Chapter 59
From where I was standing, I could hear rain pelting against the house, indicating that it was pouring down, raining outside. It was now ten o’clock, and I’d pretty much been at this house all day. Face’s family had come over around two o’clock and were all gone by seven.
I’d started on the girls’ hair around six and was just finishing. And now, I needed to head home, because Too Low had been blowing my phone up. Since I’d been there, I hadn’t accepted any of his calls, and I knew that he was pissed. I was also supposed to visit him that day, and had been a no-show.
Me not showing up for visitation just didn’t happen, so I knew that Too Low was going crazy.
The problem was that I had never told him about having that fight with Chell, nor did he know about me damaging Face’s car.
It was fucked up, but his constant badgering had me hesitating to be transparent with him.
However, had I known that I wasn’t going to be able to make visitation, then I would’ve at least come up with a plausible excuse.
The problem was that I had no real intention of coming to work o" my debt. I had just been agreeing to whatever to shut QT up. Then as we were out celebrating my birthday, he got on my ass, and told me how I was putting him in a fucked up position. He allowed me to see some of the text exchanges between him and Face, which indicated that there’d be an issue, if I didn’t hold up my end of the bargain.
My brother made it clear that he’d go to war ‘bout me, but we had to choose our battles wisely. My stubbornness could’ve potentially had us in some real shit, when all I had to do was show up and clean the nigga’s house.
And that’s what I’d done. I’d shown up. But Too Low was none the wiser, and I wouldn’t hear the end of it, if he found out.
So, I’d decided to keep him in the dark.
Knowing Too Low, he would’ve insisted that I just pay Face, and get him out of our hair. He would’ve been on whatever would