“I heard her, the bitch is out bragging about it in public! I confronted him, and he didn’t even want to use it against her. He tried to forbid me from using it, but I told him if it even looked like it wasn’t going our way, I was airing that hoe out. I did and now he’s mad atme!I was trying to protect him!”
“Does he still… have feelings for her?” she asked cautiously.
“He swears he doesn’t. He says it’s because he knows that she went through a lot, and he promised her that he would never expose her, no matter what.”
“But she’s trying to blackmail him into getting back with her raggedy ass! How does that make sense?” Mona blurted out.
“That’s what the fuckIsaid! So, I quit… the case and him,” I sniffled.
“May,” she said softly, tearing up again. “I’m so sorry.”
“Girl don’t feel bad for me. That ain’t even my nigga! I don’t even know why the fuck I’m crying right now. I didn’t even like him like that,” I said before my voice broke and I cried harder. This wassofucking pitiful. She just looked at me like my own personal lie detector but didn’t call me out on my bullshit.
“Fuck these niggas!” she finally said, wiping her face as she pulled out her phone.
“What are you doing?” I pouted.
“Texting the girls, so they can come over and bring a bottle. We’re having a girl’s night.”
“You know what?” I said, a smile spreading over my teary face. “Hell yeah!”
Mona
Code Red. We need y’all! Anybody down to link up at my place tonight?
June
Hell yeah… “We?” Is this a double Code Red??
Me
Unfortunately
Laila
Shiddd! I’m on the way now.
Mona
Bring liquor!
June
You sure you need to be drinking when you’re upset? I’m sensing a pattern here.
Mona
Girl, fuck you! We all been drunk singing on the bar before! Now I’ma alcoholic?
June
Just asking! Just know if you start that shit, I’m leaving! Up there sounding like a wounded animal!
Mona
You know what? You got one more time to talk about my singing, Ju!
Watching the two of them argue through faux insults and emojis gave me the first laugh that I’d had in a few days. My girls could heal my soul without even trying. That’s why we were so solid after all these years, and nothing short of death was breaking up our squad. Even then, I would haunt them bitches. I needed them more than they could ever know, and definitely more than I let on.
