B E S T F R I E N D | •Tory Lanez ft. Jacquees•

Chapter 55- Buried

Makyah

"Let's get it straight girl, you don't need a nigga for nothin..."

Word up, ion need him.

I didn't know why I felt so betrayed, it wasn't like he cheated on me.

I shook my head, a failed attempt to clear my head and focus on the road ahead of me.

"Claimin he don't got a girl, you know how niggas be frontin..."

...Shit, at least ion gotta deal with that nomo.

"You want somethin' more than just physical..."

Felt like I had that with him.

"It's been a while since you met someone original..."

Wasn't no one more original than him though...

How could I call myself his best friend and not know all of him?

I didn't think it was fair for him to know every single detail about my very being and yet, at this point it felt like I was just meeting him.

"Fuck this," I whispered to myself.

I was being held up at a red light, pulling my phone out, I dialed the only other person I could think of' number.

"...Hey girl, what's up?" She greeted cheerfully.

I sighed, "You home right now?"

The sound of papers ruffling sounded through my speakers along with a giggle and the rumble of a manly laughter.

"Oh," I said, amount of guilt I felt consuming me hot. "Never mind, you busy. Imma talk to you lat—"

"Mykah," she'd interrupted. "Bring yo ass over. This nigga was on his way out."

"No, I wasn't..." he conveyed, his cheerful tone now had a base to it.

"Well you is now," Cedes insisted, despite my protests.

"Cedes I'm serious, I can wai—"

"Girl, I done made up my mind. Come the fuck on... You gotta go," I heard some shuffling and soon after a door slam shut.

"You close by?" She asked.

Despite shaking my head, "Yea, I'm down the street."

I'm a whole cockblocking ass bitch now.

**
"I don't get why both of y'all hid this from me."

We'd been in her living room, wine coolers in hand, sipping away as I told her about the events that lead up to the discovery of Zai's time in jail.

She shrugged, "Mykah, being locked isn't something niggas is proud of. It might've earned him credit in the street but people lose respect for you in the real world when they find out."

She took a long sip, followed shortly by a deep breath, "If it's one thing I know, Zaiv live for you...He wasn't hiding it from you on some fuck shit, he just ain't want you to look at him cross eyed and different." She shrugged.

He had all the excuses, better yet she had all the excuses for him.

"What else is he hiding from me then?" Cedes had known that Zaiver had been locked up this whole time, so I wondered, but instead she'd thrown her hands in the air.

Shaking her head, "Nah, that's between you two—"

"So I'm just supposed to let you two keep hiding shit fro—"

"Whooa," she'd interrupted. "Mykah, now you know better. If you had to live the way we was back then, I guaranteed you would've thought twice to tell anyone of us."

"So now because I'm the spoiled one, I wouldn't understand huh?" I asked rolling my eyes.

"I ain't say all that... Some shit just ain't meant for just anybody to hear and even though you probably the only person I trust with everything, I still wouldn't tell you cause some shit is meant to stay buried. Period."