He noticed that she was nothing like Diamond, she was young, wild, and loud. Ace leaned against the wall, mind already moving at a rapid pace. Diamond was sharp, calculated, and hard to back into a corner. Duke got an A for effort, but he smelled bullshit, she wasn’t quick to fall. But Kayla? A weak link.
Farrah pointed toward where Ace was standing, which led to the bathroom. As soon as she turned the corner, Kayla walked into him.
“Shit! You scared me. I’m sorry for cussing, I’m…um looking for the bathroom.”
“You good, the bathroom is the last door on the left.”
She looked up at him and smiled before walking off. He didn’t watch her walk away because he was in no shape or form that type of nigga for real, it was business. Business that her bitch ass daddy put her in the mix of. Rich bruised his reputation; Ace wouldn’t say he killed it because the hood knew he was still a loose cannon.
“Thank you,” she replied, walking back down the hall, drying her hands on her shirt.
“No problem, stay pretty.”
When those words left his mouth, it looked like something in her clicked and he knew he had her right where he needed her to be. She was going to bring Rich straight to him and he was going to get his lick back in the worse way. He owed that nigga a hard time anyway from shit in the past.
Kayla walked back in the living room with a smile on her face that she didn’t have when she left and Farrah noticed it first.
“Girl, what the hell you smiling so hard for?”
She quickly shook her head, “Nothing, y’all’s crib nice as fuck.”
Farrah gave a slight side-eye before thanking her. Little did she know, Ace had put Kayla on cloud nine with his compliment. Kayla walked home replaying his words in her head like a broken record. Sure, she liked a few boys, but Ace was a man and a fine one. She knew he would never go for a girl her age, but she could imagine, and she did.
She dreaded going home because she didn’t want to see Diamond’s face. The two hadn’t said a word to one another for a week straight. She did her thing and Kayla did hers, she was making a killing boosting while Diamond was moving her little drugs with their father. That was the real reason Kayla was mad, Rich always thought Diamond was better than her, but she was going to prove him wrong. Kayla was going to be that bitch, fly, rich, and bossy.
“Girlllll, where you been, and why you got that goofy ass smile on your face?” Jatara asked as soon as Kayla turned the corner.
“If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you.”
“Well, bitch, bury me at the park on Christiana so I can still be lit in the summer!”
Kayla contemplated on telling Jatara that she was crushing on Ace, but she did anyway as soon as they made it to her porch.
“Girl, I have a crush on somebody.”
“Who? Ryan? I been knew that,” Jatara quickly replied, rolling her eyes.
“That’s a kid, I have a crush on a grown man. Ace.”
“Come again? The Ace that your father just knocked the fuck out? That man will be locked under the jail if he fucks with you. He ain’t thinking about your young ass.”
“Hmph, that ain’t what his mouth say. I was just in his house, and he called me pretty,” she boasted with her same cocky demeanor.
“At his house for what? That nigga is your family’s enemy, you tripping.”
“I was with my friends, they cool with Farrah.”
“Oh, you breaking all the codes. You know that bitch don’t like your sister.”
“You don’t like my sister, and I still fuck with you. Anyway, that ain’t got nothing to do with me, hell, I don’t like my sister,” she shot back as they both started laughing.
They sat there and gossiped until the sun went down and when it did, the block got live. Chicago was the place to be on a nice night.
“There go your boo,” Jatara pointed at Ace as he stepped out looking like Mitch fromPaid in Full. The drip, the jewelry, everything about him screamedbossand Kayla wanted to be on his arm. Her thoughts came to a halt when she saw a bitch pull up in a candy apple red Benz and stepped out. Her body was banging, her clothes hugged her body like a glove as she balanced her weight on a pair of heels that looked like needles, she was badd!
“Damn, she cold,” Jatara said as Kayla’s eyes followed over to Ace.
She couldn’t lie, her feelings were hurt when she saw him wrapping his arms around her waist. Right then and there, Kayla knew what she had to do. It was time to grow the fuck up and switch her style up. No more gym shoes, she was going to become the bitch that was occupying her man in that moment. If Ace didn’t like her before, he was going to when she was done.
