Story #2
My playlist is playing now. I closed the blinds around the shop.
I locked the door and cut our ‘Open’ sign off but I kept all the lights on and did not pull the bars down over the door.
In a few minutes Halo texted me and told me he was parking.
I ‘heart it then went to unlock the door just as he was walking up.
“Hey boo.” He smiled and spoke to me with a kiss.
I spoke back then locked the door behind him.
“You the only one here?”
“Yeah. Regan just left. How are you tonight?” I wrapped my hands around his waist with my chin in his chest looking up at him.
His arms went around my waist, but his face looked displeased. “I’m not cool with you being here alone. The next time you are let me know and I’ll come or have someone come just to keep an eye out.”
“That’s so sweet but you don’t have to do that. The other business around is lit up and it’s a busy area.”
“I ain’t tryna hear all’dat Story. Niggas wild out here and if something goes down I’ma pop like a champagne cork. Now, come on and hook me up.” He gave me another quick kiss, and we went to the wash bowl.
I loved how good my man looked in jeans. Something about when he wears them with a matching belt just makes me excited. His green shirt matched his bandana on his head, and all his long hair was down.
He sat down and I untied it and put it at my workstation. We talked about our day as I washed his hair then deep conditioned it. When I got to that part, I straddled his lap while his head was back and I massaged the conditioner in his head.
“This part of the service better be for me only.” He teased and squeezed my booty. Halo was getting bolder with me and I liked that.
“Only you.” I gave him a good kiss a few times then I rinsed the conditioner out of his head.
I did the rest of his treatment, blow-dried him then it was time to do his braids. He wanted the same ones I did before. Braid to the scalp at the start then lose at the end.
“You work tomorrow morning?”
“Nope I don’t come back until Tuesday.” I answered as I braided.
“When we done here, I’ll follow you to your crib. Get you some stuff and stay the night at my place.”
I had to keep my cool and not squeal like a toddler. We had not stayed the night with each other yet.
“That sounds like a good plan to me babe.”
I continued braiding the rest of his hair and we talked about a bunch of random stuff.
Halo helped me clean up, even though I told him he did not have too.
He even paid for his hair when I told him it was free.
He said anytime it was done in the shop he’d pay.
Halo made sure to stay close to me while I locked the salon up then he followed me to my place just like he said.
We took our shoes off at the door when we arrived at his place. Halo’s apartment was extremely nice, bright and I loved it. He showed me around and I found it funny when he showed me his DVD movie collection.
We both had the same thought on why we still purchased DVDs. Whenever we wanted to watch a movie, we loved it was better to just pop it in the DVD player rather than to search it on streaming service.
“Every time we watch a movie with this white man in it you be about to have a heart attack. I’m about to kick yo’ ass.” Halo blurted out.
We were on his bed eating tacos that I made and watching Failure to Launch. He and I got cleaned up then I decided to cook.
“I can’t help it that he’s a handsome man!” I argued back after I wiped my mouth.
“I feel you. I can’t help my foot going in that juicy booty you got either.”
When he said that I fell back against the soft pillows laughing.
“You do not have to do all of that. I have eyes for one man and one man only. He knows who he is.”
“Mm, maybe he needs to be reminded.”
I shrugged my shoulders then got up and took our empty plates to the kitchen. Teasing Halo was something I enjoyed doing because he’d get bent out of shape. The reassurances he needed from me turned me on.
To some it may be annoying but not for me. I loved having the key to his emotions and I wasn’t about to abuse it. However, I like to play a little like now. I got back to his room, and he was putting the top on his water bottle.
When I sat back on the bed, I picked up my Sprite bottle and drunk some. I had to so I wouldn’t laugh at the way he looked.
“I need to know why you are sitting there looking so angry.”
“Cause you provoking me and you know it.”
I moved closer to him and gave him a kiss. “Babe, my eyes are only focus on you.”
He bit his bottom lip with his head turned towards me. His eyes he had were one of a kind and I liked looking at them.
“I better be, cause I’m on yo’ ass tough Story. Your attention go to any other nigga and I’mma become like a virus that’s spreading non-stop.” He squeezed my thigh and leaned in for another kiss, but I moved back some.
“Speaking of being intense and frightening. We need to talk about somethings, particular about you and your brothers.”
