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Stop, some of y'all still haven't read chapter 15 and I'd hate for y'all to be lost or miss put on some info. To see the chapter you had to follow me, remove the book from your library, refresh it, and then add it back to your library and you should be able to see it. If that does not work you can just click the link in my bio and it should take you to the chapter.

And now, without further wait, enjoy the chapter.

Pic of Ty in the mm

Reggie POV

After our studio session, both of our phones went off simultaneously and we went to go check our messages.

I felt my mood change upon seeing my message. This nigga knew better, what the hell was he doing? I knew I had to still meet up with him even if he was bluffing.

"What's wrong?" Zo asks, walking up behind me. I lock my phone and throw it back in my pocket before can see the messages. His face turns into one of confusion and I look away, not being able to lie to his face again.

"I got to go check up with something. I should be back soon, maybe by tonight." I say, turning my face to look back at him. At least I didn't lie.

"Ok do you want to take the car?" He offers, looking innocent as ever. For a second I was just gon say fuck what Ty needed, and stay with him. But I knew it was time to face the music.

"Nah." I began, handing him the keys to his car. I had been driving his car for the most part and only just now am I giving him back his keys. I chuckled to myself at that. "I'll get an uber." I inform and he nods before walking out the studio, walk still not back to regular. I began laughing again to myself. "You need a wheelchair?!" I yell after him teasingly.

"Fuck you, I'm perfectly fine." He yells back and I can tell he's rolling his eyes and smiling.

I pull out my phone again and start to text Dre to see if he know what's going on.

Me- You know what's going on at the house?

💪Dre✊- Nah, he just messaged me to meet up too.

Me- Aight.

This was some weird shit and I get it, whatever it is, being important and all but to threaten me, damn is things that's serious?

Instead of getting a uber I just walked there since it wasn't too far from the studio plus it gave me the chance to clear my head and think about stuff. To be completely honest I was kind of nervous, and a lil upset at the same time. I ain't want to do this stuff no more, I'd much rather be with Zo and write songs and chill and stuff. One day, maybe.

I stood in front of the house I use to once enjoy entering. I know, how could I enjoy entering a drug house? But this drug house, no matter how bad it was, paid the bills, helped my family, and made sure we didn't want for nothing.

But now, I know it's one of the things holding me back. I can't leave, I can't stop. And that's why it's one of the things that I now hate.

Taking a deep breath, I head up the stairs to the house and walk in. It's some people laying down on the couch, some people strung out and passed out, some people at the table gathering their supply and nodding in my direction when I enter. I nod back and walk straight towards Ty's room in the back. I open the door and see Dre waiting for me along with Ty at his desk and some new boy. My face scrunched up as soon as I looked at him. He looked young and scared, and he was white. Now don't get me wrong I'm not discriminating but, what business this white boy got here?

I see Ty and my face turns to one of anger. I stalk over to him fist balled but one of his bodyguards stop me before I get too close. "Fuck wrong with you, threatening me?"

He smirks and just sighs. "I had to get you here somehow. You been gon, and I need you in the streets, making me money."

"So you threaten my mama? You threaten my family?!"

My fist balls up so tightly I can feel my nails scratching against my skin. I get angrier by the second recalling the text messages he sends me.

Dre's hand grips my shoulder and I push the guard off me before stepping back. I calm myself down before I do something I regret. "What you want?" I bark out to Ty and he clasps his hands together.

"I need you to go with Gabriel up north, a big deal supposed to be made and I need to make sure it goes through. I contacted you cause you always get the job done."

I look over at the white boy and he looks at me before smiling. "Sup bro." He says enthusiastically amd I look back at Ty.

"Why I gotta go with him, why can't I take Dre?" I ask. I ain't even know white boy like that and I don't work with people I don't know.

"Cause I said so damn it!" He yells, slamming his hands in the desk making white boy flinch.

He exhales before speaking. "I need you to listen to me, you can't keep questioning me Reg, I'm trying to help you, like I been trying to do, like I did when your family needed help." He says and I turn my head from him. It was true, he did help me when I needed it. He was one of the onky father figures I had and he helped my family from getting evicted.

I nodded my head in defeat and looked back up. "When I got to leave?"

"In two days, but I need you on the streets selling tonight, your customers ain't buying from nobody but you on your corner." He informs and I go back to when I was at the beach with Zo. Andre had said that he had been looking for me, and he was glad he found me cause he wouldn't buy from nobody else.

"Aight, let me get some stuff." I say and walk out the room. I was gon have to prepare Zo for my absence these last couple of nights.

Alonzo POV

I pull into the parking lot and park the car in the parking lot before walking towards the building. I nod in the direction of the receptionist and head for the elevator. I press P to go to the penthouse and smile to myself. I can't believe he got a penthouse for us.

