Page 3 of Lost In You
I glanced at my daddy and could see Asad staring this way. I’d been ignoring his ass for a year. I should have been used to it by now, but I wasn’t. His dick and his heart had both made impressions on me. He texted me every now and then and sent flowers to the office from time to time. I wanted to believe that he’d finally gotten things straight with Mila’s ass, but I hadn’t talked to him to find out.
When I saw a mass of curls bouncing in my peripheral, I knew the twin twisters were acting a fool. Turning to look, I sawthem hopping up and down like they didn’t have a bit of sense. Then I saw Uncle Storm, Maui, Seven, and Remy all doing the same thing. Aunt Aspen had lowered her head and put her hand on her forehead like she was trying to hide her face. I laughed and looked around to see Aunt Tiff had started hopping too.
“Well, if you can’t beat ’em, might as well join ’em,” my daddy said as he started hopping too.
I laughed more and joined everyone else. All these people were gonna think we’d lost our damned minds. The twins did that shit all the way to their seats. I was tired as hell by the time we stopped. I glanced over, around my daddy, to see my mama sitting with her shades on. I slowly shook my head. Chas was a bad bitch. My daily aspiration was to be just like her. She was smart as hell and didn’t take shit off nobody.
When I’d gotten into that fight in high school and had gotten suspended, she took me shopping. Her exact words were,“I’m glad you put that ho in her place. I bet you won’t have no more problems. If you do, let me know, and we’ll catch that bitch on the street. When it comes to y’all, I will fight a kid. I don’t give a fuck. After I whup their ass, I’ll whup their mama’s ass too.”
When I sat, I caught Maui’s gaze, and she nodded her head. I frowned slightly, trying to figure out what the hell she was talking about. She turned her head the other direction, and I saw Carter Legend sitting there with a bouquet of flowers. Right next to him was one of his brothers. He was only two or three years younger than him. Maui thought that nigga was so fine. She wasn’t wrong, but Mythic seemed to be caught up with buckle bunnies. That nigga was fucking like he was gon’ die tomorrow. I didn’t have shit on him.
He looked like that football player everybody was tripping over because he was country and in that Glorilla music video. He was just alright to me. I didn’t think Mythic’s in-and-out ass had even noticed that Maui was feeling him. My girl deserved better.She’d only been with one guy. They were together for nearly four years when he decided he no longer wanted to be with her. She was so heartbroken. She cried in my arms nearly every day for two months. Love hadn’t been kind to her, but I was glad to see that she wasn’t still pining after that nigga.
I shrugged my shoulders at her and gave her a smile, then turned my attention back to the ceremony. The president was up there talking, so I knew I had time to go to the restroom. I leaned over to my dad, and said, “I’m going to the restroom. Be right back.”
“Okay, princess.”
I smiled at him, then stood and hurriedly made my way up the stairs. I practically ran to the restroom, because if I somehow missed their names being called, they would never let me live that shit down. Bali and Noni were ruthless and used to bully me all the time when we were kids. They thought they could still do that shit, but I had to constantly remind them that I was a grown ass woman and could hold my own if I needed to swing on both of them at once.
After relieving myself, I left the restroom and ran right into Asad. He wrapped his arms around me, holding me steady, then softly kissed my lips. “Ashanni, I miss you, girl. Ain’t shit changed. My life is in order, baby.”
I quickly wiggled my way out of his arms and felt my pussy gush in my panties.Fuck.He knew what he was doing to me. If I could get away with fucking him in this stadium, I would do it. This was why I did my best to avoid him. Taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes for a moment, then opened them and stared at his expressive ones. The man had so much going for himself, but Mila brought his market value down so damn much. It was like having a mansion in the middle of the hood. That ho was toxic as fuck.
I placed my hand on his cheek, feeling my eyes water. We’d been doing this fucking dance for a whole year, and it hadn’t gotten any easier. “Damn, Asad. I miss you too, but I can’t take a chance. I know if she and I get into it again, I’m gon’ kill her ass. I would hate to kill yo’ baby mama and leave Jayceon motherless.”
He lowered his head to mine and kissed the fuck out of me while gripping my neck. My eyes rolled to the back of my head, then I quickly pulled away from him once again when I heard applause and screams. “I gotta get back in,” I said, not giving him a chance to respond.
When I got back to my seat, my daddy glanced at me. Everyone talked about Uncle Storm peeping game all the time, but Jasper Henderson was just as bad. He just didn’t make it known like Uncle Storm. When it came to his family, nothing got by him.
“Yo’ lipstick a lil smeared.”
My eyes widened, and I quickly grabbed my purse to pull out my compact mirror. He knew I didn’t play about my appearance. I wasn’t shallow, but I made sure I was looking good whenever I stepped out of the house. Like Jazmine Sullivan said in a song, I had to stay on. Right when I opened the mirror, I realized he was baiting me, and I fell for that shit. I side-eyed him as he said, “Got ’em!”
I rolled my eyes as he laughed. “Daddy, really?”
“Yeah. You was out there lip locking with that nigga. He got up and left out right after you did, and now he’s back in his seat, just like you. Why you won’t put that nigga out his misery? He seem like he got a good head on his shoulders. How old is he?”
“He’s thirty-three, Daddy. Can we talk about it after the graduation?”
“Yeah. Fo’ sho’. My bad.”
He kissed the side of my head as my mama looked over at us and smiled. He grabbed her hand and kissed it, then kissedher lips. I loved their love. Their asses were probably the reason I was so sexual. They were always getting it in. I was just grateful my house was being built so I could get the hell out of their house. That shit was torture. Whenever there was a quiet moment in the house, I could hear them fucking.Ugh!
I glanced over at Asad to meet his gaze.Fuck!I hated that the man I felt so much for was tied to my fucking arch nemesis. That ho ended up with a concussion that night. I was grateful that she’d broken into Asad’s house, because she couldn’t press charges for me fucking her up.
“Bali Henderson and Noni Henderson.”
We all jumped to our feet. I swore they never did anything individually. They’d requested to be hooded at the same time. I was so proud though. They were twenty-six years old and about to own their own practice right there in big city Nome, Texas. They did their interning while they were in medical school. They passed the boards a couple of years ago. They took the test for shits and giggles just to see how much they knew, and those heifers passed that fucking test.
They had classes they still had to take to fulfill their doctorate degrees though. Had they not, they would have been running the fuck out of that clinic and private practice. Uncle Kenny was so damn excited about it too. They’d already hired four doctors, administrative staff, nurses, and techs. Uncle Kenny got the money they needed through donations and government funding.
They held hands as the professors hooded them. When that fabric touched their bodies, those two fools started dancing, crip walking and shit. We turned up with their asses! I could hear the laughter and applause. Honestly, I couldn’t wait to have them around all the time now. Plus, I was anxious to see how things would work out with Noni and Red Squared now that they would constantly be in town.
I caught Asad’s eyes again, and I could feel my heart get heavy. I swore, every time I saw him and was near him for an extended amount of time, I felt this way. It was like I was missing out on life. Within a couple of months, I would be in that big ass house all by myself. Quickly looking away, I saw the twins posing for pictures before they took their seats. Once they did, we all sat as well.
“We will talk when we get home,” I said to my daddy. “I don’t wanna talk in front of those two fools,” I said, glancing at my brothers.
He grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze. “I got’chu, baby. I’ll have a fresh blunt rolled up for us.”
