Beauty and the beast

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"Do any of the niggas you know steal cars?" I asked KD as I sat in his living room, on his couch eating goldfish and watching a new anime series we found on Netflix. "Yeah why?" He looked over at me briefly before focusing back on the screen. "I need somebody to steal one of Tig cars and sell it for me." He picked the remote up and paused the show. "For what?" He gave me his full attention.

"So as you know, Dae and I have made it officially official. We go together real bad and Valentine's Day is in two days and I gotta trick on my man." "Dae?" KD looked confused. "You don't know his real name?" "Nigga no." "Anyways." I sucked my teeth. "I wanna get him some jewelry but it ain't cheap." "Ight let me make a call." KD picked his phone up from the table and dialed a number. "Aye come to my house I got a job for you." I couldn't hear what the person on the other end was saying.

"Ight nigga imma see you in a few." He hung up and sat the phone back down. "He gone be here soon he say." "Okay cool." I nodded. "Why you ain't just steal the nigga some clothes and shit?" "Don't worry bout all that, what you getting Jade for Valentine's Day?" "A fucking therapist! That girl is crazy dawg." He rubbed his hand down his head. "It's almost like the lord seen me down here struggling and sent her skinny ass to finish me off."

"Not too much on my girl!" I pushed his shoulder. "Shiddd that's yo sista, you know how she is." "You be playing with her and she have to get on yo ass." "She be playing with me too!" He sucked his teeth. "Y'all don't need to be together." I shook my head. He tilted his head and looked at me. "You right, I ain't got no room to talk!" I laughed loudly. "Exactly!" He laughed with me.

         We sat in a comfortable silence, just watching the show until somebody knocked on the door. KD jumped up and quickly walked to the door. After checking the peephole, he opened the door. "Wassup nigga." A unknown voice greeted him. "Wassup nigga." He dapped the dude up. They both walked in the living room and sat down. I grabbed the remote and paused the show again. "So what's good?" The boy licked his lips.

"This my lil sista." "Wassup." The boy glanced at me and nodded his head. "Hey." I did a small smile. "She need you to steal a car for her." "When?" "Today if possible." The boy nodded. "I got you. Give me the addy and the kinda car it is." "How soon you gone off it?" "What kinda car it is?" "It's some 2023, ion know the name but I can show you." "Fasho pull it up." "Oh no like I gotta go with you and point it out."

        "Hell nah." KD shook his head. "You acting like I'm finna be doing something illegal, I'm just showing him the car." I sucked my teeth. "And I said no." "Kobe we not little no more." "The fuck that's posed to mean?" "You can't keep bossing me around and telling me what to do." I whined. "But I can though nie stop crying damn. Come on, imma go with y'all." "Coo, we can take my car and shit. I just gotta go change and get my shit together and shit." The boy looked between us.

        "Okay." I nodded as we all stood up. KD and I slipped our shoes on then we all walked outside. After we went to the dudes house and he got his self together, I directed him on how to get to Tig's house. As soon as we parked across the street his front door opened and he came walking out. It's crazy how the sight of him used to literally drive me up the wall. Now when I look at him I feel nothing. If you would've told me five months ago that I would be taking somebody to steal one of Tig's cars so I could buy my new boyfriend some expensive ass jewelry I would've burst out laughing.

We watched as he got in one of his cars and started pulling out the driveway. "I hope that ain't the car." The boy glanced in the back seat at me. "Unh unh, that's the car." I pointed at the midnight gray truck in the back. "Oh shittt we finna get paid." The boy smiled big. "Aye I just had somebody call me looking for that yesterday. Nigga willing to pay close to a mill." "For that ugly ass Bentley?" KD made a face. "Well look at God." I smiled back. "Ight imma get the car and take it to the chop shop, KD you know where it's at. Just drive my car up there."