Chapter Fragment
people had just turned of my fucking lights.
So, I’m like fuck it. I’m finna say and do whatever to cause confusion.
Then maybe she’ll put his ass out, and he’ll come layup with me.
So, I was talking big shit. Told her about all the ways that I’d had her man.
She calmly told me that he was mine if I could get him to leave her, and then she beat my ass up and down that sidewalk,” she shamelessly admitted.
“I ain’t never had a ass-whipping like that.
The hoe chipped my tooth and had me limping for weeks.
And I never spoke to ole boy again. I’d see him coming, and run the other way.
Too scared that his gal would be somewhere, waiting to get ahold of me again. ”
My shoulders shook, as I laughed heartily.
My mama sat, fluttering her lashes. “Now, wait a minute. Did ole boy and his gal have a house out in Cypress?”
Ms. Lulu paused, before nodding. “Yep. They sure did. How you know?”
“Cause. That was me,” my mama bubbled over with laughter. Ms. Lulu’s jaw dropped. “I knew you looked fucking familiar.” “Yes. I dragged so many girls over Quincy that faces all just
melted together in my head. At one point, I cared, and then I didn’t. I actually wanted somebody, anybody to take him. And when I fought, it wasn’t even about him. I was fighting for my respect. Damn anything else.”
Me and Face turned to look at each, probably both wondering where this was about to go.
“Oh, my God,” Ms. Lulu slurred. “I am so sorry.”
“Girl, you good.” My mama took her into her arms, as they were sitting next to each other. “We was young and dumb.”
They eventually released one another, after that tight hug. “I was out of control, honestly,” Ms. Lulu claimed.
“And I was in hell, living with Quincy,” my mama talked about my daddy, who I kept at a distance because he was still