Queen of the City by Higgins Tamicka

Author:Higgins, Tamicka [Higgins, Tamicka]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Hello?”

“Who this?”

“Suzie Rock.”

“Suzie…?”

He paused for a moment. “Oh, right. The rapper from the other day? Right! What’s up?”

“Nothin… I was just seein’ what was good with you?”

“Oh, no doubt. I’m good. Most definitely.”

“I was thinkin’… maybe we could get together and talk about that producing thing I brought up.”

“Word. Yeah, that’s cool. We can do that, fa sho. When you tryin’ to get together?”

“Ummm… later on, today is cool.”

“Aight, bet. Later on, it is then. I’ll hit you up. Maybe we can just kick it at the mall or get somethin’ to eat or some shit like that.”

“Cool. I’ll hit you up in a minute.”

“Aight.”

I would be lying if I said I didn’t have butterflies when we spoke on the phone. It was a feeling he gave me that made me feel like I was melting as he was talking to me. It was almost 8 months since Junie’s death and the similarities between the two of them were too strong for me just to ignore them. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Junie, I may have never even looked at Nasir in that way. I’d done another show since I first came back out on the scene and fucked up Remy’s spot. The ball was rolling, and I was a fool to think that it wouldn’t pick up again where I left off.

Big Mama was still at the house with me. I could tell she was getting worse, but it was something she would never admit to me. Not even in the slightest way. I tossed my phone on the bed and went to the room to check on her. She was sound asleep; her head scarf wrapped tightly around her head. She didn’t look as young as she used to anymore. The doctors said she had an aggressive form of malignant breast cancer. I knew it wouldn’t be long before they put her in the hospital, but for now, she was staying home. It was sad watching her slowly deteriorate before my eyes. Her cheekbones were beginning to show, her eye sockets were bulging out a little more than normal. Even with all that, her bible stayed on her nightstand like it was the one thing that could keep her alive. She never lost faith. I didn’t understand it, but it made me even more curious about the God she served.

The doorbell rang, moving me to leave my daydreams and see who was on the other side of the door. As I opened it, he stood there on the other end with a bouquet of roses in his hand and a card. I shook my head. It was my last resort. I didn’t want to hire anybody to come out here and stay with Big Mama whenever I had to leave, so Uncle Stew was the next best thing. Big Mama kicked him out of the house over 15 years ago because he was strung out on crack and selling everything in the house he could move out on his own.

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