King looked at the cracked picture of him with Angelita and Arvonti laying down on his desk as he waited for someone to walk in. In his hand was a solved rubix cube and he just turned it from side to side to look at the colors all lined up beautifully where they belonged.
"You wanted to see me sir?" A Dominican boy, no younger than seventeen asked as he walked in king's office then sat in the chair in front of his desk. "How's my trap house coming Raúl?" King asked as he extended the rubix cube out to him. "Mézclalo para mí." Raúl slowly tooked the rubix cube from King's hand.
King smirked seeing that he frightened Raúl. He couldn't blame him, if God was to descend down a white stair case outta thin air and just damned him to hell he woulda been scared. King liked the feeling of holding someone's life in his hand. There was something about deciding who died today and who'd live to see tomorrow.
"It's going pretty well actually. I even made a couple thousand over the monthly pay you always want in." Raúl said with a shrug. "Keep it up and you'd be just as good as Tae and Jay, maybe even betta." King said as Raúl handed him back the rubix cube. "I've been thinkin of giving you a raise." King said.
"That is if you're willin to do something that'll getcha hands bloody." Raúl looked at King getting a look of buisness to appear on his face. That was the thing King liked about Raúl he was like him, money hungry and financially intelligent. "How much is that raise?" "I'll add two thousand to the pay roll." King said as he solved the rubix cube.
"Now this depends on what I'm doing." "You're handling a set up." King said. "I want everything shot and burned to the ground, no one makes it out alive." King said just as someone knocked on his door. "We'll talk later, tell that person to come in on your way out." Raúl nodded his head as he stood up and walked to the door.
"You can go." Raúl said as he walked out. "Pablo." King said as he looked at the tall, lean but masculine moreno (what people in Mexico called the brown skin/mexcians with afro descent). "Está todo listo?" King asked if everything was ready in Spanish. Pablo was a strict bisa. He was fresh from Mexico, spoke very little English and when he did he had a hard accent.
"Todo está programado para su llegada y se ejecutará según lo planeado." Pablo said. King smirked. He really did hope everything was to go as planned, those two boys are a threat to what's his and they needed to be handled. "Quiero que todos lo hagan, nadie se va con vida." King said harshly. Pablo nodded. "Todo será manejado."
"It better be or that's yo life, salir." King said waving him off as his phone rung. He looked at the caller ID on his phone and smiled as he answered it. "Mi amor." King smiled, it wasn't one of those smiles that you got when your boo was calling you, it was that smile you got when you knew for sure you had a plan B. "Papi, Prince wants to talk to you, he's been nagging me all day about you."
The girl said with her Jamaican accent. Unlike with Arvonti King was very much in his second child's life. He just felt Prince was the key to it all, not only that but the girl he had carry and birth his son was the daughter of a powerful Jamaican King pin. She held the throne and was really a force to be reckoned with.
Don't get him wrong, King didn't just decided to get a malacious trap queen pregnant. It was really the plan at first but he ended up developing genuine feelings for her. She was currently residing in Queens, he met her on business for their drug trade and hit it off. King honestly just held an attraction for women of color.
"Put him on the phone." King said. He heard telling his son that he was on the phone as he cries came to an abrupt stop. "Pon, pon!" Prince screamed as he clapped. It wasn't long until Prince's voice was on the phone. "I want, I want home." Prince said in his voice. Prince was on his way to being three years old and was kept a secret.
But once King got what he wanted then he'd be brought to light. "You want me home?" King asked. "Yeah!" Prince said excitedly. "Come home, come home nowa." King chuckled into the phone, he truly forgot how cute babies were, the way Prince acted was just so similar to the way Arvonti acted at his age just without the world war four tantrums.
"Aight lil man I'm on my way, try not to make mommy mad." "But mommy, mommy noy." Prince said getting mad. "No like mommy." King laughed as he heard his baby momma call him annoying in her native tongue, patois. He heard Prince scream loudly outta anger. "No say!" "Prince." King called into the phone as he heard Prince laugh.
"Daddy mommy eeeerrrnnngga!" He laughed as he mimicked the sound of frustration his mother made. "Prince I'm on my way." King said as he got up and headed out the door. "Give phone to mommy." "No." Prince said. "What I say?" King asked. "Buh, buh, pon mine." "Give mommy the phone." King said sternly as he walked down the stairs of his warehouse.
