'Ten times out of nine, I know you're lying

But nine times outta ten, I know you're trying

So I'm trying to be fair

And you're trying to be there and to care'

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"I'm leaving my parents house right now, where you at?" I question starting up my benz truck.

"How ya dad doing?"

"He's actually doing better, he was more energetic today and said he felt the best he's felt in months" The doctor said that my dad was actually getting better and I couldn't be happier.

"I'm happy to hear that, you told him I said hi?"

"Yup, he said you need to come by and see him" I softly chuckle as my phone connects to the bluetooth in the car and I move it from my ear laying it in my lap.

"I'll come next time" She responds chewing on something and I perk up as I pull off from their building.

"What you eating?"

"Crab boil and before you get on my ass I bought you one too, you just gone have to wait though cause I'm having lunch with henny" She softly chuckles.

"Don't bring me home no cold crab boil cardi" I huff rolling my eyes.

"Girl shut up, they gone have it hot and ready right before I leave, it's gone be fresh"

"It better be" I mumble.

"Keep poppin shit nic, watch me come home empty handed cause I done ate ya shit on the way there" She cackles and I playfully roll my eyes cracking a dimpled smile.

"Stop playing cause you really would and if you do it's gone be a problem" I chuckle but I was serious.

"Talk to me nice then, I'll be home in like a hour though" She says and I nod even though she couldn't see me.

"It better just be a hour too belcalis because I'm starving"

"I got you, hungry ass" She laughs and I smile rolling my eyes.

I didn't know what to do with this girl sometimes.

Sticking my tongue out I grind it against hers as I read henny text.

"Issa no" She lowly chuckles slightly pulling back.

"Bobblehead ass" She mumbles and I softly chuckle as hennys message comes through.

I smack my lips as nic giggles kissing the corner of my lips.

"What you and star bouta do?" Nic curiously questions as I close out my messages sitting my phone on the side of me.

"Mind our business, you should try it sometime love" I chuckle and she mushes my head turning over sitting next to me on the couch.

"You always being sneaky" She rolls her eyes and I smile shaking my head.

"Nah I just keep you and my street shit separate, you know I be ready to kill a nigga the second they look at you wrong" I smirk as she giggles shaking her head.

"You always be about to get us kicked out the store"

"I pray a nigga ready to die over you cause I'm ready to do life over that pussy" I laugh as she throws her head back cackling, covering her mouth with her hand.

"You laughing but I'm deadass, I'm blickin the whole store down" I shrug with a smile. I was serious too, I was waiting for a nigga to play cause that was gone be his last fuckin day.

"Something is really wrong with you bel" She laughs wiping her tears away with the back of her hand.

"You know how I'm bomin over you nic, it's gone get real risky I ain't playin" I chuckle seriously.

"I know" She smiles pecking the corner of my lips.

"As long as you know" I shrug with a smile.

Stretching across the couch she lays her head in my lap getting comfortable and I sit quietly.

"You was about to ask me to go get you something wasn't you?" She knowingly asks and I couldn't help the small laugh that escaped my lips.

"Just a corona out the fridge, please" I smile and she playfully rolls her eyes sitting up just as my phone vibrates next to me.

She disappears in the kitchen and I pick my phone up unlocking it before going to my messages reading the one at the top.

"Why you looking at the phone like that?" She looked frustrated and angry but her expression changed as soon as she heard my voice.

"Just something E just texted me about some street shit, let me get that beer though" She slightly smiles holding her hand out and I walk over handing it to her before taking my previous spot on the couch with my head in her lap.

I was looking at the tv but I wasn't watching or listening, I was in that zone again.

The horrid thoughts swarming my head again.

I knew her like the back of my hand, and she had lied to me so many times I knew exactly when she was lying.

It took me a while to acquire the trait because she was a master of lies but I had it and I knew.

She was lying.

I could literally feel it as soon as the last word fell off her tongue, she was lying, but for what?

Of course my brain assumed the worst due to it always being the worst in the past but strangely something small inside of me was telling me that this wasn't what I thought it was this time.

She was too different this time around, she knew my heart beated on thin ice.

I didn't want to believe that she would hurt me again because she knew that would break me completely.

She was lying to me but hopefully it's about something stupid and not what the fears bubbling in my stomach where preparing me for.

"What you thinking about in that pretty head of yours?" Her voice startles me and I almost gasp in shock, as if I had just been drowning and she pulled me up for air.

Quickly calming down I turn my head looking back at her with a small smile.

"Nothing" I simply reply and she softly chuckles knowing that I'm lying.

Just as well as I knew her, she knew me even better.

"You shouldn't worry yourself" She softly speaks and I softly sigh, she didn't know how bad I needed to hear that.

"It's not healthy, and I need you healthy cause I wanna be 80 and still fucking" She goofily smiles as I giggle letting my dimples sink.

"I love you nic" She smiles and my heart races in my chest as the thoughts cease and comfort washes over my body.

"I love you too bel"