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“Nigga, that ain’t speaking.” He laughed. “But that’s beside the point. What’s got you in such a good mood?”

“Nothing for real. Me and Kaylen went out last night, that’s about it.”

“Oh, yeah?” He leaned back in the chair, looking at me.

I already knew where this shit was headed. Kendric stayed being nosy as fuck, especially when it came to me and Kaylen.

“Yeah, nigga.”

“Where you take her?”

“The Vesper Room.”

“The rooftop spot?”

“Yeah.” I nodded before taking another bite of my sandwich.

“Okay, then. Look at my nigga doing grown man shit.” He laughed. “She enjoy herself?”

“Yeah, she did. Although her ass spent half the night talking about how expensive everything was.”

Kendric laughed. “For real?”

“Man, I'm talking about soon as she opened the menu, she started looking at them prices like somebody had lost their damn mind.”

“Shit, you know everybody ain't used to spending that kind of money on food.”

“I know, but I wasn't expecting her to be worried about the prices when she wasn't the one paying.”

“That's probably just how she is, bruh.”

“Yeah, I'm starting to see that.”

I reached for one of my potatoes, still picturing Kaylen looking up from that menu like she wanted to ask the waitress if the prices were a typo.

She wasn’t sitting around waiting for me to spend money on her, and I liked that. It made doing something nice for her feel different.

“See, bruh, them the type of females you keep around.”

“Yeah,” I agreed, finishing off the last bite of my sandwich.

I was mad as hell that my shit was gone because that sandwich was good as fuck. I was tempted to step out and grab another one, but I had too much shit to do, so I wasn’t about to make another trip.

“So, bruh, tell me why I ran into Lha’Kayla last night,” Kendric said with a smile.

“That’s what’s up. Where you ran into her at?”

“Big Moe’s. I was getting something to eat, and her ass was in there.”

I nodded, balling up the wrapper from my sandwich and tossing it into the trash.

“So, I asked her for her number, but guess what she told me?” He started laughing.

“I can only imagine.”

I already knew Lha’Kayla’s ass had something slick to say. She was Kaylen’s sister, and from the little time I’d spent around her, I could tell them two had the same damn mouth.

“She told me her girlfriend wouldn’t like that.”