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Shut me out. It’s been ten years and I haven’t heard from him since. I just…never wanted to feel that kind of pain again.”
    “Pain is a consequence of love, Kailani. If you didn’t love, it wouldn’t hurt.”
    “Well, if I’m gone have to hurt either way, I’d just rather not love.”
    “Love don’t always hurt but ain’t nobody perfect. You just gotta find somebody worth the pain. Somebody who wouldn’t do anything to intentionally cause you any hurt or pain. So what? You waiting for this nigga to get out so y’all can be together or some?”
    She sighed heavily and started back with the avoiding eye contact. “No, Bishop.”
    “So, you telling me you just don’t want to be with anybody else?”
    “I didn’t want to… until last night. That’s why I can’t look at you. You scare me. You make me feel… good and bad and I haven’t been with a man who made me feel since… him.”
    “What’s his name?”
    That got her attention.
    She looked at me again. “Why?”
    “Just what’s his name, Kailani?”
    After pausing for a while, she told me, “Courtney.”
    “Courtney what?”
    “Courtney Green.”
    I didn’t want my face or my body to show it… but, I knew the nigga. Knew the nigga well and I also knew that he was getting out this year. I couldn’t let her find out. I could not let him get out and mess up what could be my good thing. I had to make Kai fall in love with me before that nigga got out or kill him before he had a chance to, whichever one was easiest.

Kailani
     
    For the rest of the night, Bishop was distant. He was with me physically, but I could tell he was somewhere else mentally. I’d asked him what was up, but he wasn’t trying to talk about it so I didn’t pry. When he left, I called Lay and made her come over so I could see how much trouble she’d gotten into trying to help me fight Ashley. Rell was just going to have to get used to it. Lay was a hot head and if either of us had beef, the other one did too. I was sure he was the exact same way with Bishop. I missed that nigga already, so much that I was half listening to Lay because I was thinking about him. I just hoped she didn’t ask me nothing because I had most definitely tuned her out.
    “Can you believe that?” Lay asked me.
    “Believe what?” I asked. I figured she would ask me something since I wasn’t listening.
    “You ain’t been listening to a word I said. I said Rell tried to put me on punishment. Gone tell me I couldn’t go out tonight or next weekend because I don’t know how to handle myself.”
    “Well, I see you ain’t go out, so he didn’t try to put you on punishment, he did.” I teased her before walking to the kitchen to grab the bowl of grapes I had on my table.
    “Whatever. I know you was thinking about Bishop. Why don’t you just call him?”
    I told her about what happened with us when she first got here. I think I may have messed him up letting him know that I was so hooked on Courtney that I didn’t want to date again, but it seemed like it was more than that. Besides, I didn’t have the nigga number anyway.
    “I don’t even have his number.”
    She reached into her purse and I knew she was about to call Rell.
    “Don’t call Rell.”
    “Why not? You want the nigga. Have the nigga.”
    “He just left, Layyah.”
    “So…”
    I didn’t know why I was wasting my breath. She was going to call him anyway.
    “Where you at?” she asked him. She must not have liked his answer because she rolled her eyes. “Is Bishop with you?” Lay looked at me and smiled. “Tell him that Kai misses him.”
    I tried to grab the phone, but she jumped up and ran towards the kitchen.
    “You going home? Okay. I’ll meet you there.” She walked in the den cheesing.
    I could’ve killed her and kissed her at the same time.
    “Bishop is on his way back over here. Why don’t you go take a shower and put something more appealing on?”
    I looked at my sweats and shrugged. I wasn’t