A Girl Like Me by Ni-Ni Simone

Author:Ni-Ni Simone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2008-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

“Looka hear, my man.” Mica said, shivering cold, as Haneef’s driver opened the back door to his Hummer. “Next time, come get us from the house. We shouldn’t have to walk all the way down here. It’s cold out here. Smell me?”

“Shut up!” I said tight-lipped, and mushed him slightly in the back of his head.

“You must be Mica,” Haneef smiled as Mica slid in the truck.

“Haneef!” Sydney jumped up and down. “Oh, my God!!!!! Wait ’til I call the girls in my class: Kennesha, Donnesha, Tamika, Theresa, Jona, Octavia—”

“See,” Aniyah did her best to whisper. “I told you she wasn’t lying.”

“Funny,” I grimaced. “And I told you all that you better behave, and don’t talk too much—”

“Chill,” Haneef laughed, seemingly getting a kick out of them. “They’re alright.”

“Yeah,” Sydney snapped. “Didn’t we leave Mommy in the hallway?”

Oh…kay. I saw I was gonna have to handle this crew. Maybe bringing them with me was a bad idea. “Be quiet,” I pointed. “Now look out the window.”

“Ill,” Sydney whispered loudly. “She actin’ real stank.”

I looked at them and shot them such a serious evil eye, it’s a wonder I didn’t burn a hole through their chests.

“Okay,” Sydney said, waving her hands in defeat. “We get it, we get it.”

“Fa’ real,” Aniyah added. “No need in being all extra.”

Once we were all in the car and on our way to the airport, Haneef asked, “So have you guys ever been on a plane before?” He slyly pulled me next to him by my belt loop and draped his arm over my shoulder. Oh…he felt so good.

After talking about how this was going to be our first plane ride, we laughed at some of Haneef’s corny jokes, Sydney did what she could to secure herself a record deal, and I had to threaten Aniyah when she wanted to tell Haneef how much of a fan of his I really was.

Before we knew it, we were at a small airport in New York, ready to board the small chartered plane.

“Elite,” Mica whispered as he pulled the hem of my shirt. “I wanna ask you something.”

“What?”

“Sydney said that when it rains, that’s people peein’ outta airplanes. So you think we’ll have time to change the weather from a bright sunny day to a stormy one?”

I did all could to not fall out laughing. “Mica, don’t believe that.”

“It’s not true?!” he said in disbelief.

“No.”

Tears filled his eyes. “So I drank all this water for nothing?” he said, exhausted. “I’m so tired of being lied to.”

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