La Vida Loca

Ch.57 Losing Gia

DANIEL'S POV.

"Did you bring my food dawg?" I ask Angelo as he comes through the door.

"Yeah here" he says placing the brown paper bag carrying my burrito and fries onto the counter.

My phone starts ringing.

"Hello?" I answer as I grab the bag.

"Hey foo what's up" Manny's voice says.

I scrunch my eyebrows.

"Uh hey what's good" I ask curious as to why he's calling me.

"Um, is Gia with you by any chance?" He asks.

"No she's not why??".

He pauses and I'm already anxious for him to tell me.

"No one knows where she's at, she's not answering her fuckin' phone, can you um, can you come down to the warehouse like right fuckin' now" he tells me.

"Yeah, yeah man I'll be there in a minute" I say then hang up.

I don't know what the fuck is going on but my whole mood changes.

"Where you going?" Angelo asks.

"The warehouse" I say grabbing my car keys.

"What about your burrito??" He says teasingly.

"Man fuck the burrito" I say as I go out the door.

I quickly get in my car and drive to the warehouse.

I'm instantly tensed the fuck up.

I don't give a fuck if me and Gia aren't together, I still love the girl.

And if anything has happened to her I'll go fucking crazy.

When I get to the warehouse I go inside and see Manny, the homies, Carlos, Danny, a couple other male members of Gia's family, and the OG's.

"What happened?" I ask Manny as I go up to him.

He looks at Gio, making me look at him to.

"Last night Gia called me, she was, saying some shit about how she knows who took Stacy but I couldn't hear her, then she got all quiet and told me to go to her job and help her" he explains.

"Help her? Help her with what?" I ask.

"I don't know man I mean, she sounded like, scared and shit, but I went to her job and she wasn't there, her car was there and her purse was on the floor" he says.

"So where the fuck is she??" I ask angry.

"We don't know" Manny says tensely.

"She's probably been kidnapped by the same putos that took Stacy" Sleepy says.

"What?! Nah nah she's been staying with Shy right?? Have you fuckin' talked to her??" I ask them.

"Call her now" Carlos says.

He looks pissed himself.

I pull out my phone and call Shy.

"Hello?" She answers.

"Hey no one has seen Gia have you talked to her??" I ask.

"No, she worked yesterday but she never came back, I called her and texted her but she didn't answer or anything" she says innocently.

"Fuck" I say quietly to myself.

"Did she ever tell you anything about who took Stacy or some shit like that??" I ask her.

"Well, she had told me she went on Stacy's phone and saw that Ricky talked to her like an hour before she was kidnapped" she tells me.

"Ricky, Gia's ex boyfriend??" I ask confused.

Why the fuck would he be talking to Stacy?

"Yeah, and she told me she'd been wanting to call him to see why he talked to her but I don't know if she did or not" she says.

"Alright thanks" I say then hang up.

"Do any of you foo's talk to Ricky Sanchez?" I ask everyone.

"Gia's little ex boyfriend?" Carlos asks.

I nod.

"He was the last person to talk to Stacy for some reason, and Gia might have talked to him".

"What??" Sleepy says.

I know the possibility of knowing who took his daughter is triggering him.

"I still have his number I'll call him" Manny says then walks outside, only I follow him.

"Put that shit on speaker" I tell him and he does.

After 4 rings he answers.

"Hello?" He says.

"Aye what's up it's Manny".

"Oh uh hey what's up" Ricky says casually.

"Have you seen Gia?" Manny asks him.

"No I haven't" he says.

"You sure about that? Cause no one has" he tells him viciously trying to be intimidating.

He pauses.

"I haven't seen Gia, but look, all I can tell you is I'm not the one alright, you got the wrong ex boyfriend" he says.

"What do-" Manny begins to say but Ricky hangs up.

"So it ain't Ricky??" I ask.

He sucks in his lips.

"I don't know" he says stressfully.

I sigh and slowly start to pace.

"Fuck!" Manny says kicking the door.

"Gia's been missing since what 7 o'clock last night? For 24 fuckin' hours already, let everyone in the hood know now that she's missing, cause now BOTH of our female leaders are fucking gone" I tell Manny.

"We already did like 3 hours ago" he responds with a sigh.

"Man, this shits fucked up, I fucked up, if I wouldn't have broken up with her she still might be here, could've fucking protected her" I say shaking my head.

"You? Nah, it ain't your fault it's mine, she's my baby sister dawg, I haven't talked to her in days, not even make sure she's good" he tells me.

"What if she goes fuckin' missing for as long as Stacy??" I ask worried.

"Fuck that we're gonna fucking find her day and night, I can't sleep at night knowing she's fuckin' god knows where".

I nod in agreement.

We here footsteps and both look towards the entrance gate of the warehouse.

Some guy casually starts to walk up to us but I don't recognize him.

No one outside of our gang comes through that fuckin' gate.

Me and Manny look at each other and by the look of his face he doesn't know this guy either.

But the guy smirks at Manny.

Manny might not know him, but it seems like he knows Manny.