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“Man, if I knew you was about to get freaky like that, shit.”

I slowly turned around.

“If you knew?”

“Yeah.”

“I’ve been telling you.”

“I know.”

“No, you don’t know. I’ve literally been telling you for years.”

He smiled like I was joking.

“Well, shit. I know now.”

I stared at him.

See.

That was exactly the fucking problem.

I’d been trying to tell this nigga.

But somehow now that I’d actually done the shit instead of asking him for it, suddenly it was the best sex of his fucking life.

Before I could say anything, the buzzer went off.

“I’ll get it.”

Xay grabbed my hips, squeezed them and kissed the side of my neck before walking away.

I watched him go.

Then looked back inside the refrigerator.

Lord.

I heard him answer the buzzer.

“Yeah?”

A pause.

Then the buzz of the downstairs door unlocking.

I grabbed my list from the counter and walked into the living room.

Upstairs sounded like somebody had released four wild animals.

A thump hit the floor.

Then somebody screamed.

“Would y’all fucking stop?!” I yelled. “It’s not even twelve o’clock in the afternoon yet!”

“Sorry, Mom!” Zion yelled.