Money kicked himself inside, knowing the time she was talking about. He was so caught up in the moment, he’d slid up in her raw. “Fuck!” He hit the steering wheel out of frustration. The guilt began to set in as Money thought about how he had betrayed his best friend and twin brother.
“I love you, Leena,” Mecca whispered just before he lowered his face to his table to inhale the line of cocaine.
As soon as Breeze had dropped him off, his conscience began eating at him. He felt bad for putting his hands on the only woman he’d ever truly loved. His long hair was wild and unbraided, which made him look like a mad man as he used his nose as a suction vacuum for his preferred drug. Mecca threw his head back and held it up to prevent his nose from running. Mecca was high out of his mind. He had snorted five grams of coke within twenty minutes, and the effects of the drugs were kicking in.
He grabbed the bottle of Rémy Martin and took a large swallow of it. He distantly heard a Tupac song pump out of his home stereo and recognized the tunes. He stood up almost stumbling and went over to turn the music up.
All I need in this life of sin is me and my girlfriend Down to ride to the very end, just me and my girlfriend.
Mecca held the bottle of Rémy in his grasp and drunkenly rapped along, thinking about his love, Leena. He couldn’t take it anymore. He had to go over to her and make things right. Although he treated her bad at times, he really was in love with her, and she was the only woman he had truly ever loved.
Mecca staggered over to the keys to his Benz and snatched them off the counter. He was about to confess his love for Leena. “Leena, I love you, baby. I’m sorry,” he said as he stumbled out the door and into his Benz to go see his woman.
“I don’t know what to do, Money. I’m in love with a man I can’t have,” Leena said as tears streamed from her eyes. She sat on her sofa across from Money expressing how she felt about him.
Money was speechless as he looked into Leena’s eyes and realized the feeling was mutual. He began to slowly shake his head, knowing that what they had done was wrong. His father had taught him that family always came first and that loyalty was the single most important thing a man can have for his family. Money’s father’s teachings were embedded in his brain as his heart and mind played tug of war. On one hand, he knew that betraying his brother was wrong, but on the flip side, not taking responsibility for what he had created would eat at him. His father had also told him that abortion was wrong and that a real man takes care of his family by any means necessary. Money was lost.
“Leena, this ain’t right. This ain’t right,” Money mumbled as he buried his face in his palms. All he could think about was his twin brother.
Money had no other choice but to force an abortion upon Leena. He wasn’t willing to let a woman come between him and his sibling. That’s my flesh and blood, my brother. Blood in, blood out, I can’t let her have that baby, Money thought as he looked at Leena crying her eyes out.
He sat next to her so that he could console her. He ran his fingers through her hair and gently put his finger under her chin and made her look at him in the eyes. “Leena, we are going to get through this… together.” He returned the deep stare at Leena. “We can’t have this baby, though. It’s wrong.”
“I never wanted it to be like this,” Leena told him, heartbroken.
“Everything is going to be okay. But this between us has to stop.” Money gently kissed Leena on the lips. Money’s lips were magic to Leena. Just by his touch, he drove Leena wild. She felt her friend in between her legs begin to thump, and before she knew it, her hands were in his pants looking for his rod. She gently began to stroke it, to make it grow.
Money promised himself this would be the last time he would have sex with his forbidden love.
“All I need in this world of sin…;” Mecca sung drunkenly as he approached Leena’s house. He was going to apologize to his woman and make things right.
When he pulled up, he noticed his Lamborghini parked in her driveway. “Money still here?” he asked himself as he pulled two houses down from Leena’s house. He threw the car in park, grabbed the half-empty bottle of Rémy, and hopped out.
Mecca staggered to Leena’s house and noticed that the front light was on. He walked in front of the house, and what he saw through the front glass made his heart drop. Mecca dropped the Rémy bottle, causing it to shatter into pieces on the sidewalk. He saw his twin brother passionately kissing his woman. He watched as Money pulled out one of Leena’s big brown breasts and began to suck on it. Mecca was in complete shock as he watched Leena straddle his brother. His eyes bugged out as he saw his brother rub on Leena’s behind with one hand, while removing her thong with the other.
“What da fuck!” Mecca walked closer to the front glass and witnessed the treachery happening.
Money and Leena were so into one another that they didn’t notice Mecca staring at them through the large front glass. And Leena’s moans could be heard from the outside as she rode Monroe with more passion than she had ever ridden Mecca.
Mecca’s sadness instantly turned into rage as he reached for his gun and headed for the front door. Seconds later, bullets from his.40 caliber pistol was ripping through the wood of the front door.
Leena scrambled to the corner of the room out of fear. She didn’t know what was going on, and Money grabbed his pistol from his waist and pointed it at the door. Then he saw Mecca burst through the front door, tears in his eyes.
“Mecca!” Leena yelled as she saw the look in his eyes. She knew that their secret was out of the bag.
Mecca pointed his gun at Leena. He screamed, “I can’t believe you, bitch!”
Money put away his gun and tried to calm down his brother. “Mecca, put the gun down. It’s not what it looked like,” he tried to explain.
“It’s not what it looked like? Nigga, fuck you!” Mecca pointed his gun at his brother. The two people he thought he could trust were the very ones deceiving him. He pulled the hammer back on his gun and aimed it at his brother’s head.
Money put both of his hands up and tried to reason with him. He knew his brother very well, and when he looked in Mecca’s eyes, it was obvious that he was high as a kite. “Bro, listen, put the mu’fuckin’ gun down. You high. Now stop, before you do something you gon’ regret.”
“The only thing I regret is fuckin’ with this stankin’ ho!” Mecca pointed his gun back at Leena. The thought of her being intimate with his brother sent him over the edge. “I hate you!” Mecca screamed as he put both of his hands on his head, and his tears began to fall freely. “I loved you,”
Mecca whispered just before he pointed the gun at Leena and let off two rounds. He watched as the bullets ripped through her chest, and she fought for air.
“Noooo!” Money yelled as he rushed over to Leena and cradled her in his arms. “Breathe, Leena, breathe!” he instructed her as blood oozed out of her mouth.
Leena fought for her dear life as she gripped Money’s hands and looked into his eyes.
“Breathe, Leena!” Money screamed as he tried to keep her from slipping away. “Call an ambulance!” He looked back at Mecca, who was pacing the room with both of his hands on his head.
Mecca whispered, “Oh my God! What have I done?” He frantically continued to pace the room. He looked over at his brother and Leena, and what he saw and heard broke his heart.
Leena was taking her last breath, but before she slipped away, she looked Money in the eyes and whispered, “I love you, Monroe Carter,” just before she stared into space, leaving this earth.
A single tear slid down Money’s face, and he felt Leena’s grip suddenly loosen. He knew that she was gone.