Page 114 of Deuce

I frown. “What are you doing to make my mama feel insecure?”

“Stanley, stop it,” my mother warned me. “Aaron has been a perfect gentleman the entire time we’ve been dating. I just wanted to be sure he’d be around for a while before I introduced him to you. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

I gave her a side eye, then him. “You care about my mama?”

Aaron nodded. “Very much.”

“You know I’m gonna look into you, right?”

“You don’t have to do that. I’ll tell you whatever you want to know about me.”

“Nah, that’s not gonna suffice for me. I don’t know you, so I don’t trust you and I don’t play about this woman. We’ll talk though.”

My mother rolled her eyes. “Go find a seat, Stanley What are you gonna do with him, Salima?”

Salima giggled. “I don’t know Ms. Stephanie. I’ll think of something.”

She winked at me. I spoke briefly with my father before we grabbed a seat with Maceo, Shar, and the rest of my siblings. They were already talking shit, and we jumped right in with the conversation. It started getting a little loud before my grandmother turned around to shush us.

It wasn’t long before my father took the stage to give his welcome speech. When he was done, the servers made rounds bringing out the food. As we ate, there was barely a sound made, that’s how you knew that shit was good. By the time we were finished eating, Salima was ready to work the food off.

As good as she was looking, I offered to work it off her in a different way, but she laughed at me.

“I got you when we get back to my place. I wanna dance, baby. Please!”

She gave me that innocent look, and of course, my ass caved. Wed made our way out to the dance floor along with Maceo and Shar just as the DJ put on “Juicy” by Vedo and Ari Lennox. I didn’t listen to no shit like that, but when my baby started grinding her thick ass all up on me, I said fuck it.

I grabbed that muthafucka and dance back with her. Maceo and Shar were damn near dry humping. I knew they had to be fucking the shit outta each other.

“Get a fucking room,” I said to them.

The both grinned and flipped me off. I felt Salima’s finger to the side of my face. She turned me to face her.

“You need to be focused on me, not your brother and my bestie.”

She turned around and put her ass right on my dick.

“Mmm, mmm, mmm. What was I thinking?”

She giggled as she continued to roll and wind her hips to the beat of the song. The DJ decided to throw it back with “After Party” by Koffee Brown. The dance floor was flooded with people.

The vibe felt like a backyard barbeque. There wasn’t any bullshit. No drama. Just people coming together to have a good time for a good cause. After what seemed like forever, Salima said she needed to go to the bathroom. After grabbing their clutches from the table, they headed toward the back where the bathrooms were. Me and Mace sat our black asses down.

“Bruh, I’m tired as hell already,” he said, gulping down his drink. “I ain’t used to all this damn dancing.”

Jaeda laughed. “You could have fooled me. You and Shar looked good together.”

“Yeah,” Mia agreed. “As much as I wanna be a hater, I can’t be. Y’all make a cute couple.”

“We ain’t no damn couple.”

“Bullshit!” we all said.

He waved us off. “Aye, how are you feeling about Ma’s boyfriend?”

I kissed my teeth. “I don’t know. She looks happy and shit, so he might be a’ight.”

Kerrion laughed. “Yo’ daddy gon’ bust a blood vessel if he mean mugs that man any harder.”

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