A Hustler's Son II (2 page)

Kelsi has a lot on his mind after hearing everything his mother said to him the night before. Her being raped and almost killed was a lot for him to take all at once. While walking Keisha to the bus stop, she yaps over and over again about nothing. Kelsi chokes Keisha up because her talking prevents him from thinking straight. With killing Charles and hearing about his mother’s past, he wasn’t in his right state of mind. When he realizes he could possibly kill her, he releases the hold he has on her throat. He warns her about being with him, but she stays true accepting his abuse. Still, he doesn’t trust himself around her.

Chapter Nine

When Janet comes home for work, she tells Kelsi that they must kill Delonte. She’s worried if they don’t, he’ll tell someone about Kelsi murdering Charles. Although she doesn’t believe Delonte’s knows the facts, she doesn’t want to take the chance. Kelsi thinks his mother is crazy and wants to make sure he’s not a suspect in the first murder before committing another one. In the end, he refuses.

Chapter Ten

Kelsi is in class thinking about his mother’s request to kill Delonte. When he learns over the school intercom that Charles body has been found he becomes nervous. The teacher refuses to let him leave the room after he requests. When Kelsi disrespects the teacher, he leaves anyway and hooks up with Keisha. They leave school early and walk home together. Before stopping home, he calls Skully, his drug connect, from a convenience store payphone. Kelsi tells him that someone was murdered in the area Kelsi sells drugs in and that things may be too hot to pump. His connect demands he stays low key until things cool off. Kelsi obeys gets off the phone and goes home. With Keisha on his arm, they run into Kenosha, Delonte’s sexy cousin. He sends Keisha upstairs to talk to Kenosha alone. Keisha is angry but obeys not wanting to upset Kelsi again after getting on his nerves the day before. Kenosha offers Kelsi up sexually and he flirts but declines. Once he goes inside his apartment, Keisha hands him a card and runs into the house. She’s upset. Kelsi’s afraid after looking at the card knowing Keisha, in her naïve state, said too much.

Chapter Eleven

Janet walks in and overhears Kelsi and Keisha’s conversation. Keisha tells Kelsi that she told the police that he had a fight with Charles before he was murdered. Janet enters Kelsi’s room and sends Keisha home so that she can talk to Kelsi alone. She’s angered that Keisha is so stupid and that her son’s freedom may now be at risk.

Chapter Twelve

Kelsi walks to school with Bricks the next day and tells him about Keisha’s slip up with the police. Bricks attempts to comfort him by saying that as long as she didn’t say anything specific, he should be okay. Kelsi is still uneasy. Once at school, Kelsi notices Delonte’s truck. Delonte tells him to get inside and blackmails him. Delonte goes into detail about how Skully cut him off and now he’s no longer able to service his customers in the Woods, the same complex Kelsi hustles and lives in. Now, he wants Kelsi to sell drugs for him in Skully’s neighborhood. If Kelsi doesn’t, he threatens to tell the police the little he knows about him coming home the day Charles was murdered, covered in blood. Kelsi refuses believing he doesn’t have enough proof to cause him any harm. Until Charles reveals he has the blood stained shirt he wore the night of the murder. Angered and defeated, Kelsi realizes his mother was right all along. And he agrees murdering Delonte will be best for them all.

Chapter Thirteen

Janet was ending a private conversation when Delonte walked in on her. Although he didn’t hear the entire conversation, he had a feeling it was about him. When he asked Janet what the call was about, she brushed him off. Angry, he had sex with her at gunpoint. What scared him was that Janet enjoyed it. In her mind she was giving herself as a dead man’s final wish. Kelsi was at the door and watched their entire sexual encounter.

Chapter Fourteen

Janet and Delonte carry out their plans to kill Delonte. Afterwards, they dump his body in a park. With the night as their only witness, they pledge their lives together. And above all, they vow to keep each other’s secret.

