Hate the Player and the Game

chapter 28

Chapter 28

Cruze

"Bro you should of been at that party on Saturday". Jeremy said boasting in my ear. Me, Jeremy, and Zarock were all in Trill's trashed apartment from the party that he had a few nights ago.

"I didn't want to come". I said.

"Why not? Your so called ex-girl Diamond was there". Trill said making me look up at him.

"She was"? I asked. "Why didn't yall come get me"?

"Bro, come get you? We was too busy partying for all that". Zarock said. "She put on a little show for all of us". He said grinning.

"A show"? I asked. "What all did she do"?

"Man". Jeremy explained with a big smile on his face. I started not to believe that we were talking about the same Diamond.

"Diamond gave Trill a little lap dance". Zarock said. That got me pissed at Trill because he knew how I felt about Diamond. I looked at Trill, but all he did was smile.

"Bro chill". He finally said. "It wasn't nothing but a little twerking session. She grinded on me, then Rashad's jealous ass yanked her off and caused a big scene". I didn't say much back. I just sat back on the sofa that his mom had in the living room and listened to him talk while he smoked his pearled blunt. "Cruze, I've been meaning to ask you if you wanted to be apart of the Squad. I mean you mine as well be. You our knew homie and all". I looked at Zarock and Jeremy who had been starring at me heavily.

"I mean, what all I gotta do"? I asked.

"Basically just ride for us, be down for us, and represent". Zarock said.

"Yeah, and we sell a little dope now and then. We work for a guy who calls himself Zeus". Jeremy said.

"Why Zeus"? I asked chuckling.

"Because, he tells us the long ass story about how in ancient Greek mythology, the Greek god Zeus was the god of all gods and goddesses and I guess he looks at himself that way". Jeremy explains. "He's real known around Maple Smith. All the teenage boys look at him like he's another father, but he has his dark sides". As Jeremy explained Zeus to me, It all reminded me of Calli. I missed him so much and it killed me that we didn't have a proper funeral for him. After Calli died, Rashad had taken over and took all the money that Calli had left, sold the trap house, and left me and Uncle Ronnie with nothing but the cut of money that we had from the move we made in The Bronx.

"You wanna meet him"? Trill asked me. "Do you wanna meet Zeus"? I looked at him. Even though I still had over twenty thousand dollars to my name, Uncle Ronnie wouldn't let me touch any of it until I turned eighteen. He let me spend a couple thousand on clothes, but when I got too carried away he locked all of my money up in the bank. I had to find a new money source. Even though Uncle Ronnie and Miles had quite the game, I hadn't and wasn't ever. So I looked at Trill and nodded my head yes and we were all out of his apartment and walking to Zeus's building. We walked across a small field of grass and entered a raggedy looking building. We went up flight's of steps until we reached the seventh floor. Trill knocked on the door and when it opened, a big, fat nigga with an ugly grimace on his face starred down at us.

"Ayye Debo". Trill greeted. "We all here to see Zeus". Debo nodded his head at us then let us in the apartment. My mouth completely dropped when I stepped through the door. Zeus's apartment didn't look raggedy and dirty like all of the others. He had new cherry red carpet layed down, his living room looked like royalty when I saw the gold love seats and curtains to match them. He had a big TV, a custom made chandelier, he even had a dead polar bear laying on the floor as a rug. A big man who looked well into his fifties with yellow skin and a bald head was sitting in a red, silk robe with two bitches on each side of him dressed in genie looking costumes. He looked more of a Budah not a Zues. "Hey Zeus". Trill said to the man.