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Taking a fussy Heaven out of the tub, she whined and pouted hard. She hated when it was time to get her little tail out of the tub. She was already shriveled up like a prune from being in the water too long. The time read seven p.m on my phone, I greased her down and our room then put her on some Hello Kitty pajamas. Taking her with me to the kitchen, I popped her some popcorn then dropped her right off to my parents’ room.

I felt super giddy the entire time showering and getting dressed. I put on some sponge bob pajama pants with the matching tee shirt. While figuring out what sandals I wanted to wear, my cell phone started ringing. Seeing that it was an unknown caller, my stomach got queasy. I quickly ignored the call and blocked it. I knew that it couldn’t be Matthew because he didn’t have a phone and whenever he did call it was from the facility phone.

“Girl, when my boo gets better, I’m busting the splits on that dick!” Ju’well dropped down low with her cup of Vodka and orange juice. She tried to do the splits but end up getting stuck in place.

“Your boo ain’t got no dick though.” Era snickered and I joined her. We had just got finished playing Uno. I nursed a glass of red wine barely taking baby sips. I googled on my phone a million times trying to make sure it was okay for me to indulge in a small cup of red wine.

“She got a beefy ass strap that makes me climb the walls all around this bitch, including were you hoes is sitting.” I looked at the spot I was sitting in and made a funny face.

“I think we all got mates that makes us do that.” Era smile reached her eyes and we all agreed in unison.

“I miss Matthew so much; I feel like a virgin again.” I confessed; I was addicted to the way Matthew made me feel. His stare down alone was enough to make me aroused and ready for him to take me. The times that he did call in to check on me, I found myself getting off the phone and masturbating from just hearing his deep sexy voice.

“Unn unn don’t be over there squeezing yo legs tight. Yo baby daddy will be home soon enough.” My eyes got big at what Ju’well said and they both just eyed me hard, waiting for me to crack and tell on myself. I refused to confess so I remained quiet.

“Bitch!” I jumped as Era picked up a pillow from Ju’well couch and threw it at me.

“You really sitting over there on hush when we know you. You close to a good girl but we ain’t never seen you take two hours to finish a whole cup of wine. We got the wine because we know its your favorite. You still on the same damn cup since you arrived.” Era rolled her eyes hard.

“Okay, okay, I wanted Matthew to be the first to know.” They both smacked their lips as I cheesed hard.

“See! Give me my moneyyyy!” Ju’well cheered sounding like Chris Tucker.

“Y’all betted on me?”

“Hell yea we betted on you! I told Era slow ass that before Debo left, he probably shot his seeds deep inside of you.” Era smacked her lips, pulling her YSL purse into her lap, she dug inside of it and pulled her wallet out. She counted off five twenties then tossed them up in the air at Ju’well who sat Indian style in front of us on the floor.

“Make it rain bitch! Make it, make it rain bitch!” Ju’well danced sitting down, collecting the twenties.

“It be ya own peeps.” I couldn’t hold back my smile. I looked around Ju’well’s cozy living room then back at my girls.

“How is Honor doing?” I really wanted to know.

“She’s really doing good, I thank God everyday that those bullets didn’t take my baby out. She acts so tough, but that’s my sweetheart y’all. She is so damn caring and caters to me too much. Girl some time it feel like we battling each other. I try to do some shit for her and she’s already doing something for me.” Ju’well looked like she was love sick.

“That’s how it is with Soulful. I can’t believe how so far and deeply in love I am.” Era blushed hard and I couldn’t hold back my own smile.

“Do y’all ever think that we moved too fast? Like all of this happening for the three of us make me feel like we were destined to be friends for forever.” I felt my chest constrict a little. I was starting to get emotional. When I really sat back and thought about all the changes and the different things that me and my friends have been through it got me very emotional.

It’s like we went through hell and back, we used to dream about having good companions in our lives. Now we had that and it felt unreal.

“There you go, with those pregnant hormones.” Ju’well chuckled.

“Sometimes I think it's too fast, especially with Honor and me. Then again, I don’t. You got to get that out of your mind, you do too Era. Nothing ever goes as planned, true love doesn’t got a time frame either.” I nodded my head in agreement, Ju’well was right.

“I must admit, I had to stop that shit too. I will be laid up with Soulful and those questions pop up in my head. Like is this shit real? Are we moving too fast? Soulful is a different kind of man. He’s hood, sensitive and so caring that it feels like a dream. He listens to me y’all, like really listens. I love hearing him talk, and the way he looks at me is just… wheewww man, let me stop before I leave y’all and go find my man.”

Era had it bad, we all had it bad. It was supposed to be our girl night together and we were sitting up talking about the people that we fell in love with. I couldn’t say much about Matthew right now, I just knew that we connected. Our connection and love was so strong that I still felt him even though he was far away from me.

I couldn’t wait to smell him and be in his arms. With Matthew, the love wasn’t forced. He just didn’t focus only on me but my daughter as well and that meant more than he would ever know.

“I know one thing; we bossed the fuck up and got us some ballers! Okay!” We all giggled as the front door took our attention from the conversation we were having. Roberto walked in wheeling Honor in front of him. Wherever you saw Roberto, his new guards were close behind him. Roberto and Honor were matching from head to toe. The both of them grew close as hell, since Honor was with Ju’well, that had Roberto being around us even more.

“Y’all ain’t never had to walk in here with all that neon bright pink shit on.” Ju’well playfully rolled her eyes as Roberto dramatically waved his bodyguards off, telling them to wait outside.

“You wish you could rock it like us, for thatttt!” He did a little spin and Honor wheeled herself to where Ju’well was.

“Where y’all coming from with all that rainbow shit on.” All three of us laughed hard because they looked like a pack of Skittles. Roberto had on some tight-ass leggings, and on his feet were low-top rainbow Chuck Taylors. Honor looked more boyish than Roberto. She had on white Dickies shorts with the same matching shoes as Roberto.