Bedroom Boom

CHAPTER 9

"I don't get it. We didn't kill them, so why the fuck are we ditching the gun?" Pepsi asked Telay who was about to toss the gun into the river.

"If I told you everything, I would have to kill you." Telay replied bluntly. She tossed the gun into the river and dusted her hands off.

"That's not funny, Telay!" Pepsi said looking at Telay as if she was crazy.

"Boo fucking hoo. Get in the car, we got one last stop to make." Telay replied, annoyed by Pepsi's sensitivity.

They rode in silence, mentally revisiting the night's events. Telay hadn't spoken very much with Cookie during her six-year stay with Flip but Cookie had always helped her out. She thought of all the concern Cookie had shown for her. At one point of time Candy had gotten Telay hooked on drugs. Cookie made it her own business to see to it that Telay got clean and stayed clean. Telay's eyes begin to tear up once she considered all the good Cookie had done for her. She started to feel guilty for not recognizing Cookie's genuine love for her before Cookie ended her own life. The tears finally began to fall when Telay remembered how Cookie refused to call her Caramelay. "Yo' mama named you TELAY. Not no damn Caramelay!" Cookie would say to her. Now that Cookie was gone forever, Telay wished she would have spent more time with her or at least had been more appreciative of her love. She pulled up to Raymond's house and shook Pepsi awake.

"What are we doing here?" Pepsi asked, seeing the blue house with the manicured lawn, and a silver Mercedes Benz in the driveway.

"This is my friend Raymond's house. He's at work now, but I already told him we would be staying here. Plus, I got to get my money out of here. We'll leave later."

Later, that day:

Telay woke up out of her sleep to her phone ringing. The number was blocked. She tossed the phone on the couch and got up to go get something to drink from the kitchen. She still felt a sense of captivity, like Flip was still in control of her only because he had made several comments in the past about sending her to jail for murder. She had no idea what happened to the body but she hoped that by throwing the gun into the river, they would not be able to build a case against her. If they did, she planned to take Flip down with her for Marie's murder. She poured a glass of champagne, hoping to erase her worries before heading back to the living room. She picked up the remote and flipped through the channels on Raymond's 70-inch television. Her phone rang again. Just like before, it was a blocked caller.

"Who is this?" She asked curiously

"Caramelay, where the fuck are you at?" It was Flip.

"I'm out making your money Daddy." She said sarcastically.

"Caramelay, I know you don't want to spend the rest of your life in prison. I suggest you get your stankin' ass back to this house."

"Life in prison? For what?" Telay asked irritated. "What am I going to get life in prison for? Selling ass? Getting my ass beat by yo' bitch ass? Please tell me why I would be the one who needs to go to prison?"

"Caramelay, if I have to come find you, I 'm going to fuck you up. I'm telling you now, bring your raggedy ass home. Do you know I will tear your whole world apart?"

"Like you did my mother's?"

"Bitch, where you at? You want to talk all crazy into this phone, wait 'til I catch up with you."

"I don't expect you to."

"You can't stay gone forever, Telay. You won't make it out there. You're not strong enough."

"Kiss my ass you fake ass pimp. You were living off me and you think I can't make it out here? No, you the one who won't make it, 'cause your weak ass got to depend on a woman to take care of you. Go find you some new hoes before you run out of business."

"You gone wish you never said that when I catch up with you."

"Fuck you, you bitch ass nigga! If you catch up with me, you're going to wish you hadn't!"

"You threatening me bitch?"

"I'm warning you but take it how you want it . . . Daddy."

"Alight bitch, I'll holla at you when I see you."

Telay hung up the phone with a smile of satisfaction on her face. Pepsi looked at her in amazement. "Don't be smiling bitch! I can't believe you just did that. He gone fuck us up if he does find us." Pepsi said, still half asleep.

Telay took a sip of her drink and smiled. "Well, he ain't gone find us. Ever! I got shit planned for us. Even if my plan falls apart, you got thirty-two stacks and I got almost twice as much put up. That's more than enough for us to get far the fuck away from him."

"Where are we going to go Telay?"

"Use your brain Pepsi." Telay laughed. "We can go wherever the fuck we want to. We can stay in town and keep saving up our money until we figure out what we want to do."

"Wait a minute. You're telling me to use my fucking brain and you talking about staying here? How the fuck is we supposed to do that with Flip looking for us?"

"With this!" Telay bragged, holding up a business card. Pepsi looked dumbfounded at the card.

"What the fuck is that?"

Telay smiled before replying, "This is everything we need."

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