Page 2 of Christmas Luvin

Ilaughed because, a while back,Aleciahad made a comment about howMontanadidn’t let her breathe.Withthe way he was right now with her and the plenty of timesI’dseen him grabbing up on her and hugging her in the past,Icould fully understand what she meant.Italked withAleciaandMontanafor a little while longer before they walked away to mingle with some of the other guests.KelseyandDuchesswere there as well, and both had come over and talked withCarmenand me for a bit before they headed out to the backyard.Omellywas somewhere chilling with the rest of the men in attendance.

Myphone vibrated in my hands with a text message fromDace, letting me know that he andPee-Weewere five minutes away.

“Oh, myGod.They’refive minutes away,”Isaid toCarmen.

Shelaughed but also looked past me.Iturned to see what had her attention, and it wasInsanewalking in, accompanied by three ofPee-Wee’shomeboys.Iwasn’t even that close to them, butIcould smell the weed that they’d probably smoked in the car.CarmenandInsanewere already acquainted, but when they got in the same room, they acted as if they hated each other.

Youknow what?Iwon’t even sayInsaneacted like he hatedCarmenbecause he didn’t.Insanejust acted how boys used to behave in elementary school when they really liked someone.Insteadof just flat-out saying they liked them, they chose to fuck with them instead.Yeah, that’s whatInsanewould do.Hewould just make slick ass remarks toCarmen, which would have thatMexicanside of her coming out, and she would curse his ass out.

Ishould have been trying to stop them from arguing, so things wouldn’t get too serious, but it was hard because the comebacks were hilarious.Iwould be in tears watching them go at it.Now, if it got too crazy, though,Iwould stop them both.

Carmenswore up and down that she didn’t likeInsane, butIbegged to differ.Evennow, out of everyone in the room, her attention was so focused on him thatIwas sure she didn’t see anyone else.Icouldn’t say she was wrong for looking at him the way she did becauseInsanewas very handsome.I’lltry to describe him as best asIcan to y’all without it looking likeI’mdisrespecting my man in the process.Hehad a caramel-colored skin tone, and he was tall.IfIhad to guess his height,Iwould say that he was probably six feet even.

Insanehad a lot of thick, black hair that was often in stitch braids, and today was no different.Histhick hair was in about seven stitch braids, and they stopped right before the middle of his back.Hehad a couple of face tats, but nothing too big.Therewas one right above his eyebrow and another one on the side of his face.Theyweren’t showing right now because he was fully covered up, but he had so many other tattoos on his body.Iknew he had full sleeves on both arms, and both of his legs were tatted up too.

Hewas dressed in an orangeGalleryDept. hoodie with paint stains on it, and he wore a pair of olive-greenGalleryDept. sweats that he was sagging in.Crisp, whiteAirForceOneswere on his feet, and there were about three chains around his neck that varied in size from medium to extra-large, each dripped out inVVSdiamonds with its own pendant.Heand every dude with him was dripped in diamonds, and ifPee-Weewas there, he would have the same because they took their jewelry so seriously.

Thesecond they all made their way over toCarmenand me,Carmenturned on her heels to leave.

“Whyyou running from me, mami?Letme find out you’re a runner,”Insanesaid toCarmen, fucking with her.

Sheturned to look at him, andIalready knew she was going to let something slick fall out of her mouth.Hewould then say something to piss her off even further, and they would start arguing like they did whenever they were around each other.

“Oh, please!Youprobably don’t even have enough dick for me to be a runner!” she retorted.

Ilaughed and shook my head.

“Pullit out right here, or you want to follow me to one of these bedrooms, andIcan show it to you in private?Mami,Igot dick for days.You’llfuck your jaw bones up, trying to swallow me whole,” he shot and grabbed at his crotch with a serious look on his face.

“Arquavious, watch your mouth!Youalways fuckin’ withCarmen!Leavethat damn girl alone!”Pandoracame over, fussing atInsane.

Ilaughed because that was my first time hearing his real name.I’daskedPee-Weewhat it was a while back, and he refused to tell me becauseInsanehated his first name.Ithen wanted to know how long people had been calling himInsane, and he told me that by the time he met him when they were kids, he already had the nickname.

