Behind the Mask

Really, Ree Ree?

Adult pajama party at Maquita's. Enjel and Maquita filled Jasmine in about their little run-in with Luke. She laughed so hard.

Jasmine: You two do know that if you don't hurry up and tell Sharenna y'all met Luke she's gonna go off?

Enjel: It's not like we're not telling her, but we're just waiting for her to get off work. The signal at   her job is awful and she's gonna need to sit down for this.

Maquita: Exactly.

Jasmine: Now that's not gon' fly with Sharenna. See, what y'all should've done was call her when Luke was in y'alls face or at least in the car?

Maquita: Really, Jasmine? What do we look like trying to have a whole conversation while Enjel was plotting to kidnap Luke?

Enjel: First of all, Ma-qui-ta, I was not trying to kidnap Luke, I was bartering...

Maquita rolled her eyes.

Jasmine: Well based on what y'all told me, there was plenty of time to call Sharenna and let her talk to Luke.

Enjel and Maquita looked at each other. They were not about to do this with Jasmine today.

Enjel: Only kids stop and do the most in front of celebs.

Maquita: Exactly!

Jasmine: Algee FaceTimes his fans.

Maquita: Algee's fans are 12.

Enjel: True.

Jasmine: Don't you say I did not tell y'all so.

Maquita poured Jasmine a glass of wine.

Maquita: Here drink this.

The three ladies decided to catch up on Greenleaf Season 4 while they talked smack. It would have been a perfect world if they could have enjoyed their show and sipped wine without the distraction of technology, but this was not a perfect world. Each of them watched Greenleaf, but took glimpses at their cell phones from time to time. Social media was one hell of a drug. All of their phones sent them a notification. It was Sharenna posting shit on Twitter.

@ItsRennaaaTweet: When your friends all decide to have a slumber party knowing you can't go because you have to work. Bah Humbug!

Jasmine, Maquita, and Enjel looked at each other and laughed.

Maquita: This is not what I'm finna do with her today.

Enjel: Right! Because I asked her to come with me annnndddd I suggested she switch shifts with somebody.

Maquita replied on Twitter.

@IamMLambTweet to Renna: Awwww Tink Tink, next time.

@ItsRennaTweet to Maquita: Next time my ass!

@Jazzy_YonesTweet to Renna: Ask your friends who they ran into at the airport, lol.

@JustEnjel_Tweet to Jasmine: 🤦🏾‍♀️

@IamMLambTweet to Jasmine: Clearly Sharenna ain't off yet. Enjel go ahead and tell her.

@Jazzy_YonesTweet to them: Sips tea

@JustEnjel_Tweet to Renna: (posts pic of her and Luke)

@ItsRennaaaTweet: 😡🙅🏾‍♀️

Sharenna starts a new thread.

@ItsRennaaaTweet: When your friends meet your man without you. Highkey mad, but lowkey excited!

Meanwhile Greenleaf was watching the girls because they did not know what was going on in the show.

Enjel: I guess we will call Renna when she gets off and fill her in with the details.

That's exactly what happened. They FaceTimed Sharenna from the IMac later that night. She laughed so hard when she heard how Enjel convinced Maquita to take him to where he was going, all while giving Enjel side eye for flirting with "her" man. Sharenna even lectured Maquita about being so cold towards him. In Maquita's mind, she was not cold, she was just blunt.

These celebrity crushes were something else. Thankfully, these girls could joke and laugh like kids about the simple things. It would be bad, if they really staked a claim on any of these men who did not know they existed. Their touch with reality is what separated them from other fangirls. Think about it, what if Enjel really thought Keith Powers was her man. What if Jasmine thought the same of Michael B. Jordan, or in her words, "Bakari." Lets not go there with Maquita and Sharenna; between the two of them, the rest of the New Edition story cast, minus Hakeem add Omari, add Trey, add Idris, add the Michael Joseph Jackson, add Michael Ealy, just keep adding. These women would be in a world of trouble if they acted like a BeyHive towards people who liked the same guy. Also, it was just fun to flirt and show support wherever they could. It was fun. Besides, it's the internet, who really cares? It was an escape. For Maquita, her real life, was way more private and liberally conservative than what most may think. Sharenna, was very much so to herself. Not just anybody was about to burst their way through their bubbles. Jasmine, she was an innocent soul. She lived in a world where everything was kosher. Enjel was also personable, but cautious. None of these women had time for outside BS and because of this is probably why their love lives sucked ass big time. No trust means no dating. No sex. No nothing. The world was just different when it came to the dating scene. That's a whole other chapter. Let's not go there now.

The next morning, the girls were up eating a hearty breakfast that Maquita cooked for them. The breakfast consisted of sausage, eggs, grits, and biscuits. You could take the girl out of the country, but you could not take the country out of the girl. The night before, Enjel had posted the pic of her and Luke and tagged him in it. All of his minions started liking it. That always happens because minions will do anything to get closer to their superstar. Ask Em Aye Ex, he knows all about it. So, as Jasmine, Enjel and Maquita laugh and eat their food Enjel gets a call from Sharenna.

Enjel: Hey Renna!

Sharenna: Put me on speakerphone.

Enjel puts her on speakerphone.

Sharenna: Sooooo Enjel, you won't gon' tell me that my Wolfie liked, and commented and followed your ass on IG.

Maquita almost choked on her orange juice.

Enjel: Wait, what?

All three of them picked up their phones to see this. Luke indeed, liked the pic, commented two dusty red hearts ♥️ ♥️and followed Enjel. For the people in the back, (at justenjel_). How cool was that, though!

Sharenna: Silent treatment. Goodbye.

Sharenna hung up the phone. The other three just shook their heads as Maquita sipped her orange juice.

Jasmine: Well, Enjel...now you can perhaps get Luke to follow Renna.

Enjel put her face in her hands.

Enjel: How sway?

Maquita sipped on her orange juice.