He heard the phone drop as Prince screamed. "Drop my phone again!" His mother screamed. "Amancia." King said. "King." Amancia said. "I'm on my way and we needa talk." King said as he walked to his car looking at the dark 10:45pm sky.
>~•~<
"Messi." Arvonti said as she shook her her awake. She was asleep crying and it was scaring him. It was the fifth time it happened this week and when he asked her to talk about she'd say she doesn't want to. He looked down seeing her phone was beside her opened on an Instagram page of babies. She'd been looking at babies a lot lately.
He just guessed she was still grieving over their lost. "Corazón." Arvonti said as he moved her phone to the nightstand. He sat on the bed as he shook her until her eyes opened. Messiah wiped her tears as he pulled her up to hold her. "Baby you gotta talk to me." Arvonti said as he rubbed her back. "Why do you smell like you just got out the shower?" She asked catching an attitude.
"Me and Los gotta leave in a hour. I wanted to shower first then chill witchu." Messiah pulled away from his hold as she pushed her hair back. She was in a wrinkled oversized olive green t-shirt and Arvonti watched her sit crissed-crossed as she gave him a blank look with a hint of irritation. She looked cute but Arvonti couldn't get over the fact she kept waken up the way she did.
"Messi-" "I'on wanna talk about it okay." She snapped. "Where the fuck are you going at twelve at night anyway?" Arvonti sighed. "Can you stop snappin on me, all I'm finna do is one last trade for King." Arvonti said. "The hell? Nigga we ain't discuss that." "Look if you ain't finna address me as yo nigga please stop callin me that. It's becomin a pet peeve and I know we ain't discuss that."
"Then why is you doing it?" She asked. Arvonti sighed. Messiah just had a whole tone in her voice and it was frustrating. He just didn't get what was going on with her. "Can you just talk to me, Messiah what is up witchu? What is you dreaming about, why you keep snappin on everyone?" He asked. "I'on like this, I'm fuckin worried bout you." Messiah stared at him as her eyes glossed.
"Baby, tell me." Arvonti said softly. "They just keep occuring. If it's not one dream it's another. It's either you getting gunned down or me getting raped by him again." Messiah said.
"I don't know how but he got my Instagram one-day then after the funeral I saw him while we went to get ice cream." "That's why you wanted to leave." Arvonti said coming into realization.
"Why you ain't tell me, I coulda killed him right thea'." Arvonti said. "I'm not comfortable talking about it, I just.. I'on know, I just don't feel safe knowing he's out here. What if I'm out with Paris unarmed and you handling some-" "Stop." Arvonti said as he shook his head.
"We ain't talm bout no fuckin what ifs. I'm killin him aight?" Arvonti asked as he raised an eyebrow. "That bitch not fuckin touchin or goin near you at all. You'on eva gotta feel unsafe when you wit me. And me dyin in yo dreams is just yo conscience tellin you you scared to lose me to the game." Messiah wiped her tears away as she looked at him.
"C'mere." Arvonti said as he pulled her to him by her leg. She was drawing circles on her palm as she looked at it. Arvonti curled his index finger under her chin making her look up at him. "You'on gotta worry bout shit aight?
I'ma always be here. Dame un besitos." Messiah pecked his lips tenderly as her lips lingered on his. "I love you." She said. "I love you." Arvonti said as he looked in her eyes as he took her hand. The other day he took her to get her nails done.
She got them in a maroon color with gold rhinestones on them. He really wanted to feel them in his scalp. His hair was growing back quick and they were both excited about it. Messiah missed braiding his hair and pulling on it when they had sex
And he missed her pulling on it too. "You gonna play in my hair wit these nails?" He asked her. "Yeah." She said softly. "You want a blunt too?" Arvonti looked at her then glanced at the nightstand thinking about if he wanted to smoke or not.
"Yeah." He said. He watched her lean over to the nightstand and open it up. Half of her body was off the bed as she reached inside for the backwoods and bag of fresh weed. Arvonti slapped her booty since it was just up in the air.
"Arvonti!" she hissed. "That hurt!" Arvonti chuckled listening to her whine. "You betta be wearin panties. We ain't the only ones up in this crib." Arvonti said as he watched her lazy ass finally sat up with the backwoods and weed.
