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“Hey…wassup, KC?” I mumbled into the phone after accepting the call.
“Damn, wassup with you? Why you sounding like you lost your last dollar or something?”
“Man, just got a lot on my mind…what’s up with you? How’s Sarita and the baby?”
“They’re good. I’ll tell her you asked about her. Hey, the project going bad or something? I mean, what’s going on?”
I sighed. “I don’t know…”
“Aw, hell naw! It’s a woman, isn’t it? The player done got played?”
“Be for real, man. You know better than that.”
“But it’s a woman that’s got your head all messed up, isn’t it?”
“Naw…”
“Bullshit! Come on, man. We been boys for how long now? And you think you can fool me? You’re messed up over some chick, and because you’ve never been messed up over one before, your ass is all perplexed and shit. Hell, you sound confused.”
I glanced at the closed office door and rested my elbows on my desk. “Okay, it’s a woman, but it’s not what you think. I mean, I’m not messing with her or anything.”
“But you want to?”
“Yeah…”
“But you’re not?”
“Right…”
“Why? She married?”
“No.”
“A lesbian?”
“Naw, I don’t think so.”
“Well, what then?”
“She’s my landlord.”
“Oh, and you think once you mess over her, she’ll kick you out of your place or something?”
“Yeah, or let me stay there and make my life a living hell. It’s a duplex apartment, and she lives in the other apartment attached to mine.”
KC let out a low whistle. “I see your point. She fine, though?”
“Man, let me tell you!”
“I don’t know. Ry. You gonna be able to hold out? I mean, I ain’t never known you to pass up on a fine woman.”
“I don’t even know. It’s hard, and she’s got this lame-ass boyfriend. He probably ain’t even hitting that right. The things I could do to her…”
“Same old Ryan. What if she doesn’t want you to do anything to her?”
“Are you serious?”
He laughed into the phone. “Man, you and that ego. That landlord just might be the one to shut your conceited ass down.”
