Page 48 of Jaeda
He kissed his teeth as he handed me the blunt. “I guess she’s still a virgin then.”
I took a pull from the potent substance. “In some aspects.”
He looked over at me with a huge grin on his face. “Progress, my nigga. I know her brothers are mad as shit that she didn’t come home.”
I shrugged. “I’m not worried about them. She’s mine.”
“Y’all made things official?”
“No, but after last night, I’m branded on her.”
He laughed and slapped my arm. “Big dawg status.”
He cupped his hands around his mouth and barked.
“Would you shut up! She’s sleeping.”
“My bad, man. I’m just happy for you, my boy. At least one of us?—”
“Aht, aht! I don’t wanna hear that shit. It’s too early to jump on the Titan and Mia soapbox.”
He looked offended. “I listened to you go on and on about how bad you wanted Jaeda?—”
“And I’ve been listening to you complain about Mia for a year or better. We’re even.”
He snatched the blunt from me. “I miss her crazy ass, man.”
“That’s that toxic shit.”
He waved me off and took a pull from the blunt. “Toxic or not, that’s my baby. If we ever get shit right, I’d nut the fuck up about her.”
“Like you don’t already. She ain’t crazy by herself. I want you to be happy, T. I don’t know if Mia is the one, though. Y’all bring out the worst in each other sometimes.”
He shook his head. “It’s not even that. We’ve just always been pitted against each other. It’s hard to be soft with your competition.”
“Y’all don’t even work for the same people.”
“Doesn’t matter. My mama and Maddie have been friends for a long time. Both of us grew up knowing the organization was going to be our fate. We’ve trained for this shit since we were ten years old, and ever since then, it felt like we always had to be better than each other. We always had to one up each other in some way. Both of us were hot heads with smart ass mouths, so it was easier to be enemies than friends.”
“I get that, but y’all have been sleeping together for a minute. Why fuck somebody you claim you hate?”
“I don’t hate Mia, man. In my own way, I care about her. I got mad love for her. A nigga just doesn’t know how to be more than what we are.”
“How about actually telling her you care about her?” we heard behind us.
We’d been so engaged in conversation that neither of us heard the glass door slide open. Jaeda stood there in my robe with her arms crossed.
“Hey, baby,” I said, motioning her to me.
She came to me, and I pulled her onto my lap, greeting her with a kiss. She crossed her legs and rested against me, turning her attention to Titan, who sat with yet another huge grin on his face.
“Look at y’all muthafuckas,” he said, shaking his head. “Y’all look good together.”
“Thank you,” Jaeda said. “Now, back to my sister. Why can’t you just tell her how you feel?”
“Your sister is too much like a nigga, Jae. She’s so damn hard, and she’s suspicious as fuck. A nigga don’t even be doing shit, and she’s always accusing me of something.”
“Look, I know Mia can be extra. But when she loves you and you’re worth it, she loves hard.”
