Hidden by Cassie Verano

Author:Cassie Verano [Verano, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chelle Ramsey
Published: 2020-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

“I’M JUST SAYING, BRUH. Just a couple of ideas. I need ‘em,” I said, frowning at my brother, Darnell, who had stopped by the center just before my last class ended.

“Romantic? Yo’ big ass couldn’t be romantic if you tried. Why?”

Shrugging, I turned my lips down and grabbed my towel, pulling it down my face to dry the sweat off.

“Nah, bruh. You don’t get to ask me no shit like that and then shrug your shoulders. You know. Oh, yo’ ass knows why you asked that question. Now what I wanna know is why? What’s her name?”

“I was just thinking, D. That’s it.”

“Uh-uh, keep it real,” Darnell said.

Shaking my head, I grabbed my duffle bag and said, “I am keeping it real.”

“Dude, if yo’ ass were keeping it real, you’d be telling me her name.”

We headed out of the center, and I waved goodbye to the front desk staff.

“There’s no name, D.”

“Yo ass is lying, Kole. I always know when you’re lying. Your eyes get shifty, and you keep turning your lips down like that. You’ve been doing it since we were kids. Ma used to call your ass on that shit all the time. Now give up the grapes. What’s her name?”

I chuckled. “Why’d yo ass stop by anyway? To harass me?” I asked, changing the topic.

“Uh-uh, run that shit on somebody else. What’s her name, Kole?”

I unlocked my car and tossed my bag on the back seat. Resting an arm on the hood of the car, I stared at my big brother.

“You gon’ get to the reason why you stopped by?”

“When you drop that name,” Darnell said.

I lowered myself into the car.

“It’s that little Asian chick, ain’t it? The one that you work with?”

I laughed and placed the key into the ignition.

“It’s ‘bout damn time you start settling down again,” Darnell said.

“Who said anything about settling down?”

“I know that’s what you’re thinking. That’s the only reason you’re talking about romance. But I’m glad. Because after Vanessa dropped your ass, you were a pitiful ass puppy walking around here.”

“I wasn’t a puppy,” I said, thinking about my ex. This was the second time today she’d crossed my mind.

The night I proposed to Vanessa, she broke it off with me. We’d been together for four years. She lied and said she wasn’t ready to settle down, because there was still so much life that she needed to experience.

Seven months later, I learned she was in a relationship with her best friend, Lisa. Vanessa had come to me, asking if I would help her and Lisa have a child. That was the last time we’d spoken. Two years ago.

“Yes, you were. Look, man, I know you loved that girl. And I know that she broke your heart. But don’t let that shit sit in your heart and make you bitter until you lose out on a chance with a good girl,” Darnell said.

I coughed and then started laughing. “Why the fuck would I take advice on women from yo’ cheating ass?” I asked once I got myself together.

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