Free The Fix 2 by K'wan Page A

apartment. Shockingly, Benny had held it down and never confessed to Chucky’s involvement, but Ramses was still suspicious. He knew Chucky and Benny were close, and the whole scheme had Chucky’s stink on it, but he needed proof of Chucky’s guilt or innocence in the plot, so he put Chucky to the ultimate test of loyalty.
    The feeling of utter nausea that hit Chucky when Ramses ordered him to kill his best friend was one that would stick with Chucky until the end of his days on earth. It was feeling like you had to vomit, shit, and pee all at once. Chucky was left with a hard decision: murder Benny and walk away or die with him. He looked into Benny’s tearful eyes and thought about days when they had to eat at each other’s houses when their families didn’t have enough food. Benny was his partner, his brother, but he was also careless and had put both of their lives at risk. Chucky pointed the gun, which was trembling in his hand, at Benny, and for a split second he considered it, but couldn’t bring himself to do it. Chucky was a snake, but he wasn’t a coward, so he turned the gun on Ramses’s men and pulled the trigger.
    To the surprise of everyone in the room besides Ramses and Huck, it clicked empty. The gun wasn’t even loaded. It had all been a setup by Ramses. If Chucky had been willing to kill his best friend it would’ve proved that he was trying to bury a secret and hide his involvement, but the fact that he was willing to ride out for his friend showed Ramses that his heart was still in the right place. It was indeed Ramses’s ultimate test of loyalty, and Chucky had almost failed. Chucky was allowed to keep his life, but he still received a beat down from Ramses’s friend Boo for pulling a gun on them. He got off light considering what fate awaited Benny.
    The last time Chucky had seen Benny it was in that apartment, still tied to the chair and professing how happy he was that his partner hadn’t turned on him. If he only knew how close Chucky had been to going the other way with it. Ramses promised to release Benny and exile him instead of killing him, but Chucky knew that was a lie. Chucky wanted to stay behind and advocate further for Benny’s life, but there was nothing he could do, short of putting himself back in harm’s way and dying with him. He couldn’t do anything to save Benny’s life, but Chucky promised on his friend’s soul that it wouldn’t be in vain. Everyone who had a hand in his friend’s death, and Chucky’s humiliation that day, would be held accountable, including Ramses and his minions.
    From there things went downhill for Chucky. He was falling out of favor with Ramses, Wolf was still on his back and everything he had stashed from the robberies was returned to the rightful owners. The pressure of everything going on, coupled with Benny’s death, pushed Chucky further into his already festering madness and he began relying more heavily on drugs to cope. Ramses never really trusted Chucky after that and began feeding him with a long-handled spoon. Responsibilities that were once delegated to Chucky and Benny were now falling to Li’l Monk and Omega. While the two youngsters were on the come up, Chucky was on his way down the ladder. The pressure was coming from all sides and Chucky knew his days were numbered. It would only be a matter of time before Ramses discovered his involvement in the robberies or Wolf gave him up to Pharaoh. Either way he was fucked with a capital F and needed to bust a move, so he did what any rat on a sinking ship would do: he jumped off.
    Chucky had outgrown New York and it was time to head for greener pastures, but not before tying up some loose ends, one of which being Ramses’s friend Boo. Chucky had vowed to repay Boo for putting his hands on him and the part he played in Benny’s murder and embarrassing him in the apartment that day and he made good on