Just Friends

Chapter XXI: Tired

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The person on the other end didn't speak after that and hung up almost immediately. Shocked but now also a little bit scared. Messiah on the other hand felt enraged and was currently getting someone else to trace the number. They were dumb enough to use a normal Iphone but that being said things like this still take time.

"I'm sorry Messiah please. Please just let me go i'll help you! Anything you want or need i'm here!!" Patrica begs and begs.

After they came back from her house of obsession, they took the phone to the second best person they used for tracking things. And went down to see Patrica just to ask her some questions, hoping she would speak. But all she has done is cry, beg, and complain about her hand hurting.

"Patrica. You know what annoys me the most?" Messiah asks her with his back towards her.

"W-What?"

He turns towards her with the creepiest smile she had ever seen. More than that, he has a long sharpe delicately created knife in his hand, using a black latex glove to hold it.

"I hate when people who stab me in the back first, ask- no actually beg for my forgiveness. Especially when it's someone i've helped and took care of. When have I ever asked you for anything? Huh?" Walking towards her with the knife she starts to thrash around in her seat crying for him not to get any closer.

"I've never asked for anything that was so hard to do. Well, I guess, besides your loyalty to this gang. Why are you so scared? Why do you feel the need to throw yourself around like a fucking child? You asked for this. Or did you really think your little plan for me to fall in love with you would work? How stupid could you really fucking be?" Messiah asks, gripping her hair, pulling her head back.

"I'm giving you one more chance here Patrica. I'm trying to be calm and help you out. But you aren't cooperating with me. So, last chance. Who took Mayari?"

She stays silent just crying with her eyes closed. Messiah bring up the knife to her neck just slightly touching it, but still the sharpness of the knife cutting a bit of her skin.

As Messiah pushes deeper, more blood dripping out, she cries out "I don't know! I don't know his real name!! I swear." Messiah backs away and Tj, the only other person in the room right now, walks up to her gripping her face to look at him.

"You don't? So then what do you call him?"

"He told me to just call him Tasman. He says they call him Tasman like the devil or something. I don't fucking no man. That's all I know everybody always wore masks around me and never said their full names, not even nicknames, just letters. He was the only one that had a name." She says pulling her face away from Tj's hand. "Wasn't so hard right?" Tj asks walking towards the room door.

Messiah's face stays the same stone cold expression as he leans down to her ear and says, "That day I should've left you there to die."

He then slits her throat but not enough to kill her just enough to let her bleed out until she dies. He watches as she chokes on her own blood and tries to get out words but cannot. He then laughs walking away and out the white, now sort of red stained room.

The Messiah that once left years ago was now back. And that part of him was blood thirsty.

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Melvin being away for a few hours, just got back and was getting caught up. But of course that part that really stuck wasn't the most serious part but the part about Patrica being obsessed with his younger brother.

"Yoo whattt? I didn't think it was like that. And anyway man she look like she like girls, that's crazy though. So what next?"

"Well right now we just waiting for that beautiful woman down stairs to let us know where this nigga "Tasman" is located." Jamor says rubbing his hands together thinking about asking her out once everything is handled.

"Close your mouth bro. You drooling nigga." Jay says ready to duck from his brothers hits.

"Nigga you mad that no girl likes you bro. When was the last time you went on a date? Huhhhh? Exactly fuck nigga. I always knew I was the better looking twin though. I feel for you bro I really do." He says dabbing away at his fake tears with a napkin he just picked up. Sniffling up nothing but air.

"Yeah nigga whatever." Melvin looks at Jay and Jay looks away from Melvin who he was already looking at and looks at his lap instead.

Messiah comes in the room and everyone stops talking and looks at him. He's visibly tired and as time goes on he's lacking sleep. He didn't even want to keep trying to go to sleep. He just knew he needed Mayari. But now he began to think if she'd even want him near her. Though he knows she isn't dumb in the slightest, he knows that his full secret is out now. She probably knows most of what was hidden from her and maybe she'd be scared of him or even hate him.

Even if that wasn't the case, maybe she'd be too traumatized to even let people touch her or want talk to people. He knew that this was all his fault, his one and only goal was to protect her. And by pushing her away he thought that this way she'll be protected. But he was mistaken and his mistake feels like it's costing him more than just Mayari but himself. She was the only thing keeping him together after all. Without her he's just a shell of the person Mayari or Tj had known to be.

"Aye man? You good? I've been calling your name for like five minutes my nigga..." Tj says getting Messiah's attention for the first since Messiah had walked into the room.

"Yeah man what's up?" He lets out an exhausted sigh. Both of his hands running down his face and then into his shoulder length locs.

"I gotta go see my baby moms. She say she good but I need to see her to believe it. You gone be good here?" He asks looking at his long time friend.

Everyone in the room has a history with Messiah. But Tamris has always been the closest and best friend of Messiah. He knew when to push his buttons, he knew when to leave Messiah alone, and he knew when his friend was at his breaking point. This time he knew was the last one and for that reason he was worried and scared not of Messiah necessarily just of who Messiah is gonna become.

He was always gonna be here for Messiah but at this moment he didn't know how exactly to do so.

Messiah laughs humorlessly, "I'm yo son or something T? I'm straight man or I will be soon. Go handle your business bro and watch yourself out there. We don't know what these niggas planning next." He says tying up his locs to keep them out of his face. Tj stands there for a moment deciding to leave or not. Ultimately he has a family now and he gotta put them first no matter what.

"Yeah alright nigga. Imma go check on her and i'll be back. Try to get some sleep or something Si you looking a lil ghostly. And you already yellow, my eyes be hurting as it is gotta squint to look at you. Get some sleep then stand out in the sun and bake a little my nigga. I be back y'all." He says to everyone dapping them up and walking out the room.

"Aye Siah he right bro. We gotta it right now, a hour or three won't hurt man. Mayari need you on top of your shit not crawling to save her. When ole girl tell us the lo we'll come get you man." Melvin says getting up from the couch and walking over to Messiah desk. Knocking on it breaking him out of whatever trance he was in.

"Man get the fuck out here yo. We might not be that close but you my lil bro. I gotchu for life. The minute something come up you gone be the first call I make, Ight?"

Messiah gets up from the chair and mugs his brother, knowing him and Tj are right. He daps up everybody and mumbles a low "Be safe." to them and leaves. Everything in his body is trying to keep him awake but Melvin is right. Mayari needs Messiah fully functional not running off of sleep from two nights ago.

To Be Continued...

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