he yells.
I laugh and start collecting my chips. He mutters something about pretty boy powers which only makes me laugh more.
I lean over to Marc. “Yo, so what’s in this drink for real?”
“It’s Wild Turkey 101 proof, Everclear, and black cherry soda.”
“Goddamn,” I say.
“I know.” He smiles and looks over at Nico, who is still nursing his water bottle.
“Ah man, so I gotta tell y’all about this sexy ass chick that I saw the other night,” Nico says. “She was short, and you know I like my women fun sized, and she was curvy as hell. I’m talkin’ coke bottle figure, for real! Her tits were perfect, her hips were amazing and she had a nice firm lookin’ ass. Oh my god, I thought I had died and went to heaven!”
“First of all, you only like fun sized because you’re short, let’s just point that out,” Troy says.
“Just because I’m not a fucking giant like some of you doesn’t mean I’m short. Five-ten is not short.”
“Oh you’re five-ten now? I thought you were five-eight?” Troy asks.
“Whatever. Anyway,” he says, turning his back towards Troy, “she was fine as fuck. Wifey material.”
“Oh yeah? You want to settle down already?” I ask him.
“Eh. I don’t know. How long can you do this job?” he asks rhetorically.
“You ain’t even been doin’ this that long,” Troy says.
“Definitely not as long as you, old man,” Nico jokes.
“Shit, look at this smooth, chocolate skin. I don’t have a wrinkle on this body.”
“Nah, I’m just sayin’. I mean, have y’all thought about how long you’re gonna be doin’ this?”
I have thought about it. I’ve been doing this for several years now. I did it for the money in all honesty. I mean, I didn’t need to do it just to get a date. My brother was killed, my mom went into a depression and couldn’t work, I haven’t seen my dad in I don’t know how long, and we were broke. As soon as I was legally able to do this job, I did it. When the money started coming in, I was hooked. I wasn’t used to being able to buy what I wanted when I wanted. I was able to pay my mom’s debts off and put her mind at ease. I’ve made a lot of money in this job, and in the beginning, I just spent and spent because I could. After a while, I began saving, investing and trying to set myself up for success, because I do know that I can’t work this job forever. I took college classes to get a degree, and now I don’t necessarily have to do this job if I don’t want to.
“Shit, I’ll do this job until I’m fifty if I can,” Troy says. “Money and pussy, what else do you need?”
“Man, whatever. What if you find a woman you want to settle down with? She ain’t gonna be okay with you fucking all kinds of people,” Nico says.
“I ain’t ever getting married, so I don’t have to worry about that. I’m a bachelor. I do bachelor shit.”
We all know that Troy is still pissed about what his fiancé did to him. Even though it was a few years ago, he hasn’t gotten over it and is still thinking he’ll be content being single forever. I think he’ll change his mind after a while.
“What about you?” Nico asks, looking directly at me.
“I’m not gonna do this forever, probably not for much longer actually. It’s made me a rich man though,” I say with a smile. “I have some things going on, I’m gonna venture into a different type of business.”
“What kind of business? You holdin’ out on us?” Nico asks.
“Nah. Troy and Marc know about it.”
“What? That’s fucked up. Why am I being left out?” he asks, looking hurt.
“They’re working with me. We’re doing grown men business. Don’t worry about it. You’ll know soon enough.”
He doesn’t say anything else. He’s probably feeling left out, but in all honesty, he wouldn’t help me business wise. Marc and Troy are like me in the sense that we’ve been saving money because we’ve been doing this a long time. Between us three, we have
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