“She said nothing, so it was nothing, Babe. Come sit down. You want me to get you some pizza and wings?”
“Stop lying, Bronx. Yo’ ass deflecting like a muthafucka right now. She about to break up with my cousin or something?”
“You are determined to get in their business, huh?” I teased and squeezed his cheeks even though he hated when I did that. He said it made him feel like a little kid when he’s a grown-ass man.
“Hell yea, I wanna know what’s up.”
“She thinks she’s pregnant,” I blurted out before I knew it. “Please don’t say anything. I told her I couldn’t keep a secret at all, plus you kept poking me until I told you, so yea, this is all on you. I’m going to get pizza and wings.” I didn’t want him to askme anymore questions, so I found any reason to get away from him right now.
After waiting damn near thirty minutes for the food, I went back to Brooklyn. I was starting to get impatient as hell because we were waiting on them and they were taking forever.
“Do you want to just eat and start playing?”
“Hell yea, and when we done, we done. Whatever they are doing, they gone have to speed that shit up once we finish. I’m trying to get back to the house and snuggle up with my baby. I knew I should have drove my own—”
“SECURITY TO THE BACK! SECURITY TO THE BACK!”
My eyes widened at the commotion that was coming from the back room. “Briiii, let’s gooooo!” PJ and Zoo ran from the back full speed while yelling out to us. I looked back at Brooklyn and that nigga was already gone.
“Baby, come on!” Brooklyn shouted for me on his way out of the door.
“The fuck y’all running for?!” I grabbed that high ass pizza and wings and hauled ass out the door too.
“Did you really grab the food?” PJ huffed, turning in the front seat to look at me.
“Sis, I just paid over fifty dollars for one large pizza and eight wings… hell yes, I grabbed the food. Y’all nasty asses don’t have to eat it. Brooklyn and I will as soon as y’all drop us back off.”
“What happened back there, Zoo?”
“Ugh, fine time to ask that. You weren’t worried when you took off running.” I shook my head at Brooklyn.
“If my cousin running it’s for a reason. I’ll find that reason out later and now is later.”
“Someone complained about the office door being locked. I told Pen to shut up and tried to stick one of those loose socks I saw on the desk in her mouth, but she smacked it and me! When she did that, I fired off in her ass. Like Pops, bang, bang, bang.Straight hard, deep strokes, you feel me, cuz? I’m guessing they didn’t like that either because they really tried to break the door down then.”
“As long as you came, fuck them.”
PJ and I looked at Brooklyn like he lost all the sense that God gave him. “As long as he came?”
“Yes, Baby, we don’t bring our kids to the party and don’t let them come out to play.”
“See... I knew we were really kin. Sometimes, I used to wonder bout chu’ but now I see we really do think alike,” Zoo stated while looking at Brooklyn through the rearview mirror.
“Well... well... well... look at the psych ward patient, calling the other psych ward patient slow.”
“Too far man, too far. You know I ain’t over that shit yet.”
They argued the entire way back home. While PJ and I sat there listening and laughing. Probably both having the same thoughts of,isthis how the rest of our lives are going to be?
BROOKLYN
For the first time in weeks, I woke up with a clear head. No dreams, no thoughts of my girl leaving me, or none of that shit. It felt good to have fifty percent of my sanity back. The other fifty needed to stay gone.
Looking at the clock, and then how comfortable my girl was snuggled up in my arms had me wanting to not get up. Knowing I needed to handle some business, I kissed her on the forehead and got up. My mama would be calling in a few to make sure Iwas on time to take her to the doctor. My dad always did it but since I’d been slacking on making sure she was good, I told her I’d pick her up.
"Hmm,” Bri groaned while stretching out more in the bed. With her eyes still closed, she rubbed my side of the bed.
When she didn’t feel me there, she quickly sat up and looked around the room. I smiled at how she looked hurt and confused until she laid eyes on me. Bri’s face relaxed at the sight of me and that made a nigga feel good. Knowing I could bring that calmness to my girl without doing shit but being there was enough for me to want to give her the world. My presence was enough for her but to me, she deserved more than that.
