CONSEQUENCES

9'

JISELE ADAMS
'Jilly'
RALEIGH • 919

"Let's do a sip and paint." I told Milo as we walked around Walmart, just buying anything.

"What's that?"

"We gone sip on something and paint."

"How we do that?"

I looked at him and blinked my eyes... No way he's this slow.

"Let's just go to the arts and craft isle."

As we walked in that direction, I spotted a familiar face that I wasn't trying to see so I looked the opposite way quickly but it was too late.

"Wassup Jilly." Jd's close friend Mikey approached us.

"Hey." I spoke back, still walking and trying to keep the conversation short.

Milo kept mugging him which made Mikey say something to him, "Who you?"

"Nigga who you?" Milo stopped while looking him up & down.

"Mikey this my friend Milo, Milo this is my friend Mikey." I answered both of them to avoid the argument as well as avoid Milo mentioning something he don't need to be mentioning.

"What type of friend is he?" Milo looked at me. "Better not be the same 'friend' I was!"

"Jilly whatchu doin with him?" Mikey asked. I stood there looking back in forth at both of them so confused on what to say.

"Speak up!"

"I—"

Who is this nigga to yell at me—

"Don't worry about what she's doing with me."

Mikey chuckled and shook his head, "You a trifling bitch. I can't wait to tell Jd when he get out tomorr—"

"Watch yo fucking mouth." Milo told him before pushing him really hard, making him stumble and almost fall.

Mikey pulled out a gun and pointed at Milo which made my eyes get big, in shock.

"What's wrong with you? We in a whole ass Walmart!" I yelled at him. Nigga just said fuck the witnesses and cameras huh?

"Shut the fuck up." He said pointing it at me then back at Milo.

"You pulled it out so you might as well use it." Milo shrugged.

Mikey looked around at all the people staring— usually people run but instead these folks is staring dead at us.

Like some niggas don't stand on not leaving no witnesses behind..

"Ima catch you." Mikey lowered the gun, "City ain't but to big."

"I'll be waiting." Milo nodded at him, before grabbing me by my arm and dragging me out the store.

"We didn't get the paint—"

"Fuck that paint. Get in the car." He said unlocking the doors and getting in, I did the same and he pulled off before I even closed the door.

"You mad at me?"

He ignored me and continued driving, he was way over a hundred miles. He trynna kill the wrong person in this car! I ain't do nothing to him.

"Milo what's wrong?"

"Nothing." He answered calmly.

"So why are you ignoring me?"

"If I talk to you and you say something that irritates me, ima take my anger out on you but you didn't do nothing to me so I rather not talk to you."

"But why are you angry?"

He looked at me and I looked at the road, "Pay attention!"

"This what I'm talking about."

"He only pulled a gun out you because he can't fight, he does that to everybody and never shoots them. You didn't get shot so there's no need to be mad."

"It's not about that, it's about the fact that you lied and said you told Jd y'all wasn't together."

"I did tell him."

"When?"

"When we was on the phone."

"When was yall on the phone?"

"The day he called me."

"Stop playing with me for I crash this shit."

"Okay I kinda told him but not really."

"I'm taking you home."

"Why?! I don't wanna go home!"

"You gotta get the hell from around me, ion give a fuck where you go. I'm starting to feel like you playing both sides and if it's one thing I hate— it's a sneaky lying bitch."

"Milo I didn't tell him because ion want nothing to happen to you! You don't understand, that man is not sane at all and if he find out about you, he gone kill you."

He looked at me and laughed hysterically.

"What's funny?" I frowned.

"You."

"How im funny?"

"You think somebody scared of him? Me of all people? You take me as the type to be scared of somebody?"

"It don't matter if you scared or not! You don't know him or what him and his folks capable of!"

"Yo slow ass finna piss me off."

"I'm slow for trynna protect you?"

"No, you slow for thinking he can't get touched like any other nigga, and his folks? They lose a member every month. Ain't nobody stun them."

"Okay Milo." I just dropped the conversation because trying to get through to him is nearly impossible..

"How you know they losing people if you claim you don't know them?" I spoke again, randomly remembering he said that.

"Streets talk."

"Mhm."

Sometimes things he say don't add up...I just don't know what it is though.

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Should I do a time jump to everything that happens after Jd does get out ???