“Come take a ride with me.”
I shook my head. “Can’t you see I’m in the middle of something?”
“You think I give a fuck about you being in the middle of wasting some nigga’s time? Yeah, okay. I’m in the Wagon.” He was on his feet and reaching into his pocket. He threw a few bills on the table and moved toward the exit without even an inkling to look back. And the one thing I hated was that without a second thought I was about to follow him.
What the fuck are you doing, Karim?I asked myself as soon as I was on my feet, throwing my coat on to follow him.
“Hey, Karim, what’s up? Where are you going?” Danial asked, reaching the table before I could dash.
“That was my cousin. Family emergency. I’ll call you.” Everything I said was a lie, but he didn’t need to know that.
“Oh, okay,” he muttered behind me because of course I was already out of the door behind Reminisce.
As soon as I reached the passenger side of his truck, where he stood with the door open for me to get in, I hauled off and stole on him with everything in me. He didn’t get to go missing on me for months then come back and demand my time.
He gripped his jaw with a smirk.Fucking psychopath.
“You still putting too much behind that punch, fucking yourself up in the process.”
“Doesn’t matter. Why are you here, Reminisce?” I stood in front of him irritated.
“Damn, you don’t miss me, Rim?” He looked so good I could scream.
“Nah, I don’t. Why are you here?”
He chuckled. “Get your lying ass in the car.”
I sucked my teeth. “Why would I get in the car with you? What do you nee?—”
“Get in the car, Karim.” The way he said that had me looking at him. He never called me Karim and never took a serious tone with me, no matter how serious I was with him.
I didn’t push. I got my ass in the car, lowkey not knowing what to expect. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t give a little push back though. “Don’t be calling me by my government and demanding that I get in the fucking car either.”
He didn’t respond. He closed the door and moved around to the driver side. The moment he was in the car, his heavy ass energy was felt. He was brooding, but in true Reminisce fashion, he wasn’t gonna tell me why until he was ready. Either way, he had just hijacked my morning to do such.
He drove silently while the annoying ass voices of the loud people on the radio filled the car.
“Okay, why are we here?” I turned his radio down and shifted all my energy to the door so I could face him.
He backed into a park and glared at the building. “We friends, right?”
I blinked a few times. “Uh yeah, why? What’s wrong?” Now he was scaring me.
“’Cause I really fucking need that right now.” The way he looked at that building let me know if he had the ability, he would have blown that motherfucker down.
“Okay, so what’s the problem? What happened?”
“I got a call Friday from Rennix for me to come back here. Pynk dropped off a kid on me.”
I didn’t know why that crushed me, but it did. We were fucking friends, right?Shit!“And she wants you to be in her lif?—”
“Nah, she dropped the kid at Rennix’s spot and went about her business. She told him some shit about her man not wanting to raise another nigga’s kid.”
I nearly choked on the spit in my mouth. “So, she abandoned her baby?” The thought of that pissed me off, because what the fuck?
He nodded. “Yeah. Left her crying on the doorstep with two motherfuckers she didn’t know. My people had her, but I don’t like that.”
I nodded and finally looked up at the building. “This is where she is?”
