Hey, baby.
“You don’t bring none of your family around, because you’re not living in your truth, Babi. You won’t admit that you switched lanes and got with somebody else. So, you keep everything separate, as if letting us establish a relationship with them people will violate Too Low.”
I gulped, as she called me out. “You don’t get it, Soya. I’m really just doing something with Face. And that’ll really complicate stuff, if I start letting y’all mingle with him and his family.”
“Girl, bye.” She waved me off. “You just doing something with Face? Who the hell do you think you’re talking to?
You aint no casual encounter type girl, Babi.
And nothing you got going on with Face says that you just doing something.
That man got you around his kids. You sit on the phone with his mama for hours.
Hell, you can’t even sleep away from his house, or he’ll go o". So, call it what it is. You’re in a whole relationship with that man. And you love it there.”
Hearing that, I became choked up. “But that’s wrong. Too Low doesn’t deserve none of this.”
She cut her eyes at me. “Bitch, since when are you all sensitive like this?”
“Shut up.” I sniffed, as a lone tear drooped from my eye. “Girl, what the hell is going on with you—”
The ringing of my cell cut her off.
Glancing at the screen, I sighed. “Hold up, let me take this call.”
I answered the phone and listened to the automated prompts, before his voice came onto the line.
“Hey, baby.”
“Hey,” I spoke, as I felt Soya’s eyes burning a hole through the side of my face.
“What you doing? You on your way to work?” “Yep.”