giving a watered down version of my jump-in at the warehouse. Seeri took one look at me, and somehow knew that I was a grown woman in every way. She lost her shit right then and her job later, demanding very loudly that I tell the whole damn story from beginning to end or she would beat my ass like I had stole something.
Next, a tall, dark, and handsome white man in a tuxedo stepped through the curtain and introduced himself as Henry Larkin. He obviously had been at a high society function and left immediately to question me, but everyone knew that he had been after the Blue Kings since he took the District Attorney’s office in Mecca four years ago, and wanted to smooth his way into another term. We both knew that taking down the notorious Blue Kings single-handedly would certainly accomplish that for him. I wished him good luck with that, and kept my mouth shut about the Kings.
Frustrated, Larkin gave me all the names of the innocent children that had been relieved of their parents by the Kings and left in the State of Georgia’s care. I asked him why he was talking to me about a simple jump-in if he knew they had committed so many murders. He had to admit that he had only suspicions, no evidence of any of the Kings’ illegal activities, and no one would testify against them.
W ell, I did not want to testify either, nor did I want Larkin to use the most disturbing night of my life to bring the Blue Kings down, and I told him I would not help him. That only made him, Seeri, and Addie more upset with me, but I knew my family would forgive me eventually for not snitching. The Blue Kings would not.
Larkin warned me that he would use what happened to me one way or other. I had already given a police report that implicated the Blue Kings and myself in illegal gang activity, and given him grounds to lock us all up. Suddenly, I had an adult decision to make only hours after becoming a true Blue King and learning that Larkin was going after them in any way he could. He left me with two choices; I could die for snitching on King or go to jail for not snitching on King. Though neither option appealed at all, I had to consider that if I went down with the Blue Kings, Seeri would be left to fend for herself and at the mercy of her habit.
Disasters were striking all over the damn place despite my intentions of keeping that from happening, and my mother and I were worse off after my jump-in than we were before it. I knew she would not survive for long on her own, so I made a decision to save us the only way I knew how; snitching on the Kings.
Before I would tell the whole truth to anybody, I made Larkin sign an agreement on a paper towel that he would get my family out of Georgia as soon as possible and would not use the method of my jump in as evidence against the Kings, only the crimes that X and Leek committed against me. Seeri had to promise me that she would go to rehab.
We all kept our end of the deal. I finally got what I wanted most of all, but I paid a higher price than I wanted to for it in the end; my hometown and all the close relationships that I had with Jonny, Addie, Laila, and my childhood friends were gone. In place of helping Larkin take the Kingpin’s down for ten years, I got a free plane ride to Washington DC from the hospital, a padded bank account, and Seeri in a rehab program in Hillcrest on Mecca taxpayers’ dime.
Three months later, Seeri came home clean for the first time in eighteen years, to live with me in my first apartment. I could not help her celebrate our new life together; too busy feeling like somebody had poisoned me. Seeri forced me into a cab. We stopped at the first pharmacy she could find. After we got back home, we learned that I would feel much better in about six months and we would need a bigger place to live.
The money from Larkin and King held me and Anjuwan over for our first five years in Hillcrest until I finally graduated from high school and college, then got my graphic
Next, a tall, dark, and handsome white man in a tuxedo stepped through the curtain and introduced himself as Henry Larkin. He obviously had been at a high society function and left immediately to question me, but everyone knew that he had been after the Blue Kings since he took the District Attorney’s office in Mecca four years ago, and wanted to smooth his way into another term. We both knew that taking down the notorious Blue Kings single-handedly would certainly accomplish that for him. I wished him good luck with that, and kept my mouth shut about the Kings.
Frustrated, Larkin gave me all the names of the innocent children that had been relieved of their parents by the Kings and left in the State of Georgia’s care. I asked him why he was talking to me about a simple jump-in if he knew they had committed so many murders. He had to admit that he had only suspicions, no evidence of any of the Kings’ illegal activities, and no one would testify against them.
W ell, I did not want to testify either, nor did I want Larkin to use the most disturbing night of my life to bring the Blue Kings down, and I told him I would not help him. That only made him, Seeri, and Addie more upset with me, but I knew my family would forgive me eventually for not snitching. The Blue Kings would not.
Larkin warned me that he would use what happened to me one way or other. I had already given a police report that implicated the Blue Kings and myself in illegal gang activity, and given him grounds to lock us all up. Suddenly, I had an adult decision to make only hours after becoming a true Blue King and learning that Larkin was going after them in any way he could. He left me with two choices; I could die for snitching on King or go to jail for not snitching on King. Though neither option appealed at all, I had to consider that if I went down with the Blue Kings, Seeri would be left to fend for herself and at the mercy of her habit.
Disasters were striking all over the damn place despite my intentions of keeping that from happening, and my mother and I were worse off after my jump-in than we were before it. I knew she would not survive for long on her own, so I made a decision to save us the only way I knew how; snitching on the Kings.
Before I would tell the whole truth to anybody, I made Larkin sign an agreement on a paper towel that he would get my family out of Georgia as soon as possible and would not use the method of my jump in as evidence against the Kings, only the crimes that X and Leek committed against me. Seeri had to promise me that she would go to rehab.
We all kept our end of the deal. I finally got what I wanted most of all, but I paid a higher price than I wanted to for it in the end; my hometown and all the close relationships that I had with Jonny, Addie, Laila, and my childhood friends were gone. In place of helping Larkin take the Kingpin’s down for ten years, I got a free plane ride to Washington DC from the hospital, a padded bank account, and Seeri in a rehab program in Hillcrest on Mecca taxpayers’ dime.
Three months later, Seeri came home clean for the first time in eighteen years, to live with me in my first apartment. I could not help her celebrate our new life together; too busy feeling like somebody had poisoned me. Seeri forced me into a cab. We stopped at the first pharmacy she could find. After we got back home, we learned that I would feel much better in about six months and we would need a bigger place to live.
The money from Larkin and King held me and Anjuwan over for our first five years in Hillcrest until I finally graduated from high school and college, then got my graphic
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