Page 2 of U + Me : The Finale
“How was I supposed to know that you were going to be caking with some female! You didn’t ask me to come here directly, but don’t lie and play like you didn’t tell me like you ain’t want me to pull up on you. You the one that’s bogus as hell, nigga but whatever. Is we kicking it tonight still or naw?”
The whole time Dymond was talking, my eyes were glued to KK’s backside as I watched her walk up to my boy E and his girl Claudia. She and Claudia were talking for a minute, then hugged and KK started to head for the door.
“That shit dead, shorty.” I smirked as I rushed toward the entrance to catch up to KK.
The crowd was thick, so it slowed me down, and by the time I had caught up to her she was getting into her all-black Genesis in the parking lot.
“Aye, KK, hold up, mane!” I hollered out, and I knew she heard me, but she ignored me then pulled out of the parking lot tires screeching and all.
I couldn’t do anything but shake my head as I ran my hand down my face. I had no way to contact her because the number I had for her no longer worked. She never answered my calls or text messages so apparently her shit changed, and I had the wrong number. If I would’ve known that I was going to run into her tonight, I wouldn’t have told Dymond shit about my whereabouts.
Making my way back inside of the lounge, all I could think about was KK and the fact that I could still faintly smell her sweet perfume on me from when she gave me a hug. The feeling of having her back in my arms was one that I couldn’t describe if I wanted to and in a blink of my eyes, I had fucked my chances of us reconnecting because of that gotdamn Dymond. My high, and night was blown, but before I got in my feelings and left to head back to the hotel, I went in search of E so that I could holla at his ole’ girl.
“I thought yo ass dipped?” E said as I joined him in the private section they were sitting in.
“Nah, but I need to chop it up wit yo girl right quick.”
“With me?” Ole girl asked as she pointed at herself. “About what?”
“Yo girl that just left,” I responded then looked at E. “You know who that was, right?”
“Nah, I just met her, she’s my girl’s sis. She looks familiar as fuck though.”
“And how you know Kimmie?” Claudia asked.
“Did she ever tell you about a nigga named Darius from back in the day?”
“You Darius? As in Darius, Darius!” Claudia exclaimed as I confirmed her revelation.
“You wanna know what’s crazy is I heard you say Kimmie,” he said to Claudia then looked at me, “but it didn’t register that she was KK. Lil KK done grew the fuck up,” Ermias complimented cause she damn sure the fuck had.
Once we were all on the same page, Claudia explained how she met KK when she went to live with her dad back in high school. She didn’t go too deep into what she knew about me per say, but the fact that once I asked about Darius, she reacted in a way that told me she’d known something. Ermias explained to Claudia how close KK and I were back in the day and that he had always looked at KK as a sis because Darius didn’t play about her.
As far as the shit that went down with KK’s stepdad, none of us spoke on it because it was clear that we all knew what was up and there was no need to bring any of that up. That was a very low point in KK’s life, and every time I think about the shit she had to deal with back then, made me feel even more like a jerk for losing contact with her. Ermias and I kept in contact because he has family in Georgia, and he would come down and visit often. He went to a lot of my football games during college and when I hit my all-time low, he was right there.
In KK’s defense, Ermias didn’t look shit like he used to back in the day. He used to be a tall scrawny ass nigga, and now hehad more weight and muscle tone, and a thick ass Rick Ross beard and was tatted up.
Three of us chopped it up about how small the world truly was because what were the odds that my homeboy would link with KK’s people. That just goes to show how small the world is and that it was destined for us to reconnect. I confirmed with Claudia that I indeed had the right number for KK and that her number hadn’t changed. As far as any other information on KK that would help me get in contact with her Claudia wasn’t comfortable giving out without KK’s permission and I couldn’t do anything but respect that. One way or another, I was going to find out how I could contact her before I left town. I couldn’t risk losing contact with her again now that I’d seen her after all this time.
One thing was for certain and another was for sure, I wasn’t leaving the Chi without seeing KK again.
ERMIAS
Tonight was a wild one; from finding out that Claudia’s sis was Kimmie aka KK from back in the day to Kimmie slapping the shit out of my boy at his engagement party. I had no idea that Jaytee was messing with Kimmie because he never talked about her, only Princess. I did know Jaytee was a fool when it came to females, which was why I was so shocked when he told me he was engaged. When Jaytee and Princess left, it didn’t stop shit though cause the party still went on. Then my boy Darius finally after all these years got to see Kimmie again. Back in the day that nigga and Kimmie were like Velcro and Gorilla glued to each other.
After my boy Darius left, Claudia and I stayed at the lounge until it closed since she rode with Kimmie. We closed at two and up until closing, the crowd stayed thick then afterward, the cleaning crew took over and me and my lady bounced.
“My place or yours?”
“As much as I love being at your place, let’s go back to mine,” Claudia replied as she took my hand in hers.
Me and shorty hadn’t been kicking it very long, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t feeling her. Claudia had an exotic look about her. She resembled the model, Bernice Burgos, Claudiajust looked a lil younger than Bernice. Even though Claudia wore a little make up and every time I saw her, she always looked on point, her natural beauty was what drew me to her.
The more that I got to know Claudia I knew she wasn’t like the rest of the females that I was used to. I had always been used to females liking to be impressed with expensive gifts and fancy meals, and I’m not saying Claudia wouldn’t like any of that, but that wasn’t the energy that she gave off. She carried herself like a female with her own. Claudia caused me to come out of my shell and comfort zone more than any other female that I’d fucked around with.
Normally we would go back to my place and chill. I had even given her access to my shit so that she could go to my spot whenever she wanted to. I had only been to her place once, and that was to pick her up. I didn’t go inside and from the looks of the high rise she was staying at she had that paper. It cost a lot to stay in a high rise in Lincoln Park in the city; hell, the city period was expensive to live in.
“Small world, huh? When you mentioned Kimmie it never dawned on me that Kimmie was KK from back in the day. Even when I saw her. That shit was crazy.”
