Hustla (BOOK ONE)

Chapter 33

Aaliyah nods.

"Say a prayer for me", he said as he sat down.

Aaliyah sat down in one of the chairs and put her feet in the chair too.

Dre looks at her. "What?", he asked.

"What are you doing?", she asked.

Dre was hesitant, "...taking some classes", he replied

"What kind of classes?", she asked.

"...I'm um.. I'm tryna get my GED", he said.

"That's good", she said.

"You don't have to lie", he said.

"Hey you're doing better than me", she said.

"..you didn't finish high school?",he asked.

Aaliyah shakes her head.

Dre didn't say anything.

"I mean I was smart.. just didn't feel the need to finish", she said. "Kinda regret it though"

"Never too late to start", he said. "You see me", he said.

Aaliyah nods. "Yea and I'm proud of you", she said. "I'll get it eventually"

Dre nods.

"But I wish you would've told me you were doing work. I would've went home", she said.

"I don't want you to", Dre said.

Suddenly it's a knock on the door. Dre gets up and he opens the door and it was Nae. Dre covers the opening of the door so nae and Aaliyah don't see each other.

"You know I'm really about to put your ass on child support but then again they said won't know your income because you do illegal shit!", Nae said.

Aaliyah makes a face.

"I gave you money last week", he said.

"And I give the daycare money every week", she said.

"I'm not giving you more. I gave you 5000 dollars that's it for the month", he said.

"That's not enough", she said. "And whose car?"

"Why did he fuck does it matter?", he asked.

"I wanna meet her", Nae said.

Aaliyah gets up from the chair.

"Bye Nae", Dre said.

Aaliyah walks up behind Dre and Dre looks at her. Aaliyah moves him out the way.

"I guess we'll have to meet each other one day so how about today be the day", Aaliyah said.

Nae smirks and looks Aaliyah up and down. "I know you... you work at the strip club right. I remember throwing ones at you". She looks at Dre. "Not your ones", she said.

Aaliyah fakes smiles. "Well thanks for the cash sweetie", she said.

Nae fakes smile. "No problem sweets", she said.

"Nice meeting you", Aaliyah said lying.

"Mhm", Nae said.

Aaliyah walked away and rolled her eyes.

"A stripper? Really?", Nae whispered but wanted Aaliyah to hear.

"Bye", Dre said. "You starting shit. Bye"

"I'm just saying you can do better than to get sloppy seconds", Nae said.

"Bitch I'll show you sloppy seconds", Aaliyah said as she started to walk to the door.

"Leave", Dre said before he shut the door and grabbed Aaliyah.

Aaliyah tried to get out of his grip. "Let me go", she said.

"New person remember?", Dre said.

"Fuck that. That bitch wanna try me", she said.

"You're pregnant", Dre said.

"Ugh!", Aaliyah said as she stopped struggling to get out of his grip. "I can't wait for my stomach to get big and I have this baby already. She not about to keep trying me. She got one more time Dre. I swear to God. You better let her know", Aaliyah said.

"I will", he said.

Aaliyah jerks away from him and walks back to the chair and sits down.

"You good", he asked.

"Yea", she said as she put her hair in a bun. "I'm good"

"Alright na", he said as he sat down

"But for everytime she try me, I'm fucking her ass up that many times after I have this baby", she said.

"Mhm", he said. He wasn't going to let her do anything.

"Okay nigga. You playing me. I'll beat your ass too", Aaliyah said. "I fight niggas"

"Iight", he said with a chuckle. He ain't pay her any attention

"Fuck you", Aaliyah said as she went upstairs.

"I like you too", he said.

Aaliyah rolled her eyes and laid on his bed.

TO BE CONTINUED...