24 May 2014

Prisoner [Part 3]

"Drake, Drake, Drake" Nicki tapped him waking him up. "We're at your apartment block but we have to be quick"

She pulled him up by his arms and let him use her as support. She was thankful his apartment was only on the second floor. The elevator ride was fast and so was the walk to his actual apartment.

"So what are we going to do now?" Nicki sat him down on his bed and helped him undress and lie down.   

"You're going to stay low, if you want anything call or text me. I can't risk loosing you again"


-

Nicki was rudely awakened by her phone ringing. Still half asleep, she patted around looking for her phone and found it on the nightstand. "Hello?" She answered groggily.

"Onika, we've been trying to call you all night! Your brother's in hospital. We don't know what happened but he was shot in his arm"

"I'm on my way" She said and hung up. She turned over and saw Drake peacefully sleeping. She lightly brushed her fingers against his face and placed a kiss on his cheek. He didn't move a little which she was thankful for. She climbed out of his bed and went to have her shower and got changed. Nicki slipped her phone in her pocket and snuck out of his apartment.

~

She reluctantly walked into the hospital room and saw her family surrounding his bed. He was asleep with his arm bandaged up with IV's attached to it. 

"Is he okay?" She asked.

"He's doing okay. The doctor said he lost a fair bit of blood so they gave him a blood transfusion. He doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain, I just thank God he is alive" Her mother replied. 

Nicki nodded and sat down on one of the spare seats. Her parents were talking to each other, leaving Nicki by herself but she seemed to be in her own world anyway. She was thinking of Drake's health and safety more than her brother's, but was she wrong too? Not in her mind, her own flesh and blood tried to kill the one person that understood her and made her feel complete, he deserved to get shot. 

After what seemed like hours, he finally woke up. He struggled to open his eyes but when he did, he looked around the room. He let out a cough alerting everyone he was awake.

"You're awake, are you okay?" His mother rushed to his side. 

"I'm okay ma, can I have some water though?"

"Sure you can baby, come on Robert" She dragged her husband along with her to the hospital cafeteria, leaving Nicki and him alone.

Nicki didn't know what to say to him. "Erm,"

"Come here" Nicki moved her chair closer to his bed.

"I know you know what I've been doing and before you ask how I know, Donte came to see me and told me you got it out of him. My guess is you were with him last night, that's why you didn't come with mum and dad"

"Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't. Why do you care?"

"Because," His sentence was cut short by his parents coming back. Nicki was handed his glass of water and was told to help him drink. She held the straw to his mouth and watched him drink. Suddenly she was full of emotion.

"Mum, c-can you do this please?" She sniffled. Once the glass was out of her hand, she ran out of the room.

"What's wrong with her?"

"I think seeing me in hospital got to her"

~

Drake had been running her fingers through her hair for the last two hours. She came back to him crying her eyes out, this time he had to be strong for her. She was crying so much, she couldn't tell him why she was crying but he knew she would tell her eventually. 

During that time, she cried herself to sleep. He moved her hair out of her face and kissed her forehead. Her eyes opened and she sat up still not uttering a word with puffy eyes and a pale face.

"Are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Drake pulled himself up too, it was hard since he was still a little weak. "Babe?"

"He knows"

"What do you mean he knows? Who's he?"

"Jelani! Jelani knows that I know what he's been doing"

"That's what got you so upset?"

"No! He knows we're together right now, I think he knows I'm the one that shot him!"

"Do you know for certain? I mean did he say he knew that part of it?"

"He didn't have to! I just knew" She said and broke down again.

~


"So what did you find out?"

"Whoever it was must have done this before, no fingerprints or anything. We tried to follow the car tracks but it led to nothing"

"The fuck? Find her and take care of it" He quickly hung up when he heard a knock on his door and pretended to be asleep.


~

"We're going to see Jelani you coming with us or is it still too much?"

"No its okay I'll go see him later, I kind of want to see him by myself"

"Okay baby, I'll see in the morning after work"

"Okay, love you"

"Love you too"

As soon as her bedroom door closed, she pulled out her phone to text Drake.

