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“Ain’t this some Hood Hallmark shit. On some real shit, this is some grown man shit that y’all doing. I don’t know if I could do that shit, even if everything was my fault. I guess I ain’t that grown right now. I wanna get invited to the wedding, though,” Allen said. Just talking about Nell made him miss her. He hoped that Nikki would do what she does and keep pushing up on Murder, so he could kill her ass and he could go get his woman.
Chapter 17
Pain never thought the day would come that he would be okay with Law Baby and Murder being together. He knew what he had done to her had changed her in a bad way. After the talk with his father, he decided that his father was right for the most part. He was going to take his father’s advice at least on the part about letting Law Baby be happy for once in her life. It was the part about him marrying or even being with Nikki that he wasn’t gonna be able to do, at least until he figured out what she was up to. He hadn’t even thought about a future with Nikki. What he did think about was the fact that Nikki hadn’t brought her friendly pussy ass home since he left yesterday.
He had sent her a text asking if she was okay, but she hadn’t answered him or even texted back a fuck you nigga. Instead of waiting for her to bring her dumb ass in the house, he went to the gym to burn off some of the frustration he was feeling. Nikki had life fucked up. If she wanted to be a hoe, then she would have to do that shit while she had another place to call home. Even if he didn’t fuck with her like that anymore, she would have to give him some kind of respect. The first thing on that list of respect was bringing her pregnant ass home at night. A close second was returning fucking text messages. There was no telling what she was out there doing while she was pregnant with his kid.
Pain arrived at the gym already dressed in ball shorts and a wife beater. The only thing left for him to do was slide the Everlast gloves on his hands. The more he thought about Nikki and how he had messed his life up because of her, the angrier he became. He started hitting the punching bag, seeing mostly Nikki’s face smirking back at him. He hit her with all the hits he couldn’t give her in reality. He would have choked the damn bag if he could.
“Well, damn, what the hell did she do to you?” a female voice asked him.
Pain looked to the right and saw a cocoa colored woman with the old ass hair cut that Anita Baker had all the women wearing back in the day. He looked her up and down, making a note to call Nike and thank them for making the outfit that she was wearing. Feeling thirsty all of a sudden, he licked his lips. The sound of her laughing made him stop thinking of all the things he wanted to do to her sexually.
“Oh, damn. My bad, beautiful. What did you say?” he asked.
“I was wondering what woman you were picturing on the bag. Or maybe it’s a man,” she said with a smile.
“What? Hell nah. I’m all man, baby, and I love all women,” he said with a smile of his own.
“That might be why you’re up here hitting on this damn bag like this. All those women you’re loving got you up here all tense and stressed and shit. You need one woman who can bring you peace. Stop looking for a piece of ass and find peace. It will make your life less stressful,” she told him.
“Maybe I should start finding women in the gym from now on,” he said, looking down at her.
He noted that she was damn near a midget compared to his 5’10” of height. She was more like maybe 5’2” if that.
“Smooth way to come back. I’m Connie, nice to meet you,” she said.
“Hello, Connie, I’m Pain,” he told her.
“You’re Pain?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah, have you heard of me or some shit?” Pain asked.
“Who hasn’t heard of you and your homeboy Murder? You two run the streets. You’re sexy and all, but I don’t need those problems in my life,” Connie told him.
“What problems?” he asked.
“So, you changed the damn locks then come here to smile in the face of this broke ass Nia Long. How can you leave me outside like that, and I’m carrying your first born?” Nikki said, coming out of nowhere.
“Those problems,” Connie said before walking away.
Pain watched her ass jiggle in those black and red work out pants. He bit his lip thinking of what he could do to her.
“Really, motherfucker? You’re gonna stand there looking at her ass while I’m standing here?” Nikki asked. “Why did you change the locks, Pain?”
“Shit, I thought you had somewhere else to live. I’m saying you didn’t come to the house last night. I’ve been hitting you up, but you never hit me back. I thought you had moved on or some shit like that,” he told her.
He was so focused on beating the shit out of the bag that he forgot he had called up his homeboy to change the locks early this morning. He laughed at the thought of what her face looked like when her key didn’t work.
“Pain!” she yelled.
“What the hell do you want, man? Why are you even standing here?” he asked.
“I need the key to get in the house,” she said with her hand on her hip.
“If I had the locks changed, why would I give you a key? You need to start realizing your actions have consequences, shorty. Get the fuck on,” he told her as he turned and started hitting the bag again.
“All of my shit is in there. I need to take a shower and put some clothes on,” she said.
