“I mean, yeah, but are y’all official or still figuring it out or what?”
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I mean, we aren’t official but I don’t think we’re exactly casual anymore either.”
“He gave me a house key.”
“What?” Allur looked over at me. “A house key?”
“Yep. Just now.” I shimmied in my seat and giggled in excitement. “He said he would love to come home to me.”
“For the summer or forever?” Allur leaned into me.
“At least the summer, but I did tell him that he makes me not want to go back.”
“That man has your nose wide open, November.”
“Just a little bit,” I confessed.
“It’s cute though. I like it for you. He’s definitely a step up from the last one and honestly, it looks like he’s just as down bad as you are so I’m here for all of this. Get your man, girl.”
“And will.” I held my hand out toward her and we slapped palms. “I can’t wait to be in my ‘my man, my man, my man’ era.”
“Girl, you already are.” Allur laughed.
I nodded. “You right.”
Allur was definitely on to something. Even if I wasn’t going to claim Kaleo publicly until we were officially in a relationship, I was definitely already classifying him as my man to her and my imagination.
I liked Kaleo and everyday I was feeling more safe with the thought of letting him have me too.
7KALEO
I knocked on Rob’s door five hard times and stared in the peep hole while whoever was on the opposite side of it rummaged around. I was met with weed smoke and niggas talking loudly. I recognized the dude that had opened the door and it was obvious that he recognized me too by the way he quickly moved to the side so I could enter.
I dapped up Rob’s friends as I made my way through his crib, maneuvering through them until I found my brother, sitting on his back balcony with a joint in his hands and three other niggas standing around talking to him. He looked back at me and grinned.
“What’s up, Leo?” He dapped me up from where he was sitting.
“What’s up?” I sat on the seat on the opposite side of the doorway.
“Aye,” he address the little group. “Give me and my brother some space to chop it up real quick.” He nudged his head toward the door and the men headed back inside.
Rob and I sat in silence for a little as he smoked.
“How you holding up?” he asked.
“I’m good.”
“You sure?”
“I’m positive.”
“Alright.” He exhaled. “I heard pops ran into you and ole girl. Y’all doing sleep overs and shit now?”
“Something like that.” I leaned back and crossed my arms over my chest. “Why you and pops speaking on my business?”
“He called me to ask about you getting ran up on and one thing led to another.” He shrugged. “He said she looks nice.”
“She is nice.”
