"u with me?"|| ybn nahmir

26. the news

everything after we realized tay was shot was a blur.

"it came out of nowhere" said zaniyah, talking to the cops.

glizzy paced around in circles in the waiting room.

nobody was talking, except when we were being interrogated by the cops.

when we arrived at the hospital, tay was alive. i just prayed it stays that way.

we stared at each other in silence.

zaniyah finished talking to the cops and came back to sit with us.

"what'd they say?" asked glizzy.

zaniyah shrugged. her face was puffy and her mascara was dried on her face.

we sat in more silence.

jay anxiously shook his leg.

suddenly glizzy stood up. we were all confused, until we turned around and saw mario walking towards us.

mario and glizzy dapped each other up and he hugged zaniyah. he waved to the rest of us.

he sat down next to me and sighed.
"y'all heard anything?" he asked

"no" said zaniyah, staring into space.

mario gulped.

"i have cameras in every house of my main boys, like devonte. nobody knows this"
"the dudes was wearing masks" said glizzy
"that's not why im telling you this, listen. devonte stole almost $800,000 from me. however, he don't know about the cameras, so i was able to see him talking about it with his sister and her girlfriend. i was angry. so when devonte invited me to his party, i thought it was the perfect opportunity to get revenge. i told my boys to kill him as fast as they saw him, and that's what they did. except it wasn't devonte who they shot, it was taymor. i can't believe this."

glizzy stood up angrily. jay and nick  grabbed him and held him back.
"YOU SHOT TAY?" he screamed.
"I CANT BELIVE THIS" gelled zaniyah.

"i didn't know they would shot taymor, it was an accident. he looks a lot like devonte, especially in the dark"

when mario said that, glizzy calmed down a little. a little sense went into him.

"turns out devonte wasn't even at the party,
neither was his sister or her girlfriend"

zaniyah scoffed "that's why aaliyah wanted me to make sure tay was there?"

"that's why she got closer to us all of a sudden" said flacka.

this was mindblowing. aaliyah was behind what had happened to tay. she planned it all. she shot one of her friends to save her girlfriend's brother.

"that stupid fucking bitch son a bitch ass fucking motherfucking ass bitch i hope she fucking chokes" said malani, angrily.

it was the first time she had spoken since we left the party.

nick hadn't spoken either.

we waited

and waited

eventually mario left.

we waited

and waited.

until a young-looking surgeon came out and spoke to us. after the word "unfortunately" fell out of his lips, zaniyah asked him to stop. she fells to her knees, sobbing. glizzy punched a wall. nick threw his head back. malani cried silently. jay and flacka comforted eachother. i was in shock.

the doctor asked if we wanted to see him, but we couldn't. we didn't want to remember him like this, we wanted to remember him for who he was.

the doctor eventually left, because deep-down he didn't care. he can't care. it was his job and he experienced things like this everyday. us on the other hand, we thought we knew what heartbreak was: the boy you was fucking with leaves you, or some dumb shit like that. but the heartbreak that comes after losing a friend, a good friend, that shit crazy.

malani stood up and went over to comfort zaniyah, however, zaniyah was not having it. she smacked malani'a hand away.

"don't hug me" she growled "this is you twos fault! if y'all had never had that baby, you wouldn't need to be making money and he wouldn't have gotten involved with them drugs"

this made malani sob, and i knew she was angry. she stood up and walked out of the hospital. i don't know where she was going, probably home.

glizzy didn't react towards the things that zaniyah had said.

nick stood up and walked away.

i was curious as of where he was going, so five minutes later, i stood up and looked for him.

i walked around and i finally found him, sitting on the floor at the end of the long hallway that lead to the bathroom.

i slowly walked towards him and sat next to him.

his eyes were closed and tears was streaming down his face.

without opening his eyes, he tells me to go away.

"why? i'm trying to be here for you"
"kiari, just go. you not helping right now"

i didn't go.

"KIARI GO, YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOU, YOU NOT MAKING THINGS BETTER"
"how do you feel about me nick?" i asked
"YOU REALLY THINK THIS THE TIME TO ASK THAT, MY BEST FRIEND JUST DIED AND YOU MAKING SHIT ABOUT YOURSELF, GOD YOU'RE SO FUCKING SELFISH. GO!"

"i-i didn't even mean-"
"KIARI. GO!" he said.

this time i left and walked back to the waiting room, where the news was being given to tay's mom.

will things ever be the same?
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SBAJAJDBDB
i'm sorry omg
kiari is so annoying, she should've comforted zaniyah rather than chased after nick.
imma miss writing for tay, he was one of my favs.