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“Please don’t shoot me, baby girl,” JoAnn pleaded from the ground.

Sabrina couldn’t shoot her. She would have to bury her dumb ass and she didn’t want to waste the money. Plus, the effect it would have on Corey would change his life forever. Small fights at school would be the least of her worries.

Sabrina looked around on the dark street and she knew the local crackheads wouldn’t tell the police who killed JoAnn, if they even knew her real name. But what if I did go to jail? Sabrina wondered. I would be mad as fuck if I spent the rest of my life in prison over her.

Sabrina decided to merely let her ass off with a warning. She felt like a cop letting a speeder go. “BITCH, IF I EVER SEE YOU AROUND MY BROTHER OR MY HOUSE OR EVEN MY MOMMA’S HOUSE, IT WILL BE THE LAST FUCKING THING YOU SEE. DO YOU HEAR ME?”  Sabrina screamed at her.

JoAnn nodded, “Yes, yes, baby girl. I hear you,” she said, still kneeling in the prayer position. Sabrina lowered the gun and put it on safety. “Get off these motherfucking drugs, JoAnn,” Sabrina said to her as she walked to her car.

Sabrina got in and took off down the street, leaving only tire marks and the smell of burnt rubber behind. The people in the street ran and got out of her way as she raced past the crack-houses. She made a few quick turns and merged with traffic like nothing happened. She was ok until she was finally stopped at an intersection. That’s when she had time to think about it all.

I almost killed my mother, Sabrina was overcome with emotion, that’s when the tears began. She cried so hard that when the light turned green, she had to pull over. She parked, hunched over the steering wheel, bawling uncontrollably.

I have to call someone to come get me. I can’t drive like this.

None of the names that came to her mind were good ideas of people that could rescue her. Momma Montgomery was with Corey and she didn’t feel like explaining herself to her friends. She was feeling around her purse for her cell phone when she found his card.

Brandon Phillips

Senior Marketing Advisor

This is crazy, she thought but Sabrina found her phone and dialed his number. He said call him if she needed anything. Right now, Sabrina needed help more than she ever had before.

Chapter 14

At first, Brandon wasn’t sure who he was talking to. It was a female voice and she was crying and screaming. Brandon almost hung up until he heard her say Corey. Putting two and two together, he figured out quickly who it was.

“Sabrina, wh---what happened?” he tried to ask, but she didn’t hear him over her crying and yelling.

“COME AND GET ME, PLEASE.” He understood that.

“Where are you?”

She gave Brandon the directions and he flew there as if he were a pilot flying a jet. He found her parkednon Tyrenne Street, crying, and frantic. He jumped in on the passenger side and listened.

He listened to every word that came from her lips. She told him how Corey got into a fight at school.

 “He beat up some boy and might get expelled.” She said still crying. After talking to him she found out what really happened the day he disappeared with JoAnn.

“He said that BITCH told him to stay with some man while she went to the bathroom. When she left, the man pulled down his pants and asked Corey to touch his MOTHAFUCIN’ DICK! Corey kicks the man to get away and goes to find her. This BITCH is in the bathroom, getting high. Passed the fuck out with a needle in her arm.” Sabrina rattled off all the information without taking a single breath.

 “Sounds like some shit my dad used to do,” Brandon told her. That stopped her tears. Brandon went from listening to talking. He had never told any woman about his Dad and their relationship and, until now, he hadn’t thought anyone would understand.

“My dad overdosed on coke about five years ago. He had done a lot of the same shit your mom is doing. One time, I was with him and he told me to go play. Now that I think back, we were at a crack-house and there was shit everywhere. Glass, pipes, trash, and needles all over the floor. Well, I’m a kid I don’t give a fuck about that. I started playing, fell, and a nail from the raggedy-ass floor went through my knee.”

She put her hand over her mouth in shock.

“I had to scream and crawl to where he was because he had passed out. He was so drugged up, it took forever for him to realize what was going on and take me to a hospital. I was bleeding everywhere. My momma was pissed when she found out.”

“I’m so sorry to hear that,” she said, now calming down and wiping her face.

“Yeah, he’s gone now and, as crazy as it may seem, I’m kind of glad. I was tired of all the crazy shit. When he disappeared for weeks, I would worry if he was dead only to have him pop up and steal money from me.”

“I almost killed her tonight,” Sabrina admitted. “I dropped Corey off with our Grandmother and went over there to kill her.”

Damn, she wasn’t playing, Brandon thought, looking in her eyes. He saw nothing but rage and sadness. He wanted to make her feel better, to take away all her pain.

“I did hit her with the gun, but I couldn’t kill her,” she said and started crying again.

“Naw, we done wit the crying, Sabrina. Let me tell you about my day,” Brandon said, trying to change the mood. 

“I left work, ready to go home, and saw that my car wasn’t there. I call the police, the garage security is looking through the camera footage, and, meanwhile, I’m frantic.  Someone had to have stolen it, right? I’m on the phone with my insurance company and one of my co-workers comes up to me and says, ‘Hey man, I think I just saw your car on the second level.’”

