She leaned her head, seemingly in thought. “I honestly felt like they shouldn’t be included in the decision, but you might be right. They’re old enough to understand, and I don’t want them resenting me, because I forced them to leave, if that’s not what they want. So, I’m fine with y’all having a talk.”
“Okay…but can I ask you something?” “What’s up?”
“What’sreallyyourissuewithBabi?Seriously.”
“Because.” She gulped. “I look at her, and ask what is it about her that could get you to be a man, when I cried and begged you for years.”
“Well, that’s the wrong way to look at it. I had to grow up when you left our daughters with me. So, with her, it was about timing. We just so happened to meet, after I’d done a lot of self-reflecting.”
“So, basically me leaving changed you?” “Yeah. Pretty much.”
“Damn. Well, that’s fucked up. How the fuck does the next bitch benefit from the lesson I gave?”
I locked eyes with her. “You benefit too, Tera. Cause whether we together or not, I’m still yo baby daddy. And I got you, no matter what.”
She sighed, while rolling her eyes to the sky. “You say that.” “Nah, I mean that.”
Her eyes traveled back to mine. “Sometimes if I didn’t know no better, then I’d say that you love me or something.”
“I’ma always love you.”
She nodded. “Me too. Me too…but on that note, I’ma head in this house. Cause I’m realizing a lot of things with this conversation, but I wanna respect the fact that you’re in a relationship. So, see you later, Christian.”
Smiling, I nodded too. “Yeah, see you later.”
Say, Babi had lost her muthafuckin’ mind. I didn’t even trip when she got up early on that Friday morning, and left the house, claiming that she just needed some fresh air. It wasn’t something that she regularly did, but I didn’t question it, wanting to give her the same freedom and space she gave me.
Periodically, she’d been checking in, letting me know that she was here and there. Then it got to about seven, which was around the time that she was supposed to come home, and she went silent. Stopped texting, and wasn’t answering my calls. I was tracking her truck through the app, but that didn’t give me a peace of mind, if I couldn’t hear her voice.
Gradually, I’d gone from worried to pissed, as I eventually checked her latest location update, and saw that she was fucking downtown. It was now midnight, and she was being weird as fuck. So, I hopped in my car, and tracked her truck down. Turns out, she’d valet parked at O" the Record, which was a fucking club.
Then just as I was about to hop out of my whip, that niggaQT hit my line.
“What’s popping, nigga? You called me earlier?” He questioned, after I answered the phone.
“Yeah, yeah,” I responded. “I was trying to see if you’d seen your sister.”
“Oh, nawl. What, she aint answering her phone?” “Nah, she haven’t,” I admitted.
“Well, man, this is Babi we talking about. Her ass wouldn’t venture of too far. Trust me. You must’ve pissed her of or some-thing. So, she’s probably with Soya somewhere, going on and on about you.”
“I think she’s at the club.”
“The club?” He laughed. “Oh, yeah. You really pissed her of.” “Ion know.”
“Right, but whatever it is, I’m sure that y’all gone be alright.
But on another note…I hope you aint asleep at the wheel, nigga.” “Sleep how?”
“Shit, with Too Low.”
“Too Low? Where that came from?”
“Cause whenever I talk to my sister…she always acts like everything is cool. Like Too Low accepted that she wanna be with you, and that’s it.”
“That’s not it?”
“Hell, nawl, nigga. Letting go aint in that nigga’s nature. Now, don’t get me wrong. It aint like he told me something directly. Cause even though I fucks with him, he knows that I’m always Babi’s big brother, before anything else. But you gotta know Too Low. Whenever you came to me with a elaborate job, it was him who I’d call to put in work. Niggas think that I’m crazy, but Too Low is heartless. Will do anything to get to his target. He’s calculated too. So, niggas never see him coming. That’s why I’m telling you to be on your P’s and Q’s. Plus, he keeps saying that him and Babi is getting back together. And he sounds positive about it, even though when I talk to my sister, Ican tell that she’s over there with you, and aint going nowhere. Which means that Babi aint giving
