You could hear her best friend, and her cousins cooing behind us, which had Riot rolling her eyes at them. I carried her over to the chair that she had been sitting in, putting her in my lap. She didn’t straddle me though. She just sat down in my lap, while I wrapped a protective arm around her.
“What ya’ll drinking on?” I asked the girls.
“The bottle that you brought. You want a shot?” Ari asked me.
“Yeah. You can go ahead and pour me one. I appreciate that,” I said, leaning up, so that I could be able to take the cup from her once she poured it.
She handed it to me, I thanked her, and just on some playful shit, I put the cup to Riot’s mouth, as if I was feeding it to her. I knew her ass wouldn’t take it though. She moved it out of the way, and I brought it to my lips, throwing the shot back.
My girl really didn’t drink. Like, she didn’t fuck around with that shit. She could be in a room full of people, which she was in Mexico, and everybody could be throwing shots back, and she’ll just sit there sipping her water. I think that it was a good thing that Riot didn’t drink or do drugs. Shit, she was already turned up without the extra boost, so she didn’t need shit else in her system.
“We the people want to know what happened the other night between you, and Bean. We saw the camera footage, but Riot won’t tell us what happened,” Demi, her best friend said to me, with the hookah in her hands.
She took a long pull from it and let a bunch of smoke in the air. You could tell that whatever the hell she was talking about, that the rest of the girls were in on it and wanted to ask as well because the second she asked, they started laughing.
“What camera footage? What you talking about?” I asked.
I felt like I was sitting around a bunch of my messy ass sisters, and my girl. I fucked with Riot’s people. They were all cool. She had a bunch of strong women in her life that you could tell cared a great deal about her.
Instead of Demi answering the question, Riot turned her head to look at me.
“You know Ari has the Ring doorbell. She has the footage from the other night at her house, when I was running after you, and jumped on top of your car. These bitches been fucking with me about that all day,” she told me and you could hear it in her voice that she was sick of their asses.
I ain’t want to laugh because I could tell that Riot was annoyed, but I was dying to see the camera footage myself. See, at the time, that shit wasn’t funny. She had me hot, and I really wanted to slam her ass. Now that a few days passed, and we made up from that shit, I could laugh about it.
“Let me see the video Ari,” I said, taking my eyes off Riot just for a second, so that I could look at her cousin.
Ari was cracking up with her own hookah tip in her hand. She picked her phone up from the table, and she went looking for the video.
“The thing is, I barely pay that Ring app any attention. While all that was going on, I was at work, and I can’t be on my phone like that. It wasn’t until the next morning that I checked my phone, and I saw that at two in the morning, I had all kinds of motion at my door. That’s what made me look at the footage to see what the hell was going on. The app caught like five different videos. Tell us the story Dolo because your girl wont,” Ari said, passing me her phone, and the video was playing.
It was on the part where I was yelling at her on the porch, telling her to take her ass in the house. Then, I went on to the next video, where I walked away, got in the car, and her ass came running after me, beating on the window. The next video,that’s when she jumped her ass on the hood of the car, and she wouldn’t get down. Seeing those videos, and how shit went down, and seeing how we were cuddled up with each other right now, all I could do was laugh at it, while shaking my head, as I passed Ari back her phone.
“Your cousin used to being able to saying whatever the fuck she want to say, doing whatever she want to do, without having somebody really check her ass. I had to lay down the motha fuckin law the other night. I told her I was leaving, and she started wilding,” I let them know, only going to say that.
I wasn’t going to fully expose her and let them know how her ass was crying for real back in the bedroom, and that little shit that the camera picked up wasn’t anything compared to the way Riot really showed her ass.
“I hope you know what you getting yourself into, Dolo. We don’t fuck around. Riot got that crazy gene in her blood just like the rest of us,” Zaria, one of Riot’s other cousin’s said to me. I waved that shit off, like I wasn’t fazed by it.
“I hope your cousin know what she getting herself into. I’m the one that don’t fuck around. We had a little hiccup the other night. We moved on from that, and we’re good now. Ima make her move out your house, Ari, and in with me. You got all our fuckin business on front street,” I said to Ari, and she laughed, while waving me off.
“You not taking my cousin nowhere with you nigga,” she said it in a playful way, but I knew she was serious and would probably hate that shit if I made Riot move in with me.
Her ass was just going to have to hate me because the plan was to have Riot move in with me. Ever since she stayed the night with me, I didn’t want her ass to go. I do a lot of wrong in this world. I was putting drugs out on the streets, killing niggas when I had to, and just making some wrong decisions, so with that, sleep is not always something that’s easy for me to do.When I fall asleep with my girl though, my body feels at ease, and I could close my eyes and drift off to sleep with no problem.
I stuck around out here with Riot, and the girls, drinking, and talking shit with them for about 30 minutes more. Ari’s son was leaving with his grandma, and Demi made plans to leave her daughter here with Keyshawn. Now, all of them were making plans to go out tonight. They tried their luck, and asked Riot to join them, but she turned them down, letting them know that she was leaving with daddy. I mean, that’s not how she said it, but I knew that’s what she meant.
She went around, giving hugs to her girls, and I did the same, hugging them, and we went back inside. They were wrapping up the party on the inside as well. I showed respect, going over to Keyshawn, thanking her for having me over, and then I went around the room, giving hugs, and letting everyone know that it was nice meeting them. Riot gave her hugs too, and before she got in the car with me, she went over to Ari’s car, so that she could grab her duffle bag.
Once she had it, I opened the passenger door, so that she could step in. I got in next, closing the door behind me, and starting it up. The truck rumbled as I backed out of the driveway. As I was doing that, going over to the stop sign, I could feel Riot’s eyes on me, so that’s what made me turn my head, and look at her.
“Thank you for coming over and meeting my family. That meant a lot to me. You could have said no, and that you weren’t ready to do all of that, so thank you for coming,” she voiced. Hearing her say that to me made me smile.
“It’s cool baby. You don’t have to thank me for that. We’re in a relationship. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing,” I said.
“Your grandparents cool. I like Keyshawn too. She loves you. I can hear it in the way that she talks about you. I remember you telling me that you and your mom used to bump heads a lot.I’m surprised because being around her, she seems like she be chilling,” I went on to say, as I continued to drive, just a couple of miles away from hopping on the turnpike.
“I mean, it’s easier now because I’m grown, but when I was a kid, it wasn’t always like this. I won’t put all the blame on my mama though because I know that it couldn’t have been easy raising me, and my brother on her own, especially while she was grieving my dad. Me, and Roman were bad as hell growing up. We still have our little disagreements here and there, but it’s nowhere like it used to be,” she responded, and I nodded, feeling where she was coming from.