FOE
The crew had grown bigger and stronger. I watched as everyone mingled around Diamond and Yana’s crib.
It was nice to see everyone all dressed up and shit.
If you had asked me a year ago, would I have imagined the Zoo would look like the answer would have been ‘fuck no’.
Despite the direction Lakia and I were going in, it was nice to see her happy.
I know Monfua, and I had a brief conversation, but I wanted to make it clear that I had nothing against him.
I knew the key to being an OG was growing up and setting examples for the newbies.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, a shoota I will always be, but I knew it was time to grow the fuck up.
I needed to grow up for me, Harvey, and the crew.
Before I could make my way over to Monfua, Streets came up to me. His demeanor said he wanted to get some shit off his chest. “Sup,” he nodded.
“Sup.”
“You cool with Monfua or what? Because to be honest, that’s my nigga and I would hate to—”
I turned to him. “Hate to what? Huh?”
I felt myself getting defensive, but remembered I was trying to be a changed person.
Streets was only doing what I would have done if I felt like someone had beef with any of my niggas that I was close to.
I dropped my head, then ran my hands through the dry ass Chuckie wig.
“No smoke,” I said as I held my hands up.
“We’re brothers. Zoo over everything. Just as I need to remember that, so do you. I respect it, though,” I finished.
He held his hand out, and we dapped each other up and came in for a hug.
As soon as he walked away, Lakia and Monfua came up to me.
I could see Harvey peeking at me as she held one of the twins in her arms. I pulled my eyes away from her to focus on the two in front of me. “Monfua, nigga, you straight?” I asked.
“Yeah, I’m good. Look, I—”
I held my hand out. “Nah, y’all got my blessings. Shit, it’s not like y’all needed it to begin with. We’re brothers, and I’ve got your back. You take care of her,” I said as my eyes shot to my sister.
She swallowed deeply. I hadn’t said that to make amends with her, yet to give her the peace she needed to know I was no longer going to interfere in her life.
Lakia and I were still blood, but our relationship was definitely going to be different.
The sound of Dio’s voice boomed through the house.
“It’s spooky as hell out there. I smell trouble! Let’s party!” he shouted.
Everyone began to leave the house. I almost felt just as Harvey did.
My gut feeling was telling me tonight wasn’t going to be as smooth as we hoped.
Either way, the Zoo was here to stay, and whatever creepy shit that happened, they had better be ready because although we were men in the process of becoming better, we were still with the shits and would turn one nice of myths and spooky legends into the real thing.
The Zoo terrors of the night.