IT WAS ALL A DREAM (1) (6 page)

             
“So what do you have planned for the evening mister?”

             
“I’ve got some biz to tend to later, but-“

             
K saw what was about to happen, but was powerless to stop Mattie as she swung the box cutter in her raised hand, bringing the blade down across Raven’s face tearing her cheek open. It happened too fast for him to react.

             
“Get da fuck away from my man bitch!” Mattie screamed in an erratic rage.

             
Raven grabbed her cheek and cried out in shock. It was useless. The gash made by the blade began to bleed heavily. Mattie attempted to swing again. This time K caught her wrist.

             
“Fuck you niggah! Get da fuck off me! How you gonna be up in here with this bitch all up in your face?!”

             
“Calm the fuck down before yo crazy ass go to jail!” K barked.

  
             
His guess was the word jail brought her somewhat back to her senses. The look of recognition on her face said that she knew she fucked up.
She heard the cop from MENACE T
O SOCIETY’S voice in her head as clear as day.
You know you fucked up right.
K grabbed her arm and they rushed through the crowd headed for the door. Mattie had obviously left the stage and prepared herself to fight. She’d changed from her heels to her
tims
(Timberlands boots) and was right on K’s heels as they knocked down whoever got in their way. K saw the huge bouncers standing at the door blocking the exit.

             
“Stop them!” somebody shouted from the bar area.

             
K saw the look on Mattie’s face, realizing that she was probably about to go to jail.

             
POP! POP! POP!
Came
the sound from the entrance behind the bouncers.

             
“
Getdafuk
against the wall
bitchass
muscle
mafuckas
!” said Blass swinging the Smith and Wesson, pointing it at each of the bouncers.

They threw up their hands reluctantly in surrender and moved to the side so K and Mattie could pass through. As they ran out of the entrance Blass followed letting off two more shots in the ceiling. They ran across the parking lot like they had just robbed the joint and jumped in the rental. As they exited the club headed towards the highway, they could see police strobe lights rapidly approaching in the distance.

                                          
       
  CHAPTER 5  

             
After they got back to the hood, Blass told K to drop him off at his girls crib. Blass was still
trippin
after K told him how the situation unfolded in the club.

             
“Yo Mat. You a crazy bitch ma! I always knew you had some gangsta in you
cause
you fucks wit my man…but dam!  You blew shorty whole face open!”

             
Mattie gave Blass an evil stare from the backseat, but didn’t respond. She knew he was just
clownin
’. After Blass was dropped off they hit the highway. As they drove westbound on the L.I.E. headed towards the city, she was quiet. There was so much to say, but it was like neither one of them knew where to start. It didn’t help K’s thought process that she was still wearing the outfit she’d performed in. Dam she’s sexy, he thought.

             
“Man what the hell happened to you? You just up and disappeared after you moved
otta
my parents crib. I was fucked up worrying about you,” K said.

             
Now she did finally look him square in his eyes. If K hadn’t seen the pain before, he saw it now in the tears welling up in her eyes.

             
“You were fucked up? You…were…fucked…up?! Niggah, I was homeless, lonely, broke, and extremely confused about my life and future. You know me better than anybody and you know I don’t like to depend on nobody for shit! I put all my faith and trust in you, and
your
so called peoples break in our house and steal every dime you had stashed for our future. You knew I wasn’t gonna be no broke hungry bitch and I don’t sell drugs. So basically I’ve just been surviving the best way I know how. It was never my intention to hurt you. I loved you and you were always good to me,” said Mattie clearly distraught.

             
Now it was his turn to be speechless. Her reality had been something that he had selfishly overlooked. The silence between them
was deafening. He chose his next words carefully as she stared out the passenger side window.

             
“Look. I’m sorry. I’ve only been looking at this one sided. I know that shit must have got real stressful for you. Maybe we can find somewhere we can park and talk,” he said understanding her point of view.

             
Mattie nodded her head quietly in agreement as they drove towards the tollbooths of the Midtown Tunnel. As the lights of the New York City skyline came into view, the realization that it was Friday night hit him.

             
“It should be a blunt rolled up in the ashtray if you
tryin
ta blow
..”

             
Mattie had pushed in the lighter and opened the ashtray in one swift motion. A few seconds later she was taking deep, lung smashing drags of Kush.
almost
immediately the reality of her slashing Raven at the club hit her.

             
“Dam, I
reeeally
fucked up this time. I know that cut is gonna leave a permanent scar on her. Not to mention my home address is on file at the club from my application. The cops are definitely gonna be lookin for a bitch,” she said.

             
“Man, I wasn’t expecting you to do no crazy shit like that! I mean I was
tryin
to make you jealous, but not like that!”

             
“I don’t know what came over me. I know I wasn’t prepared for those emotions that attacked me when I saw her all between your legs and smiling like I used to be….I mean…” she said stumbling over her words.

             
She looked away ashamed.

             
“You
gon
be aight, but we gotta get somewhere and find you a sweat suit or t-shirt or
sumn
. I can’t stay focused with you
sittin
over there dressed like that,” K
said seriously.

             
That got a smile out of her. It was alm
ost midnight when they hit 8th A
venue and the only places open that sold clothes were tourist novelty stores. K double parked, ran in and bought Mattie
an
I LOVE NY shirt. After that they headed down towards Greenwich Village. They cruised up and down NYC streets expressing how they felt for a couple of hours. If this would have happened then maybe this would have happened. Or if this wouldn’t have happened, then this wouldn’t have happened. But the reality was what had happened had happened, and the past couldn’t be changed.

             
Finally they came to the conclusion that maybe it was at least worth attempting to rebuild the bond that the untimely incarceration had taken away from them. K could tell that Mattie had reservations about the possibility of the same sequence of events happening again. But the one thing that they understood was that they were each other’s weakness.

             
“Look, I got a room that I rent out in West Babylon from Jeff and Marcie. We can stay there or get a hotel room for a couple
o
days until we find an apartment,” he stated as they headed out of the city.

             
“Well I know you just came home and you lost everything when you got locked up. I don’t want to be a burden
..”

             
“A burden?”
K asked in disbelief.

             
“Well I know I don’t have a job anymore. Plus the police are gonna be lookin for me for that dumb shit I did.”

             
“Don’t worry about bread ma. This is me and you know how I boogie. Aint shit change. You just gonna lay low for a couple weeks
til
this shit blow ova. I mean it aint like they gonna put out
a
APB on you for cutting a bitch.”

             
Mattie had always been cautious and one of the reasons that they connected so well was because K wasn’t reckless when it came to shit involving the police. Plus K had a sweet connect with the Nigerians on the fake ID’s and passports. They found their resting place for the night in Queens, off the Grand Central Parkway at the Parson’s Blvd. exit.  After pulling into the parking lot of the hotel K went and paid for the room. When he returned with the key they went to the second floor and entered the room.

             
“You get comfortable and relax while I run over to Supthin Blvd and grab
sumn
to blow,” said K.

             
She went in the room and turned to face him in the doorway. Mattie pulled K close and stared directly in his eyes.