My brother's best friend

Part 9

1 month later

Please excuse all mistakes 💚

Egypt

I've been in Harlem now for 2 months. I started working at the emergency room and just got my own condo

Shooter and I have gotten really close. Yana is my best friend, we literally tell each other everything. Bully is like a brother to me. Cardi is my ratchet big sis. Lucas. Well he's Lucas still crushing. East is umm complicated, we've gotten really close we see each other almost everyday, more for Kai though. She really likes when I'm around

Today is Sunday which means family dinner 7pm NO EXCUSES. Every Sunday yana and I cook. We have a rotation, when it's your week you buy groceries for what ever it is you wanna eat. This week is my week, since I just moved into my place I invited everyone over. Do a house warming and dinner the same night.

"Lil bit this is nice" mama said walking in.

"You sure you just a nurse" cardi asks raising an eyebrow at me

"Girl yes, I don't have time for anything else"

We decided to smoke before we ate, even though mama knows we all smoke we never do it in front of her.

She said she was going to get some drinks and she took Kai with her so that gives us all enough time

"Pooh we going out this weekend" yana tells me

"Out where" I said blowing smoke

"Club 12" cardi says (idk if that's real or not 🥴)

"Bet i already know what I'ma wear"

"Lil bit don't be out here tryina show out" bully warns

I roll my eyes as I put out the roach

We stand outside a few more minutes then I light some candles once we gone back in.

Mama walks in with Kai a few minutes later

"Y'all ready to eat" she asks

"Okay so who's saying grace" I ask

"It's Luke's turn" yana says

"God is great, God is good. Please Lord bless this food.

"I'm pretty sure Kai can pray better than you" I tell him and everybody laughs

"Damn Betty boop you wasn't playin" cardi said fixing her plate

"Eat eat" Kai claps sitting in her high chair. I think she has a high chair and play pen at everybody's house. East reaches for her

"Uhh excuse you"

"What I do"

"I got her, eat ya food"

"Ma ma" she says

The first time she called me mama I was kinda scared, but then I noticed she refers to  me yana and my mama as her mama. Nobody ever corrects her so why stop her

I feed Kai a little macaroni off my plate along with some cornbread and pot liquor (I think this is a southern thing, we feed baby's the juice or 'pot liquor' from greens with some cornbread)

"Dave you know she's not gone want baby food now" mama tells him

"Why not"

"She got a taste of table food, she don't want the unseasoned mess" she tells him causing me to laugh

"That's cool, I'll make sure E cooks for her then"

"You mean for you" yana corrects him

"That too" he laughs

"Y'all would be a cute lil family" mama tells us

Before I could respond East's phone rings

"Yoo"

......

"Aight we on the way"

"Everything alright" mama asks

She knows everything the guys do, she doesn't approve but she said she would rather they tell her than keep it in the dark

"One of the guys was shot in the arm, Umm Egypt can you-"

"Yeah cmon"

I clean some of his guys wounds and have removed a couple bullets. Nothing too serious

Dave and I leave 27 minutes later we pull up to the trap

They dude was already in my lil office. I walked in, pulled my hair up and then washed my hands. I put on a pair of gloves and walked over to him

"Aight lemme see"

"Aahhh" he screamed

"Can you straighten your arm"

He shakes his head no.. I examine his arm and see the bullet didn't hit any organ or damage any veins, but it did hit a bone..

"You have a broken arm, I'll remove the bullet and put a cast on for you"

While I'm working on the man Dave is watching me, I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me nervous.

1hr later

"Aight I'm done"

"You got some for pain" he asked as we walked out

"Nigga if you don't smoke a blunt" Soon as the words left my mouth everybody started laughing

"Ready to go" East asks me

I nod and say bye before we head out