Jade said ignoring my question so I knew it was a lot.

"Some of Rodney and his people did this shit" I said touching my chest were one of the bullets hit me. If I would of never pretended like I was dead I would be and that's were his rookie ass made the mistake.

When you trying to take out somebody you always shoot them in the head at least twice to make sure the job is done and the job is done good.

"You want us t-" Rico started but O cut him off as he rubbed his hands together with a huge smirk on his face.

"Nah, leave that to me to worry about we have unfinished business together" Ohaji said walking out of my hospital room. I was becoming tired as hell and wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning okay? Get some rest" Ivory said kissing my cheek before I dapped up the guys and they walked out.

This is going to be one long ass recovery.

JADE'S POINT OF VIEW

I sprawled out on the couch in nothing but a pair of boxers and socks on while I smoked a blunt and watched ESPN. Ivory was off meeting with her professor for that school shit or something and I was bored as hell.

I heard knocking on the door and noticed it was five in the afternoon and Ivory had left only thirty minutes ago so it couldn't of been her. I grabbed my gun off the table and took the safety off before sliding on my slides and walking to the front door opening it.

"What the fuck you want?" I asked Lena as she stood their in nothing but lingerie, she looked bruised and like she was crying and shit.

"P-please Jade can I come in? My boyfriend just beat me and I need to call Monica, your house was the closest" Lena said through sobs and I sighed and let her in before walking into the kitchen with her trailing behind me.

I handed her the house phone and leaned on the counter as she gave me a small smile and dialed a number before turning away from me.

I ran up the stairs to get her some of Ivory's clothes to put on cause I'd hate for her to come back early and be tripping because she thinks I fucked that girl or something.

When I got in my bedroom I pulled on a pair of gym shorts and grabbed a pair of Ivory's sweats and a T-shirt and when I turned around Lena was standing there.

"Why the fuck you in my bedroom?" I asked tossing her the clothes and she bit her lip and stepped closer to me and I quickly moved from around her and went back down the stairs. I'm not trying to get caught up tonight, I don't even know when Ivory suppose to get back so Monica need to hurry that ass up.

I sat back on the couch and lit another blunt relaxing again when Lena came back and sat next to me looking me over like I was a piece of meet or something.

"I heard you put it down in the bedroom, I'd love to experience for myself" Lena said grabbing my dick and I quickly moved her hand away.

"Man quit playing for I make your ass wait outside, you know I got a girl so why are you sweating me? I'm not about to fuck you so chill on that" I told her and she pouted and folded her arms sitting back.

I chuckled and got up from the couch walking back into the kitchen and grabbing a bottle of Ciroc and pouring some into two red cups and then walking back into the living room and handing her one.

Maybe if her ass was drinking she'd stop talking so much. Lena immediately began drinking the Ciroc and I took a sip of my cup before sitting it down and continuing my blunt in piece.

"So Ivory lives here?" Lena asked and I picked up my cup and nodded my head and she rolled her eyes and sat her cup down and climbed onto my lap rubbing my tattoos.

"What happened shouldn't of happened and I love this girl to death bruh don't be messy and try and make my life messy, you gotta go so" I said pushing her off and standing up from the couch and she stared at me like I'd just done her so wrong.

She stormed out of the house and slammed the door and I walked over and locked it and ran a hand down my face.

I don't think I've ever really loved a girl more than my mama but Ivory was different I actually wanted a future with her, she brought a side of me out that nobody could and I loved her for that more than she'd ever know.

I sat on the couch for another hour before the front door opened and Ivory walked in and threw her bag on the floor with a scowl on her face.

"Baby whats wrong?" I asked quickly getting up and grabbing her hand making her take a seat on the sofa while I took a seat on the coffee table in front of her pulling her shoes off.

"Today was complete hell and I feel like eating ice cream and crying myself to sleep" Ivory said and fear shot through my body, did she know about her mom? I didn't know if I should tell her right here and right now and get it over with.

"Tell me about it then" I say pulling her foot into my lap as I began massaging it and she got comfortable on the couch.

"Well I can't get into law school until I graduate from college and they were giving me hell about that even though I'm only missing a couple of credits so that means I have to make them up as soon as possible and then on top of that guess who I saw on campus today?" She asked me and I looked up at her.

"Who did you see?" I asked and she rolled her eyes.

