Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Oct 30, 2006 10:58:12 GMT -5
Well, where do I begin? Let’s see…it’s been a little over three months since Thugsy and I went our separate ways. I thought we might’ve worked things out but when he hadn’t called me anymore since our fight at Juelz’s place on the infamous weekend that I ran into Mario’s arms, I knew there would be no more us. And speaking of Mario, he’s REALLY trying my patience. Ever since he and I have supposedly become an item, he hasn’t taken me out on one damn date yet! Shit, even Tyrese has taken Mian out a couple of times and he doesn’t live anywhere near us. But as for Mario, it’s all about the mind-blowing sex we have on an almost nightly basis. Our schedule goes a little something like this: he leaves rehearsals during the week around eight or nine o’clock and comes over to my place or takes me over to his, we get our thang on and 9 times out of ten he goes home or I’m brought back home. And when the weekend rolls around, it’s like we have a sexual marathon either at my or his place when we’re sure to have some privacy or at the local Holiday Inn if we didn‘t want to hear Mian banging on my wall. I’m afraid that he and I will soon sprout rabbit ears and cottontails because we go at it like rabbits so damn much. Please don’t get me wrong though because homey KNOWS how to put it down, but I need more than that especially since I find myself pretending that I’m with Thugsy most of the time now. Anyway…
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“Dang, sis, why is it so hard to tell him what he needs to know?” Mian asked me as we sat in her room on a Thursday night since I didn’t have dance class and she didn’t have anywhere to go. We both decided to paint our nails and do our toes while catching each other up on the latest things going on in our lives.
“I’on’t know. It’s like every single time I wanna bring it to his attention, he does or says somethin’ that makes me change my mind,” I sighed while soaking my feet in a basin of steaming hot, sudsy water as I sat in her chair at her desk.
“Like what?”
“You know how niggas are; when they sense that you’re pissed with them about somethin’ they can switch up on ya. He’ll either give me empty promises about us goin’ out or he’ll lay one of his breath-takin’ kisses on me in front of whoeva’s around at the moment for no reason, so he says, orrrrrr he’ll buy me lil’ bullshit gifts or flowers” I smirked while thinking about Mario.
“Damn, girl. You losin’ your touch,” she giggled with a shake of her head while waving her hands around to dry her nails.
“Maybe, but the sad part is that I don’t care because I feel like a small part of me is still with Thugsy when Mario and I are togetha.”
Mian sat still while giving me a blank look. “Mannnnnnnnnnn, that’s deep.”
“Shut up!” I laughed. “I’m bein’ serious about this shit.”
“More like seriously cray-zee da-raaaaaaaaanged,” she laughed back.
“Okay, let Tyrese spring it on ya real good one time even betta than that sorry-ass Shad used to and let’s see if you don’t do the same damn thing,” I huffed although I was still laughing.
“Never that! Tyrese and I are continuin’ to take things very, very slowwwwly. Besides, I feel right refreshed now that I’ve been celibate for a good what…three months and a half now.” She had the nerve to proudly grin after saying this lame shiznit.
“Okay, keep thinkin’ that,” I smirked.
“Anyway. Hey, since Daddy’s engagement party is comin’ up in a few weeks, why don’t you invite Mario? That way you two can be together in the presence of our family and it’ll actually take your mind off of bein’ upset with Daddy?”
“Are you serious?”
“Yeah, I’m serious. Plus that’ll give him a reason to meet our folks since you’ve already met his momma.”
“True, but the only reason I did end up meetin’ his momma was because she happened to show up at his place while I was there JUST chillin’ with him for a change instead of gettin’ my freak-on with him.”
“And you said that she took a quick likin’ to you, right?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Yeah, you could say that,” I replied with a bit of hesitance.
“Why you say it like that?”
“Well, because from the way she would look at me every now and again, I felt like she knew what MIGHT COULD HAVE happened between Mario and me had she not shown up out the blue like she did. And now that I think about it, that’s really the only time he and I went out on a date, technically, when they invited me out to dinner with them that same evenin‘.”
“Girl, quit trippin’. Do like I said and invite him to the party.”
“Aight.”
Just then the doorbell rang interrupting our conversation.
“I’ll get it,” she stated as she got up from the bed. When she hadn’t returned five minutes later, I lifted my feet out of the basin quickly drying them off before heading down the hall. Upon reaching the living room I was in for a shock.
“Okay, what the hell is he doin’ here?!” I angrily spat when I saw Shad standing in the doorway.
