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And she’s a good girl? Them my favorite kind. They take their asses to work and come straight to the house. They might watch a few shows, read hella books, and sleep as often as they can.”
Though he’d never been in love before, he’d been loved and he’d been loved properly. It made all the difference.
Act accordingly. Head high, chest out in every room you walk in, no matter who is in that motherfucker.”
“Listen to me, Mommas,” he gritted, back on his knees and in front of me. “I’m your first line of defense. I’m your emergency line. I’m the motherfucker you call to handle your shit. I’m your fucking police. Me. Call me! Don’t call them. Call me! They’re going to put that nigga in the cold cell; I’m going to put that bitch in the soil. I’m sparing nothing and no one behind you. Do you understand me?”
“Restraining order, baby? The piece of paper that has spared not one woman’s life in situations like this? Nah. I’m the restrainer and the fucking order. They don’t protect y’all from shit, but I will.”
“I’m nothing like them. I’m uncouthed. I have no fucking limit when it comes to Glacier. Fucking with her is like fucking with my money and I don’t play about my fucking money, bitch ass nigga.
I’m coming and I ain’t stopping until your name on niggas’ t-shirts and your mother’s fat ass face is plastered all over the fucking news as she cries for justice for her hoe ass son. But there will be none.”
Nigga, did you know that most of the wedding party pays to be part of the fucking wedding? What type of shit is that? I’m paying to be in your wedding that you asked me to be a part of? I’d cuss a motherfucker out.”
People want weddings, not bonds these days.
“Which is why I’m at every one of them weddings, ready to get fucked up and watch the groom cry like a bitch.” “I’m not going to cry.” “Nigga, my napkin already ready. I love being a part of that shit because it’s beautiful, nonetheless, but in my opinion, it’s pointless.”
“That shit understood, player. I’m the designated best man. Anybody that has a problem with that can get shot.”
“Whatever. I can be a bit toxic sometimes. I don’t mean no harm. I just need somebody that can get with my shit when I’m getting with the shit. I can’t take a motherfucker that’s gon’ run cry. Nah, come punch me in my eye. Black that motherfucker so I know not to play with you no more.”
She gets down.”
but friendship breakups—that is pain on an entirely different level. I mourned us more than I mourned Nelson and me. I cried for us. I wept for us. You broke my heart way worse than that man ever could.”
There will be order after the chaos.