"Reina and she was giving me the meanest look and went out of her way to bump into me, I wanted to punch her ass but I didn't want to give people the wrong impression of me" she tells me and I nod.

"Just ignore that hoe she not even worth it, she see you got something that she wants so she trying to make you miserable just don't feed into the bullshit, but I know how to make you feel better" I smirk dropping her foot and leaning in to kiss her.

"I'm not in the mood for sex right now" Ivory mumbled and I smirked looking her over before kissing on her neck.

"Just relax and let me handle this" I tell her pushing her back onto the couch and unbuttoning her skinny jeans before pulling them all the way off and kissing on her stomach.

I pulled her underwear off with my teeth and held her legs open so she wouldn't close them and then began licking up and down her slit while she clawed at my shoulder and screamed enjoying it.

I heard knocking on the front door and went to stop but Ivory looked at me with pleading eyes and sighed.

"I'm not going to be able to finish this right now just go upstairs" I tell her and she slid on her underwear and grabbed her pants running up the stairs and I took my time going to the door.

I grabbed my gun and opened the door and nobody was there but there was a package not addressed to anybody. I picked it up and brought it inside after closing and locking my door and then sat it on the counter opening it up.

There sitting in the box was a bunch of pictures of my crew and I and X's on a couple of people's face. I shook my head and through it away not about to worry about that shit, whoever sent it if they were ruthless would of opened fire on me when I opened the door not just leave a fucking package.

After catching my thoughts I ran up the stairs were Ivory was to continue what I started.

OHAJI'S POINT OF VIEW

I continued to pour gasoline on Rodney and his wife as she cried and begged for her life. I ain't feel bad about this shot either his girl was a fucking trick.

"She's pregnant don't take my kids life away, I hear you got a baby O think about him" Rodney begged and I looked at his ass like he was stupid.

"I am thinking about my son when I do this cause if I don't then he always going to have to worry about your bitch ass, I don't have no remorse this shit is for my lil nigga Silas paybacks a bitch" I say setting him and his girl on fire before walking out of they house.

I felt my phone vibrating and looked at it noticing it was a unknown number before ignoring it and sliding my phone back into my pocket.

Rodney was taken care of and as soon as Al and Will were taking care of there was nothing stopping us from running the state of California.

I got in my car and headed to one of our main traps to collect and see what was up. Rico said he had some concerns he wanted to talk to me about so I was all ears for that.

I noticed a car following me so I made a sharp turn and the car did the same thing. I pulled my gun from under the seat and sat it on my lap as I continued to drive for a little bit before pulling over and waiting for the car to stop but it continued driving.

That was either the Feds or some people who worked for Al and Will and either way they were about to get they ass shot.

I pulled up to the trap house a half a hour later and Rico was in the front pacing back and forth and as soon as I got of the car he rushed over to me.

"Nigga what the fuck is wrong with you?" I asked leaning on my car and he shook his head and leaned on my car as well.

"You know how we were suppose to go meet up with that connect tonight? Don told me it's a set up he traced the phone call back to Al, somebody in here is a snitch" Rico said and I looked at him with a straight face trying to stay calm.

"Gather up everybody you think is a snitch and bring they asses down to the basement, somebody will start talking" I tell him. As much as I wanted to kill everybody to make sure there was a guarantee of nobody snitching I ain't feel like doing that cause if we kill the clean up crew who the hell is gonna clean up the mess?

I pulled a blunt out of my pocket and lit it while Rico and I walked inside the trap to people working hard which is what I like to see.

"I handled Rodney and his pregnant bitch" I tell Rico shrugging and he nodded as I past him the blunt I felt no remorse for her if anything she should be thanking me from stopping her daughter from becoming a hoe or her son from becoming like his bitch ass daddy.

"Jade ain't been picking up his phone so I don't know where he at but when I went to see Silas earlier he said that Jade was at his crib chilling so I don't know" Rico said shrugging as we continued walking around.

"I'll drop by there later and see whats up with him" I said my eyes roaming to one of the female workers. She was dark skin with Hazel eyes and box braids in her hair, she reminded me of Kelly Rowland.

I walked over to her and looked at her as she continued to work with a straight face not seeming bothered by me standing here.

"I'm Ohaji and you are?" I asked extending my hand but she didn't shake it in fact she still ain't acknowledge me.

