When It’s Real (alt)

Three Months Later

I laughed. “Any excuse to smother me, huh, big mama?” I popped her ass. “But I can dig it.”

“Hello?” I answered my phone, while chilling poolside in my backyard.

“Hey, Christian. How are you?” Tera questioned.

I sighed into the phone, wondering why the girls’ mama was calling me. It had literally been over a year since we’d spoken directly, and I was perfectly okay with keeping it that way. “I’m good, Tera. What’s up?”

“How’s the girls?”

“They straight. At school right now, though. But how can I help you?”

“Umm…” she hesitated. “Did the girls tell you that I was moving back to the city?”

I sighed. “Yeah, they mentioned it. A few times. First, you was gonna come back last year. Then it was at the top of this year.