Chapter 42 - Payback

Bruno, Cole and their gang on their military outfits went and barged at a big house. Shortey was seen in his kitchen having coffee or something when Cole shot his cup and the black liquid exploded on the scared man's face. Shortey was still wearing his bathrobe while enjoying a supposedly morning cup of coffee. Jezuzz!, who the f*cking hell are you thugs?, Shortey shouted and tried to secretly get a hold of his 37 millimeter but wasn't able to do so, when Bruno saw it coming, he placed a shotgun in his temple, that made Shortey feel like a shorty.

You f*cking ass hole, where's my money? I will count to three and if you haven't told me anything after three, I will blow your head off, Bruno shouted. Cole and the other guys were holding their guns stopping Shortey's men, like three of them bouncers to a halt. One....two.....

I'm telling the truth I used some of the money but my wife took everything with her and left me!, Shortey said trembling in fear. Aha, your wife, are you sure about that, cause Cole here told me that your wife left you because you're a womanizing shit that was never satisfied with your mama's t*ts. F*cking bitch, where's my money????, Thr.....Ahhhhhh!, where?, Bruno got violent, pulling Shortey to face him and punched the man's stomach with his shotgun. Ahhh, owww, man, I'm sorry, okay, okay, here, here's my bank book, all your money's there and I' sorry man, please forgive. I promise that I would be good and will not two time you or anyone else...please, Shortey said begging Bruno to forgive him. Oh, I'm sure you wouldn't do anything like this ever again with where I'm going to place you. You won't like it but I'm sure they'll love a dweeb like you there, Bruno smiled and Cole laughed because they brought Shortey to the prison cell where Bruno was detained for years.

The police have been running after him for quite some time now and the authorities were so thankful for Bruno to catch Shortey. He is a drug syndicate, pusher, dealer, thief and should have been arrested with 3 counts or third degree murders in California and New York. Shortey was begging for mercy but my guys inside are so happy to have someone like him. I just feel sorry for him, he wouldn't see the light of the outside world with the things that they would to him if he's unkind or a bitch inside. I hope he'd learn his lesson in there just like I did. But I hope it'll be smoother than what happened to me before. Anyway, so much for the twerp. Okay, I asked Cole to withdraw the money since he's able to forge Shortey's signature for the bank. Haha, that dork's name is Alfonso Shortey. Alfonso, my kind of guy name but he didn't live to the saint's goodness, f*ck, I thought while Cole is handing me the money, all 500,000 dollars. I handed the guys 5,000 bucks and gave a ten thousand to Cole who was refusing to take the money saying that I'm his best friend and he would do everything for me since he loved me. Hell, I gave him another ten thousand after. He is the man I would live and die for until the end. My pal, my ride or die kind of man.

We were always close to the hip ever since my parents died over a drug bust when I was a little boy. I had a rough life and found eating crumbs on garbage disposals in downtown NYC. I was broke and homeless for seven years and Cole saved me from the gutter. He was also a homeless person before but since he was five years older than me, that at the age of 12 he already had a job at a diner, busking plates and washing them. He asked the manager if I could work for them and I was designated to sweep the floors and became a waiter after being given a side job of peeling potatoes and carrots for the diner. Cole was promoted to a supervisor and I, a waiter and we both made the diner popular until one customer, a paid fluke for another diner, a new restobar across us, wanted to ruin our boss' place that he placed a cockroach on his plate and some customers took a video of the incident and it went viral on you tube. So our boss need to shut the diner down which led to Cole and I out of job and homeless again.

That's why we decided to push drugs and played our cards well by hosting underground illegal boxing matches and sold all type of drugs and women to our patrons. However, though we have done the dirty job for 10 years since then, we still didn't master the people we could trust and Shortey was one of the guys we shouldn't have trusted. I saved Cole from being busted and asked to care for Jade who hid under the couch while the police came in and arrested me. Cole was hiding at a secret cabinet that can only be opened from the inside, so he wasn't caught and took Jade to Belinda, then told her about what happened to me. Belinda broke down and thought of what Jade's future that's why she decided to find a better opportunity in London. And I hated myself for ruining my baby's life like that. I never forgave myself for that incident but I hope Jade would forgive me for making her life miserable and poor. Cole, thanks man, please set a date for me and Belinda and I'll hand this money to her for Jade's future, I added and suddenly felt something pricked my chest and started coughing. Then, when Cole brought me to the comfort room to vomit, we both saw blood on it and Cole looked at me with a sad and unbelieving eyes. Man, what's this, f*ck, I'll bring you to the hospital.