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WhenILoveYa: Chapter 36

Chris

I sit in the car with Rita not sure what to say. Is she mad? Does she hate me? Did I just fuck up the little progress that we had? Why hasn't she slapped me yet? So many questions run through my mind, but her actions are just not adding up.

"Chris, should we get food before heading to the house? I don't think Mama J wants to cook." She asks searching through her phone for nearby places. "We can just get hot wings or something." I make a confused face staring at her. "What?" she says looking at me, just as confused.

"Who are you?" I ask shaking my head. "And where the hell is Rita?"

She lets out a deep sigh rolling her eyes. "What do you want me to say, Chris?"

I pull over in the Target parking lot, putting the car in park. "Rita why haven't you asked about what just happened? I get no yelling, no hitting, and you're just sitting here all calm. I'd rather you let it out right now, because your scaring me baby!"

"The better question is why didn't you tell me! Hell why didn't you tell Mijo?" She says turning her body to me.

I let out a deep sigh looking at her. "Are you mad?"

"No...." she says shaking her head. "India told me a long time ago, when we first became friends. She thought it would be fucked up to be friends with me, and not tell me herself. She said it was strictly just, you know, sex. The question is why weren't you the one to tell me?"

I'm shocked that she knew and didn't even say anything. Even more shocked that India told her after she begged me not to ever speak of it. I guess she really does like Rita. "I mean.... I don't think about it..."

"You told me you lost it to Teyana..." She presses the question

I shrug. "Technically I did, but I was like 9. I didn't really count that, because I was a child. I kind of knew what I was doing at 15."

Flashback

"Yeah I hope they hurry up too. She told me all they had to do was weigh it and bag it today." She says sitting on the stoop of my Unk's new secret house. At first I didn't understand why he would buy a house in this bad neighborhood and not tell my mom or anybody else for that matter, but I quickly learned. I couldn't even tell my cousins or my brother Mijo about it.

"Yup, I think we gone be late for school." I say looking at my new watch

"Maybe we should just walk." India suggests, but we both end up laughing. Neither one of us attended school over here, but her school was closer to mine.

I shrug. "Man I ain't trying to walk an hour for school and then get detention for being late." I say taking my backpack off. "Come on, let me ask Unk if we can skip and just hang out here."

I walk in the house, and you would swear it was something straight out of the movies. Drugs were spread out everywhere, and I couldn't keep my eyes off the naked girls my uncle had around the house bagging and weighing everything. Especially India's sister, I dreamed about her plenty of nights. She and my uncle had a fling at the time, even though he had a fiancé.

"Aye get the fuck out of--" My uncle starts before notices who we are. He puts his gun down. "Chris what the hell I tell you about being in here? This is no place for either of you."

India looks around. "But we're late, Mike."

"Shit!" He curses loudly. "I forgot to take y'all to school. I'm short staffed today because of Tony's punk ass. Fuck! How late are y'all?" He asks taking off his gloves