Halo sat back against my headboard. He locked his fingers together on his lap. I drooled over the way his arms flexed from just that gesture.
“I figured this would come up. Tell me what you know or think you know first.”
My nerves were all over because I had no idea what was about to come. I decided to sit between his legs on my knees. My put sat on the back of my feet.
“Hendrix does some illegal---
“I know who he is, and his family. They sell drugs, I even know who their connect is.” I paused when he revealed that.
Halo chuckled, “I investigated him after I left your spot. They not small time, I respect it.”
“Oook, we’ll talk about boundaries another time. For right now, my sister, Hendrix and even my co-workers just told me to talk to you.”
“Nope. Lay it all on the table. I investigated Hendrix because I needed to know who the hell was living with my girl. I know he’s your best friend, but everybody has skeletons. All I needed to do was make sure his would never haunt you.”
I poked my lip out a little, “Surprisingly you flipped that into something sweet. And that’s okay but Halo. I need you to tell me about you and your brothers.” I hope he took this opportunity and was honest with me.
He waited a while and seemed to be battling in the direction he wanted to go in. Finally, he spoke.
“Our parents worked for a man named Thaddeus. He’s also married to our auntie Imani.
He has this organization, if you want to call it that, of professional hitmen and hitwomen.
When they died, me and my brothers went to live with our aunt and Thaddeus.
They raised us and introduced us to the organization when we were fourteen. ”
“Why would they introduce you to something so…I don’t want to saw awful, but I can’t think of any other word.”
“It’s cool, I’m not offended. It sounds awful to you, but when they told us the truth about what our parents did. It did not scare us at all if anything it made us more connected to them. Me and my brothers talked that night in Greek’s room, and we agreed to get into the business.
We figured if our parents were bad ass at it then we would be to. The next day we talked to Thaddeus and told him that we wanted to join. After that, we started boot camp and our lives changed.
You would have thought we were preparing for war. It took two years of training before we were allowed to go on jobs with Thaddeus and auntie Imani.”
“When was the first time you killed someone?” I asked in a low tone.
“Fourteen.”
My mouth dropped. “But you said---
“Professionally. We did not kill anyone professionally. The first day of boot camp, Thaddeus took us to a big factory. There were three men tied up and looked like someone beat their asses. Thaddeus stood in front of us, gave us a gun, and told us to shoot them. Guns were very familiar to us because of our dad so using one wasn’t a problem. It was a test in our commitment.”
“Who pulled the trigger first, never mind I already know who.”
Halo smirked and asked, “Who?”
“Greek.” I confidently answered.
“You’d think that but naw. I did and I felt alive the second the bullet pierced the man’s head. Then Greek and Golden were last.”
“Wow. Now you three are fully trained hitmen.”
He nodded his head. “Yeah. You’d be surprised the people we’ve killed and killed for. It’s a whole system and protocol we have. You can’t just come to us with any amount of money and hire us. It’s exclusive, selective, and once we accept a job it gets done.”
“What if I hired you and I changed my mind?? Do I get a refund?”
Halo laughed, “Hell no. All you get is a warning to never come back and try to hire us again. Look Story, what I do is more than just a job. It’s my lifestyle and I am better at that than I am at breathing. But when it comes to me and you, I’ll just say this. You with the right nigga.”
I breathed in and out then a small smile appeared on my face. “Halo Stone, I believe that I will never meet another man like you for as long as I live.” A screech escaped my mouth when he yanked me on top of him.
“That means you still wanna fuck wit’ me?”
“Absolutely babe.”
He rewarded my answer with a kiss, and it turned into something more. This kissing session spoke volumes to one another. For me, I was letting him know that I wasn’t going anywhere. I felt like he was letting me know that he wasn’t about to allow me to go anywhere.
“You always make me feel good and now I want the chance to do the same for you.” Halo told me when he laid me on my back.
“As long as you’re ready then I’m fine with that.”
“I’m beyond ready Story, I think about it a lot even in my damn dreams. And I have had the same nightmare for years until I met you.
” He started licking my neck then spoke in my ear.
“I need you to keep silencing my trauma like you’ve been doing.
Your voice, laugh, smile, touch, and scent all got me wanting to just devour you. ”