NO MERCY.

15| NO MERCY

[Avery and Joey in multimedia]

"We're gonna be late. Will you hurry your ass up?" Avery questioned for at least the tenth time in the past hour. She looked at Joey who was driving slow for no apparent reason. They were on their way to meet with Isaiah's tech guy, but they were supposed to be there 20 minutes ago.

"Chill Aves, we'll get there when we get there." He shrugged off her complaints. She rolled her eyes at how nonchalant he was.

"I've waited for this for 5 years. I can't help the fact that I'm anxious."

(When reading over this I said it like the spongebob meme and I'm rolling😂-Gem)

"That's exactly why I'm taking my time. You need to have a clear head going into this. We gotta make smart moves, you can't flip out and go berserk on people." Joey explained.

"I already told you I'm offing anybody who gets in my way. I won't be as messy as I was with Isaiah, but if I get the urge there's nothing stopping me from sending one straight to the dome of ol boy." Avery responded honestly. She's hoping that this tech man will be able to give her more information about how to find her father. If things go in her favor, he'll tell her what she wants to know without any problems, but something tells her it won't be that easy.

"Something must be messing with you because you was never this wild and carefree before on our missions when we needed you to be." Joey glanced in her direction. "You still stuck on homeboy with the braids?"

She kissed my teeth. "Who's that?"

This was beginning to annoy her; the mentioning of Rio what seemed to her to be a name that would pop up in a conversation she's having with someone. What they had was good while it lasted but she's done with him, he just proved that his loyalty didn't lie with her but instead her father who she's yet to cross paths with.

"Don't even act like that." He stroked his chin. "Tell me one thing...how much did you like him?"

Avery blew out a breath of air which caused the loose strands of hair that she didn't tuck in the two space buns on her head to move out of her face. How much did she really like him?

"I don't know." She mumbled.

"You sure because for someone who doesn't know shit about how they feel about a certain person you showing that what happened affecting you more than you thought it would."

Avery frowned. "Don't even get me started. I trusted him with myself Joey...I let that nigga in only for me to get hurt in the end which don't sit right with me. I was willing to cut off Isaiah! A man I've known for years and that has taken care of me like a daughter, showing me love that I hadn't received in god knows how long for another who I've only known for a couple months! You know how dumb I feel for think I can trust him? It's not even the fact that I was willing to do what I intended on doing for him, it's the fact that he betrayed me along with the corpse. You're the only one along with Sadria that hasn't switched up on me...yet."

"Your dead wrong for calling Isaiah a corpse." Joey laughed. "See what I did there? But don't you even try it. Speaking for both me and Sadria, we ain't never gonna switch up on you Aves because we know your worth. You might've been hurt many times but when this is all over it'll be another lesson learned and one that can be taught later on in life to your future kids. Don't you let what's happened over the years control anymore than it has cause watching things unfold makes me sad because without actually promising anyone, I'm supposed to look out for you with Corahn now gone. Listen, after whatever the hell we doing now we need to leave this shit behind and turn a new leaf. For starters I want you back in school...don't let this shit ruin you Avery because you'll end up regretting it and later on wondering 'what if '. I know you never planned on doing this so Ima need you to get back on track and do what you've been wanting to do since before this happen...be you and not this Avery that's slowly losing herself to what's going on around her. See, It's too late for me to do half of the shit I had dreams of doing because I became a victim of the streets...don't turn out like me cause I'm not fresh, follow your dreams."