Chapter 32

Safaree, Chassidy, and Drake finally made it to Vancouver where Lea and Nicki were possibly hiding. Now was the time to lay all drama, all emotions, all fear aside to take on a very complex task. SB had hoped he didn't have to get the world involved in this situation. It was dangerous, risky, and could have possibly tarnished their lives. He had originally called for back up just in case Lea was going to play the hard way, but thought it would stir up too much conflict. Besides, he felt like it was his battle, so he would fight it alone.

The three climbed into the black trucks right out of the G5 SB had them take there. Since Chassidy had the address, she found out how long it would take to get to the exact place.

"So how long is it there?" SB asked.

"It's....gonna be about a good 3 hours." Chas said.

"3 WHOLE hours???"

"Yep." She frowned and shrugged her shoulders.

SB was automatically annoyed. He took his hat and positioned hiself in chill mode. He layed back and took his hand and sat it over his face. Within seconds sped through his mind of why Lea was causing all of this trouble.

Chassidy sat in the very back of the truck to herself and thought about how this whole plan was going to play out. She feared it would be completely disasterous, brutal and more than likely, deadly. The way Lea opperated, it would be possible.

"Lord, what did I get myself into?" She silently asked herself. Tears were forming in her eyes just thinking of the consequences she would have to face as soon as Lea found out she went against him.

Drake seperated himself from the other two just avoid distraction and to have time to get his mind together. He had been acting weird ever since the night SB had almost put one to his head. After he fled that night, he went into hiding back in Toronto. He had missed a couple of shows, events and interviews. His own close friend Forty didn't even know where he was. It was his only way of not being found by Lea or any of the gang in hopes of not getting caught. When he saw how bad he had hurt Nicki, he couldn't bare seeing her face to face again. He knew she probably hated him and could never be forgived. Yet again, he blamed his "emotions" for getting in the way of what could've been easily stopped. Now he regreted it all. He wasn't sure why he was even with the other two anymore. He just wanted Nicki back home and safe.

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"Get up," Lea barged into the room Nicki slept in alone at the end of the hallway. He demanded her with what she heard was anger in his voice, so she was a little scared.

"Wait..Wh-What's going on?" Nic hopped out of bed onto the crisp cold floor with her feet bare. She became nervous at how urgent he sounded which meant something was going on. He walked out of the room, not answering her question. She rushed out after him with her heart racing.

"WAIT! Wait. What's going on? Wha-"

"Head to my room. Take a shower and meet me back in your room in 15 minutes. You're not out by then, I will drag you out of there myself." Lea swift around, lifted his finger to her face and gritted his teeth. She stared at him for a minute then walked passed him, rolling her eyes.

"Yo ass wanna try that funny shit with me today and you wont be able to SEE out of those fuckin eyes you rollin'."

Nicki went to his bathroom and locked the door. She slowly moved over to the tub and ran the shower. After quickly disrobing and hopping into the steamy hot water, she closed her eyes and thought for awhile, trying to het her mind together.

They sat in the Boston hotel suite unpacking their clothes and placing them on both sides of the bed. Both were silent with just their thoughts feeling up the room.

Nicki thought back on the conversation her and SB had earlier on the G5. It kept replaying on everything Safaree had told her. Including one part that sorta took her by surprise.

She grabbed her shorts and folded them to lay them next to her suitcase. Her eyebrows furrowed the more she urged to ask so she finally spoke up.

"Safaree...."

"Yo." He was currently on fixing the top part of one of his chains. Then gently sat it on the bed to continue pulling his shirts out.

"You...mentioned Eric was apart...of a gang...right?"

He paused for a moment then went back to another chain to examine. "...Yeeeeah.."

Nic twisted her lips before looking up at him confused. "Is he...apart of the same gang as Detroit and those two other guys I told you about?"

SB took the shirt in his hand and tossed it back into the suitcase. He huffed lightly and licked his lips. "Um......"

Nicki's eyes popped open when she felt the water turn ice cold. She shrieked and turned it off. She hopped out and wrapped herself around a towel before finding an oversized T-shirt and throwing it over her freezing body. Nic quickly ran out the room to find Lea. She looked over the rail to see downstairs into the living room but halted when she saw him holding two guns in his hands. She lowly gasped and debated if she wanted to go downstairs to him or not. She took her chance and jogged downstairs and approached him slowly on alert.

"Uh...Lea?"

He calmly turned around and looked down at her with one gun in his hand and bullets in the other as he got ready to load it up. Nic couldn't bare to blink quickly between him and the gun as she tried to get her words out.

"Do you h-happen to know a guy named Eric?" She hesitantly asked.

When he heard her mention Eric's name he froze and looked at her funny.

"You know him?"

Nicki folded her lips for a moment nervously looking down at the gun.

"Uh..I've heard about him..."

Lea eyeballed her closely. Something didn't seem right to him. She was up to something and he could smell it. He grabbed his rag and began polishing the guns as he continued.

"Oh really? Like what?"

[Shit.] She bit her lip and felt her heart beat a little faster.

"Wellllllll...." She glanced down at her feet, trying to piece her words together. "I mean, I was just wondering..." She started walking towards the kitchen.

"No. No. Come back. You're the one that asked me about him so tell me where did you know him from." He shook his head and motioned for her to come back, after trying to kill the convo awkwardly. Now that he was feeling curious, he wanted to know what did she hear about Eric.

"He's apart of this...clique, isn't he?"

"Hmph," An evil smirk appeared on his face as he chuckled a little at her saying what he exactly knew she was going to say. "As a matter of fact, he is." Lea walked over by the end table to place one of his guns down to pick up the other and repeat the session.

Nicki folded her arms and leaned against the arm of the couch and watched him. "He knew Safaree...."

"Interesting."

"WHAT do you want with him?"

"You're very curious, you know?" He more likely referred to her as nosy than curious.

"Yet, you haven't answered my question."

"Wouldn't you like to know..."

"I would, actually." She folded her arms and raised an eyebrow.