Pulling out the room key, I open the door and the room falls silent as I stare in the direction of him. The room is so silent you can hear the clanging of the keys as they crash onto the floor. My heart drops and I'm left speechless.

"Hello to you too son." His chilling voice says, smirking from the kitchen table and gesturing me forward. As soon as I refused to walk towards him, one of his men pull me to the table and sit me down across from him. My heart was beating out of my chest now, my breath was heavy pants and my hands were a mess of limbs, not knowing where to be put and constantly wiping sweat from my palms onto my pants.

"Nice place." He says, admiring his surroundings, his fingers tapping down on a folder in front of him.

My eyes squinted towards it. "What's that?" I ask, nodding towards the folder. He looks back over at me before looking down at the folder. "Oh this lil thing?" He says picking it up. He slides it over to me and gets up from his chair. "It's the truth." He says before walking out the door.

Reggie POV

I walked out the house and stood at the bottom of the steps, waiting for the Uber to arrive when I hear the a voice behind me.

Gabriel ^^

"Hey wassup." He greets, sitting down at the bottom of the stairs beside me. I look over at him and nod, not feeling like saying nothing. "I'm Gabriel."

"Reggie." Is all I say and look out for my ride. "You must be new." I say, noticing him looking side to side, and the sweat gathering on his forehead.

"Yea, I'm trying to get some money." He says, running his hand through his hair and I reminisce to when I was in his shoes, it felt like it was just yesterday.

Flashback

"You the only man here, which means you got to be the man of the house, and you got to take care of your little sister." My mama says, carrying little Nyla in her arms. She always tells me that. That I have to take care of my family, but how was I supposed to do that at such a young age?

The next day, I was walking home from school, Dre walking next to me and we passed the trap house. We watched as men played dice in front of the house, some people were passing by, buying drugs from the men.

I would have never thought of starting to sell drugs, but after we got the final eviction notice, what was I supposed to do?

We walked in the house and I looked around to try and find out what was funny. All I had said was, "I want to sell drugs." And that's when everyone started laughing, even Dre was. Eventually Dre told me it wasn't that easy and that's when they took me back to the room. I sat down across from the desk with Ty in it.

"What yo young ass want?" He asked. I was rubbing my hands together and my legs were shaking. Maybe I should leave. The way his eyes squinted and his head tilted made me get up from my chair before he asked about my mom. "You Meka son ain't you? What you doing here?"

I nod and open my mouth to speak. "We need some money and since her accident she can't work that much."

"I got you."

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I opened the door to the Uber and looked toward white boy. "Meet me on 52nd, tonight.

After paying the fee I step out and head up to see Zo. I couldn't help the smile that crawled onto my face. He made me so goddamn happy man.

The smile is quickly erased when I open the door and see him at the table, crying. His head shoots up and he stares at me before wiping his tears and standing up. He walks in the room and closes the door before locking it. I walk over to the table to see what he was looking at and my fist balls all the papers up before throwing them in the fireplace. I don't know how he got them but this was not how I wanted him to find out. I don't even know where he got these papers, why would people be taking pictures of me leaving the trap house anyway? And how did they get all this info?

I knock on the door. "Zo? Let me in." I say and listen to the sounds of movement on the other side of the door. I hear dressers opening and closing and I know what he's doing. I take my key out and open the door. "Forgot I had a key?" I ask, standing in the doorway.

"Now is not the time for jokes. I can't believe you lied to me." He says wiping more tears.

"Technically I didn't lie to you, you never asked me so I never had to answer."

"I asked you if whatever secret you had was something I needed to know. I think the fact you sell drugs is important to know to some people." He yells aggravated.

"So what, you gon leave?" I ask feeling my anger build inside of me. I know I should've told him sooner, but I was planning to at least. And him deciding to leave over something as little as this wasn't right. Was it? Without thinking I say words I don't even truly mean. "Fine, leave, I don't care."

He looks up from closing his bag and I see the hurt look in his face before I turn my head. I leave the doorway so he can walk past and when he does, my heart drops, I didn't expect him to actually leave. When he opens the door my hand grips his arm and I pull him back.

"So you just gon leave huh?" I ask, angry now. So he was just gon give and leave, after all we been through?

"You told me to." Is all he says and he crosses his arms over his chest, turning his face away from me.

"So?" I say grabbing his bag and throwing his bag across the room. "Do you want to be together?" I ask, arms on each side of his head as his back is leaned against the door.

His face shoots my way and he answers immediately. "Of course I do but-"

"Nah no buts, you want something you fight for it, I don't know what you thought this was, but you ain't gon just leave me like that. Not after all we been through." I say and look I'm his eyes. I pull him into my chest. "I'm sorry for lying to you, but we gon work through this, together."

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