friday night
"So are we going to take this vacation together or what? Novi asked, expecting an answer from the table. "We been saying this since 2019. Yall don't wanna go nowhere forreal" Mignon added, laying her card down.
"That's what I saying" Ebony chimes in, pulling a card from the stack with the roll of her eyes.
"Everybody knows I was down but then my man wanted to marry me so" KJ cheerfully said, playing with the rock on her finger as they all threw shady eyes her way. "What? Im still down. I just gotta check with bae first to make sure we don't have any—"
"Ah hell, you ain't going"
"Boooo!"
"Must be nice"
"What about you Ms Movie Star?" Ebony teased, referring her question to Crystal. Too bad she was too busy affectionately looking at her phone to pay Ebony any attention. Eventually she looked up from the screen to see all three ladies staring back at her. "What?" she asked, completely unsure of what they could have been discussing.
"We were having a conversation about the vacation we keep failing to plan but obviously whatever has your attention is more important" Novi picked, smirking as she looked at Crystal
"Probably Deeee" Mignon said doing her best impression of Crystal when she calls Devale "Dee" while Novi and Ebony agreed in laughter.
"Wrong. It's technically not him. It's the boys. He sent me pictures of their photoshoot from earlier..how cute is this?" she turned the phone around to show them and they crowded around to see, falling in love with the photos as Crystal scrolled through them. Just then her phone vibrated in her hand.
"Oop!"
"And looka there, Daddy's calling"
"Gotta be quicker than that Crys!"
Crystal decided to ignore them, getting up from the table to answer his call. "Yes?" she asked, walking into the kitchen to get away from the loud music and KJ's nosey party guests.
"Hey—Ooo! You got the curls out for me?!You had to do that for me cause you know how I feel about the curls" Devale cheesed, staring at her through his phone. "Stop it Dee," she shyly laughed, "How can I help you?"
"Well, if you put it like that.." he licked his lips at her making her smack her own "Boy stop playing and tell me what you want or get off my phone"
"Okay, okay your personal fan club of mini me's wanted to tell you hey" he laughed before flipping the camera to show 3 of his 4 sons.
"Hey Auntie!"
"Hey TT Crystal!"
They greeted her together, waving and smiling, jumping up and down when they saw her. Crystal's heart melted instantly at the sight and excitement in their voices. "Awe boys! Heyy! Why does everybody look so big now?" she shook her head as the two smallest ran off to finish playing.
"Auntie, we haven't seen you in like years!" Jaleel said, being the spitting image of his father. Crystal laughed when he took the phone and walked off. "Aye now lil nigga! Don't get beside yourself" Devale warned him. "Real quick, auntie..when are you coming back? Nobody makes brownies like you. Dad tries but they be dry in the middle" he explained to Crystal making her laugh. "Leel! Give me my damn phone!"
