The Darkside of the Bronx

Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6

"Tally, my beautiful girl, I love you so much" "My darling granddaughter" Grams? My grandma is touching my hair, her white dress is flowing around her as she smiles at my eight year old self and blowing bubbles. "Don't let anyone make you feel small, Talia"  I grunt as I wake up from the dream. My hair is stuck to my forehead, my ass is sweating so much my sleep bottoms are sticking to me. My head hurts from the damn coffee table. I really need to stop sleeping on the couch. I check the time, it's three A.M. I snorted at the irony and how in horror movies paranormal activity happens at this time. I grab a beer from the fridge, a cigarette and check the AC. I swig back my beer and sit it on the stand next to me. "Fuck" I say as I'm looking at my AC leaking all over the floor. Hot air spewing from the outside. I switch the piece of shit off and wipe up the mess. I light up my cigarette and lay back on the couch taking out my phone to dial the landlord. 

The unit was included in the place, so he has to fix it. That's the second reason that I live in this shithole. Didn't have to spew out the money for an AC system. 

Third ring my landlord answers

"Fuck! Who the hell calls at…three in the fucking morning?!" 

"Talia Renshaw does, when her fucking AC went out and her ass is sweating!" 

"God damn it, couldn't it wait until morning?" He yells out, I swear I could hear him from down the street. 

"Nope, that'd take all the fun out of this call and it'd make your ass do something." I say laughing and putting my cigarette out. 

"OK, I'll be over tomorrow. Going back to bed, don't fucking call me unless it's an emergency!" He spits out before hanging up on me. 

My ass sweating off is an emergency. I smell like the asscrack of a homeless man who hasn't gotten his once a week shower down at the shelter. 

I get up and strip my clothes, jump in the shower and put on a black tank and black shorts. I walk out where two men are staring at me, one at my breasts and the other just gawking. "Who the fuck are you?" I stand staring at them now leaning against my couch. The men look at each other then me in some kind of astonishment and message. "Yes, you two gawktards just staring at me in my apartment" I say pointing between the two of them, moving to the coffee table, lighting up a cigarette. One man shorter than the other.  "Want one?" I ask them, pointing toward the smoke. Both shaking their heads no in a nod, I sit on the couch. 

"Okay, if you two fuckbrains are not going to tell me why you're here,you can leave so I can sweat my ass off in this shitty ass apartment. Maybe play with myself who the fuck knows, but i dont remember inviting you in. " I say nonchalantly and pissed because I'm sweating again. Cursing at myself at how much of a cheap ass I am. I take a swig of my now piss warm beer and wait for their response. Staring at one of the guys, he vaguely looks familiar. I squint at him and try to remember when the taller one takes a step forward. 

"You're coming with us" He says as he's still getting closer. I still sit on the couch a smug look on my face staring at him. "Yeah? Well, you didn't ask me on a proper date, I'm not even ready" I say pointing at my clothes. "It's okay darling, it's not that kind of date" The short guy laughs as the tall guy is about to grab me. I punch the tall guy in the nuts and flip over the back of the couch. I run to my room shutting the door and grab my sharpest stilettos, putting them on. "What the fuck?! Dude why didn't we just grab her?" I hear one man say to the other. Tall man is now at my bedroom door after a few minutes of their bickering. "So, either you two get the fuck out or you get a stiletto to the face?" I laugh as I throw a few outfits on the bed. They look at the bed at my outfits and back at me. "You two act like you have never saw a girl before." As I say that they both jump at me. I dodged their attempt and run toward the living room and sat on the couch. This game is getting fun and I need a drink of my beer.  I take a swig and they're lunging at me again mid-swig. I clobber one with the bottle and hes down. "Damn, that was a good beer too" I say as I grab the other by his neck and knee him to the face three times, knocking him out, he falls breaking the coffee table. Both men are out cold. I run to my utility closet and grab rope. I usually keep it for my car and hauling shit when I need to. I look over their bodies, both men are going to be hell to pick up. I lift the short one by the arm and drag him to the kitchen, tossing him into the chair. Throwing the rope around one of his wrists, tying a bowline knot, i throw the rope around his body once and then repeat with the other wrist and around his body once more. I put the rope under the chair twice and end with a constrictor knot. I repeat this process with the taller guy who is much heavier. I go to the freezer and grab an ice tray out, luckily having 4 pieces. I get a beer out of the fridge. Opening up the beer I take a long drink and finish it, throwing my bottle away. Taking ice out of the tray I start with tall guy first. Putting an ice cube down his black button up shirt,his button already undone. "Ahhh fuck!" He yells out as I'm putting an ice cube down short guys shirt.