chapter 20

Kiari Xavier Grey | Ki

"He outside." Isaiah says walking inside.

"Who?" I question.

"Zeno." He says making me roll my eyes and walk outside to where he was leaning against his car outside my trap again.

"Fuck you want."

"Your girlfriend Riani. I got her." He shrugs making my face drop.

"What the fuck you mean you got Riani." I raise my voice at him walking closer.

"She in my trunk right now. She look good to, might have a taste tonight actually." He says making me take my gun out and raise it at him.

"I swear to go if she in here I will blow your shit." I quickly open the trunk.

"Where she at." I quickly turn to him and he just laughs.

"We've been talking, linking. I said something she ain't like so now she ignoring me so I just wanted to see how much you cared about her so I can see if I really wanted to put enough effort in trying to get her back and yeah you pulled a gun on me looking all worried, sad and angry." He laughs loudier.

"Talking? What the fuck you mean yall been talking. How did you know about her." I say heated now.

"I got eyes everywhere. And she ain't tell you? We met a party and fucked." He smiles.

"Y'all ain't fuck. She wouldn't do anything with you.." I look him up and down.

"We did though. And man let me tell youuu." He shakes his head closing his eyes and my face dropped.

"Nah I'm fucking with you. Stop looking all sad, if I wanted to I would but that ain't my goal. You never been like this when it came to a girl, Your feelings must be strong if she got you dropping your playa face when it comes to talking to me, or you don't even notice cause it's coming natural to you." He laughs.

Me and Zeno had history when we was younger so he knew a lot of shit but now it's fuck him.

"Drop whatever shit you got planned with her or it's you dropping to this ground in less than a minute." I raise my gun to his head.

"Drop your gun or it's me doing some real crazy things to your girl without anyone's permission." He raises his gun to my chest while smirking.

One thing about me and Zeno is he would play around when it came to shit like this but I be dead ass with a serious face whole time while he's just smiling.

"Touch her if you want." I glare at him.

"Drop your gun or I'll touch all over her tonight." His face turns serious and he turns the safety off his gun as it's still pointed at me.

"Mention her again and imma kill your mama next and you know I don't bluff. You could ask your girlfriend but..." I make a yikes face and he looks me up and down.

"Drop it." I hear a click of a gun being raised to Zenos head making me look over seeing it's Isaiah looking as serious as he could ever be.

Zeno just laughs and switches his gun off putting it in his pocket so I do as well.

"You know...I never really liked you. You give me I'll kill you then start laughing and doing hop scotch at my grave vibes." Zeno says to Isaiah.

"I never liked you either so yes I would in fact do that" Isaiah says.

"I also don't like what you were saying about my best friend, so I advise you to get into your car because I never turned my safety off." He opens the car for Zeno making him kiss his teeth and get into the car.

"Have a nice day." Isaiah shuts the door and watches him pull off.

"You got Riani in this shit, and she don't even know what you do." He punches my arm.

"I didn't put her in shit. Zeno just came over and told me he was talking to her, I knew she was talking to someone, just not him." I say frustrated while sitting on the couch.

"You better hope he don't have her address yo. You got to much shit going on and now you got Riani in the shit and she doesn't even know." He says and I pull my phone out.

"I need to tell her." I say but Isaiah grabs my phone.

"Hi, not to throw you off but I'm a drug dealer, killed, the person you are talking to is Zeno and he is a known murder but never killed any of my people's yet because he probably haves a soft spot for them since he was my childhood friend but he doesn't have one for you because he doesn't know you so he may try to kill you or do worse to you just to try and get back at me. How was your day though Riani." Isaiah makes a phone sign with his hand before looking back at me.

"I don't have to say all that though." I mug him cause he really do the most.

"But she gone ask all that though."

"I can just say to stop talking to Zeno because he said some things about you since you pissed him off. And I'll tell her what he said." I shrug.

