veni- vidi-vici

Part 2

BEE

It was nearly two in the mornin and my phone was ringin. I opened my eyes to stare at the ceilin for a moment. I let out a deep sigh and got up to go to the kitchen. I picked up the phone and leaned on the wall behind me. "Hello," I asked in a raspy voice.

"BEEEEEeeee!" I took the phone away from my ear and stared at it before placin it back on my ear.

"Damn Kel wtf is up wit u? It's two in the mornin."

"I know but I just had to tell u this girl and why are u sleep on a Saturday night?"

"Because it's a Sunday mornin."

"Well fuck that! Do u remember that guy Ricky I was tellin u about?"

"Kel-"

"No no wait just hear me out. I went out tonight by myself to Cato's to get a drink and he was there wit this other chick so I go over like hey ricky who is this and he look up like oh this ain't nobody it's my cousin and the girl is like yeah don't be fooled I am his cousin I'on want him so we get to talkin and talkin and then guess who walks in the fuckin buildin wit all eyes on his fine ass?"

"Who Kel?"

"Hov!"

"Who?"

"Hov, the guy I was tellin u about that got everythin. Nigga got a 2009 Rang in the 2007 year."

"So what about him Kel?"

"Guess what he said to me?"

"What?"

"Hey Mama," she said screamin again and I took the phone away. I placed the phone back to hear her still talkin. "-and Ricky knows him too so it ain't like I can get wit him or anythin but he spoke to me. He actually spoke to me and him and Ricky was talkin and and I'm like damn Bee need to be here and he asked if I had a friend and I said yes and I told him ur name and but he was like well he kinda talkin to some hoe but he was like he'll see us around and holla. I was like oh GOD!" I stared at the phone and couldn't believe she woke me up for this bullshit. I hung the phone up on her and took it off the hook to let it hang. I went back to bed and layed back down.

The next day-or later on that day, I woke up around one thanks to Kel lame ass. I needed to go out grocery shoppin before the church crowd came and got all the good -u know that 10 for 10 at Kroger. I rushed to brush my teeth and take a shower and threw on jeans and a wife beater wit some flip flops. I didn't have a car so I had to walk and thank God it wasn't that far but I knew I would need to bring the buggy home wit me. When I got there I grabbed all the necessities first before grabbin some junk food for the movies I would watch tonight. While grabbin some ground beef I overheard this girl talkin wit another about Hov. That was odd that it was my second time hearin his name. I listened in. "Yeah girl I think I'm in love. He talkin bout he don't want no relationship but watch I'ma make him want me. He gone wish I was his."

"U betta do like I do."

"Girl I ain't got time to be pokin holes in condoms for a nigga to stay wit me. That's why u got eighty kids now and they all got different baby daddies."

"F'ck u." I shook my head and continued to get my groceries. While standin at the checkout line I saw a few guys lookin at me but I wasn't givin no niggas no play these days. I knew what all these niggas wanted and I wasn't into that .

"What?" I said to one guy who was starin to hard. "Damn," I said as the cashier rung up my stuff. As I was leavin that same guy came up to me still tryna run game.

"Damn babygirl u ain't gotta act like that. U too pretty to be actin so ugly."

"Well get outta my face and u won't hafta deal wit the ," I said walkin a little faster.

As I got halfway to my house I realized I wouldn't be able to push this cart up all these stairs unless I wanted to risk bustin my ass and I couldn't get on the elevator cause it was a death trap and if I left some of my out here the crackheads would sure enough have a field day. "U need some help shorty," I heard someone say in a thick northern accent.

"Nah I got it," I said not even lookin at who was talkin.

"Ahight then." I thought about what to do and decided to just pull the buggy up two flight up stairs. I lifted the front and pushed wit all my strength. I could feel my face turnin red.

"SHIT!" I said lettin it slip down the two steps I had gotten it over. I hadn't had no one to help me in over a year and I didn't need it now.

HOV

"It hot as hell out here man," I said takin my hat off and fannin myself wit it. I was posted on the block wit about ten of my niggas waitin for the traps to run thru. I looked around at all the hoes walkin around in the skimpiest clothing they could squeeze on and I knew they was doin it all for the kid.

"Ay Hov what homegirl say the other night," Plies said tryna tell someone the story.

"She said she ain't no hoe, she a freak wit needs so she need some dough," I said makin them laugh. After watchin them laugh for a minute I couldn't help the smile on my face. While they continued to laugh, I couldn't help but notice this girl strugglin to push this buggy up a set of stairs. I had tried to ask her if she needed help but she said she had it so I wasn't about to bug her.

"Ay man somebody go help youngin over there. She look like she in need or some ," Plies said lightin up a blunt.

"I tried to man but she said she got that ." We all stared at her while she struggled. Some of the niggas was laughin but I was too focused on her ass.

"U see that man. Shawty got a ass on her," Plies said singin takin out his binoculars.

"WTF! Where did u get them from man," I said laughin wit everybody.

"Man that's FBI classified ."

"Ahight let me find out u stealin and . U know yo PO don't play that."

"Fuck u and her," he said laughin at me.

I waited another minute and I decided to go help her. When I saw her sittin on the steps wit the buggy leanin on her back and her sweatin like I ain't never seen. "Look Mami," I said placin my blunt in my mouth and grabbin the buggy pushin it up the rest of the stairs. I took the blunt out and stared at her still sittin on the steps. "Where u goin wit this man?" She didn't answer. I left the buggy and went to stand in front of her. "Hello?" She looked at me and I helped her to stand. "Where u goin wit this? I ain't takin no for an answer cause it look like u bout to have a fuckin heart attack wit this ."

"Second floor."

"Ahight then. Go on and open ur door."

She did as I told her and I pushed the buggy up the rest of the stairs into her apartment. Her placed looked like a dumpster compared to mine. She had dead roaches in the doorway. I pushed the buggy in and closed the door to make sure she was still ahight. I don't know why I was even concerned wit her. Maybe cause I wanted a piece of her ass. "Ay u ahight now? U got water in here don't u?"

"Yeah."

"Ahight then."

"Why did u help me," she asked before I could leave out of the dump.

"What?" I ain't never heard nobody say no like that before. "Why? Because u needed some help." She stared at me and held her head down. "U sure u straight. I could call up one of my dude he do CPR and like that."

"Nah I'm fine."

"Ahight then. Keep it cool shorty," I said walkin out. I wanted to run away from that place makin sure nothin got on my new outfit. When I got back to the boys they were all in my face.

"Did u get her number or somethin," Plies asked.

"Nah."

"Man, what? Fuck that then," he said walkin towards where I came from.

"Where u goin?"

"If u ain't gone hit that I will."

"Man come back man. She don't want yo ass."

"Why not? My dick just as long as urs- maybe even longer," he said makin us laugh.

"Whatever nigga," I said playfully punchin him in the chest.