Payback With Ya Life by Wahida Clark Read Free Book Online

into her eyes, forcing her to look away. He turned her face toward his and kissed her again. “I need you. And you know it’s not for selfish reasons. I need you. I can’t let you get away this time.”
    “Well, if it’s not selfish and you really do need me, leave this shit and come with me.”
    “Cali is too far, but we can go someplace else, not too far, not too close. And I bet your brother would like that much better. You don’t have to answer me now. Think about it.”
    “So, you would leave all of this shit behind? For me?”
    “Not in a day. But I could do it in a couple of months.”
    “There is no way in hell I could stick around for a couple of months.”
    “I’m not asking you to. What I’m saying is that I could go back and forth but it will take me a few months to get shit wrapped up. Don’t answer me now. I want you to think about it. All right?” he asked her again.
    “Why me, Briggen?”
    “You know why. Them bitches are a one-hit wonder, in it to win it for themselves. You know they don’t give a fuck about me. They just want the money. I may get grimey sometimes but I’m still human. I do have a heart, Shan. At the end of the day when the dust settles, I gotta have somebody to be in my corner, not just in it for the paper. Somebody with that bulletproof love. And you know you the one.”
    “I can’t believe this shit!” Shan stormed out of Brianna’s mother’s house. “Two damn weeks and they haven’t even buried the girl.” Shan yanked at her locks as she talked to herself.
    Shan was in for a shock when she stopped by Brianna’s mother’s and was told that they were too distraught to bury Brianna but would cremate her when they got over their grief. Of course they hadn’t been too distraught to go over to her house and clean out her closet and take the furniture. Her sister and her mother both had on her clothes and jewelry. Shan couldn’t stomach being in the same room with them. She was in absolute disbelief. They gave her the key to Brianna’s condo and wanted Shan to clean it out for their trifling asses.
    As soon as she got in the car she picked up her celly and called Peanut. When she was getting ready to turn off her phone he decided to pick up.
    “Yeah.”
    “It’s me. I need you to meet me at Brianna’s. I got the key.”
    “Give me a half hour.”
    “Hurry up.”
    “Twenty minutes, Shan. Damn.”
    “I’ma sit outside until you show.”
    “I’ll be there.”
    When Shan pulled up in front of Brianna’s it felt eerie. “Damn you, Brianna,” Shan spat as she hugged herself. She dialed Peanut again, crying.
    “Ten minutes, Shan, damn. Hold tight.”
    “Why you gotta holler? I can’t stop shaking. I can still feel her. Her mom and her sister had on her clothes and her jewelry. I think them bitches are crazy.”
    “Everybody deals with death differently, Shan.”
    “It’s just fucked up, that’s all I’m saying. They haven’t even buried her yet. Who lets a body sit up for two weeks? We just as bad; we didn’t even have plans to go to the funeral.”
    “You muthafuckin’ right! Fuck burying her. I sure didn’t have any plans to go nowhere near her bitch-ass funeral. I would have done some ignorant shit.”
    “You still feel like that?”
    “I hate that bitch!”
    “It doesn’t matter. We gotta bury her. I don’t even know how much shit like that cost.” Shan was rambling.
    “Don’t sweat it. I got it,” Peanut assured her.
    “Where are you?”
    “Almost there. Sit tight.”
    “Hurry up, I’m waiting.” Shan hung up and called Briggen.
    “What’s up, shawty?” Briggen asked.
    “Hey.”
    When he noticed that she wasn’t going to say anything, he asked, “You all right?”
    “Not really.”
    “What’s up?”
    “I’m getting ready to go into Brianna’s house. It just feels . . . weird.”
    “It’s supposed to. That was yo’ girl. Y’all were tight.”
    She sighed. “You know I gotta bury her. Her own mother told me that