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    â€œHey, I want to give you something.” He walked over to his dresser and came back with a black opal ring.
    â€œThis is my grannies. She told me to give it to whoever I wanted to spend my life with.” He put it on her right hand, middle finger.
    â€œYou know that’s the wrong hand.” She said
    â€œDang, why can’t you just take it? God, why does it have to be on the right finger, I gave it to you; ain’t that enough?” he asked as he dropped her hand and walked over to his chair.
    â€œI’m sorry. I just thought you should know that if you want to get married, you need to ask me first,” she said walking over to him.
    â€œLook I know. Can you let me just be the man for once and stop trying to be so damn bossy. God! Now I see what my dad was talking about.”
    â€œWhat does that mean?” she said with her hands on her hips.
    â€œJust that…well sometimes a woman gotta let a man be a man and stop trying to be the woman AND the man.”
    â€œWhat! That is just stupid.” She said as he walked away from her. “Besides I was only making a point. You don’t have to bite my head off about it.”
    â€œWhatever.” He grabbed his shirt from the chair and walked out of his room.
    â€œSee you later, Granny. Tell Ma I will be back around ten.”
    â€œOk, be careful,” she said as the door closed.
    They got outside and there stood Brenda.
    â€œHey Shaun, wait up,” she called as she breezed past Cheryl. Shaun acted like he didn’t hear her, and kept walking.
    â€œI know you heard me. Oh, sorry. I guess you have to walk your dog first,” she said as she got closer to them.
    â€œI got your dog, bitch,” Cheryl said while walking towards her.
    Shaun grabbed her arm. “C’mon, I thought you weren’t supposed to be around her.”
    â€œShe better keep her damn mouth shut or I will shut it for her.”
    â€œShaun, you better come see what I want, unless you want everybody out here to know your biz-ness,” Brenda said with her head rolling around like it was about to come off.
    With that, he turned and walked towards her. Whatever he was saying to her had her about to cry. He wouldn’t let her get a word in whenever she tried talking. He walked back over to Cheryl, grabbed her hand and started walking.
    â€œWhat did she want?”
    â€œNothing.”
    â€œThen why in the hell did you go over there then?”
    â€œWhat’s with the million questions?”
    â€œCause, I want to know why she calling you out.”
    â€œLook, just leave it alone.”
    She snatched her hand from his. “I will not! Why can’t you just tell me?”
    â€œCause it ain’t none of your business.”
    â€œLike hell it ain’t! You are my business!” She said, acting just like the girls she didn’t want to be like.
    â€œLook, don’t ask me nothing about her.”
    â€œThen maybe I’ll just ask her.”
    â€œLook, just leave it alone; don’t give me the third degree. Let’s just go to the movies like we planned.”
    â€œNot until you answer my question and tell me what thatbitch wanted.”
    â€œLook, you don’t have to keep calling her names. Let’s just go.”
    â€œDid I just hear you right? You are defending her fat ass!”
    â€œHell no.”
    â€œThen just tell me.”
    â€œTell you what? Ain’t nothing to tell.”
    â€œYou are such a liar!”
    â€œWhat!”
    â€œYou heard me. Obviously you had something to say to her and now you all mad at me for asking. I think its best that I go home.”
    â€œFor what?”
    â€œBecause I don’t feel like going anywhere.”
    â€œDamn, you sure know how to spoil a fun day.”
    â€œNo, I didn’t spoil anything. All you had to do was answer one damn question, but you would rather take up for that bitch instead of answering