La Vida Loca

Ch.23 Where

GIA'S POV.

We walk into the warehouse and see all the homies there. Even some homegirls and my brother. Stacy's mom too.

She looks like she's been crying.

"What happened??" I ask them.

Sleepy steps forward.

"Stacy never came home from work last night, no ones seen her, we called her job and everything" he says.

"Did you call the police??" I ask.

He shakes his head.

"We think this is an inside job, someone from Cypress Park, if we get the cops involved they'll bust all our asses too" he says.

"What about 18th Street?" Gunner asks.

Sleepy shakes his head.

"We been, having a lot of problems with Cypress Park, I hate to say that, we should've saw this shit coming ese" he says.

"Is there anything else you know?" I ask.

"Her car was still in the parking lot at her work, that's why we agree it's a kidnapping" he says.

"Wait hold up" Manny says stepping in.

"Stacy is suppose to lead the gang with Gia soon, if these girls are so 'untouchable', how do you the same shit won't happen to her??" Manny says gesturing to me.

That's true.

"They're doing this shit cause they know Gia is higher than Stacy as a leader, so they're trying to make it known that they can do this shit" he adds.

"If they took Stacy they can take Gia" Remer says.

"We're gonna have to up the security obviously" Sleepy says.

"Marissa" Stacy's mom says coming up to me, Yessi, and Shy.

"You three are the closest to Stacy, she didn't call or text you anything??" She asks.

Her eyes are red and puffy.

"I texted her before she went into to work asking if she wanted to go out to eat after, she didn't text back" Yessi says.

"I haven't talked to her since the day before" Shy says.

"Me either" I agree.

She makes a disappointed look and Sleepy wraps his arm around her.

"Look, we're gonna find out where Stacy's at" Gunner tells her comfortingly.

Anthony loves helping our gang family.

"And who took her, we'll get her back, until then Cypress is gonna get their fuckin asses terrorized" Gio adds.

"Alright, we appreciate that, and all of us are gonna do everything we can and we're gonna make those fucking putos pay, but I need all of you to know, this shit means war is about to happen" Sleepy says in the most serious way possible.

We all nod.

"Once we start fighting back hard they're gonna fight back harder, it's only gonna get worse and worse, so we all gotta be fuckin prepared" he says.

We all agree and understand.

We end the meeting but Gunner has to stay so I'm gonna leave with my brother.

"I'll hit you up later alright mamas?" He says. I nod and he pecks my lips.

Me and my brother walk out and get in his car.

"Here" Manny says handing me a gun from the glove compartment.

"What's this for?" I ask.

"You need to carry this with you WHEREVER you go got it?" He says.

"Manny" I say rolling my eyes.

I already have pepper spray and a lipstick tube that is actually a knife when you take the top off in my purse.

"You can't be too careful now Gia, I'll go fucking crazy if what's happening to Stacy happened to you" he says.

I exhale a breath and take the gun.

"Alright" I agree with him.

He smiles and starts his car.

"Hey, can we drive to Stacy's work really quick" I ask him.

"Sure" he says as we drive there.

We get there and pull into the parking lot.

"What are we doing here?" He asks. "Just hold on" I say as I get off the car.

I slowly walk through the parking lot with the night time breeze brushing my skin.

My foot kicks what I think is a rock but I look down and see it's not a rock.

It's a phone.

I quickly pick it up and press the home button.

It's Stacy's phone.

The background picture is of me, her, Shy, Gabby, and Yessi.

The whole screen is cracked.

They must've threw it when they kidnapped her.

I put it in my pocket, so I can give it to her parents.

I walk back into the car and get in.

"What were you doing?" Manny asks.

"Nothing, just wish I knew where she was, I hope she's alright" I say quietly getting a lump in my throat.

"It'll be alright G" he replies rubbing my shoulder as we drive off.

Stacy, Yessi, Shy, and well used to be Gabby, are my fuckin sisters.

Especially Stacy since she was gonna be the female leader for our gang with me.

I've never had other siblings besides Manny so they've been like my sisters since day fuckin one.

It kills me to know that Stacy is gone but don't know if she's dead or alive.