He huffed and sat the gun down with the rag and returned back to his spot. "I think you should wait to see for yourself...."

"....Are you holding some type of grudge against him? Are you MAD about something?? Trying to get any REVENGE?"

"Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not," He stood over her looking into her eyes with darkness in his. His voice lowered even deeper and his breathing sped up. "All that matters is that you're here with me, and you ain't going NO WHERE."

"So you think..." Nicki stood up to him and awaited him to do something crazy. She wanted him to. She really did. Any moment she was going to flinch at any little move he made so she could be ready to retaliate. She was getting tired of him and it was the last straw.

"Nicki Minaj, if you haven't known by now....I am a very dangerous man. I run a tight business and everyone knows i'm ALL about it. And when I want something, oh you better believe I get it with NO hesitation.

"And you think you scare me?" She frowned.

He chuckled and walked away from her. "I can show you better than I can tell you...."

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"UGH! This so stupid! My life is going to end because of some BULLSHIT. It's all my fault. Being the selfish bitch that I am. Being greedy...." Chassidy started her rant with a million regrets running over her brain. "I.....All I ever wanted was money. Saw what my brother was doing to get it...and got my wish..."

Safaree sat in blank, intensely listening to her story. He never spoke or looked at her, for her story had caught his full attention.

"Well you know how it is in the hood. Grew up in a broken home. Moms was on crack and Pops ran the streets alot. Just me and my big brother. He took care of us...we used to steal a lot to just survive. When I turned 15, he hopped on with Lea and his brother, Isaiah in Flatbush. Started doing a lot of dangerous shit but was bringing a stash every night. Never told me how he would get it but I didn't complain because we needed it.....Soon as I turned about 17/18, my brother let me join him so I would start getting money on my own."

She kept her eyes down, fighting tears back as she bit down on her bottom lip. Safaree glanced over at her to see the expression on her face.

"So then I met them."

"And?"

"It wasn't long til I got to see what they were all about and also learning that I was only of few females that ran with their crew. And most of them now....are dead. Lea was more of the trouble maker than his brother Isaiah. It only got worse when he got killed..."

SB took a deep breath when she brung up Isaiah's death. Feeling uncomfortable, he turned his head to look outside and remained quiet for a few more minutes.

"So how did you make it through all of that?"

"Playin my cards right and just......doing what he tells me to do."

Slowly, he was beginning to feel bad for Chassidy and how much she had to sacrifice in her life to survive.

"He changed a WHOLE lot when his brother died. That's when the murdering shit started increasing. Doing evil spiteful shit to people, going all out to get revenge," She glanced at the back of Safaree's head and rolled her eyes. "I've never went against his will until now."

"Why you even helping me?"

"...I just can-...can't take another girl getting killed. And PLUS she's a celebrity. And if I would've never even gotten you this far. Her shit would be a cold case. A mystery for the mind, a living for the killer." Chassidy became emotional.

"So now you sayin, you sacrificing your life altogether for her?"

A single tear fell as she played with her infinity necklace. "I'd rather go through all this trouble to save someone then to see the shit get even worse..."

Safaree was rathered surprised at how much she actually cared. Even though it would cost her, her life...it was a nice gesture.

"Where's your brother now?" He glanced out the window at the view.

"Probably looking for me now. Haven't talk to him since I got back from Australia."

"He'ont know you doing this right now?"

"Mmh mmh."

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Lea had little time to set up his house for when his unwanted guest were arriving. He kept busy at fixing most of the downstairs up, making sure everything looked as neutral as he would make Nicki look before they came.

He went to his bedroom and collected the two boxes to run them down to the room Nicki was in.

Nicki sat in the room quietly to her thoughts when they were suddenly interrupted by Lea barging into her room once again. She automatically glared at the two boxes in his hands as he threw them on the bed beside her. Before she could open her mouth, he spoke up.

"Put this on and meet me downstairs in 30 minutes."

"An-"

"AND If you don't......try me." He said with his back turned to her, starting to the door.

She gave him a sour look and picked up the boxes and examined them.

"Uh..."

He froze at the door.

"Who's....coming over?"

"......You'll see when you get downstairs."

Nicki glanced at the boxes once more and went to one to open it up. There laid a pair of black Louis Vuitton's with red bottoms. She frowned at them, wondering where he found them and why were they given to her. She felt unusual about this not knowing what he was up to exactly but she'd know sooner than later.

Nic then grabbed the 2nd box up to an all ruby red dress that glimmered in her glossy eyes. She stood up to hold the dress against her body looking down at how perfectly it shaped her. Nerves shot through her body as it slightly tensed up at what this all meant.

As she walked out of the room to the bathroom, Lea's voice stopped her.

"Hey."

"What." She responded dryly.

"There's a pearl necklace and a matching pearl bracelet in a jewlery box sitting in my room. I want you to wear it with the ensemble I gave you......Please." His sultry but demanding voice sounded from the end of the stairs as he smirked at her.

Nicki rolled her eyes at how disgusted she was and headed straight to the bathroom to do as he said.

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"What."

"Look man, how much we 'sposed to give him?"

"He said $60,000. How-"

"I'll give him half. You ARE paying your half, right?"

SB almost wanted to laugh at how proper and paranoid Drake's voice sounded right now.

"The fuck you think, nigga?"

"Fuck it."

SB took his phone and hung up in Drake's face. He was already pissed and to top off his mood, he was now annoyed. He huffed and adjusted in his seat, while shaking his head.

"If you think shit's cray right now, wait til we get there....." Chassidy said, staring out of her window.

He shook his head again and pushed up his shades. "How far we got anyway?"

"We'll be there...in about....whoa. Whoa,"

"What. What we're close???" SB sat up in his seat and turned around to see Chas checking her GPS system on her phone.

"Oh my god, we have like 20 more minutes til we hit his neighborhood! Oh shit."

"GOOD." SB eagerly said as he grabbed a black bag from the trunk and pulled out 3 glocks. He began readying them as he and Chas talked to kill some time before they had arrived. A small smile formed across his face at how close they were to getting to them. He just wanted Nicki back into his arms safe and sound, immediately.