"You act like them niggas want me." "I wouldn't care if they was gay, stop doin that shit." Arvonti watched Messiah empty the tobacco out the backwood and rolled the weed up. He always liked watching her roll his weed and lighting it up for him.
He always felt like she just made everything look sexy. She placed the bags of backwoods and weed on the nightstand then laid down. Arvonti laid down on her with his head laying on her cleavage. He stuck his tongue out to where it was touching the skin of her left boob and slowly licked it up and down before he placed a kiss on it.
Messiah placed the backwood against his lips, the second his lips wrapped around it she lit it up. He took it from her hand as he inhaled and slowly caressed her stomach with his right hand.
His eyes closed as he exhaled and felt her nails trailing through his scalp. Yandel's explicial started to play from the pill as he smoked while she remained playing in his hair. "I miss this." Messiah said.
"Vibing with you, only worrying that you didn't get arrested for selling." "You use to worry bout that?" Arvonti asked. "Yeah." Messiah said. "I miss those days too tho. When I'd call you over and we'd just talk bout everything."
Arvonti took a hit from the blunt then exhaled. "It's still kinda the same tho, just I'm in bigga shit na." The rest of the hour was spent like that, the two of them just reminisced about the good times they had in life.
They laughed at eachother's stories of their childhood stupidity. Somehow along the way Messiah started talking about her love for Shakespeare's work, which ended up with them making out for five minutes til he realized he had to go.
"I'll be back in like four hours I swea." Arvonti said as he stood at the door with her in his arms. He honestly didn't want to go, he'd been enjoying his time with her and chillin out with Carlos and Allah. For once in his life he felt sane and he was starting to like it.
"If you're not back in three hours I'm sending back up. I don't know why you two agreed to do one last drop for him knowing damn well he killed Sir." "It's nothin serious it's just a trade." Arvonti said assuringly. "How do you know that? This trade ain't sitting right with me."
"You been dreamin fucked up shit bout me, ain't nothin finna sit right." "King I'm serious. He has y'all dropping off a truck of explosives in Philly. This trade isn't right. This conversation is deja vu." Messiah said.
>~·~<
·flashback·
"What is King having you drop off?" Messiah asked as she laid on his chest as he played in her hair. "Some type of explosives to Philly, I dead as forgot what he said they were called." Arvonti said.
Messiah looked up at him feeling uneased about the whole thing. She felt unease as soon as Arvonti's phone wrong. She was honestly surprised he didn't check the caller ID, he'd been checking it eversince he decided he really wanted to kill King.
"Don't look at me like that." Arvonti said. "Nothin gonna happen to me." "I just feel like he knows. He killed Sir what makes you think that he won't kill you?" Arvonti sat up looking at the time seeing he had to go.
"Arvonti." Messiah said as she watched him walk to the door. "Corazón ain't nothin finna happen to me aight, c'mere." Messiah got out the bed and walked over to him. He wrapped his arms around her pulling her in for a hug.
"I'll be back in like four hours I swea." Arvonti said. Messiah honestly didn't feel good about the situation. Something was most definitely wrong with this situation.
He said he'd listen to her when it comes to her gut feelings but he always says it's something else, that nothing will happen to him. She couldn't handle knowing that she was right about something and he'd end up dead.
She'd already lost two people she loved and she wasn't, she couldn't lose another. "If you're not back in three hours I'm calling for back up. I don't know why you two agreed to do one last drop for him knowing dann well he killed Sir.
"It's nothing serious it's just a trade." Arvonti said assuringly. "How do you know that? This trade ain't sitting right with me." "You been dreamin fucked up fucked up shit bout me, ain't nothin finna sit right."
"King I'm serious. He has y'all dropping off a truck of explosives to Philly. This trade isn't right." "Baby it's nothin. Get some sleep." Arvonti kissed her forehead and left out the room after telling her he loves her.
The scene switched and somehow she was in the back of Arvonti's car as he drove while Carlos sat in the passenger's seat. "Whatcu lost in yo thoughts fo?" Carlos asked. "Some shit Messiah said. She was tryna talk me outta this."
