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should ask Dee. She knows everything, then we will go and tell them to stop spreading lies about you.”
    â€œWhat would you do that for? You know Dee is just plain nosey anyway and likes to keep shit stirred up.”
    â€œDang, I was only kidding. Don’t bite my head off.” Shaun started kicking leaves and looking a little uncomfortable.
    â€œHey, you know I love you, right?” he said looking up at her.
    â€œYeah, Yeah.”
    â€œNo seriously. Right?”
    â€œYeah.”
    â€œGood, just remember that.”
    â€œAs long as you don’t forget it,” she said as she poked him in his chest.
    â€œLet’s get out of here; do you mind if we stop by my house first?” he asked her as he led her to the car.
    â€œNope, as long as I’m home before eight, that’s fine.”
    They pulled up to his apartment building and got out and Paul walked up to him.
    â€œHey, B said to call when you got here.”
    â€œWhateva, Nigga,” Shaun replied.
    â€œWell, I’m only the messenger. And the message has been told.” Paul said, and walked away.
    â€œWho is B?” I asked.
    â€œNobody.”
    â€œWell, nobody wants you to call.”
    â€œYeah, I got that.” he said and started toward the door.
    They got on the elevator and as the doors closed the smell hit her like a brick upside her head. The urine smell and the dingy carpet were enough to make her move closer to Shaun. The lights in the elevator didn’t work soonce the doors closed you were in darkness. Luckily it wasn’t night yet so it didn’t bother her. The people in the building must have taken the stairs all the time at night. They got to his floor and he opened the door and she barely made it in before the door shut.
    So much for manners, she thought to herself.
    â€œBaby, I know you must be crazy, to walk up in here and not speak to your grandmamma,” she said as Shaun breezed by her on his way to the back.
    â€œGranny, I was just thirsty,” he said while walking back into the living room. “I was going to speak.” He bent over and gave her a kiss.
    â€œThat’s better, ‘cause I would hate to have to get up out of this chair,” she said while swatting at him.
    â€œAnd do what. Need more oxygen?” He laughed, but Cheryl cringed at the disrespect she felt he had just shown to his grandmother.
    â€œDon’t look so serious, baby,” the older woman said. “If I thought that boy was serious, I would be whooping his ass right now.”
    â€œGrandma, why you always trying to get a look at my butt.”
    â€œBoy, I diapered your black ass when you was a baby. The only thing different now is the size…I guess.” She laughed.
    â€œWhatever you say grandma,” Shaun said as he walked back towards his bedroom. “Cheryl, I’m going to change my clothes real quick. Be right back.”
    She sat down in the living room, on plastic no less. She thought to herself: What is it with black folks and plastic on the furniture? All it does is make the furniture look more dingy once the plastic turns yellow. His grandmother was watching an old black and white movie. She could have at least offered her something to drink. She guessed she wasn’t like most grannies.
    â€œBaby, you can go on back. That boy will be forever if you don’t hurry him along.”
    She walked back into his room and he had on his jeansand shoes, but no shirt. She finally saw him as most girls did. He was the color of a Hershey’s bar, had a flat stomach, muscular arms, and a short haircut.
    â€œGrandma wouldn’t think you were such a nice girl if she saw you now,” he walked up to her and kissed her on her neck and face.
    â€œOh really, what would she think if she saw this.” She said as she kissed him back with lust.
    â€œBabies, I don’t hear no talking going on in there.”
    â€œYes grandma,” he yelled