“I know I wanna be treated better than a fuck, blunt and shots. A nice dinner with the works. I can see myself doing that. We’re always turned up; sometimes it’s okay to tone it down.”
I nodded, filing it away in my memory.
We ended up falling asleep on the couch. No fucking, just relaxing. That had my ass worried because I realized I liked hanging with her outside of sex and the other shit. Why was it easy with Suki?
* * *
Not even a couple of days later, I was back at Mama’s crib. I needed her advice because there was this urge to do something different… something I’ve never done before.
“Two times in a few days. It’s serious. What’s going on, Devin?”
I took a seat.
She went into the coffee table, inside her secret compartment, and pulled out her pre-rolls.
“You put something on my mind the other day.”
“Oh, Lord, let me get two. My baby’s thinking, y’all.” She grabbed another, handing me one before putting fire to hers.
I laid back on the couch, staring at the ceiling as I lit mine.
“What’s an ideal date for you?”
She laid her head back on her chair. “One where I don’t have to fuck just because I got a lobster,” she joked, but that shit hit me in the chest. All jokes were laced with 50% truth. It made me realize that Mama probably hasn’t likely never gone on a real date before.
“I’m dead ass, Ma.”
She stared at the ceiling like she was envisioning it.
Smoke swirled around the living room with the TV as background noise. I was all ears. I wanted to get inside a woman’s mind to see what I’d been missing. I braced myself for something I wasn’t even sure about.
“Something classy, you know?” she began.
The more Ma talked, the more her eyes lit up. It made me feel bad a couple times because she was getting lost in a fantasy that she’s never experienced and that shit’s sad. Mama’s always been a down ass bitch for her niggas. I knew there were some no-good mothafuckas in the mix, but every one of them? What the hell was she doing with their asses, much less giving them babies?
After a couple blunts and chopping it up, I headed to Saks Fifth to do some shopping. I wanted this shit to be right, and with the information fresh on my head, I hit up Rayzor to come help a nigga out.
“Damn, they on you like twelve.”
He smacked his teeth. “That’s Morrison, stupid ass.” He looked back at his security detail. “This my city. Fuck I look like having security?”
“You ain’t regular no more, nigga. You know it’s a mothafucka waiting on that opportunity off hate. Not to mention the shit we do in the streets. No lacking.”
“You know I stay with it on me. I dare a nigga to run up, and I don’t even need the shit.”
“I’m already knowing.” I glanced back.
I picked up a shirt that I liked; it was hard. It was a short-sleeve black Moncler shirt.
“Nigga, you ain’t going to the lounge. You need some playa shit.”
“Show me your ways, ole Master Rayzor looking ass,” I joked.
“What kind of look you going for?”
I shrugged.
He grabbed a short-sleeve Emporio Armani satin shirt, and another long-sleeve version.