10. Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten
Stacks
I had to leave that hospital room before I said some shit to hurt Kasha’s feelings.
Hearing her say that nigga hit her up to see Jace pissed me off because he didn’t give a fuck about that kid.
If we were being honest, I was more of his damn daddy than that pussy ass nigga.
I came outside to get some fresh air and to hit up Buck.
“Wassup, bro?” he answered. I heard Benny whining, so I knew he had him.
“Shit. Kasha woke up,” I revealed.
“Oh, shit. She good?”
“I guess, so.” I shrugged like he could see me.
“You go—Goldie, come get ya son!” he called out. “What you mean, you guess?”
“It means just what the fuck I said, nigga. I guess she’s good. She’s awake and talking.”
“Stop all that yelling. What you in here doing to my baby?” I heard Nic ask.
“I’ain doing shit to his lil’ ass. He in here gnawing at my damn chest like I got milk for his lil’ greedy ass. Lil’ ass stay on yo’ titties more than I do,” he fussed.
“Aye, man. I’on wanna hear that shit.” I frowned.
“Close ya gah damn ears then.” I heard him say something to Nic before telling her to give him a kiss.
“Sucka ass, nigga,” I joked.
“You worried about the wrong shit. The fuck going on wit’ Kash? She say anything about that nigga?”
Before I could speak, my phone beeped, and it was Kilo. “Aye, hold on.” I answered the phone for my brother before merging the call. “Now, I only got to say this shit once, because I’on feel like repeating it.”
“Shut all that damn whining up. Sound worse than Benny,” Buck interjected.
“Shut the fuck up,” I retorted before I told them everything that Kasha said before I walked out of the room.
“That’s it?” Kilo asked.
“The fuck you mean? That’s it? Does it sound like I got something else to say?”
“Chill the fuck out. I wanted to make sure you were done. You starting to act like Lincoln’s ass,” Kilo scolded.
“Fuck you, Franklin. If he acted like me, Kasha and her bitch ass baby daddy would be buried under some fuckin’ concrete.
Stop acting like you know me nigga ’fore I tell Mel’s mannish ass on you.
She looks like she be beating on yo’ bitch ass.
” That garnered a laugh from me because this nigga was stupid as fuck.
“You sound dumb as fuck, saying some shit like that. I’m not even gone entertain yo’ stupid ass. Stacks, I know you’on think she was in on the shit wit’ ol’ boy, do you?” Kilo probed.
“Nah, I don’t. I’m pissed at the fact that she thought she could meet up with that nigga and not say shit, knowing I was looking for him.
That shit looks like she cared about that nigga more than me.
How the fuck you fuckin’ on me and aid the next nigga in hiding?
That’s some bullshit.” I was getting mad all over again because she was too old to think that shit made sense.
“What if she thought she was protecting you?” Kilo asked.
“From what? That nigga?”
“Yeah. I mean, he did shoot you. Maybe she was scared he would do it again.”
“Bullshit,” countered.
“Buck, what you say?” Kilo directed the conversation toward Buck, who hadn’t said shit yet.
“I agree with both of y’all. She was probably thinking she was looking out for your best interest by not telling you that nigga was hitting her up. That is Jace’s sperm donor, so she felt like she owed him that much.”
“What about what she owed me?” I but in.
“I was getting to that, but yo’ impatient ass cut me off,” he snarled.
“Like I was saying, she did that because she felt like she owed him. She owed you loyalty, though. You were protecting her and Jace because that nigga was on some fuck shit. We both know Kasha solid as fuck and loyal to a default. His pussy ass probably played on that. She didn’t think he would kidnap them in the process,” he reasoned.
“You know it’s some shit when Buck makes sense.” Kilo joked.
“Fuck you, Franklin. I’m a changed man.” I could hear the smile in his voice without even seeing it.
“Yeah aight. Didn’t I just talk to yesterday, and you told me you had stomped one of your employees out at Vault because he was getting his dick sucked?” Kilo probed.