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Lea had been now monitoring his area and the tracker on his computer for the past hours for any sign of Safaree, Chassidy and Drake. He had called his boys to stay low-key for any back up formations he would need if anything got too dangerous. At the moment, he stood looking out of the large window in his living room at his street for a sign of them approaching soon.

A fainted sound of heels sounded his ears as he slowly turned around when they became louder and louder. Then appeared a shy Nicki in the red dress that fitted her curves. Her skin tone surprisingly beamed gracefully off the light of the dull chandelier hanging above them. She continued to make her way to the bottom of the stairs.

His heart nearly dropped at how amazing she looked, quickly reminding him of every familiar scene just like this.

"Wow. You look ravishing tonight." he licked his lips and smiled at her.

"Thank you." She gracefully said, batting her eyelashes.

"Those...pearls I bought you REALLY compliments the red on you. I love it."

She looked at the pearls around her wrist and lightly touched the ones on her neck, blushing a bit. "Really? I really love them! Thanks, Elijah."

He smiled at her and awaited her to come closer to his body to meet her eye to eye. He gazed at her perfectly figured body in the short red dress he gave her as a gift to wear. She took in his scent and marked her 'kiss of death' red lipstick onto his neck and smirked.

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Ironically, on the way there, Chas occupied the rest of their time in the trucks to tell SB more untold stories about Lea's forbidden past she knew from experience.

"And when he would get ready to murder his women....he would buy them this same red dress.....like almost as red as the blood that covered them. He kept this one jewlery set in particular that every woman he killed wore on the night of their murder. They were these....white creamy pearls he stole from his mother in her casket when she passed. From then on, he believed that the pearls would make the women look as happy as his mother did when she wore them. The only remembrance he had of her. He loved them in red lipstick or as he called it the 'Kiss of Death' only because for some strange reason they would all kiss him in the same exact spot with it right before they died. After he would serenade then kill them, he would hide the body, take the jewlery and be ready to reuse it sometime again."

Safaree was speechless as his stomach began turning.

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Nicki never popped a smile as she slowly walked into a better view of everything to see how fancy the living room looked. Her jaw slightly flew open, surprised at most of his house looking quite neutral than it usually did.

[Wait...a minute...] Nic slowed down her speed and nearly halted, gazing around at the room.

"Wait...wait. Why does it look so....soooo..." She stumbled over some of her words due how surprisingly well everything appeared.

"Soooo....what?" Lea tilted his head in confusion.

Nicki dead-faced him and rolled her eyes at him sounding innocent, like she didn't know what he was trying to do. "Whatever, Lea." She started towards the kitchen until he halted her in her tracks.

"Whoa, whoa. Come back here."

"Excuse you?" She popped an eyebrow up at him, spinning around on her heels.

"You look.........nice." He smiled.

She looked at him for a minute and tried to read him. His eyes were flirting yet snooping but his weird smile threw her off.

"Yeah. Thanks." She frowned turning back around and strutted off into the kitchen.

Lea leered on her ass as she disappeared and silently laughed at her for falling for his evil plan.

"Good girl..." He said to himself.

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Nicki stood against the counter in the kitchen thinking to herself, nervously holding a glass of water in her hand. She felt a weird vibe about what was going to happen when his guests arrived. She imagined what would happen if she told whoever was coming, that she was kidnapped and held hostage. Suddenly, a loud screeching of trucks outside startled her, which made her drop and shatter the glass of water in her hand. She gasped and froze in place.

Lea whipped his head towards the door then to the window to see two black trucks lined up in front of his place. He pulled his phone out of his pocket to call his crew to alert as he watched the three get out of the trucks.

"Alright, boys. Game time."

The doors were unlocked just in case they were going to break into the house. He plastered a smirk on his face as he was ready for his plan to go into action. They walked an amount of stairs up the way before getting there.

Nic froze in place of the kitchen still, silently listening to footsteps. Her heart pounded even harder with each step she heard grow louder to the door. She began breathing a little harder as her hands trembled. She didn't know who was coming or what was about to happen.

Within minutes a hand grabbed a hold of the door. It began rattling really loud and it seemed as if they were having trouble opening it. Nicki remembered how hard the door was to open so she slowly peaked around the corner to see Lea calmly standing, awaiting for them to open it. She heard him chuckling under his breath at how they struggled to get it open. Nic put in her mind that she wasn't coming out of the kitchen until she knew who it was. The door banging became louder as they knocked and knocked before it became really quiet again. She was confused at why he didn't go open the door himself.

It was silent for about 5 minutes, which then she thought the people might have gave up and left. Lea walked over to his chair that sat in front of the large window and lit up a cigar.

Before Nicki debated to come out of the kitchen, the loud sound of the door busted open. Lea didn't flinch nor move. He didn't turn his head in their direction but spotted a gun aimed at his head.

"Where is she." A familiar voice said.

Nicki's eyes grew big as she slowly hit the ground with her hand over her mouth to not make any noise. She heard Safaree's voice and nearly fainted.

[OHMYGOD. OHMYGOD. OHMYGOD.] She screamed in her head as she continued to listen.

Lea puffed his cigar before standing up again. There stood before him, Safaree, Chassidy and Drake to no surprise. He began laughing when he took a good look at them. Nicki was freaking out and didn't know what would happen if she saw Safaree and whoever else came with him.

SB held the gun firmly in his hand with a serious look on his face.

"Well....Well....Well. If it isn't Scaff Beezy from da block." Lea rested a hand in his pocket as the other held the cigar. He glanced at the gun then ignored it.

[Wait.....] Nicki didn't know Lea and SB had already met in the past.

"Look nigga you know why we came here..."

Nicki impetuously walked out of the kitchen, inching around the corner fixing her eyes to meet Safaree's as he stood in awe. Chassidy and Drake brung their attention to Nicki as well. Chassidy spotted the familiar outfit Nicki was wearing, which astounded her. Nic's eyes slowly moved to Chassidy then slowly to Drake as she raised her brows at him.

