Put Your Diamonds Up! by Ni-Ni Simone

Author:Ni-Ni Simone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

14

Heather

“Are you ready to serve the rest of them tricks sweet-fishrealness?” Co-Co spoke into the early morning breeze as we sat parked along the edge of the Royal Palms cliff, silhouetted by the rising sun.

“Trying to be,” I said with my head back and eyes closed, soaking in the feel of my new hot-pink ’57 Chevy convertible—top down, hydraulics up. I gave that old lady tin can crap of a car Spencer gave me to my new landlord as part of my security deposit.

I could feel Co-Co turn toward me. “Tryin’ to be?”

I opened my eyes and the corners of his gloss-covered lips curled as he repeated while snapping his fingers, “Tryin’ to be? What kind of business is tryin’, bish? You ’bout to be Luda Comin’-for-Throats Tutor! Better get your life, honey! We don’t have no time for tryin’. You better snatch, slay and lay them pampered trolls. The same way you did on that stage!” He flipped down the visor, looked at himself in the mirror, and fluffed the blond curls in his lace front. “Tryin’? Mmph, you better live.” He ran his hands down the sides of his black beard.

“Things are not that easy for me, Co-Co.”

Co-Co’s deep brown gaze drank me in. His press-on lashes batted rapidly. “What’s not easy for you? Or are those code words for ‘I’ma slice my wrists’? How about you spare me the suicide speech and save us all the trouble now, jump off the cliff, and leave me this new whip.” He ran his hands across the dashboard. “ ’Cause I’m not doin’ this. And as a representative of the Fierce Nation, I’m here to tell you that that ain’t hot. At. All.” He looked me over. “That new body has no room for you to be Miss Dumb-azz. Miss Dull-azz Sunshine. Major fail.”

Oh no he didn’t! Not Mister Near-Dead himself! What? Did he see the light and now he was trying to give me advice ? Oh, I don’t think so.

I was pissed. And it had crossed my mind to read this queen for filth, but I didn’t. The only thing we didn’t do together was panty drop. Still. That didn’t give this boy the right to come at me crazy. Slow down, low-down.

I picked up my sixteen-ounce bottle of vodka-spiked Coke and my eyes combed him slowly.

He grunted. “Don’t do it, bish. Don’t tell me you have crossed over the line and are now a sensitive fish. Oh honey, see this is what I can’t do: feelings on the sleeve. Look, I just need you to get in order. Your fans need you to make a comeback. And right now you are scaring me. What happened to my Wu-Wu? What happened to last night? Bring her back. Seems like you might be the one puttin’ your diamonds up ’cause you’re about to lose it!”

Spencer’s and everyone else’s voice rang in my head. “She’s dead. D-E-A-D.”

Co-Co gasped. “Who told you that? Wu-Wu is not dead! I don’t know where you got that news from, but you’ve been misinformed.

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