Steven looked over at Carmen on the chair and shook his head.

"Umm are you okay? Do you need anything?" He asked her walking closer to her.

Carmen shook her head no. Tears slipped out her eyes.

"I'm not safe, no where I go." She mumbled.

Steven felt bad for her, he kind of felt responsible for leaving her there by her self, and look what happened. She almost got rape again.

"You safe here. I'm sorry that happen to you. I should have lock the door. It's my fault." Steven tried to reassure her.

Carmen remain quiet, and just cried in her hand. Steven didn't know how to go by comforting her.

"If it make you feel any better you can sleep with me. I have an air mattress I can sleep on and you can get my bed." Steven sat next to her.

"I can't kick you out your bed. I'll take the air mattress." Carmen said quietly.

Steven nodded.

"You want me to bake you a cake too?" Steven said. Thinking about what Derrick said. Maybe that probably would make her feel better.

Carmen smiled a little bit.

"No thank you. My face hurts." Carmen said.

Steven looked at her face, and frowned. It was swelling up more.

"I'm going to get you some ice. Your shit swelling up badly." Steven shook his head and got up from the chair.

Derrick walked in the house and close and lock the house door. He had his duffle bags with him.

"Damn these bags heavy as hell." Derrick drop the bags on the floor. He walked to the chair Steven been sitting in and sat next to Carmen. "How you feel now Car-Men?" He asked her.

"I'm okay." Carmen said.

"Did that nigga start baking you a cake yet?" Derrick asked her glaring toward the kitchen.

"I said I didn't want one." Carmen said.

"Nah you not suppose to do that. You suppose to say you want one bake and give it to me. That's how we do. So I'm going to tell him you want a cake bake okay?" Derrick whispered.

Carmen just shrugged her shoulders.

"Yo Stevie." Derrick walked to the kitchen. Steven looked at Derrick. "Carmen said she want the cake bake." Derrick nodded his head.

"Alright that's cool. Take this to her." Steven gave Derrick the ice pack he made.

Derrick took the ice pack to Carmen grinning extra hard.

"We about this cake girl." Derrick said, and Carmen laughed at him. "Now if only this nigga had some Kool-Aid. You like Kool-Aid?" Derrick asked Carmen.

"No I drink Sprite and water." Carmen said.

"Damn that's it?" Derrick shook his head.

Carmen nodded her head. Then it was back quiet.

"Do you ever talk?" Derrick asked her.

"Only when somebody talk to me." Carmen said.

"Damn that's not good. Your ass boring." Derrick walked away from her.

Carmen put the ice pack on her face. She didn't want to go back to her room she was staying in. She felt scared together.

She laid her head against the couch and placed the ice pack on her face again. She wanted to cry her eyes out. She felt sick to her stomach. She wanted to be normal again, but she don't think that was possible. Well for her anyway.

She woke up to someone tapping her shoulder. She jumped and opened her eyes. She remove the ice pack and was looking at Derrick face as he had a paper plate in his hand eating cake.

"Girl you better get you piece of this cake. It's so good." He took another bite and eat it in her face. "Yessss go get that cake cake cake." Derrick started dancing.

"Derrick!" Steven yelled.

"Huh?" Derrick stopped dancing and looked at Steven.

"What the hell you doing?" Steven looked at Carmen as she hide her mouth in her hand trying not to laugh at Derrick.

"I just eating my cake and dance. It so good." Derrick said.

"I baked the cake for you Carmen." Steven said to Carmen.

"Thank you." Carmen said.

Derrick phone started ringing. He stopped eating his cake and looked at phone.

"See I knew her ass would have been calling me. About to put this shit on Airplane mode. No need to call now." Derrick said putting his phone back in his pocket.

"Now watch tomorrow she going to back over here." Steven said.

"I won't be here. I have to work." Derrick said.

"Well stay here with Carmen, I'm about to go handle business." Steven said.

"I'll keep Miss Car-Men company. You like scary movies?" Derrick asked Carmen. Carmen nodded her head. "Stevie you have popcorn around here?"

"Yeah I have some. It's in the cabinet. Well I am about to roll out. I'll be back." Steven said and walked out the house.

"We about to have a house party in this nigga house. You down?" Derrick looked at Carmen. She shook her head no. "Man you no fun." Derrick said.

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Steven drove down to his trap house wanting to know who was those guys breaking in his house, trying to set him up. That right there can get somebody killed quicker then anything. He know he wasn't no killer, but nobody was that fucking stupid to come to his house and break into it. Like they run shit. That what got him mad.

Plus some snake ass niggas let them know where he stay at that. Nobody getting away with that shit. Not tonight.

When he pulled up, everything was quiet around there. That's not possible. He hated when it's like a ghost town around there. That's why he have people hanging around there.

He walked in the trap and nobody was upfront. He paused and look around. Nope, nobody was in there. He walked down a long hall and downstairs. Where he saw everybody.

"Well got damn, nobody upfront watching my shit. What the fuck up with that?" Steven asked.

"We was told you wanted everybody here for this." His worker Ben said.

"Who the hell told you that lie?" Steven asked him.

"Sage." Ben said and others agreed.

"Where the hell is Sage? I told her ass to bring them muthafuckas to me." He shook his head as the door open and Saga walked in with PeeWee, but not with the men who broke into Steven house.

Steven looked at them hard.

"Something wrong with this fucking picture ain't it?" He asked them.

"Nah I don't see nothing wrong." PeeWee said smoking a cigarette.

"Where the fuck them niggas at that broke into my shit!" Steven yelled.

"Dead. I thought you told us to kill them?" Sage lied.

"You a damn lie. I didn't told your ass to do shit like that. Get the fuck out. Both of you." Steven said dismissing both Sage and PeeWee.

"I thought we were in this shit together." Sage said with attitude.

"Bitch you thought. Get the fuck out. Anybody else want to go with them?" Steven asked. As PeeWee and Sage stomped out the basement. They others shook their head no.

"So boss when the next shipment bruh? I'm running low like a muthafucka." Ben said.

"Shit I am too." Steven worker Lonnie said.

"You two, let's go talk business." Steven said to Lonnie and Ben. "As for the rest of you, y'all can go." Staved walked out the basement with Ben and Lonnie behind him.

When they got to Steven room where he give out his products and count his money. Steven shut the door and sat down. Ben and Lonnie followed behind him and sat down too.

"I just got one question. Can I trust you?" Steven looked at both of them.

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