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everybody else to laugh with her. “Look, look, y’all,” she cleared her throat. “Let me tell y’all ‘bout this one time, and how I learned my lesson.”
Everybody’s ears perked.
“Mattie, you especially need to listen, before Face can’t get there in time, and somebody fucks you up.”
Mattie sucked her teeth. “These bitches could never.”
“Yeah, yeah.” She waved her daughter o". “As I was saying…I fucking learned my lesson the hard way. I was dealing with this nigga from the hood. He was a little older and was doing the type of tricking that I’d never experienced before. I’m talking buying my kids three four pairs of shoes at once.
Put new furniture in my apartment. Put some jewelry on my wrist. I thought that I was hot shit, and nobody could tell me nothing.
At the time, ole boy was the man, and I decided that I wanted him to be my man.
But he already had a gal. Honestly, I felt like the nigga was just alright when it came to looks, while I was young and fine.
So, I told myself that I could easily take him from whoever.
After I asked around, everybody swore up and down that ole boy would never leave his gal.
That gave me a point to prove. So, I started applying pressure to ole boy, and he completely backed o". And now, I’m panicking, because I still need that extra help.
” She animatedly $ailed her arms, demonstrating, causing the room to roar with laughter.
“I needed that monyun, ya hear me? So, I finds out where they live and pulls up. His gal comes to the door. And the minute I laid eyes on her, I knew that I was never getting that man. There I was thinking that I was his first bad bitch, and was lowkey the lowest on the totem pole.” Once again, we all laughed uncontrollably.
“His fucking gal was beautiful. I’m talking pretty face.
Long hair. And immaculate shape. I honestly felt like the bitch could do better than him.
But that’s besides the point.” She waved, having us in stitches with her honesty. “I was on a mission, cause them