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She smacked my arm. “You went there and didn’t bring me anything back!”
“Bella, you were the last thing on my mind that night.”
“I see how you do me. So... Did you kiss her?”
“Why are you in my business?”
“Again, you are my business.”
I rolled my eyes. “Yes, we kissed. A couple of times, in fact.”
She squealed in excitement. “She’s comfortable with you. I love that for her.”
I scoffed. “What about me?”
“Of course, I love that for you too. But after everything that she’s gone through, I’m just happy that she’s allowing herself to get close to someone again. I know that couldn’t have been easy for her.”
“It wasn’t easy at all. But I knew that beforehand. I just remained consistent.”
“Precious is so excited to see her today. She’s been asking when she could come back over for dinner.”
“Not my niece trying to steal my woman before I make her my woman.”
“My baby says she wants an auntie and cousins. We’ve discussed this, Callum.”
“Please don’t make me put you out of my house before everyone else gets here.”
“First of all, half of this house will always be mine. You can’t get rid of me. Besides, what would you do without me?”
“Have a party.”
I bent down to grab a pot from the cabinet, and she got me in a headlock. There we were in the middle of the kitchen, tussling. Now, I would never let her know she got the better of me, but she had a pretty good grip. Even the sounds of approaching footsteps did not make her let up.
Martin laughed as he stepped into the kitchen. “Children, children!” he said, clapping his hands. “No fighting in the kitchen. You’re setting a bad example for the little one.”
We looked up to see Precious grinning.
“I wanna play!” she squealed as she ran over, jumped on my back, and tickled my sides.
Even at my big age, I was ticklish, and baby girl loved to capitalize off that. I started laughing, and the three of us hit the floor. Bella pinned me down while Precious continued to tickle me. Martin just stood there, watching with a grin on his face. The man didn’t make the first move to help me. When the doorbell rang, he walked off like he didn’t witness me being assaulted.
“I concede!” I yelled.
“I don’t know what that means!” Precious yelled back.
That only made my sister laugh harder. She used to do the same shit to me when we were kids. Sometimes, we got so loud that my parents would run in, thinking that we were trying to kill each other.
“What is going on?” Chris asked, appearing in the archway with Armani on his hip and Eva and their sons at his side.
Martin chuckled. “Please tell your friend that he is too big and too old to be ticklish.”
Chris laughed. “Yeah, man. And how did you let Bella’s little self pin you down?”
“She caught me off guard, man.”
Martin shook his head. “Y’all are the two biggest kids when you get together.”
“Well, I think it’s sweet,” Eva said. “My siblings that I would be fighting for real.”
