“You know we don’t do no gossiping, nigga. I’m checking the temp. Seeing if I need to cover you.”
“Cover me for what?” I replied. “The only way you need to cover me is if you believing that shit.”
He shook his head while chuckling. “I believe whatever the fuck you tell me, bruh. Fuck them other folks. We been solid too long, and you still move like that one-man army shit, nigga.”
“Ain’t shit a mystery. Ain’t shit to tell. You know what it is.”
He went still.
He laughed. “Hell yeah.”
City was the only mothafucka that’ll laugh through anything. He loved cracking jokes like shit was funny all the time. That was my nigga, though but I’ve had to tell his ass too many times there was a time and a place for the bullshit. He was still figuring out what that meant.
“All the broke hoes been waiting on you to touch down since last night.” He shook his head. “Guess they couldn’t sell enough pussy to get their asses down to Miami, so they’re bringing it to the doorstep.”
I waved him off.
I ain’t fucking with these hoes like that.
“Dead ass.” He chuckled. “I went to eat this morning and the first thing they ask ‘bout was you. Like, damn, bitch. I got a dick you can suck too.”
You gotta be ready for some dumb shit whenever he opened his mouth.
“You dumb as fuck, nigga.” I chuckled.
“I’m just saying.”
“I’m already knowing.”
“What happened with you and E, and her girls?”
“Shit, ain’t nothing happened with her girls. I thought you were on Suki the way y’all acted. Me and E kicked it though.”
“Ain’t shit.” His eyes shifted. That nigga was hiding something. “E fine ass fuck, bro. All of them hoes were for real. I smashed some random hoe right after your win.”
“Nigga. I knew that shit smelled funny,” I joked.
“I thought I smelled something, but thought it was that nasty ass sushi you be eating,” he responded. That nigga be fucking anything.
“Nah, that’s that hoe pussy. You ain’t gon’ be happy ‘til that mothafucka floating in the toilet.”
“That’s cool as long as it still gets topped.”
That nigga had me shaking my head.
Eris crossed my mind.
“I gotta get up outta here in a minute to see Leek,” I broke the silence, shaking her from my mental. Can’t get too far into those types of thoughts.
“Hell yeah, it’s lil’ bro g-day.” He nodded. “Yo’ mama cool with you seeing him?”
Slouching deeper into the seat, I threw my head back, staring at the ceiling. She wasn’t cool with it. Don’t even know I’m pushing up on him, but I’ve never missed a birthday, holiday or important event with Leek. I had to play the background because Ma didn’t want me around bro. Said I was going to damage him.Blamed me for a lot of shit that tore our family the fuck up. I’ve been going at this shit so long with her that it’s normal to move in the shadows.
It fucked with my mental, but that’s the hand I had to play.
“Hell nah, but you know what it is.”
“Having to sneak to see blood is fucked up. I won’t even rock with that shit. Our people need us. Ya mama need to let go of that dumb resentment because at the end of the day, that shit ain’t doing nothing but hurting Maleek,” City said.
