S£ll Out

chapter twenty four

Malia on the left, Selin on the right

Three hours later

"Jay,stop!" Selin giggled as Jayshawn kissed her neck and grabbed her waist, he let go momentarily so that he could adjust the gold Rolex on her arm. "You need to get ready, then we can go and get Malia." Selin said. Jayshawn frowned. "Malia left?"

"Yeah, she looked like she was crying but when I walked up to her and tried to help, she told me that she wanted to be alone. I didn't want to leave her but she had this sharpness in her tone, it caught me off guard and scared me a little. Do you think she's alright?" Selin's brown eyes filled with tears.

"I'm sure she's fine, I'm going to check on Roc." Jayshawn kissed the top of Selin's head and walked out of the door.

Jayshawn walked towards the room Roc was in and knocked on the door. "You got clothes on?" Jayshawn asked. "Yeah." Roc responded, Jayshawn walked in to the room. "Good because I didn't want to see yo' nasty ass bits." Jayshawn stood next to the door.

"What happened?" Jayshawn frowned. "She was going on about her parents and then-" "You don't have to say anymore." Jayshawn ran a hand over his cornrows and Roc fiddled with his Louis Vitton belt that held up his black true religion jeans.

"Look man, I understand-" "No,you don't, nobody does." Roc sighed. "I watched my family die." Roc tried to walk out the room but Jayshawn stood in front of the door. "So did I." Jayshawn's tone could cut through metal. "I watched my family die just like you did, I looked in to my father's eyes as he tried to kill me,I saw the evil smile spread across his face.

But the difference between the two of us is that I took my anger, my hate, my worries and made something out of it. I was stupid and young, I got caught selling dope,you was arrested for the murders of the men who killed your family and we was taken to juvy but if that never happened the two of us wouldn't be standing in this room,not together anyway. If you never killed the men who killed your family, I guarantee you, you would be laying dead somewhere, six feet under, just like them." Jayshawn shook his head.

"How do you do it? How do you keep up this happy charade all the time?" Roc asked. "I take my pain and I put in to my work." Jayshawn fixed his white t-shirt.

"Now,your girlfriend has gone home crying because she said something you didn't like. If you're upset,don't show her, don't lash out at her. Don't let her think it's her fault, even if it is. You treat your girlfriend like a queen, give her luxuries and be her best friend as well as her boyfriend."

Selin opened the bedroom door. "Malia's ready for us to pick her up, are you-" Selin stopped talking when she saw the look on the two men's faces. "I just interrupted something didn't I? I'll go upstairs." Selin began to walk out when Roc called out.

"Everything's cool, we're ready to go too." He smiled and gently brushed past her. Selin looked at Jayshawn and frowned. "What did you do?" She folded her arms. "Nothing, baby. Come on, we need to leave."

Jayshawn took her hand and walked out of the room. "Can I drive?" Selin pouted and reached for the keys. "Can you drive?" Roc smiled. "Urmm, I had a license." Selin scratched her head. "I think I'll drive." Jayshawn winked and sat in the front seat of his red Audi R8.

"Dibs on the passenger seat!" Selin pushed Roc out of the way and ran in to the car. "Oh, so mature!" Roc rolled his eyes as he climbed in to the back, Selin turned around and stuck out her tongue.

Jayshawn started the engine and "Not nice" by PartyNextDoor. "I love this song." Selin nodded her head to the beat. "Nobody asked." Roc rolled his eyes. "Okay but I told you." Selin replied.

"I don't care." Roc said. "Yes you do!" Selin mean mugged. "I don't."

"You do." Selin smirked. "No I-" "You do, you do, you do!"

Selin and Roc were so engaged in their argument, they didn't realise Malia had slipped in to the car. Malia gave Jayshawn a sympathetic look. "You've had to deal with this?" She asked, Jayshawn nodded his head.

"If you two don't shut up,  I will pull over!" Jayshawn yelled. "Sorry." They both mumbled. "I like this song." Malia smiled, Jayshawn,Selin and Roc all looked towards her, she coughed awkwardly.

"You can park right there." Malia pointed to a space. "By the way, I want to apologise to you Selin, I shouldn't have brushed you off like that." Malia looked down at her denim jeans.

"I should have left you alone, I could see you wanted space." Selin shrugged, stretched in to the back seat and squeezed Malia's hand. "And baby, I'm-" Malia was cut off by Roc kissing her. "It was my fault, I'm sorry." Roc smiled as he rubbed her thigh. "Not in my car!" Jayshawn shouted.

They all got out of the car and started to walk towards the house. Malia knocked on the door. "Who is it?" Somebody called. "It's me aunty!" Malia responded. A woman opened the door and smiled at the guests in front of her before frowning.

"Mija?" The woman's eyes filled with tears. "Yahaira?" Selin ran to the woman and hugged her.

Selin and the woman both began to cry. "I can't, I can't be with you, it's not safe." Selin backed away from Yahaira,shaking. "What do you mean?" Yahaira frowned. "It's not safe, I'm not safe, nobody's safe." Selin cried.

No sooner had she said that, the sound of gunshots filled everybody's ears. "Get down!" Jayshawn pulled Selin on to the floor and crawled on top of her. Selin screamed in terror.

Then suddenly, the gunshots stopped. "Jay?" Selin shouted after trying to push him off. "Jay!" She yelled again and got no response.

"Mom?Lia? Roc?" Selin screamed. Selin began to cry when somebody yelled. "Malia!" Jason yelled as he ran towards his sister. "I'm fine, no bullets hit-" Malia stopped talking and began to scream.

"Oh. My-" Roc began to say. "Jay?" Jason ran over to Selin and Jayshawn and pulled him off of her. "Selin are you alright?" Jason hugged Selin, she pulled away from him. "Why are you turning me away from- Oh my gosh." Selin looked at Jayshawn, his top was covered in blood.

"Jay,Jay baby, get up! Get up! Get up, get up, get up!" Selin shook him, his eyes fluttered open. "Don't close your eyes." Jason told him as the ambulance pulled up and put him on a stretcher.

Selin couldn't stop crying. She began to lose balance, Jason caught her just before she landed. "Jason?" Ziamara walked out of the house and tripped over something. She looked down at her feet and screamed.

Selin followed her gaze as another ambulance another came.  "Mommy?" Selin cried harder as she looked at Yahaira's unconscious body. The EMT searched for a pulse, he looked up at Selin, Malia and Jason and shook his head. Malia gasped and pulled her head in to Roc's chest, a tear fell from Jason's eye.

"Any family members for the two patients?" The ginger EMT called.  "Girlfriend of the man and foster daughter of the woman." Selin hiccuped.  "The woman is our aunty." Jason pointed to Malia and himself.

"Selin,go with Jay." Jason said, Selin jumped in to the vehicle as it sped off. "Stay with me Jay, I can't lose another person today." Selin whispered in to Jayshawn's ear. "Ma'am, can you step away from-" "Yeah."

Selin sat back down,pulled her knees to her chest and cried.