BlueK Dynasty: The 1st Seven Days
her kids
didn’t like her fashion choices, but she was grown and the one in
charge, even if all of them were bigger than she
was.   
    The three crossed the
X-crosswalk into their apartment complex and were shocked to see
red sirens, police k-9 units, and detectives. Yellow tape was
everywhere, sectioning off parts of the streets and the sidewalk.
Fae’s neighbors were all outside, and the nearby vendors crowded
around the complex’s entrance.   
    “ I’m
telling you, Ma, we gonna have to move up out of this
neighborhood,” Inis said. “Too much stuff is happening around
here.”   
    “ You
don’t even know what happened, though,” said Allie. He was the more
easygoing one. Inis tended to be hot-headed, impulsive, way too
quick to jump. Sometimes Allie wanted to tell his brother to relax,
but in the long run Inis tended to be right. It must’ve been an
older brother thing.   
    “ Man, I
don’t gotta know what happened to see that something happened,”
said Inis.   
    “ You not
lying there,” Fae chimed in.   
    Fae listened to her boys
as she quietly tried to shimmy around the yellow tape to enter the
building.   
    “ Hold
on, ma’am. Are you a resident of this building?” a short police
officer asked as he cut Fae off with a stubby hand to her
face.   
    “ Yes, I
live in this apartment building. Excuse me!” She couldn’t stand
cops, much less fat, rude ones who ate doughnuts all day inside
their cars while crime happened all around them outside. “I live in
apartment 153.”   
    The cop radioed someone on
his walkie-talkie in a serious manner and kept his hand in Fae’s
face.   
    “ Is that
really necessary, sir?” asked Allie. “Why you gotta put your hand
in my mom’s face like that?”   
    “ Pig,”
snorted Inis, trying to cover the word up with a
cough.   
    Fae eyed her boys sternly.
“Is there a problem, officer?” she asked.   
    “ Ma’am,
you’re going to have to come with me,” the cop
said.   
    “ For
what?” asked Allie in a shocked tone.   
    “ What
have you boys done?” Fae asked her twins.   
    “ Nothing,” they said in unison.   
    Fae looked at them with
doubt in her eyes.   
    “ I
swear, Mami, no lies,” Allie said. Inis nodded his head in
agreement.   
    The two boys whispered
among themselves as the police officer led them and Fae into the
apartment complex. Police officers were everywhere, Fae noticed.
Running to and fro were men in white coats, and women with jackets
that read ‘FORENSICS’.   
    “ Sir,
are you going to tell me what this is all about?” Fae asked the
officer. “You haven’t even identified
yourself.”   
    The cop turned his face to
her and gave her a sarcastic smirk. “You’ll see when you get to
your apartment. Detectives there will go into details about
everything you need to know.” He emphasized the
word   details   as if it meant something.   
    “ Allie,
call Kurma right now,” screamed Fae. “Right now!” She hadn’t even
thought to call her daughter when the police had stopped her
downstairs.   
    “ Mom,
I’m on it, don’t worry,” said Allie. He quickly found Kurma’s
number in his contacts. He was worried, but tried to play it cool.
The phone rang and rang as the family stepped into the apartment.
Music was coming from Kurma’s room.   
    “ Where
is she?” screamed Fae. She grabbed the nearest police officer and
pulled his shirt in a death grip. The front room erupted as
everyone tried to pry her hands away.   
    “ Lady,
take it easy, take it easy,” said one of the
cops.   
    Fae’s living room was
trashed. It was already small, and with everyone standing in it,
including her twin-tower sons, she felt claustrophobic. All the
lights were on, and men and women were walking in and out of her
apartment as if on separate unknown missions.   
    Inis grabbed his mother in
an embrace and tried to calm her down. He was worried, but as the
oldest boy he sometimes felt

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