Chapter
Ten
Karim
A few days later
I had been a nervous wreck since we’d left my house since my man was meeting my brother.Shit, my brother was meeting my man.I didn’t know why I was so nervous, but I felt like I was about to hop out of my skin. Of course Reminisce held his phone in one hand, talking to his brother while the other held the steering wheel without a care in the world. He was so calm, but he was about to walk into a pit. Then again, this man was also a psycho, so apparently walking into fire was his thing. Lowkey that was some of the reason I liked him the way I did at first.
“Baby girl, you over there looking like I need to show you why these tints so dark.” This fool cut his eyes in my direction.
“Yo, I don’t wanna hear that shit, Reminisce,” Rennix said. Of course he had him on speaker.
“Yeah whatever, man. I’m tryna see how y’all keep thinking y’all can kidnap my child and it’s gonna fly.”
Rennix laughed at him. “Nigga, I got uncle’s rights. Jade thought she was about to come through with shorty and she wouldn’t wanna stay with me. Soon as she saw me it was a wrap,and that’s why I’m telling you I’ma keep her for the next few days.”
“You telling me?”
I laughed, at least something was easing my nerves at this moment.
“Yeah, and speaking of, you know Christmas is coming up. I’m tryna coordinate.”
“Nigga, you tryna coordinate. The fuck that means? When you ever did that?”
“Never, shit, but this year I got kids, and so do you. Gone away is the pop up with a gift and go fall into some helper pussy. Nigga, you are a helper.”
“Fuck that. I ain’t no helper, Renny.”
I couldn’t control my laughter. Their conversations were always hilarious. It never failed.
“What are you laughing at, Rim? I ain’t no fucking helper. Shit, if we’re keeping it a buck, I’m Rema Claus. ’Cause I know damn well ain’t no big nigga coming down my chimney, Black or white he’ll catch some hot shit on Jesus’s birthday.” He spoke as I noted we were now slowing down.
It was then I realized we were in front of Asteroid, pulling right into a park, which meant my man was about to meet my brother.Oh shit.
“Yo, you’re stupid. If nobody has told you that already.” Rennix laughed into the phone.
“Yeah, yeah. I’ll be whatever. I’ma about to go meet Rim’s people so she can stop worrying. Baby has been gnawing at her bottom lip since we got up this morning. Let me go in here and show her I can exist with her people without having to shoot her brother.”
I hit him as he turned the car off.
Rennix laughed even more. “Yo, behave, Reminisce.”
“Don’t be telling me to behave like I’m a child. As a matter of fact, get your ass off my phone. I’ll be there to get my daughter tonight.”
Judging from the lack of response from Rennix, and Reminisce putting his phone in his sweatshirt pocket, I assumed he hung up on his brother.
He didn’t give me the chance to tell him to behave in here because he was moving over to open my door. Nothing about this man was nervous or bothered. If anything, he was cool as a freaking cucumber like he wouldn’t be walking into a room full of people he didn’t know. Then again, Reminisce was as extroverted as it got with his rude ass. Having seen all the brothers, I could now see that though Rennix was his twin and they all resembled, Rem was the one who looked the meanest. Not only that, but he was the meanest.
“Yo, your hands are sweating. Stop stressing, Rim. I’ma act right in here, then take you back to the house and fuck some confidence into you.”
I grinned, about to respond, but before I could this fool was opening the door for me to go into the bowling alley.
As soon as we entered all eyes were on us… not so much as me, but definitelyhim.Just as I expected my mother to, she came toward us holding the baby of the bunch, Arie. He was Aro’s youngest son and her favorite, even though she claimed she had no favorites. Unlike all of her other grandkids, Arie looked just like her, from the jet-black curls to the doe-like nose and slightly lighter eyes. He was her twin and the twins were Aro’s twins.
“Reminisce, son, we meet again.” My mother was quick to hand me Arie and hug my man after he set the gift bag I had just literally thrown together in the car on the table already overflowing with gifts. “How are you doing, son?” She pulled him into a hug like I wasn’t even there.
“Hey Mama, It’s good to see you again too. Just remember the nigga you’re hugging on is mine.” I winked before making baby faces at my nephew.
