Two Weeks Later
I kissed Dianna on her cheek. "Thank you, baby."
It was the first time that I seen her since sticking her in that hotel.
She visibly cringed and wiped her face.
"Oh wow, you really don't fuck with me" I said.
"No, it's just that you had to do it infront of everybody. People are already looking at me funny. Your braids look nice" She said.
"Thanks" I said and grabbed Ella's wrist when she walked by.
"Oh, hi" She pushed me off and eyed Dianna.
"Why you looking like that for?" I turned and looked at Dianna too.
Dianna looked down at her phone.
Ella looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
"I am not fucking her" I stated.
Dianna coughed, and started to choke.
"Alright, Rakim. Whatever you say" Ella said.
I pulled Ella closer to me "Why you gotta be like that?"
"I just said-"
"I know what you said and you know what we been doing" I responded.
"I don't know what you been doing these last couple days" She shot back.
"You could've just told me that you missed the pretty boy" I let her loose. "I'ma stop by sometime later in the week. You know I haven't even been in school for the last couple days"
"Pooh's birthday is getting closer and you can help look into planning" She told me.
"I'ma do that. Let me call you later"
She nodded her head and walked away.
"Dianna, I'll be back" I got up and went to sit with her friends.
"Ayo" I opened Lauryn's bag of baked hot cheetos.
"Hey, Rakim" They all said.
"Y'all think me and Dianna fucking?" I asked.
"I mean I did until I saw you all over Ella" One of them said.
"I second that. You look stunned when me and her came down the stairs at my house" Lauryn said. "I thought you turned her out"
Dianna came over, and sat down beside Lauryn who was across from me.
"Baby, your friends thought that we were fucking" I said.
"Unh" Dianna made that sound again.
"I know that y'all girls be gossiping. Y'all don't be talking about me? Dianna don't say nothing?"
Their lips were sealed.
"Ob wow. Nobody is going to let me in on the chatter. All females do is talk shit anyways, unless you admire me like Lauryn do"
"As if" She tossed a couple cheetos into her mouth.
"You only saying that cause Miles is your blood" I shrugged. "I get it"
-
"You have gotten better at shooting" I told Dianna.
"Thank you" She said.
"You can talk to me, right?" I asked.
"Yes" She nodded head and shot with her wrist twisted to the left.
"I don't know. It's feeling pretty one-sided for me, baby"
"You're talking all that mess in my ear, Rakim"
"What mess?" I took the gun from her. "What you be telling your girlfriends?"
"We just talk about school and stuff. And college. I don't really talk about you. They ask sometimes, but I don't really say much"
"You see, we were approaching a best-friendship, but you be lying to me" I dropped my head down onto her shoulder. After breathing on her shoulder for a few seconds, I sucked my teeth. "You're going to college on me, baby? I guess that kind of stuff is important to you."
"Yeah, it is"
"I ain't gone never see you again. You're going to leave the city behind and never come back. I'ma be proud of you, though. You are going to marry a man who wears dress shoes and a suit everyday like it's comfortable" My lips brushed against her shoulder and I kissed it before quickly sinking my teeth into her skin. "Fuck, I'ma miss you" I stood up and helped her up too.
" It sounds like you know more about my future than I do" She mumbled.
I drove home. "Y'know, I was thinking about taking Ella to prom, but I don't know about all of that. It would be convenient. I don't think I'd have much fun, but I could always get invited back next year"
She made that sound again.
"Are you sick or something?"
She shook her head no and bit her nails before rolling down her window. "I just need some fresh air"
I brought Dianna's bags into the house and we shared a takeout pizza from a local spot.
"You taking them little nibbles on that pizza..." I texted a few people back and yawned.
I got up and went to go change and when I got back, Dianna was already changed too.
I slid into bed. "Goodnight. If I get whisked away in the middle of the night, I apologize in advance." and popped the grill out of my mouth.
"It's okay" She got up and cut the light off.
I don't know why I was so tired.
"Rakim...you know how you....y'know" Dianna trailed off.
"Nah" I mumbled. "I don't"
"Could I sell for you?"
"No"
"Please? It could add on to your pyramid scheme."
I flipped over and pulled Dianna real close to me so that she could hear me loud and clear. "You not getting involved. If you want money, we'll find something else for you to do"
"Okay" She mumbled. "Goodnight"
"You sound disappointed in me" I responded, and got up to cut the air conditioning on.
When I came back, she was mumbling something.
"Speak up" I got back into bed.
"I don't trust you" She said, and I smiled.
She shouldn't.
"You and Ella are the only ones that's not getting involved in all that. You got a bright future, don't fuck it up"
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Who do you guys care to read about the most? I just want to know.
Rakim and his P.O.
Rakim and Ella and or their child
Rakim and Pink Bonnet Lady
Rakim and Whitney
Rakim and Dianna
Rakim and Dianna's friends
Rakim and Travis
Or Rakim doing criminal shit
