The Pleasure of Pain (3 page)

No Turning Back

Chapter 4

              Tess and her girls would spend every night at Bless’ apartment every opportunity they got.  It was the only place where they could do what they wanted-- smoke, drink, and laugh all night. 

             
Tess wanted to learn more about the drug game.  So Bless began to teach her how to break down pounds of weed, how to cook and cut crack, and put workers on the block. He even taught her and Iris how to use a gun and Tess and Iris taught Vanessa and Ebony. 

             
Out of the group the only one Bless really couldn’t understand was Iris.  She would come by at night to his place and wouldn’t say a word.  She’d look stressed and depressed.  Bless would give her sheets and a pillow and she’d go right to sleep on his couch.  At first he used to try to get her to talk about what was going on with her, but she would never tell him what was wrong.  So he stopped pushing and told himself she’d tell him when she was ready.

             
“Stop Papi, stop, please no more,” cried Iris as her father was humping and pumping his drunk dick in and out of his daughter until he busted a nut all inside of her. He left the room leaving Iris crying. 

             
She got up and got dressed and left her room and went outside and started to walk to the only place she felt safe.  Bless heard a knock at his door as he was bagging up some coke.  He grabbed his gun and opened the door to find Iris standing there.  He moved to the side and let her in, “There are clean sheets in the closet and a blunt on the table.” 

             
Iris couldn’t understand how this man, this gangster could be so kind to her.  At times she wished Bless was her man and not Tess’.  As Iris sat down, she began to cry.  Bless stopped what he was doing, “Iris, you ok?” he asked. “You know we are peoples and you can tell me anything.  I always got your back,” he explained. 

             
More tears ran down her face and she wished her father and mother cared about her like he did.  But her father only had lust in his eyes for her. “Bless,” Iris said between tears. “I’m going to tell you something that I haven’t even told Tess.”  She looked Bless in his eyes and tears were running down her face.  “My father raped me tonight.”

             
“What!” Bless yelled.

             
“It’s not the first time.  He’s been doing it from the time I was seven years old.  I always blamed myself and I used to tell my mother, but she would just beat me and tell me to do what my father said to do.  So I just let him do what he wanted to me and pray it would be over soon.  I used to go to Tess’ house and stay the night, but her uncle didn’t like me staying over there all the time.  He didn’t know why so I don’t blame him.  Then we met you and I started coming here after he raped me just to get away from that place,” she began to cry some more. “Sometimes I come here just to sleep without worrying that I will get touched and raped in my sleep.”  Iris was now crying even harder.

             
Bless was the first and only person she ever told about what her family had been doing to her.  Bless went over to Iris and held her in his arms until she fell asleep.  He grabbed his gun and left Iris asleep on the couch.  He walked to Iris’s building and waited in the dark.  He knew who Iris’s father was.  Shit, he knew everybody in the neighborhood and he knew Iris’s pops was a drunk.  He would come back out tonight because it was only 11:20pm and the liquor store closed at 12 midnight.  The drunk that he was would want more bottles for the night.  So Bless waited in the shadows of the dark and at 11:30 Iris’s father came out of the building as so expected. 

             
Bless ran up to him and punched him in the head knocking him to the ground and he began to beat the shit out of him.  If there was one thing he couldn’t stand, it was a rapist and this man was the lowest of them all.  He raped his own daughter.  Bless beat him until blood was everywhere.  Then he grabbed the man by his shirt and pulled his face close to his. 

             
“If you ever touch Iris again, I will kill you,” Bless meant every word.  “If your hands or dick go next to her, mark my words, you are dead.”  Just with one look in Bless’s eyes Iris’s father saw a beast and knew he was serious.  Iris’s father began to pee his pants. 

             
“I…I won’t touch her.  I swear, please, don’t kill me.”  Bless left the man sitting in his own blood and piss.

Watch Out For Your P
ast…

I
t’s Always Waiting To Return

Chapter 5

             
Iris never knew what happened that night, but her father hadn’t touched her in three months and he’d never touch her again.  She knew Bless had something to do with it and she was going to pull him to the side and ask him about it.   Iris was leaving her building to meet Bless, Tess, Vanessa and Ebony at Bless’ place.  She walked down the block.  The night air hit her skin and it felt good.  Then everything went wrong. 

