“Bae, let’s go,” Jabari said, trying to pull her, but I stepped up.
“I may not feel you, but like I said, please watch your fuckin’ mouth. The same way you said earlier that you’re willing to say fuck this friendship, just know that I’m on that same type of time. I’m mad too. I was lied to as well. This is new news to me too, but ain’t no amount of information about my daddy is going to have me disrespecting him. Now, am I going to stay over here and laugh and talk with him? Hell no, I’m about to get my shit and go, which is what I advise you to do before I pretend that I don’t even see that bump on your belly, and I swing on your ass. Mahogany, follow your man and get the fuck out of my face,” I said because she was indeed pissing me off.
Mahogany and I hadn’t fought like this in years. Back in middle school, we were verbally and physically fighting just about every day. We both had mouths that would unleash at any minute, so it wasn’t even a surprise that there were times when we would come to blows.
“Any fuckin’ thing you ever dealt with in your life, Shae, secondhand, I dealt with that shit too. Although I couldn’t stand Trip, when he went to prison, I was right there with your ass, crying in that bed with you over his stupid ass. When Vonte died, Shae, I was willing to quit my fuckin’ job just so I could be over there at the house, protecting you, making sure that you were straight. I missed nearly two months of work, just so I could be there for my best friend. Although this pain doesn’t compare nowhere near to the pain that you felt when you lost Vonte, it still don’t mean that I’m not hurting, Shae.
“I don’t expect you to disrespect your daddy but take my fuckin’ feelings into consideration! Think about the loss that I took for the past thirty years. If you can’t feel where I’m coming from, Shae, then fuck you! I swear this is not my hormones talking. This is all me. Fuck you!” With that, she pushed past Jabari and was out of the house.
A minute had gone by, and I heard both car doors slam outside, and just that fast, Jabari took off.
“Shae, I—”
“No! Not right now,” I said, putting my hand up, not really wanting to hear anything that my daddy had to say.
I was crying because, just that fast, I had lost my best friend. Mahogany and I had plenty of arguments, fights, and disagreements over the years, but nothing like this. We both were angry. We both said some things that we probably shouldn’t have said and that we regretted the moment it left our mouths. After this, I knew that we were going to need space from each other.
In two minutes, tops, I had grabbed Maya, and the two of us walked out of the door together. What started off as a good day had quickly gone down in shambles.
Giovonni “Trip” Young
“What’s the guard’s name again who works the entrance? The shit y’all go through when y’all have to get scanned in and scanned out?” I whispered into the phone to Raynell.
It was almost one in the morning, and I was in my cell, putting her on to a little bit of the plan that I had drawn up for her when it came to this whole escaping from out of this shit thing. For the past few weeks, this had been my life. This shit had consumed me. I couldn’t care less about the fact that I was locked up in my cell for the majority of the day because with plotting this, I now felt like I had a little bit of hope getting out.
“Tim? That’s who you’re talking about? Trip, I don’t want to add nobody to this plan. No! What if somebody snitches on me when I come to them with this? You got to come up with something else,” she said, not even allowing me the chance to tell her what I had planned.
“Hear me out first before you knock it. Ain’t you tell me that he be flirting with you all the fuckin’ time? Complimenting your hair and shit?” I asked.
“Yes,” I heard her say, and then she sighed.
“Let him fuck then,” I nonchalantly said.
She sucked her teeth when I said that so bluntly.
“What? Giovonni, are you serious right now? Do you even give a fuck about me? You can’t possibly care about me, if you’re going to tell me to go and fuck another man. If this is the plan, I’m out!” she bitched.
I was getting frustrated because Raynell wasn’t being that down bitch that I thought she would be. Krystal would have easily done this shit for me without asking any questions. That was one of the things that I missed about her sorry ass. That bitch would jump if I told her to and ask me how high after she had already did it. That was the type of shit I needed Raynell to be doing for me, but she was acting so fuckin’ scary.
“Yes, I give a fuck about you, but sometimes we gotta do shit that we don’t want to do in order to get something done. Pussy rules the world, and you know that because you have one. I ain’t telling you to suck the nigga’s dick or no shit like that, just let him fuck. Pussy will cloud his judgement. Reel him the fuck in. Let the nigga take you somewhere to dinner and then go back to his house. Put the pussy on him, and when he goes to sleep, search his house. Every nigga got a few demons where they lay their head at, that they don’t want nobody to know about. Find his demon and blackmail him with it. After all, he gotta be the one to let us out when we escape. That nigga controls entry and exit, ain’t it?” I asked.
“And how the hell do you suppose you’re going to get out? I know you don’t think that you can just casually walk out and not get your ass shot? I need something else, Giovonni,” she said.
“I’m glad you asked. Your homeboy, Officer Craig. The one everybody swears up and down is my twin,” I said.
“Okay, what about him?” she asked.
“I gotta find a way to knock the nigga out and get his uniform,” I said, and she laughed.
“Yeah, because everybody will swear with his uniform on that you’re Craig. Giovonni, let me put you in on something because it sounds like you don’t have a damn clue. You’re not in some little run-down ass jail. Baby, you are in prison. Highly secured, cameras that are properly working, and c
ops who are ready to bust you at any time type of prison. The shit that you’re talking about could have probably worked a few decades ago when the technology wasn’t as advanced as it is now, but things have changed. I can’t afford to be gullible when it comes to the way that you are planning to escape because it’s my life. Hell, it’s our lives.
“I’ll tell you what. I’m off tomorrow, so I’ll use the first part of my day to draw up some things too. I’ll call you back tomorrow, around this same time, and we can discuss what I came up with. I’m going to let you go now because they should be coming around soon to do a walk-through. Please don’t get caught with that phone and don’t forget to clear your phone history, and if you have any text messages in your phone with me, delete them, please. I love you, Giovonni. I’m looking forward to this life after prison with you,” she let me know.
“Aight. I love you too,” I lied and then hung up the phone.
I was so fuckin’ annoyed that I wanted to just fuckin’ scream. I actually thought that the shit I came up with was pretty good. Then again, this was a big prison, and I could see why Raynell wanted to take the proper precautions, but at the same time, I was ready to get out of this bitch. I didn’t want my eagerness to get out of there be the cause for this escape to be reckless and we fuck around and get caught, so if I had to slow down a little bit, then I would just do that.