"My name shouldn't matter to you, I'm here to work so please let me do that I have mouths to feed" she said with attitude and I smirked and decided I was going to continue talking to her, I liked a chase.

"You ain't gotta be like that girl I'm just trying to be nice and Gooding the most right now" I tell her and she froze and looked up at me.

"I'm not someone you can just fuck and pass along I heard about you and your brother and I'm not one of those girls so don't try and play me, I came here to work so let me fucking work!" She snapped raising her voice and I clenched my jaw together.

"My brother has a girl he ain't stunting your uptight ass and maybe I was just trying to be nice to you because if I wanted to fuck I would do it and you'd love every minute of it, yeah you cute and shit but I run things around here so don't raise your fucking voice at me, that'll get you killed and those mouths you trying to feed will go hungry" I whispered in her ear before kissing her cheek and walking away.

These hoes be tripping these days. Maybe I did want to fuck but her uptight ass can forget about all that now.

"Yo Rico I'm about to go get Cal" I tell him walking towards the door and he nodded and went back to going off on a worker.

I ain't seen my son all day and I actually really missed that lil nigga, even though he always pissing and shitting everywhere.

IVORY'S POINT OF VIEW

"Baby let me tell you something, our relationship ain't built on lies so I want a moment of truth right now" Jade says coming out of the bathroom and sitting on the bed pulling me into his arms and kissing my neck.

"You can tell me anything Jade you know that" I say and I felt him breath in and out and his grip on my waist tightened.

"Lena sucked my dick about a couple days ago" he says and I feel my anger building up I was about to fucking kill his ass I mean it.

"Oh so your going to just sleep with me and then tell me you let another girl suck on you? Oh hell no!" I say trying to break out of his grip but he held on tighter. I didn't want to cry I wanted to whoop his ass.

"No baby listen you should respect I'm man enough to tell you this I don't know why I let her do it but not for a second did I ever want to take it past that, Ivory you know I love you" Jade said kissing down my neck again and I continued to try and get away from him.

"Let me go, I promise I'm calm" I say and he slowly loosened his grip and I stood up and stared at him doing the first thing that came to mind, punching his ass in the nose causing blood to squirt out.

Jade quickly grabbed his nose and ran into the bathroom to get toilet paper to stop the bleeding and when he came back out he was fuming.

"Ivory I'm trying to help you out right now don't hit me again I'm trying to keep my anger in check and I'm one of them niggas that will fuck around and hit you like a man" Jade said holding his nose and I rolled my eyes and sat on the bed with arms folded.

"You cheated on me Jade after you promised me you wouldn't and now I look stupid, she's probably laughing at me right now, who else did you cheat on me with?" I asked as my anger continued to boil.

"I slept with Reina about awhile ago baby but I swear that's it" Jade said and I couldn't control myself I swung again and punched him in the mouth and bust his lip. I knew he was going to hit back this time and it wasn't shocking when he punched me in the mouth, it didn't stop me from crying though.

I sat on the ground with my head in my hands and cried silently as he stood over me and looked down at me in complete silence. I was hurt and I was angry at the fact that I was cheated on twice by someone I was in love with.

"Was it before or after I gave you my virginity?" I asked ignoring my bleeding lip as he squatted in front of me and looked at me lip and used his shirt to wipe it off.

"It was before that Ivory and I'm sorry, I watched as a kid how hurt my mom would be when my dad use to cheat on her and come home at hours of the night smelling like cheap perfume and that's not how I wanna live my life baby, I love you with everything in me and if I didn't want to be with you right now then I wouldn't be standing here right now, I want you to have my children and be my wife one day and I'll do whatever I can to make it up to you just please don't leave me" Jade begged and my eyes grew wide. Jade was really begging me to stay and when I was about to say no when I saw a tear drop fall.

"I want to be with you but I don't want to be one of those dumb bitches who keeps taking back the dude that does her so wrong, I can't be that girl Jade and I won't be that girl if you mess up again I swear to god I'll leave and never come back" I tell him looking into his eyes as I wiped one of his tears.

"I'm sorry baby believe me" Jade said hugging on me tightly like he was afraid if he didn't I was going to leave.

"We have matching busted lips" I teased and he let go of the hug and pecked my lips a couple of times before lifting me up and laying me on the bed.

"Nope, your on the couch for a week" I smile handing him a pillow and he snatched it with a fake smile on his face.

"I love you" Jade said kissing