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"Damn tee, how long this shit take?"Amaru stood in the doorway becoming irritated.
"Ima need you to be a bit more patient. She has a lot of hair."Taniyah sectioned off yet another piece of Damita's hair and started to braid. "You wanted her to get the damn braids, now shut the hell up and let me do them."
"Daddy, I'm hungry. Can you get me something to eat? I'm hungry and I'll be here for awhile."Damita gave him her pouty face.
"Aight. What you wanna eat, baby?"Amaru felt around his pants for his wallet and his kids.
"Doesn't really matter. Just bring anything, I'm starving."Damita sighed and pulled her blankets up to her neck. She was sitting on the floor watching tv while Taniyah braided her hair.
"Am I hurting you?"Taniyah asked and Damita nodded her head. "No. I'm okay."
"Did you even want braids?"Taniyah sucked her teeth. "He just came in my room and woke me up telling me to do your hair.
"He asked me if I wanted them because he wanted me to get some. He said I'd be pretty with them."Damita shrugged and turned her the way Taniyah had asked her to. "So now I'm sitting here getting them."
"He so damn impatient. I don't know why he acting like this shit supposed to take 5 minutes. Does he act like this with you?"Taniyah looked down at Damita.
"Of course not. He probably just wants to be under me. You know we can't be away from each other for too long."Damita chuckled.
"Oh, I know. Sickening asses."Taniyah playfully rolled her eyes.
"Tee!"Eric walked through the house. "Where you at?"
"I'm in the den,"Taniyah yelled back.
Eric walked into the den and stood in the doorway. "Oh damn. I was finna tell you let's go out. You just started?"
"No. I been braiding her hair for about two hours. I'll be done in about three hours."Taniyah grabbed another piece of hair and started another braid.
"Aight, I was gon' say let's go eat but we can do something else later. Y'all hungry?"
"I'm not, but Amaru just went to get her some food, so she good."
"She not hurting you?"Eric widened his eyes.
"No. I'm okay."Damita shrugged.
"She ain't tender headed like some people I know."Taniyah straightened her lips at him.
"Nah I think you do my shit tight on purpose."
Finally, Amaru came walking in with two Chick-fil-A bags and cups. "Here, baby" He kneeled over and kissed her lips.
"Thank you, my love." Damita's lips spread into a smile.
"Y'all so annoying."Eric gagged.
"Hey. We're different kind of couples. You love your girl one way and I love mine another way. Ain't that right, baby?"
Amaru looked over to Damita who was stuffing her face. She gave him a small smile and nodded her head.
"You want me to stay here with you?" Amaru asked her.
"Nah Bro, lets go hoop. She aight, she been here before. You ain't gotta be in her face."Eric sucked his teeth.