Baby: You feeling okay? I miss you 
Aubs: I miss you too, I'm better. Went to the hospital to get checked out, they said I've got no broken bones but I should rest.
Baby: I'm glad, wanted to have fun with you but I guess it has to wait
Aubs: Nah don't play, we can still have fun you can just do most of the work
Baby: You hornball. I love you :*

~

Nicki lay naked on his chest. He held her close to him as she slept. Running his fingers up and down the small of her back. He felt content. He had been with a few girls before her but none of them compared. The phrase ride or die chick was thrown around loosely but she really was his and he didn't want to lose her.

"Let me sleep" She mumbled into his chest. "What time is it?"

"Almost 3"

"In the afternoon?!" Nicki jumped up and rolled off of him, running to the bathroom. She quickly tied her hair up and got into his shower. Trying to keep her hair as dry as possible, she washed her body with the shower gel he got just for her. After drying herself, she wrapped the towel around her and went to her overnight bag.

"What you hurrying for?" Nicki pulled on her jeans and threw on her shirt. 

"I told my mum I would visit Jelani in hospital before she gets home from work which is in an hour"

Drake went to the bathroom and came back out in no time, fully dressed and smelled nice. "I'm coming with you"

"No! He can't see you!"

"Yes! We'll face him together"

The ride to the hospital was nerve-wrecking. Drake held her hand the whole ride. The walk to his hospital room was even worse. Nicki didn't bother knocking on the door and just walked in. Jelani was watching TV when they walked in and turned around.

"I see you brought him with you" 

"He brought himself actually" They sat directly across from him.

"I see you got out" He smirked. 

"Says the guy who got shot and is in hospital"

"Shut up both of you. Getting on my last nerve. So what were you going to tell me the other day?" 

Jelani closed his eyes momentarily and spoke. "I care because I remember a woman came to the warehouse and I remember her voice, it sounded like yours but maybe it's my blood loss that fucked up my hearing" He looked at her and squinted his eyes. "Same eyes as well" 

Nicki stayed quiet for a moment feeling his eyes on her before speaking up. "Fine! It was me! I was one who shot you! It was an accident, you almost killed me for saving someone I love. I never knew you could be so spiteful and try to kill him after everything I've been through, we've been through! What would," She wiped the tears falling down her face. "What would you get from killing him huh?! The satisfaction of killing someone, breaking my heart, ending a long rivalry?"

"I never knew he meant so much to you"

"Of course you didn't because you never cared about me, you only care about yourself!"

"You're my baby sister, I obviously care about you!"

"Clearly not enough! Come on, I don't want to be here anymore" Nicki got up and walked out of the room not speaking another word. Drake followed behind her but stopped.

"I hope you realised what you've done to her" He looked at him one last time before going after Nicki.

Jelani sat back in his hospital bed, letting his thoughts take over. Looking at things from her point of view made everything he did to him seem so hurtful. Imagining her doing the same things to his girlfriend killed him inside. He knew all along it was her but he didn't want to believe it, he was hoping when the gang traced whoever it was it would be someone else. The moment she confessed, it was all over for him - He almost killed his sister. No doubt he knew he couldn't fix what he did, all he could do was apologize and try to get along with his sister's boyfriend despite the feud they have or had. The most important one in the situation was Nicki and it took him till now to realise.   

Drake caught up to Nicki and she was sat on the bench outside the hospital. He sat down next to her not saying a word. He put his hand over hers and gave it a light squeeze. She looked up at him and gave him a small smile. 

"What do you want to do now?"

"I'll just go home"

Neither of them spoke on the way back to hers but the silence wasn't an awkward silence. He pulled up outside her house.

"Are you gonna love me forever?" Nicki asked.

"No doubt"

"Promise?"

"Promise"


~

A few years down the road and things started to get better. Jelani finally got out of hospital and decided to get his life together, starting by getting himself out of the gang situation and Nicki finished high school with promising grades that got her her dream job. 

"Well what can I say about Onika? Well she's is the world's most annoying sister. I know we all say we wanted to get rid of our younger brothers and sisters but oh boy the amount of times I tried to get rid of her I cannot even count them on my fingers. Moving on, I remember when I found out she had a boyfriend. I almost went ape on that nig-, I mean guy. I didn't want her to date at all. I broke that up, she was heartbroken but he was douche anyway. And now, she's about to get married. Now you may think that phase where you want to kill your sister's boyfriend fades away but mine never did. When I met Aubrey, I wanted to kill him" Everyone laughed. "I'm being deadly serious. I even tried to" He mumbled the last bit under his breath. "But we get along just fine and if I'm being honest I'm glad you two are together because I couldn't find of a better guy for her. So let's toast, to Onika and Aubrey"



Annoyed myself by writing a story like this, I wanted it to be oneshot but I was told to continue it. I know this is super shit because I had no good ideas for it so I improvised while I was writing. By the way the first part is the italic part is a continuous from the ending of part 2 not her dream.

