A Chicago Love Story

A Chicago Love Story (Part 31)

When I woke up, Momma was standing in the room brushing her hair out in the mirror. Me: "Whatchu doin?" Mom: "Good you up." Me: "What time is it?" Mom: "past 12." I sat up and said "Why ain't nobody get me up?" Mom: "I was bout to." Me: "I mean earlier than 12." Mom: "You gon be ight." I got up then walked in Mani's room. I shook her shoulder and she said "Move.." Me: "Get up we gotta go soon." Mani: "Move." I rolled my eyes then looked around her room. I picked up her phone then called Durk. He took a second to pick up but when he did he said "Wassup bae?" Me: "It's Lai.. I need you to get Mani up." Durk: "Ight..." I put him on speaker and sat the phone next to her face. Durk: "Imani." I started shaking her shoulder again and she said "Hm?" Durk: "You gotta get up." She opened her eyes and said "Ion want to." Me: "You gon make us miss the flight if youn get yo ass up." Mani: "We don't gotta leave til 2." Me: "You take too long to get ready." She sat up and said "Ight imma get ready now.. Damn." I went back in my room and seen Momma sitting on the edge of the bed on her phone. She was laughing and gossiping about someone I didn't know. Me: "Momma I gotta change, can you get out for a second?" She put her hand up and said "Hollon girl... Whatchu say Lai?" Me: "I need to change." She nodded then left. I pulled some shorts and a tank top out of the bag then put on some sandals. I still heard Momma out in the hall being all loud, laughing and shit. I walked out and went in Mani's room. Her hair was braided up and looked nicer than the last time. Me: "When tf did you get yo hair done? 🤣" Mani: "Gramma redid it last night cus she said she was tired of the ones I had in. Dat lady in Chicago can't do hair..." Me: "You posed to check the reviews before going to dem ppl dumbass." Mani: "Shut up. She showed me some pictures of past clients and they looked good." I shook my head then sat on her bed. Me: "You still otp wit Durk?" Mani: "Nah he said he was gon take Von somewhere before they had to go to the airport." Daddy knocked on the door then walked in and said "Y'all betta be ready here inna few hours." Me: "We will be..." Mani: "Imma call Nique and tell him to come get us." Me: "Where we finna go?" Mani: "Ion know, he just said he was gon take us somewhere before we left." She picked her phone up and called him. I went downstairs to talk to Gramma and get something to eat. Gramma: "Oh good, you up. Here take dis. I need you to take dis to my friend Elaine house. You remember Ms. Elaine? Prolly not, you was little. Anyways, take this to her then drop these off at the post office and pick up a book of stamps at the grocery store for me." She handed me some papers and a few letters then gave me a kiss on the cheek. Me: "Gramma how imma take allis stuff?" She turned around and said  "Nique comin over soon. I'll tell him to drop you off." Someone started knocking on the door and Gramma told me to answer it. Nique was standing outside with Marion and they was smoking. Gramma: "Aht! Uhnt uhn no no no." She started pushing Nique out and he said "What?" Gramma: "Don't you come up in my damn house smellin like dat shit." Nique: "Well somebody needa go get Mani." Gramma: "I need you to take Lai a cuppa places. Baby go get Mani." I went upstairs and told Mani to come ob. She grabbed all her stuff and ran downstairs. Gramma: "Girl what in da hell-" Mani: "My bad, my bad." Nique: "Y'all come on, I ain got all day." Me: "Neither do we bitch 😂" Gramma: "Y'all needa be back at 1:30!" I shut her door and we got in Nique's car. Marion let me sit up front and he sat inna back with Mani. Nique: "Ight where we goin?" Me: "We gotta go to Ms. Elaine's house first." Mani: "Aww I miss her." Nique: "Man she always grabbin my face all hard and shit." Me: "Just shut up and go 🤣" He took us to her house and the neighborhood was quiet. Marion: "Only old folk live over here?" Me: "Yeah." We got out and knocked on her door. She unlocked it and said "Aww look at y'all!" She seen Nique and started smiling then she grabbed his cheeks. Elaine: "You so adorable. Oop, and who is thiss? Laiya