I immediately pressed answer on the screen, thinking it was PJ calling and I didn’t pay attention to the name until it was too late.
“Brianna!” Teddy’s voice boomed through the speakers.
“What?”
“Oh, that’s what we on now? I know you saw me texting you. Why you ain’t reply back?”
“Why should I? I haven’t heard from you in weeks so replying to you wasn’t a must-do. Plus, I read all of them. All fifty of them, and you already know I don’t respond well to threats. No, you can’t have another key, you can’t borrow any money and yes, I threw away everything of yours that you left behind. Goodbye, Teddy.”
“Bitch, you better not hang up on me!” he roared.
“Hol’up, I need you to watch yo mouf’ and mind ya fuckin’ manners when you speak to her. Because now you just pissed me off, and I’m the last muthafucka anyone wants to see pissed off,” Brooklyn spoke up, making my heart drop. “I was quiet because she was handling her business, and I don’t get in the middle of bullshit because right now, she’s not mine.”
“Fuck you mean she’s not yours right now?” Teddy was furious.
“Just know that bitch word, to me, are fighting words. So, unless you ready to shoot it out, then talk to her nice.”How did he go from fighting to a shootout?
Teddy huffed. “I guess this wanna be Nino Brown ass nigga is the reason you put me out. I knew you weren’t shit. We just broke up and if you are already with this nigga then y’all been fucking around.”
“Just like a man to blame the woman. How about it was you and the dumb ass shit you did that made me put yo’ ass out. The lack of affection, accountability, love, time, conversation, and asking simple shit like is my father ok! Shit, Teddy, you lacked everything so yes, it was time for you to go. I couldn’t carry you and my own load any longer. I wish you the best with everything, and I hope you keep your rehab meetings up.”
“Why you letting this nigga know all of my business?” Teddy spat, making Brooklyn laugh.
“I was simply wishing you well.”
“It’s cool, Brianna, I’ll see you around.”
“And what does that supposed to—" Teddy ended the call before I finished asking him what the fuck was that supposed to mean.
“Don’t let him near you again without someone being with you. That nigga is off his rocker, and you can hear it in his voice. Make sure you get my number before we leave this hospital and call me anytime you need me. No matter what time it is. Be careful with that nigga, Bri.” Brooklyn left me with those last words as he pulled up to the front of the hospital behind Zoo, allowing me and PJ to go right inside.
BROOKLYN
“Bruh, I ain’t neva shot a muthafucka through a phone before but if that shit were possible, Bri’s ex would have been a dead ass.”
“What happened?” Zoo asked, then started laughing like he knew it was some funny shit. We locked up the cars and walked back up towards the hospital.
“The nigga called her on straight bullshit then called her a bitch.”
“Say less, I already know you threatened that man's whole existence.” Zoo knew me too well.
“He got no more times to come at her like that. Especially when she didn't do shit to deserve that. And she said the nigga on that shit, too.”
“What? Wait, he on that shit, or that shit… shit?” Zoo quizzed, knowing it was two types of shit a muthafucka could’ve been on.
Pills or powder.
That’s how we looked at it. Popping pills was a start, the next step was powder. He was one pill away from being a dead-ass crackhead if he kept fucking with Bri.
“She ain’t say but I think the first one,” I told him.
“Bri better handle that nigga now. That nigga sound like he a loose cannon.”
“I already told her. Ain’t nothing safe about that nigga at all.”
“Shit, to be honest, ain’t shit safe about you either and he gon’ learn that shit the hard way.”
I didn’t even have to say shit after that because he knew just as well as I did that, I only gave one warning, and I gave ol’boy that right there. I wasn’t trying to get in the middle of what they had going on because I was on the outside looking in but I didn’t allow nobody to be disrespected like that. It didn’t matter how long I'd known them, I just didn’t do disrespect.
