Chasing Chase (Urban Fiction)

4 | Do What You Gotta Do

"Uhhhh Parker" I moaned out. My eyes began to roll to the back of my head. "Park.. I-I can't take it" I let out low screams. He swirled his tongue around my clit and I felt myself about to explode. "Parker! Park..UHH"

"Ms. Daniels? Ms. Daniels?" "Huh?" I was awakened from my dream. My dream of Parker. Damn. I hadn't dreamt about Park like that in months. "We can take you back now" a middle aged black woman said to me. I gathered my things and told JoJo to stay put. We had been waiting in the bank for at least a hour and a half, and all them night shifts were finally catching up with me. "Okay, now Chassia Daniels, correct?" "Yes ma'am" I said to her as she flipped through some files to the side of her desk. "Now Chase, you haven't played mortgage on your parents home in 3 months.. what's going on?" She spoke to me with sincere words like she wanted to help. "Look Ms.." I looked for her name plate. "Ms. Jenkins.. I'm raising my brother on my own. I'm working as many hours as the law allows, I'm trying my hardest, I will have the money I just need .. a month.. gimmie a month, please" I pleaded with her. She shook her head. "Chassia, we can't give you a month, we were barely supposed to give you three months.. you have two days to come up with this money, two days" she said pointing to the paper in front of us. $7,000. How was I gonna make that in two damn days? "Ms. Jenkins, how am I supposed to make that kinda money in two days?!" I almost yelled to her. "Chassia, I don't know, but you need to figure it out.. or else they put your house into foreclosure" she told me. I looked to her and felt the tears burning my eyes. I wiped my face before they could fall and stormed out of her office. "JoJo let's go" I said to him, not even stopping. He quickly followed behind and we piled into the truck. "Shit" I let out in somewhat of a whisper. The tears fell and I placed my head in my hands. JoJo placed his hand on my shoulder as if to say 'What's wrong' but I couldn't tell him what was happening. He'd only make his way back to the streets and into more trouble. I wiped my tears and pulled myself together, then slowly found my way out of the parking lot. JoJo never asked. He knew not to. We had the type of relationship where we knew something was bothering us, but didn't speak on it until the other was ready. Driving down the busy streets of the business complex of Compton we came to a stop. Thoughts filled my head of what to do. Where to go. How to make this money. Then it came to me. I had to do what I had to do for my family.

Pulling back into the neighborhood, I noticed some niggas outside of Parker's house, the usual fiends that he was always with. I parked the car and JoJo looked to me "You good C?" he only called me C when he knew something was wrong with me. "Imma be fine JoJo, I just gotta handle some business." I told him before we both exited the car. I shot a look down to Parker's and waved, he smiled and waved back. Soon after I heard laughs and saw Parker hit Kane upside his head. I smiled to myself and then it faded as I thought about what I had to do. I began walking toward the house.

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Parker's POV

I looked down the road as I heard Chase's fat ass engine roaring down the street. I laughed to myself, she needed that shit fixed like yesterday. I sat on the porch with Kane, Looney, and Nino talking for a while but when she pulled up my attention was fixed on her. I always had a watchful eye. She sat in the car for a while talking to what looked to be JoJo, I stood up and sat on the wall of my porch, watching but not staring as I passed the blunt to Kane. "Damn nigga, you gon stare a hole in'a head" I looked to him "Nigga shut yo' ass up" I said to him. The others began to laugh, but I was serious. My niggas needed to butt out of my shit. I looked to Chase and she smiled that big beautiful smile and gestured a hello. I threw my hand up and waved back. "Damn, a ass like that would have me staring too" Kane joked, yet I didn't find it funny. I smacked his ass upside his head and the others entertained it. "Matter fact, all y'all niggas go home" I said kicking them out. "Park, bruh come on" Nino looked to me. "Take yo' ass back to Britt house and handle yo' business" I told him. He shook his head, put out the blunt and they all stepped off my porch, walking their seperate ways. I walked in the house and it was empty.. hot as hell.. but empty. Moms was never home. Always at the hospital, she always said to me "Parker, it doesn't matter what you have, it matters how hard you work to keep what you have." I pulled out my phone and text Chase. 'Slide thru real quick, wanna talk to you' I sent. I began up the steps and looked for the gift I had gotten her for graduation. 'Be there in 10, just got out the shower'. I sat there with a look of curiosity on my face. I could only imagine what she looked like naked and dripping wet. Damn. I adjusted my pants feeling myself getting a mini errection and came back downstairs. I had bought Chase a necklace for graduation. I had the matching one but always tucked it inside my shirt. She for real never saw it until two summers ago when all that shit with Jerome happened and I was laid up in the hospital. Shit was mad real. That's when I really started falling for her, but I couldn't tell her that cus she was all caught up in Jerome and leaving him. Her emotions was shit, I wasn't finna place myself into it knowing she was all fucked up already. I heard a knock on the door and I swiftly went to answer it, knowing it had to be Chase. She greeted me with that big beautiful smile that made me melt every damn time. She wrapped her arms around me and placed her chest up against me. Chase had a way of knowing and not knowing what she was doing to a nigga. I scooped her into my arms and wrapped myself around her small waist. "Hey Park" she said to me, as we both let go and I shut the door. "So wassup?" she said taking a seat on the couch. I walked toward the kitchen going to get her gift. "Park, you know I got the early shift tonight, I gotta go" I heard her whine. I came back with a gift box in my hand and she lit up. "Park what's this?!" she questioned. "Shit, I 'on know.. open it and see" I told her. She playfully hit me and began tearing at the box. I sat there watching her, smelling that sweet scent she always wore. Looking at her brown skin as it glowed so nicely. Her long hair flowed down her back. Chase was perfect in my eyes.. I had to tell her.. I just aint have the courage to. "Parker oh my god" she placed her hand over her mouth and the other on her necklace. "Park this is too much" she said to me. I chuckled "Girl if you don't put that shit on.. I worked hard for that" I told her. She handed it to me and I placed it around her neck. It was a puzzle piece that linked to mine, but she didn't know that yet. "Park, I love it so much" she said to me. She attacked me with her arms around my neck and pulled me in for a hug. "I got it for graduation.. for you.. I-I'm proud of you Chassia" I told her and she backed up from me a bit. Our eyes locked and I knew this was my chance.. yet she took it first. Chase crashed her lips into mine and I didn't stop her. We shared a moment of pure euphoria and she finally backed away. "I- I should go" she said and before I could grab her to stop her and said I loved her.. she was gone. I ran after her and stopped at the porch. She got in her car and drove off. Shit.

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Chase's POV

Woah. What just happened? Parker had my head all jumbled up. I didn't know where we stood, or what we were, or how he felt. I just left. I had to. I couldn't think about this now though. I had to focus. $7,000 in two days. I pulled up to the strip club and parked around back. I never parked out front because I couldn't risk nobody knowing where I worked. Only people that knew for real was the family. Walking into the club I noticed Damien's car was there as well. Before I walked in completely, I stopped at the mirror at the entrance, adjusting my shorts to make sure they were exposing as much skin as possible, and my 'Club Xstacy' shirt so my boobs sat up perkily. I can't believe I'm about to do this. I walked to the bar and there he sat. Tossing my hair over my shoulder I mustered up the courage. "Well hello there Giselle" "Hey Damien" I said in the most flirty tone I could muster, covering my fear. "How you doing today?" he said, noticing my breast. "I'm good.. I could be better though.. I need your help" I began, he looked to me and that creepy smile came over his face. "That offer still on the table?"