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“I should get you pregnant,” he said.“Fill you up with my babies.”
“No, no…”
“You doing nothing all fucking day. You need a youngin to keep you busy.”
She shook her head. “No, please. Not like that.”
His eyes were cold. “Shut the fuck up. You always fucking crying over nothing.”
Make him happy.
“I’m sorry.”
“Go in the room with your crybaby ass.”
“You tripping,”said Shoney, Angel’s best friend. She put two more fries in her mouth and washed them down with a sip of Pepsi. “Poboy is a man. Give him space to be a man.”
“You don’t know the situation, Shoney. I can’t make him happy no matter what I do.”
Shoney and Angel were like caramel and mocha. Shoney had light skin and green eyes. She was short and thick. Angel was darker, taller, with softer features.
Shoney shrugged, then winced as her sore rib twinged. She also got beat up by her pimp/boyfriend regularly. “Look,” she said to Angel, rolling her green eyes, “You just have to know your man better and stop thinking ‘bout yourself.”
“Deebo still hitting you,” Angel pointed out. “Why you don’t take your own advice?”
Shoney turned red and glared at her. “We ain’t talking about Deebo and me. But like I told you, just do what Poboy says and you gon’ be fine. It’s a lot of bitches that wish they had him.”
“Yeah, I know.”
Angel looked around the corner store, twirling the pencil between her fingers. This spot sat on the very edge of Poboy’s turf. She might could take the bus and ride off into the sunset, far the fuck away from Saturn Heights and all its drama. Go straight to Santa Monica or something. Then what? Nothing. Something. Anything…
Angel had been born and raised in L.A but never once seen the beach. She had some money in her pocket she stole from Poboy— risky as shit, but he still hadn’t noticed. She could do it.
Shoney was saying, “Remember them pretty gold earrings he got you? Angel, come on. You go outside, everybody give you respect ‘cause you his girl.”
“He hardly never lets me outside anyway. You know he’d blow top if he realized I was here with you,” Angel pointed out.
“Yeah, so take advantage of the privilege, bitch. You just mad unappreciative as usual. Stop complaining.”
“Nevermind, Shoney.”
Shoney collected her purse with a mug on her face. “I got to go. Trick says he’s ready for me.”
“Okay.”
“I’ll come get you in like a hour. He pays extra for more time though so it could be like a hour and a half.”
“Sure.”
“Don’t run off nowhere.”
“I won’t.”
Shoney frowned. “Once Poboy breaks you in, you could start. We could do this together. It’s money, you know.”
“Yeah. F’sho.”
Shoney shrugged. “How do I look?” She turned around and shook her booty.