Chapter Fifteen

Kelsi goes to Delonte’s house with Kenosha and has to endure seeing the pain in Delonte’s mother’s face. Delonte’s mother was certain something terrible happened to him since he hadn’t been home. Kenosha appears to be visibly shaken by Delonte’s death too. Eventually Mrs. Knight leaves Kelsi and Kenosha, who is staying with them from time to time, alone. Kelsi is there to get any money or drugs he may have had stashed since he knew Delonte was never coming back. In the process of roaming in his room, he finds nothing. He knew someone beat him to it. But who? Kenosha walked up on him during his search. He played it off like he went upstairs in the hopes she’d follow him, so they could have sex. And they did, raw.

Chapter Sixteen

Janet is upset that Kelsi is with Kenosha. She doesn’t trust her. Part of it has to do with her sleeping with Delonte, a man she loved at one time. And the other part of it had to do with Delonte being her cousin. If she was that careless to get who she wanted, who knew what she might do to conceive her young son. Janet didn’t want her anywhere near her son. While on the phone with Kelsi, Keisha clicks in and Janet develops another plan. To rid her son of Keisha, who she believes is weak; she formed an instant full proof plan. Janet secretly didn’t want any woman around Kelsi but herself. So Janet convinces Keisha to give Kelsi a hard time by seeming uninterested. She says if she does, Kelsi would want her even more. Keisha is persuaded in following her advice and Janet tells her Kelsi’s best friend Bricks would be the perfect candidate to make Kelsi jealous. After she hangs up with Keisha, she examines her bullet ridden body and remembers how Jarvis, her ex-boyfriend in New York, attempted to kill her. But she manages to escape, and Skully is the one who helped her.

Chapter Seventeen

Janet decides she wants to get back in the drug game so that she and Kelsi can escape all together. So she calls Skully and expresses her interests. He warns her against dealing business with him. He made it clear that he is not the same person she knew when it came to his money. He could be ruthless, but she insists. He doesn’t want to mix business with their friendship. Because since he saved her life, he looked out for her. And…even made sure her only son Kelsi worked for him to prevent him from getting mixed up with the wrong dealers. Skully eventually agrees to go in business with her and their call is over. Later detective Nick Fearson knocks on the door questioning Janet about the murder of Charles. When she’s unhelpful, he vows to bring her and her son down.

Chapter Eighteen

Kelsi feels on top of the world having recently slept with Kenosha. He goes to school and tries to talk to his girlfriend Keisha. She’s talking to Bricks and ignores him in the hallway. He’s embarrassed and tries to conceal his anger from his friend. He asks him what were they talking about and Bricks tells him that she was speaking of some talk show. His response makes him suspect that he wants to get with Keisha. Kelsi flips the script on Keisha in class by talking to some other girls and this breaks her down. She tries to make up with him unable to play the game, but Kelsi gives her a taste of her own medicine by ignoring her. At home, Kelsi learns from his mother that Skully and his mother knew each other. He also discovers he saved his mother’s life. Janet also shares with him that she knew he sold drugs. Kelsi feels betrayed. He also learns more about what happened to his mother in New York before she was shot, and associates the name Jarvis and Kyopes with her troubles. Most important, Janet tells Kelsi her next idea to murder his father, Lorenzo for the insurance money. Kelsi is left breathless realizing the cold blooded person his mother truly is.

Chapter Nineteen

Janet calls Shelly and asks her to care for Kelsi if something happens to her. Shelly is confused at first by her request because Janet doesn’t like her and she knows it. She eventually agrees. Later Kelsi wants answers from his mother. He wants to know why she allowed him to sell drugs. He feels used. Like she doesn’t care. Janet tells him that she knew he would sell no matter what she wanted and the least she could do was make sure he got them from the right person. Later Kelsi tells his mother what’s really on his mind. Kelsi believes Keisha is sleeping with his best friend Bricks. Janet confirms his beliefs by saying she saw them together in public. Kelsi is hurt and vows to cut them both off for good. Wanting to take his murder out on someone, he agrees to help his mother murder his father.

