The People vs. Cashmere by Karen Williams

Author:Karen Williams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2011-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

couple weeks later I found out what the deal was. I was knocked out when Desiree woke me up with a kick in my ass. I ignored her and turned my back to her. “Cash, get up. This is serious. God, this shit is serious.”

I sucked my teeth and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. “What?” I narrowed my eyes at her as I sat up in the bed and saw her fidgeting and tapping on something behind her back.

She cleared her throat and bit her lip. “Ummm, I need you to help me do this.”

I slid out of the bed. “Do what?”

She shoved a box in my hands so quick, I didn’t have time to grasp it before it fell. When I bent over to retrieve it and read the label, my eyes widened. It was a pregnancy test.

“Is it Black’s?”

She gave me a long stare and picked at her nails. “If it was, do you think I would be tripping? But we always use condoms.” She looked down and offered a weak smile.

“Desiree, don’t tell me.”

“I love him, Cashmere. Finally I found someone to love me for me.”

Desiree was a sucker for chances. Fucking with the trick, like she was doing, was suicide, but obviously she didn’t care. She went on and on about how good he treated her, but I was half-listening.

Desiree was eighteen now, but the bitch read at a third-grade level, so I was reading the instructions on how to do the pregnancy test. And it turned out that she was very, very pregnant.

She screamed and kicked the laundry basket. “I’m not prepared for this!”

“You stupid.”

She paced around in a circle. “Shit, Black don’t show me no love. All he ever has his mind on is you. Now he showing me some attention ’cause he mad at you. But I didn’t care anymore ’cause I was getting caught up in ol’ boy. And he has some good dick. But it’s not just that.” She had a dreamy smile on her face as she continued to pace.

I waved a hand at that bullshit she was talking. “What are you going to do?”

She stopped pacing and gave me a dumb look. “Whatchu think? The man loves me. He was begging me to leave Black for him, and now that I’m pregnant, I have a reason to. But, to be quite honest, the last thing I need is a snotnosed muthafucka to take care of, but hell, like I always tell you sometimes, you got to do what you got to do. So I’ll go on and ride this baby thing out to get my man, ’cause I love my boo-boo, and I think he’ll make a good daddy.”

I shook my head at her, as she made the decision for us to leave Black.

How Desiree got the money up to get us the bus tickets, I don’t know, since Black pretty much controlled the dough we made. But she was sure able to get up enough

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