Once in a Blue Moon

|Quatorze| partie duex

Time was moving at a speed Delilah feared she couldn't keep up with, but she didn't have a choice. The hot Georgia sun beamed on to her skin as the group exited the hospital, all with solemn expressions.

Gunz was deep in thought. Faye was his sister. He held her night after night when she cried from the trauma of their stepfather's abuse. He had taken beatings for her, robbed for her, and would die for her. There had been signs something wasn't right with her for a few years, but the streets kept him too busy to pay attention.

Delilah reached for his arm. "What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing. Galaxy and Auggie," Gunz lied, shifting uncomfortably. Delilah backed away and looked elsewhere. He was acting as if he didn't want to be touched.

"Here we go," Haud announced as a big bodied Cadillac came swinging around the corner. It halted to a stop next to them, creating a burning smell in the air.

"Where we going?" Kina asked, looking around the 2017 truck. "I don't understand why leaving together and doing all this hiding shit."

Smokey sucked his teeth. Kina was fine, but she had too much mouth for him. She was always giving an opinion or asking a question. "If somebody out to kill you, you gon' roll out that bitch in a wheelchair and flowers?" He looked at Kina, who was blinking. "Yeah, now yo' ass stuck. Instead of asking dumb ass questions, just sit there and look good. Damn."

Everybody paused, caught off guard. "Nigga, fuck you!" Kina screamed, just as the passenger side window exploded.

"Fuck!" Rocky screamed, clutching his arm. "Drive, nigga!" He shouted at their longtime driver, Pushnik.

He started the engine and peeled off the corner, curving the truck as bullets rained down. Gunz shoved Delilah to the floor and took a small semi out of a bag in the trunk. He cocked it and mumbled, "Aiight. Niggas wanna play today, I see."

Laying flat against the door, Delilah's mind spun from the chaos. The truck had three spacious rows. In the very last one was Smokey and Smiley. Both of them had .45 handguns and a shotgun which was lying across Smiley's lap. In the second row was Haud and Kina. Haud believed all hands were created equal, AKA, "Bitches need to shoot too," as he put it when he handed Kina a small pistol. Haud had pulled a draco from God knows where and stuck his head out the window. "It's three trucks, like five of them bitch ass Spanish niggas in each! They got heat, too!" He hollered as he threw himself from out of the window. The spray of gunfire the whizzed past the backseat made his chest heave. They almost got his ass.

"Come on, man, push this shit!" Gunz yelled at Pushnik, who appeared totally at peace. "I got this, friend!" He yelled in broken English, both hands on the wheel.

One of the suburbans dipped in and out of the middle and left lane until they were parallel with the Cadillac. The side door slid back exposing five men with big ass guns. Gunz saw one fair skinned man with a long ponytail smile and wink before raising his AK.

"Oh my God!" Delilah screamed as Gunz shot out the side windows and began spraying the other car. He reloaded once as the smoke cleared, and went back to lighting them up. Pushnik swerved right just as one of the men fired a shotgun, blowing a hole in the roof of the car.

"Pussy ass nigga, you try to kill my fucking brother?" Rocky was standing in the passenger door, riding the side of the truck as he fired his AR sideways, killing three of the men. One of them fell out of the open doors and onto the highway. If he wasn't dead before, he definitely was after an eighteen wheeler flew between the two cars, rolling over him with all eighteen wheels.