Chapter 22A

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Chapter 22

Athena

July 5th 12pm

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

If I said it, I hadn't said it enough, because I can't fucking stand Jacksonville, Florida. I had only been here for two days, it was always so hot and uncomfortable, and I hated to be hot, it was a good thing that we were going home tomorrow and I would not have to be here for that much longer, surprisingly I missed California and I still had a head ache from fourth of July, Wark insisted about going over the top and having fireworks being crossed from Mexico.

I didn't celebrate fourth of July, mainly because I'm black and my ancestors were probably still in chains or fighting the 'good fight'. So, you could imagine my mood when I saw confederate flags being waved in the air with the annoying ass fireworks, I ended up calling it a night about an hour after the 'celebration.'

I changed into a pair of jeans and t-shirt, I walked out of the room and stopped when I heard very familiar voices, familiar as in Bean and Dean. I quietly stood behind the wall as I eavesdropped into their conversation.

"The ton is ready and will be waiting for you when you get back." I heard Bean say, I remembered Tre telling me that when he came down here that these two didn't want to sell to him because he was black.

"Do you think it's wise to have Nathan get the shipment?" James spoke up.

I heard Wark snort, "I have known him for two years James, he is trustworthy."

"You don't know trust, you brought this girl to Jacksonville and you only have known her but a month."

"Why do you keep bringing her up, I told you she's different." Wark snapped.

"Yeah and you said that about Katy, Amy, Patricia, Kim, Joanne, Becky, do you want me to go on, because I got at least twenty different girls to mind that proved you wrong when they met them!" James yelled.

"She's here and she's different and as a matter of fact...Nicki."

I ran quietly back upstairs and walked back down the stairs it would look suspicious as hell if I decided to walk from behind the wall. "Yes?" I walked into the room and the tattoo man was in there, before I left I had to know what in the hell was his name.

"Just wanted to know what you were doing?" He patted the spot next to him.

Sitting down next to him and he wrapped an around my hip, "I was just lounging, nothing major."

"Well I want to take you somewhere, if that's alright with Bean and Dean."

They looked at me with a closed off expression and from the corner of my eye I could see James trying to

keep in his boiling temper. "It's fine, got to show her southern hospitality, right." Dean finally grinned nudging Bean.

I looked between the two before saying, "When do we leave?" There was something up and I could feel it but I couldn't tell what.

"As soon as you change." Wark squeezed my hip. I masked the frown that wanted to appear with a nod, in his mind he didn't know what the hell he said but a girl whose been through an abusive relationship know exactly what he said, he basically said jeans and t-shirt wasn't enough for him even though we were not going anywhere special just probably to a damn trap house.

I got up and walked back into the room and pushed my anger down, I opened the closet door and pulled out a sundress and a pair of sandals, throwing on the sundress I slipped into the sandals. I walked to the bathroom and pulled out the makeup bag and spread the contents across the sink, if Wark was anything like Tre then he would expect for me to have a full face of makeup on, but the difference between the two was that back then I didn't know how the hell to do it compared to now.

"You have to do what you have to do."

I sucked in a breath before doing my makeup, if things got too far I would call it. I knew that I wouldn't be able to take it if this was just a repeat of Tre, I don't think I have enough emotional sanity for that. I know that it was only five words, but I heard those five words too many times.

I didn't go to lavish with the makeup, just some eyeliner and lip gloss. I smoothed my hair and tucked both strands behind my ear the style was starting to become my go to. I put everything back into the bag and threw it underneath the sink. I made sure to turn off the bathroom light and grabbed my messenger bag and phone before I left, I took the stairs one at a time, not feeling like being around him. When I walked in, their talking hushed and they turned towards me, if I didn't have a paranoid feeling then, then I damn sure have one now.

"I'm ready." I crossed my arms over my chest, my attitude very evitable.

Everyone stood up and Wark grabbed my hand and walked out the door, two cars waited for us and while Wark, the tattoo man, James and I get into one car Bean and Dean got into the other one. The space in the car was big enough to fit Bean and Dean so I didn't understand why they just didn't take the one car.

"Bean and Dean are going to be meeting us there." Wark didn't even turn to look at me, what in the hell were they up to, they all gave off the vibe of hiding something.

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July 5th 1:37 pm

Athena

We arrived on a dirt road and the smooth ride turned bumpy, I guess this was another reason why I hated Jacksonville. It didn't take them long for them to pull up to a shamble of a house if you weren't cleared to what was going on, but if you were you could clearly to tell that this was trap house to the max.

"Wait outside." Wark said before they left the car, I watched them walk into the trap house I waited a few more minutes before pulling out my phone to see that there was no signal and in other words I couldn't get an address.