16 May 2014

Small rant or whatever

I enjoy writing and everything but... I can never judge by myself if what I've written is good or not that is why I ask for comments which I don't seem to get anymore. On certain oneshots and short stories I don't care if I get comments or not but I would like some feedback on prisoner part 2. I asked for 5 comments which is not that much considering the amount of followers I have and the views I get. So can 3 people just comment on prisoner part 2, I doesn't even have to be long just comment. Part 3 is already written all I need to do is post it so the quicker I get what I want then the quicker I will post it.  Rant over.  

10 May 2014

Prisoner [Part 2]

That night left her scarred.

She couldn't bare looking at the sight for much longer and ran away, running and running. Sleeping that night was hard, not hard as in she couldn't sleep but she didn't want to. Every time she closed her eyes, the scene flashed through her mind and even though she did not hear his screams she could hear them clearly replaying over and over. She knew about her brother and what he did, she just never though he would do something that would hurt her. If it wasn't for her coming home early one day from school, she would have never known what was happening to her boyfriend..

Nicki took her keys out of her bag and unlocked the front door. The noise of people talking rather loud filled her ears as she closed the door.  She walked past the kitchen and heard her brother and his friends talking, being the nosy girl she is, she stopped and pressed her ear against the door.

"...Snatched him right from his house. He did not see it coming. Made it quick though, black bag over his head and dragged his ass into the van"

"And his neighbours did not see?"

"Nah. We were watching his street before we got him"

"How could you do that to your sister?"

"Do what? He had it coming, him and his gang but I wanted him more than the others. Stupid ass, dating my sister and expecting me to forget about everything that's gone down"

"Drake?" She whispered to herself.

"So what have you done so far?"

"Taught him a lesson"

"Already?"

"Been a long time coming," Nicki backed away from the door. Hand over her mouth. Her brother was torturing her boyfriend. She tip-toed over to the door and opened and closed it loudly. Alerting her presence. 

From that moment she was determined to find out where he had him and free him no matter what the circumstances. 

About three days later, she had her opportunity. Donté, her favourite out of all her brother's gang members/friends, was at their home and her brother had gone out for a bit. They usually talked so it was easy for her to manipulate him especially Donté treated her like a little sister.

"Donté?" 

"Yeah?"

"What you doing?" She had her hands behind her back and was swaying back and forth.

"What do you want? And stop that, it's annoying me"

"Can I ask you something?" He simply nodded at her and put the cash he had in his hands down.

"What are y'all doing to my boyfriend?" She asked sweetly and walked over to him and sat next to him on the bed.

"What are you on about?" Donté could feel the sweat dripping down his forehead and his palms got a little hot.

She wiped the smile off her face. "Well Drake hasn't called me or text me in a few days and I'm worried so I thought you would know something"

"Why would I know something about him?"

"Don't act dumb with me D, I'm seriously not in the mood for any bullshit. Tell me what the fuck is going on before I hurt you"

His eyes widened, he had never seen that side of her before. "Jay snatched him and brought him to our warehouse down town. They've been taking turns knocking him out and shit. I'm not involved in that aspect of it but he made me drive the van"

"Where is this warehouse?"

"Near the woods not far from here. You can drive there. You cannot tell him you found out that from me or it's both of our asses and I'm being serious he won't hesitate to doing anything to either of us"

"Don't worry, I won't" Nicki smiled at him and kissed his cheek. 

The next day since it was a weekend, Nicki watched Jay's every move. And when she knew he was going to the warehouse she carefully followed behind him. It felt like she was on an important mission but in a way it was. When she first spotted him, he had a black eye and a bust lip. From there on, she tried to everything in her power to get him out of there. She visited him as often as she could and looked after him, she spent a maximum of 2 hours with him per day. As a precaution, she took note of the times the gang would be there.

