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“Not working too hard, are you?”
“No harder than usual.”
A heavy silence fell between us, and I closed my eyes and decided to bite the bullet. “Look, Renee, I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
Damn, she just wasn’t going to make this easy for me. “For what I said at the club the other week.”
“For what you said about my husband?”
Shit, she was taking this too far. “For saying something that hurt your feelings.”
“About my husband…”
“Damn, Renee! I’m trying to apologize to you.” I looked around, saw a couple of people looking at me, and lowered my voice. “You are my big sister and I love you and I miss talking to you, but I am not going to sit here and pretend Robert is a good person or that I respect him, because I don’t.”
“I’m not asking you to do anything but respect me and my decision to stay in my marriage, my ten-year marriage, the same way I respected you when you were in your relationships no matter how I felt about Benny or Khalil.”
Well, damn. Another gut punch from one of my sisters. What was this? Make Angie feel like shit month? I couldn’t do anything but hold the phone.
“See, doesn’t feel good for someone to bring up your past troubles, does it?”
“Did I bring up your past troubles, Nay? Last I checked, you were still with him.”
“And we’ve worked things out and are getting along much better now, but do you think it makes it any easier for me to move on with my life with him when you keep throwing our past at me? Would you like for me to do that to you?”
“You just did.”
“And did you enjoy it?”
“No…okay, I get your point. How about I just don’t bring Robert up anymore? Will that make you happy?”
“You can bring him up, just don’t disrespect him.”
“I’ll just stop bringing him up.”
She sighed. “Fine. So, when are you going to invite me to dinner?”
I smiled. I was, by far, the best cook among the three of us, and everyone knew it. “I don’t know. Mama wants me to cook for her and Daddy’s anniversary dinner and that’s coming up soon, so I guess we can just wait until then. Haven’t been in much of a cooking mood lately.”
“Why?”
Because I’m lonely as hell. “I don’t know. Just haven’t.”
“Where are you? I can hear people talking in the background.”
“The Smoothie Hut.”
“Ooooh, I love their smoothies!”
“Yeah, I’ve been walking around posting flyers about my vacant apartment and decided to take a break in here. Want me to bring you one?”
“No. I just had a salad for lunch. Tryna lose some of these pounds.”
“Girl, I hear you. My ass has spread so wide, I’m about a centimeter from going up a size. If I keep on, I’ma have to start draping sheets over my body and belting them at the waist.”
Renee laughed. “You need to stop. You’re gorgeous and you know it. I’m the only fat sister. Always have been.”
