Chapter 22

Spin was the big name now, like T-money had once been. But unlike T-money’s name it was not spoken often. It took two weeks to fill my order, and I sent Diamond to pay for it and pick it up.

She did a lot of fast talking and had her guy thinking it was for a rich white man she was dating. She told them that he was throwing a large sex party.

“You wanna come?” Diamond asked to shut him up.

Diamond said she had to screen a lot of questions and make up a lot of bullshit to keep the heat off. She didn’t know that I wanted the heat but then again I guess it wasn’t time for that, so it was a good thing she did what she had to do to keep the heat off. Five pounds of weed was a lot and bound to create questions and get to the higher ups. And that’s what I wanted; that’s why I had Diamond drop the name Shiesty Shi a few times in her stories. No, not to bust me out but to give them something to think about. And she made my name like Spin’s, as if it was spoken by accident and by speaking it I’d pop up like Candy Man and kill someone.

She told me she said things like Shiesty Shi’s paying for this…Shiesty Shi been looking for weed and I heard Shiesty Shi’s back.

‘Who’s Shiesty Shi?’

‘You know Shiesty Shi…’

‘Where she back from?’

There was a shrug…hopefully they thought I was back from prison.

I got the weed from Diamond and it nearly wiped out all my funds. I rented a public storage and put the weed away. I had something that needed to be done before Shiesty Shi made her public debut. I needed a new look, I needed to become Shiesty Shi. Over the few months I’d been out I stressed and thought often of who Shiesty Shi was and what Shiesty Shi would look like.

And what I came up with was the total opposite of me.

I already had the mind set and now it was time to look the part. I knew the girls were good at makeup, hair, nails, and stuff and I was sure they were capable of a makeover. Diamond had even offered and been putting little ideas in my head. But I had someone else in mind for the job. Someone I knew could make me beautiful, a piece. Someone I knew could flip a bitch and satisfaction was guaranteed.

I just didn’t know how I’d contact them for the life of me.

There was only one way I knew just might get me in contact with them and it would require some luck and patience.

So, I told Diamond to take off from her dates and gave her the first phone I’d bought which had become our business phone. I told her to keep setting up dates and keep the girls working. She had become my part-time assistant so she didn’t need a lot of instructions. She was also a hustla so she’d get the money.

I reminded her of the rules and the law and then I jumped into my car and headed for Modesto. I had no idea how long it would take me, but I was determined to find the little farm-style house on the country road.