Page 6 of Don Caselli

Beans looked at Greene. “The fuck is up with your family and color names?”

Greene laughed. “Our mothers had this deal with each other. If they both had girls, then they would name us the other's favorite color. It’s a joke within the family that we all laugh about.”

“It’s so hilarious,” her cousin sarcastically replied while rolling her eyes.

“Don’t be mad because your mother took it a step further by adding blue.” Greene busted out laughing.

Navy looked at her and flipped the middle finger. “The next time you don’t want to attend an event alone, make sure you forget my number.”

Greene continued to laugh and then snatched her clutch back up. “Relax. I know you have been miserable since we arrived. Beans invited us back to his place for drinks and hookah.”

She snatched her bag up and stood up, and that was when I got a good view of the ass she was hiding from me. The dress fell down her body like a piece of silk falling from a freshly undone bed.

So effortlessly.

“You wore navy blue because that’s your name?” I asked, remaining seated as she stood beside me.

Her hair touched my arm as she looked down at me. “It was the only thing that looked cute on me tonight.”

“Find that hard to believe.”

She smiled. “Are we leaving or what?”

I saw Kennedy coming from across the room toward where we were. Navy headed around me, ready to get the fuck out of here. I peeped her kindle and picked it up as I stood to leave.

“Landon are you really going to leave right now?” she asked, checking her watch, then looking back at me.

“You busy, birthday girl. It’s cool. I’ll get up with yo?—”

“Well, look at you being so nice and holding Kindle-esha,” Navy came back over and gently took her kindle from my hand.

When I looked down at her, her body just fit perfectly next to mine. Like she was meant to be there. She looked at Kennedy and smiled.

“Yeah, I got you.”

She shoved it back into my hand. “Cool, you can carry it, since it doesn’t mesh well with my outfit.” With that, she went back over toward where Greene was while Beans went to settle the table for me.

Kennedy watched her walk away, and then her eyes looked up at me. “You messing around with Navy? Come on, Don.”

I looked down at her, not even rattled by what the fuck she said. Kennedy was throwing shit out there because my attention, for a split second, wasn’t on her. Even from across the room, as she took pictures and talked with her friends, I watched as she looked up every so often and saw me and Navy talking to each other.

“Nah.”

“Then why are you leaving with her?”

I looked back at Navy, Greene and Beans waiting for me. “You see two other people, right?”

The frustration entered her face, and it made her look even more cute. She wasn’t getting her way and was mad because of it. “I thought you came for me?”

“You preoccupied. Finish enjoying your party and then hit me up.” I rubbed the back of my hand gently down her face, and she smiled up at me.

She wanted to kiss me, and her body wouldn’t allow her to because she was scared of anything getting back to Menace. While she was worried, I didn’t give a fuck what made it back to his ass.

The fuck was he gonna do?

Put me over his knee and beat me?

Cutting me off from the family’s money was a thought, but I could take care of myself without the Caselli money, and he knew that shit. As much as he didn’t want what was happening between me and Kennedy to happen, the shit was moving toward that.

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