Two brother's navigate life, love and the annoyance of brotherhood, and realize that the most important thing in life can be summed up in one word - family.
"They was about to beat me up." Quincy said as we drove off.
"That's because you were talking about making heat." I laughed.
"I didn't mean it like that. It came out wrong. They had me nervous."
"Sorry."
"Them your sisters or something?"
"Kinda. One is my cousin's girlfriend, the other is my cousin."
"Okay. It's good to have folks looking out for you. I'm like that with Lish." He said referring to his younger sister Alyesha which was Noelle's roommate.
"Yeah. Just be glad Amiri wasn't there." I shook my head just thinking.
"that's ol dude from the library?"
"Yeah. He would've cock-blocked major. He acts like hes' my father. He's so annoying."
"Cock-blocked or not, he wouldn't have stopped this date."
"Yeah." I chuckled and looked out the window.
"What type of tunes you like?" He asked me.
"Uh...I'm not a big music person."
"Really? So you not going around "I ain't sorry. Nigga hell naw." He mimicked girls dancing to Beyonce's lemonade.
"No." I laughed. "I like Beyonce. But I'm not a bee-hiver. I prefer to read."
"Interesting." He simply said.
I sighed silently to myself as I felt embarrassment rush all over me. I just knew he was judging. I shouldn't have said that. I feel the lame all over it. I just looked out the window.
"What's wrong?" He looked over at me, then back at the road.
"Nothing." I smiled to make it seem like I was okay.
"You sure?"
"Yeah." I shook my head yes, then looked back out the window.
There was silence. All we heard was the car.
"What type of books you like to read?" He asked.
"Uh...all kinds. But my favorite is black literature."
"As in..." He said.
"Toni Morrison. Alice Walker."
"Uh-huh. You into them feminist, I don't need no man books."
"What?" I laughed. "That is not what Toni and Alice write."
"Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple, ain't that the whole premise of the book? Until you do right by me, everything you touch going to crumble." He mimicked Celie
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"Oh my God." I bursted into laughter. "He treated her wrong. Should she stay with someone who treated her wrong?"
"She could've gave mister one more chance, she didn't have to go putting her fingers in his face."