[Drake?] She was even more confused now. She didn't even know why he was there.

She then met back to SB. As the room shared a loud silence, SB noticed Nicki froze in her place right by the entrance of the kitchen. She never moved any closer to them which made Lea smile on the inside.

[Mm. Smart girl.] He thought to himself.

"Nicki." SB heard himself say.

Her eyes became glossy when he said her name. She was even more grateful to hear his voice again let alone see him in flesh, despite believing she wouldn't have that chance again.

"Nicki...." He repeated more carefully.

"Nic...you...you good?" Drake nervously asked. She didn't know what to do or say so she continued not to move.

SB felt that something was wrong with her. It quickly reminded him of when she went into sudden shock right after the tragic plane crash. He frantically looked over her carefully as he slowly put the gun down and started to walk her way. But as he took one step up, she took one step back and Lea's arm flew across his chest to stop him from coming any closer.

"Whoa. I...don't think you wanna do that, bruh." Lea warned him.

Safaree threw his arm up and forcefully pushed Lea's off of him. "Don't putcho hands on me, bruh!" He scowled, looking him in the eyes.

She continued to innocently stare at them without uttering a word. Her heart pounded heavier than ever and she felt like she was on the verge of blacking out any minute. On the outside she looked terrified but on the inside she felt petrified.

"So you wanna get nasty with it?" Lea spat back.

"Safaree, chill." Chassidy tapped him on the shoulder. Nicki's eyes went from him to seeing Chassidy make contact to his shoulder. Her nostrils gently flinched as she gazed at the girl.

"NAH! I wanna know why the fuck she ain't talkin to me! Like this nigga got her too shook to say shit! Why isn't she talking to me?! What did you do to her???" SB stepped closer to Lea becoming livid.

Lea turned around to glance at Nicki. She still remained silent. There was a blank expression on her face which Safaree couldn't read and it bothered him. So badly she wanted to run into his arms but her body wouldn't allow her to. She fought back more and more tears. Lea shrugged and looked back to SB.

"Really?" He began laughing. "You crack a nigga up, Scaff. You really do." He made it over to his chair and sat, puffing out of his cigar once more.

"Look what she has on..." Chassidy stepped up to SB's ear and whispered to him as they looked at Nicki.

"What was that?" Nicki finally spoke up.

Chassidy froze. Nicki's voice had startled her. Safaree's heart jolted at finally hearing her voice.

"I-I was just telling him, I liked your...dress."

"You think you coulda told ME that?" Nicki spat with attitude.

"Uh..." Chassidy cocked her head back and felt Nicki trying to get cute with her. She looked at Safaree like Nic was crazy.

"Safaree...who's this?" Nic kept her eyes on Chas.

"Nic this is Chas. If you haven't noticed, she works for me." Lea strided up a few steps in front of his chair, pointing over to Chassidy for Nicki.

"Hm." She cut her eyes at Safaree, believing some what he already knew this. She just wanted to know what he was doing with her.

"Yeah, Nic. She helped me find you here..."

Once SB said that a sharp nerve shot through Chassidy's body. She really didn't want Lea to find out she had went out of her way to help Safaree behind his back. It was just one step closer to her life being on the line.

"Is that so?" He raised an eyebrow to SB.

Safaree kicked himself for blurting that out. "....Yeah." He cut his eyes at Lea then rolled them over to look at Nicki once again. He folded his lips tightly and huffed. Nicki was unmoved.

"Chassidy? Where'd you go after Summer Jam?" Lea tilted his head at her, holding his cigar.

She nervously played with her fingers and took a deep breath. "I went back to his house..."

Nicki raised an eyebrow at her and continued to listen.

"For what? You were done after that. By that time I told everyone everything was complete. I'm not understanding."

"Well then it doesn't matter, right? Therefore whatever I did AFTER the shit isn't your fuckin concern now is it?"

"Wanna try that again, little girl?"

"Excuse you?"

Lea puffed out of his cigar nodding his head as he turned his back on them to sit it down in the ashtray. He charged her way and struck her across the face. She flew to the ground and laid there for a few minutes. Chas' face swelled up and turned red.

"YO NIGGA WHAT THE FUCK?!" SB ran and forceably pushed him to the floor.

She had tears running down her face as Drake ran to help her up.

"So you wanna go there, Scaff?? HUH?! You still think you TOUGH?" Lea hopped up and ran up to Safaree's face.

"NIGGA WASSUP THEN?!" SB bucked.

"You done grew some BALLS to step up to me now???"

"NIGGA I WAS NEVER SCARED OF YOU OR YO BROTHER."

"NOT UNTIL YOU THOUGHT YOU WAS TOUGH ENOUGH TO KILL HIM." Lea blatantly yelled.

Safaree's face changed to a shock. His jaw slightly dropped. Nicki turned her attention to what Lea had just blurted out. She as well as Drake and Chassidy were just as surprised as SB. The room became very silent as you only heard the heavy breathings of Lea and Safaree.

"So it's about that?" SB asked.

"Whoa, Safaree what's he talking about?" Nic said as she looked between he and Lea.

"MY BROTHER! ISAIAH'S GONE BECAUSE OF YOU." Lea pointed at SB as you could see the pain and hurt on his face.

Safaree perked up his lips and backed up slowly away from Lea. He knew where this was going.

*7 Years Ago*

In Flatbush, Brooklyn, Safaree, or as the streets knew him as 'Scaff Beezy', ran the streets with a group of guys who carried weight from borough to borough. Making countless amounts of money to survive and make it on their own. And with more drugs and money came even bigger problems.

An all drug dealing business that became too serious on the streets. The taller the stacks got, the bigger the cliques got. And the bigger the cliques got, the realer the competition became. Safaree co-ran his business with a long-time friend and partner in crime, Teddy. Teddy ran the streets just as much as SB did as kids. They grew up together and corrupted trouble right after high school. Selling drugs that drew more addicts and even more popularity.

