you was up on her so close that at one point I thought you were gonna start tonguing her down.”
“C’mon, son, you know better than that. And don’t start acting like you ain’t cuff master. It’s been a few times when I wanted to go in on something you had and you wouldn’t give me the green light,” Levi accused.
“Man, them must’ve been my personals because you know ain’t a whore in the world that I wouldn’t share with my brother.” Happy smiled.
“Whatever, nigga.” Levi exhaled the cigarette smoke. “Like I was saying, after the spot closed, me and shorty slid back to the telly and shit. We negotiated everything in the club so it wasn’t no misunderstanding. A’ight, so I roll an L and me and shorty have a few drinks, before she stripped down and got real nasty. Shorty is popping herself, giving that porno head and the whole nine.”
“Word? Did she spit on ya dick, too?” Happy asked excitedly.
“The spit and everything else. So just when I’m hard as a rock and ready to fuck, this bitch looks at the time and stops.”
“Oh hell nah!”
“Word to everything, my nigga. Put the breaks on my whole wave. Now I’m confused because I know she said a buck-fifty at the club and I paid her before we left, so off the back I know some funny shit was going on. You know what this bitch had the nerve to tell me?” Levi gave a dramatic pause. “That she meant it was a buck-fifty per hour.”
“Oh hell nah.” Happy laughed, slapping his meaty palm against the dashboard. Tears were forming in the corners of his eyes and he was wheezing so badly that he had to take two hits off his asthma pump. “Man, that’s some bogus shit. So you just let the bitch beat you outta your scratch?”
Levi looked at Happy as if he should know better. “Never that. I told the bitch to hang loose while I ran downstairs to use the ATM. Not only did I leave that bitch stranded in the Bronx, but I stole her pocketbook on my way out.”
Happy shook his head. “Youz a stone cold dude.”
“Nah, the illest part about it is that I taped the bitch giving me head. As soon as I got back to the crib I uploaded her shit to my Web site. I got over fifty thousand hits off that dick-sucking whore.” Levi grinned wickedly. “It’ll be a cold day in hell before a bitch can put one over on Levi Brown!”
“Church.” Happy gave Levi dap. The smile on Happy’s face melted away when he spotted the blue-and-white patrol car in his rearview mirror. They rode by slowly, looking into the car, and kept going. Happy breathed a sigh of relief until the patrol car got to the light and made a U-turn, pulling to a stop right in front of the check-cashing spot and going inside. By the time they came out with the girl Happy had sent in, he was ten blocks away.
* * *
“Damn,” Happy cursed as his truck crept through traffic.
“You think they made us?” Levi asked nervously.
“I doubt it; we could’ve been any two niggaz on that block. I’m just worried about shorty running her mouth.”
“How long have you known her?” Levi asked.
“’Bout fifteen years or so. She’s my baby mama’s oldest daughter.”
Levi looked at him in shock. “Hap, you sent your stepdaughter in there to pull a lick?”
“She ain’t no kin to me by blood. Besides, I don’t recall putting no gun to her head; she came to me wanting to get down. Before me she was selling pussy to them broke-ass niggaz uptown, so if you look at it I was doing her a favor,” Happy reasoned.
Levi shook his head sadly and went back to looking for police on their tail. A chick that was crossing in front of the truck caught his attention. She had a mean shape and moved like a stallion, turning the heads of damn near everyone she passed. Her swag was on a thousand, and from all the designer bags she was carrying, Levi knew she was holding. “Hap, pull up on this bitch so I can holla.”
CHAPTER 5
Francine, known to her friends as Frankie, pushed