             
A pair of hands grabbed her neck and mouth and then another pair grabbed her feet.   They picked her up off the ground and started carrying her three blocks down.  It was 12 am and only the hustlers were outside.  The rule of the street was to mind your own damn business.  So that’s what they all did. 

             
Once D-Low and his two workers, Boom and Phats, got Iris into his apartment, they wasted no time and started to beat her ass.  D-Low grabbed a broomstick and beat her with it. “Bitch, you want to cut up my face!  I’ll teach you,” he yelled with every hit.  Boom grabbed Iris’ clothes and ripped them off.  Iris tried to fight, but was no match for the three men.

             
“Yo, she got a nice body and a fat ass.  Let me go first,” Boom said.

             
“No punk, I’m the boss.  I’m fucking this bitch first,” D-Low responded.

Boom held Iris’ hands while Phats held her feet after D-Low spread her legs pushin
g his dick inside her.  He pumped up and down like a wild animal until he busted all up inside her.  Then they flipped her over and held her down and D-Low hit it from the back.  Iris screamed and cried the whole time.  Then D-Low pulled his dick out and pushed it in her ass.  She tried to resist, but the men were holding her down.  She tried to squeeze her butt cheeks tight together, but it was no use.  D-Low fucked her carelessly and hard until he saw blood on his dick.

“Your turn,” he said to
Boom and Phats. Then he let Boom and Phats have their way with her.

Iris had passed out from all the pain
, but the men were still tossing her back and forth between them fucking her over and over. D-Low grabbed an iron and turned it on until it got real hot and placed it on Iris’ leg.

“Ahhh!” Iris yelled.
She woke up only to pass back out from the pain.

“Yes bitch
, you mark me now I mark you,” D-Low said with an evil grin on his face. “Yo, throw this bitch outside,” D-Low ordered.  Phats and Boom did just that.

A
t five o’clock in the morning an elderly lady stepped out of the building and was about to head to work, but saw Iris’s bloody, beaten body lying there on the sidewalk. She ran to a payphone and called 911 for an ambulance for Iris.

Where to Turn

Chapter 6

              Tess hadn’t seen nor heard from Iris all day and that was unlike her. The two girls were always together. Tess went by Iris’s house and asked for her, but her mother didn’t know nor seem to care and her father was scared and claimed that he hadn’t touched her. ‘What was that shit supposed to mean?’ Tess thought to herself.

             
Tess didn’t know where to turn. She knew something was wrong with her best friend, but she couldn’t find her. Tess stayed at Bless’ house crying and worrying about Iris. Bless kept trying to tell Tess that she’d show up. Tess just prayed she would and that she was okay.

             
Three days had passed and still no one had seen nor heard from Iris. On the fourth day Bless’ house phone rang and Tess picked it up. “Tess, it’s me,” Iris said.

             
“Where are you?” Tess asked in concern.

             
“I’m at Kings County Hospital. Can you please come see me?”Iris said.

             
“I’ll be right there.” Tess and Bless hopped in the car and rushed to the hospital. They had no time to look for Vanessa and Ebony to tell them what was going on. Tess and Bless were at the hospital in minutes. Tess found out what room she was in from the lady at the hospital’s information front desk where they had to sign in to visit. They went to the second floor and went inside Iris’ room. What they saw had them in tears. Iris’s face was all swollen and lumped up.

             
“Iris, what happened?” Tess asked with tears rolling down her face.

             
The first thought that came to Bless’s mind was that it was Iris’s father who had done that and he swore he would kill him for it. Iris began to speak, but stopped and put her head down because she was ashamed of what happened.

             
“There is nothing to be ashamed of Mami. We’re all family, so tell us.”

             
“D-Low and his two workers grabbed me the night I was coming to meet you two. They raped and beat me for hours.” Tears were falling down Iris’s face and it hurt her just to cry. The tears stung her face.

             
Tess began to cry from seeing her friend in so much pain. “I’m going to kill them,” Tess yelled.

             
“I’m with you, Tess,” Bless agreed.

             
“Wait,” Iris said, “I don’t want you two to do anything until I get out. I want to be there, alright?”

             
“That’s cool,” Bless said.

             
“I’m down with that,” Tess replied. “But what took you so long to call us Iris?” Tess asked.

             
“I’ve been passed out for three days after they did what they did to me. I just woke up today. That’s why it took me so long to call. The doctor said I’m okay and everything else healed up, but my face.  I can go home tomorrow. The cops asked questions, but I didn’t tell them anything. I was hoping we’d handle this,” Iris said.

