Shelby Collins is an 17 year old intersex girl who lives in the projects with her single mother Crystal who sells drugs and strips to take care of her daughter. Shelby grew up without her father who is the notorious and famous Luscious Lyon, the art...
I walk into my fathers dressing room with Jamal as I see him staring at his own reflection, almost like he's reflecting on something
No pun intended
"How you feeling Dad, you ready" Jamal and I ask him, he looks between us before losing back at his reflection
"Dwight Walker" He says causing me to frown my eyebrows, suddenly I get a flashback as the name rings in my head
Flashback( 13 years ago)
"No talk to me Dwight, why are you doing this to us, your daughter needs you" My mother says as she chases a man I know as my father out of the house
"I don't got time for this Crystal, I got a lot of shit on my mind" My father says as she waves my mother off and walks out the house, my mother chases him out and slams the door on her way out causing me to jump as I watch from around the corner
"Why? Cause your wife in jail and you can't be bothered with me, your about to be big and you can't even spare your child a glance, now you tellin me you may be leavin us" My mother yells
"Y'all will be ok, I'll support Shelby and you once I get my music off the ground I told you that...I got three other kids I can't just be worried about one" He says pleading with my mother
"You gon regret leavin us Dwight...remember that cause I know you lyin...just like you lied and said we'd be a family" My mother says with a quiver in her voice, my father looks me in my eyes through the screen door before leaving out and my mother comes back in the house
I walk over to her and her face changes from sad and disappointed to happy in an Instant at the sight of me
"Hey baby" She says in a fake happy voice
"Is daddy leaving us" I ask straight out, my mothers face falls and a tear comes down her face as she caresses my cheek with her thumb
"Yes baby unfortunately ......but remember...I gottchu and we don't need him or anyone" She says tenderly before kissing my forehead
Flashback over
"Dwight's your real name" I say causing my father to look at me
"Yes....how'd you know" He says and I shift in place awkwardly
"I uh...heard you and my mother arguing when I was 4" I say and my father puts his head down for a sec
"Why do you go by Luscious" Jamal asks
"Cookie don't even know my real name....once I became an orphan at 9 I knew Dwight wouldn't last in these streets..so I created Luscious...Luscious Lyon the immortal,the one who could not be killed....I love you both so much" My father says before turning to both of us
"Always did.....I know i did some really terrible things to you both but in different ways....I was just scared...and cowardly...it's hard enough growing up in this world as a black man and woman but then to be homosexual ....have hermaphroditism and be fatherless..." Our Father says but Jamal cuts him off
"Dad..stop..stop...I understand...I proud of you too" Jamal says
"I'm proud too" I say
"For what" Luscious replies back
"For being able to change your mind" Jamal says causing my father to laugh
"And for bring me here....not letting me live out as an orphan" I say sincerely, suddenly there's a knock on the door
"Who is it" I say and suddenly the door opens up with cops coming in
"Luscious Lyon...Shelby Collins..your under arrest for the murder and accessory to murder of Marcus Bunkie Williams" The lady officer says causing me to frown my eyebrows
"What" I say shocked as cops come and handcuff me and my father
"This a joke" My father says
"Nah this has to be a mistake" Jamal says, I look to my father who looks to me worriedly as well
"Dad why are they bringing me in"I say worriedly
"I don't know" He says as we're guided out of the room, I see Cookie looking at us worriedly, I see her share a look with the lady office before turning to us
"You did this to me and my daughter" My father says to Cookie and I look at her in disbelief
My father yells at Cookie as we get lead out, cameras flash at us as the media gets more and more pictures of us being escorted and all sound around me is blocked out
"Wait wait wait..do my song, our song...kill it" My father says to Jamal
"Hakeem needs to do my parts..take care of everything and drop my album please Jamal" I say before being lead out, as we do Becky comes to tell us the stock is plummeting and I may be taken off the marketing and Pr team
I look over to see Andre and Hakeem looking at us and I can feel the bitterness coming off them, just then Becky mentions a hostile takeover
Those mothafuckas planed something for Empire....they did this
We get to the cop car and they put us in, i start to freak out and my breath gets heavy
"Hey hey hey....breath ok...you gon be good...we're gonna be ok" My father says as locks fingers with me the best he can due to the handcuffs
I look to him and he looks to me as we both know
We're going to prison...but we got a plan...we not goin down like this
{Time transition as power of the empire plays}
I walk to my cell as I watch the other prisoners look at me but I send a glare back
See this is just the beginning, losing my father didn't stop me..losing my mother didn't stop me....you think some jail time and a broken family will stop me
Think again....I'm on a war path...
Everyone who crossed me gon feel it
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A/n oh shit, y'all didn't see that coming, I know y'all finna be mad lol or not idk I'm not y'all but lol this shit just got wild, stay tuned for season 2 of empire
