Making Ends Meet

Chapter 35

'You owe me some money,' Xita read the text from Booney over and over again, trying to wrap her mind around it. How in the hell did he even get her number? Her ad of course. But why would he text her like she really owe him money when he was the one that cut her loose in the first place?

'Booney???' She replied as if she didn't already know who it was.

'Yeah," he sent back.

'How do I owe you money?'

'You selling what's mine,' that made Xita's heart race pick up ten times faster. He dropped her, so she didn't owe him a dime right? They were done with each other.

'Last I checked, you didn't want anything to do with me. Serenity said that you was done with me,' she remembered talking to Serenity. He was the one who didn't text her back when she would hit him up and he told Serenity that he wasn't fucking with her anymore, so why would he trip?

'I didn't stop fucking with you, I broke my phone and I just got a new one, and now I'm texting you,' he replied, but she knew Booney was full of shit. His phone just so conveniently broke after all that bull shit went down, and Serenity just made that up about him not fucking with her anymore? Yeah, right.

'Either way, I don't trust you anymore, you were supposed to be there for me, and you drop me the moment I fuck up, so I'm good,' She replied, throwing her phone in the bed and putting her hair up in a ponytail before jumping back in the bed and picking her phone back up.

'Where you at?'

'In a hotel room, but I'm about to go home, because my period started.'

'Let me use your room.'

'Ok' She packed her clothes back up and called Lola to come pick her up. She couldn't go home, because she told her mom she was staying the night at Angel's. Lola made it to the room in about fifteen minutes. So she sent Booney another text.

'La Quinta, 241, key sticking out under the door,' and she left. She needed to be long gone before Booney showed up.

"I guess you was working?" Lola asked after they had hit a few blocks, and Xita hadn't said anything.

"Yeah, but I think I'm gone quit," Xita said staring out of the window.

"Hell, you should have been quit, this ain't shit you need to be doing, you is too good to be doing that shit hunty! I know I was gone do it, but hell, I ain't shit either!" Lola said, making Xita laugh.

Slowly, Xita's laugh started to fade, "I think my mama know," she finally spoke her mind. She had been thinking that Kandy knew ever since she asked where the money was coming from. How could she find out though? It's not like she did it with anyone she knew, or with people that would talk, at least she didn't think. She didn't think her friends would tell so who?

"How would she know?"

"Girl I don't know, but before I left the house, she was like 'where is this money coming from? So she had to know it came from me, I got new clothes and everything and yeah a raise would have helped, but not as much as this shit did," Xita couldn't help but shake her head at herself. She was doing entirely too much.