"What made you stay?"
Bri looked down "to be honest.. at first I was young and dumb cause I was in that mindset of, I'm a pretty ass girl with a fine ass hood nigga. That's all I wanted and what I thought was an accomplishment and next thing I knew, I was pregnant. Now shy was great when we first got together, but after he got out of jail and I had jr was when he started fuckin up with all the cheating and shit. It was hurtful as hell but at that point I was stupid again and thinking even though I said I was done with him and did all that extra shit, I wasn't going nowhere cause I loved him and wanted us to be a family"
"Well we all got our young and dumb moments bri. You seen mine. I moved out of my comfortable home to move to the hood, messing around with a drug dealer."
"But look at how far y'all came"
"Same for you and shy"
She jokingly sucked her teeth
"I'm serious bri. Y'all came a long way and if anybody tell y'all different, they lying"
"SHY himself came a long way... and I just hate that he don't acknowledge it"
"He probably so used to people bringing him down cause of his past. All he wanna hear is somebody tell him they proud of him for a change.. you should've seen how how he started smiling when benji told the other day"
"Oh I'm pretty sure he was. If nobody else... shy gone hold anything benji and meechie say to heart.. especially benji. Cause even though they all joke a lot, they gone tell shy what it is whether he like it or not"
"You right" I nodded as the door opened and shy walked in along with benji and I smiled, watching benji
"You so fine" I told him as he walked over to me. I grabbed onto the waistband of the sweats he wore
"You ready to go?" Shy asked bri and she got up from sittin on the side of the hospital bed
"Not really but yeah" she sighed, holding onto her stomach "I'm just ready to go see my son"
"That nigga fuckin Kay momma house up with Hendrix. He ain thinkin bout y'all" benji told bri
"No the hell he ain't" shy shook his head "can't nobody afford to replace shit in that expensive ass house"
Benji laughed and I sucked my teeth
"Bye! Come on" I pushed benji back a little while shy grabbed bri's bag and we left the hospital room.
While Shy took bri home, me and benji went to go pick up jr to drop him off at home. I just watched benji as he drove with one hand resting on my thigh, focusing on the road
"The fuck is you lookin at witcho weird ass?" He randomly asked before eventually glancing over at me
"Damn I can't look?"
"No"
I rolled my eyes "whatever benji. This why don't nobody like yo stupid ass"
"Damn you mad as hell ain it?"
"Fuck you dimitri. You know how to blow me"
"Oh so now you mad?" He asked with a laugh as I pushed his hand off of me but he put it right back so I pushed it again
"BYE don't touch me"
"Damn you'on want me to touch you either?"
"Nope" I responded, popping the "p"
"Ight then" he nodded and focused on the road. Not even ten whole seconds later he looked at me again
"Karma.."
I ignored him and looked at my phone
"You ain gone talk to me?"
"Nope"
He grabbed my hand and I sighed
"Kay"
"What dimitri?"
"I love you"
"That's good to know. Thank you"
"So you'on love me too?"
"I do but ion like you right now"
"For real?" He asked, putting his hand back on my thigh and I sucked my teeth while my phone rung
"Oh yo side nigga callin now?"
"And is" I told him while I answered the phone for mj and put it on speaker
"Karma! Bitch, whatchu doing?"
"About to tick and roll out this car and walk home"
"Before you do that, you with benji?"
"No" benji told her and she sucked her teeth
"Anyways.. lemme tell y'all what the fuck just happened"
"What?"
"I was chillin at these person I used to work with at bojangles's house and they was having this big ass cookout that's supposed to last all night. Tell me why the shit got shut down already!"
"Why it got shut down?" I asked
"Apparently the dude is cousins with Kayla on her daddy side so Kayla was out there.. tell me why angel and dishaun showed up cause angel is supposedly fuckin with him and you know dishaun ain like Kayla minors then Angel and Kayla hate each other"
"Over benji.. yeah"Benji sucked his teeth cutting his eyes over at me and mj laughed on the phone
"Well they got into it and Angel's people and Kayla's people were both out there so shit blew outta proportion. Next thing I know somebody started shooting"
"At 4:00 in the afternoon?"
"Shootouts ain got no set time. The hell you from?" Benji asked me and I looked over at him
"The suburbs!"
"I can tell" he muttered and I hit him
"Well you good?" I asked mj
"I'm perfectly fine.. but they got Dishaun"
When she said that both me and benji looked at the phone and my mouth fell agape
"Wait what?" I asked, making sure I heard correctly
"Dishaun got shot. He dead this time for real"
"Stop lying"
"I'm not! Angel was over there screaming while he was slumped over and eventually fell out of his wheelchair. Y'all that shit was so fuckin crazy"
"Oh shit"
I then looked over at benji and saw a slight grin on his face
"You going to hell"
Once I told him that he just went ahead and started laughing out loud and I shook my head
"You are terrible. Really terrible"
"Mannn fuck that nigga" benji responded back to me and I laughed a little, taking the phone off of speaker to talk to mj
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