“That liquor got you about to get your fuckin’ head swollen.”
“Then do what you gotta do but you still gotta get the hell out.”
“Why? Another nigga on the way?”
“And if that’s what I want, I can do that. I’m single.”
“Bit…” I caught myself before it slipped out, but Eris had heard it.
SMACK!
“See, that right there proves that I’m single because when we were together, you wouldn’t have dared called me that shit.”
I balled my fist. “Man, I didn’t even mean that shit like that.”
“It doesn’t matter anyway. I got to get some rest. Work tomorrow.”
“On a fuckin’ Sunday?”
She played in my face and wasn’t batting a fucking lash while doing it either.
“Yeah, and I got to get the office breakfast from Chick-Fil-A too.”
I yoked her ass up because she had me fucked up.
“Aye, you can be on that tough girl shit all you wanna but stop fuckin’ playing with me. Show up to the office and watch that bitch be on the ground fuckin’ around with me.”
“Your ass that’ll be in jail, not me.”
We stared each other down. I knew my eyes were bloodshot. I felt it but knew that if I let this mothafucka keep popping her shit, it’ll get ugly.
“Let me get the fuck outta here,” I said.
“Yeah, do that.”
That heaviness in my chest as fire ruptured in her eyes had my ass shook. I can’t lie.
“It’s fuck me?”
“You lied so I guess so.”
It wasn’t like I lied for sport. That’s just not a part of my life she needed to be involved in.
“It ain’t even the fact I lied because you know that ain’t what it was. You wanna hurt a nigga for Levi’s Pop’s bullshit.”
She subtly gasped.
“You don’t know a damn thing!”
I didn’t tell you the truth and you put in the same category as that nigga. I’m still the same nigga.”
A tear fell from her eye.
“If I don’t know shit then why you’re standing up here crying at the mention of that nigga then?”
“Fuck you, Courtland.”
My head snapped in her direction. For some reason, hearing her call me by my first name felt like the last time she’d say it. I thought we could bounce back from this shit. We locked in early, but we’ve been solid since starting. This ain’t the end. We’re just going through some rough shit.
