The Way

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Two weeks later....

Lani,

"Aye, I'm bout to go but you know where everything is, I'll be back later." Chris said peeking his head in 'my' room.

"Can I ride?" I've been in the house a lot.

"You might not wanna go where I'm going..." He said raising his eyebrows.

"Really? Just let me ride. What's the worst that can happen." He looked at me then shrugged.

"Ight, I warned yo ass." I playfully rolled my eyes following him out 'my' room. I hopped in the passenger side and buckled up my seatbelt.

"Turn on the radio." I told Chris as he stopped at a stopped sign. He looked at sideways before turning it on. They were playing what do you mean by Justin bieber ( I love that song but I'm not a fan of him. No offense ).

"Oh, when you nod ya head yes but you wanna say no. What do you mean?" I sang along rocking with the beat. I could see Chris looking at me from the corner of my eye.

"That's yo shit?" He said looking from me to the road. I nodded. We pulled into what looked like an old warehouse. There were a few people standing on the side of the building. Chris got out the car so I followed. The warehouse was smelled like fish and weed. I thought I was bout to die. I soon found the answers as to why they smelled that way. It was a bunch of naked girls, some counting money some talking, some packing god knows what into boxes.

Niggas were standing around or carrying shit in and out of the warehouse. This shit is tragic. Guns and weed and naked women. This is what Chris does for a living?

"Alright I've seen enough let's go." I said trying to turn around but Chris grabbed me.

"Scared already? I tried to warn yo short ass." He smirked grabbing my hand as we continued to walk to the back of the building. We stopped at a door and he pulled out a set of keys using them to unlock the door letting us in. I'm guessing this is his office cause it smells way better than any other part of the warehouse. It smells like him.

"You can sit down." He said and I smiled sitting in the spinning chair.

"Your so kind." I said spinning myself around. He stopped me pulling me up gently.

"This my seat. Sit across from me." I looked at him with a straight face before sitting down in the chair.

"That's fucked up." I shook my head laughing lightly. His office door opened and a middle age man walked in.

"Hey Nick." Chris said and I looked at him closer. There was honestly no point of me looking cause I don't remember anything about my parents except their names and there's a million Nicks in the world.

"Wassup." He looked over at me and froze weirdly but then looked over at Chris. "This yo girl?" Me and Chris chuckled.

"Hell nah!" We said in unison.

"I don't even like her as a friend." He said smiling over at me. Once again I didn't know if he was playing or not.

"Shut up, I don't like you either." He flicked me off playfully and Nick stared at him. Chris didn't seem to notice. I felt rude not to introduce myself so I did.

"I'm Lani." I held my hand out for him to shake it and Nick eyes widened. I brushed him off taking my hand back.

"Hi Lani...." He stared at me and Chris stared at him confused as to why he looking at me like that.

"Ight, what you know bout august?" Chris said leaning back in his seat.

"I ain't been hearing shit nigga. Just know that you need to keep yo eyes open for his ass." Chris nodded slowly like he was thinking bout something.

"He wanna play, then we go play." He said standing up. He went to his door and called a bunch of nigga. I got up from where I was and sat in his spinning chair away from all the niggas. When Chris noticed he laughed a little and shook his head.

"I need y'all to be watching that nigga August ight. People been telling me he got something annex for my ass so I gotta have something planned for him. Find out where he lay his head, his mama, his girl, find out everything about that nigga and get back to me." Everyone nodded and slowly began to leave out the room. After nick dapped Chris up he left as well.

"Let's go scary." Chris teased holding the door letting me out first and locking it. We made our journey back through the stinky warehouse and out the building.

"Where to next?" I said as I buckled my seatbelt.

"Imma drop you off then imma pay an old friend a visit." He smirked pulling off. Silence had fell upon us as Chris drove towards his crib.

I was half sleep when I heard Chris mumble something.

"Shit!" He hit the steering wheel out of pure anger and frustration.

"What's wrong?" I don't know why but my heart started to race.

Chris,

"Nothing just sit back." I told Lani but just as I said it a black lambo rammed into the back of my car. I knew it had to be august but I was 100% sure cause of the tinted windows.

"Chris!" She looked over me clearly scared asf. I pressed down on the gas speeding up. Once I thought I lost him he appeared right behind me again.

I swerved from lane to lane tryna shake this nigga off me. By this time Lani holding on to my arm for her life and shit. He hit the car again and I tried to pressed down on the brakes but I hit it way to hard and they broke. Same with the gas.

"Chris!" Lani yelled again as he crashed into us one more time but harder than ever. I knew he done fucked up my car.

I grabbed Lani hand tryna calm her ass down.

"Do you trust me?" She looked at me funny before slowly nodding. I undid her seat belt and picked her up sitting her on my lap.

"We bout to jump out the car ight." She gave me a straight face and tried to say something but I cut her off by opening the door rolling both us out. We both landed in a small ditch but Lani looked like she was just shot eight times.

"You good?" I got up helping her up.

"What the fuck was that?" She semi yelled.

"You said you trusted me." I shrugged pulling out my phone.

"Yea I didn't think you would throw me out the car."

"I didn't throw you out the car, shit I had my arms and shit around you so you didn't get hurt." She stayed silent but I saw her roll her eyes.

"Whatever, thanks." I smiled at her and she returned it. I shot my nigga Ty a text telling him to come get us. I got something for August. Let these games begin.

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Why was Nick looking at Lani?

August tried to kill them!

Chris got a plan?