Gumbo by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen [Laveen, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Tiana Laveen
Published: 2019-05-03T18:30:00+00:00

“I’mma be over there tomorrow,” Danica explained over the phone. “And I apologize again for being late for the funeral! At least I got to see you at the dinner last night. Damn airlines! See? I told Kevin not to take Southwest!”

Cassidy laughed and shook her head. She cradled her cellphone close to her ear while she folded up a stack of Grandmama’s handkerchiefs that she’d kept in a little wicker bin in her bedroom closet.

“I told you it was all right. It wasn’t your fault.” Danica had been living in Texas for the past five years with her husband Kevin and her two boys. “I have something to tell you. You won’t believe who I saw at the funeral yesterday.”

“Who? Trey? I wish a mothafucka would! He knew not to let me see his ass! He got some nerve comin’ down here after he—”

“No, no, not Trey,” Cassidy said. “I didn’t even tell him Grandmama died. We don’t talk. Well, I don’t take his calls I should say.” The last thing Cassidy wanted to see was her damn ex-husband. “Tony…”

“Giiiiirl! You lyin’! Montana?! Scarface?! Tha damn Italian Godfather! My White brotha from anotha motha?!”

“Yes!” Cassidy grinned at Danica’s antics as she placed one pile of handkerchiefs off to the side and began a new stack.

“He been outta prison for a while now, right?”

“He said two years. He stays in Jersey now… moved back home I guess after he was released.”

“Are his mama and brother back in Jersey, too?”

“I don’t know.” She shrugged. “My guess is yes, but I haven’t confirmed it. He’s on his way over to say goodbye.”

Danica was silent for a spell… so unlike her. “Y’all ’bout tuh fuck.”

“DANICA! No, we are not! Where do you even get this shit?” Cassidy chuckled.

“Okay, riddle me this and then I’ll figure out if what I say holds water… Numba one, is he still cute? And don’t lie!”

“He’s okay…”

“Lies!”

Cassidy burst out laughing again. “Fine! Yes, yes! He is very attractive.”

“Is he still tall?”

“Does prison make someone shrink? What kinda question is that?”

“I’m tryna make a point here! Good lookin’ and tall… And he came all the way from New fuckin’ Jersey to pay his respects to Grandmama? Oh heffa, yeah… y’all gone be fuckin’ and if it ain’t today, it’ll be tomorrow. Mark my words.”

“Your mind is always in the gutter! That man might be married or have a girlfriend. He probably isn’t even thinking about that!” Cassidy knew that was a damn lie. The way he’d held her at the funeral said it all…

“Gutterville or not, the truth is tha truth. I wanna see him before he goes. When is he headed out?”

“I think later on today but I need to confirm that.”

“If he is stayin’ in town a day or two more, tell him I wanna see him and give him a hug before he leaves.”

“Okay, I will.”

“Tony… my God. Blast from the past… I’ve never forgotten about him, Cassidy. He was a real mothafucka… in a good way.

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