Page 41 of All The Smoke
“Aight,” he said, then went silent.
I hated when he did that shit because it was basically his way of saying I’m waiting. Noah had to be in the know about everything a nigga had going on. I hated and loved it at the same time. Aside from my son, he was the only person in the world who genuinely loved me unconditionally. I had Bino and Scoot too, but that shit Bri told me lived in my head rent free. I couldn’t help the shit.
“You remember the bitch I was telling you about?”
“The woman from Solo’s dentist’s office, yes.”
“Whatever,” I mumbled. “She just hit me with some pregnancy bullshit.”
“Pregnancy? You slept with her?” he asked. “Never mind,of courseyou slept with her. You sleep with everyone.”
“Cap.” I smirked like he could see me. “I’ve left a few women disappointed because I turned them down.”
“Anyway, what is she saying and why would she text something like that?”
“Because I told her ass I wasn’t coming over her crib.”
“Solomon…”
Here he goes.
“Don’t start.”
“Naw, let’s start,” he countered. “Don’t tell me you’re not going to see about what she’s saying.”
“Aight, I won’t.”
“Wow, Smoke.”
I frowned. “What?”
“I’m disappointed,” he said. Noah knew how much it fucked with me when he said that shit. I never gave a fuck when my mama said I let her down and I definitely didn’t care when Bishop said that shit, but I always wanted my brother to be proud of me. I wanted him to always know and feel like he did a good job when it came to me. I kept all of his advice near and dear to my heart and I wanted to implement some of the shit when I could.
“This isn’t you.”
“I didn’t do shit, Noah.” I sighed.
“At the very least you need to go over there. A baby is serious.”
“I know that,” I snapped, frustrated that I slipped up with her ass. I never run up in chicks raw, but I had with her ass.Fuck!“Damn, man.”
“Did you sleep with her with no protection?”
“Unfortunately,” I mumbled.
“Then text her and meet her.”
“For what? For all I know she been fuckin’ hella niggas.”
“On one hand that may be true,” he agreed. “But on the other, you’re the only man she’s been sleeping with. That’s also a possibility.”
“Bruh, I hate when you try to make sense of shit.”
“I’m your big brother. It’s my job.”
“Fine.” I sighed. “I’ll see what she talking about.”
“Good and be nice about it, Smoke.”
