When I said that, her face looked like she looked a bit shocked.

"You good?" I asked.

"Yeah.." She said.

"You sure?"

"Yup." She said.

I don't believe her, but ian gon pressure her.

"Her name was Symone. Same as you."

Those words floated around my head.

"Some good people died."

Pause.

Do I know this nigga?

I try to think of someone named Lawan from my past. For me, it's hard to remember because around that time was traumatic because of my parents deaths. My brain tries to block those memories out.

I stare at him for a few minutes. He gave me a confused look.

"You sure you good?" He asked taking me out of my thoughts.

"Huh? Yeah, my bad. I was thinking about some."

I decided not to think more about it.

"Anywayssss." I said.

"Take my phone off da charger and give it to me." He did just that.

When I got my phone, I seen that the time was like 10 pm.

"Damn when it get so late." I said.

"What time it is?" He asked.

"10."

"Dayum. I gotta get gone" He said standing up.

"I'll walk you to da door."

"Ight." He said. He grabbed his stuff and we headed to the door.

When he opened it, it was windy pouring raining.

"Aw hell." He said.

"Damn. I knew it was raining but ian think it was gon rain that hard.."

"Ummm..I don't think you should drive in allat rain. Especially since your house a little far from here."

"Don't you got get on the express way?"

"Yeah..." He said still looking outside rubbing the back of his neck.

"You can stay the night, if you want. We got a guess room."

"Ion wanna overstay my welcome." He said.

"You coo. My brother and I don't mind."

"Ehhh." He said.

"I'll ask him right now."

"You ain't gotta-." I cut him off.

"SYMERE!" I yelled to him.

"Why you gotta yell? I'm right here." He said walking in the kitchen.

"Oh. Ian know."

"Whatchu want?" He asked.

"Can Lawan stay da night?"

"Yeah. I thought he was staying by how long he was here." He said.

"It's too dangerous to be driving in this rain anyway." He said coming out the kitchen with a some chips and a cup.

"Just make sure he sleep in his own bed." He said.

"Don't try nun with my luh sister nigga. I don't conceal and carry. I just carry." He said patting his pants.

I roll my eyes.

"Aye I got a girlfriend bro. You ain't gotta worry about that." Lawan said with his hands up.

"Mmhmm. You heard what I said." He said before turning and walking towards his room.

"Sleep over?" I asked Lawan.

"Sleep over." He said closing the door.

"Eeee!"

He laughed.

"Imma show you yo room and da bathroom and allat. Den. Imma force you to do a face mask wimme." I said getting excited.

"Yeen een gotta force it." He said.

"Good good. Let's go."

***

"Whaaaat? You from Atlanta and don't mess with Future? Be fuckin for real.."

"I mean I know a few songs that I like of his but ion really mess with him like that. I don't know." He said.

"Who do you mess with?"

"Lil baby." Lawan said.

"Mmmm."

"What?" He asked.

"Nun...he coo."

"Nah he better than cool. He da goat for real." He said.

"I wouldn't go that far, but he decent."

"He beyond that." He said.

"I'm finna put you on. Listen to his My Turn album." He said.

"Let ME out youuu on. Go listen to his High Off Life album."

"Okay. Make sure you listen to Lil baby's den." He said.

"Ight bet."

"Who else you be listening to?" He asked.

"Ummm. I be listening toooo Brent Faiyaz, Beyonce, A boogie."

"I listen to lil Durk a little. I'm finna start listening to EST Gee some mo. He got some songs I like."

"Tyler the creator. You know what I got a lot."

"You should send me yo playlist. Wait. What you use to listen to music?" He said.

"I use musi, Apple Music, and Spotify."

"You do not need allat." He said.

"I do tho."

"Why you use all dem apps bruh?" He said chuckling.

"Cuzzz.."

"So first I was on Musi but then I got Apple Music. And I wasn't about to add all them songs so I just kept Musi."

"But then my brother got Spotify cuz that's what he prefer but I didn't wanna give up my Apple music library so I just kept that too."

"So now I just got between all three of them."

"Nah das too much." He said.

"Just choose one and move everything over." He said.

"Nah..."

He shook his head.

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Word Count: 838

Publish Date: October 10th, 2022

(I wasn't posed to post til da 16th but it was there ready to post so I had to😭)