DIVA: FEMALE HUSTLER

chapter 21

I park across the street from the store seeing Travis and a couple of people talking. I get out walking across the street," man you heard that Akeem's boys is out here hitting everyone's spot.''

`` He needs to watch his back. He's hitting the wrong people." I walk up dapping Trav, " what's up?"

" s**t I'm just around," I look at the other people. We nod at each other then they walk away.

" s**t it seems that Akeem got a death wish. He's hitting everyone." I stand next to Trav watching the people walk down the street.

" He's going to find out by playing with mines. Come ride with me." I walk to the car with him following.

"Where we going," we get in the car.

" Brooklyn," I speed off.

" You ready to go to war," Trav nods his head.

" Good they got Dia," Trav's face goes dark. After twenty minutes, I pull up to Akeem's family deli. I park the car a few streets down. I go under my seat grabbing my gun, putting it in the back of my pants. We get out walking up the street," what are you about to do?"

" Speaking to Akeem," we vastly walk a couple of blocks into the deli. I stop at the counter," what can I get you?" The Arabic man leans over the counter," I need to speak to Akeem."

"No Akeem.Sandwich."

" I don't have time for this s**t," I pull my gun out pointing at him.

" I need to speak to Akeem," he jumps back holding his hands up.

" No Akeem, he hasn't been around in months."

" Rie,we need to go."

I look out the corner of my eye as people move around us. I put my gun down," tell Akeem, Kyrie looking for him." I put my gun in the back of my pants as we walk out of the deil.

" You think that will work?"

" Nah, we need to hit one more spot," we get in the car. I drive farther into Brooklyn stopping at Tracy's Daycare.

" What are we doing here?"

" Meeting Akeem's daughter." Travis grabs my arm as I reach the door handle," what?"

" Don't you think this is going too far?"

" No, they got my sister. He need to know that his can get touched too." I pull my arm away from him and open the door. We walk to the daycare stopping at the front desk," hi what can I help you with," the lady at the desk asks.

" I want to leave a note for Aisha's parents. Can I get a piece of paper?"

" Sure,who are you to the family?" She grabs a from her note book on the desk," I'm a family friend." She hands me the paper and pen. I write a couple of words before folding the paper twice," thank you." I hand it to her then we leave," what did you write?"

"You got mine and I can get yours," we get in the car.

" You got another place to go to?"

" Nah, I'm driving around for a while," I pull away from the curb. We ride around Brooklyn for a few hours before I head back to Queens," nigga ain't nowhere to be found."

" Yeah," I park in front of Travis's building.

" Call me when you get some info," we dap each other up.

" I will," he gets out of the car and I drive to the gas station. I park in front of a pump then get out going into the station. I walk down the aisle picking up a bag of hot cheetos and Pepsi. I get in line behind a few people when I hear tires screech. A silver car stops in front of the station. The windows roll down as guns point at the door. I run to the aisle as shots go off. I lay on the floor with my hands over my head. Chips and drinks explode all over me as shoots rain all over the gas station. After a few minutes, the shooting stopped and I heard the car speed off. I wait a few seconds before looking around. The few people that were in line with me got shot as blood littered the floor. I get up seeing people standing outside of the station. f*****g Arabs, I rush out the station.

A man steps in front of me,'' wait for the ambulance."

" I'm cool," I walk past him into my car.I get in the car in speeding to ma's house. I park in the driveway rushing into the house. The door slams behind me," who's slamming my door." Ma walks out of the living room " what happened to you?" She looks at my clothes," Akeem's boys shot up the gas station I was at." I walk past her going into the living room. I sit on the couch leaning my head back. I close my eyes," what did you do?"

" I stopped at the deli seeing if he was there then at the daycare his daughter goes to."

" Kyrie, you're being reckless. You should have got info on him first," I open my eyes to ma standing over me shaking her head.

She walks away from me," this was the only way we are going to get a reaction from him." I stand up from the couch,"they have Diamond. They could hurt her because of your stunt. Think first before you do some bullshit." She pushes my chest. I take a couple steps back before regaining my balance.

"You need to start thinking before you do," ma points her finger in my face. I squeeze my lips together," I get it ma. I'll lay low for the time being." She nods her head then walks out the living room. f**k, I drop on the couch. I close my eyes, rubbing my forehead. He at least knows that I'm not playing. We'll eventually meet up. After a few minutes,I get up off the couch and go up the stairs to my room.

I open the door and start taking my clothes off. I throw my clothes on the floor then go to the dresser grabbing a pair of shorts. I sit on the bed with my face in my hands.

" What's going Kyrie?" I look at Kam standing next to me," I might have f****d up. You need to stay in the house until this s**t gets figured out." He nods his head leaning on the doorframe," we going to get her back?"

" Without a doubt. Diamond will be home soon. Don't worry."

" Okay," he pushes off the door frame walking away. I release a big sigh then lean back in the bed. My phone buzzes next to me. I pick it up seeing a text from Dominique, breakfast was fire. I drop the phone on the bed, closing my eyes.