             
“You know we will,” Bless replied.

             
“Can you two pick me up tomorrow? They won’t let me leave here unless someone picks me up and I know my mother and father won’t come.”

             
“We’ll be here to pick you up, girl,” Bless said. Tess hugged her friend and Bless did the same before they left.

             
The next day Tess, Bless, Vanessa, and Ebony came to pick Iris up. Iris never felt so much love before. Her own flesh and blood didn’t even care about her, but none of that mattered anymore because she found a new family in her friends. That night they got high, ate out, and then went back to Bless’ place to make a plan. Iris didn’t only want to kill D-Low. She wanted to take everything he had. Bless had been teaching Tess and Iris about the game and now it was time to put those lessons to work.

Caught Slipping

Chapter 7
             

             
Boom was hustling in front of D-Low’s building. He was making all the weed sales he could so he could finish his pack and go find some pussy and take it upstairs. It had been a month since he’d gotten any pussy. The last time he got his dick wet was with that Spanish girl they had fucked and beaten. Boom grabbed his dick just thinking about the sweet pussy he’d gotten that night. Then he got mad. He hated the fact that he always had to stay outside while Phats got to bag up weed and his so called boss D-Low got to stay in his bedroom fucking Keri’s young fine ass. ‘He should pass that pussy,’ Boom thought to himself.  Boom was startled from his daydream of fucking Keri by a sexy voice.

             
“I heard you got that good weed, Boom.”

             
Boom looked up to see a sexy, young, dark skinned girl. “Yeah, I got that good shit. That’s why they call me Boom. I have that shit that make you so high you feel as if you’ve blown up,” Boom responded speaking his weak game to the girl. Boom looked her up and down from head to toe with lust in his eye. ‘Damn, her body is right. I have to tap that,’ he thought to himself.

             
“Let me get two dime bags,” the girl said. Boom pulled his weed stash out of his boxes and handed the girl two dime bags as he took her money. He pulled a note from his pocket and added the money to it. He usually didn’t pull out his money on the street, but wanted to show it off to the girl. By the way she looked at it, it worked.

             
“Yo, who you about to smoke with?” Boom asked.

             
“No one,” the girl said while licking her lips in a way that turned Boom on.

             
“Cause you can chill with me,” Boom replied.

             
“Where because I’m not about to chill in no hallway,” the girl said with an attitude.

             
“Nah boo, I got a spot upstairs,” Boom said.

             
“Okay,” she replied. Boom was smiling inside. He knew he was going to tap that ass.  Either she was going to give it up or he was going to take it. One way or another, that pussy was his tonight. Boom turned his back and took his keys out and opened the front door.

             
Tess smiled and thought this shit was easy just like Bless taught her. Most of these fake ass hustlers think with their dick and only a weak man will do that. She now knew Bless was right. ‘This fool doesn’t even know me from a hole in the wall and he already turned his back on me and opened the front door,’ she thought to herself. Tess pulled out a baby 9mm handgun and put the barrel to the back of Boom’s head and with hate in her voice she said, “Don’t fucking move pussy.”

             
Just then Bless and Iris came out of the dark and pushed Boom in the building and shut the door behind them. Bless patted down Boom and found a 22 caliber handgun, his weed pack, money, and keys.

             
“Head up the stairs. If you make a fucking sound, you’re dead,” Bless said.

Boom knew who Bless was and was so scared
that he pissed on himself. He knew Bless didn’t pull guns out unless he used them. Boom then looked at Iris and knew he was really fucked. Iris looked down at his wet pants and smiled.

             
“Listen, I didn’t know she was your peoples. It was D-Low’s idea.  Please man.” Smack! Bless hit him with the butt of his gun.

             
“I told you to go upstairs pussy and do not say a word,” Bless yelled. Boom led them to D-Low’s apartment floor. “Which way is it?” Bless asked.

             
“It’s that one,” Boom replied. Iris put the key in the door and slowly opened it.

             
“Yo, Boom you done with that pack already?” Phats asked never looking up from the table. He was still bagging pounds of weed.

             
Iris stepped in closer and put the gun to Phats head, “If you move, I’ll kill you.” Phats looked up with shock in his eyes. ‘How the fuck she get in here?’ was his only thought until he saw Boom with guns to his head held by Bless and Tess.

             
“Where is D-Low?” Bless asked.

