Amari Richards
January 6, 2025
As I walked into the warehouse, I got a call. I picked up my phone and looked down at it. It was Alaysia. I answered it.
"Hey mami."
"Hi bubba."
"What's up?" I asked her as I walked to the back of the warehouse where my "office" was so that I could have a bit of privacy while speaking to her.
"I was just missing you." She said softly.
I chuckled softly because we had just seen each other this morning but I missed her too. "I miss you too, baby."
"So can I come over tonight?" She said.
"You don't even gotta ask, mami. But I won't be home until about 4 so you can go before that and be alone or I can pick you up on my way home." I told her through the phone.
"Can you just pick me up on the way home?"
"Yeah." I said before I took the phone from off of my ear, placed it on speaker and put it down on my desk before pulling out a pre-rolled blunt and lighting it. I took a hit from it before exhaling the smoke from my mouth.
"Where are you anyway?"
"Working."
"Oh okay. Well I'll let you get back to that."
"Alright, mami. I'll text you when Im on the way. I love you." I said before taking another hit from the blunt in my hand.
"I love you too." She said before hanging up.
I haven't told Alaysia what I did for work yet but it wasn't because I didn't want her to find out I just thought that it wasn't that important to know. I think that a small part of me is scared to tell her because I feel like she might not approve of it.
I have a warehouse and I own a dealership. The dealership is like a front for all the money I bring in and then sometime I make deals there but I try to keep the dealership and warehouse as separate as possible because if one gets taken down then I don't want the other to as well. It is also a way that I kind of clean the money that I get.
The warehouse is where I run drugs. Im not a drug lord or anything to that extent but I am a pretty big weed dealer. In the warehouse we grow our own product and sell it. I do dabble in a bit of other stuff but it's mostly just weed.
I run everything around here so I can get a bit busy at times. I try to do everything as safe as possible because I am not about that gang shit or killing people and all that. I just sell and mind my business and I make a lot of money off of it.
I have been running this warehouse since my dad died when I was 15 so I Â know my way around things. Since then I have really cleaned this place up because my dad was a drug lord and sold a lot more than weed. He died running the streets. For the first couple years of running this place, I tried to do all that he did but I came too close to dying a couple of times and realized that I needed to clean it up if I wanted to keep it running. Then at around 20 I decided to buy a car dealership.
Growing up I always wanted to be a chef and I planned on doing that until my dad died so early in life so even though I knew that it most likely wasn't in my future, I still put myself through culinary school. It was probably the best decision I have made.
I sat in my office looking through some files that I needed to check on to make sure that we were still bringing in the usual amount of money and that everything was good while smoking my blunt.
I don't smoke often and I vape even less. I vape when I'm bored or need something to do with my hands and I smoke when I wanna feel relaxed or just when I want to.
When I finished my blunt, I put the files away and left my office. I checked on the different sections of the warehouse. There was the space where the growing happened and then the packaging and then other shit.
The people that worked for me only worked for me and I made sure of that because I did not need to be affiliated with gangs unless I was selling to them and I kept that strictly professional. They were paid well so I didn't think they needed to really work for anyone else unless they wanted to get a normal job.
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I was now about to head home after checking in on a couple of other stuff throughout the day. I texted Alaysia to let her know that I was on the way to pick her up and asked her what she wanted to eat so that I could pick it up.
She told me that she wanted Panda express so I got our food and then made my way over to her apartment.
I called her so I could tell her that I was outside.
"You here?" She said after answering the phone.
"Yeah."
"I'll be down in a minute." She said and then hung up.
I took a couple of hits from my vape while I waited for her. When I saw her walking towards the car, I exhaled one last time before putting it away.
I got out the car and made my way over to her. "Hi, baby." I said as I used my thumb and pointer finger to tilt her head up and placed a kiss on her lips.
She smiled up at me. "Hi."
