"Amil, come in here and get yo book bag out this closet." I said sitting on the couch. I had my work clothes on. While I was down here, I was working at a hospital as a R.N.
"Ma, I don't wanna go." Amil said coming out of his room with his shoes on the wrong foot and his bookbag open.
"Amil, come on dude." I said walking over to him. I fixed his shoes. "Did you brush your teeth?" He shook his head 'yes' and I tooted my mouth up.
I helped him brush his teeth and closed his bookbag. Then I put on my scrubs and my clogs. I grabbed my purse and my badge. Me and Amil walked to the car.
"Get in the front." I said. He obliged. I buckled him and dashed to his school.
"No breakfast?" He asked me as I stopped at red light. I sucked my teeth and got in the turning lane. I pulled into a Bojangles. I ordered him a Large hashbrown. He ate for the rest of the way to his school.
I dropped him off and made my way to work.
"Hey Nurse Lucas." This boy that had a crush on me said. I looked over and waved. I clocked in and grabbed one of paitents clipboard.
"You be playin' like you don't think I'm cute." He said biting his lip at me. I cringed because it reminded me of Traylyn.
"I never said that Zion." I said looking at him. He sucked his teeth.
"So why you not tryna fuck with me?" He asked. I sighed.
"Cause you are a little boy and I don't know you." I said. He laughed.
"Come on, I'm only 19."
"Exactly, and I'm 23. Too old for you and you got a girlfriend." I said. I walked to my patients room.
"Bro, that's not my girl. That's my bestfriend." He said following me.
"Hey Mr. Fryer. How are you feeling today?" I asked my patient ignoring Zion.
"I'm okay. I'd be better if you say I can go him today." He said watching me as I went to empty his bed pan.
"You know that you had that surgery yesterday. You not going home today." I said laughing. He joined in then groaned in pain.
"Don't make me laugh now girl." He said in a scattered laugh. I smiled and apologized. I checked his bandages and changed them out. Checked his vitals and marked them down in his chart. I walked out in the hallway and put on hand sanitizer before going to visit my next patient.
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"Bestfriend, you look good." Frank said smiling at me. I smiled.
"Thank you Frank." I said laughing.
"You rea' to see me in two weeks?" He asked me. I nodded my head. "I miss you foo."
"I miss you too! But Amil ass don't wanna leave my people down here." I said looking over at a sleeping Amil.
"That nigga probably don't even remember us." Frank said moving around his camera.
"Yeah he do." I said.
"You meet any niggas down there?" He asked me putting his face in the camera. He had a headset on and his phone was layed on his lap and his attention was to his television.
"Well, one of my patients 'bestfriend' or 'boyfriend' or whatever he is to her keep trying to get with me. But the nig-"
"NUTS IN YA FACE NIGGA! FUCK IS YOU TALKING BOUT NIGGA! I'm on ya ass nigga rest of the game." He said yelling at the t.v. I sucked my teeth knowing he wasn't listening to me no more.
"So you dead just asked me a question to not even care about the answer." I said mugging the screen. He looked down and mugged me back.
"The fuck you mugging me for?" He said looking back up at the t.v.
"You fucking aggravating." I said rolling my eyes before ignoring him.
"How the fuck I'm aggravating Ja?"
"So you'n hear me talking to you no more? You on that childish shit." He said making me suck my teeth.
"You was dead just acting like you couldn't hear me. You asked me if I met any new niggas and I was tryna tell you and you cut me off talm bout some 'nuts on ya face' and 'dick in ya ass the rest of the game' like..." I said rolling my eyes at him.
"Bro quit playing with me like I'm gay or sum shit." He said mugging the phone. I guess he had paused the game cause he was giving his full attention.
"... yo ass the one talking bout you in niggas ass instead of paying attention to me." I said mugging him back.
"Foo. You being so OD right now. You hear me say that shit all the time and now all of a sudden when I don't listen to one thing you say I'm gay? Like you dragging the shit." He said sucking his teeth.
"How I'm dragging it? You always say it so you might've always been gay. The fuck." I said. He sucked his teeth before just hanging up on me.
"This bastard..." I mumbled. I called him back. He didn't answer. I sucked my teeth.
"This nigga so fucking sassy." I said getting off my couch. I went to put Amil in his room and I went to my room.
INCOMING CALL FROM FRANKINI🕺🏻" My phone read aloud. I sucked my teeth.
"What you call me for Jariah?"
"Damn, I'm not Ja no more? No more bestfriend?" I asked rooting my face up.
"Come on bruh. Cause you playing on my phone like I don't got other shot to do."
"Why you hung up on me?"
"Cause you keep trying a nigga like I'm gay or sum and you know damn well I'ont go that way." He said mugging the screen.
"You look cute when you mad." I said making me smile.
"Bruh shut that shit up." He said rolling his eyes. I started reading his tattoos out loud that was on his neck.
"What the fuck 'BDK' mean?" I asked him. He looked at the screen and threw something up. I tried to replicate what he did and he just started laughing.
"Don't do that shit no mo'." He said still laughing.
