A young man sits on the back patio of an 18 floor highrise apartment overlooking downtown atlanta. A large cloud of smoke emanates out of the open door behind him as he drinks from a bottle and continues to smoke on his own. The energy is palpable as he sits secluded from the world around him. He is bloodied, bruised, and beaten but the look on his face is strong and unbroken.
Desreck started out into the city as he ignored the conversation going on in the apartment behind him.
"So what are we doing about this lil Rerock dude?" a man can be heard inside asking inside.
A large gathering of young men drinking and smoking gathered around a card game at the center of the sparse room. They are almost silent as they watch the four men at the table conversate.
"He really thinks he's the big dog in my city. After betraying you and taking us for some chumps and running off with a couple of hundred thousand dollars, that shit aint going to fly around me." Bigboy said.
Being the one of the OG, he wasn't about to mess around.
"I heard that he took thirty of our soldiers off Icey. The streets saying that we've been losing somebody every day for the last three weeks. People are starting to say that we should be scared to come outside . Obviously this can't go unpunished" Coach added.
"I promise I'm gonna get this dude's head Big Boy! He's been using this lockdown bull shit to slide through the city undetected. I can't move my units the same to get after him with all this national guard, an martial law bull shit going on I gotta move differently but I can promise you this. I got something for his little ass" So Icey" explained.
"Don't bother, my dog Rich here will take care of it." Coach gestures to the man sitting on his left and across from So Icey. " You just need to make yourself available when I call you." Coach reassured them.
The men all shared a look, getting it across that none of them were playing games.
"Aye let's get one thing straight in here G. This still my city yoo. I don't give a damn , you not finna talk to me crazy in my crib ok. Rerock my problem I'mma handle it." So Icey said plainly.
"Alright, check this here baby boy, I'm the one that runs this thing we got going on here ya feel me. And I got young dudes out here ready ta eat anyone about this shit going on right here, You hear me Icey?You see my mans Rich right here. He on some whole other punisher type of shit. And a young dude like this aint worried about what he gotta do, who he gotta kil , or who's bitch he gotta fuck to get what hes after, you hear me. That goes for You him ya mama who ever. This some serious shit your in the way of my dude. You don't want to be on the wrong side of these problems, Icey. And I got a lot more dudes just like him out there too, just a phone call away. So do what you got to do playa. But stay out of the way. This dude wants war, we're going to bring the smoke" Big boy says.
So Icey is mad, an unknown amount of time has passed but now the older men from before are gone. In his anger, he calls for Desreck off the porch.
"Somebody get that punk ass dude off my back porch" he growled.
Desreck walks back in from the porch. He forgoes closing the door and sets across from Icey.
"I want my money bruhh, and I want it now." So Icey demanded.
"I gave you all the money I got already, bruh. I don't know what you want me to do. You know the grow house got blown up already dude. Ol girl got her settlement check but she just started walking again in and out of the hospital having all kinds of surgeries I can't take that kind of money from her right now" Desreck explained.
But So Icey wasn't convinced.
"I don't accept doctors notes dude. You got two weeks to go out and find my money dude" So Icey argued.
"Ight Icey man I'll get your money back, can I go?" Desreck sighed.
"This is some serious shit you're in the middle of Desreck. An a dude like me dont care who he gotta fuck to get it up out the mudd you understand me?" So Icey asked.
Desreck gave So Icey a sparring look and left for the parking lot of the complex where three men wait standing around a car, Desrick walks up on them.
"Alright im outta here, I don't need to anymore of this shit" Desreck he said.
"Damn, so I'm guessing it didn't go well.?" Sammy asked getting into the driver's seat.
"Icey talkin bout I have two weeks to come up with the money I owe him. If i don't then i'll probably get my head beat in or something" Desreck explained.
"Man fuck that dude So Icey. Them old ass dudes don't run the hood any more. This is our time to open this shit up, new Atlanta shit" Carlos complained from the back.
"Yeah, the old dogs are trying to say it's war on these guys that robbed them but the truth is, this dude Rerock and his gang got them shook. It's bad enough for them that all this extra ass police in the city now, an stupid curfew bullshit got them losing money and going to jail, but having to keep up with the new dudes on the block busting their heads wide open." Jit added.
Sammy looks at jit in the mirror as he drives.
"Fuck that dude Rerock, he's out here killing our brothers with this fuck shit he on, an little young ass dudes like your are looking at this like some kind of movement. You ain't got to hurt nobody to be a man or get money and these dudes out here spilling all this blood in our hood that we supposed to protect. Put some knowledge on him Des." Sammy argued.
