The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Charles

I had hit my first little setback with the new artists. Not all of them, but this one in particular. I can deal with a lot of things, but man...I don't know how to handle belligerent well. This was the first time I really had to have someone else deal with a person. But I sat there quietly staring on as Kev tried to talk some sense into Cinco. I can deal with my artists drinking, I can deal with the cigarettes and weed too, but this was for sure pills. I know how it is. I just had to fall back because I felt like if he would've swung one more time, I would've knocked him clean out. Rodney was still on his way to handle him, but Kev was really working to talk him off the ledge.                    "Bruh, where you're at, I've been there. I had to fight like hell to get up out of that. You keep talking about you trying to get like me, nigga be better than me. You got a lot of sense, so why do this? I opened the doors of my home to you on multiple occasions, I'm trying to save you from your demise. Bruh listen, Charles and Iris put up a ton of money to keep these sessions going and Rodney be putting in real time with you. We are all like family here, ain't nobody against you. But you're going against your damn self. You can't record like this. You can't represent the face of this shit all fucked up like this. Look at you my nigga." Kev said as he passed him his phone with the camera facing him. "Who is this mf?" Kev asked before he gave him a few moments and then snatched the phone away. "You have no answer because you're wasting your potential. Don't be somebody who became nobody. Stop getting in the way of your own success. These streets don't love you dude, they take you away from people who do. You call yourself liking my sister, you know good and well the streets and them drugs took our parents away from us. So you want her to go through that all over again?"      "No." he finally responded.                           
"And that's the problem right there. Everything Kev just said about you, you had no reply for. But he spoke on Keish and now you speak up. So you mean to tell me you can care for someone else, but not you? Bruh...that's deep."  I said.
"For real. You gotta love and want more for you. If you're not better, you'll never attract better. You teach others how to treat you based on how you treat you. I heard you when you told me how your peoples pushed you in the streets and we're trying to pull you out of them. But you gotta make a choice. You wanna be a Kingpin and an addict or do you wanna reign supreme over this rap thing. The choice is yours." Kev said.         
"It is, the ball is in your court Cinco. So you either want to be Cinco or stay Corey. I'm behind you 100% if this is what you wanna do. But listen, I didn't tolerate that from this nigga either. When I met Kev, he was just like you. Maybe even worse. But the determination he had to do better is why he's where he's at. Maybe you need some inspiration, I don't know. But this here ain't the resolution. This cannot happen again. You got liquor poured all over my board, you done broke pictures going down my main hall. Go through shit, that's life but get through it!" I told him and then Rodney walked in and grabbed Cinco up real quick.                       
"So...I did all this working to get you here and get you going, for you to fall like this? Look me in my eyes and tell me I wasted my time kid."                      "You didn't." he said quickly.                
"Then show me that I didn't because this right here ain't it. I gave you a place to stay, took you in and you disappear and this what you do. You in some type of trouble?" he asked and Cinco just looked around for a moment.                
"Kev, can you please tell Iris to come here and give us a minute?" I asked and Kev went ahead and did so. Iris came through and I gave her the head nod and she locked the door.                             "Who you into it with?" she quickly asked him and he looked around the room for a moment. "You either want help or you don't." Iris said.        "Yall can't help me." he said.                     
"Listen, you really don't know our backstory so let me save you. Here are the cliff notes, nothing moves in this city without us knowing. So anyone close to us, don't have problems. So let me remove that burden off of you." Iris said.       
"His name is Cease." Me and Iris immediately looked at each other.         
"Rodney, can you excuse us for a minute?" I said and Rodney walked out and locked the door behind him. "Does Cease know you be here?" I asked him. 
"Everybody knows since the battle." he said and I nodded at that.                             
"Well, he won't be a problem for you anymore. We'll make sure of it." Iris said.
"So wait...it's true?" Cinco said and we both looked at him. "Yall are Widow's hitters?" I walked up to him and sat down right in front of him.                            
"Number 1, never use names. Number 2, where you hear that from?" I asked.    
"Naw fuck that, the real question is, did he send you?" Iris said as she pulled out her gun and took it off safety.                     
"Ximena!" I said as I put my finger up to tell her to wait. "Answer her."                      
"No he didn't send me. Rodney found me, remember? I haven't even been running for him long, I just needed a lil extra money than what Clive was offering so I had to make an ally."             "You're playing a dirty game, you know Clive will kill you. right?" Iris said.           
"So wait, you knew Suki already?" I said.
"I knew of her, but wasn't sure it was her until the day of the battle." Now we're getting somewhere.