The Forgotten Lyon

Four

    Kellie has not seen her extended family for a while, she is at her apartment preparing herself some dinner where there is a knock at her door. She glances at her watch to see it's is nearly ten pm and didn't invite anyone over, since her run in with Matthew she had to find a new hiding place for her gun. She reaches up over her cabinet and grabs the gun making sure the safety is on before walking over to the door and looking through the peephole to see it's only Jamal, she exhales and opens the door with one hand.

"Damm aunt Kellie, you gonna shoot me" he asks as she steps aside and lets him in.

"You can never be too safe" she says closing the door behind him and locking it before walking back in the kitchen and putting the gun away.

"I'm so sorry about how things went last time we saw each other" he says.

"Don't be. Your father is known for being a pain in the ass but your little brother, Hakeem" she says shaking her head.

"Alright. Alright just give me a hug" he says and wraps his arms around her.

"Mhm" she says patting his back before pulling away from the hug and patting his cheek.

"You boys have all grown up to be so handsome. You get your genes from me because both of y'all parents are ugly" she says making him laugh as she turns back around to tend to dinner.

"Stop it. But Aunt Kellendira (Kellen-Deer-a)" Jamal says but she turns around and pops him in his arm.

"Uh uh. My name is Kellie, using my damn full government name like that" she says.

"I need your help, I'm doing an album called 'When Luscious Met Cookie' but Dad doesn't give us much on his history other than grandma being bipolar and almost shouting herself and his father or yall father death and our uncle Tyriq" Jamal says as she starts placing fried chicken and cabbage on two plates.

"Jamal is there so much more drama and deceit in this family than you know" she says as she hands him a plate and they walk in the living room to eat.

"Like what? Drugs, sex" Jamal asks?

"What did your father tell you about me going to jail" she asks him?

"Only that you did seventeen or what was supposed to be seventeen years for drugs" he says.

"Ha. So he gave you the basic part. He is really is a piece of work" Kellie says rolling her eyes.

"So that's not what really happened" he asks her?

"I don't want to get you involved in over twenty years of hatred I have for your father" she says as she eats a forkful of food.

"Twenty years? What did Dad do that was so bad to harbor an hatred for that long" he asks her?

"He took the love of my life away from me" she says raising her head and looking at him.

"As in he killed him" Jamal asks?

"No. Back then your father wasn't that cruel yet, he just made sure I never saw him again" she says shaking her head.

"But why" Jamal asks?

"Our love was never supposed to have happened" Kellie says setting her plate on the table to stand up and walks over to her liquor stash, when she does her shirt raises up a little and Jamal sees a line of healed tissue from under her navel before she fixes her shirt.

"Did you get stabbed in jail" he asks her?

"No this scar is from a good memory. Or it was a good memory for a while before that too was taken from me" she responds before pouring two glasses of Scotch.

"I don't understand" Jamal says and Kellie turns to look at him.

-X-
     Luscious is relaxing at home since Anika is asleep and Cookie is out at Empire with Hakeem, he hears glass shatter followed by a high pitched screamed and Bella cries. He races upstairs to the nursery to see Anika holding Bonnie against her chest, out in the hallway as she tries to soothe her cries.

"What the hell happened" he asks her?

"I was going to check on Bella like I normally do when a brick flew through my window" Anika says, Luscious checks over Bella briefly not seeing any injuries before telling Anika to stay there and not to move.

      He slowly walks over into Anika's bedroom and looks to see her window is completely shattered, in the pile of broken glass there is a red brick with a note taped on it. Gently picking the brick up, he rips the note off and opens it before walking back into the hallway to see Anika and Bella and also his mother.

"Dwight what is going on" Lena asks her son?

       Luscious shows Anika the note and she reads it before looking at him confused.

"You think you and your family are untouchable but we'll see how untouchable you really are when your Empire comes tumbling down" she says.

      Luscious pulls out his phone to call Thirsty when he sees Cookie is already calling him, he puts the phone to his ear as he motions for Anika to pack up some things for her and Bella.

"Cookie now is not the time, someone just threw a brick through Anika's window" he says when he hears loud beeping almost like an alert in the background.

"Yeah I know. I'm here with Hakeem and on the screen of the lobby was a video of outside the house, we saw it Luscious. But now every TV is saying in flashing letters, The Lyons Will Fall'. Our security system is also down" Cookie says.

"Alright I want you and Hakeem to call Andre and tell everyone to meet at Jamal's condo. Go now Cookie and we'll meet you there" Luscious says.

"Alright bye. Hakeem let's go" Cookie says before hanging up the phone.

-X-
    Jamal makes it home around eleven pm, he walks into his pad to see his family sitting around as  Luscious is talks to Thirsty on the phone in what looks like a heated debate.

"Um the hell" he says placing his keys on the table.

"Jamal man thank god you're ok" Hakeem says.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be" he asks confused?

"Where the hell have you been, we have been texting and calling you. We thought something happened to your dumb ass" Cookie says.

"I was at Aunt Kellie's having dinner and why would something happen to me" he says.

"There was a security breach at Empire and our system is shut down" Andre says.

"And a brick was thrown through Anika'a window while they were at home" Cookie says.

"Wait, what? Is everyone alright" he asks?

"Everyone is fine. Whoever did this is going to have hell to pay" Luscious says as he gets off the phone with Thirsty.