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head; she still couldn’t figure out why he would cheat when she tried to be everything that he wanted. Thought that she was everything he wanted. He called her his ride or die, down for whatever chick, and she had been that.
Damn, why couldn’t he have spoken to her at Casey’s? She’d have jumped right into his arms, but instead he’d treated her with the same indifference that she’d treated him with. Catrina quickly reminded herself that just because she wanted to talk didn’t mean that things would go the way she wanted. She was hoping that the headache she’d been experiencing for the past couple days disappeared because she’d no longer be crying.
    “Hey, Trina,” one of the guys called from the corner as she walked by.
    Annoyed, she looked back to find Kareem following her. “Wassup?” she asked him.
    He smiled. It was the first time he’d gotten a chance to speak with her alone since he’d met her. After hearing about her breakup with David he felt confident that she might give him a chance. Still Kareem had lingering doubts, because when a high maintenance girl broke up with her boyfriend, she didn’t hook up with guys below his status. Kareem himself was only seventeen and didn’t have anything David had.
    She looked up the entire block of closely connected rowhomes and dreaded every anticipated step. Meanwhile Kareem easily fell in step beside her and slung his arm around her shoulders.
    Uncomfortable with being so close to him, Catrina rolled her eyes and pulled away.
    The sun had already begun to disappear into the clouds and the sky had a purplish orange tint. The air was cooler than it had been an hour before. She rubbed her arms to warm the goose bumps that made an appearance and the nerves that came along with them.
    “I really need to get going,” she told Kareem.
    “Hold up now, Trina”
    Annoyance flashing in her hazel eyes, she looked up at him. “What?”
    “I heard that you and Dave broke up,” he admitted, which gave reason for his pursuit.
G ossip spreads like wildfire in this neighborhood, she thought. “No, we had an argument. I’m mad and he’s mad,” she allowed letting him know that she still considered David her man.
    “Yo, dat’s not what I heard.” His voice was cool but somehow still seemed to shake with uncertainty.
    “Yo, Reem,” the shout came from down the block. “Get away from my brother’s girl,” Chris yelled, sprinting up the block towards them. “Yo man, what da fuck you think you doin’?” he demanded.
    Kareem backed off and held his hands in the air as if Chris were the police ready to lock him up for doing something illegal.
    “Damn, dawg. I was just rappin’ wit’ her for a sec,” he admitted meekly.
    Catrina shook her head and walked away from them both. She was still angry at Chris for lying and now even angrier that he thought he had the right to bust up her groove— had it been that type of situation.
    “Don’t let it happen again, nigga,” she heard Chris tell the boy.
    “Trina,” Chris called, catching up with her quick paced walking.
    “What?”
    “Dave ain’t home.”
    She stopped, arched a brow and then stared at him doubtfully. “You seriously want me to believe you after the last time?” she retorted.
    He looked down at her. “Sorry ‘bout that boop, but was I really supposed to tell that he was home wit’ some smut juhn’?”
Smut juhn’? Catrina liked how he categorized David’s little friend. A smut juhn’ was a female that dated and slept with a lot of guys. Was it supposed to make a difference if the girl was a virgin and attended church every Sunday? It made no difference to her what type of thing it was. Another bitch is another bitch was all she knew.
    “Whateva, Chris. And I don’t expect you to let me know if he in there wit’ some otha bitch right now.”
    “I’m serious, he ain’t here. He had some important thing with Ty and D. He might still be with them.”
    He wasn’t, she knew but