Page 29 of I'm So Mega
I laughed because she was way too much sometimes. “Yeah, you gotta keep them in check. If that’s your job, then you take it seriously.”
“I do. You said I have to do everything my hand touches with excellent. I do that.” She turned her little four-year-old nose up.
Charles returned with our drinks. He set them down on the table and gave us the straws. “Are you ready to order?”
Of course I let the lady go first. “Yes, Charlie, can I have chicken tenders with waffle fries. Can you add a little more salt than normal?” She put her hand up. “Not a lot. I gotta watch my blood press.” When he asked her if she wanted sauce, she thought about it for a quick second. “Yes, a lil polynes mixed with honey mustard.”
I ordered a chicken sandwich after she handed her menu over to Charlie. They would always take care of Megan Manfield because she was the part owner with me of this franchised location. It was a birthday present for her second birthday. She didn’t know that she owned it, of course. It was a lot of paperwork to put her name on the papers since she was a minor.
Our food came out, and we started to eat. When she froze halfway through dinner, I was on high alert. My head tilted when she swooped her little pigtail behind her ear.What in the world?
Next thing I knew, some little boy approached the table. “Hi, Megan. You look pretty.”
I know you lying to me.I had to remind myself that it was inappropriate and a crime to pick this lil nigga up and fling his ass across the restaurant. God wouldn’t be pleased.
“Hi, Corbin. You look nice too.” My little sister actually blushed at this nigga. “Are you here with your mom?”
He pointed toward the other side of the restaurant at a woman who sat at a table with a cheesy ass smile. She thought this was cute. She was over there smiling, and I was over here wondering if she had child life insurance with the addedaccidental death and dismemberment. I zoned back in when I heard Megan’s voice.
“This is my brother, Megatron.” She turned her little glazed over eyes to me. “Mega, this is my . . . friend, Corbin.”
The pause before she said friend messed me up.Did this little girl just introduce me to her boyfriend?I stuck my hand out. “Hi, Corbin. It’s so nice of you to interrupt our date.”
Corbin laughed. “You’re funny.” He dismissed me. “Megan, so you want to play with me in the playhouse?”
She gave me those soft, pleading eyes that she knew I couldn’t say no to. “You can go ahead, but remember you have on a dress, lil miss.”
Her excitement made me happy, broke my heart, and made me fearful. She climbed out of her seat with Corbin’s help, came over and kissed me on my cheek, then Corbin and she ran to the playhouse. My sister was savage at four. She left me in the middle of our date for someone else. All I could do was watch her as she played. I knew that she had shorts on under her dress because the plan was always to let her play. I just never thought it would be with a little boy.
“I think our kids make a cute couple,” a female voice said from the side of me. She sat down without an invitation. “I think it’s so cute.”
I took her in for a moment. She looked young but old in the same breath. “I bet you think teenage pregnancy is cute too.” I allowed the shock of my words to register in her mind. “There is nothing cute about calling a couple of four-year-olds a couple. They are simply two kids playing together. Watch ya mouth.”
“Geez, I was just trying to make conversation. You don’t have to be rude,” she snapped. Her face tightened.
I tilted my head. “You know what’s rude? Not teaching your son to say excuse me when he interrupts someone. I see he got itfrom his mama, though, because you came over here uninvited talking about our kids were a couple.”
While she stared at me, a small sense of conviction prickled my skin.Big G, not now, Man. She’s trying to make my sister be a teenage mother.The nudge happened again. I took a deep inhale. “Look, my bad for being so rude. It’s hard seeing my baby sister grow up.”
“Wow, that’s your baby sister? Your mama was getting it in at your big age,” she said with a giggle. “I appreciate the apology.”
When she leaned forward on the table, I held my hand up. “I understand that I apologized for my rudeness, but I still don’t wish to sit here and have random conversation with a woman who is not my wife. I wouldn’t allow her to do it, so I won’t either.”
Yeah, it wasn’t that kind of party. I was here for a date with lil miss. I wanted to sit here, eat my sandwich, and let Megan play for a little while. Ole girl just stared at me as I started to eat my sandwich again. She eventually got the point and left my table.
First it was my baby girl, Maggie, and my niece, Kellie. Now it was my little sister, Megan.Big G, give me strength.
A Short Time Later. . .
Croy:
Aye! I need y’all here now. My house in the Sum not Core. The ladies in Core. DADCOM 1! Riker and Draco are already here.
This had to be serious for that to be put into our group chat. Dadcom 1 hadn’t been used in years. The fact that Croy used it made it worse. He was like our marriage, father guru. When he needed us, that meant that he was having homicidal thoughts, and he needed us to talk him off the ledge.
Ned:
I’m on the way. Corleone and Pops is coming with me.
