Page 30 of Absolute Fulfillment
G answered on the first ring, sounding like he was asleep. “Yo.”
“You ’bouta have that nigga Lotus at your club tonight?”
“Yeah, Prada booked him the other week. Why?”
I was about to respond but Reminisce spoke before I could. “His girl is gonna be there with her friend. He’s tryna be nosy.”
Dimitri laughed. “I didn’t know you had a girl. This new?”
“Who has a girl?” I recognized Beyah’s voice in the background.
“Rennix.”
“Oh, are we gonna meet her?” she asked.
“Yeah, if we all go to the club and see Lotus tonight.” Reminisce had a big, stupid ass smirk on his face.
“Nah. My wife can’t go see Lotus.” Dimitri’s voice got stern as hell.
Beyah laughed. “That was two, almost three, years ago. You’re being dramatic and it wasn’t that serious.”
“What wasn’t that serious?”
“He tried to kick game. Shit didn’t land, but he still tried even after she didn’t go.”
I could hear Beyah in the background laughing. “But on a serious note, I really wanna meet your girlfriend. Dimitri knows that man is not checking for me. So, yes, we will be there tonight as well.”
“This wasn’t even that type of situ?—”
“Doesn’t matter. She done already got up and grabbed her phone to call Jade,” Dimitri said into the phone, making me shake my head.
“Damn.”
“Ay, you got us for a section, right? I’on do general admission. Shit’s for the common folk,” Reminisce said.
I didn’t know how inquiring about an event ended up as me doing “meet the girlfriend” with these nosy ass people because it was not in my plans. I mean, yeah, I had every intention of popping up on Caya, but not on some letting her meet my siblings shit. Though I wasn’t used to things like this, I wasn’t really bothered by it. A lot of things with Caya were different, a lot just seemed to happen naturally. She wasn’t somebody I was just fucking, but somebody I actually fucked with.
I made it to Oddest,my brother’s club, about two hours into the event. I already knew where my brother’s section was and even the section where Caya would be was located. The two sectionswere next to one another. That was no surprise, as a little after I talked to my brother, I spoke with Kinga. He’d be at Oddest tonight too, he and his people were celebrating Sora’s birthday.
I entered the club, bypassing the bouncer because he probably thought I was my brother. Dimitri wasn’t my twin, but him, Reminisce, and I could pass for triplets were he not so many years younger. The whole first floor was live, red lights beaming off half-clothed bodies and most of the dudes in white T-shirts hanging off the wall. No matter the space or year, niggas were always gonna throw on a white T-shirt.
I glanced up at the stage, a girl moved from side to side with the mic in her hand. She was probably the opening act. Instead of staying on the first floor, I climbed the stairs, moving past the bodies that adorned them, sure to keep my eyes ahead. Once at the top, my eyes scanned the dark red lit space until I felt a tap at my shoulder.
“Your people are at the far end.” Bull, the head of my brother’s security, pointed. Some people could tell us apart and others couldn’t. What always set Rem apart were the tattoos on the side of his face while me nor G had any.
“Good looking.”
I was moving in the direction of my brother when I looked up and saw her. She was fucking gorgeous in olive cargo pants and a corset that had her whole back out. She was fucking ravishing, had me thinking fuck this meet the family shit. I wanted to go home and put my face between her legs.
Before I could reach her, I spotted my little brother and Kinga talking.
“’Bout time you got your ass here,” Dimitri greeted while Kinga laughed, shaking his head like he knew something I didn’t.
“I knew yo’ ass was sliding through.” We shook hands, my eyes jumping around but continuously landing on Caya in the crowded space.
“You knew when I called.” My eyes went from him back to Caya. She was too busy talking to Harlem.
“I heard you been stalking,” Dimitri joked and I shook my head.
