Page 71 of Ghetto Heartstrings
She slowly walked over to him and wrapped her frail arms around him; she was slowly getting her strength and weight back. “Thank you.” She told him. “For everything.”
“No, thank you baby.” He kissed her forehead. He wished he could’ve made love to her, but he knew her body wasn’t ready for that.
“I have an idea.” She looked up at him, pulling him to the couch. “I want to go and visit Heaven tomorrow, not just me and you, everybody. I want to have a little picnic or something. I’mnot sure, I just want to be close to her. God gave me my own little guardian angel for a reason.”
Perfect didn’t have a problem with that, he was willing to do whatever made her happy and if that’s what she wanted then that’s what she got. “Okay, I got you. I’ll set that shit up right now.” He told her. “Go take a shower, I’m coming in a minute.”
When she walked away, he couldn’t help but to look at her with love in his eyes. She was his baby’s mother, his rider, his girl, best friend, and all that shit. After he heard the shower water running, he called Boom and couldn’t get him on his cell, so he called his house instead. “Yo!” Boom answered.
“What’s up with yo cell phone?” Perfect asked him.
“I put that shit on silent, I forgot to turn the ringer off this bitch here, I didn’t wanna disturb Yaya,” he said.
“How she holding up?” He asked.
“She still real shaken up and shit, but she’ll be okay, I got her. You didn’t tell Brook’Lynn did you?” Boom asked.
“Nah man, she really cant take no more bullshit right now.” He replied. “She know Yaya is back but she don’t need to know shit else, they’ll talk about it one day.”
“Yeah, you right.” Boom agreed.
Perfect relaxed a little bit. “So, what’s up with ya’ll? Ya’ll gonna work that shit out?”
Boom looked over his shoulder to make sure Yaya was still sleeping and she was, looking beautiful and peaceful. “Shit, takin’ it slow right now man. She ain’t that bad of a person, you just gotta know her heart and where she’s been to understand her.”
“I feel you dude.” Perfect agreed. “Well look, Brook’Lynn wants everybody to meet at Heaven’s grave tomorrow, I’d say about three is good.”
“Aiight, I can do that.” Boom told him.
When they hung up, he called everybody else and set it up. He grabbed him a beer before going to meet Brook’Lynn in the room and when he walked in, she was just hanging up the phone with somebody. He didn’t know how to make out the look on her face.
“What’s wrong?” He asked.
That was Hollywood police, Brody is dead.” She said wiping away a single tear putting her silk negligee on.
“You okay?” He asked her.
She nodded her head telling him yes, “I gotta call Wise.” She told him.
“You need some privacy?” He asked.
“No.” She replied. “But go take a shower so we can watch a movie and cuddle; that’s all I want to do.”
Without another word, he went to shower and allowed her some time to herself.
Brook’Lynn got dressedthe next morning and needed Perfect to pull her hair in a ponytail for her since she still had one good arm. He wasn’t down to be doing no hair but for her, he tried anyway and didn’t do too bad. They walked out of the house a little after two so they could get there by three. When they got there, everybody was already there, and their cars were all lined up back-to-back. She was so happy to see the whole crew, she was happy to be out period.
“Hey ya’ll.” She spoke to everybody and hugged her brother first; he kissed her on the cheek. “I love you lil sis.”
“I love you too.”
“I want to show ya’ll something.” She said, “Come follow me.” She led them to the grave. Perfect didn’t know what was going on, but he followed anyway.
Brook’Lynn noticed how everything seemed back to normal. Yaya and Boom were hand and hand. C2 carried Kema on hisback since she had a superstition about walking on graves and Wise and Marley were together as usual.
“What’s going on?” Kema whispered in C2’s ear.
“Shit, yo guess is as good as mine baby but I’ll be glad when we get there.” He told her.
