Page 26 of The Hellcat Barbies: Aubree
“I told you man; I don’t have anything in here. You can have the jewelry.” I walked into the closet and punched him in the back of the head because I was sick of him lying. I wanted to do more than rob him and beat his ass. He was going to make me forget the promise that I made to myself.
Nice fell face first into the safe. Whatever was inside it, he really didn’t want to part with it because he was adamant about not opening it. “Alright!” he cried after I hit him again.
Slowly, he punched the code into the safe. I was becoming impatient and about to hit him again when the door swung open. Stacks of money and packages of dope came into view along with bags of pills. Cook shoved him out of the way and began fillingthe bag that he brought into the house. When he was done, we backed out of the closet. Nice sat on the floor of the closet leaking blood from a gash on his head looking defeated. But that wasn’t enough for me. I promised I wouldn’t kill him. That didn’t mean I couldn’t make him suffer.
Smirking underneath my mask, I raised my arm and fired a shot at his foot. Nice howled in pain as the bullet penetrated his foot. Cook and I ran from the house. If Nice didn’t get to his phone fast enough, he might bleed out, but that wasn’t my problem. In the car, we pulled our masks off.
“That was easy as shit,” Cook declared. “If I wanted a career as a jack boy, I could make my cousin rich as hell. I also need to make sure I don’t have a security system that’s easy to hack into,” he frowned.
“For sure.”
Robbing Nice, beating his ass, and shooting him gave me a little satisfaction, but I still felt some of the heaviness of knowing that he killed my brother for a few ounces or maybe bricks of coke, some money, and some jewelry. Someone that was supposed to be his friend. The shit was sick. Maybe he had another safe somewhere or more cash tucked away. But the safe he opened for us got emptied, and I hoped we’d taken everything that he had.
At Cook’s crib we tallied everything up. There was $89,023 in cash. Over three hundred ecstasy pills, and ten bricks of coke. Cook was going to get one of his cousins in Golden Waters to buy the pills. I didn’t want to go right back to selling coke, and I didn’t want to sit on it either. I also couldn’t go around making it known that I had bricks for sale right after Nice got robbed. Cook agreed to keep the coke at his house until we found a way to get off it.
I went home, smoked a blunt, showered, and I still couldn’t sleep. After throwing on some basketball shorts and a tank top,I grabbed my keys and headed for Aubree’s house. I hadn’t checked in with her all day, and that was my bad. Since Nice had been handled, hopefully my mood would improve. I knew that she was probably asleep, but I needed to see her face. Even if she cursed me out. I wasn’t shocked when she answered the door with a frown on her face.
“Oh now you remember where I live? You must have done some dirt, so now you can come around.” She folded her arms across her chest and all I could think was that even in an oversized shirt and a bonnet, she was still sexy as hell.
“I don’t want any smoke with you, baby. I swear I don’t. I just want to hold you and sleep.”
“I have company.”
My nostrils flared, and my eyes darted over her shoulder. If Aubree was dumb enough to cheat on me, I was gon’ leave her alone but not until I beat the brakes off the nigga she cheated with.
“You think playing with me is cool? Find something safe to do, Love.”
Aubree rolled her eyes upward. “Negro please. You’ve been MIA for days. Watch how you talk to me. And the company I have is Brianna. My aunt went on a cruise, and I have her until next week. If you returned phone calls, you’d know that.”
My heart jumped into my throat knowing that Brianna was inside the house. “Can I see her?”
“For a second. She’s asleep.”
Aubree turned on her heels, and I followed her into her bedroom. A smile eased across my face when I saw Brianna sprawled out in the bed sleeping wild as hell. Her little arms were wrapped around a teddy bear. I must have stared at her for a full minute before I snapped out of it. I was the first to walk out of the room and Aubree followed.
“Can I come by tomorrow?” I kept my tone low.
“What did you do?”
“That got something to do with me seeing Brianna?” I asked in confusion.
“Yes. It does.”
I pushed out an exasperated breath. “I robbed the nigga. Hit him in the head with the pistol a few times and shot him in the foot. I wore a mask the entire time and didn’t speak. He better be glad that’s all I did to him,” I grumbled.
The last thing I expected was for her to laugh. But she did. “You shot him in the foot?”
“Hell yeah. I’m sure he’d rather the foot than the head.”
Still smiling, Aubree shook her head. “Come around noon tomorrow and come with lots of monies. Me and Brianna are going to run your pockets.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
CHAPTER 13
AUBREE
I had already informedBrianna that I had a friend coming over but when she saw Brasi’s red hair, she squealed. “You’re a ginger like me!” her eyes widened with shock. It was the cutest thing ever.
