Past Love

Chapter 29: Extra Protection

Friday December 16th, 2005

5:45am

Damon

Cold sweat dripped down my face as I woke up in a fright, just thinking about everything, having the same nightmare again, this whole thing with me and Lee is just nerve wrecking, then seeing Lee's brother Alex earlier this week, this whole situation was just getting out of hand.

"Hey Damon you good?" I heard Vontè ask.

I got up off the couch. "Yeah I'm cool, just....have a lot on my mind." I told him. "This whole week has been a trip for me, I'm still not over the fact that Alex is here, he knows something and I'm sure he won't rest until he can take me down or if he doesn't know who i am it's only a matter of time before he finds out."

"Right, but like you said he probably don't know who you are, you even said it, it's been years since Lee and Alex saw each other and you never met him in person."

"Exactly but people talk and Alex knows just where to go to get the information that he needs Vontè. You know how it can be in St. Louis, they don't call it the murder capital for nothing." I told him. "Alex will do anything and I mean ANYTHING to get what he wants, from what Lee said."

"Well if that's the case then what can you do, you can't run forever."

"Well then if i can't i need to do something."

"Well what about witness protection?"

"That's bullshit." I said, walking over to the dining table and sitting down. "Witness Protection doesn't work for everyone, and then what about my family, not only that but what about Jahmelle and Tyrone?" I said. "Not only that but what about you Vontè & your family?"

"What about me and mine?"

"Well if Alex knew that I was here or that you and your family helped me he'd come after y'all. He'd come after anyone that means anything to me." I told him.

"Well I mean that is true.....Wait, you said anyone that means something to you, i mean something to you?"

"Well i mean yeah you do, you've been there for me the past 5 months or so, you and your family and i appreciate it, it means a lot to me Vontè, i'm serious about that, you and Robb literally had my back when i felt like i didn't have anyone."

"I mean that's the right thing to do, isn't it?" He asked.

"Yeah it definitely was." I told him, I could see the look in his eye. "Ummm.....Yeah, well I have to get to work. I got to help my dad open the place up, but if you need me just call me and let me know." He told me. I could see him blushing a bit. "Oh and I made some breakfast for you." He told me as he walked out of the door.

I can't believe it, this dude made breakfast for me too, he's super cool. I went to see the breakfast that he made and it was french toast and waffles with syrup. Vontè knew I had a sweet tooth, I can't believe he did that for me.

"I don't know what I'm gonna do about that dude." I said, as I shook my head and ate the food.

I thought about a lot of things that happened over the past few months, i can't believe all that I went through. I feel like i need to protect myself, like i need to do something, but look at how well that worked out for me last time, i ended up in jail for awhile. I wish this whole thing with Lee would just end, it's like when I try to get my life together, ghosts of my past have to come back and try to stir up some shit. I knew of only one place i could go, i don't know if the place is still abandoned but i did hide some other things in that place. It'll be dark for another 2 hours, so I think I'll be able to move the way I want to. I cleaned myself up a bit and got dressed. I left the house and locked the door behind me. I went to my moped and started it up. I went down Granite Avenue down to 12th street, from there I crossed over the highway to a back alley, since I didn't want to deal with the highway. The back alley led me out onto Rhodes Street, then I drove that all the way down to McNair Avenue until I ended up on the corner of McNair and Skeen Street, it put me at the back end of the hotel and right across from the abandoned house.

I turned the moped off and went into the house, not even thinking anyone else could be in it. It didn't look like no one was in it, which was good, even though some bums have been known to go into abandoned places from time to time. I hid what I was looking for in a secure place though. I looked for it for a few minutes, and I found exactly what I was looking for, an old school Smith & Wesson. I had that pistol with me just in case. I got it and went back to Vonte's place and stored it in a safe place. If something was going to go down I wanted to be prepared to protect myself. I can't believe it's coming down to this but i'm not going to get taken down by Alex, if anything i need to be two steps ahead of him.

End Of Chapter 29