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  “How can we help you, miss?” Jessup asked her. She ignored him then looked at me.

  “Is that the way you treat your costumers? You haven’t said one word since I’ve been standing here! That’s not how you conduct business, is it?” she asked me with lust-filled eyes. I didn’t like the way she looked at me. Her eyes bore into me like she knew everything about me. For her to be a stranger her stare was too intense.

  I leaned back in my chair, crossing my arms.

  “I do recall Pat asking you how we could help you and so did my brother, yet you still haven’t said a word. Now, what can we do for you, miss, for the third time?” I asked her. She licked her lips at me seductively.

  “Arrogant and cocky! Me like! But anyways, I have a Camaro I want custom painted. I want her to be like a purple and gray with sparkles in the paint. I want the inside to be purple. How much and how soon?” she asked me.

  “Five thousand for the paint, three thousand for the interior. You are looking at spending close to nine g’s. We can start on it next week. Just leave your name and number and we will call you two days before the exact date,” I said to her.

  She gave me her number. I looked up, waiting for her to give me her name. “Your name?” I asked.

  “Tasira Snowden and I hope to be hearing back from you soon. See, you later,” she said, putting her shades back on. She grilled Pat then smiled at Jessup. She switched out of the shop.

  “Damn it, mon! The way her ass sits up she eats a lot of goat meat and drink a lot of goat milk!” Jessup said, causing us to laugh.

  “Kauzie gets all the bitches! She was drooling over him!” Pat said then we chuckled.

  “Did you see her eyes? Damn!” Jessup said.

  “Why didn’t you holla at her then, chump?” I asked Jessup.

  “I’m kind of still seeing Kai,” Jessup said. I didn’t know that he was still talking to her. I didn’t like Kai. She was too much like Tassana. I know she knew about Tassana and Tokyo switching. I been told Jessup Kai was scandalous but he wasn’t trying to hear it. I won’t say anything else about it to him. He will see for himself.

  After I got off, I swung by No Hands’s crib. He was sitting outside talking to Dez and some other nigga I hadn’t seen before. When I walked up I gave Dez dap and No Hands a pound. I gave the stranger a head nod before he returned one back.

  “This is my nigga, Kauzie. Kauzie, this is my cousin Osari,” Dez said, introducing us.

  Osari just chilled as he smoked a blunt. The nigga didn’t talk much, I noticed, or maybe it was because he didn’t know us. The same purple Jaguar pulled up that was at the shop earlier. It had to be the girl, Tasira. She was the only female I knew with a car like that around Annapolis.

  “I’ll get up with you later, my nigga,” Osari said to Dez. He gave me and No Hands a head nod then walked to the Jag.

  “Is that his girl?” No Hands asked, licking his lips. This nigga just didn’t give up! He still claims he misses Kyree but had four different girls over his house in the past month.

  “Damn, nigga! When are you going to be dehydrated? You stay thirsty! That’s his sister!” Dez said.

  “Shorty is bad! I can imagine what her body looks like!” No Hands said.

  “I’m ready to go and holla at Shimmy,” Dez said, putting his blunt out.

  “Is that your girl or something?” I asked him.

  “Naw. She didn’t even let me hit it yet,” Dez said, shaking his head.

  “She be tripping on you like that and you didn’t even sniff the pussy yet? Nigga, you are crazy!” No Hands said.

  “She a virgin!” Dez said.

  “Do not fuck her! Please don’t! Leave her ass alone! Go far away!” No Hands said. Shimmy was a wild one so even I was surprised to hear she was a virgin. Then again, that’s probably why she was like that.

  “Shimmy needs some dick. Don’t listen to No Hands, my nigga. You better pop that cherry! But when you do, be prepared. Being the first nigga to slide up in her will have your mind gone! You might be out here trying to catch some bodies!” I told him.

  “Virgin pussy will have you stalking shorty! I was the only man Kyree been with! I will kill her ass if she fucks another nigga! She thinks my word ain’t bond because I can’t choke her ass how I want to!” No Hands said then I chuckled.