"No." Isaiah looks at me like I'm crazy.

"Then what the fuck do I do because you were right about the fact that he doesn't know her and he would do every fucking thing he said to me to her just to try and get back at me. And then I made it worse by the facial expressions and how I was acting when he told me, so now he knows that I care about her and you sitting here telling me to not tell her shit? I rather her cut me off then get killed." I raise my voice now heated.

"Tell her and watch you blow every chance with her. All you have to do is take Zeno out." He says and making me pause.

"You right." I slowly nod.

"Imma need a good ass plan for that though."

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Riani pov.

2 days later.

Muting Zenos messages I put on my night clothes and wrap my hair out.

He not about to say I look easy, and some he was in a car with me for two hours and didn't fuck and think imma pick his calls up? Fuck him.

I wash my face and then get into the bed but just as I did my door bell rung making me groan and ignore it but it rung again so I huff and go to my door.

Opening the door I seen it was Kiari making me can't help but to smile when I seen him.

"Hey." He wraps his arms around me hugging me.

"Hi. I didn't even know you were coming." I pull back from him shutting the door.

"I was trying to surprise you." He chuckles.

"At 10pm?" I raise my brow as we get inside my room.

"I was bored so." He shrugs.

"You also haven't been picking up my calls the last two days, so what's that about?" I question hopping right back into my bed.

"My bad, I just been busy and shit."

"So what you spending the night? Because I was just about to lay down." I say going under the covers.

"Do you want me to?"

"It don't matter to me." I shrug and he gets under the covers next to me.

"The boy you talking to named Zeno?" He ask making me snap my eyes to him.

"How did you know his name." I laugh.

"Because he told me."

"Y'all friends?" I ask.

"Fuck no."

"Oop my bad. But we not talking no more cause he cut." I say.

"Why did you cut him off?" He asks.

"Did you know he in a gang and sells drugs?" I say sitting up and he sits up with me.

"A gang? I don't think he in a gang." Kiari chuckles.

"He said gang."

"He said gang, or did he say he was in something like a gang."

"It's all the same shit?"

"You stopped talking to him because of that?" Kiari chuckles.

"Well not just that... but I also don't like guys that sell drugs and be in anything that's like or related to a gang." I shrug and Kiari face dropped a little.

"Why?"

"If I'm in a relationship with the person, I'm thinking about our future and there's just no way they would be able to sell drugs there whole life without getting caught and obviously I would know so that's putting me at risk." I say because it's just a lot when being in a relationship with people like that and girls like to always romance that shit when there not thinking about there futures or they children futures when it come to things like that.

"Well not all of them are as bad as they seem or as you making it seem. some just be trying to make a living while growing up with nothing and drug dealing be the easiest way to make that living. And sometimes when they do get all the luxury of it it's hard to stop, and once you in it it's very hard to get out of it without messing up your life or worrying about if it would come back to bite you in the future." He says.

"Kamryn said something like that as well but you explained it way better."

"Sometimes it just be the truth." He shrugs.

"It's actually deeper than that though." I say lowly.

"What you mean?"

"You remember I told you about my brother, and how he fractured his leg doing basketball?" I say and he nods for me to continue.

"He's been doing and loving basketball his whole life so to him, going to the nba was something he worked so hard for and was his only plan at a successful future so when he fractured his leg he also found out that he got top picked to go to the nba and that left him really depressed. He stopped caring about life and everything and everyone

He came home later and later and sometimes didn't home for weeks. Until one day my parents caught him in his room doing drugs and even after everyone found out he didn't stop."

One day he had went to some new drug dealer that gave him a very hard drug that almost took his life and that dealer knew what state he was in but didn't care. he gave my brother a drug that he didn't even asked for. So that day when I walked into his room passed out from the drug I actually thought I lost my brother that day and that dealer didn't care"

He got away while my brother had to go through so much to get his mind back right and seeing your brother passed out from a drug and doctors telling you that they don't know if he's going to make it really made me have a deep hatred for them.I don't mean to but with everything that happened and that trauma and anxiety I can only ever hate them, even if it wasn't all of them. I know we all knew what could have possibly happened but I know my brother wasn't that dumb enough to take a drug that could end his life." I say, finally getting all of it off my chest.

