Chapter 13
Wasting no time, I pressed one. “Hello?” His voice broke into the line. “Hey, baby,” I responded.
“Hey, bae. What’s going on? Where you at?” Too Low questioned.
“I’m sitting outside on the porch.”
“Oh, yeah? Who all out there?” He nosily questioned. “Just the girls.”
“The girls who?” He pressed.
I sighed. “Me, our neighbor Casey, Soya, Chell, and Bunny.” Soya shook her head. “See what I’m saying?”
I gave her the finger, while trying to focus on my call. “So, you out there kicking it, huh?”
“Ummhmm.”
“Yeah. You been doing that a lot lately. But I don’t recall you hanging outside when I was home.”
I paused for a second, knowing exactly where this was headed. “Well, when you was home I had you to preoccupy my time.”
“And now you wanna hang out and run the streets, huh?”
I frowned. “Run the streets?” I stood up, not wanting every-body in my business. “Where did that come from?” I questioned, as I entered my apartment and ascended the interior stairs.
“I’m saying. You let ya cousin move in, then next thing I know, you always outside. In muthafuckas’ faces,” Too Low fussed, as I stepped into my open living room area.
I sighed into the phone, as I glanced around my neat living space. Even when in deep conversation, I was always looking for anything out of place, because I was anal like that. “Bae, why are you tripping? You know damn well that it’s always about you and nothing else.”
“Shit, I can’t tell,” he rebutted. “You know that I always call