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“Didn’t ask
“Navy, I ain’t seen you in a minute.” Navy’s head shot up confused. “I’ve never been here.” Menace looked at her. “She said she gonna rob this fucking house, Wonder? We just letting anybody up in this bitch now, huh? Fuck security clearance and safety now, right?”
“Can’t smoke weed, Kora… I am pregnant,” Stevie shot back, and I walked away because I couldn’t stop laughing.
“Cry on my shoulder… burden me with your tears because I can tell it’s not something you do often. Allow me to hold you because you don’t want anyone else to hold you. Give me that.”
“At twenty-five, I was doing shit I had no business doing. Proud of the man you become…” he cleared his throat, “have become,” he corrected himself. I looked at the phone and walked closer toward the pool. “Mens, you sick?”
“I paid all that money for school and he’s slow…shit,” he muttered.
“God cover him and help him overcome the things he doesn’t speak about. Let him know that my intentions are pure and the love I’m feeling is real. Amen.”
and you fucking up there! We can hear you!” Beans hollered
I slapped
“I didn’t steal… I didn’t steal!” he hollered out, as he held his battered hand. “Sitting up in this bitch for a week eating our food, using our water, and electricity… that’s stealing, bitch!” I grunted as I pulled my leg back and kicked his ass in the mouth, sending pieces of his teeth flying out of his mouth as he passed out.
“She slow, and the quicker you all realize that shit you wouldn’t have to give her space,” Menace finally spoke.
“If I call you at midnight crying, it’s because he lied to me and he might have to come back to get killed.”
lord, it’s me again… Zoya,” Zoya joked, as she took
Menace slowed his chewing and looked at Stevie, who was trying to act normal. “A dreammmm, a simple fantasyyyy!” Stevie belted out, and we all stared at her. “What? I sing when I’m nervous.”
“Baby, she slow, too… damn,” I heard Menace mutter, and Stevie shushed him, as I paid attention to my man.
It was how my mother knew how to talk to this man. He was rude to every damn body, but not her. “Will this help you more, Wonder? Less stress and talking down on yourself?”
“Don’t ever fucking lie to me like that again,” Menace muttered, as he
