Lessons From A Hidden Treasure: An Interlude

by Antoinette Sherell

a man’s actions revealed their true intentions, while words only revealed a man’s cunningness.

“Do you really think I’ll let anyone jump you while I stand and watch? I’ve never fought, but we’ll find out whether I can or not if it comes down to it.”

“Yea, I can see where the disconnect is at, but you don’t need that negativity in ya life, anyway. The most they can do is teach you how to end up niggaless and miserable.”

🤣😂🤣😂

“Yea, but you know women looking for sponsors age in dog years. They ain’t got shit to offer a nigga after twenty-five.”

Here Pierre gooooo 😅😂🤣

“How you go from having my back against the pigs like my Bonnie to giving a nigga the cold shoulder? I thought we were a team,” he teased,

That’s my shit right there, accessory. You gon’ share it with yo Clyde or nah?”

The way he keep calling her accessory has me tickled!!

His parents were gut-wrenching reminders of what Treasure lost.

women loved food, and they loved the shit even more when it wasn’t theirs.

“If I could give you something better than a time machine, would you take it?” Pierre blurted out an offer that made her heart gallop and sent that held breath sputtering into the frosty air.

Pierre frowned. “Bitch, I’m light skinned. I always look pale.”

“No matter where we go or what we’re doing, we gon’ have each other’s backs. Even if that means you need to climb on mine until you figure out your next move and can stand on your own two. This is survival for us.”

Saving you is saving us, my nigga.”

Shabu was forever stepping beside him.

“You protect us, I protect her, and she’ll give it back tenfold. Don’t let them pit

her dad respected anyone with the heart and courage to love a child who wasn’t theirs.

He said he woke up one day, decided he wanted me and my mom for a lifetime, and then stood on his decision. Whoever didn’t like it or had shit to say about him choosing a readymade family, that was their problem. It wasn’t his place to convince them of why he did it.”

Tekken is not that dumb. He’ll duck and dodge like niggas caught in a shootout before he gets caught up on camera.”

The best way to keep from crying is to laugh through the bullshit.”

That affable smile most men refused to wear at the risk of appearing soft; Pierre donned it like a second skin with pure cockiness because he could.

“Mary Jane will take you anywhere, but keep looking at me like that, and I’m gon’ take you places we ain’t supposed to go, Treasure.”

Pierre sat up. “I’m about to walk right out of this theater on your ass.”

“You know what I’m talking about. The baby bird that falls out of the tree, and you find it unhurt but chirping its little heart out for its momma. It’s ugly as fuck, but you can’t help but feel sorry for it, so you scoop it up to put it back. Then, you start wondering about it all the time, like where it’s at, what’s it’s doing, or if it’s safe. You find yourself attached to the muthafucka and checking for it every day when that wasn’t your intention when you found it.”

we’ll just say I saved and fed you in the twenty-third hour. I got to you just when you thought that life was over.”

My pretty lil’ birdie I saved in the twenty-third hour. Welcome to the fold, Bird.”

Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

“Two fingers. We tap ‘em twice to the front, once on the back, and then we lock it in.” He linked their pointer fingers together as she beamed. “Two fingers and three taps ‘cause we met in the twenty-third hour. That’s ours, so don’t go sharing it with nobody else.”

Aweeeeee

“The one behind the mask.” He sighed. “Yea, Bird. The one most people will never get to see.” “You should let them because he’s kind of cool if I do say so myself.” “Yea, aight. Get your nerdy ass out the car.”

Don’t repeat nothing we talk about when we’re hanging with Mary Jane. I get vulnerable around her.”

Toot sucked her teeth. “I’m not even surprised because P has a way of making everyone love him. Just do me one favor if y’all mess around. Please, don’t get pregnant or let him ruin our friendship.

“We gon’ feed each other. Our shit has to go both ways or you gon’ end up looking for food off an empty plate. I feed so many mouths, you gotta check in and make sure I ain’t starving, aight?”

“I’m the type he never told you about. The one that comes in and fucks up your life in the best way possible. The one that’s probably not good for yo ass, yet nothing but good shit comes out of fucking with him.”

“I can’t find a time machine, and no one else will for you either. Life happens, and this shit changes so fast sometimes that it’s hard to keep up. You gotta keep moving forward. Since I can’t give you back your old life, I gotta make you wanna be here with us. I gotta make you want to live in the moment, Bird.

“Goddamn, alligator legs! I wasn’t about to touch you nowhere crazy. You act this finicky around every nigga you like?”

Lmaooo

be the baby mother with outside kids in my next relationship. Ain’t that some shit?”

“Fuck nah! Real niggas don’t get butterflies. We get—” “The feels,” she finished, and his head bobbed.

“Fucking. It starts with touching, and if a nigga does it right, he might talk you into letting him eat it. If the head is A-1, shiiit... it’s going from letting him put the head in, to straight beating that pussy up.”

Whew!!

You gotta walk ‘round this bitch like you’re the shit, Bird. Even on them days you think you aren’t.”

I just hope she lets us get her right before she goes because I’m tired of seeing her look like she forgot to put on her wig before leaving the house.”

“Muthafucka, you’re her husband! Hold her back, tie her up, shackle her ass to a pipe in the basement if you need to. You really gon’ let another man fuck yo wife? Couldn’t be me.”

“Just so you know, it better be some fucking in this movie this time, or we better be fucking afterwards.”

“You’re the third, but you know the saying, Bird. Third time’s the fucking charm.”

“Nah, I’m shy.” “Ha!” Treasure released a faux laugh, making Pierre emit a genuine one as his head tossed. “Damn, I’m being serious, and you’re laughing. Real niggas get shy, too.”

An idle mind is the devil’s playground.

My daddy just said this!!

“I can take off my mask with you, right?”

I just look at it like you’re crying for me ‘cause you know I’m too playa to do it.”

I ain’t trying to be stuck doing something I couldn’t care less about after knowing what it felt like to do something I loved.”

“There’s nothing wrong with showing emotions, but it makes you weak in a sense. Once you show them, people know exactly where to hit you for it to hurt.”

that morning, she learned not to wait on or for a man. It was equivalent to begging for sheer disappointment.

“There you go with your bullshit, Pierre. Singing me songs and talking to me nice, but pretending like you don’t know what you’re doing. You’re trying to give me the feels.”

That same bitch was worrisome on Pierre’s line too, but she had valid reasons to call his phone. The main one being she was the mother of his child.