“My own, but damn, I can’t have my place cleaned?” I laughed. This was literally a weekly thing but thank God Consuela had taken care of me yesterday right in time for Oden to come over today.
Rem tilted his head to the side. “The fuck you grinning for?”
“Because I can. This is my face. What do you all have planned for this evening?”
“Dinner at Adjacent. I heard that shit be banging on O’s days. Beyah be on that take me out to eat shit knowing damn well we got kids.” Dimitri pulled his phone out and began tapping.
“It is. I had it earlier in the week. It was divine.” I smiled, thinking back on my experience.
Rennix re-entered the area holding a box of my animal crackers. Of course he was eating them, then he had the nerve to pull an Honestjuice box from his pocket and sit it on the island. “You always got the snacks.”
“Who’d you have it with?” Reminisce asked, eyes boring a hole in the side of my face.
“You act like we didn’t already have this conversation. I told you I wasn’t telling you. The date was a dud, so there is no point in talking about it.” I crossed my arms over my chest, meeting his serious stare with one of my own. It was strange to be the oldest your whole life then look up one day and there was a nigga not only older than you, but bossier and too set in being the oldest.
“So, we’re keeping secrets, Jade?” Rennix asked, still smacking on my damn animal crackers. I always kept themaround during my menstruation time. Something about that frosting soothed a craving with just a few handfuls.
“There is no secret. I went on a date. You don’t know him; shit I wish I didn’t. It wasn’t to my liking, so there will not be another date.”
“Did he do something to you?” Dimitri asked. His expression was tight.
“Besides finish my fucking food when I simply told him I wanted it, no.” I shook my head.
“Damn, you went on a date with a greedy nigga? What the fuck, Jade?” Reminisce’s face was turned up like I had offended him.
“First of all, I didn’t know he was greedy, and second…” My sentence trailed off because he was speaking again.
“Why yeen call me? I would have come through and made him regurgitate that shit.”
Rennix and Dimitri laughed hard as hell because Reminisce actually meant that.
I pointed at him. “And that is why I didn’t call you. You answered your own damn question.”
“You feel like babysitting tonight?” Dimitri’s voice made me look in his direction.
“I love my nephews, but nope, I have plans.” I couldn’t hold back the smile on my face at the thought of my plans. A six-foot-three, athletically built nigga with the stroke game of a demon. Yes, demon because that shit was sinful and I had been thinking about it since that night. Not only that but that big nigga was even gonna feed me.
“Plans. What the fuck you doing besides sitting here watching reruns ofSVUlaid up on this couch looking homeless?” Reminisce’s stupid ass asked with a big grin on his face.
“If you must know, I intend to be lying on my back on this very couch, and maybe on this counter too. Hence why it’s so clear right now. Ample space and opportunity, big brother.” I winked and that sent his skull through the roof.
“Yo, don’t nobody wanna hear that shit.” Rennix’s expression was of pure disgust and so was Dimitri’s. Rennix was so disturbed he snatched his juice from the space it sat on, even though it was clean.
“Too much information. Don’t nobody wanna hear about you fucking.”
I laughed. “Well see your way out of my business, because I swear, I wasn’t trying to tell either of you about my sex life but it seems like y’all only don’t wanna hear about it after you’ve probed me. So, any more questions before I change the subject?” My eyes jumped from nigga to nigga. I took their silence as them being ready for me to change the subject.
“That ain’t gonna stop me from being in your business. But nah, I don’t need to hear about it, especially since you in here hiding identities like we know him or something. Anyways, I figured I’d tell the two of y’all while we’re all in the same room. Rennix and I have been talking about his expansion as we all know, moving into my own mental space.”
“What is a mental space, Reminisce?” Dimitri’s question was what I was thinking.
“I need a lil bit more than I normally do. Not too much of a change, but some fresher waters.”
“Meaning?” I tilted my head to the side.
“If y’all let me finish, I’ma get to the fucking point.” He had the nerve to look irritated with our questions yet he was taking too long to answer them.
“As y’all know, Donuts expanded to Crescent Falls, but Renny isn’t up for going back and forth to run it. So I’ve beenrunning back and forth these last few weeks. That is because I invested my own money as well, s?—"
