Page 32 of Feeling Blue

“What’s embarrassing is you having a wife and pretending that you didn’t. What’s embarrassing is you choosing her over me and having the audacity to still think you control my life. What’s embarrassing, Marcellus, is you trying to judge another man’s shortcomings when you have quite a few of your own. Don’t you ever call my phone trying to condemn Zurich another day in your life. Goodbye.” She spat before ending the call.

Furious, she cranked up and headed for Blue’s house. With her GPS the only noise in the truck, her thoughts began getting the best of her, so she remedied it.

“Hello,” Goody answered groggily.

“Girl, wake up and talk to me,” Forever told her as she changed lanes.

Goody yawned. “I’m up, what’s going on?”

“Your brother-in-law!”

“What the fuck did he do?” she all but yelled.

“Tried me,” she fumed before relaying their entire conversation to her sister.

By the time she was finished, Goody had gone on a rant so wild that all Forever could do was laugh. She should have known before calling her evil twin that she would go from zero to one hundred immediately.

“Don’t answer for that nigga no more. I already told Jerrico to talk to him, because if I do it, he might stop being myfriend and my manager,” she snickered. “He’s just bitter because you’re moving on. This is what he gets, though. I’m glad he’s going through it. You need to bring Blue down here so he can see y’all together, that’ll really kill him.”

“I can’t do that. Blue said I better keep Marcellus away from him or he’s going to fuck him up.”

Goody squealed loudly with laughter. “Hold on, let me add Yummy to the call. My good sis needs to hear this. Blue’s speaking her love language right now.”

Forever continued driving. Seconds later, Eternity answered, sounding just as sleepy as Paradise had.

“What is wrong with y’all sorry heffas? There’s no reason to still be in the bed once the sun rises.”

“Shut up, Rabbit. Goody, I know you didn’t call me withheron the phone doingthat.”

Forever sniggled at how grouchy they both were in the mornings. “She called to tell you about my baby, Blue.”

“What his fine ass do?”

“Ain’t he fine, Bitch?” Goody egged her on.

“Y’all better be glad I trust y’all, and that both of your men are equally fine as mine, or else I’d hide him and never let you two harlots see him again. Panties always hot for my man.”

“Don’t get mad with us because that Haitian you like is fine as hell.”

“And tall, Goody. Don’t forget that he tall and a gangsta,”

“How come every time I talk to y’all, you both are foaming at the mouth about these Floridians?”

There was movement on Eternity’s end, her probably sitting up in her bed before she rejoined. “Because they fine, invite us down there after I have my baby.”

“I will soon. Blue’s house is humongous, but that ain’t what I’m talking about. Goody, tell her about Marcellus.”

Before Goody could even start, Eternity stopped her. “Nope, don’t. I don’t want to hear it. He’s just a stupid nigga that’s suffering the consequences of his actions. Tell me what my cousin-in-law, Blue, did instead.”

“Told Forever to keep Money away from him or else he’s going to bang on the nigga!”

The way they screamed and carried on was typical Goody and Yummy behavior. Forever could do nothing but laugh and shake her head at their excitement about fighting. Together, they made jokes and commentary about how good the fight would be. They were so entertained by their conversation that Forever was pulling into Blue’s driveway by the time she found room to speak again.

“Look y’all,” she clicked the FaceTime icon on her phone.

Once both of their faces showed on the screen, she flipped the screen around for them to see Blue’s house. It was a big brick home ducked off behind millions of trees. It sat so far back off the road that you wouldn’t even know the house was back there. The large driveway stretched for miles before leading into his six-car garage. The lawn was cut with thick green grass spreading from one corner to the other.

“Damn.”

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