“It’s nothin’. He’s about to leave anyway,” Mian sighed while glaring at him.
“Not until you hear me out, Mian,” he sighed back while glaring at me.
“Oh I BETCHA you’ll take your lil’ ass outta here!” I proceeded to walk towards him with my arms raised in the air.
“Girl, get back. I can handle this,” Mian huffed while quickly jumping in between me and Shad. When I glanced behind her and saw Shad wearing a smirk grin while watching me, I wanted nothing more in this world than to reach behind her and smack the taste out of his mouth.
“Okay,” I quietly replied while backing up as I continued to glare at him. “But if he’s stayin’ here then I’m leavin’ before I end up hurtin’ him.”
“No, we’ll leave,” Mian quickly stated.
I proceeded to give her a “are you outta your damn mind?!” look.
However, she told Shad to stay where he was while she grabbed up to my arm walking us a short distance from him.
“Look, girl…I got this,” she whispered with a sly grin before quickly looking over her shoulder at him and then back at me.
“What?” I whispered back with an even more confused look than the one I was previously wearing.
“I’ll be back. Lemme go put some shoes on,” she had the nerve to grin at Shad while glancing at him from over her shoulder again.
I angrily shook my head as I stomped back to my room and slammed the door shut.
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About forty-five minutes later at the same Holiday Inn that Mario and I frequent from time-to-time, Shad was so-call giving Mian his side of the story about when she caught him with his slut on the side back in DC a couple of months ago. However, things took quite an unusual turn.
“So you forgive me?” he whispered as they lay back on the bed while undressing each other.
“Yeah,” Mian barely mumbled before he lowered his lips down onto hers while his hands took on a mind of their own as they traveled up and down her body.
Within no time at all, they were going at it like they’ve done so many times in the past before falling silent to catch their breaths back. But while Shad soon fell asleep after Mian told him she was going to take a quick shower, she made sure to stay awake even after she rejoined him in the bed.
When she was for sure that he was totally knocked out, she slowly and quietly got up from the bed and gathered her clothes together to quickly put on while keeping an eye on him. Once she was dressed, she gathered all of his clothing together, including his boxers, into her arms and quietly made her way outside dumping them in a nearby dumpster before going back in the lobby and calling me up.
“What’s goin’ on?” I answered as soon as I saw her number show up.
“Look, I need you to hurry up and come get me from the Holiday Inn ASAP. I’ll explain what happened as soon as you get here,” she whispered into her phone while constantly glancing over her shoulder at the elevators. “Matta of fact, pick me up from Andy’s across the street from here. Bye.”
“Mi…,” I huffed before she hung up on me. I jumped up from my bed where I had been reading to put on my tennis shoes so I could go pick her up.
Upon arriving at Andy’s close to fifteen minutes later, I pulled up to the curb and stared at the Holiday Inn in disbelief as I laughed while Mian made her way out to my ride. Quickly jumping in the passenger seat she started laughing as we watched Shad and a security guard standing on the sidewalk while looking all around as a few people in the lobby stood at the door watching them. There were also a few people who were going inside who stopped to watch them as well. The reason why this scenario was so funny was because Shad had a sheet wrapped around his lower portion while wearing his Timbs, and it had to be at least 35 degrees at the moment.
“Wait, wait a minute…hol’ up. Roll your window down,” Mian continued to laugh just as I was about to pull off.
“Girl, what you finna do?!”
“You‘ll see,” she huffed while reaching over to roll my window the rest of the way down since I wasn’t doing it fast enough for her. “Yo, Shad! Ova here!”
When he looked in our direction, I noticed the shocked then pissed off look on his face. He was about to open his mouth to say something when she quickly intervened.
“I betcha won’t fuck around with me no more you bastard!” she yelled before I floored it so we wouldn’t bring anymore attention to ourselves.
“Your ass has gone pure crazy, girl!” I laughed uncontrollably as we made our way back home.
“And it feeeeeeeels good as hell!” she laughed back while settling back in her seat to tell me all about what she had done which is why I ignored the three phone calls Mario made to me.
Needless to say, I was speechless by the time Mian finished giving me the details; but I was oh so proud of her!
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After arriving home, Mian and I were about to walk inside our place when we heard someone coming up behind us. We both turned around and saw that it was Mario walking across the parking lot.
“Damn, he don’t know how to take hints do he?” Mian whispered while watching him.
“Evidently not,” I replied with a suck of my teeth as I turned back around to finish unlocking the door.
“Yo, Kian, where you been?” Mario asked right after approaching us.
