Kenney: Still Waters Part 2

Chapter 35

                                                             ** MATURE CONTENT AHEAD **

The next day I was standing on the corner with Rah, monitoring the new crew, when Chauncey's dumb ass walked up on us real fast, dapping Rah up. Rah, who usually only guarded the house, had just posted up to stand in for Remmey, to free Remmey up to help Rico take care of some things. After Rah, Chauncey went in to dap me up. I just stared at him. A. He knew I didn't like ma' suckas walking up on me fast like that. B. He knew I didn't like his ass.

I never had.

"Heard you fucked Tiana." Chauncey came fly out his reckless mouth as usual, and grinned at Rah, like they were in on some secret game. Then Chauncey grinned at me, but in a different way. Like I wasn't in on it. I didn't even acknowledge him. He turned back to Rah. "It was just like I said right?"

I kept my eyes on the transaction happening across the street, but I still saw Rah give Chauncey a look, and then try not to smile, as he also put his eyes back on the five youngins that were crowded around a clean black Nissan Maxima.

Chauncey, not to be ignored, kept running his reckless mouth. "Shit...I don't know what the hell you waited so long fo' potna." I could tell he was looking at me, and not Rah, when he said "Damn she good. I might fuck tonight."

I did turn to look at him them. At thirteen, I was already eye to eye with Chauncey and an inch taller than Rah. I stared Chauncey dead in his eye until he backed down first. I couldn't wait to get my weight up. Chauncey was getting stomped every chance I got. Rico had already given me my first and second pair of Tims. Now all I needed was the weight. It was on after that.

"Yo, Chauncey, don't you have somewhere to fucking be?" I continued to stare at him.

He looked away and turned back to Rah. Rah was looking at him the same way I was, but when Chauncey turned to him, Rah started grinning like a Cheshire Cat and said "Yeah, Chauncey." He nodded his head toward the new crew like get the hell on, and then me and Rah dipped.

Let Chauncey watch those lil ma' fuckas' for a while. I hated doing that shit anyway.

Later that day, I went looking for Tiana. I found her kicked back on the railroad tracks, looking out at the world like she was over the whole thing.

All of it.

"Hey."

"Hey." She looked over at me and smiled. The setting sun hit her eyes right when she did and I almost missed a step walking towards her. "Watch yourself," she teased.

"Oh, I will." She got my meaning and looked away again. I sat down beside her and swatted her leg with fake playfulness. "So what's up witchya?"

She gave me a look like she knew what I came there to say and she wanted me to just come with it, so I did.

"Heard you fucked Rah last night." I watched her, to see what she would do. "After me and you did our thing." She kind of froze for a second, and then went right back to normal.

"Yeah." She sat up and leaned over the tracks, then spit her gum out as far as it would go.

"Thought you were saving it for me."

Tiana looked guiltily over at me, then back down to where her gum had fallen. She almost leaned over too far, and for a split second I thought she was about to jump. Then, if I was seeing what I was seeing correctly, it looked like she changed her mind and leaned back onto her elbows again, then looked back over at me. "Yeah," She continued to gaze at me, but I couldn't read her face. "I fucked him." Then she looked back out into the night. The sun had completely set now, and we looked out at what seemed like two sets of skies. One above us and one below us. Every light in the city was on, and every star in the sky was out. This was the only place on our side of town where you could actually see the stars.