Trying To Maintain

T H I R T Y - E I G H T

Drevon

It's too early in the morning for this shit.

"I'm at work right now, Geneva. Let me call you back," is how I answer my phone that rings for the fourth time in less than five minutes.

"WELL YOU BETTER GO ON BREAK OR SOMETHING BECAUSE WE NEED TO FUCKING TALK!" She screams. I had to pull the phone away from my ear. I pull it back to hear Toots crying in the background.

"Chill," I say calmly. "What's wrong?"

"CHILL MY ASS, NIGGA!"

What ass?

"Hold on, let me tell my supervisor right quick," I say lowly. I walk over to Richard, the floor supervisor to let him know I need to take a personal call. Of course he tells me it's fine, so I walk outside and get in my car.

I can already tell this is going to be a very heated conversation. I'm going to try my best to calm her down to see what it's about.

"Alright, what's up? Something wrong with Toots?"

"NO!" She screams like a maniac. "Something is wrong with your ass though!"

"What are you talking about?" I ask in bewilderment. She screaming her head off, and Timia is in the background crying like she hurt.

"Why the fuck Toots just tell me that you and that nigga are married?!"

"What?" I say a lil shook. It had been a month since she walked in on us kissing, so I'm surprised that it was even brought up. I just knew she would have spilled the beans as soon as she went home that weekend, but it's been a month.

"I know you fucking heard me, nigga! ARE YOU AND THAT NIGGA MARRIED?!"

"Please stop screaming in my fucking ear, Geneva. That shit hurt and finna give me a headache." I rub my temple with my unoccupied hand.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK TO DO! ARE YALL MARRIED?!"

"No! I'm not fucking married!" I yell back, tired of her screaming in my fucking ear.

"BITCH, DON'T FUCKING YELL AT ME! YOU TRYNA CALL MY BABY A LIAR?!"

"No!" I yell again. "I JUST TOLD YOU I'M NOT MARRIED!"

"STOP LYING!" She screams in a rage. "Toots told me y'all was married!"

"And I'm telling you I'm not!"

"So you calling your own daughter a liar! What, next you gon' say she lying about seeing y'all kissing and shit?!"

"I only said I'm not married! I did not call my baby no type of lie!"

"Bitch, quit acting like you ain't hear me! Was y'all doing fag shit in front of my daughter?!"

"What the fuck are you talking about?!"

"Toots said she saw y'all kissing each other in the mouth like how your mom and dad do!"

"Well why the fuck you screaming about me being married bitch?!" I say heated but trying to avoid confirming or denying what she saying about the kissing.

"BITCH I'M OVER THE MARRIAGE SHIT! WERE Y'ALL KISSING IN FRONT OF MY CHILD?!"

"Why the fuck do it matter?! Me and you ain't together bitch!"

"Because! Y'all teaching her the wrong shit! First of all, I didn't even know your ass was a fucking butt pirate, otherwise I would have never let you stick your shitty dick in me. Then to do the shit in front of her like its normal?! You dead ass fucking wrong you hoe ass, dick in the booty, perverted, degenerate ass bitch! You coulda gave me AIDS you sick mother fucka!"