Fire & Desire // 21 Savage

XIV

Anthony in mm.

A U G U S T

As Anthony and I drove out the building we were sitting in silence, only the hard breathing from Anthony was heard. All I was thinking about was how I got myself into this shit.

"How is she?" Anthony asked, his voice hard

"Huh? How is who?" I asked confused

"Mercedes, how is she?" He asked again, turning to look at me

I was taken back "I don't know, good I guess" I shrugged "Why?"

He chuckled "I don't know, I just haven't seen her in a while" he said "So how ya'll know each other again?" He asked turning onto the freeway

"She my stepsister, her mama with my dad" I said looking out the window

"Aw snap, Porsha with Walter? Damn the world is small" He said smiling

"Now let me ask the questions, when y'all date?" I asked, bored and feeling nosy

He sighed "We started talking way back in high school, but you know how I'm the pimp I am, I never wanted to settle down so you know how Mercedes is, she ain't never gone wait on no nigga, so she let me do what I do, mind you, she was my sisters best friend so I really didn't wanna break that code with baby sis, but, it was something about Mercedes that kept me wanting to come back and make her mine ya know, so I did, I stopped hoeing around and got serious, and she peeped that, it was, what was it again....August 7th, 2014 when I asked her to be mine, as you know she said yes, surprisingly lil sis ain't have a problem with us, so things was going good, it's just when my sis got killed, shit hit the fan, nothing felt right without her ya know, so we...broke up" he explained

"So why exactly did y'all break up?"

"Me. All because of me, the streets and overall I wasn't the man she fell in love with anymore, I didn't treat her the way she deserved to be treated, that shit be on my conscience everyday, I just wish things ended differently" he gripped the stirring wheel harder

"Aye man, I feel you, sometimes us niggas be so far up in what we doin, we don't appreciate the things we have-"

"Nah it wasn't about that, it's that I was selfish, I was only thinking about me, of course I was hurting cause my sister was my world, but I was forgetting that she was hurting too, that was her best friend, shiiit, I wouldn't say that, they was sisters, Family. I just wanted everything to be about me, and there is no 'i' in team bruh, but it's alright, shit happens, I didn't deserve Mercedes, she needs a doctor or a lawyer, she don't need these thugs or the other shit that come with it" He said

"Yeeeah about that" I started

"About what?" He asked almost immediately

"See I don't know what's going on between them, but I think they feelin each other-"

"Who?" He asked

"Mercedes and Savage" I said, quietly laughing to myself cause I'm bout to watch this nigga fall apart

"You jokin" he said "forreal? Wow Mercedes" he said laughing "Just wow"

"You ight, man?" I asked

"Yeah, Yeah, so how long have they been talkin?"

"About a month, you know she just came out here in February" I told him and he shrugged

"Aye, as long as she happy, that's all that matters huh?" He said

"You still got feelings for her or sum?" I asked him as his face turned to a whole different color, like a reddish.