Clarence sees a package on the table with his name on it, "Let's see what I got", he said aloud. His bestfriend/roommate, Darrelle a.k.a Patty, comes near the table, "What chu got, bro?"
"I don't know, niggas just gettin' packages now", Clarence responded referring to himself. He opens the package and there are a 8 silky, different colored du-rags from his manager.
"We got the different flava dueys", Clarence said excitingly.
"He sent you a duey?", Patty asked.
"Yeah, this what happens when you got good hair and a good beard".
He opens one and shows Patty the black durag, "Black with the yellow, and it's silky though".
"Oooooo", Patty says liking the durag.
"Nice...Nice...Niceeee", Clarence adds.
Patty laughs because he thinks its funny how Clarence feels about his du-rags.
Clarence opens up another one, "Spicy Red?", he observes it. "Depending on how I'm feeling".
"Ooooooh, Ooookayyyy" Patty says hyping Clarence up.
He picks up his new orange durag, "This is really what- ooooohhh, pshhhh", Clarence is speechless while putting his head back.
"This nigga stupid", Patty laughs to one of Clarence's little cousin, Devin, sitting on the couch.
"Pshhh, I would've worn this for Halloween", he puts it on.
"You could play for Syracuse, bro" Patty says.
Clarence goes to the mirror to see how it looks, "This is spicy, Both of y'all come here".
Patty and Devin laugh and come near Clarence.
"Stop right there". He shows them another durag, "It's not regular silk- catch the glitter, you gotta catch the shine to it, you gotta catch the shine bro- catch the quality. This is good silky- hold on right there, we doin' good silkies"?
Patty laughs, "This kid has to be stopped!"
"Nah, come here".
"Yo niggas gotta stop this nigga Clarence, man".
He picks up a durag from the floor, "I just got this one yesterday, a friend of mine doing du-rags now. That's the homie".
"That's silky?", Patty asked.
"Yeahhh, good material. Look. Foreign money", Clarence points out the design on the du-rag.
"Uhuhhhh, ooohkayyyy", Patty hyping him up again.
"She got all flavas. Y'all see first hand how my silk game is, I can walk from right here and have 8 silkies waiting for me", he says walking to the steps and back.
"Okay, Okay", Patty says feelin' the du-rag.
He goes back to his package of du-rags, "Look at this shit, should I open more, bro?"
"Do the purple".
Clarence stares Patty in the eyes as he tears off the plastic from the du-rag, takes the purple du-rag out, then throws the plastic behind him dramatically while still staring Patty down which makes Patty burst out laughing.
"Look at this purple...look...at...this...purple", Clarence says hopping up and down.
Patty and Devin continue laughing. He puts it on then quickly takes it back off to look at it, "is that the pink lining?", he asks Patty.
"Is that the Flamingo!? Is that the Flamingo!?" Patty asked hyping the moment up.
"Definitely the Flamingo, the Flamingo and purple. Your head couldn't get treated any better".
Patty turned to Devin, "You ain't see the du-rag rack, yet?"
Clarence told them to come to the closet where his du-rag rack is at, "I want y'all to know this is how I am naturally. I'm extra and I have to do the most".
They laugh.
"I know a lot of niggas like the silkies and the beard. The beard game is in and the waves is in but a lot of nigga's don't do what I do. Nobody has a du-rag rack, you feel me? This is the the du-rag rack, you feel me?", he points to it. You see how you think it's just one color?" He snatches one off, "It's not!"
They laugh.
"It's fuckin' not. Oh look what we got here, a purple one under there. You think it's just one", He snatches a few more off the rack, "No, no, no, no. Step back. Look at these flavas. You niggas ain't fuckin' wit' me and y'all see the kicks? People be leavin' smart comments like, "You always wearing those 'Ones' and all that- it's 'cause I choose to, you get what I'm sayin'? I love 'Ones', I really love 'Ones'. If you look in my closet", he moves over mid- sentence so they can see, "Niggas got more than 'Ones'", referring to himself. "Had to get spicy for y'all real quick", he said while putting his du-rags back on the rack. "Ima have to hire somebody to take care of my du-rags, you get what I'm sayin'?
"Be like,'Make sure my shits hung up'" Patty said.
"Exactly" Clarence agreed. "Real P. Diddy shit".
"I want the names over it, pinks on the 'Pink' rack".
"Exactly", Clarence agreed. "Every hook got a color. You know how I am. I got OCD".
"You extra".