“Nah, I stomped that nigga because he said it wasn’t no difference when Goldie came through and sucked my dick.
Nigga, how the fuck you know what my girl doing when she comes through, and why the fuck is you worried.
That’s why I beat his ass. I’ain give a fuck about him getting his dick sucked.
That bitch done sucked everybody’s dick,” he reasoned, like it made sense.
“Whatever, man. She knew she could’ve come to me with that shit, but she chose not to.”
“You fell in love, didn’t you?” Kilo questioned.
“Huh?”
“Ain’t no huh, nigga. You fell in love wit’ Kash. That’s why you all in your fuckin’ feelings,” Buck input.
“I’ain say all that.”
“You’on gotta lie to kick it. I get it,” his stupid ass countered.
“Man, whatever,” was all I could say.
“I think you should talk to her,” Kilo suggested.
Buck added, “yeah me, too.”
“The fuck I’m supposed to say?”
“Tell her how the fuck you feeling. Fuck you mean?”
“Yeah, what that nigga said,” Kilo agreed. “But talk to her and listen. Don’t go bullying the damn girl,” kilo coached.
“I feel like you talking about me,” Buck spoke.
“Feel it then,” Kilo shot back. “Talk to the girl, Jackson. I gotta go. I love y’all boys.”
“Love you too, bro.”
“Love yo’ ass, too, nigga.” Buck and I responded simultaneously.
“You ’bout to go back in there?”
“Nah. I’m about to go back to the hotel. I’ll text her mama and let her know I can come back tonight.” I couldn’t look at her right now.
“Aight. Hit me up if you need me.”
“Bet.”
I hung up with Buck and headed back to the hotel so I could shower and get a nap. I was going back to the hospital, but I’d sit outside the door instead of inside. I couldn’t be around her right now, but my heart wouldn’t let me stay away.
***
True to my word, I stayed at the hospital while Kasha was still there.
I never went inside the room, but I know her parents and Jace told her I was there.
The doctor said she’d be discharged today, so I went home to get my truck so she could be comfortable on the ride back.
Even though she had me fucked up, I was still taking her back to my house so I could keep an eye on her and Jace.
No telling where that bitch ass baby daddy was, and I needed them close.
Her mama texted me to let me know that the doctor had just discharged her. That prompted me to pull my truck around. When they got outside and she saw me, she was confused.
“What are doing here?” she asked, but I took the bags from her pops and ignored her.
“Jackson!” I heard her call my name again, but still ignored her.
“Ma, Stacks gone take us home,” Jace offered the explanation that I refused to.
“Thank you, Jackson, but I’ll go back with my parents,” she countered.
“Can you stand up?” I asked, instead of responding to her. She just stared at me instead of responding. I took that as a no, so I picked her up from the wheelchair and placed her in my truck.
“Jackson, I’m not going with you. I can go with my parents,” she insisted, but I ignored her.
Closing the door, I turned to her parents.
“She’s straight. Y’all can come by anytime to see them.
” I had already talked to her mama, so she knew I needed them close for my own personal reasons, even if it was an emotional battle for me.
They both told Kasha and Jace goodbye and we all left the hospital at the same time.
“You good back there, lil’ homie.” I made eye contact with Jace so he could see my face while I talked to him.
“I’m straight. I am hungry, though.”
“Aight.”
“Jackson,” Kasha out.
“Nah. Not right now.” I didn’t want to talk to her right now, especially in front of Jace.
I never turned to look at her, but I felt her eyes on me until she decided to look away.
After getting Jace and Kasha some food, I took the exit home.
The entire ride, I tried to figure out how I was going to handle things with her without snapping her fuckin’ neck.
I glanced over at her, and I saw she was silently crying and that shit tore me up on the inside, but she was the cause of this…
not me. For her sake, she better hope I can wrap my head around why she did things the way that she did or I’d be wrapping my hands around her neck.