Throughout the years, they racked up more guys to join their clique and helped them bring in more bread. He and Teddy lead to success. One year, their business had began slowing down. It was til' they discovered they had ingenious competition coming around the corner to steal their hype. Things were beginning to become interesting as one particular crew vigorously took over the streets of Flatbush.

Elijah and Isaiah were brothers who were apart of a clique which gradually became a gang over the years. Thus, one of the most dangerous gangs in Brooklyn. They caused a lot of trouble and created lots of gang wars which caused real life murders in the process. When they heard word of Teddy and SB trying to reclaim their title of BK's biggest drug dealers, a new found rivalry evoked between the two cliques. Not only did they make as much money as SB and Teddy, they spitefully begin robbing them of their big business. The gang was rightfully known for dressing in all black and wearing a signature logo of a gold Infinity symbol as a chain. The brothers were now at the top of their success and it had became a personal issue for Teddy.

He was more competitive than anybody and wouldn't put up a fight. Until one day, a simple gang fight turned into a deadly brawl that changed everything.

---

Both gangs stood upon a corner in broad daylight, ready to attack each other and fight for their territory in Flatbush.

The brawl didn't corrupt until the shine of a golden chrome-plated 9mm was insight. Held by Teddy, aimed to Elijah. SB held his glock at his waist alert and anticipated for Isaiah to make a move as well.

"Word nigga?! Yall weak niggas think yall some tough ass niggas with guns, huh?!" Isaiah spat.

"I've killed niggas before and I ain't afraid to lay another in the grave." Teddy calmly said.

"But guess what? So have I." Lea said with a smirk on his face.

SB tightened his grip around the gun on his waist, inching to draw it out.

"How about you muhfuckas leave OUR block before a bullet flies through yo muhfucking skull." SB threatened.

"Try me." Lea stepped up to SB's face and waited.

SB swiftly kicked Lea harshly to the ground and drew out his gun. Both sides of the gangs went violent. Isaiah pulled his out and started to charge SB up when a shot fired into his chest. Another one flew through his chest a second later when everyone stopped and ducked around after hearing the shots. 2 minutes later the block cleared and there laid a dead Isaiah. Lea hopped up to see his lifeless brother lying on the ground. He screamed at the shed of blood spreading through his brother's shirt onto his hands.

SB was the only one left standing. He was nothing but shocked as he dropped his gun and backed away slowly. He didn't know what to do so he turned and ran down an alley as far as he could.

"You did this! Ima find you nigga! Don't run too far, IMA FIND YOU! YOU AIN'T GON GET AWAY WITH THIS MUHFUCKA!" Lea watched as SB kept running further and further until he couldn't see him anymore. Tears poured onto his brother's chest as he cried out for help.

*7 years and 5 months later*

"I really feel that this is my time to get even...."

"Come on Lea, he's been dead for seven years now! Why won't you let it go?"

"I KNOW HE DID IT! HE KILLED MY BROTHER! I want him to suffer for every muthafuckin thing I went through!"

Eric rolled his eyes and folded his arms. He believed Lea was contemplating on how he was going to plan this mission.

"....Nobody knows the real story of how it happened but me. I know what I saw. He stood there and just looked at us, then ran off like a little BITCH." Lea loudly pounded his fist on his desk.

"If you feel the time is right. Let's get serious about this." Eric said, walking up to Lea's desk.

Lea leaned back into his chair and closed his hands together to think. The rest of the guys in the room remained silent as they awaited his plot.

"You know the nigga went into the industry, right?" Calvin, one of his gang partners chimed in.

"Scaff Beezy?"

"Mmhm..." Jay, another partner, shook his head.

"Really? What does he do?"

"Hypeman for Nicki Minaj." Detroit spoke up from in the corner.

"Nicki Minaj? Onika? Onika from Queens, right?" Eric asked.

"Yep."

"I like where this is going.." Lea said smiling devilishly.

Eric read his face as he went into deep thought once again. He knew where Lea was going to go with this which made him even more ready to put everything into action. "I like the way you think.."

Lea sat up and looked up to Eric. "Find him. Bring him to me. I wanna be the one to end that nigga's life PERSONALLY."

The crew all shook their heads in agreement.

"Ion think that would make anyone feel better. It's just...toooo bland to me." Calvin disagreed.

"What??" Eric twisted his face up.

"Hmm..no he's right....I gotta go further. Something that'll make him beg for his life. He killed the only person that I had left in my life. He DESERVES to suffer like I had to. SO......theres a bitch called Karma and she married this muthafucka called 'prize possession'. But the question for tonight is...are you gentlemen ready to take on this delegation that I have for you."

"Shiiiiit, you know I'm down for ANYTHING." Detroit walked up to Eric and dapped him up laughing.

"Gooood...good. Cuz you'll be the very first to set this bitch off." Lea pointed at him with the meanest smile on his face as Detroit's faded quickly.

"You caused that plane crash?" Nicki lowly asked Lea.

"He sent Detroit for that gig...." Chas said.

Nicki gasped lightly and looked at Lea. "Detroit???" She remembered Mr. McGasky telling her that he was the one who killed himself, causing that plane crash. Now she knew who was all behind this. "Wait....so..you were also behind that murder...weren't you?"

Lea put his cigar up to his mouth and smiled.

"Eric went with him to Rozay's house. The guard found them hiding and tried to catch them but Lea shot him. They were trying to wait for you to come to Rozay's house, so it was sly to kidnap you."

"YO punk ass been sending these death threats to our phones and calling unknown....TOO?! Shoulda figured YO ass was behind ALL this bullshit all along!" Safaree raised his voice as he got in Lea's face.

"Whoa whoa whoa, nigga. Don't get sensitive just yet.... Mr. Graham how bout you tell them you been fuckin with team now." He calmly said as he sneered.

"WHAT?!" SB was beyond livid now. Drake looked as shocked as everyone else did and was lost for words.

"Drake what's he talking 'bout?" Nic strained at a whisper in full surprise.

"Nic, I-I swear I don't know what he's talking about!" Drake frantically looked at Nic and threw his hands up.