"Bruh you know Messi gut intuition be right." That's what he just can't understand. Messiah thought since she couldn't move her lips. "I know but I feel like I gotta do this fo some reason. I'on know what fo but I got to." Arvonti said. Messiah rolled her eyes.
After driving for a hour they pulled up to an empty lot and an abandoned building. Turn around. Messiah thought as she looked at it. It was all too quiet, to eeri. The whole lot was dark and the only lights came from his car.
An immense weight filed her stomach as pain as sharp as a knife filled her throat. "You sure this is it?" Carlos asked. Turn around! Leave! She mentally yelled. "Yeah." Arvonti said positively.
Arvonti unlocked the doors and got out the car. Messiah stared out the window as a tall brown skin mexican with corn rows appeared from the darkness. They began having a conversation in Spanish as Carlos got out the car.
The man looked at her and her heart skipped a beat getting a bad vibe as he stared into her soul. It's your fault. He mouthed. "No." Messiah said as tears filled her eyes. She tried to get out but boxes of explosives was pilled on her, she was in a square of boxes as she tried to get to the door.
She heard the sounds of guns loading and shooting as she started to move boxes out the way. She was soon able to see through the window, all she was able to see was at least fifty people taking cover as their guns fired towards one direction.
The direction just so happened to be the direction she couldn't see, the right side of her. "Arvonti!" She screamed. Messiah banged on the window hoping someone could see her but no one could see nor hear her. She felt around her legs and breast hoping to find her phone on her.
Her foot slightly slid across the floor of the car and she stopped once her bare foot felt the phone. She bent down to reach for it but as soon as she caught a grip on it something hit the car breaking through the window.
The car sat fire and engulfed in flames as she sat up. She screamed as she flew out of the bits and pieces of the car until she landed on the ground beside Carlos's dead body. "Carlos!" She screamed as her hand covered her mouth.
She backed away until she tripped and fell on the ground on top of Arvonti's dead body. A loud horrific scream left her mouth as tears streamed out her eyes.
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>~·~<
"Watchu lost in your thoughts fo." Carlos asked Arvonti as he drove. "Messi." Arvonti said. "What, she pregnant?" Arvonti shook his head no. "She on the pill." "I'on trust that pill shit, it ain't normal for a girl." Carlos said.
Carlos was always against the pill, he just felt that a woman shouldn't stop herself from having a period. It was just wrong in his eyes. He knows it prevents pregnancies but at the end of the day it really just made things worse for a female.
Especially when she wanted to get off the pill. Arvonti shrugged. "She'on want a kid and I'on pull out so." Arvonti said calmly. "Then what she do?" "She got that gut feelin." "On this trade?" Carlos asked.
He watched Arvonti nod his head as he shook his own. "And you still drivin? Nigga if you'on bust a U." Carlos said as he looked behind him wide eyed at the boxes of explosives behind him. They were in a white van and had at least a hundred of ghose boxes.
"Bruh they finna light us up turn around." "No." Arvonti said calmly. "Watchu mean no, nigga turn around!" "No." Arvonti said as he pulled over. "I ain't givin King the satisfactory of my death.
If he wanna try to have his peoples kill me then I'ma remind him who the fuck he dealin wit. You'on gotta come if you'on want to but I'm doin this." He said. Carlos stared at him feeling like he was the stupidest person alive right now.
Arvonti really had some fucked up logic, it was finna be one against five hundred. He knew Arvonti was capable of killing at least half of that while getting wounded some. He was the only person besides
King and his father that could just walk into a battle and fuck shit up without wincing when he got his. Carlos always wondered if it was what he been through as a kid that made him feel like physical pain was nothing or if it was just the blood in his vains.
Maybe it was just his mentality, but whatever it was he admired Arvonti. The antichrist was a dumb ads nickname but Arvonti really did seem like one when he was set to kill.
A few years back they tagged along with Jay and Tae to trap in Jersey for king cause he was owed money. It was at least fifty of them there and Arvonti was dropping the most bodies. He even dropped his him on the floor purposely that night.
In the end of this situation He felt there was no way for Arvonti to come back alive if he went solo. Although he was finna feel dumb as he'll for staying with him, that was his brotha, his blood and you don't turn yo back on fam.
