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already full.” I laughed and rolled out of bed.
    “Maybe that oughta say something to you about the amount of shopping you do . I mean, you got shit in that closet that you ain’t looked at since you bought it. Still got tags on them and shit. It’s like shoppin’ is your drug of choice.”
    “You want me to look good for you, don’t you?” I asked, walking around half in a daze, half looking for something to put on.
    “No doubt, but you don’t need to shop to look good for me. You look good to me just the way you are now.”
    I looked at Lorenzo and smiled. He smiled and stared me down.
    “What you smiling ’bout?” I asked.
    “Lookin’ at you.”
    “Oh, really?”
    “I don’t mean to be crude, Nina, but those are the prettiest titties I’ve ever seen.”
    “Even if you didn’t mean to, yeah, that shit was crude. But thank you anyway,” I said and got back in the bed. “If I look so good, maybe you could get back in this bed and finish what you started.”
    “I am thinkin’ about gettin’ back in that bed, but I know I got someplace I gotta be; so I been tryin’ to talk myself out of it,” Lorenzo said as he finished getting dressed. When he was ready to leave, he came to the bed and kissed me good-bye.
    Trying to be a good girl and prove that I wasn’t a shopaholic, I didn’t buy anything that day. We didn’t even go to the mall. We just hung out around the way until I was ready to go home. I sat in the backseat listening, but not really hearing what Teena and Shay were arguing about. My mind was in a completely different place. I was thinking about putting the BMW down and getting a Lexus. The BMW had served me well these last two years, but I just felt like driving something different. And I wanted a black one this time. I hate white cars, ’cause no matter what you do, you can never keep them clean.
    Teena turned down my street and into a sea of police and other emergency vehicles. A cold chill came over me; I instantly knew this was not good. We got out of the car and tried to make our way through the crowd. As I got closer, it became obvious that whatever was going on, Lorenzo was in the middle of it.
    “What you think is happening?” Teena asked.
    “I don’t know, but it can’t be good,” I said as I got near the building. I shivered as I watched the coroner come out of the building with a body bag. I was just about to cross the police barricade, when somebody grabbed me by the arm.
    “You don’t wanna do that.” I turned around and saw Jay, one of Lorenzo’s people.
    “Jay, please tell me that’s not Lorenzo they bringing out in that bag.”
    “It’s not. They brought Lorenzo and Chris out already. They’re both in jail,” Jay said.
    “What happened, Jay? Who’s in the body bag?”
    “I don’t know. I went to the store and all this was here when I got back.”
    “You didn’t try to find out?” I asked, mad as hell at him.
    “No, I ain’t goin’ anywhere near them cops right now.”
    Shay stepped up. “I’ll find out what’s happenin’, Nina,” she said, then walked up to one of the police controlling the crowd. They talked for a long time, which drove me crazy. Then the cop handed Shay a card and she made her way back to us.
    “Well?” I demanded.
    “Both Lorenzo and Chris are in jail. He said that one of them killed a cop, but he don’t know which one.”
    “Killed a cop? In our apartment? What were the cops doin’ there?”
    “They came to arrest Lorenzo on a warrant for conspiracy to distribute,” Shay explained.
    “Oh my God,” I said as I began to cry.
    “I don’t think that you should try to go in there anytime soon, Nina,” Teena said. “You know how they like to arrest the girlfriend and shit. They figure that you know everything about how Lorenzo does business, and then try to make you testify against him.”
    “Shit, that ain’t gonna happen,” I said. I took out my cell phone and called the lawyer. “Let’s get out of