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She squinted. “I’m your girlfriend, and it’s a big party. I should be there.” My head tilted towards her. “You’re my what?” She didn’t flinch. “I sleep here more than I sleep at my place. That’s a relationship.” “That’s proximity,” I said. “Don’t add chapters I didn’t write.”
“You know what’s worse than being a single mother? Staying with a nigga that ain’t shit because you don’t want to be one.”
“It’s too many women staying in hurtful relationships because they are afraid of raising kids alone and being alone. It’s okay to be alone, and it’s okay to be in a relationship. But it’s not okay to be both at the same damn time. The fact that he says ‘I love you’ doesn’t give him permission to put you through shit, and it doesn’t mean that you have to stay and deal with it. All love ain’t loyal, baby.”
If Rah can play the women he lays with, there’s no limit to what he’d do to you if he felt like it.”
Sex plus time equals feelings.
But I didn’t have to continue to be so stupid for these niggas anymore.
But when you refuse to learn the lessons that life is trying to teach you, it teaches you in a way that you cannot avoid.
“Or you can sit here and wait for one of those dumb-ass, trigger happy, goofy niggas to figure out you’re here and kill yo’ light-bright ass. But I am going to take my nephew-son with me, because he ain’t dying behind this shit.”
reached for my phone, scrolled through the call logs, and hit the number labeled “CO Drew – Late Shift”. He picked up with a laugh in his voice. “Man, you the neediest dude I know. You ever sleep?” “Put my baby on the phone, motherfucker,” I said, half-grinning.
But as it got closer, I saw it was the nigga that had been with Solae at the hospital and at her court hearings. I’d heard her call him Priest.
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