(Love, Sex, Lies - Part 3) Grand Hustle by Jessica Watkins

Author:Jessica Watkins [Watkins, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Urban, Genre Fiction
Amazon: B005QEA8IO
Publisher: Femistry Press
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Nine

Monday, March 15th, 2010

STAR

After class I had to run over to Roxie’s house. She needed to wash clothes and Benz had her car, so I agreed to take her.

I really didn’t have the time to sit in the laundry mat with her, but, since I had been moving for the past few days, I hadn’t been able to speak to her much. I wanted to know how things were going with Benz and if he and Scoop had heard anything.

I stopped calling DeShawn. At this point, I wanted to be so far away from the scams, clients, and Benz that I didn’t care what DeShawn thought anymore.

I was just happy to be able to get away- even if it was just on the other side of town.

“Hey, girl,” Roxie greeted as she approached the passenger side window. “Pop the trunk.”

As I popped the trunk, I quickly text messaged my mother to let her know that I would be an hour or two late picking up Jordan since I was helping Roxie.

Today would be the first day that Jordan and I spent the first night in our new home. I was so happy and relieved. For many reasons, I was ready to get away from my mother’s house. I was ready to live on my own, come in and out when I wanted, cut the lights on and off when I damn well felt like it, and not have to worry about one of the dudes that I have set up finding out where I lived.

I didn’t even tell Roxie, Benz, or Scoop that I was moving.

“Girl,” Roxie said with a heavy sigh after she climbed in and closed the door. “Thank you so much.”

As I pulled off, I told her, “No problem. What’s been going on with you, anyway? You weren’t in class today.”

I didn’t get a reply because Roxie wasn’t paying attention to me. She was attempting to discreetly look out of the side view mirror at something.

“What are you looking at?”

She told me quickly, “I thought I saw one of my damn kids run out of the house. What did you say?”

“Why weren’t you in class today?”

“Just tired. I am so sick of school. I…”

My attention was taken away from Roxie as I saw sirens in my rearview mirror. Cops were pulling me over in an unmarked police car as I approached a stop sign.

“What the fuck I do?”

Roxie sighed, but had no response. She simply ran her fingers through her hair.

I pulled over and immediately began searching for my purse. However, once I saw that four detectives had exited the unmarked car with guns drawn, I sat still.

“What the fuck?” I was confused and scared at the same time. Roxie sat next to me looking as nervous as I was.

They began to bark at us to exit the vehicle with our hands up. Luckily, when they realized that there were only two unarmed women in the car, they reduced their aggression.

Roxie and I got out of the car with our hands in the air.

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