No Love Lost: A Hood Romance by Tamicka Higgins

Author:Tamicka Higgins [Higgins, Tamicka]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Urban, Genre Fiction
Amazon: B016N1Y91U
Published: 2015-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The next morning, Jada jumped up and started cooking. She may have been the ultimate homegirl, and maybe even a hood chick by definition, but she learned from her mama and auntie how to cook some breakfast food. She made everybody some pancakes, eggs and sausage. The four of them ate on plastic plates in the living room while the television was on.

“Look, you still look like you in bad shape, Nat,” Sade said. “I’mma call Granddaddy and just tell him I can’t come. He’ll understand and stuff.”

Nat waved his hand. “Naw, baby,” he said. “I feel better and shit. And you goin’ Don’t go trying to back out of it now. Me and Deveron don’t need y’all to watch after us all day. We’ll be alright and shit. It’s gon be coo.”

Sade knew deep down what she was trying to do. She really didn’t want to go and was looking for any reason to not go. Sure, she felt bad for trying to use Nat and Deveron getting jumped as an excuse, but at that point any excuse would do. For whatever reason, of which she could just not figure out, she just had a bad feeling in her gut that going to dinner at Granddaddy’s was going to be something that would make her feel uncomfortable.

Jada, in her usual upbeat self, smacked her lips together as she sat down on the couch with her plate. “Sade, girl,” she said. “I know you don’t wanna go and see your mother, but girl we here now. We might as well go on and get it over with since you done been thinking about it all this time.”

“It ain’t gon be that bad, Sade,” Nat said, trying to comfort his woman while his own body ached from getting stomped by DeAndre the night before at Oak Park. “Just go like you normally would,” he said. “Before you know it, she’ll be back out of your life and you’ll go back to school and everything, not seeing her like you ain’t been seeing her. Nothing is really going to change today, baby. And you know that.”

Sade shrugged her shoulders, knowing deep in her heart that what Nat and Jada were saying was right. Her mother had been out of her life all of these years, she’d gotten used to not seeing her. At this point in her life, she’d gotten used to really just thinking of her mother as the woman who gave birth to her who she might hear about walking up and down this street, or falling in and out of that club from time to time.

The four of them sat around the living room and at the rest of their breakfast before Jada headed upstairs to get ready to go.

“Girl, I’mma run home to get something to wear,” Sade said.

Jada stopped halfway up the staircase and looked down. “Coo,” she said. “What time we supposed to be there, again?” Jada asked.

“Three o’clock,” Sade answered. “And girl, don’t you be late or come textin’ me no shit where you gon’ be leaving me hanging or something.

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