If Only You Knew

Moves

August

Lester's POV

"Do I need to smack the shit out of you! Are you stupid!?"

"No!" I shouted back rolling my eyes at my mama.

She cocked her neck back and raised her eyebrow before turning away from me and saying a silent prayer. "Lord, I went to church yesterday. Please don't test me today."

Once she was done being dramatic she looked at me again. She stared for a minute and I got a little uncomfortable seeing how upset she looked. I just stayed seated on my couch, I knew better than to yell at her again.

"Do you not want to get better?" She sounded so sad as she sat down next to me rubbing my back.

"You know I do, mama."

"So then why would you not go to your treatment?"

"I told you I had shit to do."

"What on earth could possibly be more important than getting clean for your children? If you don't really want this let me know now so I can fall back. I can't want this more than you do."

"You being dramatic. I'll be there next week, damn! I had sum to do but I do want this, stop trippin'."

"What did you have to do?"

I ran my tongue across my teeth debating on whether I should tell her or not. She would probably be mad but she wouldn't do shit else about it. I know it's a bad look that I missed my appointment for treatment but I had to do what I had to do. This was important and it was for my homie. I had to go help him.

I slowly turned my head to her bracing for impact in case she hit me. "I had to help Zay with sum."

"With what, Lester?"

"We had to get rid of a body."

******

Me, Zay, and his brother Markell sat in the small dirty living room which was littered with trash and small empty baggies all over the floor and on the small wooden coffee table. I sat in a random chair just waiting on my turn as we all stared at Aj.

He looked bad. Niggas hair was nappy and uncut on top of his head and his eyes were sunken in and had dark bags underneath. He smelled like a dumpster or some shit and his dingy clothes hung loosely off his frail body. He looked pathetic.

"Wassup, Aj." Zay nodded.

His face was stone and held no emotion but I knew he was feeling two things right now. One was his anger for what this bitch did to his girlfriend and the second was him being glad we finally caught this nigga. He had been hiding for a minute but Zay said he got word that dude was up in some trap out on the turnpike.

When Zay told me to get dressed and grab my gun I wasted no time going to help my boy. We hopped in the truck and found dude tweakin on the side of the road and quickly grabbed his ass. The turnpike was fein central. All the junkies roamed around here and a few stayed in the abandoned traps out in the woods.

Aj looked into his eyes and hung his head. "C'mon man don't do this to me. Can't you see I've suffered enough? I lost my scholarship, man."

Markell erupted into laughter as he stood off to the side by a small window that had a black sheet hanging in front of it. "You think we give a fuck bout yo weak ass scholarship? You lucky his girl didn't lose everything or we would really be on yo ass." He chuckled once more lighting his blunt.

"Yea, I'm sorry you ended up like this but you did it to yourself." I spoke grinding my teeth.

Good thing we was in the dark with the only light being one that was shining in from a water tank a few yards away. My teeth was aching like a bitch and I had to grind to relieve some pain. Good thing I had started my treatment tomorrow so I could get some shit to fix this.