"I'm going to kill that bitch," Sabella said as she ran through her brand new home trying to escape the rain coming down through the leaky roof overhead.
"I'll never purchase a house online again as long as I live."
Sabella wanted to kick her own butt for not having the house inspected like she knew she should have, but she saw no reason not to trust a woman she'd known all her life and went to elementary, middle and high schools with.
She never expected her friend to deceive or cheat her and yet that is what happened. Everything Gloria Reed told Sabella about the house she saw online and purchased was a lie.
The house wasn't perfect and was in need of many major, and very expensive repairs. The roof wasn't brand new, the structure wasn't as sound as that lying bitch said it was and the house had wood rot everywhere the termites weren't making a meal.
Sabella made her way to the garage where she had parked her baby praying that the roof over the garage wasn't in the same condition has the house's roof. It was.
She unlocked the door of her Hummer, as the rain pounded her body hitting the sheet she'd thrown over her head to keep from getting wet, that was totally useless against the rain, and climbed inside slamming the door shut behind her. Once inside she rested her head against the headrest, closed her eyes and tried to hold back the tears that were trying to fall.
This wasn't how Sabella pictured spending her first night in her new home. She was planning on going out tomorrow and purchasing new furniture, curtains and other things to decorate her new sanctuary but thanks to a conniving, lying, low life, bitch, she wasn't going to be able to do that now because, she didn't even have to place to live.
Sabella sat in her baby, in her garage watching the rain fall as she felt the tears she had been fighting to keep from falling formed in the corners of her eyes and roll down her cheeks.
The rain started coming down harder and it started thundering and lightening. Needing someone to talk to she pulled out her cell phone intending on calling her brother, but changed her mind when she thought about how worried he would be about her if she called him sounding so upset, and as if she had been crying.
She decided to call him in the morning when she had better control of her emotions. Since she couldn't do anything about her situation tonight Sabella made herself comfortable and settled down for the night.
The sound of a loud clap of thunder and a lightening strike that sounded so close by, almost made her change her mind about staying in the garage and go stay in a hotel instead, but she decided she would be safe where she was as long as she kept her doors locked and her cell phone in hand, so she settled down, closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
The next morning Sabella opened the door and climbed out of her baby, she wiped her eyes and stretched the kinks out of her body from sleeping in the cramp space inside her baby.
As she came out of her stretch, she noticed two things, her feet were on grass and the sun was shining directly on her which shouldn't be because she was parked inside her garage.
Sabella looked around and realized that her feet were on grass and the sun was shining directly on her because she was standing in a field and not in her garage, because her garage had disappeared or she and her baby had been moved.
Sabella walked around her Hummer looking for an explanation to why she was no longer in her garage. She didn't find or see anything that would answer her question.
"What the hell is going on?" she asked out loud as she completed a circle around her baby.
"That's what I want to know." Sabella turned to see a blonde giant of a man sitting on a horse pointing a shotgun at her.
"How did you and that contraption get on my property?" the blonde giant asked still pointing the shotgun at her.
For a few seconds Sabella was too stunned and afraid to say anything, she just stood there and stared at the giant praying that he wouldn't shoot her.
"I'm talking to you, girl," the giant said.
The word girl pushed all the fear Sabella was feeling to the back of her mind, to be replaced by anger. Sabella's back went straight and rigid, and she looked the giant in the eyes as she spoke to him.
"I'm going to assume since you didn't ask that you have no interest in knowing my name," she said her voice showing no sign of fear, "and that is your right, but you have no right to call me girl anymore than I have to call you boy even though that is the way you're behaving."
"You're on my land uninvited," the blonde giant said, getting down off his horse and walking over to the colored woman who had the nerve to stand up to him. "I'll call you whatever the hell I want. Now you're going to answer my question and tell me how you manage to get on my property without being seen, or you can explain it to the Sheriff."
Not trusting the blonde giant or liking the look in his eyes as he spoke to her, Sabella backed up towards her baby determined to get inside and lock the doors before blondie could get close enough to her to put his hands on her.
She had almost made it to the passenger side door when her back hit something solid. From the mixture of Lifebouy and Listerine that she could smell, she bet it was a man.
"Going somewhere little lady?" a husky voice asked from behind her.
Sabella jumped and turned around to see another giant of a man with dark brown hair standing behind her with his hands on his hips looking like the jolly green giant.
"I don't want any trouble," she said switching her attention between the two giants, "I just want to get into my car and be on my way."
"That contraption belongs to you?" the brown haired giant asked.
"Yes," Sabella replied.
"How can a colored girl afford such an expensive car?" the brown haired giant asked looking at Sabella suspiciously.
"That's none of your business," Sabella said copying his stance by placing her hand on her hips, "and if either of you call me, girl again we're going to have a problem."
"And what problem is that?" the brown haired giant asked putting his hand out to touch Sabella's shoulder.
When he attempted to touch Sabella all the lessons she learned in self-defense classes and her training in judo, karate and tae kwon do came into play.
Before he could touch her Sabella took told of the brown haired giant's hand and threw him over her shoulder.
The blonde haired giant watch in stunned amazement as the woman threw his partner over her shoulder and sent him slamming down onto the ground.
Sabella made her way over to the passenger side door of her baby, opened the door, jumped inside and locked the door. She was about to put her key in the ignition and be on her way when she heard a gun shot.
Sabella didn't move.
"I'll give you til three to open the door," the blonde giant said the tone of his voice letting Sabella know he meant what he was saying to her, "if you don't open the door I'm going to put a round of buckshot in your engine."
Sabella looked at him but she didn't move.
"One," the blonde giant said as he began moving around the front of Sabella's baby his gun aimed at her.
Sabella still didn't move.
"Two," the blonde giant said still standing in front of Sabella's baby his gun now aimed at the engine.
He was about to say three when Sabella reached over and unlocked the passenger door.
The blonde giant opened the passenger door and called to the brown haired giant.
"Frank take Sundown and follow us back to the house," the blonde giant ordered. "I'm going to ride with our lady guest."
"Do you think that's a wise thing to do Malcolm?" Frank asked looking suspiciously at Sabella. "You don't' know anything about her."
"I don't think the lady will try anything," Malcolm said looking over at the woman sitting in the driver's seat. "If she does try anything I'll just have to deal with her, and she doesn't want me to have to that. Do you Miss?"
Sabella didn't say anything in response to his question completely ignoring him even though she didn't like the sarcastic tone in his voice when he said "Miss."
"You will do exactly as I say, or I'll make you sorry," Malcolm said as he closed the passenger side door. "Start the engine."
Sabella started the engine, put the car in drive and drove off heading towards Malcolm's home.
It took them fifteen minutes following Malcolm's directions for them to reach their destination. As they approached the house Sabella couldn't believe her eyes.
The house they were pulling up to was the leaky, rotten, money pit she had purchased online but there was something different about the house.