"Don't even talk to me about this right now, I'm so ready to rip this dude's head off for this money I owe So Icey man. If it wasn't for Armoni convincing me to get a loan from So Icey for that damn grow house in Acworth I wouldn't be in this mess" Desreck said.
"How did She rope you into getting a loan from a drug lord?" Sammy asked.
"The same way she got a key to my house" Desreck smirked.
The car pulls into an apartment complex and stops in a parking spot.
"Look dude, whenever you are ready for some work you know who to holler at. My boy Jit know what i'm talking about already, get down dude, we out tho" Carlos argued.
Just then a car rolls up and parks beside them. As the window rolls down two young men can be seen. Mark and Rod dressed fresh with chains on watches and looking like real dope boys.
"Yoo, what's going on gangsta we were looking for you" Mark greeted them.
Desreck got out of the car and walked right up to him, getting in his face.
"Looking for you too my dude, we got problems. Imma need that $250 I lent you" Desreck demanded.
Taken back, Mark's eyes went wide in shock.
"Damn dude they got you out here stressed like that. Don't tell me nobody got you walking around out here in the middle of the night looking for a way out! I didn't know it was like that for a player out here, I would have brought my purse" he said.
"Look Cuz, it's some major shit going down in the hood. I know that dont mean shit to you since you've been at school playing super star athlete an shit. Riding around with your new rich homeboy and shit. Parting, getting high and fucking sorority girls an shit. I just figured it was time that you paid your dues, " Desreck spat at him.
"Ok dog look, you Rod and Armoni are my best friends, you're like family to me. And we've all made a lot of money together since I left this place for school so I don't want to hear it. The road hasn't been easy for me either, when I busted my leg and found out I wouldn't able to play on the same level I used to I was devastated. But you and everyone else in the hood were here for me and welcomed me back home. Yo I'm here for you dude, give me a call when you off the bull shit." Mark replied.
The windows rolls up and the car slowly drives off.
"All right Sam i'm out" Desreck signs out.
Desreck walks off heading through the group of apartments to his own. When he walks into the door a cloud of smoke drifts out to meet him. Desrick follows it into the back of the apartment where Armoni is waiting for him in revealing lingerie. Her once bright red hair is now jet black and her beautiful skin is now covered in scars from her accident from head to toe. She is sitting on the bed seductively.
"Guess who~. Oh no, what happened to your face?" she asked.
"Your back, you should have called," Desreck groaned.
He was still put over from the day, although he was glad to see her.
"I wanted to be a surprise" she rolled her eyes at him as she touched him gently.
"I'm surprised,just, now is not a good time. I have a problem with Ice and just want to be left alone to figure it out" Desreck he explained.
"A problem with Icey? Is this about the money you borrowed for me??" she asked in a panic.
After all that happened with school and her accident, she didn't have any money to spare. Let alone what she had borrowed. Not being able to pay back your dues was a quick way to get killed in the game.
"Yeah exactly, we're gonna need that back" Desreck nodded.
"All my money is tied up in medical stuff right now but in a couple of months i'll have it to give you" Armoni explained.
"I don't have a couple of weeks Moni. If i dont have the money in a couple of days he's going to kill me. I need it now" Desreck growled.
"A couple of days, does he expect you to pull this money from your ass or something?" she argued.
"A bunch of his trap houses got robbed. No one knows who done the shit but he's calling in all his loans and punishing anyone who cant pay as a show of force. If i can't get his money in the next couple of days he's going to make an example of me" Desreck added.
Armoni sat up now, biting her lip nervously as she tried to think of a way out of this.
"Damn it this is all because of this damn explosion. Everything has been so fucked up every since that day. If that never happened then we'd be sitting on all that weed right now" she groaned.
"Yeah it would help. You don't think any of it survived do you?" Desreck asked.
"You know maybe, I had been thinking about that. The rig was set up underground so it's a chance the weed might have survived the blast. As long as the solar generator is intact the water pump should continue to pull water from the lake. It would definitely be worth checking on. You know, Rod gave me this pass while I was in the hospital. It says that it lets me go out into the restricted area and get whatever I can salvage out of my "recently abandoned home". But with all the army checkpoints in the city we can't even get it into the city any more" Armoni said.
"I can figure a way around the check points, but they dropped a bomb on it, wouldn't the stuff be radioactive?" Desreck asked.
"Well plants don't survive in radioactive environments , but it's a chance that the weed is some how changed by its new environment and has an effect of how it smokes but honestly. It's the only hope I have that can make sure a person that I care about doesn't get hurt" Armoni argued.
This plan was her only bet to get out of having to face the wrath of the OG's.