"I fuckin hate yo dumb ass." Carlos groaned. "If I ain't care bout yo ass I swea I woulda got to steppin. Get back in yo lane cuz." Arvonti smiled. "You love me." He cooed. "Shut the fuck up, I'm just not tryna hear nobody mouth."
Arvonti chuckled as he got back on the road. "You betty have machine guns back thea' cause I'm not dyin fo joinin yo stupidity." "Right below our feet." Carlos looked down seeing two machine guns laying on the floor.
He ain't know how he ain't see that before but it was most definitely there. After driving for an hour or two Arvonti pulled up the truck into a lot with other cars and trucks. They were in the middle of getting a drug import but Carlos didn't care.
He got out the car and put the machine gun on the ground behind the tire and watched Arvonti's slide near his. Arvonti whistled loudly capturing all their attention.
Part of Carlos wanted to just grab Arvonti and to just dip because whatever Messiah was so worry about could just happen. Her instincts are always right but yet Arvonti never listens.
But Carlos knew Arvonti had to do what he was planning now or they'd regret it later. "Tienes la cosas?" Carlos looked at the Moreno with braids in his head instantly not liking his vibe. "Si, tu?"
As the Moreno chuckled Carlos picked the guns up as guns started to go off.
>~·~<
Messiah was sitting up in the bed biting her thumb nail as she looked at pictures of babies and toddlers on Instagram. She was really thinking about how she lost her baby.
At first she didn't want the baby she was going to have but she was so excited about it as she seen how Arvonti was so excited for one. But after her mistake with Tez she secretly loathed having Arvonti's baby.
She just felt like a hoe, what she did was hoeish and there was nothing that could justify it. Which was why she said it was just a kiss, it was a lie that was eating her up.
She wanted to tell Arvonti but she knew she couldn't. His reaction would be deadly and she didn't want to go through it. But now she really wanted a baby. She wanted to hold it in her arms arms and hear the feet on the floor and the cries of it.
She wanted to see Arvonti be the father he wanted to be. She'd stop taking her birth control a couple days ago so she could get pregnant. She knew she had to wait a few weeks until she got her period but when she did it was going to be a wrap.
They were going go have a baby and that was that and as for her biting her nail she felt something was just wrong. She was waiting for Arvonti or Tae to call her but no one was.
She already called Amir and Montrell to go help Arvonti and she was hoping Tae and Jay could too. Feeling unwashed she dialed Jay's number. "Wassup Messi?" Jay asked.
She was thankful that he picked up on the first ring. "What is you and Tae doing?" She asked as she stood up and walked to the bathroom. "Handlin the trap. Why?" "Cause King set up Arvonti and Carlos during some trade.
Arvonti doesn't believe it's a set up but I know it is. I just, I just feel it." She stressed followed by a hiccup. Jay sighed. "I thought you guys were cool now."
"We is but it's pretty busy here and I can't just leave Xyair to handle this." "Can't you just clo-" Messiah got cut off by the sound of gunshots. "He'll naw!" Jay yelled.
"What's going on?" She asked. "Hol'on I'ma call you back." "Jay." She called as she took a pack of alcer salcer out the medicine cabinet. "Jay? Jae'on!" The phone hung up. "Shit!" She hissed.
>~·~<
The windows were shattering as bombs broke threw. Everybody was screaming as bodies dropped to the floor as they all tried to get out. "Jay!"
Xyair screamed as he was being pushed by a crowd to the back of the room. It was dark and nobody could see anything. "Xyair!" Jay screamed as he looked around. Xyair was trying to push through the crowd as people just fell on the ground,
they were either too high or drunk to stable themselves or getting shot. "Xyair!" Jay and Tae yelled as they were shooting where the gunshots were coming from along with two others. "Jay!"
Xyair yelled. He screamed as he felt a sharp painful pain hit his arm. It felt heavy, like a piece of metal was inside so he knew he was just shot. "I'm hit!" He yelled as he stumbled back onto the ground.
People was stepping on his back, legs and arms with heels, tims, and sneakers as they ran to the back. "Ahh!" He screamed. As he tried to cover his head. "Jay!" "Cover me aight!" Jay yelled for Tae to hear.
"Hurry nigga they throwin bombs that's finna go off soon!" Tae yelled. Jay ran to the back pushing and pulling people out of his way as he called for Xyair.
