Bad Company

Chapter 4: Not Easily Intimidated

The next morning I awoke to the sound of someone walking around in the kitchen. Given the fact that Christy was as drunk as she was last night, I knew it couldn't have been her. Curiosity got the best of me as I sat up in bed and groaned, I did not want to be awake yet. But, I forced myself out of bed and slowly opened my bedroom door before tip toeing my way to the kitchen.

Joe was leaning against the counter in the kitchen startling me as I wasn't aware that he was here. I noticed he was on the phone arguing with someone making me jumped back and behind the wall. I scoffed in disgust as I peered my head around the corner, watching as Joe, who's back was facing my direction, was ashing his cigarette in our kitchen sink.

"Billy, calm the fuck down man... I told Heco to run my corner last night. It ain't my fault that he got too high to do so." Joe spoke calmly in to his cell phone. "Look... I'll be there as soon as I can get there. I'm sorry bro." Joe added before pulling his phone away from his ear to see that Billy had hung up on him. 

"...Fuck" Joe mumbled under his breathe as he ran a hand through his hair and turning around to notice me standing there.

Tension built up between the two of us as our eye contact with one another locked. Joe's eyes followed my every move as I brushed past him and grabbed my purse off of the counter top. Joe obviously now knew that I had overheard his phone call with his brother, Billy. Joe clenched his jaw as he was clearly stressed out from both the phone call with Billy and me, who he barely knows, overhearing his phone conversation. Peeling back the plastic off the cigarette package, I pulled out a cigarette from the pack and placed a cigarette in between my lips. Joe's eyes immediately fell back on me as I lit the end of my cigarette and inhaled a drag.

"In a hurry?" I asked as I exhaled smoke out of my mouth and in Joe's direction.

Joe scratched the side of his neck before answering me, "Yeah... I'll catch you guys later." 

I waited to hear the front door slam shut behind Joe before I did anything.

"Christy!"

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"A gang?! A fucking gang, Christy?!" I shouted trying to take in what Christy had just told me about Joe.

"Nothing too serious... just you know... the typical drug dealing related gang..." Christy added calmly with a shrug.

"What the fuck dude!" I exclaimed throwing my hands up. "I came here to start new! Start a fresh and GOOD chapter in my life!"

"Calm down..." Christy said dully.

"So wait, Billy is the gang leader?" I asked before sitting down on my bed next to Christy who nodded her head up and down to my question. "...So all those men who were sitting at that table with Billy... were his boys? as in... his gang?" 

"...Christy you have to be fucking kidding me..." I said as I closed my eyes and sighed.

"Look... I love Joe... he'd never put me in harms way." Christy reassured me. "So calm your skinny little white ass down." 

My eyes widened and my jaw dropped as I chuckled at what Christy had just said. "Bitch, you're white too, little miss trap queen wanna-be."

"You're a bitch," Christy replied with a smirk. "Get dressed, I'm gonna call a taxi to take us to work."

"If you wouldn't have been glued to Joe last night, you would have known that Sammy took me off the schedule this weekend. I ain't going anywhere." I stated dully, staring down at my lap as I spoke.