"You don't now? So youuuuu...forgot about when I sent you on that little mission for me?" Lea barged in.

Nicki blinked and turned back to Drake with a stern look. Drake repeatedly shook his head in disagreement. Just as he thought he was let off the hook, the attention was all brought back on him.

He nervously glanced at Nicki then to Lea and didn't know where to began. And since he didn't speak up fast enough, Lea finished it off for him.

"He's right here." Chassidy said pointing at Drake. He glanced back at her and rolled his eyes looking back towards Lea.

Lea smirked and made his way through the crowd of men who had all eyes in Drake's direction. Eric slowly trailed behind Lea. Drake took a deep breath when they met face to face as Chassidy stood behind him and folded her arms, waiting to see what would happen.

"How you doin'-" Drake stuck his hand out for a handshake until he saw that Lea didn't acknowledge him right off the back.

"Let's cut the small talk and get down to business shall we?" Lea said with a serious face.

"Uh...O..Okay." he nervously chuckled.

"Nicki Minaj."

He smiled awkwardly and chuckled again at him mentioning her name. "What about her?"

"She's a close friend of yours...right?"

"Uhh...yeah."

"Mmmhm. You like her?"

"I-I did." He blushed.

"You DID? Hm...why not anymore?" He flared his nostrils and raised his eyebrow.

"We're....we're good friends. That's all." He scratched his head and peeked down at his shoes nervously laughing once again.

"Good friends?"

"Yeah."

"Interesting..."

Drake never said anything, he only listened.

"Keeping this inbetween me and you....I can change that, y'know." He put his arm around Drake's shoulder and lowly talked to him as he lead them through the crowd of guys.

"Uhh...okay. Ahaha."

"How about this....I have a mission for you, you do me a favor and I'll do one in return."

"Alright. What is it?"

"How about...we set you two up on a date andddd....we'll....SURPRISE her at the end. He sneered."

"Aight. She might like that." Drake nonchalantly nodded and grinned.

"Just promise me, you won't back down from this....Cuz I don't make deals with scary bitches." Eric slowly pulled out a gun and aimed it over Lea's shoulder to Drake. Lea smirked and awaited Drake's response as if he really had no choice to do so anytime soon.

Nic began to shake as she was in disbelief and utterly addled at him even more now that she knew there was more to that baneful night. Her eyes immediately burned of tears rushing all at once while her body became weaker and weaker. Once they referred back to the situation, the flashbacks of the date and what SB kept constantly harassing her about lingered her mind.

"KNEW YO BITCH ASS DID SOMETHIN'! I AIN'T FUCKIN STUPID!" SB angrily bellowed.

"LOOK! L-lemme just explain real quick, dawg. I-I was f-" Drake threw his hands up in defense.

"It was all planned baby girl." Lea wickedly said.

"Is that true?" Nicki said barely above a whisper. Tears glimmered in her eyes as her whole body felt weak. A sudden sickness churned in her stomach and it made her lightheaded.

"N-Nicki I..."

Nicki quickly shut her eyes and frowned. "There was this...this guy who came up to our table and he..." She was trying to remember the night.

"-Oh, the guy I sent to spy on Mr. Graham, to make sure his scary ass didn't forget his PURPOSE of being there...." Lea corrected her.

Nicki glanced between Drake and Lea, feeling even more confused than before. She was quickly becoming short of breath with her heart rate beating out of control now.

"He knows what I'm talking about." Lea devilishly took a gander at a shocked and puzzled Drake as if he didn't remember anything that happened that night.

"AIGHT! Man, I had no choice to do this shit. This nigga threatened me to do it, which he knew would end up tearing you and SB apart so that you were an easier target. He only used me to interfere and if I tried to tell, I would get killed. If my apology didn't mean shit in the past, Nic....I'm deeply sorry I hurt you."

Nicki tried to ignore SB pondering to himself in the background, trying to keep his composure as she listened to Drake's explanation and beg for forgiveness. At this point she felt squeamish and disadvantaged. Part of her wanted to beat his ass and part of her wanted to let Safaree take matter into his own hands. Either way wouldn't care too her much to her at this point.

"Stay ffffaaaarrrr away from me.....You utterly nauseate my SOUL and I NEVER want to see you in my presence again."

"Nic...I said I'M SORRY..." Drake pleaded.

"SAVE YOUR FUCKIN SORRY, DRAKE! YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME AND DID WHAT YOU DID. YOU HURT ME! I TRIED TO LEAVE IT ALONE BUT IT HAUNTED ME. YOU A LOW ASS NIGGA AND YOU HAVE NO FUCKIN RESPECT. FUCK YOU, AUBREY!" Nicki broke down in tears before everyone and sobbed loudly.

In a matter of seconds, Safaree charged Drake up from behind and brutally punched him in his head, making Drake collapse right where he was. As soon as he collapsed, SB harshly kicked and stomped him to the ground a couple times before Chassidy ran up and yanked him away from Drake. She forcefully pushed him back onto the other side of the living room, as he cursed, yelled and bickered at Drake while he laid in excruciating pain with blood spilling onto the floor from his busted up lip.

"YEAH NIGGA, DON'T FUCK WITH HA NO MORE! DARE YO PUNK ASS TO COME AROUND AGAIN! FUCK THIS LABEL MATE SHIT NIGGA. WASSUP!"

Chassidy continued to refrain Safaree from going any closer to Drake.

Lea strolled over to Drake still on the floor and shook his head. He glowered at him then cocked his leg back with all his strength and landed his foot into his guts. Drake grunted in more pain as he watch him curl into a ball on the floor.

"1st warning for speaking my business to the unknown. I'm being nice and I'll let you redeem yourself later." Lea stated with no hesitation. He then made his way to Nicki who alertly glanced at him approaching closer and closer to her. She took a few steps back, slightly shaking. He grabbed her while she was still in arms-reach and yanked her close to his face. She sharply gasped and frowned.

