Islan-Dise

They Who

Tre
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"I have an interview Wednesday at 10:00 am." I tell Boon.

He opens the car door and spits. "Shits nasty as fuck." He wiped his mouth.

"What is it?" I take the chocolate milk. "It's outdated."

He snatched it from me to read the date. "Imma slap that manager teeth out his fuckin mouth."

He steps out the car snd I run behind him. "Boon, just calm down."

He ignores me. "Aye you, bring that alopecia ass here."

"Boon." I touch his arm.

He calls to the white man going bald with glasses. "Sir, I ask that you not scream across the store."

"You so busy pressin a nigga for stealing out this cheap as sto, you ain't even making sure this shit any good." He shoves the bottle in his face.

The guy turns red. "Oh my. Sir I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Please, allow me to handle this as quickly as possible."

"Oh now you terribly sorry." He slaps the bottle out his hand and the chocolate milk goes everywhere. "If me or my fuckin brotha in law get sick off this shit, um on yo ass." He points in his face.

Not sure why he including me. My strawberry milk was fine. But that's just Boon.

"I-I understand sir. Like I stated before I apologize." The guy seems remorseful.

"Refund my brotha his shit he just bought here. Let us get it on the house and we out."

"Done. Kimberly, can you take care of these two lovely people."

The cashier walks us over towards customer service.

"Imma grab some mouthwash, so I can get that nasty taste out my mouth."

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"Why are you so uh....aggressive?" I ask on our way to pick up Pea, Islan was at work.

He sucks the Cheeto residue from his fingers. "I had to fight a lot in school because of how I dressed and shit. I ain't have nice clothes."

"Oh, Islan said the same thing."

"Yeah. We was all, always fighting because people just fucked with us." He puts his chips down.

"But um...Islan different na. He um...calmer. But I get it, you do have a lil vibe about you. I really don't like turnin up around you."

I smile. "I don't know why you both feel that way. What is this vibe?" I look at him.

"You just good Tre. Like, you out here struggling with Islan and you can be in yo big ass house, with yo feet up. You really down fah him though and you even look out for me and Pea. You can't fake that type of realness. I fuck with you."

"I like you too and I'm happy you're here. It's going to be hard when he leaves."

"You got me and Pea bro. Imma be here." We dap.