petty?
âWhat?â
âYou heard me!â Vanessa knocked the disc out her hands and stomped it. âWhat about us?â
âUs? Us? Bitch! Wasnât you just with O.T.? Didnât you just have his nasty-ass dick inside you?â Tangy yoked her up slapping her twice in her face. âSo get the fuck on!â
Vanessa held her jaw in pain as the tears rolled down. âI already let you jump on me this morning and I ainât hit you back, but you ainât gonna keep dogging me!â
âOh yeah?â Tangy let her jealous fury loose for the second time that day, back slapping Vanessa across the room. Then socking her into the brass and glass bookshelves she started kicking her.
Ring. Ring. Ring. Tangyâs cell phone started to go off bringing an abrupt halt to her rage. Knowing that it couldâve been the hospital with information about Paris, she went to the other side of the small living room answering the call.
âYeah, hello.â She panted out of breath as Vanessa lay balled up crying.
âHey, chick, itâs me, Kenya.â
âOh hey, Kenya!â Tangy grinned knowing the mere mention of that name would make Vanessa infuriated and pissed. âHow you feeling today, baby doll?â
âIâm good.â Kenya thought nothing of Tangy being affectionate because she always was. âMe and Storm headed out in this rain to take care of some business, but I wanted to check in. Howâs Paris doing? Whatâs the latest?â
âWell, sweetie, the doctor moved her to a semi-private room so they could observe her and run a few more tests, but if you want I can swing by and pick you tomorrow up so me and you can visit Paris together.â
Out the corner of her eye, Tangy watched Vanessa crawl in to the other room. She quickly turned her back against the wall so she could be ready when Vanessa returned probably with knife in hand ready to slice some shit up. After five or six minutes more of talking to Kenya, strangely enough to Tangy, the usually overly aggressive Vanessa hadnât come back out in the living room or even made a sound. Making sure to promise to call Kenya back later, Tangy hung up. A few seconds later there were several loud knocks on the door.
âWho the hell is it?â
âPolice! Open up!â
âWhat!â
âPolice! Open this door!â They banged harder as the frame shook.
âNo, this stankinâ bitch didnât call these hoes!â Tangy sucked her teeth smashing a glass mirror with her fist.
âPolice! Open the door!â
Before Tangy knew it Vanessa flew past her, flinging the front door wide open and she was face down on the carpet, a knee pressed in her spine, being handcuffed.
âOh, itâs like that? How you gonna play me? You know Iâm still on paper!â Tangy wrestled as the officers hauled her down the stairs roughly dragging her body through the wet, uncut grass forcing her to lie by the squad car tires. âNow you can get back with O.T., you dirtball skank! Fuck you and him!â were her ultimate vindictive words before they tossed her inside slamming the rear door shut. âYâall both got it coming when I get out!â
Vanessa, feeling like sheâd gotten revenge for that ass kicking and Tangy out of Kenyaâs grip stood smugly in the picture window holding a wet washcloth to her face.
When the officers reached the precinct intake center, Tangyâs tirade and attitude had gotten worse. As she was being marched inside, the wild, masculine female bumped, mean mugged, and vulgarly cursed everyone in her path, even an old pimp obviously in distress.
âThrow her in the back holding cell until she calms down!â the female desk sergeant demanded. âIâll let the detectives deal with her in the morning!â
Showdown . . .
O.T. drove up to the hotelâs parking complex just as his brother was paying the valet.
âWhat up,
Marilyn Cohen de Villiers