Chapter Twenty

Kelsi goes to school with hate in his heart for Bricks and Keisha after hearing what his mother said. He was clueless that his mother set Keisha up. Keisha still unable to take Kelsi’s rejection agrees to give Kelsi oral sex in the boy’s bathroom when he demands. And when she does, he treats her like a whore. Feeling like she lost him for good, she’s seconds from telling Kelsi that it was his mother who told her to pretend to be with Bricks, but he chokes her over the pure mentioning of his mother’s name. He leaves her at school, and jumps in the car with Kenosha. Keisha sees this and breaks down in tears.

Chapter Twenty One

With the plan to kill Lorenzo in place, Kelsi waits for his mother at a DC park. She was supposed to lure Lorenzo there and together they would kill him for the insurance money. But...his mother never shows. Realizing it was unlike her, he grows worried. It didn’t help matters that Bricks kept calling while he waited on his mother’s call. Anxious, he’s furious when he see’s Keisha pull up. She’d been following him the entire time. He tells her to leave several times but she demands he talks to her. Kelsi knew she couldn’t be around when his mother came with Lorenzo so again he warned her to leave. When she didn’t he killed her and through her lifeless body in the ocean. With adrenaline coursing through his veins, and fearing the worse, he says aloud, “Mama, if you can hear me, I love you. I need you to know that I love you.”

Chapter Twenty Two

Skully and Kenosha kidnapped Janet and had her bound on a basement floor. She’d been beaten badly. She never knew Skully held resentment for her. Turns out she treated him badly when she was with Jarvis and he never got over it. He only pretended to like her to eventually get back at her. Also, it’s revealed that Jarvis stole from Skully on numerous occasions. That’s the only reason he helped Janet to get away. He wanted unsaid revenge against Jarvis. And because of it, Skully wanted to have him killed and would use Kelsi. Janet also learns that they plan to have Kelsi do it by telling him after she was killed, that Jarvis killed her. Knowing he would believe Skully since she told Kelsi how he saved her life, she felt all was lost. Skully pumped three bullets in Janet’s body.

Chapter Twenty Three

Kenosha tells how she was not as dumb as everybody thought she was, and that she didn’t care she was fucking her cousin Delonte. She says how she’ll do whatever Skully wants her to for that old mighty dollar, including ensuring that Kelsi goes through with his plan to kill Jarvis.

Chapter Twenty Four

Skully reveals that he’ll do what he can, to make sure Kelsi kills Jarvis. Including wrapping his young mind up with lies, knowing full well that he’ll see him as a friend since the those were a few of the last words he’d heard from his mother.

Final Chapter

On Christmas day, while grieving over the lost of his mother, he’s delivered a bloody heart. When he opens the package, he reads the words, ‘nobody has heart when they’re dead’. Thinking Jarvis is taunting him, he gets his whereabouts from Skully, board a New York bus, and leaves to find him.

Now……we introduce to you

A Hustler’s Son 2

Live or Die In New York

Prologue

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Roc Boys” by Jay Z, blared from the speakers in the private party that Jarvis and Kyope threw for themselves. The room was dark with the exception of a few strobe lights while smoke hovered over the room like clouds in the sky before a thunderstorm.

Jarvis and Kyope sat next to each other in separate chairs with small round tables in front of them. Every once and awhile they’d nod at one another in approval for all they’d accomplished. Money dressed the tables like promotional flyers with no purpose. Everything was paid for and it was all because of them. It took Jarvis and Kyope forever to get to this point, but they could finally say that they were self-made billionaires.

While Kyope pulled on the best weed money could buy, Jarvis eyed Steel, his girlfriend of over three years as she sashayed across the dance floor. She was nicknamed Steel because her body looked as if it was built with the precision of a military assault weapon.