I let out a frustrated sigh, the only thing I could go one was the dirt and the trees, this place reminded me of a serial killer's paradise. I didn't understand why I was here, what was the point in me being here?

"Snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches..."

I looked across to see her sitting looking at her nails, what in the hell was she talking about, I was not in a place where I would have to snitch and if I was I wouldn't, I wasn't Nathan's rat ass.

She leaned forward, "Snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches."

I cocked my head to the side and looked around was this a setup, were Bean and Dean behind this? Did they already have enough use for Wark and decided to take over Chino.

"Times up."

A DEA van pulled up and two men jumped with bullet-proof-vests that had DEA strapped across from it, they swung the door open and snatched me out of the car, and threw me into the van, I didn't have time to react because one of them had a fucking hand over my mouth, so I was right.

"Nicki Cole, we already know that you're fucking Wark so it's either you start talking or you're going to be wearing orange for the rest of your life."

When he took his hand from around my mouth the van pulled off, I stared between the two men mean mugging me,

"Snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches Athena."

I looked up to see her standing behind him in the corner of the van, I turned my gaze from her to them, "Mi dont know wat youre talking bout." I spat in Patois, I remembered my mother always told me if you want someone to stop talking to you, you stop talking to them in English, Americans seemed to always hate when you were never like them.

One of them placed a stinging back hand to my right cheek and slammed my face to the floor of the van and hissed, "Don't fucking play stupid now Nicki."

"Snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches Athena."

Even though his hand was on my face I could already tell that his other was on his gun, I grabbed out to his free hand and twisted it and put him on his back and me on top, a gun was put immediately to the back of my skull, but I still grabbed the gun and crashed the butt of the gun to the man's behind me knee and sent him crumbling to the ground, grabbing his gun I took the safety off of the guns and pointed one at the driver and the other at the man under me.

"Take me back, NOW!" I yelled.

"Just chill out." The man cradling his knee said.

I swung the gun to his direction, "Do you really want to play with me?" The van stopped and the man whose knee was hurt phone rang, "Give me your phone!" He hesitated and I shot him in the knee, "Now damnit."

He cried out and scrambled to get his phone and handed it to me I answered the person started talking, "Did she talk?" I recognized it to be Bean's voice. I frowned and dropped the guns like they were hot fire and got out of the van. Bean and Dean were leaning against the car chewing on tobacco, with the phone still to my ear I said, "No she didn't."

They turned to me with an expression filled with shock, so that's what they were hiding, they tried to set me up to snitch. Dean was the first to talk by saying, "Well I'll be damned."

"One of your men is hurt." I gestured behind me, "He took a bullet to the knee."

"You shot him in the knee." Bean frowned I could tell his temper was rising.

I shook my head, "No I thought I shot a FED, but I guess I was wrong."

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July 5th 2:35 pm

Athena

We didn't talk on the way back to the house, but I could tell Wark was pissed, but I didn't understand why he got his answers, out of all of us I should be the one pissed, I was set up to snitch. But I shouldn't have showed my card that easily I should have known, now I probably got Wark suspicious because a rich girl shouldn't be able to know how to do that.

Getting out of the car Wark wrapped a death grip around my upper arm and walked inside, he didn't say anything until we got into the room, "Why didn't you snitch?" He paced the room and I sat on the bed.

"What ar-"

In the same place that I was hit before Wark slapped me and said through clenched teeth, "Don't play dumb bitch."

"Don't fight, it's just going to show your hand more than it already has."

"Why would I snitch." I held my face, it took everything in me to not just strangle his ass.

"Do whatever you got to do to save you."

Slapping me on my other cheek he gripped them in his hand and yelled, "Because your father owns a computer business and you were raised to snitch!"

"Yeah I may be rich but I'm still black and they still would have killed my ass if I did." I spat.

"A mansion in a place far away."

He let go and wrapped his arms around my neck and began choking me, "You shot one of my men you bitch."

I crashed my knee into his genitals and I fell to the ground coughing profusely, I couldn't go through this shit again I just couldn't.

"A mansion in a place far away."

Just as I was about to recover I felt a kick to my ribcage and I fell back to the ground, and then another kick came, and then another. It didn't stop until he flipped me over and began choking me once more, "Don't you ever put your hands on me, touch my men, or ever disobey me do you understand?" I scratched at his neck and kicked wildly, my vision started to blur with black dots and I nodded quickly, he let go and I propped myself up on my elbow and held my neck taking in uneven breaths. He slammed the door on his way out and I struggled to get up, one hand wrapped around my ribcage I hobbled to the bathroom and threw my messenger bag on the bathroom floor. Shutting the door, I took off my sandals and took off the dress, the spot was swollen terribly.