I stared at him for a second or two before telling Mian that I’d be inside in a minute.
“First of all, don’t ever roll up on me and my sis like that again without makin’ yourself known. And two, you don’t have the right to ask me where I been when I don’t ask you that shit durin’ the times that you haven’t answered my calls lately,” I snapped with much attitude while glaring at him.
“Oh, so I’m not supposed to be concerned about my girl?” he snapped right back while walking up on me.
“It’s interestin’ that you say that,” I smirked while folding my arms and leaning my back up against the brick wall next to the door.
“Say what?” he asked with a suck of his teeth.
“That ‘my girl’ shit. Tell me, Mario, am I REALLY your girl?”
At first, he gave me a puzzled look with a raised eyebrow before a slow grin spread across his lips. He slowly placed his arms around my waist and pulled me extra close to him.
“What makes you think that you’re not my girl?” he mumbled before planting butterfly kisses on my neck.
I felt one of my eyes closing up as he worked my spot. That’s when I had to hold onto his arms to brace myself so I could speak.
“Because we’ve only went out once and that was with your momma about a month ago,” I sighed as I pressed my body closer into his feeling an all-too familiar bulge on him.
“What are you talkin’ about?” he asked in between kisses he planted on my lips. “We go out.” When he was done kissing me, he went back to my spot.
“Goin’ to the video store so you can rent some games, then goin’ to pick up a pizza and comin’ home to watch you play on the X-Box for two hours or more followed up by blowin’ my back out doesn’t exactly qualify as us goin’ out,” I deeply sighed while running my hands up underneath his jacket and shirt.
He and I kissed each other for a brief moment before he pulled back far enough to look at me. “Okay, so where do you want to go?”
“I wanna know if you would accompany me to my daddy’s engagement party that's comin' up in about three more weeks.”
Mario was quiet for a few seconds as he bit his bottom lip while we gazed at each other. “Yeah, sure. Why not?”
“I’m serious,” I huffed.
“I am too. I said I’ll go with you to the party. Now c’mon and let’s go inside. It’s cold out here,” he huffed back.
I loudly sucked my teeth while looking away from him.
“C’mon, boy,” I chuckled while pushing him away from me so we could go inside.
Tonight would just have to be one of those nights where Mian would have to bang on my wall.
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“Hello, Ma?” Charli answered when she noticed her mother’s number show up on her display as she was coming out of her filmmaking class.
“Charliza, I know you’re probably in the middle of class or on your way to class, but I have something’ important I need to share with you. It’s about Jontez.”
“Oh my god! Is he okay?!”
“Calm down, sweetie, he’s fine. But I’m not so sure if he needs to have any more visits with his father.”
“Ma, please get to the point and tell me what’s goin’ on!” Charli hurriedly exclaimed as she stopped where she was standing right outside of the dorm building.
“Well, I accidentally left the tv to one of those video channels in the den while I went into the kitchen a couple of minutes ago to make Jontez an afternoon snack after picking him up from daycare. Well when I went back into the den to give him his snack, that’s when I realized what I had left on the tv for him to watch and he pointed at the tv and said that his daddy had some ladies at his house dancing like those ladies. When I saw those half-naked video girls on the screen I nearly fainted. I even went as far as to ask Jontez if his daddy had his tv to a channel showing the same thing that we were looking at before I turned the tv off and Jontez said no. He said that while he was sitting on his daddy’s lap that some ladies were dancing with some of his daddy’s friends.”
Once Charli got over the initial shock of hearing the earful of information that her mother had just told her, she quickly spoke up. “Ma, I’m gonna take care of this today.”
“What?”
“I need to confront Juelz about this. I’ll talk to you later. Love you.” Charli hung up before giving her mother time to say anything else.
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Several hours later after reaching Juelz’s home, Charli began to repeatedly bang on the door.
“What are you doin’ here?” Juelz asked in surprise after opening the door.
“I’m gonna ask the next few questions,” she huffed as she brushed past him and walked inside. She proceeded to turn around and face him as he closed the door.
“What the fuck is wrong with your ass?!”
“Nigga, didn’t I just say I’m gonna ask questions?!”
Juelz smirked as he looked away from her while fighting to keep his composure. “Okay, ma, well could you make this quick because I have somewhere to be in a lil’ while.”
“I’ll take as long as I damn well please! Are you just that fuckin’ stupid to have a group of whores up in here around our son?!”
“What?” he asked with a puzzled look.
