Stuck between two bad boys

I spent my evening cleaning the house and helping Emily to tidy the house. I wanted to tell her I’d be out tonight but I didn’t.

Emily looked beautiful in her plain T-shirt and shorts. She had her hair packed in a ponytail and used her hands to wipe sweat off her forehead.

When she was done with her chores, she went to the bathroom to take a bath. I remained in the sitting room, scrolling through my phone. When I received a notification, I checked to see if it was Sky but it wasn’t him. I scoffed and went to bed.

Emily was on my table doing her assignments. I should probably get serious with my education and do same but I had to catch some sleep. I watched her quietly do her school work and smiled.

I already had a bad grade and I was hoping I settle this shit earlier and focus on school. I made her believe I was fast asleep by the time she was done.

She locked the door and turned off the lights. She went to lay on her bed and used her duvet to cover herself. In a short while, she fell asleep peacefully.

When I was sure she was asleep, I tiptoed to the door and unlocked it. I needed to meet with Sky and find out why he was being a jerk lately and ignoring my calls.

Sky texted me to meet him. It wasn’t the usual location that required a forty minute drive and that made me feel relieved. I had no idea how I was going to go on such a trip by 12am.

The streets were dark and lonely by the time I got to the location. I looked around and found a spot to wait. I checked my phone and looked at the address one last time. I walked to the place and to my utmost surprise he was looking bloodied.

“What the fuck happened man?” I asked looking around. He looked like he was punched and beaten up badly.

His skin hurt and he was bruised all over.

He coughed in an attempt to answer me and spat out blood. I looked away and turned my gaze back to him.

“What happened Sky?”

He raised his head to me and I looked at his eyes. They were swollen and he had dark circles underneath his eyes.

“Do you need help? I can get you out of here,” I offered with no idea how I could possibly do that.

“No,” he scoffed and kept growling.

“Can you at least tell me what happened?”

He shivered and I figured he possibly caught a cold being out. I took off my hoodie and handed it to him.

“Here, you’re cold and you need it.”

He looked at me for a second and took the hoodie from me. He smiled appreciatively and I swallowed the lump in my throat.

His hair was in a mess as he wiped away blood that was drooling from his mouth. “Thanks.”

I gave a nod. I felt a surge of fear, and looked around. The worst fear was fear of the unknown and I couldn’t help it. I tried getting him to tell me what happened but he said nothing, instead he nudged his head and coughed again.

“This business is risky,” he finally said.

I knew that. I fucking know dealing with drugs was one of the riskiest things to do but that wasn’t what I wanted to hear. I wanted to know what happened, who did this to him and what his crime was.

“If you need peace of mind you better go back. Don’t get involved in this shit, it takes more than you expect.”

I watched him growl as he talked. He wasn’t going to make me change my mind, not when I already felt good about the business.

“I know that,” I scoffed ignoring everything else he said in his advice.

“You don’t know shit Xavier, the Boss is deadly. You get involved with him, mess his business and he could kill you. Trust me, he doesn’t care who the fuck you are.”

I felt the need to tell him I wasn’t doing this for the gains or for some selfish reasons. I didn’t even want to be a renowned drug dealer or shit. I just wanted to get the whole problem at home fixed and stay away.

He didn’t understand and that made me squeeze my jaw. Did he mess with the Boss’s money and got himself wounded? I wasn’t going to do that, I don’t care about the share that isn’t mine.

I sold the wrap and kept his money for him. I used from my 40$ to get little stuffs settled and get Emily pizza.

“I’m just warning you,” he said when he noticed how lost I was in my thoughts.

I wanted him to know I wasn’t going to be a nuisance and have myself killed. I thought of telling him the exact reason I was doing this but that would mean telling him about Emily and that was risky.

I didn’t want to involve Emily in something this risky. I care about my family a lot to get them involved in stuffs like this.

“I understand you Sky but I’m not a kid. I pledge not to do anything shitty, I just want to make the little bucks from this and settle shit at home. There are so many bills to take care of and my parents are not in the best state.”

He waited for a while before conceding my reason. He grabbed his bag and opened it, revealing more wraps of cracks, meth and some other high demand drugs.

I swallowed hard when I saw it. I shouldn’t back down now.

“Not now,” I whispered to myself.

“Here, it’s seven wraps,” he said and hurled it to me. I caught the bag before it fell and looked inside.

It contained seven wraps like he said and I have a nod. “It’s complete.”

“Don’t get into trouble. If you do, you don’t ever get to say you know the Boss. I don’t know you either, so you keep your mouth shut till death.”

I had no reaction to his words so I just gave a nod in understanding. I heard how people snitched in jail and had their family killed. I wasn’t going to ever do that, I’d rather die than bring them into this.Property © NôvelDrama.Org.

“I’ll tell the Boss about your first task and how you succeeded. This is a second test and after this you may land yourself a bigger deal.”

I smiled and thanked him.