Half Way There

September 26 Part 2

August POV
My mother was bothering me. Left and right about my date with Brooklyn. I was sitting in the living room when she disrupted me. "August is she pretty?"
"Yes ma.." I said pausing the movie. This was the 5th time she came in here talking about Brooklyn.
Is she pretty?
Where does she live?
Does she like science?
Is she an only child?
How is her mother?
Stuff like that. "Yes. My son finally got a pretty girl."
I looked at her. "Ma all of my girls were bad."
"And that is a good thing?"
"Yea. Ma bad as in meaning really pretty." I said stretching. I've been in the same position ever since I came home from the mall. I came in at 1. it's now 5.
"In my day we would just call the girls pretty."

Here we go with this "in my day." sh!t. every time I get a new girl, she start with this. When I was with Abbie, she said some "In my day, we spelled Abby with a y not and ie." she just erks my soul. But you know you gotta love my moms. She's been through a lot of sh!t. Mostly by my fathers and my brother. So I dont give her problems.

"Well times have changed ma." I said walking up the steps.
"Very drastly." she mumbled loud enough I could hear her.

I was about to get in the shower. I grabbed my phone and speakers and went in the bathroom. I plugged the speakers in and turned on Nasty Freestyle by T Wayne.
First let me hop out the muhf*ckin Porsche

I sang along doing the whip.
I took off my clothes and got in the shower. I was still dancing while I was in the shower. My mother came in. "Baby stop dancing 'fore you hurt yourself." she said unlocking my phone and changing the song.
"Really ma." yeah my mother knows my passcode. It was her name. So yeah.
Better Dayz by Lil Bibby ft Lil Herb. It wasn't something I could dance to. She knew that. That's why she did that.
"You think you slick ma?"
"Not as slick as that tub when it's wet. Lord knows you could fall and can't get up. Calling me sayin Ma, I've fallen and can't get up." she said laughing.

I stood there letting the water hit my body. "Are you done?"

"Are you done is the actual question. I have to take a sh!t..."
"I didn't wanna know that."
I waited until she left to wash up. I washed up and got out the shower.

I started to dry off in the bathroom when I looked at the window. I could see in Brooklyn's house.
She wasn't getting dressed. She was just chilling. I was standing there for a good 5 minutes when my mother came in. "Boy stop being a pedophile. Get out the bathroom."
I grabbed my stuff and got out the bathroom. Then went to my room and text Brooklyn.
So what ya gon wear?😉 I sent her. (It's a winky emoji if you can't see it)
I went inside my closet. Now I'm not saying I'm a neat freak but my closet was set up to order. All my clothes were separated by name. My shoes and jewelry the same. I went up to my clothes. Then I thought to myself. Where am I taking her? Then I can pick out my outfit. I thought for a minute. Since it was in fall, I couldn't take her to the beach. So I decided dinner and a movie. My phone lit up showing that she text me back. I pick up the phone.
Yeah but I don't know what I'm dressing for

I smiled. Wear something comfortable

I went back in my closet. I walked over to my clothes. I decided to go with a Nike Tshirt and a pair of sweatpants. I put on a pair of Nike slides as well. I know Brooklyn was gonna be upset because I wasn't dressed nicely. I dressed like I was always do.

I walked next door. I knocked on the door. Brooklyn answered it. She stared at me. I stared at her. She had on the exact same thing as me.
"N!gggguh." she said letting me in.
"How would I know what you was going to wear?"
She kissed her teeth. "I'll be back. she said running upstairs.
"Don't change. People will think were cute."
"That's horrible." she said from upstairs.
It took her 10 minutes to get ready again. She had on a young and reckless Tshirt on with a pair of jeans and nike slides.
"Come on. I ready." She said pulling her hair in a bun.
We started to walk down the street. She was looking behind her back every once and a while. When she did it again, I turned around to see if there was something there.
"So wassup?" I asked.
She looked at me. She rolled her eyes. "Where we going Augustine?"
"Wtf is a Augustine?"
"Where are we going?"
I sighed. "Movies and dinner."
"Dressed like this." she said pointing to her clothes.
"Yeah. Mcdonalds is where it's at..."
"Oh my gosh. I'm going to kill Breaunna for getting me in this mess. It all started with that n!gga Damien."
I stopped and grabbed her wrist. She tried to pull away. She looked at me.
"What are we stopping for?"
"Who the f*ck is Damien?"
"He's not important."
"If he wasn't so important, why does his name keep coming up?" I asked.
"Look it won't matter to you. We aren't together. We will never be together."
I sighed. "Look I'm trying."
She rolled her eyes. "Damien is nobody. He was somebody. Now he's nobody." she said. "Can we go now?" She asked holding her wrist.
I started walking.