All The Odds

Five

//You've got my head spinning, no kidding, I can't pin you down...// All of me-John Legend.

*Iverson*

"Such a sexy little thing, how can you not love her? Claire is going to flip when she finds out." Biggie says enthusiastically as we both step out of the cars.

"Anything for the birthday girl." I say, stretching out the journey to and fro my father's house Downtown, where we went to retrieve my Land Rover.

With a grin, Biggie crosses over to my side. "Thanks for doing this. Next year hopefully, I'd have saved enough to buy her one. She have more appreciation for sport cars than you my man." He says, caressing the Ferrari's bonnet tenderly.

"I appreciate my space more," I tell him, then point at the Land Rover. "This is more me and it has a special place in my heart. We've been through some thick and thin together."

Many are days I'd had to crash in my car, I would have lost total feeling in my spine if it'd been the cardbox Ferrari.

"Claire can have it for however long she want, I won't miss it much as long as I'm with my Land Rover but I'm still going to sue your ass if she get as much as a coffee stain on it." I deadpan and throw the Ferrari's key at him.

"Got it." he smiles. "So, got a date for the party?"

"I wasn't told It's a plus one event." I say as I get into the Land Rover and check to make sure my guitar is in the back seat.

"It's not," he shrug and seize the door before I can shut it. "I worry about you man, how are you really? Are you okay? Do you eat often, sleep well, get laid?"

I snort with a shake of my head. "I get laid whenever I want thanks for your concern."

"Yeah? You're getting some? From where?"

"Jesus Biggie, is this even something we should be talking about?"

He nod as he brings out a packet of cigarette. "As a matter of fact, yes. I haven't seen you with anyone since Lola's case and Jay's disappearance and naturally as a friend, I get worried for you. Do you still get it to rise aside when you want to pee?"

He opens the packet to me after perching a stick between his lips. "You know Derrick as moved on right? And Jay probably have too, wherever the hell she is."

I shake my head more to what he's saying than the offer. He knows very well that I don't smoke but he still always offer me one. And the matter he's on about isn't something I would normally talk about, he knows this too.

"How's it going with your lady roomie anyway? She's Claire's friends you know that? She's got some fire I like." he says. Not the best change of subject but Blue I can talk about to some extent.

"That woman is a walking infuriation," I state calmly. "I don't see me and her finding a common ground anytime soon."

She has a tendency of making my blood boil with lust and anger at the same frigging time. Aside my sister, I've never really lost my sh?t with anyone and I used to think Ivory was the most annoying person on the planet, hence why I branded her Nivera.

When we were kids, she once had her toe shoved into my nose while I slept.

"It fits." she had beamed as I opened my eyes. Bella can give her a run for her money without shoving anything up my nose. She is simply maddening.

Biggie chuckles. "How Daniel manage having her under his roof and still have eyes for Cynthia I would never know."

It's not the first time I'll think that too, the way they just sort of get along so well is disturbing. Some time they behave like a couple that's been married for 25 years and have grandchildren somewhere.