2 LIVE & DIE IN L.A.

Burnt Bridges... Part 12

Demetrius leans over and looks at Divinity. He bites his lip and takes a sip of water. He narrows his eyes and looks at her real serious. Divinity, I can't tell you that and don't ask me again. It's just some shit you don't need to know.

Divinity Are you serious Meecho? You don't think you owe me that much? Divinity Then I guess its time for us to part ways Mr. Shipp. Shipp says wow, it's like that.

Divinity- It's definitely like that. Thank you for the food and baby things. Shipp scoops his keys up off the counter and says yup! He throws up the deuces and lets himself out.

He rides the elevator down and throws his head back. He was fucking up, he had to do better. Doing better meant no distractions!He gets into his truck and sighs, locking the doors he pulls out. He goes home for a split second and back into his truck. He drives for an hour and a half, checks into a hotel and picks up his rental car.

He is about to leave out of the room again and pauses. He pulls his phone out and texts Divinity. Just know I love you and my baby. He turns his phone off. Divinity pulls out her phone before locking the door.

She sees Meecho's message and rolls her eyes.... She throws her phone in the bag and heads to the store to get some fruit. She picks up a few other things while she is out and heads back home. She was washing some of the babies clothes when her phone rang. She looks over at it. It's Mrs. Shipp. 

Divinity hello?

Mrs.Shipp hey sugar, have you seen Demetrius, I have been trying to get a hold of him. 

Divinity-He was here earlier, but he left about 20 minutes later. Mrs. Shipp says okay. They hang up and she calls Meecho and gets no answer. 4 hours later the same thing.... 

She feels sick to her stomach. She leaves him in a long voicemail and hangs up. 

--------Meecho has just gotten back from dropping the rental car off and heads into the hotel. He showers and grabs his bag and leaves.... In the truck, he throws on the radio and heads further away from his mother and Divinity. He yawns, but keeps driving. 

He had a lonnnnng way to go. He turns his phone on and texts his mom. I'm okay. He scrollls through his messages when he gets to a light. He sees the two missed calls from Divinity and one voicemail. He hangs up on the voicemail and puts his phone in the cup holder. He drives for 5 more hours and is in Colorado. He grabs his bags out of the truck and opens the door. He drops all his bags by the door and locks it. He hits the showers and pulls some sheets out of the linen closet and makes the bed. He yawns his feet sinking into the plush carpet.

He lays back on the bed listening to the voicemail from Divinity. It would be the first of 3 that she would leave for the first month that he was gone. She never went overboard with it, but she was concerned that was for sure. He missed her, but he had to get this money up and being in LA was a distraction. He only called his mom once a week to check in, but wouldn't tell her where he was. He didn't want her to tell Divinity. He sent treats for his sister and pays his mom's mortgage up for 6 months. He didn't want her stressing for anything.

He continued to send the money he promised to Divinity as well. He was thinking about her alot, but he still didn't reach out. He couldn't face her just yet. Shawn says we did great today.... Just want you to double check the monies before we head out.... Meecho counts it, runs it rhough the money machine and all. Ay yo Shawn this money ain't right.. He does the money in front of her and Shawn looks nervous.