Crossing The Line

Chapter Eighteen

°• Evan •°

We all sat in Stacy's living room that night, coming up with stratgies and thinking of every possible obstacle we may incounter while putting our plan into action.

"I thought you said 10 o'clock Stace. Where is Cedric?" Lauren asked.

"I did. He said he'd be here." Stacy responded.

"Well here or not, the show must go on." I inturrupted.

We continued to plan out our moves from beginning to end.

Around 11 o'clock a knock graced the door.

We looked around at eachother. Rico and I jumped up from our seats to answer the door.

"Who is it?" Rico asked.

"Its me."

"Me who?" I questioned.

"Its me man, please.. open up."

I threw my head up motioning for Rico to open the door.

He slowly unlocked the door and eased it open.

"Oh shit bruh!" Rico yelled.

The girls jumped up from their seats as the door opened completly hitting the wall with a force, revealing a broken down Cedric covered in blood.

"Oh my God! Help him in ya'll!" Lauren screamed to us in panic.

"Im good. Im good." He responded throwing his hand up to stop us.

He walked in, taking a seat and Rico closed the door.

"What happened man?" I asked.

"Dro and OG sent their people to do a driveby on the house."

"Where did you get shot? We need to get you to a hospital Cedric?" Lauren added.

"We cant go to a hospital. They'll have the cops up there in a heartbeat." Rico responded.

"We cant let him die!"

"I'm not hit."

We were all quiet as he spoke.

"This aint my blood. They killed my moms man!" He explained as he rocked back and forth.

"THEY KILLED MY MOMS!" He repeated as he punched the inside of his hand. Tears streamed down his face from anger and hurt.

Lauren covered her mouth as tears formed in her eyes. I placed my hands on my head not knowing what to say or think. Rico's face, faced the floor and his hands rested on the back of his neck. Stacy paced the floor, stopping to face a corner, hiding her emotions as she looked up at the ceiling.

"Im sorry man. I really am." I said as I went and sat beside Cedric.

I dont trust Cedric but I would never wish no shit like this on my worst enemy. I couldnt even imagine the pain that he's going through at this moment.

He tried to control his emotions as he wiped his face. Holding his hand on top of his eyelids for awhile.

"Im sorry Im late.." He managed to mumble out.

"No need to explain man, forget all of that." I said.

"Its okay Cedric. Its okay." Lauren said as she tried to comfort him.

"Yeah man. These mutherfuckers are about to get what they deserve. Killing innocent people.. man that shit is foul." Rico added.

"Now is the time yall. We gotta make some moves." Stacy stated.

"Look man, you aint gotta say much right now.. just listen." I said to Cedric. "I'll tell you what we have already. We already know how OG roles." I began.

"Every morning around 10:30am OG wakes up in his home here in town. He goes downstairs and calls his main man Tito who brings him all the money from his suppliers. He sits at the table and counts it. Depending on how much he got, it might take awhile. He sits in his office until 12:40 making calls and when 2:20 hits, he leaves." Stacy explained.

"Where does he go?" Lauren asked.

"He goes and makes his rounds with Tito. He stays out almost half of the day. Coming back in at around 7:00."

"Okay. So between 2:20 and 7:00, the house is free. Does he have any thing and anybody in the house when he leaves?" I asked.

"Nobody. He does have one of those deluxe alarm systems." Stacy said as she sat on the arm of the sofa.

"Dang. Those things are complicated as hell. The alarms are silent and they have this thing where if you break in, it looks like its off but its really on and dialing 911." Rico explained.

"I have a cousin down there at deluxe alarm express. He can malfunction his alarm system for as long as we need it." Cedric added.

"Good. We could use him." I said.

"What about dogs? Every gangster has a few pitbulls." Lauren asked.

"None. He hates animals." Stacy informed.

"Okay so what about Dro." I asked the crowd.

They were quiet.

"We gotta know Dro's moves before we make ours." I informed them.

"Thats not easy Evan. You know Dro moves in silence man. Nobody knows his exact location. Plus he has all these men moving and surround him at all times." Rico said.

"The nigga gotta sleep. He gotta take a shit by himself." I said.

"Its not gonna be easy to get Dro."

"Yes it will." Cedric said.

We all looked at him.

"How so?" Lauren asked.

"If we kill Omar first.. Dro will come out."

"What makes you so sure?" Stacy questioned.

"Dro will be sending his men out to find his brother's killer. Which leaves him alone." Cedric explained.

"Okay so if its true. Where would he be? Where does homeboy live?"

"Somewhere on the northside." Cedric stated.

"We gotta find out. Where is his main warehouse." Lauren asked.

"I dont know about a main warehouse but what about the house we met at? Rico asked me.

"Yeah yeah. That could be one. Its a flat so we dont have to worry about any stairs." I stated.

Everyone nodded.

"Everything is set then. So tomorrow we meet on the southside at 10:00am and get to work. Deal?"

They all agreed.

"Its time to give these mutherfuckers a taste of their own medicine." Rico said.

We all stood up from the couch having side conversations.

"Im sorry about your loss man, We gone get all these fuckers back I promisha. Even if we gotta take out they whole generation." I said to Cedric who was sitting on the sofa staring out in space.

"We gone get em'.." I repeated as I placed a hand on his shoulder before we left.