“And you calling me a ho like you want these problems,” I spat back at her.
“Chill! Both of y’all!”
It was the most forceful I’d ever heard Steel’s voice, and I frowned up at him. The other chick gave him a similar look before speaking.
“Nah, not until I find out why she up in this house.”
I turned up my nose. “An answer you won’t get because it’s not your business.”
I wondered for a minute if she was Mekhi’s girlfriend. She acted at home in his house, and she definitely had the right look. Plus, for her to be questioning who I was like she was all possessive struck a nerve.Fuck her, I thought. I didn’t give a fuck who she was.
“Maybe you could show her the way out, since Mekhi’s not here,” I suggested, crossing my arms over my chest.
Her eyes widened and she tried to step around Steel to reach me. I was ready for her rude ass, but he blocked her.
“Bitch, you must be crazy, thinking I’m the one who’s about to leave. Steel, show this trick the door,” she demanded.
It was my turn to try to walk past Steel. Whoever she was, she wasn’t about to keep calling me out of my name.
“Khayla, chill. She not leaving. Mekhi would kill everyone up in this bitch,” Steel said.
I smiled smugly as “Khayla” pouted at him.
“So, what? He got this one feeling special?”
“Iamspecial,” I popped off.
She surprised me by suddenly smiling. “He got you stashed up in here when he ain’t nowhere to be found like he wanna make sure he sees you again. Maybe youarespecial.”
Her change of attitude caught me off guard, and I stared at her suspiciously.
“Stop looking like that. My name is Mekhayla, and one thing you gon’ have to learn if you gon’ be around, is that I don’t play about my brother.”
“Mekhi… He’s… your brother?” I asked as Steel stepped back.
She nodded and I should’ve been embarrassed by how relieved I felt.He’s not even your man, I thought. But that didn’t mean I wanted to be up in the house with his girlfriend.
Now that she mentioned it, I could see the similarities in their glowing chocolate skin, brown eyes, and noses. She stuck out her hand, and I slowly did the same, shaking hers quicklybefore taking another look at her. She was smirking at me, definitely Mekhi’s sister.
“You got a name?” she asked.
“Farrah.”
She laughed again. “The fuck he find a Farrah in the hood?”
“She ain’t from the hood,” Steel said.
“Where’s my brother?”
“He went to handle business. A lot of shit going on, but he knows you were coming back today. He’ll probably be here soon.”
Steel was all business suddenly. Mekhayla shrugged.
“We got here earlier than we were supposed to. I was mad that he cut our trip short, but I was a little homesick?—”
“Where is your mama? We need to get her over here, too.”
“Why? I’m about to leave, and she and I are going for brunch.”