“Ma called me earlier today and told me that Jontez said you had some whores up in here dancin’ in his presence.” She noticed the busted look on Juelz’s face.
“Look, it’s not what you think. I was hangin’ out talkin’ with one of my niggas last time the baby was here and the next thing I know my otha niggas brought some broads up in here since it was my nigga, Jim’s, birthday. I took Jontez up to his room, and came back downstairs so I could finish kickin’ it with my boy.”
“So it never entered your mind ONCE to get those bitches outta here along with your stupid-ass friends who knew there was a CHILD in the house?!”
Before stopping herself, Charli marched up to Juelz and slapped him as hard as she could. He in return was about to hit her back until he caught himself and held his fists at his side while warning her not to touch him again.
“You know what? You’ll never see your son again!”
Just as Charli was about to walk around him to leave, something snapped in Juelz’s head. He turned around and yanked her back by her arm, but not without her punching him in his mouth out of both anger and fear.
“Bitch, I’ll kill you! You hear me!” he yelled as he pushed her to the floor.
He immediately wrapped his hands around her neck cutting off her air supply as she frantically clawed at his hands and kicked her feet. Luckily, she was able to quickly reach up and sink her nails in the side of his face causing him to let go of her. However, it wasn’t for long because as she tried crawling away from him while grabbing her neck and gasping for air, he quickly crawled up behind her pinning her to the floor once more as he wrapped his hands around her neck again. Charli didn’t know how long he had kept a tight grip on her neck this time around because she felt herself about to black out when she heard a female voice screaming as it headed in her direction.
“Boy, what the hell you think you doin’?!!!!!” Juelz’s mother shrieked after using her key to come into the house. She stopped by to see if she had left her favorite scarf over there earlier, but instead she walked in on him choking Charli. She immediately ran over to him, and pushed him off of her.
He immediately came back to his senses and began to repeatedly apologize as Charli rolled over onto her side while coughing and gasping for air.
“What’s goin’ on in here?!” his mother shouted while grabbing him by his shoulders to make him look at her as they both stayed on the floor next to Charli.
“I didn’t mean it!!!” he cried as he saw Charli raise up on her hands and knees and crawl over to the bathroom slamming the door shut behind her. As soon as she pulled herself up on the sink, she turned the faucet on full blast with shaky hands to splash water into her mouth to sooth her fiery throat.
Juelz was about to get up and run over to the door until his mother quickly jumped up and stopped him.
“Sit your ass down!” she commanded while flinging him into a nearby armchair. “Didn’t I raise your ass NOT to touch a woman?! Well didn’t I?!”
“Yeah,” he sniffed while looking away from her as she stood over him with her finger pointed in his face.
“Okay then, so I’m only gonna ask your ass one more time. What the hell were you doin’ in here chokin’ the life outta that girl?”
“She told me that she was gonna keep Jontez away from me again,” he quietly replied while wiping away at his tears.
“What would make her tell you somethin’ like that?” She proceeded to sit down on the loveseat next to him.
“Because my boys brought some dancers here for Jim’s birthday last week.”
“Son, what would make your friends think that was the right thing for them to do knowin’ that you had your child up in here?”
He shook his head before speaking. “I was tryna explain and apologize to her, but then she went and told me that she was gonna keep my son away from me for good and I couldn’t imagine that happenin’ anymore.”
“Look, I know you love your son and I love him too because he is our heart. But you have to understand where Charli is comin’ from. She’s his mother and it’s her job to protect him from certain things so did you honestly think that she’d want him around crazy shit? Son, Jontez is only with you every other weekend, but she’s been takin’ care of him with her mother’s help from the day he was born. I’m not sayin’ that it was right of her to keep you from him for as long as she had, but she loves him the same way I love you because we don’t want to see our children get hurt or be exposed to things that we know ain’t right because that’s just how us mothers are. I’m sure that once things settle down, you two can work through this and hopefully you can regain her trust about takin’ better care of Jontez because I can see it in your eyes that you love him just as much as she does. You just have to make better choices about what can and can’t go on in here when the baby is in your care. Okay?”
“Yeah,” he faintly smiled as she leaned forward and placed a kiss on his reddened cheek where Charli had slapped him earlier.
“Alright. For now let her get herself together and you go on and leave and take care of whatever it was you told me you had to do tonight. Hopefully, by the time you get back, you two can resolve this issue.”
As soon as his mother saw him out the door, she went over to the bathroom door and lightly tapped on it. “Hon, are you alright in there?”
Slowly opening the door, Charli stepped out while nodding her head.
