Us Against The World♦®

Chapter 33: Devine Love or These Streets

Roc

"Pwodigy! Stop it," Yaniese screamed. Siyara and I walked downstairs watching Prod chase Yaniese around the living room.

"Hey Prod," Siyara said kissing his cheek. "Thanks for watching her for us." "No problem." "Where everybody at Prod?" "Them outside Daddy." "Go get them."

I sat there in the couch with a massive ass migraine. Siyara sat next to me, laid up in my arms, stroking it softly as she stared into space blankly, thinking and scared out of her mind just as much as I was. At that moment everyone came into the living room.

They all stressed looks of concern and question. Siyara's Mom put Destiney in her crib by the two-seater then sat down. Everyone else did the same.

"What happened last night Roc?! What's wrong with you?! Didn't you learn from the last time?! You have people's lives at stake!! Wh-what is all this that we heard about you-" Lauren yelled angrily when Siyara interrupted her.

"Ma what's wrong with you?! Calm the fuck down! Were you there last night?!"

She stood as she went over to face her mother. "Are you the one who was surrounded by a gang of grown ass men with guns ready to shoot at any moment?! Were you the one who saw your boyfriend get beat and have a gun held to his head?! You weren't the one who was held back from trying to help him or be thrown to the ground like you're not worth anything! So don't come in here with your bullshit acting like you fucking know everything," Siyara yelled furiously.

She continued screaming at her Mom. "Alright Siyara. That's enough," I said calmly pulling her back. As stubborn as she is, there was no way she was going to finish.

"What the fuck Siyara I said that's enough! Would you quit?! Standing here and yelling at your Mom isn't helping shit!" She shut up and sat back down, her eyes watering. I pick up Yaniese and Adrienne then put them to sit on my lap, holding them close to me.

"So what happened last night Roc?" I zoned out completely, replaying every moment in my head like a movie. Dri began playing with my ear while sucking her thumb, making me snap out of my daydream.

After, I explained to everyone what happened, telling them what I had to do to make things right again. I sat there comtemplating what I should do to fix this. "So what are you gonna do Roc," Alana asked. I sighed heavily, leaning back in the couch and shook my head. "How do you not know," Ray questioned.

"We could do a few shows for the next two weeks. We should have enough by the time Jay asks for his money again," Prod suggested. "I'm not doing it." "What do you mean you're not doing it," Dessy yelled. "I'm not taking my boys' money, that's why!" "Roc we've been brothers since the beginning. We're here to help you when you need it. That's what we tryna do," Prince made clear.

"I know that you guys are trying to help me and everything but I can't take your money." Siyara raised her head. Her eyes were red and her face was soaked with tears. "You're fucking amazing you know that?!"

"You don't want to take the boys money but you wanna take all the money that we worked so hard for to give it to Jay?! Roc do you not know what we did just to make that money?! We came up from the bottom to be where we're at now!"

"You don't think I know that?!" "So why the fuck are you trying to throw away all that we have," she screamed pushing the vase off the center table.

I didn't want the girls in here seeing all this. There's just some things that they can't know about. "Somebody take the girls outside."