Noel
Tuesday, October 7
Today was my day off but thankfully Kentrell was feeling a whole lot better because he was starting to get on my nerves acting like a big baby
As I sat at the kitchen table eating a bowl of my Honey Bunches of Oats, Kentrell bopped into the kitchen rapping song lyrics. He grabbed a bowl, spoon, the milk and his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch then walked over to the table
"I see somebody's feeling a lot better. That means I can get outta the house now....far away from you"
Kentrell stopped in the middle of pouring his cereal to look at me
"Who told you that?"
"I don't need permission to get out of the house. I'm grown as hell"
He continued to look at me with a straight face
"I still got classwork to do Kentrell. I'm not going nowhere so chill out" I told him with a sigh and he went back to fixing his bowl
"Like I thought. But I gotta head out in a lil bit anyways"
"To do what?"
"Make some money" he told me before eating a spoonful of cereal. I rolled my eyes and swirled my spoon around my milk
"You better be careful with that mess"
"Chill out. You know I'm always careful"
I rolled my eyes and kept my attention on my bowl
"Just don't do nothing stupid Kentrell"
"When have I ever did something stupid?" He asked and I cocked my head to the side, making a face. He smacked his lips and I shrugged
"I'm just saying. Especially with the friends you have... and speaking of friends. I forgot to tell you about some guy that came by the other day"
Kentrell's left brow immediately went up and he stopped chewing "Who?"
"He said his name was Eric or something like that. Dark skin and he wore a durag. He told me to let you know he was back in the city or whatever"
Once I saw the expression on kentrell's face I could tell whoever this Eric boy is wasn't on kentrell's good side.
"Fuck?" Was all that came out of his mouth
"Yeah. And then he called me by name. How he know me?"
Kentrell sat his spoon down and stood up, walking away from the table.
"Trell" I called out his name and followed behind him into the room. He grabbed his keys and walked right pass me but I grabbed his arm
"Where are you going?!"
"Don't worry bout it. Just keep yo ass in the house and the door locked"
"Why?"
He snatched his arm out of my grip and stormed out of the room and eventually the house. Although I wanted to know what was going on and who Eric was, I knew I had to do what Kentrell said
Kentrell
Eric, the same nigga I used to call my brother. Me and him used to run these streets together, fuck on the baddest bitches, and cut class with. Turned out that Eric wasn't nothing but a snake. Before he moved he had me set up, almost got me killed. I vowed that if I ever saw that nigga again I was gonna put him in a grave
"Aye! Open this fuckin door!" I yelled as I banged on the door. After a while the door opened and Bria stood on the other side with a confused look on her face. Once she saw me it immediately changed into a surprised expression.
"Kentrell?"
"Way yo brother at?" I asked, pushing her out the way and walked into the house.
"Eric? Why?"
I made a face at her "dont play dumb"
"He ain't here." She responded while crossing her arms. Bria know exactly why I'm looking for Eric
"Well letcho brother know he better stay far away from Noel or else whats comin' for his ass gone be 10 times worse. I'll have a bullet in both of y'all heads, don't play wimme" I told Bria before walking out of the house, slamming the door behind me.
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"You think Eric stupid enough to try to go after Noel?" Ben asked as we sat outside of my house smoking
"You know he is" baby joe told ben and I just looked straight ahead of me, too busy in my thoughts. I know how Eric move and he's the type of nigga that like to get to people through who or what they love the most and by now everybody in this area know that Noel is my fuckin' heart. All I know is that if he tries ANYTHING with my girl, everything over
"Yb. You straight man?"
I looked at Ben and nodded "yup"
"See ion know why you stressin to be honest. As mean as Noel got lately, I doubt she even let him breathe in her direction"
"Yeah Noel been meaner than usual lately" baby joe agreed with Ben as the door opened
"Stop talking about me" Noel told the both of them as she walked outside and sat down beside me "babe, I need some bigger bills, Whatchu got?"
While she unfolded a wad of money, I pulled some out of my pocket. As she counted through her money, I noticed she had a whole lot of ones
"The hell you got so many ones for?"
"She a stripper on the low" baby joe mumbled and Noel rolled her eyes
"No dumbass. This is what happens when you get tips"
"Well you need to tell them you need some bigger bills" I told her as I flipped through my money. She reached into my hand and grabbed two tens and a twenty while sitting a stack of ones on my lap and I looked at her some type of way
"Fuck Ima do with all these ones?"
"Take em to the strip club" she shrugged before standing up and I looked up at her
"Whatchu needed bigger bills for anyways?"
"Cause my sister needed gas money plus... I was tired of carrying so many ones around so have fun with them" Noel answered and patted my shoulder before heading back into the house. I looked back at her and my eyes went directly to her butt in the biker shorts she was wearing them I look down at the ones in my hand
"I might end up using these tonight instead" I mumbled to myself with a smirk
