I aint gone lie, I was a little taken aback. Instead of her ungrateful ass thanking me for coming through, this was the first
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thing out of her mouth? “Look, she said that she was tied up. You want the ride or not?” I got real spicy with
My guess was that Mattie was trying it, because she didn’t know me like that. I was with her brother, and we’d kicked it, but everything had been surface level. I would actually have deep conversations with their other sister Dani regularly. Mattie, on the other hand, was man-crazy. So, she was always o" somewhere dealing with a nigga. Still, our encounters had always been cool. So, maybe she thought that because of my relationship with her brother that I was gonna kiss her ass.
“Wait, wait,” she laughed, placing a hand on her chest. “I wasn’t saying it like that. I appreciate you coming. I was talking about my mama. She dry threw you in my business without running it by me first. I literally told her that me and this nigga is beefing, and she sent you, even though I wasn’t trying to have you nor my brother attached to my bullshit.”
“Oh, okay.” I nodded. “Well, clear that shit up, then. Cause I thought that you was talking shit.”
She lifted her hands in surrender. “Listen, Mayweather, Ion want no problems. I already heard how you be knocking hoes on their asses.”
I snickered. “You got jokes. Put your stuff in the back.”
She nodded, before proceeding to load up my SUV. Once she was done, she sat in the passenger seat, and we peeled o".
“So,whereamItakingyouto?”
She sighed. “My mama’s, I guess. I gotta drop this stuff off.” “Then you back in the streets, huh?”
She danced in her seat. “You already know. I gotta see a man about a horse, and however they say it.”
I shook my head, knowing that Mattie was one of those yellow girls who thought that she ruled the world. She was soself-centered and conceited, but also incredibly beautiful and rather
playful. That made her pretty desirable, and had created a monster.
She was the type that was always twerking in her stories on IG. Always in the club, in somebody’s section. And forever making the tea pages for one messy relationship after another. Social media had labeled her a notorious man stealer, which meant that several women wanted to fight her. Luckily for her, Face had made it clear that nobody was laying a finger on his sister, and had liter-ally gotten some girls from the hood to jump a few of Mattie’s adversaries. So, her enemies usually treaded lightly.
“And Ms. Babi, don’t try to act like you so innocent, girl,” Mattie said out of nowhere. “We know that you gotta be abigfreak to have my brother going crazy. With all the hoesthatnigga done fucked,” she grumbled. “Plus, they said that you literally had a nigga, when you and Face first started fucking around.”
“Right, I did,” I readily admitted. “My man was in jail, though.”
“But you still cheated, though.” “Yeah, I can’t deny that.”
“Right. So, you on that bullshit too.”
“Nah,” I denied. “I wouldn’t say that. What I did with Face was a once in a lifetime type thing. Hell, I’ve only been with him and my ex. So, that aint what I’m on, for real.”
“Wait, wait. So, are you saying that your ex took your virginity?”
“Yeah. He was my first everything.”
She squinted. “And how long were y’all together?”
“Since I was thirteen, all the way up until I met your brother.” “Well,damn.Andyoujustupandleftthatothernigga,
withoutlookingback?”
I sighed. “It wasn’t exactly like that. It was complicated, honestly.”
“You still love him?”
I frowned in confusion. “Who?” “Your ex. You still love him?”
Never forgetting that this was my man’s sister, I knew that I had to be careful with my response. “I mean, he’s my first love, and nothing can change that. But I’m good where I’m at.”
She nodded. “I hear you. Couldn’t be me, though. If I had a nigga that I shared that type of history with, then I’d still slide back to that nigga whenever the mood struck. Cause with Face…aint no telling. Especially with Tera back in the picture. I definitely wouldn’t trust that. Every time she’s on my line, she’s talking about Face. Like he’s still her man or some shit.”