“C’mon and let’s get you some hot tea,” his mother suggested as she took her by the hand and led her into the kitchen.
After Charli took a seat at the table while his mother began to prepare some green tea for her, she felt a new flow of tears streaming from her eyes.
When Juelz mother turned around and took notice of her crying, she came over to the table and sat down across from her while taking her hands.
“It’s gonna be okay, sweetie. Juelz explained everything and I totally understand where you were comin’ from.”
Charil began to cough to try to clear her throat before speaking although her voice was still slightly hoarse. “But is it crazy for me to still love him even after he tried to…?” she asked while lowering her head in shame.
“No it’s not,” his mother replied while gently squeezing her hands.
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“Dang, sis, why is it so hard to tell him what he needs to know?” Mian asked me as we sat in her room on a Thursday night since I didn’t have dance class and she didn’t have anywhere to go. We both decided to paint our nails and do our toes while catching each other up on the latest things going on in our lives.
“I’on’t know. It’s like every single time I wanna bring it to his attention, he does or says somethin’ that makes me change my mind,” I sighed while soaking my feet in a basin of steaming hot, sudsy water as I sat in her chair at her desk.
“Like what?”
“You know how niggas are; when they sense that you’re pissed with them about somethin’ they can switch up on ya. He’ll either give me empty promises about us goin’ out or he’ll lay one of his breath-takin’ kisses on me in front of whoeva’s around at the moment for no reason, so he says, orrrrrr he’ll buy me lil’ bullshit gifts or flowers” I smirked while thinking about Mario.
“Damn, girl. You losin’ your touch,” she giggled with a shake of her head while waving her hands around to dry her nails.
“Maybe, but the sad part is that I don’t care because I feel like a small part of me is still with Thugsy when Mario and I are togetha.”
Mian sat still while giving me a blank look. “Mannnnnnnnnnn, that’s deep.”
“Shut up!” I laughed. “I’m bein’ serious about this shit.”
“More like seriously cray-zee da-raaaaaaaaanged,” she laughed back.
“Okay, let Tyrese spring it on ya real good one time even betta than that sorry-ass Shad used to and let’s see if you don’t do the same damn thing,” I huffed although I was still laughing.
“Never that! Tyrese and I are continuin’ to take things very, very slowwwwly. Besides, I feel right refreshed now that I’ve been celibate for a good what…three months and a half now.” She had the nerve to proudly grin after saying this lame shiznit.
“Okay, keep thinkin’ that,” I smirked.
“Anyway. Hey, since Daddy’s engagement party is comin’ up in a few weeks, why don’t you invite Mario? That way you two can be together in the presence of our family and it’ll actually take your mind off of bein’ upset with Daddy?”
“Are you serious?”
“Yeah, I’m serious. Plus that’ll give him a reason to meet our folks since you’ve already met his momma.”
“True, but the only reason I did end up meetin’ his momma was because she happened to show up at his place while I was there JUST chillin’ with him for a change instead of gettin’ my freak-on with him.”
“And you said that she took a quick likin’ to you, right?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Yeah, you could say that,” I replied with a bit of hesitance.
“Why you say it like that?”
“Well, because from the way she would look at me every now and again, I felt like she knew what MIGHT COULD HAVE happened between Mario and me had she not shown up out the blue like she did. And now that I think about it, that’s really the only time he and I went out on a date, technically, when they invited me out to dinner with them that same evenin‘.”
“Girl, quit trippin’. Do like I said and invite him to the party.”
“Aight.”
Just then the doorbell rang interrupting our conversation.
“I’ll get it,” she stated as she got up from the bed. When she hadn’t returned five minutes later, I lifted my feet out of the basin quickly drying them off before heading down the hall. Upon reaching the living room I was in for a shock.
“Okay, what the hell is he doin’ here?!” I angrily spat when I saw Shad standing in the doorway.
“It’s nothin’. He’s about to leave anyway,” Mian sighed while glaring at him.
“Not until you hear me out, Mian,” he sighed back while glaring at me.
“Oh I BETCHA you’ll take your lil’ ass outta here!” I proceeded to walk towards him with my arms raised in the air.
“Girl, get back. I can handle this,” Mian huffed while quickly jumping in between me and Shad. When I glanced behind her and saw Shad wearing a smirk grin while watching me, I wanted nothing more in this world than to reach behind her and smack the taste out of his mouth.
“Okay,” I quietly replied while backing up as I continued to glare at him. “But if he’s stayin’ here then I’m leavin’ before I end up hurtin’ him.”
