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“Hey, Daddy?” “Hm?” He groused, eyes still shut. “Oxygen, right?” “Fucking oxygen, Neek.” I smiled and turned.
“Yeah, that’s my… Yeah, we talk.”
Intimacy weakened the strongest of men.
“Okay, so… you wanna fuck him… because he fucked somebody else? Or you really wanna fuck him?”
“They say the best unions are made amongst the greatest storms. So maybe it’ll be a fucking hurricane or something on our wedding day,”
“Some people are old at 18. Young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. You’ve been to college. You’ve heard that, right?”
“Look… Neeka’s a smart girl. She challenges me in ways women twice her age are not capable of doing. You should give her more credit.”
If my tear represented a body I’m responsible for there’d be no more room on my fucking face,
“What do you have to say?” “What do you want me to say?” Denny started in a cold but even tone. “You aren’t asking me anything. You’re basically telling me these things as if you know them to be true, so honestly, I don’t think it matters what I say.”
“Please… I swear, Neek. I’ll be here for you. You don’t need anybody else, love. You gotta believe that.”
“Neek, please. Don’t do this to me, Neeka, I need you…. I need you,”
“Neeka, get out here! Neeka! Neeki, fuck this shit! I fucking love you! I told you that shit!”
“No disrespect to you, Mr. Perry, but you got something in there that belongs to me! Neeka!”
“This shit is unbelievable. D mothafuckin’ Rock dressing up to meet the parents and getting dragged off the property by the fucking pigs. C’mon, man, I’m not trying to set you off again but you should’ve known your name too heavy in these streets. You ain’t think pops was gonna ask about you? That’s what happens when you fuck with these young broads.”
“You see that nigga Blue’s Yukon right there. She fuck wit’ that nigga. He in the house wit’ his niggas cooking up in her kitchen. I should go in there and pull out the strap on them niggas just for the fuck of it.”
“Give her a little time… Give her time to miss you, feel the consequences of her decision. Trust me on this…”
“I’m always happy. You always make me happy. Neeka… I’m happy.”
“I know it looks fucked up but on God, me and ya cousin just mad fly. We’re friends, you know?”
“Just like I don’t gotta thank you for loving him and being a good woman to him. It just is what it is. And I know he’s a fucking handful but I tell you, you like his destiny for real. All that shit he used to tell me about you, now I see… how you was meant for him and shit. I never had no shit like what y’all have, probably never will. You make him the person he supposed to be. Keep doing that.”
“I don’t need to be in his age bracket. I’m in his head and in his heart,”
Arrangements…not relationships is the key, convenience.
“Look…What is this about? Why are you coming to me with this shit. You saw how he left your ass at the sidelines, boo, so stop frontin’, the roles have already been established. Don’t ignore that feeling of rejection. That’s the real reason you coming to me with this bullshit right now,”
“So like… if you ever even think you making the decision to fuck somebody else, you better know that’s a risk you taking ‘cause if I find out, he will die. And that’ll be on you. Alright?”
“Un-fucking-believable. From a man who was about to fuck somebody a month after we broke up. You are a hypocrite, Denny Graham.”
“My heart… my heart trusts you with everything. My heart tells me to put my life in your hands. But it’s my head… Denny, I’ve known you for months, how can you expect me to pick you over my family? I’ve always been a smart girl… I can’t just… I can’t…”
“I think I love you so much it scares me, Denny Graham.”
“Ain’t you the one who always said the only hair between my legs should be the hair on your face?”
“You so fucking beautiful when you cum for me.”
“Neek,” he finally called back, pushing inside of her. “God… damn… I would murder everything moving for this pussy.”
“Acceptance is the first step to overcoming consequences of misfortune.”
“Denny! Juvenile? What…? Like, do you seriously expect me to trust that you will take care of me for the rest of my life? That’s not love, Denny, that’s stupid! That’s juvenile! Do you know how hard I worked to get into Seton Hall? This is my future!”
“Don’t disrespect me like that. Do you really expect me to turn my back on my family… on my father… the only family that I have…for a man that I’ve known for a couple of months?”
“Ma, I’m not really trying to be your friend and I’m not sneaking around like no little ass kid so…just…”
“Denny, you can’t… you can’t have everything you want, when you want it, how you want it,” she pleaded to him with a shake of her head. “You act like this is easy for me.”
“I love you more than you know,”
Don’t pull that baby shit on me, Neeka. I’m not D Rock and it’s not fucking rocket science! Either you wanna be with him or you don’t! But that… that what you just saw, is what the fuck happens when you play with a nigga like D Rock’s emotions. This ain’t fucking high school, he’s a grown fucking man, and I don’t wanna see your simple-ass get hurt. So you need to, like I said, get it the fuck together!”
“Make a fucking decision. Grow up.”
“You sure about this? Me and you…Forever? No folding, baby. I need your unwavering loyalty.”
“Nah, Neeka, see your father’s a grown man. And I’m one as well. So if he wanna talk some disrespectful shit let him talk that shit to me,”
“This is your father, Neek. You see how he talks to you?” Denny spat with venom. “I’ll never talk to you like that. You made the right choice.”
“I love you, Daddy. And I’m gonna give you time… but I know you’ll come around. And I’m gonna wait for you.”