Page 4 of Breaking the Rules
She was cursed with being the pretty girl in the hood who niggas tripped over themselves to get to but could never come close enough. The menacing, tattooed men she called family were to thank for that. She also had them to thank for her hands.
Brixx pulled her off and tossed her on the bed. It was telling the way he was willing to protect Janiyah but didn’t give a damn about her feelings. A second didn’t pass as Brixx attempted to help Janiyah up before Savanhi jumped on his back and dug her nails, in need of a fill, into his eyes.
“Stupid ass, bitch ass, dirty dick ass nigga! My best friend?”
“Agh!” Brixx groaned, flinging her off him. “You dumb, bitch!”
He turned around and mushed her face into the mattress he was just fucking another woman on. “Why you always got to do dumb shit? Huh? All you got to do is mind your fucking business. Shit!”
Running off adrenaline, Savanhi hopped right back up – kicking and landing punches of her own. “I’m going to have my brother fuck you up, nigga. Putting your hands on me. Bitch ass bitch!”
Janiyah was quickening down the hall, trying to get away from the ass-whopping she was never going to escape. She’d made an enemy out of a woman who loved her for her and never judged her. Savanhi shoved her forward watching her stumble and fall before gripping her hair by the tracks and dragging her out of the apartment.
“I move you into my apartment because your momma put you out. I feed you. I help you get back on your feet and you climb your ass into my bed and fuck my man? You lost your fuckin’ mind, bitch,” Savanhi grumbled, hitting Janiyah’s naked body on every stair from the third floor to the first.
“I’m sorry, Vanhi!” Janiyah cried out.
“I don’t give a fuck about none of that I’m sorry shit!” Savanhi shouted back. “Out of everyone, you hurt me?!”
Almost out of breath, Savanhi reached the corridor of the first floor. Janiyah was naked and bawling her eyes out. “I didn’t mean to. It just happened. I’m sorry. I have nowhere to go.”
“Both of you dirty ass bitches are not going to have anywhere to go. You can save all the crying shit.”
“Please, don’t do me like this. I’m sorry.”
Savanhi started back up the steps to the third floor. “Girl, fuck you and them tears.”
She wasn’t done with her rage. Brixx was creeping down the opposite staircase leaving Janiyah a mess. Her mind was already made up, Brixx would have a gang of Crimson Kings to fight off and Janiyah, she could crawl through Volts as far as she cared.
Back in the apartment, Savanhi zipped through, gathering their clothes and other belongings and tossing them over the balcony. The neighbors were going to pick through it before either of them returned for it. Brixx’s sneaker collection, tossed. Janiyah’s designer bags she sucked and fucked for, tossed. Brixx’s gold chains he got from the Mega Mart, tossed. The wigs Janiyah had custom-made with some married man’s money, tossed. That, and whatever else they’d left behind.
Back inside the apartment, she had her brother and cousin on speakerphone recapping the moments that led her to this point of insanity.
“Why are you out of breath?” Zayden, her brother questioned, joining the FaceTime call.
Lawryn muttered. “I asked her that too but for the last five minutes she’s been ripping back and forth.”
“I’m getting this nigga’s shit out of my apartment,” Savanhi finally spoke up.
That made Zayden sit up and look into the camera, brows furrowed, ribbons of weed spoke dancing around his rich brown skin. “You doin’ what?”
“I don’t believe it myself,” Lawryn stated as Savanhi came back into view holding a duffle bag. “What’s that?”
“Zay, you gave him some work? Come and get it before I throw it out too,” Savanhi huffed.
“Girl. Stop and tell us what the hell happened. And why are you sweating,” Lawryn spoke up.
Zayden was now standing and moving about, the camera jumping with every step he took.
“Tell me why I got out of my last lesson of the day with the girls, and I walk out no Brixx. After I called and verified that he was coming to get me at five. Never mind the fact I was working all night and got up for three classes back-to-back today. Never mind that he promised me he was going to go make a drop for Zay and be on time to get me. Tell me why I called, and he never answered the phone. So I had to take the bus back here. Okay cool, maybe shit ran over, maybe it got sticky. I’m understanding, right? Right. Well, I walked my tired ass in here thinking maybe I was going to shower, cuss him out for not showing up, sit on the couch and talk my shit to Janiyah. Tell me why I walked in my room and they’re in the bed I paid for, fuckin’!”
“I told you!” Lawryn erupted into the camera.
Zayden’s screen was paused.
“I told you moving that girl into your shit with your man was the dumbest thing you’ve ever done!” Lawryn continued. “That and get with Brixx.”
“I can’t even put into words how mad I am,” Savanhi replied.