“No, we’ll leave,” Mian quickly stated.
I proceeded to give her a “are you outta your damn mind?!” look.
However, she told Shad to stay where he was while she grabbed up to my arm walking us a short distance from him.
“Look, girl…I got this,” she whispered with a sly grin before quickly looking over her shoulder at him and then back at me.
“What?” I whispered back with an even more confused look than the one I was previously wearing.
“I’ll be back. Lemme go put some shoes on,” she had the nerve to grin at Shad while glancing at him from over her shoulder again.
I angrily shook my head as I stomped back to my room and slammed the door shut.
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About forty-five minutes later at the same Holiday Inn that Mario and I frequent from time-to-time, Shad was so-call giving Mian his side of the story about when she caught him with his slut on the side back in DC a couple of months ago. However, things took quite an unusual turn.
“So you forgive me?” he whispered as they lay back on the bed while undressing each other.
“Yeah,” Mian barely mumbled before he lowered his lips down onto hers while his hands took on a mind of their own as they traveled up and down her body.
Within no time at all, they were going at it like they’ve done so many times in the past before falling silent to catch their breaths back. But while Shad soon fell asleep after Mian told him she was going to take a quick shower, she made sure to stay awake even after she rejoined him in the bed.
When she was for sure that he was totally knocked out, she slowly and quietly got up from the bed and gathered her clothes together to quickly put on while keeping an eye on him. Once she was dressed, she gathered all of his clothing together, including his boxers, into her arms and quietly made her way outside dumping them in a nearby dumpster before going back in the lobby and calling me up.
“What’s goin’ on?” I answered as soon as I saw her number show up.
“Look, I need you to hurry up and come get me from the Holiday Inn ASAP. I’ll explain what happened as soon as you get here,” she whispered into her phone while constantly glancing over her shoulder at the elevators. “Matta of fact, pick me up from Andy’s across the street from here. Bye.”
“Mi…,” I huffed before she hung up on me. I jumped up from my bed where I had been reading to put on my tennis shoes so I could go pick her up.
Upon arriving at Andy’s close to fifteen minutes later, I pulled up to the curb and stared at the Holiday Inn in disbelief as I laughed while Mian made her way out to my ride. Quickly jumping in the passenger seat she started laughing as we watched Shad and a security guard standing on the sidewalk while looking all around as a few people in the lobby stood at the door watching them. There were also a few people who were going inside who stopped to watch them as well. The reason why this scenario was so funny was because Shad had a sheet wrapped around his lower portion while wearing his Timbs, and it had to be at least 35 degrees at the moment.
“Wait, wait a minute…hol’ up. Roll your window down,” Mian continued to laugh just as I was about to pull off.
“Girl, what you finna do?!”
“You‘ll see,” she huffed while reaching over to roll my window the rest of the way down since I wasn’t doing it fast enough for her. “Yo, Shad! Ova here!”
When he looked in our direction, I noticed the shocked then pissed off look on his face. He was about to open his mouth to say something when she quickly intervened.
“I betcha won’t fuck around with me no more you bastard!” she yelled before I floored it so we wouldn’t bring anymore attention to ourselves.
“Your ass has gone pure crazy, girl!” I laughed uncontrollably as we made our way back home.
“And it feeeeeeeels good as hell!” she laughed back while settling back in her seat to tell me all about what she had done which is why I ignored the three phone calls Mario made to me.
Needless to say, I was speechless by the time Mian finished giving me the details; but I was oh so proud of her!
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After arriving home, Mian and I were about to walk inside our place when we heard someone coming up behind us. We both turned around and saw that it was Mario walking across the parking lot.
“Damn, he don’t know how to take hints do he?” Mian whispered while watching him.
“Evidently not,” I replied with a suck of my teeth as I turned back around to finish unlocking the door.
“Yo, Kian, where you been?” Mario asked right after approaching us.
I stared at him for a second or two before telling Mian that I’d be inside in a minute.
“First of all, don’t ever roll up on me and my sis like that again without makin’ yourself known. And two, you don’t have the right to ask me where I been when I don’t ask you that shit durin’ the times that you haven’t answered my calls lately,” I snapped with much attitude while glaring at him.
“Oh, so I’m not supposed to be concerned about my girl?” he snapped right back while walking up on me.
“It’s interestin’ that you say that,” I smirked while folding my arms and leaning my back up against the brick wall next to the door.
“Say what?” he asked with a suck of his teeth.
“That ‘my girl’ shit. Tell me, Mario, am I REALLY your girl?”
