“I know but that’s not what I wanted to say, so after all of that, we got into this little tussle, nothing major. Basically, a lot of him trying to make me stop walking and him tossing me over his shoulder like I was a little rag doll. I go in the house and crymyself to sleep in his room while he gets the plastic off my truck so that I could leave. When I was laying down, I heard someone coming into his bedroom so I played sleep. He started touching my face then grabbed my hand.”
“Girl, did he rape you?”
“Penelope, if you don’t sit down and shut up, please. Damn!” She was really about to piss me off. “Keep going, Bri.”
“He started praying for us. Asking God to make him a better man and how he wants to marry me later in life once he fully knows he can lead his family. If I didn’t love that man before, that definitely did it for me. I’m always the one praying for someone or praying someone out of my life but to have a man genuinely pray for you is a top tier feeling. I haven’t talked to him yet but I can’t wait ‘til I do. He really stole my heart away right then. When I woke up, I had a full tank of gas and my car detailed.”
“And he would have had his balls emptied, ‘cause girllllla!” PJ dragged out. “I’m so happy for you, Bri. You deserve this. Just hear him out and stop being so stubborn and most importantly, stop running from that man. You see where that got Mimi. Barefoot and pregnant.”
Even I had to laugh at that because it was all true. I had run from Sin until I just couldn’t run no more. He came into my life and I never want him to leave.
“I knew Brooklyn wasn’t as mean as Zoo said he was.”
“He is. Zoo is not lying. Brooklyn has his ways, but he’s really a great guy. It’s nothing like Teddy. I can see myself with him and happy. Without pretending like we are doing great around people but then come home to argue. That was Teddy all day and that shit got tiring.”
“Speaking of Teddy, have you heard from him?”
“Nope, Mimi, my brother said he knows where he’s hiding. I guess I’ll be telling Brooklyn so they can go find him.”
“How are the dresses?” Gianna broke our conversation, prompting all of us to remember that we were standing here in dresses having a whole conversation.
“We just out here chilling and ain’t thought twice about these dresses.” Bri stepped up on the round stand so that she could look at herself in the mirror.
“I love it, Brianna.” My hormones were doing something crazy because just by looking at how beautiful she looked, I started crying.
“Don’t do that, Mimi, you are going to make me cry,” Bri hissed while waving her hand in front of her face. “You really did a good job, Gianna. It’s not my wedding day but I’m going to be just as beautiful as my friend.”
Bri stepped down and helped me up on the round stand. Sin said don’t have the dress tight but Gianna made sure she accented my round stomach well without showing too much or too little.
“What’s wrong with you, Peeg?”
“I need my split a lil’ bit higher. This is cute but it stops at the knee. I need a sexy ass split that comes up the thigh.”
“Lord and she gon’ need a ride home because she won’t be able to attend the wedding if she come in there looking like a snack. Zoo is not having that,” I told my sister and laughed. She was serious about her split in her dress, too, because she did not want to leave until she heard Gianna promise to have her split high.
“Thank you again, boo. See you in a few weeks.” We all waved bye to Gianna as we headed back to PJ’s car. “I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starving and I need to eat something now.”
“Ok, Greedy, we can eat here.” Bri pointed at a Mexican restaurant, and I really got excited.
“You already know. The way I eat Mexican food weekly got me thinking that I gotta be part Mexican or something.”
“The only Mexican that you are a part of is the one that you had sex with, in college. Other than that, you are all nigga.”
“Peeg, you have really been on one today. Let me find out Zoo has turned my little sister into a bigger bitch than she already was.”
“Seee, I’ll let that one slide and blame it on you being hungry. Let’s go, Big Mama.”
Bri locked her arm into mine as we walked across the street. The smell of tacos had me doing a happy dance all the way inside of the building.
CHAPTER 8
BRIANNA
Me:I NEED YOU RIGHT NOW!
Yo New Man Brooklyn:I’m already outside... open up!
Confused, I climbed out of bed and headed down the stairs. When I opened the door, Brooklyn stood there with sunflowers in his hand and a bottle of wine in the other. I smiled at the smell of his cologne feeling like it was caressing my body. He looked and smelled amazing, and I didn’t know how much I missed him, until he stood there with a look that silently screamed, “I’m sorry.”
