The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Jay

Me and Riek had just finished our last lap around the park and man did that shit feel good. I finally feel like I was getting my body back to where it needs to be.                                                      "Shit you doing good with it now. Your ass ain't passing out at the end no more." he said as we both were getting ready to sip some of our Gatorade.                                                                                      "Yeah for once it's starting to really feel normal." I said as I put the Gatorade down.                        "See...that's how you know you're mentally healing as well. When you have a mental block it starts taking physical tolls on you too. You're overcoming obstacles and that's the real progress you needed to be able to see for yourself." he said as he took a seat on the bench.                              "Point taken, things getting better and worse at the same time." I said honestly.                                    "How so?" he asked. I couldn't believe I was about to say this to anyone.                                                  "Mannnn so I went to 6 Flags the other day with the fam plus Suki and Sincere, right? It went real good. My mom and Mr Will both love her and the kid. We all vibing good and all that."                         "So what's the problem?" he asked me.                                                                                                                      "A week prior, I lied to her for the first time and had to keep lying ever since."                                         "What you lie about?" he asked me looking confused.                                                                                         "She asked me was I over Dom and I told her yes." he looked like he already knew I wasn't over her too. "Like I wanna be. I go through some days without even thinking about her at all. But when I see her, it's like time stands still and all the old feelings are still there. Like she be outta sight, outta mind and then she's there and I...I don't know man."                                                                  "Alright, fair enough it's still kind of fresh. It's been just months since y'all break up and then the circumstances surrounding that will always keep y'all bonded. Give yourself time. But what are you gonna do if Suki begins to peep shit?" I haven't even thought of that one.                                        "I'mma lie. I mean real shit, Suki is practically perfect and she's been everything that I've needed and wanted and then some. I just can't seem to shake this girl." Fuck!                                                           "Or is it guilt? I mean you go to group and they talk so much about trauma bonds and whatnot, you don't think that maybe that's what it is?"                                                                                                           "I wish that's all it was. But naw like...I don't know bruh it's weird. I don't know what to do."         "Truthfully, me seeing both sides of it, I'm gonna tell you to let that go. I'm not gone lie, it's only been a few months but I can see D and Kev probably gone end up down the aisle. Then for real, Suki seems like she was made for you. You gotta shift your focus." He's right though, but damn so everybody truly believes she's just over me. That's some wild ass shit.                                                 "You got a point." I said as I started to stretch to wind down for the day.                                                   "I don't mean that shit harsh either, it's the needing to just rip the bandaid off now, so that you can properly heal and allow your next moves to be your best moves. You've overcome a lot of shit in a short period of time and you just gotta keep it going. Feed the things in life that are feeding you." He said as we started to head back to the car. "Hello." he said as he answered his phone and we went to put the bags in my trunk before getting in the car. "Thank you so much! Yes, we'll definitely be in touch." My nigga sounded happy as fuck.                                                            "What's good?" I asked him.                                                                                                                                           "We got approved for our crib!" he said happily.                                                                                                 "Good shit my nigga! The one I took y'all to go see?" I asked him.                                                                 "Hell yeah. I didn't even think they were gonna approve it since you know the older generation kinda frowns upon our type of relationship. But yeah he hit us back and said we're approved, we just gotta put the down payment down and we're good to go." he said.                                                      "Okay okay. Y'all got that?" I asked him.                                                                                                                      "We will have it. A lil short right now but small things to a giant, we'll for sure get that." he said.    "How much you short?" I asked him as I pulled out the parking lot.                                                              "Probably about 7 bands short. But that ain't shit for real, we'll have that and way more after the next lil mission and shit, so it's all good." he said and I knew at that moment what to do.                   "Aye man can you open that glovebox for me and pull out the book for the car? I gotta check something." I said before he reached in there and handed it to me. I opened it and peeked in to make sure it was all still there before I zipped it back and handed it to him. "That's you." I told him and he took it and looked inside.                                                                                                                            "Oh naw bruh, I can't take that from you." he said real quick.                                                                        "You can and you will. Listen you looked out for me in ways that not even my closest of friends and family were ever able to do. Bruh if it wasn't for you, I don't know how I would be able to cope or even the first step to take. Hell you barely even knew me, let alone understood everything about me before you stepped in. You were a blessing to me, so here's my way of returning the favor bruh. Take that 20 and put that payment down and get some furniture for the crib." I told him and he shook my hand.                                                                                                                      "Mannnn I appreciate you Jay, that's some real nigga shit that I never seen coming." he said.        "Wouldn't be no real shit if you saw it coming. But shit, I never saw you coming either. Someone who could actually understand all that shit is rare. But at least I knew it was a way to the other side. Shit that was the least I could do for real." I'm so glad I was able to be a blessing to somebody. I know it was always better to give than receive, but to be able to give back to someone that poured into me was big for me.