Tia smiled. “You look tired.”
“I am. Them kids dragged me by my scalp.”
Tia laughed. “You always say that and you always go back.”
“Because I’m dedicated. And they funny.”
“You love them,” Tia corrected. “Just admit it.”
Meadow sighed. “Fine. I love them. Especially Mya. That girl is me reincarnated.”
Tia grinned. “Well…you was a handful.”
“You still one,” Meadow countered.
“True.” Tia adjusted her phone and sat crisscross on the bed. “Alright, tell me about your day. Start with the part where you was flirting with that man.”
“I was not?—”
Tia stared dead into the camera. “Meadow.”
“Okay, yes but also no.”
“Yes but also yes,” Tia corrected. “Don’t lie. You was cheesing hard as hell when I picked up this phone.”
Meadow groaned and rolled onto her back. “Tia…I don’t know what to do with him.”
“What’s he doing?”
“Breathing.”
Tia screamed into the pillow, kicking her feet like she was twelve. “Oh my God.”
“I’m serious,” Meadow insisted. “He just…be existing around me and my whole body starts doing the absolute most.”
“What’s that mean?”
“It means I be trying to mind my business and then he walk in smelling like sunlight and Black boy peace and my damn stomach flips.”
Tia blinked, nodding her head in understanding because she got that feeling with Blain. That man was her whole heart in human form. “Sunlight and Black boy peace?”
“Exactly, I don’t know why I said that.”
Tia grinned. “Cause you like him.”
“I don’t.”
“You do.”
“I don’t, hoe.”
Tia tilted her head. “Say it again like you believe it.”
Meadow opened her mouth…and closed it.
Tia softened. “Tell me how he makes you feel.”
Meadow stared up at her ceiling. “Like, I can breathe around him…and I didn’t even know I wasn’t breathing.”
