Luvin A South Memphis Bad Boy

Chapter Six: Mario

"You a bitch ass nigga, you got product slipping on the flo'." I told Skull.

We were both ducked off at the warehouse across the bridge in South Memphis bagging up product to ship out to a major buyer in Atlanta. Usually our workers would do this part, but Oasis requested for us to do it so shit would run smooth. It's not that he didn't trust them, but we got shit handled better when we were involved.

Oasis acted like a bitch ass nigga when we had to deal with out of state buyers. Me personally he stuck his nose to much in our shit when we were the ones having to get our hands dirty. All he did was collect the money.

Out of town buyers requested their shit immediately and pushing cocaine for them was like butter. Atlanta, Miami and California was where we made the most money since our customers resided in those major states. I put a bug in Oasis' ear not to long ago about is expanding the warehouse through tho use states since shut was jumping, but per usual he wasn't trying to hear me out though.

It would be better if he found some workers there instead of pushing the dope through Memphis all the time. I'm just a logical nigga that looked at shit the easy way. I wasn't tryna become the boss or none of the headaches that came with that shit, but moving the hard way, pissed me off. Pretty soon I'll be out of the dope game anyway, doing the shit that I wanna do. Pushing dope was just the fast way to get bread.

As for Skull, I wanted him to open up that catering company he always bragged about. Food On Da Brain was a food truck he owned. He was a beast in the kitchen, who was locally known for cooking comfort food that everybody in the hood loved. If this shit went haywire he would be set for life to. The amount of money his food truck bought was crazy and all he did was let that shit pile up.

   "Nigga fuck you." Skull said back. "I don't know why this nigga won't let you run this shit."

I shook my head. "After a while, Oasis ain't gotta worry about me butting in no more."

   "That nigga weird."

   "That nigga a faggot."

"Pass me that bag, so I can lock this shit up. I been here all fucking day."

I pass him some Saran Wrap before attending to what I had left in front of me. "I plan on having a sit down with him soon about getting out the game."

"You tryna start a war huh?" Skull asked me.

I chuckled. "That nigga know wassup with me. I been trying get out the game for a while now but I feel like I can't keep pushing this shit back no further."

Skull nodded because he understood exactly where I was coming from. "We getting to old for this shit to and shit just ain't the same no more."

"Mane who you telling? These young niggas built different. I just spanked a twelve year old boy on the ass for posting up on the block."

"I remember when we was kicking shit young." He chuckled.

"These niggas need to enroll in summer camp or something." I chuckled too.

"I ain't gone lie like I ain't gonna miss this shit, but I'm trying to start a family."

I looked over at him and laughed. "Not yo bitch ass done got ahold to some pussy that make you wanna settle down."

He waved me off. "Mannn this bitch built different bruh. Her name Kai and when I tell you this bitch bad. We been ducked off for a minute now, but I think I'm ready to pop out with her tonight at your show." He told me.

I smiled and nodded my head. "Good for you man." I wiped my hands off before dapping him up.

"Preciate that nigga, what about you though? I know you popping out with some bad at the show tonight?"

I humped my shoulders. "Shay might slide through with me tonight, I ain't talked to her in a minute though so she might be with the shit."

He laughed. "Not Bagg losing control of his bitches."

I laughed too, before my phone started ringing. I looked at it and sucked my teeth. It was Meka. The time on my phone said 2:15 which indicated I was late picking her up from school. I had been so busy with this shit, that I forgot about my baby.

"Hello." I said into the phone.

"Daddy where are you?" She asked me, in a voice that made my heart break. "It's your turn to pick me up today."

"I was taking care of some business baby. I'm about to slide through in a minute okay." I told her and making sure she was straight before hanging up. "Aye Skull, take care of this shit for me man. That was Meka, I'm late picking her ass up from school." I told him before dapping him up to leave.

"Aight man." He said after me.

I hopped in my car and drove on the expressway, heading east like I was in a high speed chase. I hated how shit like this slipped my mind when I was working which is why I wanted out of the dope game asap. It was cool when my daughter was a little younger because she wasn't able to remember most of it, but now her mind was like a tap recorder and she grilled my ass now just like her mama did back then.

I regretted not being there for the most important moments of her life like, her first walk, her first crawl and the first time she said "dada" because shit like that was something to cherish. Meka was the spitting image of me, but her attitude came from her mama to the fullest. Besides me wanting to do what I had to do by any means to make sure she was straight, their were times when she would tell me how much she missed me, days where she wanted to live with me and not her mama, but I couldn't allow that.

The shit that I was involved in I couldn't allow, being gunned down in front of my baby, God forbid if something ever happened to her. I was thinking logical as well and that shit haunted me every day. That was all the more motivation I needed to see this shit through. Besides wanted to rest and chill, I liked the thought of getting her fulltime and doing shit dads were supposed to do with their daughters.

I knew how it felt first hand to have an absent father and I didn't want Meka to have no relations to that at all.

I beeped the horn and seen her talking to some cornball ass nigga. It wasn't the fact that she was talking to him, it was the fact that she was showing all of her damn teeth, smiling and shit. I beeped the horn even louder this time to get her attention. Her eyes grew wide when she seen me, before telling him bye and walking over to get in the car.