At lunch I stood in line, waiting to receive my tray, with Kiarra right behind me. Once, we got our trays and checked out, we headed for our regular seats in the cafe', "So, Shontelle what happened?" Kiarra asked.
"What do you mean?" I sounded confused, because I really was.
"What happened last night?"
"A lot of stuff I wasn't even expecting. Stuff that I thought would never happen to me."
"Like what?" I took a sip of my Coca- Cola, "Dedrick got me into a thing. He calls it The Business," she dropped the fork that she was holding in between her fingers and I thought her eyes were going to fall out of her head, "What did he get you into, Shontelle?" she asked.
"I guess prostitution," I said, in a whisper, so that others around couldn't hear, "Something like that."
"Oh, no," she got up from the table and ran after Dedrick, that was just coming out of the line with a drink in his hand. She was so loud, I could hear her from the table, "Are you foreal right now? You know she don't do that kind of stuff!" then she came back to the table with an evil smile across her face.
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What The Business Did To Me
Literatura FemininaYou would think that Dedrick treated Shontelle like his princess, until you find out about what happens behind closed doors. "Now, listen here," he started waving his finger in my face, "whether you do this with me or not, I will make every single...
