Page 42 of Cove City: Volume II
“Dio!”the little shorty Keith saved shouted.
Fuck!I ran up to try to pull Keith off. This wasn’t his fight. As soon as I reached out, my body flew back. When I caught wind of who pulled my ass, I noticed it was Zeus.
“Sup nigga, huh?” I shouted. “You want this smoke muhfucka?”
“Let’s rumble bitch nigga.”
“Bet!”
I rushed forward and hit that nigga right in his shit.Pound after pound.“I let my hands talk nigga better ask Sasha,” I gritted.
Pound after pound.
“And nigga I don’t talk!”
Whap! Whap! Whap!
Zeus hit me back-to-back in my ribs.
Whap! Whap! Whap!
That’s when one of those niggas ran up to me, aiming a gun at the side of my head.“Nigga fuck the fighting; I shoot!”
“And so do I,” I heard Tavaris slur.
“June!”a pregnant woman shouted.
“Bishop!”I heard Indigo.
Zeus wiped his mouth as I held my side. When I turned, I saw Tuesday and Indigo standing there. All of us had ceased fighting except Bishop and Chevy. Both Indigo and the other girl ran up to the side of them, screaming. Chevy lifted stepping back. “Fuck you! This shit is far from over, hoe nigga!”
“Fuck you, too! It’s up. Better sleep with one eye open, muhfucka!” Bishop shouted back.
“This Zoo, bitch!” the young nigga laughed.
Bishop turned to Indigo as those Zoo niggas walked off. “Bishop, what the fuck was that!” she shouted. “Indigo, please.”
I walked toward Tuesday, but she wouldn’t look at me. “Tuesday!” I called out.
She continued to walk, ignoring me. I didn’t even know how the fuck she got over here. I knew she was mad, but shit, I wasn’t about to let that big nigga work me. It just wasn’t going to happen. She might as well be prepared because what she saw was light work. I was with all of the shits, and before I let a nigga run up on me, these hands or my gun was moving first. A nigga was in pain, but I knew I was going to eat a little pussy to make up with my girl.
SASHA
I sat at the edge of Zeus’s bed. “What are we going to do?”
Zeus stood in front of me, then kneeled. “Whatever we’ve got to do. Sasha, I wanted you to know that just because you can’t have kids doesn’t mean I love you any less. I’m in it for the long haul.”
Hearing him say that gave me a sense of relief because Zeus expressed that he wanted to give me a family, and knowing I wouldn’t be able to do that hurt. It had been weighing heavily on me. “Quinton is dead, and that part of me is free, Zeus. I had been holding on to that for a while, and now he’s gone. I can move forward and heal from it.”
Zeus laid his head in my lap and began to cry. I was confused. “Zeus, what’s wrong?” I asked.
He wouldn’t say anything. Instead, he just cried. I lifted his head. Had my truth been too much for him? He slowly lifted his eyes to meet mine. “Between this shit with you and me and Dionysus, I’m tired. I’m so fucking tired. I have had the weight of the world on my shoulders and my weight carried over to you. I know I’m not perfect, Sasha, and a nigga fucked up, but I swear I’m trying,” he sobbed.
That was one of the things he didn’t understand. I wasn’t expecting him to be perfect. I loved Zeus for who he was. It was his very personality and ego that I fell in love with. I just wanted him to be more understanding. I held his head in my hands and kissed him. “Baby, I don’t want you to be perfect. I love you asyou are. I just want us to communicate more. Can we do that? Huh, Zeus?”
“Yes, yes, we can. Don’t leave me, baby, please don’t,” he begged.
“Zeus, I’m here and here to stay if you’ll have me.”