  “But all jokes aside, if you want to take Shimmy virginity, you have to cut all them other broads off. A heartbroken woman ain’t shit to play with!” I told Dez. He nodded then gave us dap before he left.

  “Why do you always have to be right?” No Hands asked me.

  “Why do you always have to stick your dick up in everything? You got a baby and you have another one on the way! The girl you been messing with for years don’t even have one by you! Nigga, you fucked up!” I told No Hands.

  After we chatted, No Hands rode to the sports bar with me. When I walked to the bathroom Darrion was coming out. I bumped into him.

  “Damn, nigga! What are you mad for this time?” he asked, smiling.

  I chuckled because this nigga had more jokes than Wild N’ Out.

  “I ain’t even going to fuck up your pride. You got a lot of shit on your plate right now, my nigga, including being a snitch! But do your thing. I guess that’s smart of you. I know what they do to niggas like you in jail,” I said laughing. He balled his fists up then I stepped to him.

  “Do something, nigga,” I gritted. Darrion bit his bottom lip then I laughed.

  “Thought so, bitch-ass nigga!” I said, walking into the bathroom. He was lucky we were not out in the streets. After I was done I went back out to the bar. Darrion and a few of his homeboys started mean-mugging me.

  “Yo, those niggas are up to something,” No Hands said.

  “Fuck them niggas,” I said, ordering my drink. After a while Darrion and his boys got up to leave. He pointed his finger at me like he was pulling a trigger. I held my hands up letting him know he wasn’t a threat.

  “Damn! That nigga is in his feelings!” No Hands said.

  “That’s not my problem. He already knows Tokyo ain’t going nowhere. That’s all me, all day long, my nigga!” I said smirking. After we paid the tab we walked outside. No Hands was looking around.

  “Yo, what’s going on with you?” I asked him.

  “Something don’t feel right!” he said. All of a sudden gunshots rang out towards us. I pushed No Hands down. After the fifth shot, Darrion’s Mercedes sped off.

  “That nigga is dead!” I said, standing up. I had blood on my shirt but I didn’t feel any pain. I looked down and No Hands was on the ground with his arm bleeding.

  “Shit! Mannnnnn, God don’t like my black ass! He took my damn hands and now I’m ready to not have a damn arm! Nigga, just kill me because I’m losing body parts and shit! Pretty soon I’m not going to have any damn legs! I don’t even go anywhere and I’m out here looking like I was in Afghanistan at war!” No Hands fussed as I helped him up.

  “You will have your dick and your tongue though!” I said, trying to take his mind off his arm. He smiled. “I guess you’re right! ARRHHHGGGHHHHHH! This shit is starting to hurt!” he said. “Call Kyree and tell her I’m dying! Maybe she will feel sorry for me and come back to me! Damn, maybe things happen for a reason!” No Hands said as I helped him get into the truck.

  “We could’ve gotten killed! I’m fucking that nigga up! I swear I am! I want to kill the nigga but I got shit to lose! I came too far to end up in jail over that fuck nigga! Damn it!” I said, hitting my steering wheel.

  My phone rang and it was Tokyo. It was getting late and I promised her I would be in at a decent time.

  “What’s up, shorty?” I asked, trying to calm my voice down so it wouldn’t upset her. No Hands was hollering and yelling in the background.

  “What’s going on, Kauzie? Is everything okay?” she asked me.

  “Nigga, will you shut the fuck up? It’s just a graze!” I said to No Hands.

  “Tell Kyree I love her! My visi
on is going black! I can’t feel my knuckles! Everything is going numb! I’m about to die, nigga!” No Hands shouted.

  “What is going on, Kauzie? What the fuck happened to No Hands?” Tokyo started yelling at me.

  “Nothing, shorty! He fell and sprained his arm!” I lied.

  “They shot at a nigga! They wanted to take me out like how they did Denzel Washington in ‘Training Day’! I love you, Tokyo! Tell Kyree to make sure she put her pretty picture in my casket before they bury my retarded ass!” No Hands said.

