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"Keep The Family Close"

Nayeli
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I sobbed into my hands feeling helpless and broken. I felt like I failed as an older sister. Hearing the door open, I look up and saw Marcellus hovering over me. Feeling nothing but rage rush through me as I stared at him, I attacked him.

"I fucking hate you!" I yelled lunging towards him.

"Chill" he shouted restraining my arms.

"Chill? You killed my fucking brother" I cried as I tried to fight him but I ended up just collapsing. He caught me holding me up before I hit the floor.

"I'm right here Eli" I heard Joel's voice yell. I quickly looked up and saw him standing there. Running over I was engulfed in his arms. I checked him from head to toe before punching him.

"I heard the gunshots" I said wiping my tears.

"I did it to scare the lil nigga, I wasn't gonna kill him. I need information out of him." Marcellus explained.

"Don't you ever do no shit like that again" I breathed out. I was overwhelmed with feelings right now that I couldn't breath properly.

"I need to find out who sent him, your brother ain't the head of this shit"

"Who you working for Joel?"

"Some nigga that go by Biggs, I told Raheem I need some money and they sent us on these house raids, we rob the houses and that's it, I get my cut and I go home." He explained.

"I respect it but you fucked with the wrong one lil nigga. How much help can you be to your family if you dead. This street life ain't for everybody."

"I ain't want to see my family on the street, I don't care what paths I gotta cross" Joel shrugged.

"You might just be cut out for this, you got heart"

"No this shit is done, you ain't doing that. I have more than enough money saved up"

"You acting like I was selling drugs" he roll ed his eyes.

"You robbing houses, if cops catch you with a little weed and it's your first offense they might not be as harsh. But breaking into houses with guns and shit. They will lock your black ass up, stop being stupid Joel" I snapped.

"I knew you wasn't gonna shoot this lil nigga" Reese laughed coming into the room.

"I need to find out who sent him and his friend"

"That nigga wasn't my friend, he tried to shoot me but I shot him first" Joel said.

"Your the one that killed him?" I asked in disbelief. I felt like I was standing in front of someone I didn't know.

"It's kill or be killed out here" Reese spoke up.

"My brother doesn't need to get involved in that"

"He already in it" Marcellus said before walking out. Joel followed behind him and I was left alone with Reese.

"Why you staring at me?" He asked making me roll my eyes. I didn't even want to say what I was going to say to him.

"Nothing" I replied dryly attempting to walk out the room but he laughed and pulled me back.

"I'm joking, you always so serious"

"Cause you're hella disrespectful" I mugged him.

"You annoy the shit out of me that's why" he said as if I was suppose to sit with that answer.

"How sway? I haven't done shit to your retarded ass"

"Watch your mouth" he laughed.

"Watch these nuts" I mumbled.

"What was that?" He asked cupping his ears.

"Nothing but I wanted to say thank you"

"For what?" He asked. Leaning back he crossed his arms and waited for me to continue.

"For helping me and for helping my brother"

"I don't know what you talking about" he shrugged easing up off the wall.

"I know you're a hothead but Marcellus always waits for your approval before he offs somebody. It was quick but I saw you shaking your head after he untied me. Now I know why" I smiled.

"He ain't choke you that long for you to be this crazy" he shook his head leaving not before winking at me.

"Just accept the thank you, damn!" I groaned in frustration.

"I need to borrow your car" I suddenly said making him stop.

"Now you reaching"

"Please? Or you can drive me to where I need to go" I suggested.

"Where you need to go"

"I need to pay my aunt a visit" I said simply. He stared at me for a while before walking off. I didn't know if he was walking away from me or leading the way for me.

"If you coming come on" he shouted. After making sure Joel would be okay staying back with Marcellus I left with Reese. My hands ran across my jeans as I tried to calm my nerves. All the scenarios about what could happen ran through my head non-stop.

I was the type of person that would play out situations in my head and slightly react to them as if they had happened. It wasn't a good habit because sometimes I put myself in a bad mood from thinking too much. But it helped me to relax.

"How old is your brother?" Reese asked out of the blue putting a half to my racing mind. Before there was this surprisingly comfortable silence between us as he drove.

"He's 17 about to be 18 soon" I replied before my thoughts went back to my aunt. She had me so fucked right now, I spent months dealing with her disrespectful ass mouth but this shit right here crossed the line. At the end of the day, Joel has no job so her knew he had to have been doing something illegal to be bringing in the money.

"You look like you about to fuck somebody up" Reese laughed placing his hand on my shaking leg. I gave him a look signaling him to take his hands off of me.

"I'm about to fuck you up if you don't take your hands off of me" I said turning to look at him.

"You gon jump on me again" he smirked making my face get hot. I was embarrassed that I allowed him to get under my skin and cause me to act out like that.

"Keep trying it and I just might"

"This dick gon be waiting on you the next time you decide you wanna jump on me"

"I'll pass plus I thought your little shrimp didn't like bougie bitches"

"Ain't no shrimp over here and you can check anytime you want but I was wrong about you" he shrugged.

"Really?" I asked looking at him skeptically.

"Mhmm you not bougie just basic" he laughed ducking when I attempted to hit him.

"Asshole" I mumbled.