At first, he gave me a puzzled look with a raised eyebrow before a slow grin spread across his lips. He slowly placed his arms around my waist and pulled me extra close to him.
“What makes you think that you’re not my girl?” he mumbled before planting butterfly kisses on my neck.
I felt one of my eyes closing up as he worked my spot. That’s when I had to hold onto his arms to brace myself so I could speak.
“Because we’ve only went out once and that was with your momma about a month ago,” I sighed as I pressed my body closer into his feeling an all-too familiar bulge on him.
“What are you talkin’ about?” he asked in between kisses he planted on my lips. “We go out.” When he was done kissing me, he went back to my spot.
“Goin’ to the video store so you can rent some games, then goin’ to pick up a pizza and comin’ home to watch you play on the X-Box for two hours or more followed up by blowin’ my back out doesn’t exactly qualify as us goin’ out,” I deeply sighed while running my hands up underneath his jacket and shirt.
He and I kissed each other for a brief moment before he pulled back far enough to look at me. “Okay, so where do you want to go?”
“I wanna know if you would accompany me to my daddy’s engagement party that's comin' up in about three more weeks.”
Mario was quiet for a few seconds as he bit his bottom lip while we gazed at each other. “Yeah, sure. Why not?”
“I’m serious,” I huffed.
“I am too. I said I’ll go with you to the party. Now c’mon and let’s go inside. It’s cold out here,” he huffed back.
I loudly sucked my teeth while looking away from him.
“C’mon, boy,” I chuckled while pushing him away from me so we could go inside.
Tonight would just have to be one of those nights where Mian would have to bang on my wall.
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“Hello, Ma?” Charli answered when she noticed her mother’s number show up on her display as she was coming out of her filmmaking class.
“Charliza, I know you’re probably in the middle of class or on your way to class, but I have something’ important I need to share with you. It’s about Jontez.”
“Oh my god! Is he okay?!”
“Calm down, sweetie, he’s fine. But I’m not so sure if he needs to have any more visits with his father.”
“Ma, please get to the point and tell me what’s goin’ on!” Charli hurriedly exclaimed as she stopped where she was standing right outside of the dorm building.
“Well, I accidentally left the tv to one of those video channels in the den while I went into the kitchen a couple of minutes ago to make Jontez an afternoon snack after picking him up from daycare. Well when I went back into the den to give him his snack, that’s when I realized what I had left on the tv for him to watch and he pointed at the tv and said that his daddy had some ladies at his house dancing like those ladies. When I saw those half-naked video girls on the screen I nearly fainted. I even went as far as to ask Jontez if his daddy had his tv to a channel showing the same thing that we were looking at before I turned the tv off and Jontez said no. He said that while he was sitting on his daddy’s lap that some ladies were dancing with some of his daddy’s friends.”
Once Charli got over the initial shock of hearing the earful of information that her mother had just told her, she quickly spoke up. “Ma, I’m gonna take care of this today.”
“What?”
“I need to confront Juelz about this. I’ll talk to you later. Love you.” Charli hung up before giving her mother time to say anything else.
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Several hours later after reaching Juelz’s home, Charli began to repeatedly bang on the door.
“What are you doin’ here?” Juelz asked in surprise after opening the door.
“I’m gonna ask the next few questions,” she huffed as she brushed past him and walked inside. She proceeded to turn around and face him as he closed the door.
“What the fuck is wrong with your ass?!”
“Nigga, didn’t I just say I’m gonna ask questions?!”
Juelz smirked as he looked away from her while fighting to keep his composure. “Okay, ma, well could you make this quick because I have somewhere to be in a lil’ while.”
“I’ll take as long as I damn well please! Are you just that fuckin’ stupid to have a group of whores up in here around our son?!”
“What?” he asked with a puzzled look.
“Ma called me earlier today and told me that Jontez said you had some whores up in here dancin’ in his presence.” She noticed the busted look on Juelz’s face.
“Look, it’s not what you think. I was hangin’ out talkin’ with one of my niggas last time the baby was here and the next thing I know my otha niggas brought some broads up in here since it was my nigga, Jim’s, birthday. I took Jontez up to his room, and came back downstairs so I could finish kickin’ it with my boy.”
“So it never entered your mind ONCE to get those bitches outta here along with your stupid-ass friends who knew there was a CHILD in the house?!”
Before stopping herself, Charli marched up to Juelz and slapped him as hard as she could. He in return was about to hit her back until he caught himself and held his fists at his side while warning her not to touch him again.