  Tokyo started panicking as I tried to calm her down. Then she started asking if I was hit before she began praying. I should fuck No Hands up for getting my shorty upset like this. I told Tokyo I would call her back because I had to help No Hands out. This nigga was doing too much! He even fainted after I helped him out of the truck. I had to pick him up off the ground. As soon as we came into the emergency room the nurses at the check-in desk rushed to him. He did have a lot of blood everywhere but the wound itself didn’t look that bad.

  A half-hour later Kyree and Tokyo rushed in. It looked like No Hands’s plan worked. He finally got Kyree to come see about him. That is one slick dude! I chuckled to myself as Kyree carried on.

  “Oh God, not my baby!” Kyree said, falling over on Tokyo. Tokyo hugged Kyree and I shook my head. This nigga might walk out with a Band-Aid! I want to see how Kyree would feel then.

  “Who shot at y’all?” Tokyo asked me.

  “That bitch-ass nigga, Darrion! I’m fucking him up, Tokyo! I swear I am! I’m going to have that nigga head knotted up like how Martin’s was on that one episode!” I said.

  “That punk!” Tokyo said.

  “All I want to do is go home and take a shower. I’m too tired to fuck but I wouldn’t mind getting some head. After you’re done taking care of your man, I’m going to fall asleep with my hand on your stomach,” I told her. She slapped my arm.

  “Why are you thinking about that? Nigga, can’t you see Kyree is hurting and No Hands might not make it!” Tokyo said grilling me. I threw my hands up in frustration.

  “That nigga was grazed on his arm! I wish y’all would stop fooling around now! Damn! Y’all embarrassing a nigga up in here! If No Hands wouldn’t have fainted he probably would’ve still been in the waiting area!” I said to them. Kyree sucked her teeth.

  “That handicapped fucker set us up! He wants someone to feel sorry for his stankin’ ass! You just wait till I go back there!” Kyree spat.

  An hour later we were able to go back. No Hands was high off some pain pills. He had a small bandage on his arm. I couldn’t help but laugh at this nigga.

  “Where is my baby? Tell her to come forward before God calls me home. He took some of my body home already. Now, all he needs is my other parts,” No Hands said, nodding off.

  Tokyo gave Kyree a look letting her know to behave. Kyree rolled her eyes as she rubbed No Hands’s arm.

  “Are you okay, baby?” Kyree asked him, rubbing her hand down his face.

  “I missed you! All I could think about was you when my life flashed me by!” he said, kissing her forearm. Kyree looked like she wanted to hit No Hands but Tokyo elbowed her. Tokyo would do anything to make sure No Hands was happy.

  “I missed you too, baby!” Kyree said, kissing his lips. No Hands looked at me then winked, nodding his head as Kyree hugged him.

  My phone rang and it was Tassana. I looked at it then turned it off. Tokyo was looking at me from out of the corner of her eye.

  “What?” I asked her.

  “Who was that?” she asked me.

  “I don’t know, Tokyo. That’s why I didn’t answer it,” I said to her.

  A few hours later, No Hands was free to go home. Kyree drove so Tokyo left with me. No Hands left with Kyree. He was all smiles and I couldn’t stop laughing at that nigga.

  When we pulled up to our house there was a dodge Charger in the driveway. The license plate read, Badder Twin. I already knew who it was. Tokyo got out of my truck then Tassana got out of her car. Tokyo shouldn’t have showed this bitch our house in the first place! I was a little heated about that. I did not want this bitch to know where we lived. I knew she was going to pop up sooner or later.

  “Bitch, do you see what time it is?” Tokyo asked Tassana.

  “I’m never worried about time, Tokyo. Just like you aren’t worried about fucking your sister’s man!” Tassana said to her.

  “What are you doing here, Tassana?” I asked her. She rolled her eyes at me.

  “I want my necklace back!” Tassana said.

  Tokyo got in her face. “Bitch your name ain’t New New and Kauzie’s name isn’t Rashaad! Bitch, you ain’t getting your necklace back!” Tokyo said, laughing.