"YO GETCHO HANDS OFF HER!" SB broke from Chas and begin to dash over to them until the unexpected aim of a gun was pointed at SB. He stopped in his tracks and twisted his lips as if the gun didn't fear him and/or as if Lea wasn't even gonna pull the trigger.

Lea kept his entire body turned to Nicki's as he kept his firm grip on her arm. "Please Beezy, now's not the time to interrupt our conversation." He kept his eyes deep into Nicki's with rage. But without a care SB continued to slowly walk upon them.

"Let me go, Lea." She demanded lowly as she attempted to yank away from him.

"No need to depart from me now, because there's still a slight problem here...."

"What?" She gritted through her teeth, squinting her eyes.

"You're still breathing." When SB reached within 4ft of them, Lea whipped Nicki around with him to face Safaree and threw his arm around the small of her neck and began choking her. He pulled the gun to her right dimple and pressed it against her cheeks as she fought to pull his arm from around her neck.

"Did I ever tell you guys about the story of the 'Lady In Red'?" Safaree stood before them and clinched his jaw. He slowly glanced down at her red dress and pressed his lips together, looking back at Lea. Chas silently gasped and immediately knew where this was about to go. She feared for Nicki and tried to think of something before Lea tried anything on her. As she was in shock, Lea caught her face and grinned. "Chas knows this one already..." She pushed her hair behind her ear and looked to the wooden floors, avoiding eye contact.

"Muhfucka if you don't let her go, I swear to God......"

"Muthafucka if you inch any fucking closer to me, this bitch will be history." He mocked SB's voice. "Now chill, I just wanna return the favor, so this won't have to be on my conscious no more. I've went 7 years without my brother, you don't wanna go 7 years without ya bitch? I mean because REALLY.....I OWE you one."

"What the hell is yo problem, nigga?! ALL this bullshit you takin us through is PETTY SHIT. I ain't kill that nigga man! YOU KNOW I AIN'T KILL HIM! YOU CLEARLY SAW ME NOT RAISE THAT PIECE AT HIM. Yo ass just needed somebody to blame and get revenge from. Yeah you knew Teddy did that shit but his ass ran and neva came back. FUCK HIM for that. But instead since you couldn't catch that nigga right off the back, you come threatened me and my people. You a REAL ASS PUSSY NIGGA. A COWARD, in fact. THE FUCK YOU COME TORTURING US FOR?!"

"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHO DID WHAT. YO ass finna repay nigga! You think you good cuz this bitch putchu on in this fuck world and you groping HA money. What? You killed a few niggas, get put on and think you too good for the streets now??? Had yall niggas not started shit and killed my brother, yo ass woulda still been running the BK streets with Teddy selling dope. Think it ain't disturbing when yall niggas killed him but wanna bitch and moan when tables FUCKING TURN."

Safaree stared at him with an evil glare as he balled his hands into fist by his sides and continued to clinch his jaws out of rage. Nicki tried to wiggle from under his grip on her neck as her face was now red. She struggled with breathing and her body was becoming numb. Chassidy stared at Nicki, secretly trying to get her attention from a distance without Lea paying any to her. She kept her eyes on Nic until she caught eyes with Chas.

"How about I lay this shit all out on the card table before she won't hear this shit no more....YES. I was behind the plane crash, I killed the guard, I called/txted unknown, I caused every little muthafucking thing you two went through and to be quite honest.....I had a BLAST with it!" As he kept talking, Chassidy really needed Nicki to look at her again so she can get her attention. Her heart raced as she became more nervous at what was about to happen. Just in time, Nic glanced back at Chas and noticed she was trying to tell her something. Her mouth was slightly open as she tried to breath as much as she could while her vision was now blurry, feeling she was going to black out in any minute. She slowly blinked her eyes at Chas and read her lips.

"Kick him." Chas mouthed to Nic. She didn't quite get the message the first time so Chas lip-synced it slower to Nicki. "KICK. HIM." She lead Nicki's eyes down to the six inch heels she had on, meaning Chas wanted her to kick Lea with the sharp heel of her shoe so he would break his grip from around her.

Nic slowly lifted her nearly-numb leg and with all her strength dug the heels into one of his long legs, causing Lea to immediately let go of his grip and howled at the brutal pain. When he let her go she fell to the ground gasping for large amounts of air, trying to regain full conscious. SB went to run up on Lea with his bare hands until he was halted in his steps by a loud sound and a sharp stab through the chest. His eyes bucked as his breath got caught up in his throat, and 2 seconds later he felt his entire body fall backwards onto the wooden floor as he became paralyzed immediately. Lea impetuously pulled the trigger of his gun, letting a bullet fly right through Safaree's chest. Nicki ducked then screamed when the sound of the gun frightened her. Time felt like it was going in slow motion. Drake hopped up from the floor, when he realized SB had been shot. He gave a crazy look to Lea then back to SB's body lying in front of him. He scooted further away from Safaree on the floor not knowing what to do. Nicki rose her head back up and shrilled at the sight of SB laying lifeless in front of her. Chassidy sprinted towards him crying and making sure he was still breathing. Nicki began crawling to him on her hands and knees until Lea swiftly reached down to aggressively pull one of her legs towards him which drug her across the floor.

"NO!!! NO!!! LET ME GO!!!! STOP IT! GET OFF OF ME!" No matter how hard she attempted to kick him off of her he never let go. In one quick movement, Lea drug her back towards him and scooped her up into his chest. She kicked her legs up in the air when he lifted her up, fighting to escape his strong grip. Chassidy pronounced that he was still alive and that they needed to get him to a hospital quickly. She noticed Lea had Nicki restricted in his large long arms and wouldn't let her go. Now, the dilemma was Chas had to get SB to a hospital but there again Lea had Nicki trapped.

"GET OUT! GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE! GO. LEAVE!" He yelled at them, as he kept her from leaving with them.