"You can't go to the hospital, but you should know if you have a broken rib Athena, you didn't spend six years at that hell hole just to not learn anything, so what are your symptoms?"

My breathing was shallow, and I found it very hard to breath or walk, now I remembered one of the teachers there telling me that if you have a broken or fractured rib you would noticed that the rib would be swollen and sensitive to the touch. Well the rib was definitely swollen, I grazed my finger across in and I let in a jagged breath, so it was sensitive to the touch.

"So how do you treat it."

Well from what she told me you can't the rib usually heels itself in less than four weeks, but I did need to wrap it. I opened the cabinet drawers and searched around till found some body wrap. I wrapped it around my rib cage tightly ignoring the pain and clipped it into place. I threw the dress back on and grabbed my bag.

"You know he is going to shut you off from everybody as you get back to Chino, Tre did the same thing with you."

He couldn't have my phone, I would lose everything and when I was able to get away I would basically go back empty-handed. Using the counter as a crutch, I opened the bag and searched for the phone. Feeling it in my hands I pulled it out, I shut my eyes the damn phone didn't have a back, I flipped the phone its side and saw the little sim card, but I couldn't get to it because I didn't have anything small enough to push it out.

"Try to find a paper clip or something."

Why in the hell would a paper clip be in a bathroom, I didn't defy I just started looking, I damn near tore the bathroom apart until I found a tiny paperclip hiding the back of the cabinet underneath the sink, I twisted the paperclip until it showed it's point and I put it into the tiny hole pushing, and in a second the sim card entry popped up, I slid it out carefully and grabbed the tiny sim card and pushed the entry back in. I put the phone back into the bag and put the sim card in my hand, I walked out the bathroom and sat the bag on the bed next to me.

"Here." James came in and handed me some pills and a glass of water, "they're going to make you tired but it should take the pain away." I took the pills and gulped some of the water, the pills left a bitter taste in my mouth and I scrunched my eyebrows. James chuckled, "Yeah they aren't the best tasting, I know what he did to you was fucked up but Wark," He shook his head, "He's fucked up I know it's crazy for me to say but he is, and what you did back there shocked the hell out of him and this is the only way he knows how to respond is, well this, but you have my respect all of the other girls we put through that test..." He faded off.

"What?" I urged for him to continue.

James rubbed his face "They failed all of them started snitching and they had to be dealt with, and Wark had an excuse to get out of the relationship but with you he doesn't."

I opened and shut my mouth, I got myself into some shit that I couldn't get out of.

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July 6th 3am

Athena

"So, this is where you will eat lunch, the food is made by the finest in the country." Ms. Stevens pointed at cafeteria. It didn't look anything like my cafeteria at my school, this one was so much more beautiful, but the looks on the kid faces didn't look like they were happy they looked...blank, like a blank sheet of paper.

I tugged tighter on to my mother and I looked up at her to see that she didn't notice the kids but the cafeteria, "This is beautiful, and you say the food is made by the finest in the country."

"We knew that you would love it, now this is the end of tour and we are hoping that you are going to take into conside-"

"Oh, she is definitely will be attending." My mother exclaimed shocking me. I tugged on to her shirt but it seemed to go unnoticed.

Ms. Stevens clapped her hands, "Oh that is just fantastic."

"When is she able to start?" She beamed.

I was awaken to Wark pushing himself into me, my mind still hazy I tried to move from his hold, but it was like he had an iron grip on my wrist, and it didn't make it better that he had six inches of height on me.

"Stay the fuck still." He groaned pushing in deeper.

This reminded me of too much, this brought back too many memories and I just fucking lost it, I screamed at the top of my lung wiggling profusely, I ignored the pain in my ribs and, all I could imagine was Reginald, Tre and Joon, and I just lost it. He silenced my screams by kissing me, his tongue explored my mouth I gagged at the taste of alcohol

"You feel so good beautiful." He broke the kiss and nuzzled his face into my neck.

"Hell is not meant to be fun Athena."

I stared at her and she stared back at me, this was my karma, this was my punishment for all of the blood I've left behind me, everything went numb kind of similar to all of those other times this has happened, this was why I felt broke because of this I was never able to have the satisfaction of having the decision to want to do it. The only time I found that I wasn't broken was when I was with Bay, he didn't force me to do it and I felt like I had the decision.

"No tears Athena."

"Say my name." He muttered placing his hands back around my wrists.

"Do whatever you got to do to save you."

"Wark."

He took one hand placed it around my neck and his movements started to become uneven, I shut my eyes tightly this was so close to be over, I could feel him.

"You have been hiding this good pussy from me beautiful." He kissed me. In a few more thrusts, I felt him cum and he rolled over on to the bed and murmured the words that I heard one too many times, "Get yourself together."

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