Page 54 of The Key To His Soul
“Good looking,” Aura said. “I won’t need one. Wassup, y’all?” he greeted with Enzo and Pryce following suit.
“You gon’ stand?” Danae asked.
“Nah, my wife gon’ sit on my lap.” He held his hand out to her, and she stood for him to sit.
“Oh, y’all make me wanna throw up,” I joked, pretending to gag as she sat on his lap.
Enzo made his way over to Thyri and kissed her all over her face, while Pryce walked around the table to Dai with Ari strapped to his chest, head moving around, trying to figure out where she was.
“I told you not to come, bae,” she said to him, leaning her head back for him to kiss her lips. “And why you bring the baby?”
“You ain’t tell me not to come. You said you missed her, so I brought her to you. I’m doing that considerate thing you love so much.” He kissed her forehead.
“And what’s your excuse?” Danae asked Aura, feeding him a piece of her asparagus.
“Don’t have one,” he replied, chewing. “So long as you rocking that rock I put on your finger, I’m gon’ pull up and never pull out.”
“Oh, Aura, please,” Amil let out.
Danae didn’t say anything though. She happily fed him another asparagus. She knew her man was unhinged, and I was convinced that she loved every minute of it. Our waiter broughttwo chairs over, and all of a sudden, our party of six became a party of nine.
“Hi, my girl,” I cooed at Ari, who made spit bubbles and did her baby babbling. “She wanna talk so bad.”
“Yeah,” Dai agreed, reaching over to play with Ari’s tiny fingers. “Her daddy swears she can.”
“She can,” Pryce defended. “Me and my baby talk all the time. We were just talkin’ ‘bout Key before we got here.”
The table erupted in laughter.
“Yo’ ass a fool,” Enzo said, waving him off. “What she say? ‘Cause we was in the same car on the way here.”
“She said she don’t know how she feel about Key fuckin’ wit’ that nigga HVAC.”
“Pryce,” Dai nudged him.
All of a sudden, all eyes were on me.
“Well, for one, y’all baby messy.” I laughed. “Two, stay out my business. Had I known y’all knew him well, I would’ve passed on getting to know him.”
“Why?” Aura asked, taking a sip of Danae’s drink. “I don’t have a problem with y’all fuckin’ wit’ each other. I already told you he good peoples.”
“I’ve been in rooms with him before, so I can vouch for him too,” Enzo added.
I looked over at Pryce.
“Don’t look over here. The jury is still out.”
“Good thing you grown and don’t need none of these niggas’ permission, Key,” Amil said at the end of the table.
“And you see where her not getting our approval got the nigga she was wit’, right?” Aura commented, and Amil shot him the finger.
“Welp, on another note,” Ebone spoke, changing the subject, “since y’all here or whatever, who’s picking up the check?”
“Ohhhh, y’all got a problem wit’ us pulling up, but y’all want niggas to pay the tab?” Pryce questioned, appalled.
“Sounds about right. And since I know y’all was raised right and will, I’ma go ahead and add me something to go.” I waved the waiter over, and Pryce shook his head.
“You betta call that nigga, HVAC, ‘cause I ain’t paying for extras.”
