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by
Jahquel J.
Started reading
August 6, 2025
The moment you borrow another’s flame to light your path, you’ve already dimmed your own. Imitation isn’t inspiration — it’s desperation. There’s only one me. Like there is one you.
That was the hardest part of losing someone. You longed to hear them again, knowing that you wouldn’t.
“You not losing either of them. Quasim just being fucking dramatic. That nigga owe me like ten stacks because I won a bet… his ass better not die.” I looked up at him as he smiled down at me. “Cappy, not funny.” “I’m dead fucking serious… matter fact, let me go ask his new wife where he keep his bread.” He continued as he kissed my forehead a few times, trying to make me feel better. “Meer ain’t going anywhere … he pissy as hell. They not letting him through the pearly gates smelling like that.”
“Cherish is the one on the pink bike… Cherie’s cousin.” “Time to send her with her cousin.” Blair looked straight ahead as a tear slipped down her cheek, and she quickly wiped it away.
He was staring at her with this goofy look on his face. “Pops, you met this fine shit that I married?” I could tell he was still coming down from the drugs. “Yeah, heard she a beast, too… you pick them well.” “Not that water head bitch… head so big like the sun… hope you got a mile for a di—” “Meer, stop it right now,” Capri laughed, as he remixed the words to a Trina song.
I’m gonna look at his scans and paperwork and make sure shit is right… they don’t call me Dr. Delgato for nothing, feel me?”
“B, just because I’m a dentist doesn’t mean that I’m not skilled in any of this… Hassan ain’t the only doctor around this bitch.”
Fuck soft girl era. He put me in my secure girl era. A place where I felt safe, seen, and secured.
“Hoe, is you a fucking wizard?” I nearly screamed, trying to understand what the fuck just happened. How the fuck did we come through this door, and everything was completely different? I felt like I stepped into a Granger novel with a talking cat named Quan.
“You said my best friend is a dumb fucking bitch?” Menace questioned me.
Baby Bop is pregnant, too, right?” Me and Corleon both looked at Menace as he stared between us, confused, with a serious expression on his face. “Her name is fucking Blair, Menace!” I couldn’t help but to laugh because he never seemed phased whenever Corleon constantly corrected his ass. “I know how pregnant women can get.” “Very hormonal… they need a lot of support and low stress.” He screwed his face up. “You said you wanna fuck the stress out my wife?”
“All I know is that bitch has to die… she fucking shot me. I knew when I told her that her teeth was fucked up, she had beef with me.” I chuckled while still in thought. “This man done sat me down again, let me handle it.”
Reminder: Character previously mentioned in Staten Island Love Story series (Brock)
“She over there kissing stomachs like I’m not gonna be kissing hers next.” Goon stared at Zoya, who was dancing with Capri. “You get what you want… you gonna get the girl.” Blaze blew smoke into my face. “Fuck all that shit… who your best man gonna be?” He asked like he already asked Zoya to marry him, and she gave him an answer. “You and Capp available to plan it… all I’m asking? I need my aunt Maxine to cook, though…have Gams and Jean come through with the other food.”
Capri stopped dancing with Erin and held the side of her stomach. Blaze jumped up and tossed his lit spliff in my lap. “You fucking burned me!” “Suga! I told you throwing that ass was dangerous!” he was yelling as he ran over toward her. She was leaned down and then blew a cloud of sand in his face, as he fell back onto the sand and she quickly ran away. As quick as a pregnant woman carrying twins would. “I’m gonna fuck you up, Suga!” He hollered, holding his eye as she held onto her knees, laughing.