"No, ma'am, Sin is right. I do need to be going." Sin looked at me with a worried look. Meanwhile, his mom winked at me.
"That was a test," his mom told me before reaching in for a hug. "You are going to be just fine with our family." When she released me, I reached out and hugged her again. That hug was filled with so much of what I'd always wanted... acceptance. That alone broke every wall that I had up.
CHAPTER 13
ZEUS
Using my key that I had to damn near beg Sin to give back to me, I walked into his crib. He was gon' curse me out, but he'd get over that shit. If he took my key back again, I’d already made two mo' copies of it. Hearing his voice, I followed it upstairs.
"Yeah, I'll make it on time. I'm about to get in the shower and leave within the next hour."
"Aight, I have to be there before then, so just call or text me when you pull up."
"Where we going?" I asked Sin after hearing him talk to Naomi.
"To the party we're having for making it to the playoffs. PJ didn't tell you about it?" Naomi questioned, and lowkey had me pissed off.
"Yeah, she did. I forgot all about it. Let me go get dressed so I can pull up with Sin."
"Ok, I'll see y'all in a little while." They ended the call, and Sin immediately turned around toward me.
"She ain't tell you, did she?" Sin thought that shit was hilarious.
"Hell nah, but I'm going. Fuck she thinks this shit is? Pen has been talkin' to me almost every day since we exchanged numbers. That lil'I don't like you at allbullshit started to go out the window, or so I thought. Since she didn't invite me, I'm guessing her ass is in one of her moods again. The shit she says may scare the average muthafucka away, but ain't shit 'bout me average though, so you already know I'm pulling up."
"Aight, don't show out and fuck up my girl’s night," Sin warned.
Rearing my head back, I looked at this nigga like he was the parent of the child that got dragged by the gorilla at the zoo.
"Yo' girl? This nigga gets a piece of pussy and won't let me act up anymore. Pen better be on her best behavior, and then I won't have a reason to act up." Sin shook his head, already knowing I was inpatient crazy, not outpatient.
"Yoo... yooo! Sin! You ready?" Sin scratched his head and turned away from me when Brooklyn's voice boomed throughout the house.
"You invited this nigga, and not me?" I mugged his ass.
"How was I supposed to know she ain't tell you? I just told him today so he can kick it with me. Don't even trip like that."
"This nigga ain't going so you can go'on back home," I told Brooklyn as he stepped in, looking like he belonged on the cover of CN. Fuck GQ. He out was here looking like a cornball-ass nigga. He was probably going so he could creep in and take my girl. It was always those pretty boy ass niggas.
"I'm going. Zoo's mad 'cause PJ ain't invite him tonight, so he 'bout to show up, anyway."
"I'm going to support Naomi, so Pen can't say shit when she sees me. She ain't gon' have a reason to think I'm on some stalking-ass shit."
"All bullshit aside, you 'bout to look like it, but shit, go get dressed so you can ride with me. The first moment you start to show yo' ass, you leaving."
Sucking my teeth, I grilled his ass. Who the fuck made him guardian of the strong back committee?
"I'll be ready, and yo' ass better not leave me, or I'm really showing out when I pull up." After he cursed my ass out again, I headed out the door to throw on my bestI'm finna get my girloutfit.
The party was in full swing, and I hadn't laid my eyes on Pen yet. Naomi came over and took Sin away, so that left me and Brooklyn standing here getting mugged by every strong back bitch in there.
"Damn, I seen her before," Brooklyn let out, then squinted like he was trying to get a good look at shawty.
"Who?"
"The chick that's talking to Sin and Naomi."
As I looked around to see who he was talking about, I spotted Pen. I no longer gave a damn what Brooklyn was talking 'bout right now.
