Nightly Behaviors

Chapter 36

Chresanto's POV

I stay outside the house for about an hour before I notice a familiar black truck pull midway into the driveway. I unbuckle my seatbelt and prepare to confront the man but stop when I notice the passenger side door opening as well. Out pops a set of heels who'd accompanied a women with short blonde curled hair. She was dressed in business attire and held a large black purse around her shoulder. Soon after her, the back seat door popped open and three more sets of feet hopped out one by one. Two young children; a girl and a boy no older than twelve, and another older girl who looked to be around seventeen. They all were dressed up and it seemed as it they just left church or maybe a school event for the younger children. Either way they were dressed up and coming back from somewhere.

"Son of a bitch has a family" I mumble to myself.

I watch as the man rounds the car meeting his wife half way and gives her a kiss before heading back to the driver side of the car. She smiles and waves, alongside her three children and turns to enter the house, them trailing behind.

The SUV begins backing out the driveway so I buckle my seatbelt. I was going to follow him.

We drive for about forty five minutes and the farther out we go, the more run down the city becomes. I don't know what business a man of his class can possibly have going on on this side of town but I was going to make it my duty to find out. Finally he pulls over at an old vacant apartment complex and he sits there for several minutes. I watch as a man in all black comes outside and greets him. Then three girls stumble out the apartment holding each other's hands, followed by another man in all black and enter the car.

"Fuck."

I hope this isn't what I think it was. I hurriedly picked up my phone and scrolled through my intact to find Cecil. When I find his name I mash it three or four times before it starts dialing his number.

"We're sorry but the number you are trying to reach ..." I hang up and decide just to take a picture. I take several pictures, one of the license plate, one of the building and a couple of the buildings surrounding. His ass better not be doing what I think he's doing. I will personally kill his family and sell his wife. He better hope that I find Crystal and he better hope that it's not in there. I look up at the old apartment building.

I call up another old friend Mez. He'd been a part of the organization that Cecil and I were involved in but instead of them being the brains of our missions he would be the eyes. This man could stay up for four days straight at a time, watching out.

"Is this really my nigga Chresanto hitting my line right now?" He asked in a joking manner.

I give him a little fake laughter. "Listen man I been busy, but I'm back now though."

"That good to hear what's up, Cecil update you on the new project we gotta handle?"

I sigh to myself knowing the great stress I will have to undergo with that project. "Yea man he already told me, that's exactly why I'm calling actually."

I give him an overview of my findings and ask him to be look out at this location. He agrees and when I send him the address starts his way in my direction giving me the ability to leave and try to piece this together.

"Look this is all you got to do," I hold up a little white pill in one hand and a tiny glass container of that same crushed up pill, in my other. "They're already crushed up for you, you just need to drop these into the drinks for easier transport." I was talking to the newbie of the group, Mez. He reminded of myself in many ways when I first started off in the business. He was just a kid trying to make some money for a good cause. From what I'd heard his little sister has some rare condition that has to do with her lungs and she needs surgery.

"Okay okay I got it."

I gave him two of the glass container to him and straighten the collar of his suit then tapped him on his cheek. Our targets were two young girls who had been tricked into 'winning a free hotel and spa treatment at the ritz carlton' of course though it was just a set up.

"You got this."

My phone starts buzzing in my pocket so I take it out. My screen lights up the name "Nessa" so I look to him and tap him again on his shoulder mouthing the phrase. "You got this" and step to the side to take the call.

"What's up babe?"

Every since that night we knew we needed to keep Mez out the missions. That's nigga fucked around and almost lost his nerve but we realized his real skill not to long after.

I drive back to my apartment and do what I know to do best, I start planning. My first goal needs to be finding out if Crystal is in that building. If she is, how will I going to get her out. My second goal, finishing this assignment and getting Cecil off my back for another few months. Then lastly, beating the exclub managers ass.

Crystal's POV

I'd spent the whole night crying until I finally fell asleep. When I did I dreamt. I dreamt back to before I started dancing, to before I lost Alona, to before I moved to this hell hole of city. I dreamt of Aden and I with one big happy family, I thought back to his basketball scholarship and just how successful he would have gotten, how successful he probably is. I dreamt of us in love again like we had never fallen out of it. I dreamt the life I was suppose to live.

I woke up to sunlight peeking through one of the windows. My vision was slightly blurred but I could make out where I was. I was back in the room where all the girls and I had initially been in and when I look around all the girls are in there beds. I feel to weak to speak to everyone so I turn to my right to where Sheenas bed would is. She had her back turned to me.

"Sheena." I whisper. She doesn't answer but I know she not asleep because when she is sleeping she snores. "Sheena." I whisper again.

I hear her sniffle and the chains rattle a she shuffles her legs, "What is it Crystal?" She says flatly.

I scoot closer to the end he of the bed. "Are you okay?" I know under our circumstances that she is not okay but when I ask her this I know she knows what I mean. I want to know if they broke her, I want to know if she's is still fighting.

She sniffles and moves around a little bit before turning to face me. I notice her black eye and busted lip. She wipes her stray tears away and sighs, "I'm okay." she responds.

"That's my girl. We're going to get out of here."

Before Sheena can respond the door busts open making us all jump.

"Rise and Shine!"