Back to the current day. According to her calculations, Drake had been held prisoner for about a month and a half now and the torture was no going to stop anytime so she was going to take matters into her own hands.

Nicki had been acting distant towards Jay, he just put it down to her being in her teenage years and her period - clearly he had no idea that she knew what he was doing.

After dinner, Nicki went straight to her room and desperately searched her wardrobe for her desired outfit. Standing in front of her mirror, she pulled up her tight leather pants and matching jacket. A black belt to sum it up along with some high black boots. All black everything. She then pulled a black ski mask over head tucking her hair underneath so it could not be seen. After a quick spray of her perfume, she was done. 

She knew if she went downstairs her parents would ask her a million questions so she decided to leave the house a different way. From the many times she snuck out the house from her window, escaping was easy. Landing on her heels, Nicki ran over to her car and open her compartment, she grabbed the required equipment from it.

She stuffed them in her boots and shook her head before driving off. Fear started to take over her and she could feel herself shaking but tried to not let it distract her. She arrived at the warehouse not long later. Before she went in she looked in the window and couldn't see much but saw a gun being pointed at Drake. 

"You have no idea how long we've been waiting to kill your punk ass. Any last words?"

"Fuck you nigga" Even with his hands tied behind his back he was fearless. It was kind of expected being in the situation he was in. Being in a gang taught him to fear no one and to look out for those you love. Whoever was about to shoot him looked like he didn't want to do it anyway. 

The man wrapped his hand tighter around the gun and cocked back the pistol, aiming right for Drake's head - instant death. The door was kicked open just as his finger grazed the trigger.

“Put the gun down now!” The man turned around and to her surprise it was Donté. She felt betrayed yet angry at him. He looked at her with the gun still in his hands.

Nicki disengaged the safety on her gun and loaded a bullet into the firing chamber. “Now put the gun down and get your ass out of here before I shoot you!” 

“I didn't want to do this,”

"Fuck outta here. You have 5 seconds before I blow your fucking head off" Donté mouthed sorry to Drake and ran up the stairs and out the room without looking back. 

Drake looked at her and was slightly turned on by how she looked even though he had no idea who she was. The belt really added to her figure revealing her slim waist. 

“Don’t speak, I don’t know who is else is here or is on their way here” Nicki used her knife to cut the rope from his hands. “Stay sat down and I’m going to check to see who is here”

“No need” They heard a voice say. Nicki grabbed the gun from her boot and they looked up to see Jay pointing a gun at them. “I see you were able to contact someone to help you huh? But you won’t be needed any help, cause I’m killing your ass tonight” She got off her knees and held her gun out at arm’s length. 

“Over my dead body” Nicki mumbled.

“And who the fuck are you?!”

“You don’t want to know”

“No I do, I like to know who I’m going to kill” Jay said and walked down the stairs with his gun still firmly in his hands. 

Nicki stayed quiet. 

“You know what? Fuck it, I’m going to shoot you and get this over with” Jay’s finger pulled the trigger and there was a bang and thud.

Drake had leaped up from the seat pushing Nicki to the ground, covering her body with his body. Drake opened his eyes when he heard silence. “You okay?” He got off of her allowing her to breathe properly since he was squashing her.

“Yeah, did he shoot you?” He helped her up and brushed himself off. He heard a groan and turned around to see Jay clutching his arm trying to stop the blood. He had been shot while he tried to shoot his sister. Nicki saw him too and crouched down to his level, looking directly in his eyes she said.

“Take this as a warning, leave him alone or I will be back for you and I will finish the job" She then grabbed Drake’s arm and got out of the building. 

Drake did not know whether he should be thankful or not, he had no idea what was in store for him next. This woman had weapons on her already and could easily kill him or harm him with no regret, she just shot a man and threatened him while he was in pain. She sort of scared him but he liked it, she was bad ass.  

Nicki unlocked her car and helped him into the back of the car. She closed the door behind him and hopped in the driver's seat. Once there, she pulled off her mask, shaking her hair out of it scrunched mess. Her hair flowed free over her shoulders and down her back.

Drake sat up in the backseat and caught a glimpse of his now unmasked saviour in the rear view mirror. Through squinted eyes, he said. "Nicki?”

“I told you I would get you out of there” She smiled and started the engine. 



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