"Yeah".
"Every hook that gotta color wouldn't be a lot for you. You do that everyday".
Clarence and Devin chuckle.
"Every night before you go to bed, you'll be in the closet putting your du-rags away".
Clarence phone has been blowing up for like 20 minutes straight, all of them know who it is already. It's his girlfriend, Winterr.
"She's blowing your phone up, kid", Patty says to Clarence.
Clarence walks over to the kitchen counter and answers his phone.
"Yo", he said kinda annoyed.
"Why the fuck aren't you answering my phone calls. You must be with another bitch, you do this shit every day", Winterr says.
"Now you chattin'", Clarence said shaking his head.
"You forget that you're supposed to be coming over?"
"Devin here, I just can't leave him here".
"Clarence, he is 15, he knows how to be in the house alone", she says making a confused face. "And Darrelle is over there, the fuck?"
"Yo, you need watch ya mouth, you're trippin'.
"How am I trippin' because you making these sad ass esxcuses on not to come be with me. It's always some b.s that's why we need to move in together".
Clarence shakes his head, "You know why we don't live together, so that shouldn't even be in the conversation".
"Baby, I'm ready now, Devin and Jordan can share the guest room".
"I'll come over there in a few", Clarence said ignoring what she's saying.
Winterr knows that Clarence's aunt made it his duty to look after Devin and Jordan because she wasn't stable enough, but, when she wanted Clarence to move in 2 months ago, she demanded that they can't come and Clarence wasn't having it. After that, Clarence stopped talking to her for a couple days. He finally forgave her, after apology after apology.
"Actually, I'll come over there".
"Around what time?"
"Does that matter?"
"Yeah, it does. This is Patty's crib too, you just can't be poppin' up whenever".
"Around 11:00".
"Ight", he hangs up the phone.
"She comin' over her, bro?"
"Yeah, but ya will be sleep by the time she come".
"When you gon' break up with her?", Devin asked Clarence.
"When you gon order the Dominos?"
"Yeah, order me a pineapple pizza with-
Clarence cut Patty off, "If you put pineapples on your pizza, you soft".
"This kid is chattin'".
Clarence and Devin laugh.
"I put pineapples on my pizza".
"You not from Hawaii, nigga, you from New York, f*ck outta here".
"I put pineapples on my pizza, bro. What you put on your pizza?"
"Why you flippin' the question on me?'
"Because now I gotta defend myself. You ain't just about to talk shit about me".
"Yeahhhh, that's what's gonna happen".
"No-", Patty jumps at Clarence.
Clarence bursts out laughing and so does Patty.
"I'm laughing because I ain't think you was about to get spicy".
"I like thick crust pineapples", Patty says out of no where.
Clarence laughs hard.
"Yo this kid is an asshole, right here", referring to Clarence.
Clarence grins.
*
Clarence and Devin began to play 2K18 while Patty watches, "You doin' bad, bro", Patty tells Devin.
Devin chuckles, "I realize that.
"Sixers on the ride", Clarence brags about his team winning.
*
Dominos finally shows up and everyone gets their pizza. Devin turns Stranger Things on the screen and it shows a man and a woman kissing in the closet.
"I'm tryna be like this witcha boo", Clarence jokes in general.
*
11:00 hits and Devin is asleep on the couch, and Patty is in his room. Clarence texts Jordan out of concern, "Jordan, where you at? Call my phone."
Jordan responded immediately, "I'm down the street now".
He texts Winterr, "Yo, wya?"
Winterr didn't respond.
Jordan comes into the door, "It smells good in here, what y'all have?"
"We had Dominos".
"Y'all ain't save me none?", he said looking at the 3 medium pizza boxes laying on the counter. "They just look empty just by lookin' at them".
"Nah, I think it's two more in Devin's box."
There is a knock at the door. As Jordan was about to go open the door, Clarence gets up and says, "I got it, bro". He opens the door and it's Winterr.
They give each other a hug. She walks in and he closes the door.
"Hey, Jordan".
"Sup.."
Neither Jordan or Devin really like Winterr especially after they found out that she didn't want them to move in with her. Plus, she's too stuck up for them, when they first met her, she was cool but now they've seen her true colors. She'd always try to make Clarence distant from them and they've realized that. She's not a good girlfriend to their big cousin. The cursing, the assuming, the arguing, the putting hands on was a no-no. One day, they had a big fight at their merchandise collab event and this drunk female flashed both of them. Clarence looked- caught off guard and Winterr saw him so she starts mugging him in the face in front of everybody. She even took it far as to going in the back and cutting up a few of his merch- like his shirts and a few hoodies. Clarence was pissed! There's been plenty of more incidents that always have ended badly. Mostly all the people that Clarence loves and that loves Clarence is confused as to why he's still with her. Who knows?
