“Waddup, boss.”
He smirked a little and motioned for me to sit down. I sat across from him, and for a second, neither one of us said anything while I ate.
“You look better than you did when you came to the hospital.”
“I feel better.”
“You stop smoking?”
I looked away briefly. “Yeah.”
“That woman helping you?”
I looked back at him slowly. “What woman?”
“Ain’t no point playing stupid with me, ya momma told me.”
I laughed under my breath and leaned back against the couch. “Yeah.”
“She calming you down?”
“More than she knows.”
“What’s her name?”
“Sade.”
“That your girl or ya momma just jumping the gun like always?”
I rubbed my beard. “Complicated.”
He laughed low. “Everything is complicated with y’all generation.”
“She’s different.”
“That’s usually how it starts.”
I looked down at my plate for a second before speaking again. “I took her virginity.”
That made him raise his eyebrows. “How old is she?”
“Thirty-two.”
“Damn. It’s women still out here like that?”
“I guess so.”
He looked at me hard after that. “Don’t take advantage of her.”
“I’m not.”
“I’m serious, Junior. Women don’t give men pieces of themselves like that unless it means something.”
“I know.”
“You love her?”
I stayed quiet too long.
