Since the incident that occurred in march, Tyrell spent less and less of his time around the Rox gang. He broke contact with his sisters, and mostly spoke to Nate through text. He restarted sleeping at his father's house and had Tao keep him updated on anything that occurred at their crib.

"Bebe." Andrea neared her boyfriend, pained. "Please say it's a lie." she whines.

"What ? What is ?"

" You still are fucking talking to that bitch Titi ?" She asks, fuming.

"What ?" He stares at her bug-eyed. "No. Bebe I don't talk to her."

"Stop lying !" She yells. "I know what you did ! You betrayed us for her ! You betrayed me for her !"

"What are you saying ?"

"Give me your phone."

"Drea, what's wrong with you-"She yanked the phone out of his hands and looked through his recent calls. "Drea !"

"How could you !" She throws his phone on the floor.

"What the fuck is wrong with you-"

"What's wrong with me ? You fucking called her ! You fucking gave away our intel to an opp !"

"What..."

"I have to report you." she continues, calmly.

He takes her wrist. "Andrea-"

"You fucking traitor. Don't touch me." She pulls away her arm and looks back. "Kai ! Kai !" She screams.

"No." He inches forward. "What the fuck are you doing !"

She backs away from him. "Don't fucking get near me, Keshawn ! Kai !" She yells. Kai marches towards them.

"I told you to be careful." He forcefully shoves Keshawn back making him stubble. Regaining his balance he swings at him.

"Back off, In Sol-"

"It's fucking Kai !" He throws him a punch. "My name..." He adds, kicking him in the stomach. "..my name is Kai."

"Go fucking die like Ruby, In Sol" curses Keshawn. He gets up and jumps on him. Kai shields his face as Shawn, pounds on his arms. Andrea kicks him off Kai. He rolls over to the side, stopping when he lands on his back. In an instant, Kai gathers himself up and goes above him. He pulls out his gun and doesn't hesitate to shoot.

"Why'd you kill him !" Drea shoves Kai away and gets down on her knees." Bebe... Keshawn, wake up ! Wake up you shit !" she shakes his body forcefully, her tears falling on him. A few gang members, including DJ, arrived at the scene.

"Kai, what the fuck happened ?"

"Dejun, I told you he was not to be trusted." He throws glances behind him. "Help me move the body. Drea, call Tao and clean the blood. We'll drag him outside so it looks like he died outside. We'll say Titi and him talked again, she shot him and dipped before we could get her." He throws another look behind him and catches DJ shaking his head in disapproval. "Please, Dejun."

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"Fuck." They lift up his body and hustle outside. Dejun lowers his arms then Kai drops his legs on the ground "Yo, careful !" he pushes Kai.

"What the fuck happened !" Renee came running. "Why the fuck is he on the floor." She got near his body. "Kai !" she looks back at him. The color of his pale face slightly drains away.

"Titi..." He utters.

"What..." She mumbles. "What do you mean ?"

"Titi killed him." His face regains the faint color it had. "She made him tell everything about us."

"Why does he look so beat up ?"

"I tried to knock some sense into Shawn before he went and talked to her again today. He didn't want to listen so we fought." He responds furtively.

"You're not lying to me are you ?"

"I swear. On my sister."

She looks back at the body. "Leave."

"What ?"

"Fucking leave me alone !" She orders, looking back to Kai with teary eyes. Everyone who was outside aside from Drea, Kai and DJ made their way inside. "Drea, we're going to the hospital." The two girls prepare the backseat of a car before placing the corpse then get into the car.

"You're fucked up In Sol." remarks DJ as they watch the girls drive out the premises.

"I can't have her hate me." DJ turns away from him and walks inside. He follows him "You know the way I feel about her. You feel it too. I'd rather die than have her hate me." he confesses.

"But you want to live, so you lied."

"I had no other choice, Dejun."

"What now ?" questions Tao.

"What happened wasn't really a lie. Titi and Shawn did talk to each other. We don't even know how many times. Naveen gave us the order to teach him a lesson-"

"You killed him !" argues Tao.

"I was just following orders."

"You killed my friend." argues Dejun.

"It was him or the gang. Are you saying you would've disobeyed a direct order from our Boss to save someone you barely knew ?" he taunts.

"Don't piss me off." barked Dejun. His brother elbows him. Captain Naveen was making his way toward them. A dozen of Rox members were walking behind him.

"Is it true that Keshawn is dead ?" Naveen questions.

"Yes sir. You informed us about his betrayal and asked us to teach him a lesson."

"And you killed him." He adds looking at Kai in an inscrutable manner.

"Yes captain."

"I see." He pulls out his phone. The screen faces. "You're on speaker, give us your orders, Boss."

"Today's the day where we will be taking action." begins Shadow. "We have to redeem what's ours, we have to destroy our enemies. Right after this call y'all are to be headed to the Silvers' crib. Capture anyone that's in your way and if they fight back, knock them down. No killing until I give the order. Y'all better have understood. I really don't like getting things wrong."

"Where are Drea and Riri ?" Naveen asks DJ.

"They're taking Shawn's body to the hospital."

Jax sighs."Nav, send them the addy."

"Alright, prepare yourself ! We're going !"

"Yes sir !" The Rox gang choruses. They all disperse.

Naveen turns off the speaker and brings the phone to his ear. "We can't find T.Y though."

"It's fine. His part of the job is over anyways. Did you do your part of the job as well ?"

"It's done." Naveen answers and he hangs up.

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I slept over at mum's place and the next day, the 18th I was back at my boyfriend's house. He picked me up from home and we spent all morning and afternoon together. His family wasn't home and we decided to order in. He took his phone and went into a different room to order. I roamed around his living room, looking at his family pictures.

"I ordered." Xavier rings behind my ears and I turn around. He takes my phone out of my back pocket. "You don't ever have your sound on ?"

"No, why." He keeps his eyes on the phone. "What are you doing ?" I chuckle lightly.

"I just wanted to take a picture of your beautiful face." he says, bringing me closer to him by the waist. I throw my head back, wrapping my arms around his warm neck. Cheerfully, we swing around for a few seconds.

"Doesn't she look beautiful, my darling ?" He brings down the phone to my face, showing me the picture he took.

"Why are you like this ?" I question his intention jokingly. I take back my phone and take notice of 13 missed calls from Kyle, Sha, Aneesa, Nate and even Asad. I look back up at Xav, eyes widened.

"What ?" he asks, peeking down at my cell phone.

"Shit."

"What !" he repeats.

"Shit !" I look back down at my phone and call Tanisha.

"What happened ?" asks Xavier more aggressively. I stand up, rubbing my forehead. I start marching back and forth waiting for a call back.

"How can I have missed this many calls ? Xavier, can we take your car ?" I point to his car keys. He gets up and walks towards the house and car keys.

"Where are we heading ?"