Page 86 of Buy Back My Love

“Coffee over there,” she said without turning around.

I poured myself a cup and sat down at the table. I ain’t even get two sips in before the front door opened and I already knew who it was.

Anika had called me last night after JB called her looking for me. I gave her the short version because I ain’t have it in me to tell that whole fucked-up story twice in one night. Hannah. Two kids. JB been lying this whole time. That was about all I could get out before I told her I’d explain the rest in the morning and to meet me at Maisie’s.

Then, right before we hung up, I remembered Colombia.

“Oh, and Nika?”

“What?”

“Stop by CVS on your way.”

“For what?”

I had closed my eyes before I said it. “Plan B.”

She went quiet for a second. “Lee…”

“Just bring the damn pill.”

So, when Anika walked into the kitchen carrying a little CVS bag, I already knew what was in it. She dropped it on the table in front of me and pulled out the chair beside mine.

“Take that.”

I pulled the box out and stared at it. “Damn.”

“Yeah, damn. I hope the shit still work. You supposed to take it within seventy-two hours, and the longer you wait-”

“I know.”

“Do you?”

I cut my eyes at her. “Anika.”

“I’m just saying.”

Maisie glanced over from the stove. “Well, take it and we’ll pray it does what it’s supposed to do.”

I opened the box, popped the pill out, and swallowed it with my coffee. Ain’t that some shit. A few days ago, I was in Colombia drunk telling that nigga to put a baby in me. Now I was sitting at my mama’s kitchen table taking a Plan B.

“If I knew that nigga already had two damn kids, I wouldn’t have told his ass to nut in me in the first place.”

“Technically, he got one kid and one on the way,” Anika said.

I slowly turned my head toward her. “Bitch.”

“Sorry.”

Maisie slid a plate in front of me. “Eat.”

I stared down at the eggs, but my stomach was so fucked up I couldn’t tell whether it was from the coffee or everything that had happened yesterday. I picked up my fork anyway and moved some food around before the thought that had been sitting in the back of my mind finally came out.

“What if it don’t work?”

That quieted both of them.

Anika looked over at me. “You think you pregnant?”