got her a lil boyfriend?" Mani busted out laughing and I said "Ew no... he's Nique's friend." Mani: "Her boyfriend in Chicago 😏" Elaine: "Oh she got herself a city boy huh?" Marion: "We jus gon ignore how she said ew to me?" Nique: "You is a ugly mf tho 😂" Elaine: "Oh hush up dat mess, he's handsome." Me: "Our granny wanted me to give this to you.. ion know what it is." She took it and read over it then she said "Ah! Okay. Imma call her here inna lil bit. Y'all want anything to drink? It's real hot today." Nique: "No thank you." Elaine: "You need to come see me more boy! I ain't seen y'all in forever." She patted his shoulder and he stared at her. Nique: "Yeah... aye we gotta go so we gon see you later Ms. Elaine" Mani: "Yea bye." Elaine: "Okay, yall come back soon!" We got back in the car and Nique said "She hella touchy for no reason." Marion: "Aye nigga dat could be yo suga mama 🤣" Nique: "Hell naw! If I get a suga mama it's gon be yo grand mama fasho." Marion: "Nigga what?" Nique: "Yo gramma still look good, she got a fat a-" Mani: "Okay damn. Ion wanna hear bout no granny booty." Marion: "Dis nigga tryna fuck my gramma." Nique: "Who said anything bout fuckin?" Me: "Come on now 😭" Nique took me to the post office and the  grocery store. Gramma called while we was in there and asked us to get a few things. Mani: "She really makin us run her errands.." We went back to Gramma's house and gave her the stuff she asked for. She handed all of us $50 just for running back and forth. Nique: "I was boutta say.. somebody betta gimme sum gas money." Gramma: "Hush Nique." Mani: "How you get allis money?" Gramma: "I just went to the bank the other day." Mani: "Still tho like-" Nique: "Aht shut up. Come on I still gotta take y'all somewhere." He pushed all of us back outside and said "Get in da car mane." He drove us to another house in a bad part of our city but this time there was a bunch of people outside. There was a grill going and kids running around in sprinklers. Me: "Nique we ain't got time for no damn barbeque." Nique: "Y'all don't. We do." Me: "Yo ass betta be ready to take us back to Gramma's in an hour." Nique: "Ight man shit." Mani: "Ion know these people bruh..." Marion: "They my people, it's cool." We got out and everybody started saying hey to each other and allat. There was a short girl with long hair that came up to Nique and gave him a hug. She put her arms around the back of his neck and said "Hey Dominiqueeee" He put his hands on her lower back and said "Aye girl." They started talking and Mani said "Gurl who da fuck is dat..." Me: "Prolly one of his hoes." Mani: "She real friendly wit him.. most of his hoes rude." Me: "She look better than most of em too." Nique came back over to us and said "Mannn, she want me." Mani: "Who is it?" Nique: "A girl I been tryna get at. She won't get wimme tho. All she do is flirt and tease." Me: "She ain't dumb 😂" Nique: "What dat mean?" Mani: "Boy everybody know you a hoe." Nique: "Aye issa difference between bein a hoe and bein a playa" Me: "She prolly know whatchu be on and she don't wanna deal wit it." Nique sucked his teeth then the girl came back over. Nique: "Aye dis my sister and my cousin." She started giggling then she said "Hii I'm AJ." Mani: "You and Nique been fuckin round?" Nique: "Imani!" AJ: "Oh no... we're just friends. Nique is like a brother to me." I busted out laughing and they stared at me. Me: "My bad 🤣" A lady called for her and she said "Oh hollon I'll be right back, sorry." Nique: "Mani you get on my damn nerves." Me: "She said you like a brother to her mane 😭. You ain't gettin that" Nique: "What?" Mani: "If a girl says that a dude is like a brother to her, that most likely means she knows you like her but she ain't interested and she's trying to say it in the nicest way." Nique: "Man fuck y'all. Yo ass gon be lookin real mfn dumb when I get her." Me: "Ight Nique 😂. Imma let you believe whatever." Mani sat down and stared at her phone. Me: "What's wrong?" Mani: "I can't wait to go back." Me: "Lawd." Mani: "When do we leave?" Me: "In a lil less than an hour." Mani: "Ugh that's too long." Me: "Girl Durk ain't goin nowhere 🤣."