I took the bag that was in her hand. It was the bag that she always brought when she was staying the night, I might as well just get her her own for when she's at my house so she doesn't have to bring anything. I held her hand in my other hand as we made our way back to the car.
"How was your day?"
"Mmm... fine. I had a couple of clients to keep me busy but I missed you."
"I know." I opened the passenger door for her to get in and placed a kiss on her forehead before closing the door. I put the bag in the back and then when to the drivers seat.
"You wanna eat now or when we get home?"
"I'll wait till we get to your house."
We drove home in a comfortable silence. Alaysia hooked her phone up to the radio so there was music playing in the background so it wasn't completely silent.
After arriving to my house, I grabbed her bag and the food from out the back before making our way inside.
Alaysia went to wash her hands while I set the stuff down on the counter and washed my hands in the sink before taking our food out. She came back and sat at the island.
"You awfully quiet, mami. You good?" I said as I passed her the food.
"Im just tired." She said softly.
"You sure?" I asked as I came around the counter and sat beside her.
She nodded her head and I still didn't believe her. I tilted her head to where she was looking at me so that I could look in her eyes while I was talking to her and hopefully get some more insight on how she was feeling.
"Don't lie to me, Alaysia." I said before letting her chin go and then starting to eat my food.
She didn't say anything and started eating.
We sat in silence for a couple of minutes before she spoke up.
"Actually I have been thinking about something ever since we got off the phone."
I looked up at her and waited for her to continue to speak.
"So I was thinking about how everything I ask you about working, you're really vague about what you do. You'll say something like 'just working' or 'handling business' and you never really telling me what you do and it makes me feel like you're trying to keep a secret from me." She said not sustaining eye contact with me.
I had already kind of known that I was giving her vague answers when it came to what I was doing for work but I wasn't keeping secrets from her. I was just nervous because I didn't know how she felt about that stuff and I didn't want it to be a big problem for us.
"I acknowledge that I do give you a lot of vague answers when it comes to me working and I am sorry for that but I am not trying to keep a secret from you. If you wanna know all you have to do is ask me. I just don't want it to be something that comes between us." I said.
"Well I want to know. What do you do for work?" She said.
"I own a car dealership and I sell weed."
A small smirk appeared on her face and I was confused. "I already had suspicions but on the more serious side thank you for telling me but I do have more questions."
I let out a deep breath that I didn't even notice that I was holding in because it seems that it wasn't as big of a deal that I was making it.
"Go ahead." I said as I went back to eating as she asked the questions.
"Are you in a gang or something? Or do you like sell drugs for a drug lord?" She asked a bit hesitantly.
"No I am not in a gang. I sell drugs for myself butI can't even really say that I do the selling myself because I don't. Think of it as me being a drug lord that isn't dangerous because I make sure to stay away from that gang shit and I would never put you in danger."
"So you sell other stuff besides weed?"
"I do but it's like 10% of my income so I mostly sell weed but here and there I do some other stuff."
"Hm. Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
I finished chewing the food in my mouth before answering her question. "I was nervous about what you would think. I don't want to jeopardize what we have because even though I do my shit in the safest possible way I know how there are still dangers to what I do and I don't want you to leave me for that." I said truthfully.
"Well I'm not going to leave you because I love you oh so much," She said with a smile on her face, "but I would have preferred you told me earlier because this whole time Im thinking you're in some dangerous shit and that's why you won't tell me. I don't have a problem with this though if you're not lying to me."
"I would never lie to you, Alaysia." I deadpanned.
She laughed softly. "I know."
The energy in the room shifted to something lighter when she let out her beautiful laugh.
"So is the car dealership like a cover up? And what made you get into doing this if you wanted to be a chef?" She asked curiously before continuing to eat her food.
I answered all the question that she had as we continued to eat and then the conversation shifted to something else. We talked about nothing and everything all at once.
After we finished our dinner, we went upstairs and took a shower before getting in bed and watching a movie that we fell asleep to.
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