Chapter 12 #2
Diric kissed his teeth. “Man, fuck what you talking about. Go to sleep. I’m on the way.” Diric ended the call and snatched a blunt up from his ashtray to calm his nerves.
He knew she was asleep, so he didn’t have to rush.
He made one more play then went and got something to eat.
He was shutting everything down for the day, so he could go see what was up with her.
His last stop before he went to Raven was home.
He had $10,700 on him that he needed to put up.
Diric didn’t like to ride with more than a few thousand on him at once.
He couldn’t do shit to females but kill them.
He couldn’t put his hands on them, but he had a trick for the bitches that jumped Raven.
He was going to pay a smoker to do them dirty.
Fuck Xander’s bitch ass. If niggas wanted smoke, they should come at him and Amar.
Instead, they went for a female that didn’t have shit to do with what happened.
The situation had him 38 hot, and that was how he knew he liked Raven.
If Diric was mad before, he was pissed off to the highest point of pisstivity when he walked in that hospital room and saw Raven’s face.
They had beat her bad as hell. He hated even having to look at her face.
She was sleeping peacefully off strong pain medication and even still, her face was crumpled slightly as if she was still in pain even in her sleep.
Diric wanted blood. He couldn’t wait to get more information on this Jenise bitch.
He was gon’ pay a fiend by the name of Carolyn $500 and for that $500 Carolyn would beat the brakes off Jenise.
She was a beast pre-crack, and drugs only made her go harder.
He’d seen Carolyn go toe to toe with a grown man and dust his ass off.
The more he stared at Raven, the angrier he became, so he just stopped looking at her.
Diric scrolled through his phone and tried to calm his nerves.
When he got mad for real, it was challenging to calm him down.
He’d always had anger issues but losing his son made his temperament worse.
It took a lot of work for him to get it under control before he ended up really doing some crazy shit and getting some real time behind bars.
Since Jenise was bold enough to jump somebody, he wanted to walk up to her and slap the spit out her mouth, but he wasn’t gon’ do that.
Carolyn could handle it. He had been at the hospital for an hour when Raven stirred and opened her one good eye.
When her eyes landed on his face, she was instantly embarrassed.
She couldn’t help that she got jumped, but she didn’t want Diric to see her looking so gruesome.
“I told you not to come,” she stated in a scratchy voice. Raven tried to sit up and erupted into tears. If bruised ribs hurt this bad, she could only thank God they weren’t broken. She wanted to kill Jenise.
Diric rushed over to the bed to help Raven. “And I don’t care what you said. I’m here, and that’s just what it is.”
The nurse came in with discharge papers and instructions.
She told Raven that her prescriptions had been called in to the pharmacy that she requested, and that she could go pick them up.
Once all of that was out of the way, she rolled Raven downstairs, and Diric pulled the car up for her to get in.
On his way to the pharmacy, he looked over at her.
“This Jenise chick. What’s her last name? ”
Raven’s eyes were closed. The pain medication had her groggy. She just wanted to take a quick shower and get in the bed. No matter how much pain she was in, she couldn’t get in her bed knowing that she had laid out on the dirty ground. “I think it’s Robinson. Why?”
“’Cus I’m gon’ get somebody to whoop her ass. I’ll be wrong if I slap the spit out that bitch. So, I’m gon’ let another female do it.”
Raven opened her eyes and looked over at him.
She wanted Jenise herself, and she was going to get her.
But with the way she felt, it would be a little while before she was in shape to fight.
She damn sure wasn’t going to be the bigger person and tell him not to do it.
Jenise deserved a few ass whoopings for what she did.
Raven hadn’t done anything wrong. She didn’t set Xander up, and she had nothing to do with him being shot.
So what if she went out with Diric? Xander had betrayed her first. She didn’t owe him shit.
For that, three bitches had to jump her?
Raven wanted blood, and she didn’t care how she got it.
“Make sure somebody records that shit,” she stated closing her eyes back making Diric smile.
He didn’t care if she was against it; he was still going to do it.
But it made it easier for him that she was with it.
Little did he know, at that moment, Raven damn near fell in love with him.
From him not tipping the female that flirted with him at the restaurant to making sure that Jenise got hers.
She liked the way that Diric rode for her.
It was impressive. If he kept this up, he just might get some pussy.
Once she could breathe without cringing.