“Damn. What did they do, steal it and couldn’t get out?” Sabrina asked, wiping her tear-streaked face.

“Naw, I forgot that I parked on the second level because someone was in my parking space on the third level when I came in this morning.”

The car filled with her laughter. Sabrina laughed so loud that his ears started ringing. At least she was laughing instead of crying, Brandon thought.

“A’ight, dang. It’s not that funny,” Brandon said, chuckling himself. “I had to explain the whole thing to the cops. Luckily, they hadn’t had time to start doing any real searching.”

“I would have been too embarrassed,” she said as she reached towards his legs. Brandon’s heart stopped. He thought she was about to grab his dick. He felt the swelling in his pants immediately.

“Excuse me,” she said as her arm kept moving past his legs and went to the glove compartment and opened it, grabbing some napkins. Closing it, she dropped a few of them between Brandon’s legs. She had to reach over him, even more, and her head was damn near in his lap.

He thought his swelling dick was going to burst out of his pants and poke her in the head.

Damn she turned me on, he thought. Sabrina must have felt the tension as well. She looked up at him and smiled. He was just about to go for the gold and kiss her when they heard a knock on the passenger’s side window.

They both looked up and, at first, he didn’t recognize the woman. After all, it was dark and the hardness in his pants just wanted her to go away.

“Brandon,” he heard her say as she put her hand on her waist. Out of all places and all times, this bitch had to show up here.

“Who is that?” Sabrina asked Brandon.

Brandon looked at her and saw her brown eyes, red from crying. I don’t want to start off our relationship, or whatever we have, with lies.

Brandon shifted in the passenger seat and blurted it out. “That’s my baby’s momma.”

*   *   *

Sabrina wasn’t sure who the chick was, but she definitely had an attitude. Sabrina watched her arms flailing and her neck popping as  the woman and Brandon talked.

She was a “ghetto bird,” as Sabrina liked to call them. Her hair was four different colors and she had bright, green finger nails that she was waving in Brandon’s face.

The girl looked around thirty-five and Sabrina saw two kids waiting for her to finish her tirade. What a shame, she thought as she watched the scene.

Me and Brandon weren’t doing anything, but he is fine, Sabrina thought. He had this thing about him. When Brandon dropped Corey off, Sabrina was too mad to pay attention to his looks. Now, as he stood outside the car and talked to this girl, Sabrina couldn’t help but notice how handsome he was.

His hair was cut low and, even under his jacket, she could tell he had a muscular build. He looked a little upset as he talked to the girl and glanced back and forth at Sabrina to see if she was watching. Maybe it would be a good idea if I called Corey to tell him I’m on my way. He is cute, but baby-momma drama is not my thing.

Sabrina took her eyes off the scene on the sidewalk and picked up her cell phone and called Corey.

“Hello,” Corey answered on the second ring.

“Hey, C. You ready to come home?”

“Naw, Momma M said I could spend the night. She said can you pick me up in the morning,” His voice sounded lighter and more cheerful. It was contagious and made Sabrina smile through the phone.

“Ahhh, ok. What y’all doing over there?”

“Corey, look what’s happening,” Sabrina heard Momma M say from the background.

“Gotta go, Brina. The bad guy is about to get beat up. Love you, and see you in the morning,” he said, hanging up without any response.

Sabrina looked at the phone in amazement. Am I in a dream or something? she wondered. If I am, I don’t want to wake up. Corey seemed happy and he and Momma Montgomery were spending time together. For him to be happy was truly music to Sabrina’s soul.

“Wh-what, what’s wrong? Why you staring at the phone?” Brandon asked as he jumped back into the passenger seat.

“Just talked to Corey and he’s having a good time over there,” Sabrina saw the girl was walking away. “What happened with your BM?” Sabrina asked as she found her purse and put her phone inside it. BM being short for Baby Momma. I really do hate that word, Sabrina thought as she listened.

“That, well, she isn’t my baby’s momma. I really don’t have any kids, but she tried to say I was the father of one of her children.”

“So, it wasn’t yours?” Sabrina asked, but she knew the man always said the child wasn’t his.

“Nope, it wasn’t. I told her I wanted a DNA test and she took forever to go and get it. Told me she already knew he was mine.

Eventually, the truth came out and I told myself I would never get in that situation again. That’s why I call her my baby’s momma. Just a reminder to myself, I guess,” he said, shrugging and looking aimlessly out the window.

“Wow, as crazy as that sounds, I can respect that. I’m surprised she even felt bold enough to knock on the window and get your attention.” His face turned to a frown when Sabrina said that.

 “Yeah, you would think that she would fall into a hole and die after that but, every time she sees me, she tries to cause a scene. I told her this time that if she can’t control herself when she sees me, I’m going to get a restraining order on her. That’s why she walked away so fast.”

Damn, I didn’t know women really acted like this, Sabrina thought. I guess since my friends aren’t like that  “ I thought, just maybe, that those women were only in the movies.” She said aloud.