  “That necklace meant a lot to me!” Tassana said. That’s one thing the broad ever told the truth about. She had never taken it off up until she and Tokyo switched.

  “Kauzie, go get this bitch her necklace! I will stand right here because I don’t trust this bitch around you!” Tokyo said to me.

  “That necklace was for you but she happened to find it before I could give it to you!” I said making Tassana’s face drop.

  Tassana then looked at Tokyo with a smirk on her face. “Did Kauzie tell you I have been talking to him on the phone? I bet his phone rings a lot! I even went past his job the other day and he was happy to see me! Isn’t that right, baby?” Tassana asked me.

  Tokyo struck Tassana in the face then started pounding on her. Tassana tried to swing back but she wasn’t a match for an angry Tokyo. Tokyo choked-slammed her against her car then proceeded to whip her ass. I’m not going to lie I wanted Tokyo to get a few hits in before I broke it up.

  “You are pregnant, Tokyo! Chill the fuck out!” I finally said to her. Tokyo had a good hold on Tassana’s shirt as she continued to swing on her. Tokyo’s punches connected with Tassana’s eye each time. Tassana finally got some hits in to Tokyo’s face. I yanked Tokyo from Tassana then Tassana slipped in the process.

  “Chill the fuck out!” I shouted. Tassana got up then fixed her shirt. “You ghetto bitch!” Tassana screamed at Tokyo.

  “You dead bitch! That’s right, hoe! I ran into Osari the other day! He thought I was you! He put a gun to my head all because of your hoe ass! You stole some money from him! Well, that nigga is in town and I hope he catches your rotten ass!” Tokyo said laughing. Did Tokyo just say a nigga had a gun to her head?

  “Osari is in town?” Tassana asked, her mood lightening up. Whoever this Osari nigga is must have a spot in her heart. But that name sounded familiar. Then it all came back to me. He was the nigga related to Dez.

  “This shit ain’t over,” Tassana said to Tokyo. Tassana got in her car then backed up out of the driveway.

  “Why didn’t you tell me a nigga pulled a gun out on you?” I asked her.

  “The same reason why you didn’t tell me about Tassana popping up on you and calling your phone! Only difference is I didn’t tell you about Osari because he didn’t know Tassana had a twin. He thought I was her. Can you blame him?” Tokyo said, storming towards the house.

  “I don’t know how I feel about that shit, Tokyo!” I said standing behind her as she unlocked the door.

  “You aren’t supposed to feel nothing about it! He didn’t mean it! My sister has fucked my life up! If it wasn’t for him looking under my right ass cheek he would’ve killed me!” she said.

  “That nigga did what?” I asked getting heated.

  “Tassana has a mole under her right ass cheek! He said Tassana lies so much he thought it was her saying that she was a twin,” Tokyo said.

  “I didn’t even know that! I must not have been paying attention to that bitch like that after all this time. I thought twins had the same of everything,” I said.

  “Tia and Tamara is the same way, dumb-ass! Tamara has moles on her face, Tia doesn’t! But let’s not get off topic, Kauzie!” she said, crossing her arms, mugging me.

  “What?” I asked her.

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sp; “You sneaky-ass nigga! Why didn’t you tell me that bitch was calling you and why have you been lying to me about it? Your phone rang in No Hands’s hospital room and you ignored it. It was that bitch, wasn’t it?” Tokyo asked me.

  “I didn’t want you to think we were having problems or that there was going to be competition. I wanted it to be out of sight, out of mind,” I said.

  “Whatever, nigga!” Tokyo slammed her purse down. She went up the stairs to our bedroom.

  “You mad at me?” I asked, hugging her. She pushed me off of her.

  “You know what I have noticed? When we were just friends you told me everything. Now, I’m your woman and I don’t know shit! Let that shit marinate, nigga! Don’t fucking touch me tonight! Don’t look at me and you better lay your ass far away from me when we get in the bed! I don’t give a rat’s ass if your bright ass falls off onto the floor! Fuck you, Kauzie!” Tokyo said to me.