Chapter 2
Arayanna woke up late and had to rush to get ready for the meeting. She wore a pair of baggy fit white jeans, a large red Sean John shirt that had Sean John written in white script, and a pair of white Jordon's. She brushed her hair up into a hig pony tail and held it up with a red scrunchie.
She rolled on her clear lip gloss and lifted her right pillow and picked up her gun, checked it to make sure that it was full of bullets, then she tucked it in her waist in under large shirt and placed a blade in her mouth. She quickly sprayed on her favorite perfume, Amerage, and walked out her door with her keys in her hand. She drove down town quickly and parked in the underground garage of Houston Inc.
Houston Inc. was a building Omari's uncle had bought for him. The building was kept clean and had an air of corporate professionalism but was used for the meetings Omari held every week.
Arayanna got out of the car and looked at the packed parking lot. This was going to be a long meeting. She hit her alarm and pressed the elevator button and waited for it to come down. She walked into the elevator and pressed floor 17 and waited patiently for the elevator to get to the floor.
When the elevator door opened she walked out and opened the large office door. She looked around the room and searched through the people sitting at the table and noticed that there was a girl sitting down at the table wearing all gray and she definetly wasn't supposed to be there.
Arayanna slowly walked across the room and stopped next to the girl and said, "Who are you and why are you here?"
The girl turned and looked at Arayanna and rolled her eyes and turned back around. Arayanna's eyes squinted and it took everything she had to restrain herself from knocking the trick off her feet. Arayanna took a deep breath and repeatred, "Who are you and why are you here?"
The girl huffed and loudly said, "Look I don't know who you are but you need to get the fuck out of my face before I get you out of my face."
All of a sudden Arayanna lifted her hand and back slapped the girl causing a hand-and-cheek sound to resound around the the room. Suddenly all the attention was on Arayanna and this mysterious chick who was now cradeling her cheek.
"Now I tried to be nice but it seems as if you don't understand kindness so I'ma get right to the point. If you don't answer my question I'm going to hurt you," Arayanna replied. "Who are you and why are you here?"
"I'm Tenisha and I was invited by my boyfriend to come," the girl said quietly. She was no longer the loud mouthed trick she had once been.
"Who's your boyfriend?" Arayanna asked.
"Mark," she answered.
"Mark!" Arayanna called. There wasn't an answer.
"Where's Mark?" Arayanna asked calmly.
"You called me?" A voice asked.
Arayanna turned to see Marsk standing behind her. "Did you forget something?" she asked him.
"No," he answered.
"Okay. Let me rephrase that. Why is his bitch here?" she asked getting aggravated.
"You see what had happened was," Mark started.
"No what happened today is to never happen again now take her somewhere because I don't want her here and ya ass better be back before Omari gets here. I don't ever want to come here and see some trick sitting in this or any of our offices without my permission or both of y'all are gonna get fucked up. Does everybody understand me?" she asked and waited for the echos of 'yes' that she knew would resound around the room.
She nodded and sat in her seat next to the head of the table. She waited quietly as Rashawnda and Alanna sat down at the other side of the table. Rashawnda started talking to Razz B while they waited for the meeting to start. Suddenly the door opened and Omari walked in.
He was wearing a black Sean John wife beater, a pair of black baggy fit Sean John jeans, a red and black Sean John leather jacket and a pair of black suede Timberlands. The room got quiet as he walked to his seat at the head of the table. He sat down and casually looked around the room.
"Someone's missin', he said simply. "Where's Mark?" he asked.
"He bought his girl here without asking my permission so he had to take her somewhere else. He was supposed to be back already but as you can see he's failed to get here on time," Arayanna answered.
Omari nodded and began the meeting. "Aight there's been sightings of Crypts sellin' their shit in our territory. That shouldn't be happening and I that shit needs to be fixed so I want Fizz and Razz to fix it. Other than that everything's been good. Nobody's come up short and you all better keep it that way," Omari started.
Our newest member, Keisha Livingston, should be at our next meeting. She's in the hospital getting fixed up from her inniation," Omari said with a smile on his face. "If everything goes right and I'm satisfied by the way y'all are working then I'll give y'all some vacation time around spring break," Omari replied right before the door opened.
