Beast

One

" Ragady piece of ....no good.... Mane, aye kid, come here." I said to what looked to be a kid around fifteen, more or less.

"What you want me for, I'll call my dad." he said as he walked over.

" Call ya daddy, I don't care, but I ain't trynna rob you okay. I just need to use your  phone real quick. You see my car broke down and my phone dead as a door knob, so can I borrow yours to make a quick call?" I asked trying to be nice since the kid did look like he wasn't used to seeing other people.

"Fine," he started with a harsh tone and I looked to him with a strong, stern look and he looked away, lightening his voice, "but please don't take to long I--"

I quickly dialed the number to my Uncle Elsirus's shop and just when I was about to give up, he picked up.

"Aight Uncle look, I don't have time to answer no questions. It's a forty in the Porsche and the car broke down on Willis and Fern. Come get me and leave Lamar punk ass alone. Bye."

"Here kid take ya phone," I threw him the phone and he looked like he saw a ghost "thanks fa lettin me use it. Oh and uh here is 3 grand kid, you gotta promise not to say you seen or heard nothing, or you will be killed on spot, and you also gotta promise that when you turn eighteen, you come see me aight."

"I-i-i Promise on my life." he said, taking the money and his phone and hightailing it outta there.

As soon as he was far away, making sure no one was around, I pulled out a blunt and waited for my Uncle to come and get me. I had a transaction to make and the longer it took, the less money I was going to make.

"Come on.. Come on.. Uncle"

Five minutes turned to ten, and ten turned to fifteen. Soon I figured my uncle wasn't coming, he was gon let me go out on my own on this one and I had to respect him. I grabbed the blue Nike duffle bag and began walking. When I was down the street from the car, I heard someone yelling, not paying attention to it until they said something that caught me off guard a little bit.  

"Hey, dude.. CAESAR!!!!!!"

I stopped dead and my tracks and turned around to see the little boy whose phone I had just used.

"Aye kid," I said as I started to walk back towards where I was, "how the fuck you know my name? Who the hell you working for?"

He looked at me and swallowed hard. I could see the vain popping out of his head.

"These dudes are looking for you and they on they way to kill you. They said you a low down dirty rat for not coming to bring they package."

"Tell them my car broke down, but to meet me at the end of the street."

"Or, " someone started, "you can give me my shit, and no one gets hurt. I let the kid walk away and I don't kill you Caesar as bad as I was going to."

"Well, well,well. If it isn't the devil himself," I said turning around, "how nice of you to drop in on me Axel but I got better things to do than sit here and listen to you try and sound all hard."

Axel started laughing, causing a headache to form. I started to talk again.

" Do not forget how you got into this business. I still run you nigga, till the day you die ya heard me. Now what you gon do is, is take this bag and ya crew, and hightail it outta here for I put this heat on all yall asses. Try me if you bad. " I pulled up my shirt flashing my gun and he pulled up his shirt showing his. I reached and pulled mines out and before I shot, I heard my Uncle coming to save the day.

"Well if it isn't Captain Save a hoe," Axel said, trying to be funny.

"Takes one to know one. Now look, we don't need no bad blood. Caesar give him the bag and Axel, you take yo punk ass on and go do what you gotta do aight. If I catch you trying to kill my nephew, best believe, I aint gon have any hesitation to do what ya mama should have done when she found out she was having you."

I saw Axel starting to punk, but he hid it just as quick and took the bag and his crew and walked away. I chukled to myself and my uncle just looked at me and walked back to the car.

"Umm uh Caesar,Sir, can I have a ride home please?" the lil dude asked.

I threw my arm around his shoulder and dragged him to the car, "Aye lil man, I forgot you were here, I thought you would have pussy-ed out on me."

He looked a little confident that I was giving him a compliment, since when I did meet lil dude he tried to call his daddy on me. Just then I started to think and something in my head went off.

"Aye lil dude, how would you like to make even more money than what I gave you for the rest of your life? "

"Well I dont--"

"Don't think about it to hard, it is a yes or no question. Matter of fact, you get one week to test the waters and if you don't like it, you can leave with no problem or no one trying to kill you, I swear on my mama. What'd ya say?"

"Well okay, but promise I won't get hurt right?"

"Cross my heart and hope to die."

"Okay deal. One week and if i don't like it, I'm leaving." he said as we got in the car.

I got in the front seat and as soon as my uncle pulled off it got quiet. The faint sound of Cheerleader was playing and I had to contain myself before I forgot I had an image to keep to the kid.

After about twenty lefts and thirteen rights, we finally made it to little dudes house. I walked him to the front door and waited till his people came.

"Aye, lil dude, when this one week over, you not gon wanna leave. Trust me. And by the way, for future references, if you ever call me Caesar again, I'll kill you." I said smiling.

He looked taken back, but played it off by trying to be tough. I was going to like this kid.

"Then what do I call you?" he said.

I smiled down and looked him dead in the eye, "Call me Beast."

"Yes sir Beast." he knocked again and finally someone opened the door. It was a woman in her mid forties with rollers in her hair. She had a green robe on and some fuzzy socks that were sliding off her foot.

"I told you I aint got the money right now damn it. Go the hell away!!!!!"

I felt lil dude jump back, but I pushed him forward.

" Oh it's just you. Didn't I tell you to stay out and never come back?"

"Mama it's me Cyrus. I got ya medicine mama. Just let me in. "

"Stay out there and freeze damnit!!!" and she slammed the door in his face.

I looked at him and he was staring at the door.

I heard him start to laugh and I looked at him funny.

"Hey, I know we just met but can I uhh, crash with yall tonight. I really don't want to go in there right now." He began scratching the back of his head and smiled at me and I couldn't do anything but feel bad.

"Yeah man come one. I got some food and clothes at the house. Go get in the car. I got some business to handle anyways."

Cyrus looked at me and nodded, going to the car and as soon as he got in, I knocked on the door.

"Aye lady, come here. I got some words for you." I said instantly getting mad.

"Keep that little bastard child away from me, I DON'T WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM!!!!! That is not my son!!!"

"Lady im keeping ya son, i'll be back tomorrow for all his stuff." and just like that, I walked off.

I got in the car  pulled off and after about an hour we were at the crib.

"Cyrus this is where you'll be living from now on. We going back tomorrow to get ya stuff. Get some rest."

He didn't say a word. He just walked to the bed, turned out the lights and laid down.

 Tomorrow, it's gonna be a little bit brighter for him.

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