How Well Do We Know Ourselves by Anita Johnson

Author:Anita Johnson [Anita Johnson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

ELEVEN

After I had Beedy, I went wild, wild, wild. The landlord was in the process of putting us out. Too much traffic! I had to find something quick and cheap. We moved deeper into The East. The Deep East, to Cessna Court.

When we moved to Cessna Court, my mama couldn’t believe it. “Girl, how you get a house over there? You got a movie house. Don’t you know they used to have the drive-in movies over there? They broke it down, huh? Built houses, huh? We used to sneak into the movies, huh? Girl you got it goin’ on. My baby got it going on, huh?”

We lived at the end of the street, it was like a cul-de-sac. Townhouses right next door to each other, connected. Cessna Court was pretty, yes indeed. Ravenele’s mama stayed on the same block, a few houses up from me. It was part of a hood called Skyview. When I got there, I tried to get Toya back again. This time, it worked. Toya was in the 7th grade and Walter was in the 8th. I enrolled them into a school around the corner called Livingston.

Cessna Court is where Toya met Wayne. I knew all the children, their mamas and all that. This is where I met B.G., Juvenile, Turk, Wayne, all them boys. They used to be out front of my house, rapping. B.G.’s mama, Cynthia, used to stay right next door to us.

The doorbell rang. I got up and answered it, “Hello, are you looking for my son Walter?”

“Yes ma’am. Can he come outside?”

“Yes little boy. Now y’all better behave out there, I don’t want my son in any mess. And what’s your name?”

“B.G. I was just seeing if he could come out front.”

“Yes. Walter! Waaalltteerr! This boy B…what’s your name again?”

“B.G.”

“This boy G.B. is out here, I mean B.G. I get all these names confused. Now, why don’t y’all use the names your mamas give you, huh?” Walter walked from his room to the door. I told him, “Now Walter, I don’t want to hear about you putting your hands on nobody, ok? B.G. is a nice boy, and his mama is a sweet lady too. Y’all go out there and have fun, but behave y’all selves!”

Walter replied, “Yes ma’am. We just going outside to rap.”

“Well then, take your brother Casey with you.” Walter went with Casey, B.G., and them all tore out the door into the middle of the street where Juvenile and Turk were standing there rapping back and forth.

Little Walter and Toya went to Livingston, that’s where they met Wayne. Lil’ Wayne. Wayne used to rap with B.G. and all them boys, they were like family. He must’ve had a crush on my little girl and she had one back because she was head over heels for that little boy. They were starting to get a little buzz in New Orleans rapping together. They called themselves The Hot Boys. Walter used to rap with them too, him and Casey. Casey was little, but he would try.

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