"You like me doe" he said popping his collar. Rolling my eyes, I turned to look out the window and saw that we were pulling onto the street of my aunts house.

"Whatever makes you sleep at night nigga" I replied.

"You need me to wait or you good?"

"I might need a ride, do you mind waiting?" I asked.

"Don't have me out there for two hours" he warned.

"I won't"

"Why you told us the wrong answer the first time we drop yo ass off?"

"I didn't know y'all asses like that to be telling you my exact address" I shrugged.

"You still don't know us" he said making me go quiet. It was true, Marcellus told me a lot of shit but I knew I hadn't even got to surface area of his past.

"I'll be back" I decided not to continue the conversation and got out of the car. I had already thought out exactly what I was going to say and how I was going to drag her ass. Ringing the doorbell I waited and soon the locks clicked.

"What are you doing here?" The devil in disguise said with her arms crossed. I was about to say some choice words to her when I heard the voice of my father.

"Daddy" I smiled running over to him. Even though I was a twenty year old woman I was still daddy's little girl. My father and I had an unbreakable bond so when he got sick I felt like my world was over.

"Neli Yeli" he smiled wide engulfed my in his arms. I saw my mom sitting at the couch and as much as I wanted to ignore her, I couldn't be disrespectful to the woman that birth and raised me.

"Hey mom" I spoke acknowledging her.

"Hello Nayeli" she said plainly. I frowned not liking her attitude towards me. She's acting like she not The Who kicked my ass out. If Marcellus wouldn't have offered me a place to stay I would've probably been hopping from house to house.

"What's this I hear about you not living here anymore" he asked taking a seat with help from my mother.

"She kicked me out so I left"

"I'm suppose to condone you messing with some drug dealer?!"

"I really don't want or need this drama in my household. I'm not with the messy business" my aunt said standing in the doorway.

"Bitch you got some nerves" I couldn't stop the words from flying out of my mouth. I was never the type to be disrespectful and curse in front of my parents or elder but she really got me heated.

"Nayeli!" Both my parents shouted in outrage at my sudden outburst.

"I'm sorry but I'm sick of her acting like she's better than everyone else. She has this house which she can't even afford she just wants to show off."

"Congratulations on the well rounded and respectful daughter you raised Morgan. I open up my house to her and she disrespects me like this?"

"Don't act like you weren't doing stuff behind all of our backs! You had Joel paying you money because he heard you saying how you were going to kick us out" I said making her go quiet.

"She did what?!" My mother spoke up probably putting what I did behind her for the moment. She stepped forward walking towards my aunt.

"Joel has been paying her to keep us here" I said clearly.

"Where is Joel getting the money from?" My dad asked standing up weakly. I walked over to him and supported him.

"I don't know but he told me what was going on?" I shrugged. I couldn't tell my parents what he was doing. Joel was stubborn so if they cracked down on him, it'll only make him rebel against them and continue doing it.

"I need to talk to him when his ass gets home" my dad coughed.

"You evil conniving bitch" my laughed looking at Janine.

"I opened up my home to you and I'm the evil one?"

"Who was helping you pay your car note and mortgage at times? I never once bragged about the shit I did for you but you went and told the world about my situation" my mom shouted.

"It's one thing to fuck with me but when you fucking with my kids that's a problem. Nayeli is my child so I'ma handle her, you stay in your fucking lane and when you have kids of your own you can do as you please." She added.

"You know what? Y'all can pack your shit and get the fuck out of my house" my aunt shrugged walking to the front door and opening it up.

"What is this to be kicked out of?" My mother laughed going upstairs probably to collect our things.

"I don't need to be living uncomfortably to accommodate no mess" aunt Janine continued.

"No one is asking you to Janine, I'll leave your trifling ass house. You can go back to whoring to help pay your bills" my mother said catching me by surprise. My dad just shook his head and walked over to my mother. He knew how worked up she could get.

"Oh please, everybody knew you were messing with that older guy across the street when you were 15 then tried to lie when you got caught" aunt Janine said. Before I knew it my mother had lunged on her and they began throwing blows.

"Morgan stop this shit" my dad shouted trying to stop them. I didn't need my dad weakening himself trying to put up with them so I jumped in and broke them up by grabbing Aunt Janine's hair.

"Get the hell out" she cried breathing heavily. My dad brought my mom upstairs and soon we were packing up everything we brought over there which was just clothes and family photo albums. Anything else that was important to us we kept in a small storage space.

We had gotten everything packed up and brought it down to the front door. My aunt was nowhere in site which I was thankful for. Both my parents were silent and hadn't spoken a word to me. I opened the front door and saw Reese leaning against the car. Palming my face I shook my head not believing I forgot he was out here waiting.

"Who the hell is that?" My father asked.

"A friend of mine?" I said making it sound more like a question. I didn't know what to call Reese, I still had a dislike for him but he was okay when he wanted to be.

"Where did you find this one?" My mom asked eyeing him.

"He's my bosses brother, he brought me over here" I spoke deciding to just be honest.

"We need to talk about this little job you have"

"There's nothing to talk about" I replied.

"Hello how you doing?" Reese smiled showing his pearly white teeth as he greeted my parents. I took a deep breath mentally preparing for this conversation.

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