Page 40 of Cove City: Volume II
He slowly turned his head my way. “Fuck I need to look at you for? Huh Sasha. You want a nigga to look at you, ok? I’m looking now, what’s up?” he gritted.
My eyes grew because he was showing his ass. “Nigga you sitting there like you got gold shoved up your ass. Zeus, you're nobetter than the next nigga. You're bitter, you're mad because you fucked up, and you can’t admit it!” I shouted.
Navi laughed. “Now, Amen to that.”
“Ayo Sash, ease up off my brother,” Dio said to me.
I turned his way and pointed. “Dio, stay out of this!”
“Don’t fucking talk to him you talk to me. What you got to say, Sasha, since it’s so important that we have a shouting battle out this muhfucka!”
I was breaking and breaking bad. I was letting my emotions get the best of me, and Zeus wasn’t making it better. He was adding fuel to the fire.
“Damn, is this really happening?” I heard Foe ask.
“Foe shut the fuck up. You know all you niggas are tired. Y’all are quick to defend each other, but what do we women get? Nothing but dick to shut us up!” Navi shouted.
Preach started laughing. “Navanna yo ass batch shit crazy. I swear I prayed real good today. I prayed you didn’t even show up because I knew you were going to do this. So let me tell you why I don’t want to be with you.”
She threw her hand up, “Preach, please!”
“Nah, there is no please, see because you came in here with a shitty ass attitude. You wanted this attention, so let a brother bless you with some, cause that’s what you wanted, right?”
Preach stood and leaned forward. “I’m done because I said I’m done. I’m done becausewedon’t respect each other’s wishes. I’m done because you don’t understand me. I’m done because you add no value to my life. Isn’t that what you told me before you went on your hate men campaign? I’m done because you said it’s fuck me. So, yes, I’m done.Psalm One forty-two verse seven; Release my soul from prison—”
“So, you’re saying you felt like you were in prison with me?”
Preach held up his arms, crossed them over, smiled, and shook his head. “Now a nigga free!”
Navi’s eyes widened, she couldn’t believe he said that, and neither could I. I turned to glance at Zeus, and fear immediately struck me because that was not what I wanted.
ZEUS
“Zeus!”Sasha screamed.
“What!”I shouted back.
The fact that she even started screaming at me pissed me off. I’ve been trying to keep cool this entire time. I would have much rather done this shit the other night.
“Fix it! I want you to fucking fight for us!”
I shot up from the seat and banged my fist on the table so hard I could see shit flying off. “I fucking tried. Sasha, a nigga tried. Tell me this. How would you feel if you had walked up and seen me standing with a woman, one I had told you not to worry about, but I was caressing her face and embracing her with love, huh? How would you fucking feel?”
Her eyes became watery. She was breaking, and so was I. “It wasn’t that Zeus, it wasn’t, and had you talked to me instead of changing your fucking locks and blocking me, you would have known that. I was getting fucking closure because I wasbroken!”
“And so was I! I have been trying so hard to be a good nigga for you,” I paused as I slapped the back of my hand in my palm. “How do you think I feel to know a nigga got you knocked up, and y’all bonding and shit huh? It makes me insecure, Sasha, that’s what the fuck it did, and it's something you wouldn’t understand.”
“Understand?I can’t fucking have kids!” she shouted so loud.
My head flew back. Chevy jumped in. “Aye, I need y’all too—”
“June, please, don’t,” Zaria said calmly.
“Ain’t no June please they—”
Zaria shot up. “June, I said fuckingno!” she shouted. “Their battles do not call for you. You have your own shit you need to figure out.I said no goddamnit!”
I could see Dio standing, catering to Zaria. “Chill, Z, please.”
