Page 5 of Suleem and Yahzi
But tonight, that was changing…
She wanted out and I gave her that. I couldn’t rightly blame Yahzi for walking away and never looking back. She almost lost her life because of me. That night stayed on repeat in my head. I was willing to die if it meant she lived; so I took that heat with no hesitation. We had a deal. I would honor my part and she was going to honor hers. Yahzi was bringing her ass home, to me, where she belonged.
As soon as I got in my car, I hit my boy Kassir’s line. He had his son with him so I wouldn’t ask him to ride with me but I wanted to let him know I was gonna be out of pocket for a few hours just in case some shit popped off. Kassir and I started DP years ago, and with maturity, we both stepped back a lot but there wasn’t much that happened around us that we didn’t keep a tight grip on.
DP was a family, and true enough our people got their hands dirty, but we also had rules that protected the community. We had respect for those who had roots. Our presence provided order and kept a level of organization amongst the chaos that existed around our community. It might not have been ideal for bangers to be the leaders, but shit, no one else wanted theposition. They didn’t value the lives that made up D-Ville, so we stepped up.
“Ay, I’m about to make a run.”
“The fuck you mean make a run? We got problems?”
I smirked. This nigga was always chill until he needed to show out, so I made sure to let him know it wasn’t that type of issue.
“Yahzi called.”
“Then it’s notwegot a problem, it’syougot a problem, fam.”
“Here we fucking go.”
“I’m just saying, you been waiting on that call for three years.”
“I’ve been doing me. You act like I pressed pause on my life and shit.”
In a way, I had. A month after Yahzi left I opened my shop. For the first six months she was gone, I stayed in that bitch doing everything by myself. Eventually I hired a few people. Now, most of what I did was custom work, but I still spent the majority of my time there.
As for women, I never fucked with anyone consistently and most of the ones I ran through were one and done. I had a couple I circled back to but only because they were already committed to someone else and I didn’t have to worry about them romanticizing something with me that would never happen. There was only one woman who would ever have my heart. She left with that shit three years ago, and until she was ready to give me hers again, then my chest would remain empty.
“I’m not gonna argue with you about some shit you refuse to acknowledge. I’m assuming you making a run means you’re about to bring your girl home.”
“I’m about to pull up on her.”
He chuckled. “Yeah aight.”
Kassir knew me better than anybody which meant he was well aware that if I pulled up on Yahzi, she was coming back to Diamond Falls with me. She was the only person who had me acting out of character. He was for sure gonna give me shit about it so I changed the subject.
“Lil man sleep?” I asked amusedly.
“Yeah. Knocked out. We stopped by the park to check on the team and they let him flex a little on the court. Kassan thought he was balling and shit.”
Kassan was his father’s son. At five, my lil G had an ego larger than life. So if he wanted to ball, he was gonna fucking ball.
“You trying to say my lil G don’t have game.”
“Nah he did his thing ’cause they were hyping him up. But I watched them run the court for a few.”
“How that go? We got a lot of money on them.”
“Between Tyriq and YaaKov, we gon’ take the championship for sure. But listen, I need to holla at you about Mano though.”
“That lil nigga hit me up about a key today.”
Even though Kassir and I pulled back a lot, we still made sure he kept our guys supplied. With the connect Kassir had in the Dominican Republic, we kept the purest shit in rotation. We weren’t flooding the market but we pushed enough keys to live comfortably.
“Yeah after he tried me in front of Kassan. The nigga was waiting for me outside of Fadez and just walked up on me.”
“That’s a fucking violation.”
“Real shit. I’m cutting his disrespectful ass off too.”
