Chapter 34
Mimi
The whole time I sat in the car all I could think about was my boys. I didn’t want them to get hurt in this whole madness. I prayed that everything would go as smooth as Mark said it would be.
“Don’t worry too much. Everything will be just fine,” Troy said as if she could read my thoughts.
“I know. I’m just ready for all of this to be over and done with,” I said to her.
“It’s about time he decided to join the party,” Mark said as we pulled up to the house.
“It’s show time,” Jayden said, checking his guns. Once he was sure that everything was okay, he got out of the car.
“Let’s go,” Mark said as he got out behind him, followed by Troy, and then me.
“Now remember what we said: if things start to go wrong, bail and we’ll finish everything,” Jayden said to me.
“I know,” I replied as I held both guns in my hands. “See you in a minute.” The plan was for us to go through the front so that we could distract them, while Jayden and Mark crept through the back. I didn’t know if it was going to work, but I was not turning back now.
The street was unusually quiet as Troy and I made our way toward the front of the house. Like thieves in the night, we opened the gate and walked up to the front door. Once we made it to the door, we could hear a lot of fussing going on inside.
“I’m going to count to three, and we’ll kick the door down,” I whispered to Troy.
“Okay,” she said, nodding her head.
“One,” I said, as I began to count.
“Two,” I said, just as I heard my name being called.
“Three,” I said, as we brought our legs up and kicked the door off the hinges together.
“Am I too late for the party?” I asked, scaring the shit out of all of them.
I then turned to Kaylin who looked as if he had seen a ghost. “Hello, Kaylin. You miss me?”
“Mi . . . Mimi, is that you?” he asked.
“The one and only, baby,” I said as I walked into the living room, with Troy behind me.
“But I thought you was dead,” Stacy said.
“Nah, I can assure you both that I’m alive and well,” I said to her. “What’s going on? Did I interrupt something?”
“Yes, you actually did,” the nigga who happened to be my father said.
“Well, well, well. Hello there, Daddy dearest,” I said, walking over to him. “You don’t look happy to see me.”
“Because I’m not,” he had the nerve to say.
“Oh, I can see that. It’s too bad, though, because I don’t give a fuck,” I said. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Stacy trying to get up. “Nah, bitch, sit right there. I wouldn’t want you to miss the party,” I said, pointing my gun at her.
“Look, Mimi, it don’t have to be all of this,” the bitch said, hitting a nerve. I walked over to her and hit her so hard in her face I thought for sure that I had knocked a few teeth out of her mouth.
“Bitch, was you thinking like that when you came up in my house and had my nigga shoot me?” I said, heated. I then turned to Kaylin who was standing there as if he ain’t had shit to worry about. “And you. You let this bitch come between what we had, for what? To get played. I bet yo’ dumb ass had no idea that this bitch was my sister. Hell, I didn’t even know, until I went to visit Mommy dearest over there and she told me.”
“So you knew this whole time that Mimi was alive and you didn’t tell me?” Julius asked Marie.
“Actually I did,” she said, pulling a gun from behind her back and pointed it at him, confusing the shit out of me, because I thought for sure that she was working with them. “You don’t actually think that I would go against my daughter for you, now would you?”
“So you wasn’t working with him?” I asked, now pointing the other gun that I had at her.
“I’m not going to lie to you. At first I was, when I thought that you were dead, but then I got hit with reality. This nigga was the reason why I was who I was. He was the reason why I did what I did to you. I didn’t know that he was going to kill you. I really didn’t, so when I found that out, I started to formulate a plan of my own. Then you came back into the picture,” she said. “I was never going to let him harm one strand of hair on Kayson’s and Kaylon’s heads. I just needed him to think that I was.”
I stood there thinking. On one hand, we’d bonded, or at least I thought we had, but here she was in bed with the enemy, and that shit didn’t sit well with me. I wasn’t buying her story. Why the fuck did she hook up with the nigga in the first place? Talking about a plan, for all I know this could be a part of her plan right now. I was not about to let her manipulate me again, so I pointed my gun and shot her in her head, killing her instantly. I didn’t even blink, I just stood there. I was done letting people fuck over me.
“Stupid bitch,” Julius yelled.
“Nah, she was the stupid one for thinking that she was going to cross me,” I said, pointing my gun back at him. “I’m going to ask you one time. Where are my kids?”
“Eat a dick and die, bitch,” he replied.