Jordan takes the cold pizza and heats it up in the microwave. Clarence grabs his phone off the couch and goes in his room with Winterr. She puts her purse down on his night stand and he sits on the bed and turns his tv on.
"How was ya day?", Clarence asks her to break the silence.
"It was good, I was gonna go out to the club tonight but it's whatever".
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means I wanted to go to the club but I came here instead".
"I mean if you wanted to go to the club, you shouldn't have never said you would come here".
"I didn't even mean it like that. You always take shit out of proportion."
"Ight", Clarence sighed scratching his head.
Clarence gets up and puts his du-rag on and goes in his bathroom and brushes his teeth. While he's doing that, she goes behind him and makes a funny face through the mirror.
He smirks a little bit but it quickly goes away.
"You wanna get in here and brush your teeth?", he asks her.
"Nah, my teeth are fine, thank you very much".
He gargles and spits and wipes his mouth. "Ya breath probably smells like doo-doo".
She goes to lay on the bed, "My breath smells like flowers and gum. Come smell it".
He comes over to her and bends down to her face, she blows her breath in his face. He stands straight, "It don't stink, but it's hot, though".
She laughs, "You always tryna clown on me".
"Seriously, You needa control that dragon breath."
She laughs, "You lucky I don't have comeback".
"You don't 'cause I'm always fresh".
Clarence took his shirt off to get more comfortable.
"That's my favorite part..."
"What?", he said folding his shirt up.
"When you take your shirt off, daddy".
He smirks and sits his shirt down. He turns the lights off and climbs in the bed.
"Oh my goddd, I'm firing this bitch", Winterr bursts out and says after reading a text.
He looks over to her, "Who?"
"Veronica, this is the second time a costumer is texting me about something fucked up going on with their orders".
"Like what you mean?"
"The first female said the shipping for the lashes was 2 days but it took 2 weeks to come and by that time she didn't even need them shits anymore. Now this girl telling me she asks for two Bonnie Parkers and they were supposed to be shipped to her a week ago, then she contacted Veronica's irresponsible retarded ass, and she tells this girl, "Oh we're sold out", Winterr mocks Veronica with an ugly face and a high pitched voice.
"Yeah, that's definitely bad business. Instead of just firing her, have a one on one convo about that. Has she ever fucked up before besides them two times?"
"No."
"Well, just talk to her about it first. Don't just go firin' shawty", he said beginning to look down at his phone.
She puts her phone down and steals a kiss from Clarence while he's looking at his.
"Put this phone down".
He continues to scroll on his Instagram.
"Clarence", she said looking at him. She grabs the phone out his hand and sits it on the night stand.
"Chillll", Clarence tells Winterr.
"No you chill, and give me some d*ck".
He looks at her and fixes himself to sit him back up to the wall. She gets on top of him and he starts kissing her on the lips and then slowly working his way to her neck. She starts biting her lips thinking to herself, "Yeah, I know why I can't let him go".
As he's kissing her, he starts to get hesitant so, he stops and leans back. She comes closer to him and realizes his demeanor.
"What's wrong?", she asked.
He sighs as he looks at the T.V, "Nothin'.
"Clarence, I'm not about to play these childish- ass games with you. What? You don't want to kiss me or something? You don't want to get intimate?"
"Nah, it's not that", Clarence says knowing deep down that that's what it is. "I'm just tired right now.
She mugs him on his forehead and gets off of him.
As the room filled with nothing but noise from the T.V, Clarence decided to turn it off so he can go to bed.
"Can you pass me the remote?", he asked Winterr.
"Nope. You want to play childish games, then that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Okay? Okay".
Clarence tries to reach over her to get the remote but she grabs it in tosses it on the floor.
"You're acting real childish right now".
"I'm acting childish? I'm your fucking girlfriend and you're not even trying to kiss me let alone have sex".
Clarence gets off the bed, "Because I don't want to".
She sits up on the bed, "Oh you don't want to? Oh, you don't want to, huh?"
"Yeah", he said with an attitude.
"Since when?"
"A long time ago".
