Page 38 of So Special: Fanatic Love

“Come on. I’ma call ya mama and tell ha to keep Ashtan tonight,” he told me while he carried me to his bedroom. After he sat me on his bed, he pulled my scrub top over my head. He left me there to start the shower. Who would have thought that he could be such an attentive man? Before I knew it, we were in the shower, and he washed my body. I sat on the shower bench until he finished washing himself.

He didn’t stop there. He moisturized my body, put one of his wife beaters on me, and put me to bed. “I love you, Fat-fat,” he assured me before he tucked me in.

“I love you too, Asher.” Today had been a day. My car got messed up. I confessed my love to Asher out loud, and I got some miraculous dick. Asher’s love being on the same page as mine felt amazing. I wasn’t sure if this counted as a bad or good day. It for sure felt lovely.

A Short Time Later…

Penny had to be the stupidest female that I never wanted to know. Why would she file charges against me only to come into a parking garage that had cameras to vandalize my damn car? When the police reached out to me earlier today to let me know that they found the culprit, you could have bought me with a half a penny when they said it was Penny Pages. No pun intended.

When we watched the video surveillance, she would bust my windows and slash my tires when no one was there so she didn’t risk anyone hearing the glass break. The ho ducked between cars like a crackhead when people did come. The fact that the parking garage did not have proper lighting worked in her favor. The dumb bitch didn’t even wear a mask.Whorewas spraypainted on my driver’s side.Slut bucketwas spray painted on the passenger. For the finale, she putfatsoon the hood.Fatso!How old are we?

Asher expressed his confusion on how she was able to do that if security was watching or supposed to be watching the cameras. He chuckled when we were told that the security guard was paid fifteen hundred dollars to look the other damn way. It was like wow! Now she had a class one misdemeanor vandalism charge because the damage was worth more than two hundred dollars.Dumb bitch!I’d rather my assault charge than a weak ass vandalism charge.

“Dat gal need her head buss in,” Mama Lina fussed. “She need ta be worry bout her husband or lack der of now.” She was livid when she found out about what Penny did.

My mother chortled. “She really does. I promise these young kids are crazy.”

Me, Daisy, Zane, Tiara, and my parents were at Mama Lina’s house for dinner. I loved that my parents and Asher’s parents were fostering a relationship. They were all pleased when we made the announcement that we were in a committed relationship.

“Mama, that lady is not young. She’s thirty-seven years old.” I revealed. That was a little tidbit that I found out.

Mama Lina’s neck snapped toward the back door where Asher, Zane, my daddy, and Pop Collin were at. Tiara busted out laughing. She knew her mother well. Without moving from her place at the table in the kitchen that we all sat at, she yelled out for Asher.People from Charleston are loud.I wasn’t surprised at all that he heard her and came inside.

“Dang, Mama. You callin me like da law,” he said with a squished face. He was still handsome with his locs sitting atop his head. “What up?”

She shifted in her seat to face him. “So dat lady you been ta ride was ole? Boy, why you outcha riding women who get social security statements?”Wait, what?

He glared at her, then me, then over his shoulder at Zane. He knew that I was the one that told her Penny’s age. When I found out, I side-eyed him for a moment. “Mama, vagina is ageless.”

“E ageless until e dry up on ya lil peen and give ya rug burn,” she callously said. We all sat there still before the room erupted into laughter. Why was she like this?

Pop Collin went over and kissed Mama Lina on the forehead. “Baby, thirty-seven is not old. You fifty-four.”

Her eyes tightened to the point that I thought they were closed. “Da fuck you tryin to say, Collin? I know I got age on me. Don’t get box off in here before you don’t get no cat whether e dry or leakin.”

“Mama! You runnin out, man!” Tiara exclaimed. All of the younger people in the room had the screw face at her words. Pop Collin, my daddy, and mama thought it was funny. “Yeah, y’all stay in here. Da younga people ga go on da deck. Ain’t nobody wanna hear bout parental body parts.”

I couldn’t stop laughing. Asher extended his hands to pull me up from my seat. “Come on, goofy.” His arms wrapped around me.

Ashtan and Ashan were asleep in the pack and play. Both of them could sleep through a hurricane. We left our parents in the house and went to the deck. Zane and Daisy were still on their good bullshit. I wished they would get it together because it was blatantly obvious that they wanted each other.Let me see something.“Daisy, has Mason reached back out to you?”

Yeah, I’m being messy.Since Zane crashed her date, Mason had been lowkey harassing her. She’d blocked him, but he still found ways to reach out. I wasn’t supposed to say anything but fuck that. I’d rather Zane and Asher know so they could checkhis ass if needed. No matter what happened between her and Zane, I knew he would never let anyone hurt her.

“Um, yeah, he has,” she admitted. She rocked in her seat with her cup in her hand. “I…I think I’m just going to change my number. He can’t get into y’all building, so I feel better about that.” She didn’t want to admit that he rattled her, but when she rolled up to my condo with three suitcases tostay for a little bit,I knew something was up.

Zane’s head sloped to the left then right. He moved to the front of his seat. “What you mean he can’t get into our building, Daisy? That nigga following you or something?”Yahtzee!

“No, I mean, not really.” Her answer was barely audible. “He’s come to my job a time or two and my parents’ house, but my daddy threatened to shoot him.”

Now Asher sat on the edge of his seat. “Why da fuck you jus now sayin’ somethin? Dat man ain’t got time to be runnin’ behind nobody. E game weak as fuck and dey talkin bout tradin ‘m.”

Daisy took a sip of her drink. “It’s not a big deal. I’m staying with Katniss for a little while.”

“The fuck do you mean it’s not a big deal, Daisy? You sound stupid as hell.” Zane was mad. That vein in the side of his neck protruded out.

Daisy snickered, then said, “I’m a ho and stupid now. Whew, I’m on a roll.” She said it as if she was speaking more to herself than any of us.

Now it was Zane that snickered. He put his head down. His fingers massaged his temples. “Well, hos need protection too.”

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