“You know what? You’ll never see your son again!”
Just as Charli was about to walk around him to leave, something snapped in Juelz’s head. He turned around and yanked her back by her arm, but not without her punching him in his mouth out of both anger and fear.
“Bitch, I’ll kill you! You hear me!” he yelled as he pushed her to the floor.
He immediately wrapped his hands around her neck cutting off her air supply as she frantically clawed at his hands and kicked her feet. Luckily, she was able to quickly reach up and sink her nails in the side of his face causing him to let go of her. However, it wasn’t for long because as she tried crawling away from him while grabbing her neck and gasping for air, he quickly crawled up behind her pinning her to the floor once more as he wrapped his hands around her neck again. Charli didn’t know how long he had kept a tight grip on her neck this time around because she felt herself about to black out when she heard a female voice screaming as it headed in her direction.
“Boy, what the hell you think you doin’?!!!!!” Juelz’s mother shrieked after using her key to come into the house. She stopped by to see if she had left her favorite scarf over there earlier, but instead she walked in on him choking Charli. She immediately ran over to him, and pushed him off of her.
He immediately came back to his senses and began to repeatedly apologize as Charli rolled over onto her side while coughing and gasping for air.
“What’s goin’ on in here?!” his mother shouted while grabbing him by his shoulders to make him look at her as they both stayed on the floor next to Charli.
“I didn’t mean it!!!” he cried as he saw Charli raise up on her hands and knees and crawl over to the bathroom slamming the door shut behind her. As soon as she pulled herself up on the sink, she turned the faucet on full blast with shaky hands to splash water into her mouth to sooth her fiery throat.
Juelz was about to get up and run over to the door until his mother quickly jumped up and stopped him.
“Sit your ass down!” she commanded while flinging him into a nearby armchair. “Didn’t I raise your ass NOT to touch a woman?! Well didn’t I?!”
“Yeah,” he sniffed while looking away from her as she stood over him with her finger pointed in his face.
“Okay then, so I’m only gonna ask your ass one more time. What the hell were you doin’ in here chokin’ the life outta that girl?”
“She told me that she was gonna keep Jontez away from me again,” he quietly replied while wiping away at his tears.
“What would make her tell you somethin’ like that?” She proceeded to sit down on the loveseat next to him.
“Because my boys brought some dancers here for Jim’s birthday last week.”
“Son, what would make your friends think that was the right thing for them to do knowin’ that you had your child up in here?”
He shook his head before speaking. “I was tryna explain and apologize to her, but then she went and told me that she was gonna keep my son away from me for good and I couldn’t imagine that happenin’ anymore.”
“Look, I know you love your son and I love him too because he is our heart. But you have to understand where Charli is comin’ from. She’s his mother and it’s her job to protect him from certain things so did you honestly think that she’d want him around crazy shit? Son, Jontez is only with you every other weekend, but she’s been takin’ care of him with her mother’s help from the day he was born. I’m not sayin’ that it was right of her to keep you from him for as long as she had, but she loves him the same way I love you because we don’t want to see our children get hurt or be exposed to things that we know ain’t right because that’s just how us mothers are. I’m sure that once things settle down, you two can work through this and hopefully you can regain her trust about takin’ better care of Jontez because I can see it in your eyes that you love him just as much as she does. You just have to make better choices about what can and can’t go on in here when the baby is in your care. Okay?”
“Yeah,” he faintly smiled as she leaned forward and placed a kiss on his reddened cheek where Charli had slapped him earlier.
“Alright. For now let her get herself together and you go on and leave and take care of whatever it was you told me you had to do tonight. Hopefully, by the time you get back, you two can resolve this issue.”
As soon as his mother saw him out the door, she went over to the bathroom door and lightly tapped on it. “Hon, are you alright in there?”
Slowly opening the door, Charli stepped out while nodding her head.
“C’mon and let’s get you some hot tea,” his mother suggested as she took her by the hand and led her into the kitchen.
After Charli took a seat at the table while his mother began to prepare some green tea for her, she felt a new flow of tears streaming from her eyes.
When Juelz mother turned around and took notice of her crying, she came over to the table and sat down across from her while taking her hands.
“It’s gonna be okay, sweetie. Juelz explained everything and I totally understand where you were comin’ from.”
Charil began to cough to try to clear her throat before speaking although her voice was still slightly hoarse. “But is it crazy for me to still love him even after he tried to…?” she asked while lowering her head in shame.
“No it’s not,” his mother replied while gently squeezing her hands.
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