Hood Love

Locked up 2 (20)

"So how does it feel to be engaged?" Jacob smiled sitting down next to Chresanto on the couch.

"Man...I can't explain it! I'm happy though! I really am." Chresanto smiled. "How's Mariah?"

"Man she's about to pop any minute now!" Jacob said in excitement. "I'm hoping it's a boy."

"Yeah! There's nothing more beautiful than seeing a beautiful woman pregnant." Chresanto laughed.

"Yeah, she's been glowing these last few months. She's been really happy since she found out she was pregnant." Jacob chuckled. "I've been happy about being a dad also."

"Man, Just two years ago we were just lookin' for some hoes to fuck with....Now we're engaged and having babies." Chresanto laughs. "Funny how shit can change."

"You ain't lyin'" Jacob nodded his head.

Chresanto smiled at Tracy as he gave her a kiss while she got ready for school.

"Babe, do you have to go?" Tracy whined as she stuck out her bottom lip.

"Yeah baby! These next few days will be over before you even know it." Chresanto giggled.

"I will call you every day! Besides I'm only gonna be at Jacob's spare place. If there's an emergency then I will rush home." Chresanto says giving her one last kiss before walking out the door.

Chresanto drove up to Jacob's spare place and looked as cars were parked outside. Chresanto got out of his car and inside the house. People took large brown bags from the ground in Jacob's house and took them to the car.

"Who's all these people?" Chresanto asks Jacob.

"I just asked some people to help. It will get the job done a lot faster." Jacob says.

3 hours went by and they were only half way done with taking everything out. Chresanto and Jacob carried something outside when Jacob received a text.

"Yo' I gotta go help Mariah with something. Do you got this?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah man! Go help Mariah!" Chresanto sniled.

Chresanto goes back into the house and gets a few more bags to take to the car. After coming back up there was a cop at the top smiling at him with his hand on his gun.

"Shit!" Chresanto says before the officers pushes him to the ground.

The officer bends down next to him and puts handcuffs on Chresanto. He picks him back up and laughs.

"We've finally caught y'all!" The officer said with excitement.

"Damn...My queen...." Chresanto says as he's forced into the cop car.

It was a long 3 hour drive to the jail. Chresanto got in there and gave the officers all his belongings and put on the orange suit they gave him. The bar closed and Chresanto looked out from behind it.

Tracy sat there worried not talking to Chresanto or his friends for a week. Chresanto had them keep quiet until he found out how long he was in for. Tracy cried every night with DJ comforting her. Tracy blew up his phone with calls and texts but she would still get no reply.

After Court Chresanto went to prison and eventually got his one call and called Tracy. Tracy hurried to the phone and accepted the charges.

"Chresanto?" Tracy breathes through the phone.

"Tracy baby..." Chresanto says in a tired tone. "I'm sorry..."

"Chresanto what happened?" Tracy asked.

"They caught me baby...There was no way out." He shakes his head.

"How long are you in for?" Tracy asks.

There was silence on the phone for 2 minutes.

"Chresanto how long are you in for?" Tracy says in a worried tone.

"2 years baby." Chresanto sighs.

Tracy froze as she heard how long. Tracy couldn't believe Chresanto would be locked up in prison that long. Tracy's hand shook and tears ran down her face. She wouldn't be able to have Chresanto home for 2 years.

"Can I visit you?" Tracy asks.

"Yeah you can visit me any time you want." Chresanto sighed.

"You have 30 seconds left." The line says.

"I Love You my king." Tracy cried.

"I Love You to my queen." Chresanto says before hanging up the phone and walking back to his cell.

Chresanto layed down shaking his head and tears running down his face as he thought about how he just threw away 2 years of his life down the toilet to spend in here instead of getting married to his love. Chresanto wouldn't be able to see Tracy's beautiful face every second of the day like he wanted to.

"Tracy it's okay." DJ says rubbing her back. "These 2 years will pass by so fast!"

"I-I-I dont know DJ! I cant believe this!" Tracy yells more tears streaming down her face.

"Tracy listen to me! It will be hell for you and Chresanto for these next couple of years but yall have to stay strong for each other! You just have to remember all the love making, laughter, smiles, and good times! These next 2 years has nothing on thw life time of love yall have in y'all hearts!" DJ says.

Tracy hugs DJ as she cried on his shoulder.

Tracy walked up to the glass booth and picked up the phone hanging up on the wall and looked at Chresanto. Chresanto smiled making a smile appear on her face.

"So your gonna serve?" Tracy asks.

"Yeah, This isn't like the streets. I can't just run." Jacob chuckles. "How are you?"

"I'm good...How about you?" Tracy asks.

"I'm shit..." He nods his head. "Last night was the only night I slept and that was only because I didnt wanna look so tired when I saw you." Chresanto confesses.

"Me neither...But DJ has been helping me out with handle this." Tracy grinned.

"Y'all ain't fuckin' are yall?" Chresanto joked.

"Boy shut up!" Tracy laughed.

"Boy? That ain't what you were calling me a few hours before i left." Chresanto laughed.

"Please! I had you screamin' my name!" Tracy smiled.

"Is that right?" Chresanto says biting his bottom lip.

Although having a brief moment of happiness all of it was over when their 2 hours was up and Tracy had to leave there was just another 729 days to go.