N'laisah Dior Olsen
Monroe, Louisiana
"Hey Veah, I swore I was gonna visit you and mommy and daddy as soon as I got outta prison. But I was too pussy. It don't matter tho cuz a bad bitch finally here!" I sit down next to my sister's tombstone.
"I hope I'm not too heavy, I think yo body somewhere under me. Anyways it's so much to update you on." I pull the Remmy Martin 1738 out my purse and get comfortable in the ground.
"So you know I always said don't be caught lacking, well bitch I was LACK-INGGG! Knock-knock? I was like who is it? Turn out it was the popo, and they had a search warrant. I was like go ahead bitch ian got shit tuh hide. Wrong answer, they found Amari's gun in my bedroooomm!" I pause to take a drink.
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"Then sum bitch stole my vibrator that Amari sent me and resold it so we had to tussel. That was my only sex source cuz I was in a relationship and I wasn't tryna lock legs with them musty hoes! That hoe RAN me my ones!"
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"BOOM! Das all I heard! They was rioting in dat bitch! I was like oh helllll nawl, get me out of hea cuz I just got my hair done! But nah they asses left me with them and 3 of my tracks fell out! I was looking like Lakeisha!" I laughed.
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"But tell me why I went to prison fa a nigga that cheated on me? Feel like runnin all his shit to the feds, one call and he'a have life." I cried.
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"Should've cheated on his ass with Big Brenda! Yo gay ass would've loved Big Brenda, she was kinda fine and she always smelled like laundry detergent, a clean bitch. I would've sexed her down but she fucked with One Eye and ian fucking with One Eye, mhn mhn." I shook my head.
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"I was pregnant... Like I really could've been a mom. Oh my God you would've been a auntie. Well if you were alive..." I bust out crying.
"I mean fuck them kids anyways tho."
It was getting dark out and my liquor is all gone. I spent the whole day at this cemetery. I got a lot of shit off my chest tho which made me feel better.
I stand up and dust off my pants from dirt.
"Aight guhl, bye. I love you." I looked at her tombstone for a couple minutes.
"Bitch not me standing here like she gone say it back!" I crack up laughing.
"To hell I go!" I run to my car.
I try to open the door but it won't budge. I try every door but they won't open.
"Oh my God, oh my God." I start hyperventilating.
I yank the door handles with all my might but they won't open.
"What the fuck!" I start crying.
"Open dammit!" I tug at the door again.
I pull out my phone and call 'Amari 💔'
"Hey wha-"
"AMARI MY CAR WONT OPEN!!" I scream hysterically.
"Did yo-"
"YES! IT WONT OPEN!"
"Have yo-"
"YES NIGGA IT WONT OPEN!" I sob uncontrollably.
"Send me yo location." He sighs.
I hang up and share my location with him.
I sit on the hood of my car for 15 minutes until he comes.
"Where yo car keys at?" He asks me.
My jaw drops open.
"C-car keys?" I ask slowly.
"Yea, maybe the battery- wait you did unlock the car right?" He looks at me for confirmation.
"Uhhh..." I look down.
He just stares at me in disbelief.
"You drunk?" He asks.
I nod and he bangs his head against the top of the car making me laugh.
"Getcho ass in this car." He walks to his.
"But mine?"
"We'll get it tomorrow." He says and I get in the passenger's side.
"If we had a baby girl what would we name it?" I ask as he drives.
"You tryna have a baby?" He side eyes me.
"No nigga I mean like if we had a little girl what would we name her." I frown.
"Ion know it'd have to be sumn unique not no basic ass names, you feel me?" He says and I nod.
"Mhm I'd want it to start with an N' like the girls in my family." I add.
"N'talia?" He suggests.
"Noooo, ion like it." I shake my head.
"Okay, N'miracle?"
"Nope, sound like numerical." I scrunch my face up.
"N'liya?"
"N'liya, N'liya, N'liya... Ou I likes it." I smile while he chuckles.
"Why you thinking ah baby names?" He asks genuinely.
I shrug and he holds back from asking more. We continue the ride in silence.
"Thank you Amari." I sigh getting out.
"Be safe, I love you."
"Thank you." I say before closing his door.
I walk back in my house and collapse on the couch. I'm too tired to make it to the room.
The couch pillows provide me warmth and the tv comfort as I fall asleep.
Amari Christian Walton
Monroe, Louisiana
"You can't make money being all depressed and shit." Chubby says ashing his blunt.
"I can do both." I shrug.
"Finna go tell Ecstasy to take yo sad ass back. You polluting my air with all this negative, depressing energy." Nunu put his feet on my coffee table.
I slap his feet down before getting on my phone. I looked through Pinterest for ideas for N'laisah's apology gift for tomorrow.
A big ass box full of bags of chips with a bow on it stands out.
"Get up niggas we going to Walmart." I hop up.
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"Why the fuck would you buy 20 party sized bags of Hot Cheetos?" Chubby asks helping me carry the bags in.
"This shit is ridiculous. Got me carrying shit I ain't buy." Nunu mumbles.
"Stop complaining, y'all posted to be at the trap working but y'all dilly dallying round with me." I carry the last few bags inside.
I take out the sticky notes and colored pens I bought and get to work.
On every note I write one reason I love her in a different color, in cursive then stick one to each bag.
"Aight my sister coming over, das cool?" Chubby asks me.
"Mhmm. The gate open."
"Yo sister the one who got trapped in that cage with the gorilla on our school trip to the zoo?" Nunu asks.
"Why you had to bring that up?"
"Her lil badass wanted to see the gorilla up in person." He shakes his head.
"Ion know why them gorillas ain't fuck her up fa being in they cage." I say.
"Cuz she look like one, they prolly thought she was they own." Nunu starts laughing.
"He just put me out, Chauncey! All my shit and everything still over there!" Emoni whines coming in.
"Manuel sleep?" Chubby refers to his nephew.
"Yea he in the car, knocked out. Ion know what we gone do, all our clothes and everything at the house." She sits down next to him.
"Why you had to leave?" Nunu asks.
"He gotta new bitch. She told him to kick his child and baby mama out. He broke up with me and threw us out on the street." She puts her head on her hands.
"We gone getchu straight Mani. We'll go over there witchu to get yo shit." I say while putting the chips up.
Shit getting tew peaceful again and y'all know ion like det, don't y'all want a lil 🤏🏾 bit mo drama? 🌚