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M y mama called in a frantic telling me to come and get Perc out her house.

Knowing him, he was over there showing his ass.

My mama was so controlling that she tried to control every aspect of our life.

Once I was old enough to realize what she was doing, I kept her out of my personal shit.

It was my mama fault that Lexus was able to keep tabs on him.

I pulled up to my mama crib and found out exactly what the problem was. Lexus had her ass over here.

This was not how I planned on spending my day but hell, I was the only one my brother would listen too when it came to calming him down.

I parked behind his car and climbed out of my car.

I made sure to take all my jewelry off before I got in the house because if he was on Lexus ass, it was going to take me to get him off her.

“Perce, get off her!” My mama was hitting Perc in the back with a damn broom.

He was eating that shit up as he choked the shit out of Lexus. That didn’t stop her though because she was still throwing punches at him. I took off my shirt and put Perc in a chokehold.

“Get the fuck up off me,” Perc tried to fight back.

“Calm your ass down.” I told him.

“Bitch you got me fucked up if you think you gon’ put your hands on me.” Lexus hit me several times trying to get to Perc.

“Look, bitch, if you fuck ‘round and hit me again, I’mma let his ass go and get on your ass myself. I’m not my brother.” My mama came and grabbed Lexus while I kept Perc in a hold until she got out the house.

“Let me the fuck go.”

“You need to calm the fuck down. You got mama house all fucked up and shit. I’mma let you go but you better not go out that door,” I warned him.

“Aight.” I slowly released him, and he took off towards the door but I caught his ass before he could get out the door.

“You wanna go to jail?”

“Nah.”

“You know that muthafucka will call the police on you. You probably dirty. Nigga think this shit through.”

“Let me go.” Perc pushed me off him.

My mama walked back in the house out of breath. I swear this had her name all over it. She stood in the living room with her housecoat on and a bonnet covering her head.

“How this happen ma?” I looked at her, waiting for her to tell me this dramatic ass story.

“I invited her over here, and I didn’t know Perc was coming over.”

“Who side you on? How many times he done told you he don’t deal with her anymore. If it ain’t ‘bout his daughter, then don’t bring her over here. You got me looking at you funny, ma. You always behind some mess.”

“It wasn’t like that,” she lied.

“Then why was she here without the baby? Perc ain’t been with that girl since she was ‘bout six month pregnant. My niece is one.” My mama ain’t have nothing to say. She was messy as fuck at times. “Perc come outside and smoke one with me.

I made sure that Lexus was completely gone before I pulled the crate out to sit on while I rolled a blunt.

Perc came out a few minutes later with a busted lip and a scratched-up face.

I knew he was tired of dealing with Lexus bullshit.

He could never move on because she was always on the scene trying to show out.

I taught him to never put his hands on a woman but Lexus was another type of woman.

She was going to beat your ass and beg you to hit her back.

I’ve been around when she walked up and didn’t say shit to him, she just punched him dead in the face.

That was the first time I let him beat her ass for a good two minutes before I pulled him off her.

She was known in the hood to beat her niggas until she ran across the right one when she had a baby from my brother.

He wasn’t with that shit. His temper was quick, and he didn’t like not having shit his way.

That was partially my fault. We were six years apart, so I spoiled his ass bad and showed him to demand respect or take it. He took that shit and ran with it.

“I’m tired of that hoe, bruh. She gon’ get me fucked up out here. If it wasn’t for my daughter, I would’ve killed that hoe a long time ago.”

“You fucked her raw, nigga. The whole hood knew not to deal with Lexus.”

“Nigga, she was throwing that shit at me so much that I couldn’t help but take it.”

“She trapped your ass is what she did but look, you gotta get her under control or she gon’ catch you slipping. It ain’t gon’ take nothing for a person to call the police. Especially if you somewhere outside the hood.”

“I think if I don’t do something ‘bout her, I’mma end up killing her ass.” Perc stared off in space. I could tell by how he was looking; he was already thinking about how he was going to do it. He loved to be calculated.

“Don’t do it. Only go that route if it’s no other options. Think about my niece and the police coming straight to you. Think the shit through,” I passed him the blunt.

“You right.”

“I’m ‘bout to head out. I got some shit to do. Call me if you need me. Make sure you get mama straight so she can replace that shit you fucked up in there.”

I put my shirt back own and got in my car headed to the barbershop Blessyn owned.

She said I couldn’t have her for a second time, but I begged to differ.

It was raining so the outside of the barbershop didn’t have as much traffic as the last time.

As I was parking, Blessyn was walking out.

Instead of parking, I pulled up on the side of her.

“Aye, Blessyn. Where you headed in the rain?”

“To my car. Why are you here again? You shouldn’t need a haircut for another two weeks.”

“I came to see you.” She stopped walking and stared at me. “What? I can’t come and see you?” I smiled.

“I’m busy, so what do you want?”

“Nigga, you ain’t busy if you walking to your car in the rain.”

She started back walking until she reached an all-black Audi coupe.

I kissed my teeth seeing how she was stunting on me.

She looked at me again before getting in and letting her umbrella down.

She closed her door on me and pulled off.

Blessyn was fucking with a nigga head. One thing I’ve never done was fuck with a woman that was on her shit.

I was going to let her think she was doing something.