Sugar Baby

14

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December 13, 2015 - 389 McKinley Rd - Hampton, VA

"..i been on my hot my shit lately, can't be mad at me, you been on some fuck shit lately, keep that distance please.."

Onika was having the best dream. She was at her nana's house for Christmas dinner. Her plate was stacked with curry goat, callaloo, rice and peas, and roti. Her nana had even made sponge cake and cassava pone, a favorite of hers. While her cousins were laughing and joking amongst themselves, Onika was focused on eating everything in sight.

She was being so unabashedly greedy her mother had to give her wrist a few taps throughout the night, but Onika didn't care. After moving states away for school, family dinners were few and far between. She was having the time of her life. Except.. something kept tickling her nose.

Onika swatted her hand back and forth but the tickling sensation kept coming back. She groaned and readjusted her curls before absently returning her arm to its resting place around Mani's waist. She was almost back asleep when she felt warm fingers rubbing soothing circles around her wrist. Onika sat up and popped one eye open. Mani turned in her embrace and smiled softly. She had been watching music videos on Youtube with her earphones in.

"Damn, my bad." Onika apologized groggily. She scoot back to her side of the bed and yawned.

"It's okay." Mani giggled. "I know you're a sleep snuggler."

"Sorry." Onika mumbled. "What time is it?"

"Just after 11."

"How long you been up?" She rubbed her eyes with the back of her wrist and yawned. "Do you know if Lo made it in?"

"Since like 9:30. She came to check on you but you were out cold." Onika nodded in acknowledgement. "Are you hungry? I'm starving."

"How come you didn't eat?"

"You had me locked down pretty tight." Mani teased.

"Okay okay." Onika held her hand up to her face to shield her eyes from Mani's smug expression.

She leaned over and grabbed her phone from the nightstand. She had two missed calls and a text message from Meek around 4:15am.

📲 Clown Ass Nigga 🤡 (2)

📲 Clown Ass Nigga 🤡: Nic I wasn't ignoring you. I'm in season rn and have practice at 5am most days. I be tired a lot nd when you called me last nite I was training. I wanted to call you back but I only had a few mins at a time for break. Not enough time to get into shit w you. By the time I got home you had texted me telling me not to worry bout it and I was tired anyway so I jus figured I'd get up w you in the AM

📲 Clown Ass Nigga 🤡: I feel like if you don't get the attention or the answer you want right then n there you be like fuck me and I don't even be doing shit fr smfh 🤦🏿‍♂️ you didn't even acknowledge the money I had sent. I'm tryna do what I can to show you I care but it cool. Hit me back when you get up. Sorry to hear ab your scholarship situation

"Nigga fuck you." Onika said out loud.

"Boyfriend?" Mani asked, peering over the shorter girls shoulder.