             
“He’s in his bedroom fucking Keri.” Phats answered.

              “You two watch them. I’m going to get D-Low,” Bless told the girls.

             
Jamaican music could be heard coming from the bedroom. As Bless made his way to the bedroom, he opened the door slowly. The two lovers were so into what they were doing they didn’t even see Bless standing there. Bless watched as D-Low sucked away at Keri’s pussy. Bless laughed at him, ‘All that shit Jamaicans be talking about how they don’t eat no pussy or suck no cunt as they call it. Here this fool’s face all in it.’  Bless had enough of this hilarious scene, “Don’t fucking move pussy.”

             
D-Low looked up with cum all over his chin to see Bless standing there with a gun pointed to his face.

             
“Why did you stop I was about to cum again?” Keri was so into her pussy getting sucked she asked as her eyes were still closed. When she opened them, she almost screamed seeing Bless standing there with his 9mm pointed at them. D-Low looked in Bless’ eyes and knew he wouldn’t live past that night.

             
In the living room, Phats looked at the young girls and his pride started to take over. ‘How could I get caught slipping by these young bitches? How am I going to let them rob me or shoot me when they came into D-Low’s place?’  They didn’t pat Phats down.  He still had his 3.80 Ruger under his shirt.

             
“You know what? I think you bitches don’t have the heart to use those guns and you know what else? Fuck you,” Phats yelled as he reached for the gun under his shirt, but was too slow. Lead filled his body up from Tess and Iris’ guns. His body jerked and fell to the floor where he died instantly on the spot. Then Tess and Iris aimed their guns at Boom.

             
“Please! No, please!” His cries went to deaf ears as the first shot caught him in his dick making him bend over yelling in pain. The next shot caught him in his jaw shattering every bone in his mouth. Then bullets slammed into his head, chest, and stomach. He was dead before he hit the ground. It was Tess and Iris’s first time shooting anybody and from the feel of it they knew it wouldn’t be their last. Bless warned them not to hesitate when it comes to putting their murder game down or they would be down themselves.  So they listened. Tess and Iris reloaded their guns.

             
In the bedroom Keri and D-Low heard the gunshots and knew it didn’t look good for them. Bless led them to the living room. Iris laughed at seeing D-Low and Keri standing there naked with a gun pointed to each of their heads.

             
“Tess grabbed a sheet and wrapped the weed in it,” Bless ordered. Tess did what she was told. “D-Low, is this all the weed you got?” Bless asked.

             
“I have more just don’t kill me.” D-Low was now looking at his two dead workers on the floor. “The weed and money are in the bedroom closet and there’s more money under the bed.”

             
Tess and Iris made their way to the bedroom and put all the weed and money in a sheet along with anything else they had found worth anything.  They came in the living room. The sheet was too heavy for them to carry. So they had to drag it across the floor.

             
“Lie on your stomach D-Low and don’t move,” Bless ordered.

“What
?” D-Low yelled.

             
“You heard me.” Bless snapped back.  D-Low did what he was told. Iris grabbed a broomstick and came where D-Low was lying. She spit on it and with all her might pushed it up D-Low’s ass.

             
“AHHHH!” D-Low yelled.

             
“Shut the fuck up and take it. How does it feel?” Iris yelled while pushing it in and out of D-Low’s ass. She pushed it in deeper and left the broomstick stuck in his ass. D-Low was yelling and crying. The whole time D-Low was getting stuck Keri was just standing there crying, scared shitless. Her gut told her to run and she took off for the door to only be met with a hail of bullets from Tess and Iris’s guns. They watched her body fall in front of the door.

             
Tess walked over to Keri’s body and shot her twice in the head. D-Low was now crying even harder and began to beg for his life. Tess, Bless, and Iris aimed their guns at D-Low and allowed the bullets to rip through his body leaving him dead. Bless pulled out a small bottle of gas and poured it around the bodies and the apartment. All three of them put black rags over their faces. Iris lit the gas on the floor with a match as they left and they took off running.

             
Back at Bless’s place they counted the weed and money.  It came up to twenty pounds of chocolate weed, five pounds of green weed, fifteen thousand dollars in cash, and five guns. Just like what they had planned, they hit D-Low when he restocked on his weed. Bless, Tess, and Iris put the weed in the streets with workers and had Vanessa and Ebony would run the blocks. From then on, there was no looking back and no stopping them.