“Wrong answer,” I said, shooting him in the leg.
“Ugh,” he moaned in pain.
“Where are my kids?” I asked him again, but he didn’t answer, so I shot him in his other leg. I walked over to him and pointed the gun at his face. “Where the fuck are my kids?”
“They’re in the room down the hall on the left,” Stacy yelled from behind me.
I turned to look at her when I spotted Jayden and Mark in the hallway. “Mark, take this bitch to the back and get my kids.”
“Okay,” he said, grabbing her. At first, she looked as if she didn’t want to move.
“Bitch, if you know me, you’d run and get my kids from the back,” I said to her.
“Mimi, please don’t hurt him,” she said, begging for her father’s life. I looked at her, cracked a smile, and then shot the nigga in the head. At first, I was going to kill him while she was in the back, but I had another thought. I ain’t give a fuck about the nigga, but since she did, I wanted her to watch him die. I killed him right in front of her eyes.
“Nooooo,” she screamed, trying to get away from Mark.
“Bitch, I wouldn’t do that if I was you,” he said, placing a gun to the back of her head. “Come on, let’s move,” he said, pushing her to the back of the house. A few minutes later, they came back into the room with Kayson and Kaylon.
“Mommy,” they both said, running over to me.
“Hey, boys,” I said, hiding the guns behind my back.
“Where have you been? I missed you,” Kayson said.
“I missed you all too,” I said to them. “Troy, get them and take them outside. We’ll meet you back at the car.”
“Nooo,” they started to scream.
“Not now, boys. I need y’all to go with Auntie Troy. I’ll be out in a minute,” I said to them.
“Will Daddy be coming with us?” Kaylon asked, shocking me.
“Um, yes, Daddy will be out in a minute. Now go,” I said, pushing them in Troy’s direction.
“Okay,” they said as they hung their heads. I waited until Troy and the boys were out of the house before I turned back to Stacy. I was ready for all of this to be over.
I walked over to her and stared at her. “See, I didn’t understand why you was always so jealous of me. You was my friend. Whenever I had, you had. We practically ate off of the same plate, and yet you stabbed me in the back.”
“Mimi, I’m sorry. My father used my feelings toward Kaylin to get me to turn on you, and I really wish that I could take it all back,” she sobbed as the tears started to roll down her face.
“See, the first mistake that you and Kaylin made was underestimating me. The second mistake y’all made was when y’all didn’t check to see that I was dead back in that house,” I said and shot her four times in the chest.
Turning around to Kaylin, I stood there staring at him. Here was the man I’d loved for over ten years of my life, the same man who fucked my sister and had a baby by her. He was also the same man who shot and left me for dead and right now the only thing I felt for him was hate.
“I want to thank you for what you’ve done to me. Because of you, I finally found and know what a real man is—” I began to say, but he interrupted me.
“Just cut all of the bullshit out, ma, and do what you came here to do,” he replied.
“Okay,” I said as I raised the gun and aimed it at him.
“Bitch, I wouldn’t do that if I was you,” I heard a voice say. When I turned, I was face to face with Jade, Kaylin’s sidepiece.
“Damn, Kay, your bitches just don’t know when to cut it, huh?”
“Bitch, please, you should’ve stayed dead where you was,” she replied as she took two steps in my direction.
“And if I would’ve stayed dead, you still wouldn’t be able to have Kaylin,” I told her. “That is why you’re here right?”
“It surely ain’t for you,” she replied. Like before, the bitch was never on point.
“Kill her,” I said to Troy, who had snuck up behind her. She never even saw Troy coming. I heard several shots ring out, but I wasn’t focusing on that. What I was more worried about was Kaylin trying to run. Raising the gun up, I let off several shots that hit him straight in the back, and then he went down. I bet he was probably wishing that he never took me to the gun range. I didn’t even go over to check on him. I was more than sure I’d done what I intended to do.
“Let’s get out of here,” I said to Jayden and Mark.
“Hold up right quick,” Mark said as he walked over to the duffle bag that was sitting by the sofa. When he opened the bag, there was an assload of money in it. Picking up the bag, he then began to spread money around the living room, and I knew just what he was trying to do. “Now we can go.”
I took one last look at the bodies that were lying around the room before I followed Mark and Jayden out the door. I was very happy that everything was over and I now had my kids back. The hardest part was over. Now all I had left to do was to get my life back together.