"You lying. Come on brah please, this one time"
"I'm not gone be doing this every time don't expect it neither"
I nodded "Aight"
She sighed digging in her pocket "You a broke bitch, HERE"! She threw me a ten.
I laughed "Thank you"!
I walked out going down the steps seeing my mama in the kitchen cooking.
"Hey ma"
"Hey Arianna"
"What you cooking"?
"Macaroni, Greens, Sweet potatoes & some roast"
I nodded my head looking at all of it being made "Aw ok ok. I'm bout to go though"
"Where exactly is you going"?
I smacked my lips turning around "Why you and Jordan be asking me that every time brah"?
"Cause you say you going one place & be at another. Uh uhn"
"Mannn! I'm going to get my friend & coming right back home"
"Who Nuni"?
I shook my head "Uh uhn. It's somebody else"
"Who? Tymia"?
"No- you don't know her"
"Ohhh. You making new friends now"?
I sucked my teeth shrugged "Eh. Guess you could say that"
"She live around here"?
I nodded "Bout 6 or 7 minutes"
"Hm. Well aight, I was just asking questions" She shrugged "Being nosey"
I watched Jordan walk down the steps slowly "Girl I should've left you"
"Girl leave then! The fuck" She rolled her neck
"Ay don't start that shit" My mama said "Yall always cussing"
"Oh aight" I walked out the kitchen heading to the front door and left out the house without Jordan.
I got in the car starting it up seeing her coming out the house so I started pulling out the driveway "ARIANNA STOP FUCKING PLAYING WITH ME"!
I laughed stopping the car in the middle of the street then rolled my window down "Bring yo ass the fuck on & stop playing then"!
She ran off the porch & got in the car slamming the door behind her "You play too much"
"I wasn't gone leave you forreal, fuck up" I pulled back off.
India Marie Stepp
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"When yo mama gone be done making that food? I'm fucking hungry" I scratched the side of my face