“Iain’t even do nothing to her ass.Shesaw a nigga coming over, and she walked away,”Insanefussed, wrapping his arm aroundPandoraand then kissing her on her cheek.

Icould tell he looked atPandoraas a mother figure because she’d been in his life for so long.Insanewas family, andIloved him as a friend forPee-Wee, even though sometimesIhad to fuss at him.Hethought my man was supposed to be in the strip clubs with him during the week and getting home well after four in the damn morning.Insanewas single;Pee-Weewasn’t.

AfterInsanefinished huggingPandora, he wrapped an arm around me, hugging me too.Thesecond he removed his arm,Dacewalked in, and my eyes shot over at him like he was crazy because he didn’t even text me to let me know he was about to walk in.Hiseyes scanned the large home and found me, then he held his phone up.Ilooked down at my phone to see if he’d texted me or anything, andIhadn’t gotten a text message.Iguess he was trying to tell me his phone had died.

BeforeIcould even say anything, the front door opened, andPee-Weewalked in.Everyoneseemed to see him at different times, so shouts of “Surprise!” went off in ripples.

Ihad been planning this day for months, andI’dallowed it to stress me the hell out.Ireally wanted to give my man a surprise party because he’d never had one, so you know my hands went over my eyes, andIburst into tears, pissed that this evening didn’t go as planned.

“Toldyou to stay your black ass in the fuckin’ car untilItold you to come up.Stupidass nigga!”Dacespat, and then he pushed the shit out of me.

Ididn’t even push that nigga back, even thoughIwanted to hike up my sweats and push his black ass into a fuckin’ wall.Butmy girl was crying, soIleft his ass right there and went over toBria.ThesecondIwalked through the door and heard a bunch of people yelling out surprise at different times,Ialready knew thatI’djust fucked up a good ass surprise.Nolie, a nigga felt bad as fuck, especially onceIsawBriacrying.Fromthat alone,Icould tell she was probably the one who planned all of this for me.

Iwas fresh off the plane fromCaliafter being gone for an entire week.Itwas my birthday, andIwas ready to get home, soIcould see my girl becauseIhadn’t seen her pretty ass face in a week, hadn’t held her, kissed her, none of that shit.IknewBriawas pissed thatIwas away for the majority of my birthday, even though she didn’t tell me out of her own mouth.IfIdidn’t haveBria, my ass would still be inCaliright now, finishing up business.Butshe would be pissed at a nigga ifIhad stayed there and didn’t spend my birthday with her, soIbrought my ass home.

Dacepicked me up from the airport, and the secondIgot in the car with this nigga, he told me he had to make a quick stop at a crib where he copped his weed from.Immediately,Iknew the nigga was lying becauseDaceandIcopped our weed from the same plug, and that nigga lived in the projects.So, when he started talking about pulling up on a nigga who had a mansion out inMiami,Iknew that nigga was feeding me bullshit.

Ialmost had to strap up with that nigga in the car and tell him to take my ass home becauseIknewBriawas waiting for me.Shekept telling me about the nine o’clock reservations she had for dinner, and this nigga stopping to pick up some weed would delay me getting home, andIwas trying to see my baby.

Whenwe pulled up to the phat ass mansion,Dacetold me to stay in the car and that he would text me if he needed me to come up.Now, even thoughIwas still pissed at this nigga for stopping somewhere, even thoughI’dtold him not to,Ididn’t know what nigga my brother was pulling up on to cop some weed.Plus, there were a bunch of cars and shit in the driveway, andIwasn’t going to let him walk in no shit like that by himself, soIgot my ass out.

Thedoor to the mansion wasn’t closed all the way, andIcould hear music coming from the backyard, soIjust opened it.Inearly fainted whenIsaw all my family and friends.Icouldn’t even walk out ifIwanted to give them time to get the surprise right because they had already seen me.

“Nigga, go back outside and let’s try this shit again,”Orion’sshit talking ass said, holding a bottle of water because the nigga no longer drank.

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