and very handsome.
“Who sent the bottles?” Jill asked.
The chocolate one smiled and I think my pussy tingled. “I did,” he said, standing up. “Simeon Hall,” he extended his arm to shake Jill’s hand, but she just looked at it.
“Excuse my friend,” I moved her out the way and shook his hand. “Nice to meet you Simeon, I’m Cherish, this is Jill and that’s Raq. Thank you for the bottles, but we were leaving.”
“Oh shoot, hey Ree-Ree!” Raquel recognized one of the females sitting next to Simeon.
“I thought that was you, Raquel, wassup?” the girl got up and gave Raquel a hug. “I haven’t saw you in a minute, where you been?”
Raquel flashed her wedding ring. “Family life,” she said.
“I hear that.”
“Why y’all leaving so early?” Simeon asked me.
“It’s getting late and I gotta get up early in the morning,” I answered.
He smiled again. Goddamn he was fine!
“But I brought y’all bottles so we could keep the party going,” he said.
“We don’t need you to buy us no bottles, thank you… we can buy our own,” Jill told him.
“Okay lil’ mama, I was just trying to show my appreciation to y’all for being the baddest bitches up in here, but maybe I was wrong…”
“Oh, please believe, you are not wrong. We are the baddest bitches up in here; we know that… and thank you,” she said.
“Excuse me, let me introduce y’all to my crew,” he pointed to the far end of the sofa. “That’s Banks, Bucky and this is my little brother Will,” and then he pointed to the two females. “This is my little sister Ree-Ree and that’s my homegirl Stacey.”
“Nice to meet you ladies,” they said in unison.
“Don’t she look just like Kay, Simeon?” Ree-Ree said, referring to me.
Simeon removed his dark shades and looked me up and down. He smirked. “A little bit,” he said.
“Who’s Kay?” I asked.
“Kay’s my homegirl, his fiancé,” Ree-Ree said. “I’m telling you, you look just like her. That shit is crazy. She didn’t come out tonight, but here’s a picture of her,” Ree-Ree passed me her phone and I looked at the picture.
“There is a slight resemblance there,” I said, handing the phone to Jill so she could see.
“Oh shit! That’s kinda creepy. Y’all do look alike, Cherish.”
“So, y’all gonna stay and party with us?” Simeon asked.
I looked at my watch. “I’m sorry, not tonight, maybe some other time. Thanks again for the bottles. I’ll see you around,” I told him. He smiled and I smiled back.
“Ree-Ree, call me!” Raquel yelled while we were walking out of V.I.P.
5
I was in a deep sleep, dreaming about that nigga from The Wire. What’s his name? Oh, Idris Elba, damn that nigga is fine. In the middle of my fantasy, I kept hearing a phone ringing. I was waiting for somebody to pick it up, but it just continued to ring. I popped my eyes open and the ringing got louder. It was my IPhone.
I pushed the covers of me and reached over to the nightstand. “Hello?”
“Sis, you still gonna take me shoppin’?”
“Yes, Dorian, I’ll be there by one,” I told him.
“Aight… can we go to the Palisade’s, I wanna go to the True store?”
“Yes, Dorian, where’s grandma?”
“She’s in the kitchen making some breakfast, when you comin’?”
“I just told you I’ll be there by one, Dorian. Don’t piss me off today, boy.”
He laughed. “Okay, sis… chill, I’ll see you when you get here.”
“Bye, boy…” I hung up.
My little brother was a pain in the ass, but I loved him with all my heart. It didn’t matter what he did, right or wrong, I stood by his side. If he was wrong, I would definitely tell him about himself, but that never hindered me from being there for him. We had your typical big sister, little brother relationship, but we hadn’t grown up in the same household. Dorian was