He laughed and held the blunt out for me to take. “Considering you been smiling at Karim all night, I think it’s what we should be talking about, don’t you?”
I accepted the blunt. I pulled a couple times, allowing the smoke to flow from my lips. “It’s not, but you and your siblings nosy as fuck; so what you wanna know?”
He chuckled. “We wanna know how that’s going. I didn’t even know you had gotten out of your head about it. Then you show up tonight all booed up.”
I shrugged. “Things happened and the moment presented itself.”
“That’s all you giving me? Jade is about to be all in your sh—” The sound of the door opening behind us made me turn around. It was G sliding out and fixing his coat.
“Y’all out here hiding and sneaking dissing.” He mugged us both.
“Not even. Your boy is out here tryna keep his lips shut about his business when he damn sure be in everybody else’s business.”
G laughed. “You damn right. So, what’s up? You in love yet or what?”
“Yo, I can’t stand either one of you.”
“Then take a seat. I’m tryna hear about this.” Rennix accepted the blunt I held out. “Oh, and I’m keeping my niece, so find you some business. And hell nah, yeen coming to pick her up early either. I’ll bring her home and don’t gimme that shit about her not having nothing to wear. She has the stuff Jade bought her that you left here.”
I laughed hard as fuck. “Damn G, you putting my business out like that?”
He threw his hands up, laughing. “It happens to the best of us.”
We stood outside talking for a while longer before it got too cold and we went into the house. When I walked in, I peeped all my siblings sitting in the living room. I assumed Karim was inthe kitchen. I was right, because when I entered, my eyes landed on her sitting at the island with her phone to her ear.
“I know, Aro. I’ll look at it and call you in the morning, unless you want me to meet you at Bry’s.” She put the spoon to her lips, listening to her brother.
“Don’t be trying to track my moves. I’m grown. Now I’ll see you soon, rudeness. Love you too.” She pulled the phone away from her ear within seconds, then placed it on the island next to her plate.
“Yo, you in here eating sweets and we ain’t even ate dinner.” I mugged, watching her eat the banana pudding I had yet to try. My siblings called this dinner, but what the fuck was a bunch of sweets and some cold cuts? This wasn’t dinner.
“There are sandwiches right there, Rem.” She pointed to the silver pan on the counter as I maneuvered into her personal space.
“I’m hungry as fuck and that ain’t food. How much longer I got you before you be telling me you got a life to get back to?”
“That is food, Reminisce. I’m not going back to your place and cooking.” She held the spoon of pudding up for me to accept.
“Ain’t nobody finna ask you to cook.” I accepted the spoon into my mouth, locking eyes with her. It was sexy, and now I knew we needed to be getting out of here. Too bad we had a couple stops before I trapped her between my body and the sheets of my bed.
“You had that look in your eyes, now what do you have in mind?”
I chuckled. “Yeah, you misread that look. But something to eat and some ink.”
“Ink?” she responded, confusion evident in her features.
“Just vibe twin, vibe.” I chuckled, waiting for her to give me more.
She did just that, wiping the excess from my lip while our eyes were locked. This was that shit, erotic. I leaned and kissed her, my hand gripping her neck making what should’ve been a peck something heavier.Fuck.
“Look at y’all in here caking it while everybody else is in there. So cute.” Jade’s voice alerted us to her presence in the kitchen.
Karim pulled back from me, smiling and looking over at my sister. She then turned to throw the plastic plate and fork away.
“We’re about to head out.” I walked over to my sister to hug her.
“For real? I just got here,” she whined, hugging me back.
“We’ll do lunch in the city this week if you aren’t busy.”
