“Hoe ass nigga!” Mona yelled as she popped him upside the head on his way out. He turned back to her like he was about to do something, saw the gun still pointed at him, then sighed and walked off. There wasn’t a word spoken for probably five whole minutes, my sniffling serving as a buffer for the dead silence throughout the house.
“Why don’t y’all go sit down and talk?” Mona finally said. “I’ll clean up this mess, and just order us dinner.” She ushered us into the living room then disappeared back into the kitchen, leaving the three of us standing there staring at each other with teary eyes.
“We’resosorry, Baby Doll,” my dad muttered as he tried to force back his tears.
“Daddy, you didn’t know,” I sniffled.
“But weshouldhave,” my mom interjected, holding my face as Daddy held us. “You’re our baby! We should have known, and we should have been there with you.
“I j-just…” I couldn’t finish my thoughts as my tears took over. I was still in genuine shock at what just happened. I was fully prepared to take that to my grave, and the way they were looking at me made me cry even harder.
“And we’re sorry that we didn’t respect your boundaries. You said that you didn’t want him around, and we should have honored that. It didn’t matter that we didn’t know. I’m so sorry, baby,” my mom said sincerely. All I could do was bite my lip and look at her. They didn’t push or ask any more questions, they just held me as I stood there wrapped up in between them and soaked up all the much needed love that they gave me.
They refused to let me leave, and Mona wouldn’t go either, so after dinner, the two of us ended up in my room. It wasn't the room that I grew up in, but it might as well have been. My mom moved everything over from our old rooms and set it up in theexact same way, so we would always have somewhere to come home to. Luckily, she upgraded the furniture, so I wasn’t sprawled across the same mattress that I snuck around and lost my virginity on back in high school.
After we sat together in silence for half an hour, with Mona putting two French braids in my hair like the old days, I had enough.
“Say something… Please?”
“Something like what May?” she asked softly.
“Tell mesomethingMoMo, anything to take my mind off this shit, please.” I wanted to talk to Chase, but my pride wouldn’t let me call him. Since he left, I reached out twice with no response, and I refused to do it again. I watched Mona’s eyes dance around nervously before she opened her mouth and closed it again.
“Mona! Please!” I whined.
“Okay! Okay! Umm… I-…” She dropped her head and mumbled something incoherent.
“What?” I laughed, leaning in closer.
“I…” she mumbled again.
“Girl,whatare you saying?!”
“I sucked Tah’s toes last night,” she whispered with her head hung low.
“I—what?! Mona! What thefuck?!”I was usually the one with the wild anecdote, but I was floored as I looked into the eyes of my best friend in the world—who apparently liked putting niggas’ feet in her mouth. I promised myself to never eat or drink after her ass again. I mean I knew we all sucked a lil’ dick every now and then, we were grown… but a nigga’s toes?!
“Now hear me out, he was fresh off a pedicure, then a shower, and we had an edible… You know he don't smoke. I was loose, he was loose, and he has pretty ass feet for a man. He does it to meallthe time and he asked what it felt like… so I showed him.”
“That nigga be sucking your toes?” I asked with my brows stuck to my forehead.
“That man has made it clear on multiple occasions that he willput any part of my body in his mouth at any given time,” she said, fanning herself like she was having a freaked out flashback.
“Well… did he like it?” I asked with my brows raised.
“He… nutted,” she whispered. “Somewhere between the arch of his foot and the space between his toes got to be too much for him. Then he passed out cold for the rest of the night,” she said with a guilty looking shrug.
“Bitch… What thefuck?” I asked again.
“I know, right? And I feel sopowerful. Usually, I'm the one climbing up the walls, but he been looking like he's terrified of me since last night. I'm Big Mama for real!” she said with bright eyes. My friend was crazy as fuck… but also real as fuck because the way I fell out laughing made me forget my troubles, even if just for a moment.
“Aight now, it ain’tthatfuckin’ funny!” She side eyed me, making me start up all over again. “And if you tell anybody?—”
“Girl, hush! Your lil’ freak nasty secret is safe with me!” I said, finally able to stop my laughter.
“And while you’re laughing, you should let him try it. Tahlovessucking on mine.”
“Please. Chase is such a neat freak that I don't think he would be into that. He's not boring by any means, but I feel like toes would for sure be where he draws the line,” I scoffed, wondering how hard he would cuss me out for suggesting it.
