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“Remember I used to kick your ass as a kid, Makai?”
“So, what, nigga?”
“Ain’t shit changed, but I don’t have the energy. I don’t throw hands, kid. I erase any traces of niggas’ existence.”
“So, you niggas don’t hear me?”
“I’m listening, Milo.”
“Today is her birthday.”
“I hope you doing some tricking.” Though over my shit when it came to Nature, Mercer always had an input.
“Plenty,” I admitted.
“Type of shit I like to hear.” Chem approved with a few nods.
“What makes you say you’ve gotten her back?” Malachi was asking the real questions.
“I did the usual, ya know, sending birthday gifts to her mom’s crib. She texted me to tell me thanks, but this year was different. She sends a word or two. Some nonchalant shit. But this time, she loaded my text down. I could sense the sadness in her words, like something was bothering her so I called her ass instead of texting back.”
“Good shit,” Makai commended me.
“Hit her up and she’s sounding as sad as I imagined. You know I can’t have Baby sad on her birthday, so I tell her to be ready at eight. I’m coming to get her. I don’t give a damn what’s going on; at eight, I need her to be ready.”
“What about the carpet muncher she been playing house with all these years?”
“Do it look like I give a fuck where she at or how the fuck she feels? Nature done agreed to dinner, so she as good as gone. When I get through knocking her walls down and reminding her of all the dick she been missing, she won’t give a fuck about her, either.”
“Not you ’bout to double cross the—”
“Makai,” Chem sighed.
“This dick can do shit that strap-on simply can’t. Nature gone remember that when she limping up on the porch after I’ve rearranged her shit.”
“You be talking so tough until she in your mix. Then you’re quiet like a bitch.”
“When she leave, I be talking again,” I explained to Makai, garnering a laugh from everyone on the phone.
“Knock, knock!”
Knuckles pounded on the door of my office as Christina’s voice rose above all others. I tuned out the sounds of cheer in my brothers’ voices and waited for her to enter.
“It’s unlocked.”
“Your conference call has started. They're waiting for you to join the meeting.”
“Thank you.”
“Of course. If there’s anything you need, just give me a buzz.”
I nodded while pointing two fingers toward the door she’d just come into. Before logging into my first meeting of the day, I needed to end the call I was on.
“I have a meeting that’s supposed to be happening right now, so I have to go.”
“Dr. Domino,” Chem praised, pulling from his blunt.
“Dr. Childers,” I reminded him of his credentials.