>~·~<
Arvonti was shooting people from left to right as he walked into the warehouse. Half of the people outside was already dead when he left Carlos to fend for himself.
He wanted to remind King who the duck he was, that he was his son. The same son he left, didn't check up on when e came, let get tortured by his mother.
The same son he taught everything before he knew he was his son. His was gonna burn this place to the ground then his father's body. He was bringing the he'll he experienced, seen play out in his mind to reality.
His arm flew back as a billet hit it but he didn't care he dropped the machine gun on the floor and pulled his pistol out as he held behind a bunch of crates. He aimed for heads and eyes as the bullets came from left to right.
He looked to his left seeing Carlos run in shooting with both his machine guns. "Cover me!" Arvonti yelled. Carlos nodded his head as Arvonti threw his gun at somebody's head.
He had a whole machine gun strapped on his back as he got up and ran down to the basement. In the basement where twelve huge black men counting money ads four bet someone to their death.
Arvonti pulled his gun over his shoulder shooting them all down. He walked over to the back seeing seven huge tanks. He turned them all on knowing they were all gas. He rushed out heading up the stairs. "Stop shooting!"
He yelled making everyone stop as he ran to the exit. "The gas is on." He smirked as him and Carlos stepped back. Arvonti lit a matched as people started to run out but Carlos shot them down. As soon as the smell of gas hit his nose he threw the match in and ran off killing the other hundreds of people.
They ran to the car and got in. "King's." They said.
>~·~<
"I think they just broke my rib!" Xyair said as he felt discomfort in his rib.
Tears were sliding down his face from all the pain, his body was throbbing and he felt lLike he waa on fire. His other arm was killing him and as he looked at it he seen a bone was sticking out of the skin on his arm.
"C'mon they throw in bombs." Jay said as he pulled Jay up by the arm he was shot in. "Go out the bathroom window, I'm a try to get a few people out this this way, call Miguel and Jose." "Aight hurry up." Xyair said as he walked into the bathroom.
"This way, this way!" Jay yelled as he pushed people to the bathroom. "Hurry up, go, go, go!" He yelled as he pushed through the crowd to get to his brother as he heard him call for him. Jay fell to the grown because someone fell on him.
"Get the fuck off me you big ass horse!" Jay yelled. "Jay!" Tae yelled. There was some huge black guy foaming at the mouth as he was shaking. Realizing he was having a seizire Jay cursed in frustration. "Shit!"
He squirmed around until he got free, when he did he laid the guy on his side. "Lord please." Jay whispered. It was then the house shook as the bombs went off. Jay looked to his right seeing the flames rushing his way. He got up and ran hoping he could beat it.
>~·~<
Xyair and Tae flew back from the house along with others as it blew up in bits and pieces while the flames flew over their bodies. As they crashed on the ground debris started falling on the ground whole ringing occurred in both their ears.
"Jay!" They both screamed as tears filled their eyes. They both got up and ran into the remains of the house. looking for Jay as they heard the sirens. "Jay!" The screamed as they looked around. Xyair started to cough due to his asthma.
"Get out!" Tae yelled. "No!" Xyair yelled. "Not without Jay!" He ran in further to the broken half of the house looking for Jay. He was stumbling over bodies as he coughed. "Uncle Jay!" He yelled. As tears blimded his vision.
He stepped forward trying to go into the back room but stepped back into the wall when the ceiling of the room fell in. Powder and debris ruahed out the room causing Xyair to fan the air as he coughed.
He looked down seeing Fire caught his pants so he quickly pat it out. "Jay!" He coughed ignoring Tae calling for him. He walked into the bathroom seeing more dead bodies on fire. He slowly stepped past being careful as he coughed.
He turned on the shower and removed removed the house surprised the pipes were still good. He put the firw on the bodies out then popped the bullet out his arm like Jay showed him.
He kicked bodies around hoping to find Jay's body but didn't. "Jay man whea' you at!" He screamed. "Jay!" His coughing got harder and harder as his breathing increased. "Ja-" He coughed. A fireman grabbed him as he repeated screamed for him to let him go.
"My Uncle's in here get the fu-" He couldn't stop coughing and it was making him more mad.
