and if I called the police that he would kill me. Mattie I’m scared!”
Mattie wanted to track this Jeffery dude down and formally introduce him to the ripper. She could clearly see that her sister was terrified. Since the incident at the club with Raven and she had moved into the apartment with K, the closeness that they had established during his incarceration had slowly started to slip away. Mattie’s attention was diverted away from her sister when she heard the key spring the lock on the apartment door. K entered and headed straight to the bedroom talking on his cell phone. He didn’t even notice the condition of Reebie.
“Yo calm down and tell me what happened,” K said to the voice on the other end of the phone.
“They raided the house and locked up Lonnie ,“ said a panicky Gwen into K’s ear.
This was bad news and he immediately thought of Mya and Moesha, Lonnie’s little girls. It was still early afternoon and K hoped that the girls were at the Day Camp that they attended. His temporary concern was soon replaced with thoughts of the 6G’s that he was supposed to pick-up this morning.
“Is it safe to talk Queen? Where you at?
“I’m at my sister’s house on Mount Avenue with the girls. They didn’t find the money but they locked up my Lonnie,” she stated and began to cry.
“What’s the address? I’m gonna come and get you so we can work on getting him out.”
She gave him the address and he gave her assurances that everything would work out ok. As K exited the bedroom, he noticed Reebie sitting on the couch with her grill fucked up.
“Dam shorty, what the fuck happened to you?” K asked.
Reebie never looked up, obviously embarrassed. Reebie and K had a love hate relationship. He held resentments and secretly blamed Reebie for some of the actions that Mattie had taken in the past and while he was locked up. He felt her sister was a bad influence on her even though whatever Mattie chose to do was entirely her own decision. But, he also had madd love for Reebie because she was a really goodhearted person. It was just that she was confused about many things in life. One of those things being relationships with men. K felt sorry for her and went over and sat beside Reebie and Mattie on the couch.
“What happened lil sis?” he inquired concerned.
Mattie explained the situation because Reebie had laid her head on his shoulder and began to cry.
“So where this niggah at? All I gotta do is call my dudes and we can handle it.”
“No K. Please don’t get involved in my mess. I created this situation and I’ll resolve it,” said Reebie.
“So there’s nothing I can do? You a lready know Pook got a crush on you All I gotta do is say the word.”
Reebie remembered how Pook was something like her bodyguard in school.
“Do you mind if I borrow your couch for a couple of nights. I’m kinda scared to be at my place alone. Plus I really don’t want anyone to see me like this,” said Reebie.
That was unexpected. Realizing that he had put his foot in his mouth and committed, there was no backing out now. He wanted to ask for how long but changed his mind. He locked eyes with Mattie and they were pleading with his to say yes.
“Yeah you good. You just gotta wash yo feet. I don’t want it smellin like corn chips up in my joint,” he said jokingly in an attempt to bring some humor to a tense situation.
They all laughed. K soon remembered that he had to go meet Gwen.
“I got some business to tend to but when I get back we can shoot over to your spot and grab you some clothes.”
Mattie walked K to the door.
“Thank you. I really appreciate what you just did, “said Mattie before they kissed and then he was