"NO PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!!!!" Nicki wildly kicked her legs everywhere, now with no heels on. Chassidy helped Safaree get up slowly to take him to the trucks outside. She watched his weary walk match an unstable walk by Chas as they made their way out the door for good. Drake carefully got up limping but heard Nicki's cries for help. He saw the gun was still in his hands. He backed up intently watching where the gun was pointed. "DRAKE PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME HERE WITH HIM PLEASE!!!! IF YOU LEAVE HE'S GONNA KILL ME!" So bad he desperately wanted to help Nicki but the fear of the gun got in the way of his emotions. As he was thinking of a way to fight him off of her, Lea fired three shots, aiming badly beside Drake. Each bullet fired to the wall as he duck and ran out of the door as well. "LEA PLEASE LET ME GO! LET ME FUCKING GOOOO!" She cried out for somebody to come back and save her but neither of the three returned. Just as she was close to being rescued, Lea out-smarted them all and won his battle once again. When he saw from afar that they were gone for GOOD, he ferociously slammed her to the floor.

"I TOLD you, you ain't going NOWHERE. You belong to ME now! Now try if you want to bitch."

Nic's hair covered her face while slouching over, appearing oblivious to what had just happened. She was puzzled and even more confused as to why she ended back up where she had began the first time. Held hostage. Being abused. Neglected and disrespected. This is not where she needed to be and this is NOT how it should have turned out at the end. But as more stories become untold, the less the outside world knows, the more that happens behind a closed door.



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Syke.

















































It had been 4 days after the nightmare and Nic was nearly dead. She had been abused and locked in a room for over 48 hours, now giving up on fighting. On that night, Elijah had fallen asleep after ruthlessly beating on Nicki just over an hour ago. He compelled Nicki sit quietly on the cold hard wooden floor so he could keep an eye on her. She sat against the wall across the room from his bed and frantically fidgeted with her fingers while silently crying. All rage were in her eyes as she watched him sleep. She clenched her teeth and kept repeating a sentence a voice in her head kept telling her.

[Reap what you sow. Reap what you sow. Reap what you sow.]

She jumped up and stomped out of the room in his big white dress shirt. She fled downstairs to the basement and began rummaging through the things against the wall. She spotted a big jug of gasoline and walked to it. She grabbed it and made her way back to his room. She quietly sat the jug down and ran to his closet. Nic slipped off the white blouse and grabbed a black tank top of his and slid it on. She tied the back of it so it would properly fit her body for now. There were all black pants hanging behind her. She snatched one off the rack and peeked to see if Elijah was still asleep. She found a pair of scissors and carelessly cut through them to make them into shorts. After, Nicki slid them on, perfectly fitting her thighs and waist. She ran to the bathroom and brushed her hair into a high bun before walking over to the bed and putting on his all black timberlands.

She looked to her left and noticed his phone sitting on his bedstand. She quietly inched over and shoved it in her pocket. His pants lied on the floor so she picked them up to check for anything.

Nicki smiled at the $200 that she found in his pockets. But it faded quickly when she spotted him moving on the bed. She lowly gasped and stuffed the money in her bra to get to the gasoline. Nic picked it up and began quietly pouring it all over the floor of his room until she reached his bed, pouring it around his body. She left out the room once again to go get a lighter in the kitchen. A minute later she reappeared standing over him opening the silver lighter as it lit up the room.

"GET UP!" A hard kick in Lea's nuts made him wake up grunting. He could hardly see Nicki's infuriated look on her face as she watched him weep in pain.

"I've had enough of your bullshit and you've took me through HELL. Now I'M gonna show you what the fuck that FEELS like." Nic took the lighter and tossed it across the room as the floor burst into flames, spreading quicker than ever. Lea yelped as the fire surrounded his bed, now being trapped on his bed. She ran downstairs, to the wide window and thought for a minute.

There was an end table sitting next to his chair that was placed in front of the window. She grabbed the legs of it and slung it around into the window, shattering it. She stepped back and observed the view of the city and then the street. Nic looked back at the smoke arising upstairs as she hurriedly climbed out of the window, landing on a lower roof. Once she reached the bottom, she noticed the fire spreading all around the house now. More smoke arose into the night sky as she backed away from the house. Nicki bit at her lip as she fought back tears, leaving the man that made her suffer for 3 long weeks of hell, burning up in flames. Her battle was finally over. The nightmare had ended. And she fought through it all.

But her night wasn't over just yet.......

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{1st: I liked to apologize on the 2 months of waiting. I got carried away with life. lmfao. No seriously, I wanted quality on this Final chapter for you guys so I took my time to try my best to explain/sort out everything. I know alot of you guys were becoming confused with what was going on and some was figuring it out along the way. It's one of those stories when everything in the beginning doesn't make any type of sense until the very end. Honestly, I hate the way I WROTE this stories. Every time I wrote a new chapter, my ideas were changing because I came up with something better than before. When ya'll told me I was a "good ass writer" I was like bye whatever. I honestly think my shit is weak lol. This was just something I wanted to try out and be completely different and out of everyone's comfort zone with the OF fics. I know alot of ppl prolly stop reading it bc of hoe bazaar it was at the beginning and blah but oh well. I just wanted to experiment with an uncommon but interesting OF story line. I know this had niggas skressin OUT and on edge, which is how I wanted yall to stay interested. I didn't use pictures or spill any tea until the end because I wanted to have yall niggas THINKING. lol. But anyway, I hate it. Did I do a good job? Did it sound real? No? k. Thanks to the ones who stayed with the story.

2nd: Sorry this chapter was OD long. I had originally planned to only write 32 chapters a year ago so I stuck with my word. The chorus to Up In Flames would've been the best part to play towards the end when Nicki sets Lea and his house on fire lol. ALSO, I wrote a part where Nic visits Safaree the same night and they have a long conversation as he's laying on his hospital bed. Let me know if you guys want that part and I'll post that as a bonus chapt or whatevs. Let me just say I'll never write shit like this again lmfao. It was just written so ugly. I like the concept but the way I wrote was just SO UGLY. idk. Glad it's over.

3rd: The first chapter of "Behind Closed Doors" will start soon. I've been working on it as well so thank for you lots patience!!!!! GO FOLLOW IT NOW! ---> behindcloseddoorsxx.blogspot.com

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