“You and Trueneverneed to meet,” Brina chuckles, right as YT hopes on.
She props her phone up on something, and when she moves out of the camera, we see a man tied up in a wooden chair struggling.
“Whoa–”
“True–”
“Oh, Iloveher–”
“So this is YT in action,” Rico purrs into the camera, squinting.
YT squints herself, before shaking her head. “I don’t fuck niggas prettier than me,” she proclaims, sitting on the man’s lap. “And your sex appeal will have me killing you and fucking your corpse. We can be cordial though.”
Rico runs his tongue ring across his top lip before smirking. “I see why my chocolate goddess doesn’t want me around you.”
There’s commotion in the back of the shop that makes me sit up. “Aight y’all, shush!” I turn the camera around and hold it out, just as Dal comes walking down the hallway.
Gasps echo on the line but I can’t take my eyes off my best friend.
She’s gorgeous.
It’s a mermaid style, lace dress with a sweetheart neckline that holds her boobs perfectly. The dress itself hugs her frame, and while the white lace is strapless, the designer matched her skin tone with the illusion lace that covers her cleavage, shoulders, all the way down to her wrists. Patterns were hand sewn onto the slight train of her gown.
She smiles shyly at me through the mirrors as she does a slow turn, before stopping to face me. “What do you think?”
“Oh, Dal…”
“You’re gorgeous!”
“I second that.”
I prop the phone up on the table next to me and stand, making my way to my best friend.
Our faces mirror each other, tears barely staying inside our lids.
I take her hands in mine and squeeze them. “No words, describe…” I try to breathe through the lump in my throat. “You’re the most beautiful bride I’ve ever seen.”
“Yeah?” she breathes, and I nod so hard I get dizzy.
“I love you, Dally. I’m so happy I get to witness you have your happily ever after, and I know Mo is smiling down on you, too.”
The floodgates break, and her face crumbles. I know Dal struggles with the guilt of living and loving when Mo died. It’s partly why she’s seeing that shrink every week.
But she deserves this. She deserves a man who loves her. She deserves the big wedding, the public declarations of love, the complete family. She deserves happiness.
“I don’t know what I’d do or where I’d be without you, Mace. DW and M Deezy foe life.”
“And YT!” YT screeches from the phone, making us all laugh.
We walk back to my phone, and Dal picks it up to beam at our friends. “I love y’all… seriously.”
“We love you, too, Dal,” Pay simpers.
“We going up foreal. Two more months, whoo!” Wyn screeches. Rico shakes his head and leaves the call.
“Call us when you get home. Love you!” Brina says, wiping her eyes. She hangs up just as Set comes into the camera, asking why she’s crying.
We say our goodbyes to our girls and I pocket my phone before taking in my best friend again. She looks like a doll.
