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“I ain’t trying to have Bubbles homeless. She got a whole house she can come to,” I finally replied.

“What about Peanut?” This nigga had lost his mind. He knew I didn’t give a fuck what happened to him.

“Peanut about to have a permanent residence with the Lord. Until you find something on him, I don’t give a fuck where he lives. It just won’t be in my building.”

“Your building? Mufucka, you just got ownership forty minutes ago. You talking like that shit been in your family for generations.”

“So, the fuck what! Shut up, damn!” Key looked offended and I knew that was only about to rile him up more.

“That’s why I hope she goes somewhere else,” his petty ass said while throwing fries in his mouth.

“Juanita ain’t letting her stay there too long, and hopefully, Taffy enjoys her space and likes to live alone.”

“Mufucka over here calculating how long his bitch can stay with other people. Wheewww! That’s a whole lot of hoping for somebody who just bought a building.” He went back to eating, but I thought about what he said, and he was right. Maybe I needed to stack the deck.

“You should fuck with her. You know, occupy her time.”

“I know you ain’t trying to pimp me out to get your girl back.” When I didn’t respond, he looked like he had enough.

“Mannn, fuck you!” He cuddled Lovii and laid back. Finally, he shut up so I could think. Bubbles was still feeling like this was her choice and that I was okay with it. Showing up that night shook her, but I wasn’t making myself clear. I needed her to understand she would never be comfortable with that nigga. Yeah, it was time I pulled back up on her ass again. Parking in front of Key’s house, I tapped him to wake him up.

“Hey, you mind keeping Lovii for me for a lil bit?”

“Yeah. When you get over there, tell Bubbles I said hi.” His ass laughed as he climbed out the truck. Reaching in the back, I passed him her bag.

“I’ll be back. Make sure you go over the paperwork and my name not anywhere on it.”

“Say less.”

“Call me if you need anything,” I threw out.

“I’m not calling you unless her ass starts speaking English. Get the fuck on!” Laughing, I pulled off and headed straight to Bubbles’s house. Once I pulled up, I parked a few houses down so that I wasn’t directly in front of her building. I grabbed my phone and dialed her number. She sent my ass to voicemail. That was cute. Going to our thread, I sent her a message.

ME: You sure that’s the move you want to make? I’m going to call again, and you better answer! This time when I dialed, she picked up on the first ring.

“Taffy, what do your ass want? Me and Peanut watching a movie.”

“Come downstairs.”

“Girl, I told you I’m busy.”

“And I told you to come downstairs. I don’t like repeating myself, Bubbles.”

“Oh my God! Can this wait until tomorrow?” I could hear her trying to plead with her voice, but I wasn’t moved. Peanut goofy ass said something in the background. She answered him and came back on the line. “What do you want?”

“My dick hard. I need you to come make this mufucka soft.” There was a choking sound that she tried to play off as laughing.

“Girl, you stupid.”

“Either you come down here and suck this mufucka, or I’m coming upstairs and we watching movies together as a family. I can go grab Lovii if that will make it better for you.”

“I’m coming down. This better not take long.” She was arguing with Peanut when the line went dead. I watched the front entrance until she came out. I flicked my lights, and she walked my way. As soon as she climbed inside, she started going off. “Are you out of your fucking mind?”

“Hey, Stink.”

“Stink your ass. You can’t keep showing up here. What is that? Are you trying to blow my spot up? Is it payback?”

“You ain’t got that much time. You wanna argue, or you wanna get your man together?”