Mark walked in quietly and sat down. Omari slowly turned his head and looked at Mark with no emotion visible on his face. "I heard about that stunt you pulled this morning. Don't you ever do that shit again. You know the rules so abide by them. You break a rule again and I'll kill ya ass. I don't trust none of those bitches outside the association so you better make damn sure they not playin' you for info cause if they are both of ya'll are dead," Omari finished.
Omari leaned over to Arayanna and said, "Stay back after the meeting is over. I have something I need to discuss with you."
Arayanna shivered from the low whisper and nodded her head as a signal saying that she understood what he said. Omari leaned back in his seat and said, "Y'all can go."
Everyone got up except for Arayanna. Alanna and Rashawnda looked at her funny but kept walking when they saw her shake her head. Soon everone was gone and Omri was left alone with Arayanna.
Omari's POV
During the meeting I had to concentrate very hard on not saying anything 'personal' to Arayanna. Her beautifully scented perfume kept wafting over towards me and it took everything I had not to tell everyone to get the fuck out and throw her on the office table and do things to her that she has never done.
He had known her since she was thirteenm that's five years for all the stupid people of there, and she has had my back since. There was never a time that I had to doubt her loyalty to me. I can still remember that day when she took that bullet for me.
Some trick named Allison had joined the Bloods to find out some information about our operation for Calib, the leader of the Crypts. Arayanna didn't trust Allison so she started to follow her when she left meetings and found out that she was really undercover.
Arayanna had been 16 at the time and had been part of the Bloods for three years and new how shit went down. She would have shot the girl but didn't have a clear shot so she paged me 911. When I got there I passed by Allison and the bitch pulled out her gun and went to shoot me but Arayanna saw the chick and pulled out her gun.
She saw that Allison had her gun pointed at me and ran in front of me right before the bullet hit me. She got shot in her left arm and there's no need to tell you that she was pissed. She pointed her gun and shot her six times. Three in the chest, two in her arms, and one in the head.
I picked Arayanna up and was surprised that she was so light and placed her gently in the car and I drove her to the hospital. That was when I realised that Arayanna was a down ass bitch. Not many people would risk their life for someone else who wasn't family.
Arayanna had been my girl, or Baby Girl as I liked to refer to her when she wasn't around, for the past two years although I failed to let her in on that piece of information. Nobody but Fizz, Razz and Jarell knew that I had been feelin her for a while so I knew that they had a few suspicions about the 'meeting' I only had Arayanna attend.
"Come here," I demanded.
Arayanna got up and straightened her shirt and walked over to me with a confused look on her face. She made her way towards me and stopped when she was directly in front of me. I smiled and snaked my hands around her waist and pulled her closer to me.
She gasped causing me to chuckle in amusement. I trailed my hands up her body until I cradeled her head with my hands and leaned in to kiss her. I captured her lips with mine and kissed her hungrily yet gently at the same time. I smiled in victory as I conquered her bounderies and heard her moan.
Arayanna's POV
I don't know what came over Omari just then but I was glad it did. I had been secretly crushin' on Omari since I was thirteen but I ignored it as the years went on and he conquered countless girls and left them without a thought. I choose the word 'conquered' to describe his brief relationship with his girlfriends because he never stayed with them long, never invited them to meetings, or let them stay over his house at night.
I know these things because Omari and I talk about everything but taht's the closest we ever got into a romantic relationship so you can imagine how surprised I was when he kissed me. I now know why the girls Omari dated followed him around like a lost puppy. That man was excellent at whatever he does. Not only can he take care of business when he needs to but the boy has skills that most men can only wish to posses and to think that I got all that from a kiss.
When Omari pulled away I had to take the time to catch my breath. Omari stood in front of me, holding me up by my waist and a smile was present on his face. The smile that showed his pearly white teeth and made me weak in the knees.
"Why'd you do that?" I asked Omari curiously and waited patiently for his response.
"Because I wanted to," Omari replied simply.
"Is that all you asked me to stay back for? Just to kiss me?" I asked him.
"No...so you gonna be my girl or what?" Omari asked me.
For the first few seconds I was brain dead. I would have never thought that he felt the same way about me that I felt for him. I looked at him like he lost his mind.
"You're serious about this?" I asked him.
"Dead serious," he answered.
"Then yes," Arayanna replied.
Omari smiled and led me out of the room with his hand on the bottom of my back. "Where are we going?" I asked him.
"To drop your car at home then you're coming with me," Omari answered.
Arayanna didn't know where they were going but she trusted Omaris so she hopped in her car and drove to her apratment complex.
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