"Oh shit, fuck I didnt know you found your own brother passed out like that." Kiari face softens and he hugs me.

"And to know that that drug dealer is still out doing that just makes me so sad because if I were to lost my brother that day I don't even know if I would be here now because of how close we were and all the things he's done for me and my family and it really hurt me when he went down that hole because it was something I never would have thought."

"I hear you and I understand. That shit got to be traumatizing because I know if I were to ever lose or almost lose my sister I would be the same way." He says.

"Thank you for listening to me. I really appreciate it." I wipe my eyes as tears had fell.

"I'm always here for you." He kisses my forehead.

"Tell me more about your family. I see you care for them deeply." Kiari says changing the subject making me smile.

"Well I have a little sister as well and people say we look alike a lot but we definitely don't act alike cause whew she's sassy and has no filter. She reminds me of Kamryn." I say making him chuckle and I show a picture of her and then us side by side.

"Oh yeah, yall look alike a lot. Her face is just softer than yours. She looks sweet." He says making me side eye him.

"Far from sweet. And then this is my mother and pops, I love both of them, but my mom.. I was a little happy to finally move out cause man was my mom always in my business and telling it and always going through my things. But I still love her." I say.

"That be my mom to, she always in my business. But you and your dad look a lot alike." He laughs.

"I be getting offended by that and he found out that I did and he was maddd." I laugh and he laughs as well.

"What about your family." I ask.

"I mainly grew up with my mother and sister, I have other family and I love them as well. My mother is lovable and she's sweet. She do be trying to tell me what to do like I still live under her roof but it's fine. And then you already know Kamryn." He shows me a picture of him, Kamryn and his mom together.

"Awn she's so beautiful. How old is she? she looks young."

"She's thirty eight." He says.

"She looks even younger than that but she's really pretty." I smile.

"Yeah, she had me and Kam pretty young." He shrugs.

"Can I ask what happened to your dad?" I question and he nods.

"He's in life in prison." He says making me widen my eyes a bit.

"Oh my. Why?" I ask and he took a second to answer like he was gathering what he was going to say.

"Murder and some other things. I was four when it happened." He says.

"Do you still see him?" I question.

"Not as much. He calls but he wasn't the best to me growing up but I try to still speak to him since he is in life prison but he just can be a bit to much for me. Always thinking negative and shit like that."

"Oh yeah. Well I would definitely want to meet your mom some day, she seems cool." I smile.

"You will. I think she would like you, Me and Kam supposed to be seeing her october tenth for her birthday and she's having a cookout-party thing and I'm sure she wouldn't mind you coming. You just have to speak on the phone with her to see if she do like you though cause she is sweet but also don't like a lot of people."

"Oh my gosh why would you say that. Now I'm scared." I cover my face making him laugh.

"If I like you then she will too." He says so I uncover my face.

"I'll build up the courage to talk to her one day."

"Dont let it be to long cause her birthday only in a few weeks." He says.

"And yours is next week." He smiles making me smile.

"I'm just going to go out and look cute. Nothing is special about turning 19 so on my 21st I'll be happier."

"Mm." He hums putting his arm around me and closing his eyes.

"You sleepy." I question and he hums again.

I kiss the corner of his mouth just to play with him. "Goodnight." I say seeing a small smile on his face.

"Don't kiss near my lips if your not actually going to kiss them." He mumbles making me just wave him off.

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A/n- how are we feeling about my story so far?

I'm trying not to make this book to slow but also not to fast so just lmk if yall feel like anything is going to fast because I don't mean for this book to be long like my first one.