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“Naz, let me talk.”

“Alright, my bad. You know I run my mouth when I get full of that liquor,” she giggled.

I sighed. “Alright, let me start by saying that you’ve been a good friend to me since we were kids and I’ve always appreciated that. I fuck with you the long way and that’ll never change.”

Her smile had vanished as she hung on to my every word. She was anxiously waiting to see where I was going with this.

“I fuck with you so heavy that I gotta keep it real with you at all times.”

“And you have,” she nodded nervously. “But why are you telling me all this, Ali?”

“Me and Lourdes got back together this weekend.” I stopped beating around the bush and just said it.

I watched her go through multiple emotions. She was confused, stunned, and hurt, but her final form was anger as her eyes lit a fire into me.

“Y’all back together?! After the way she shitted on you?! Nah, I know you’re not that stupid.”

If I didn’t feel bad for the part I played in this I would’ve told her she was stupid for even continuing to deal with me once she found out I’d gotten somebody pregnant. The same somebody I’d vented to her about. I could have cut her loose months ago, but she also could have had enough sense to walk away.

“If you think I’m stupid then that’s fine, Naz. I’m not here to convince you of anything regarding Lourdes and I. I just felt like I owed you a face to face conversation.”

“So you came here to tell me that you’re back with a bitch who was cheating on her real nigga when she got with you?”

“Mannnn,” I shook my head as laughter fell from my lips. “If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black then I don’t know what is.”

“What?!”

“Didn’t you have a whole boyfriend when you got on your knees and sucked my dick when I was 13?”

Whap!

She popped me right in the mouth with the back of her hand. The inside of my lip hit my diamond grill and I tasted blood. I licked it away while nodding my head and still laughing.

“Bitch, what’s funny?!”

I glared at her while smiling and I watched her pipe down immediately. When I was younger Rahesha would always say I could intimidate people without lifting a finger, and as I got older I learned that she wasn’t lying.

“Now…like I was saying,” I continued. “You’re the last person to judge anybody because ain’t shit about you squeaky clean. I watched you cheat on that nigga Sean for years with different people.”

“He cheated on me first!” She screamed with tears in her eyes. “You know I was always getting my lick back!”

“You would’ve been better off leaving that nigga alone before you fucked half the hood to get your lick back.”

“So now you calling me a hoe?!”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You’re implying it! I only had sex with five other people while I was with Sean! It was you who was fucking every big booty bitch in a skirt! If anybody’s a hoe it’s you, so don’t act all righteous now!”

“I’m not acting righteous,” I chuckled. “I’m not a Saint and never claimed to be. I definitely got around when I was a teenager and I had free reign to do that. I was single unlike some people,” my eyes shifted to her.

“So you gon’ really keep throwing Sean in my face?! You never cared about that before!”

“Keeping it real, I still don’t care. I know that nigga used to do you dirty, so I never judged you for moving a certain way. So you don’t need to be judging Lourdes or speaking on her situation because you don’t know what the fuck you talking about.”

“Nigga, you told me a whole lot in case you forgot!”

“And I was wrong about a whole lot. I shouldn’t have been venting to you in the first place, but that shows how much I really love that girl. I was hurt and she did mess up, but she wasn’t cheating on anybody.”