Page 17 of Lost In You
“So, I was dropping Noni to her people house to meet Bali. She wanted to see them before she went home, and Maui and Mister Storm was going at it. She went packed a bag and left with the twins. Man, I ain’t never seen her go against her dad. Her mama was crying.”
“Shit. I’m sure Ashanni knows. He was at Mister Jasper’s house because he was pissed about her seeing Mythic.”
“Mythic? What the fuck she want with him?”
“That was the same thing Mister Storm was wanting to know. Mythic ain’t nothing but trouble. Ashanni was confused about that shit, too, and she knows her well. So if she doesn’t even know, nobody probably knows.”
“Well, my baby ’bout to get to the bottom of that shit. Her and Bali. They were just as heated, and they didn’t even know what the fuck was going on. You at home?”
“Yeah. I just got here not too long ago.”
“What time you gotta go to work tomorrow morning?”
“Not until nine.”
“Oh okay. Well, I’ll let you go, big bruh. Holla at me tomorrow. I got something for Jay. I hate that I missed y’all.”
“Okay. I’ll stop by on my way home.”
“A’ight.”
“Later.”
I ended the call and went to the shower. This shit was finna be bad. I couldn’t believe she got into it with her dad over that nothing ass nigga. Uncle Legend barely fucked with him. The unfortunate thing was that Maui was grown as fuck. There was nothing anyone could do to keep her from fucking with him. Shewas almost twenty-five years old. She was asking for trouble. I was more than sure once her brother caught wind of this shit, it was gon’ be war. I just hoped Carter Legend didn’t get caught up in the crossfire.
When I finished showering, I called Ashanni. It went straight to voicemail, which was unusual. I got a text from her.I’ll call you back. Shit done got real out here.
I didn’t know what the hell that meant, but I could only hope everything was okay. I went to the kitchen to get a bottle of water, then came back to the bedroom. My phone started ringing, and when I saw Ashanni’s number, I got nervous as fuck. “Hello?”
There was some yelling in the background, then I heard, “You ain’t goin’ no-fucking-where!”
“Maui, please! Just stay here,” Ashanni begged.
She probably didn’t mean to call me. I started getting dressed to head back to Nome. My baby sounded distraught. There was no way I could hear her sounding that way and not be there for her.
“What you want with a nigga that ain’t got shit going for himself? You too smart for that shit! Carter Legend don’t even fuck with him like that and that’s his brother!”
“Y’all don’t see his heart!”
“Fuck a heart. You probably a fiend of that nigga dick. Dick come a dime a fucking dozen, Maui! You the last person I thought I would be arguing with over a nigga!”
I heard a bunch of noise, like the phone had fallen to the floor, then the call disconnected. Yeah, I had to go see about my baby. This was some bullshit.
SEVEN
ASHANNI
“Look at me.Please? Maui, you’ve always been my voice of reason. What’s really going on? Why are you so hellbent on fucking with that nigga? Something ain’t right. You went against Uncle Mayor. I didn’t think I would ever see no shit like that,” I said as Milana held her hand.
We were all confused as hell. Everybody knew Mythic was full of shit, just like PJ. Hell, I believed his ass was worse than PJ. He’d done time in jail, like a couple of years ago, and was a known drug dealer. Maui was acting like she had fallen off the deep end. She lowered her head, allowing the tears to leave her. We were outside, and she had called that nigga to come get her.
“No one sees him like I do. Mythic is sweet, and he’s getting his life together. He enrolled at LIT for process operating. He respects me, and he cares about me. I care about him too. I know it’s risky, but I need to know for myself. I refuse to write him off because of his past.”
“But it’s not just his past, Maui. It’s still his present,” Milana said.
I wiped my tears and slowly shook my head. This couldn’t be my friend. She always made smart decisions. It was like she wasso perfect: the perfect daughter, the perfect sister and cousin, the perfect friend. She looked out for everyone all the time, so I hated to see her choose this for herself. Her phone started ringing, taking her attention from us. I looked at Milana as she slowly shook her head. All of us were so in shock. That was why the twins were yelling at her. They couldn’t believe it either.
“What…? Why…? I’m coming to you then!”
