and stopped when she saw my face. “Is everything alright?” Erin beat my mother over toward me and waited for me to respond. My fucking chest hurt thinking of all the things that could be wrong. “Yo, come ‘ere,” Capone came over and pulled me into him, and I hugged my brother. I was strong about a lot of things, but if they came out here and told me that Alaia didn’t make it, I was going to lose my shit. “Nigga, she strong as shit… you think she going out like this? Come the fuck on… you smarter than that,” he continued to talk to me while we hugged.
