“Don’t do that,” she interrupted, her tone of voice sad and low. “Donotdo that.”
I loved my little sister. We weren’t the closest, but we were close enough. She was a smart girl that made a lot of dumb ass decisions when it came to men. Andre to be more specific. They’d been together for about ten years and had five kids. Every one of them muthafuckas were made around a time where D and I had to check the nigga Dre about putting hands on her. Crazy right? I just wanted my sister to do better, bro. They were staying in the hood, off E. Warren, in a two-bedroom house, that didn’t have nowhere near enough room for the seven of them. Dre was a broke ass nigga who sold drugs and could barely keep a roof over their heads. Amber was the breadwinner, working down at Sinai as a nurse assistant. Sis could do better. She could do a lot better.
“My bad. Ay, ma. I need to talk to you.”
“No, what you need to do is apologize. I really do not know who the fuck you think you is coming to my house on bullshit, accusing me of doing shit I didn’t do!”
I swallowed and gritted my teeth. “My bad. I—I apologize.”
Amber sized me up. “What’s going on with you?” She asked.
I shook my head and looked back and forth between her and moms. The house was quiet, with the exception of The Outer Limits playing on the TV at a low level. Both of their eyes wereon me. I wondered if moms would open her mouth and speak up before I could. She just stood there with the corners of her mouth turned up and her hand on her hip, waiting.
I sighed. “Maaaan,” Pausing, I shook my head again and started to pace again. “She know, ma. Somehow… she know and?—
“Mahogany? She know what?” Amber asked with raised brows. “You cheatin’ bro? Oh God do not tell me you cheatin on NeNe. What is wrong with you niggas?”
I looked over at her, sucked my teeth and said, “Man shut up. I ain’t cheatin on her ass.” I shook my head again and bit down on my bottom lip. “I cheated. Years ago. And… shit,” I shrugged, swallowing again. I was fucked up. Hated having to say that shit out loud. “A baby came out of it. A baby I didn’t know shit about until recently.”
“I told you she was gon’ find out, nigga. I don’t know why the fuck you?—”
“A baby!? You had a baby on NeNe? Oh, my fuckin… I swear niggas ain’t shit!” Amber yelled. “I thought you was a good one bro! I thought?—”
“I don’t give a fuck about what you thought, nigga,” I cut in. “Mind yo’ business man. Don’t be around here runnin yo mouth.”
“Boy ain’t no secret no more. That little girl gon’ be around just like the rest of them.” Ma said, shaking her head before sitting on the couch. “AndIdidn’t tell that girl shit. When would I have had time to do that? When she was avoiding me at Aubry party? And youknowI ain’t called her.” Pausing, she said, “Tuh. Skeletons don’t stay hidden in closets for long, boy.”
I stopped pacing and looked at my ma.
“Mmhmm. I did not tell that girl shit,” she reiterated.
“You didn’t?”
“Didn’t I just tell yo ass multiple times I ain’t had shit to do with that?”
We locked eyes for a second before I sized her up. “Yeah okay.”
With that, I went back for the door, unlocked it, snatched it open and slammed it on my way out. Ain’t no way she didn’t tell Mahogany. Shit just didn’t add up. I couldn’t believe the one person I counted on all my life betrayed me the way she had.
6
CRESCENT
“What I just tell you?”I asked with a grunt, gripping her jaw.
“Don’t look away,” she whined.
“And what you do?”
“Look…” Daija moaned after I lightly smacked her. “Look away.”
I smacked her on the ass and slowly stirred my dick inside of her wet ass pussy. “Don’t. Look. Away.”
“Okay,” She whined.
I needed her eyes on mine.
I needed to see her face.