"Explain- to- me why you don't want to kiss me?", she said pounding her fist into her hand.
He didn't answer.
"Hellloooo, what? You're not attracted to me anymore?"
"Yeah, I'm not...I've stopped being attracted to you for while, your attitude, your vibe, the people that's closest to me don't even mess with you and that should've been a sign right there".
"Oh forreal?"
"Mhm", he said putting his shirt back on.
"I can't believe I let you disrespect me for so long-"
He looks at her like he didn't know she was crazy already, "I disrespect you?"
"Sure do", she said shrugging her shoulders.
"Otay".
She gets up off the bed, "Unattracted to what? Nigga look at me, look- at- me", she said slapping her butt angrily.
"You're 89 percent white, you can't say that word", he said pointing at her.
"Quit, playin' with me, bro".
He gets his phone and starts to scroll down Twitter.
She sits on the bed and puts her shirt back on and stares at him. He catches her staring at him, he chuckles and puts his attention back on his phone.
"You think this shit is a game!", she yelled.
"Can you be quiet, my cousins and patty is sleeping real good in there".
"I don't give a fuck, boy".
He gets a text on his phone.
"And I bet it's another bitch".
"Who knows?".
"Who knows?" she asked. She picks up the remote and throws it at him, but he dipped and it his the closet mirror.
"Yooo, you wildin'", he said looking at the mirror.
"Yeah, now what?"
"You gotta go".
She laughs, "So, you kicking me out?"
"Do you really think, in your right mind- if you have one, that I'm going to let you stay in my house while you actin' like this".
"I'm a psychopath", she said calmly.
"Ight, well this not the psychiatric hospital so you gots to leave".
"Okay", she gets up and gets all of her things and leaves his room.
Patty texts Clarence, "Bro, what's happenin' right now".
"She wildin', she 'bout to leave tho", he texts back.
She comes back and pours detergent on him, "You got me fucked up- you had me fucked up for a year and a half".
"Yoooo, get out!", he yelled. He grabbed the detergent bottle and threw it on the floor, he takes his shirt off and grabs her arm and pushes her out his room door.
"Yo, she's blacked", Jordan says witnessing all of it going on. He woke up out of his sleep when he heard glass shatter. Devin is still sound asleep. Patty comes out the room- squinting his eyes because he's sleepy.
"Get the fuck off of me", she says but can't get loose because Clarence is too strong, especially since he's angry.
Patty opens the front door, and when Winterr is out of the house, he lets go of her arm, then Patty shuts the door.
****
This is the 10th time Queen has tried to get in contact with Chris, so she texts him, "Why aren't you answering the phone, Chris, I finally did it, I finally quit this tired behind job".
She walks out of the building where she worked at for 2 1/2 years. She won't miss it not one bit, all those late nights watching the doors while nothing happened, sitting in that chair made her butt hurt all the time, nobody to talk to and act goofy with- that's what she hated the most.
She gets into her car and turns on the radio. She listens to SZA's Weekend and Broken Clocks on the way home. Not a far drive. She gets out of the car, gets the house keys out of her purse, and opens the door. She walks in the kitchen and sees baby Aaron on the floor playing with Cheerios trying to make patterns with them. She goes over to him and kisses him on the cheek. She picks him up from the floor, "You know you're not supposed to be playin' with your food, Aaron. Look at that mess mommy is gonna have to clean up now". She takes him over to the couch and sits him down.
The TV was already turned to Spongebob so she left it at that. She goes over by the stairs to get the broom and she hears noises coming from upstairs. "Aaron is daddy upstairs?" She asked.
He points up, so she guesses that's a yes.
She walks up the stairs to ask him why he wasn't answering the phone until she hears a female's voice. She freezes in the middle of the steps. She's been down this road before with Chris, so she takes a moment, "Please god, don't let Chris have another female in our home...again." She jumps from the slaps she hears. She continues to go up the steps, her heart is pounding faster and faster. She puts her ear to the door where the noise is coming from. Now she hears moaning and groaning. She thinks to herself, "I don't wanna open this door because I'm not trying to open a wound that's already halfway healed". But she did it anyway. She cracks the door open and sees Chris is with some chick bending her over, having sex with her. She quietly closes the door and looks at the floor, closes her eyes, and takes deep breaths. Surprisingly, she's not crying. Surprisingly, she's not shocked. She walks down the stairs slowly and grabs Aaron and her purse. She opens the door and walks out without even closing it. Where is she about to go? Who knows?