They sat in the ambulance for five minutes watching covered bodies get rolled away on gurneys as the fire was getting put out. "You gotta ge-" "I ain't leavin til I see my damn uncle on that fuckin gurneys wit a mask on his face!" Xyair snapped.
>~·~<
As they where a thirty minutes away from King's warshouse Arvonti started to call Messiah. As soon as the call connected as van crashed into Arvonti's side of the car.
The car tumbled around at least twelve times into traffic. Windows broke scratching up both Carlos's and Arvonti's face, hands, and chest.
Being on the Brooklyn bridge cars in the path got hit by the car and rammed off the bridge by the van. Carlos started praying the second they landed upside down but all Arvonti could think about was Messiah.
In case it was his last time being alive he had to tell her again. "My pho-" Arvonti got cut off by a groan as something hit the car again making it spin around down the bridge. All you could hear was the metal scrapping the ground until another car hit it making them flip off the bridge.
It was then everything felt like it was in slow motion. Arvonti instantly opened his door as they got closer to the water. He wasn't dying without taking King with him.
He looked over at Carlos seeing a piece of glass in his stomach. His eyes widened but watched Carlos mouthed "I'm fine." As the car hit the water the second he pulled it out. He unbuckled then helped Carlos unbuckle.
Carlos pushed himself out his seat as Arvonti pushed himself out the car. He swam there until Carlos pushed himself up. Bits and pieces of other cars on fire fell into the water pushing them apart.
Looking around out of instinct for the other they caught sight of each other. Arvonti signaled for them to swim up and Carlos nodded. When the two reached surface they gasped for air.
"You good?" They asked as they caught their breath. Loud helicopter noise was over their heads so they looked up seeing it belonged to the hospital. "Don't move!" A man yelled through a blowhorn. "I'm so glad that was not my car." Carlos said.
"Fo real." Arvonti said as the helicopter lowered as they dropped the rope ladder.
>~·~<
"No!" Xyair yelled at Tae. For the past five minutes Xyair was refusing to get checked until they found Jay's body. "Xyair he's dead aight!" Tae yelled. "There was no way he was going to survive that!"
"Bullshit!" Xyair yelled. "That's yo fuckin brother and you givin up? He's all I got and at any fuckin moment he's gonna be wheeled out on a dann gurney wit a oxygen mask!" "Xyair please just go get fixed aight." Tae said as he finally shed a tear.
"Please just go. If they find Jay I'll call you just-" "No." Xyair said. Tae looked at the lady and she nodded her head seeing that Xyair hopped out the back of the ambulance and walked up to a a man pushing out a closed black bag on a gurney.
"Open it." Xyair said. "This is a white man kid." He said as he pushed past him. Xyair looked at another man zipping up the bag and stopping at the neck. A cop looked at Xyair then Tae. "You said grayish eyes right?"
Xyair ran to the gurney pushing the officer aside and looked at Jay. The side of his face was burned and he was lifeless. "Jay." He cried as he shook him. "No." He said as he shook his head.
He pushed his hands through his hair as he broke down. He fell to his knees on the ground as he sobbed. He lost his parents and now Jay and it hurt. "Xy." Tae said as he lifted him to his feet. "He was all I had." Xyair said.
"He's dead just like them." Tae held him as he too cried.
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Messiah cried as she hugged Tae. She knew something was wrong the second she heard gunshots through the phone. They were all at the hospital at 4:35am, everyone except Arvonti and Carlos. She didn't know where they were.
Jay was dead. Her other best friend was dead and he died trying to save everyone else. The hospital was going to hold his body til his burial service. "Where's Jay?" Carlos and Arvonti asked as they walked in.
They all looked at the both of them. They both had stitches on multiple spots on their face, shirts had dried up blood on em, Arvonti had a cast on the lower half of his left arm that was connected to his hand.
"No." Carlos said as he took his hat off. Paris walked over to him wrapping her arms around him. Arvonti walked over to Tae and hugged him. "It's gonna be aight." Arvonti said. Tae nodded as the the three of them looked at Xyair.
She walked over to where he was sitting and sat next to him. "They're gonna put me back in the system." He said softly. "I'on wanna go back, no one cares thea'. He cared." "I know." She said as she wrapped her arms around him.
She hugged him as he sniffed. They all sat around Xyair thinking about the lost of their friend who died a hero.
R.I.P. Jae'on