Please excuse ANY grammatical errors.

April 14, 1998

~Courtney's P.O.V~

Today we're celebrating my birthday. My birthday is March 28th but I'm celebrating it now due to me moving at the time and it took me a while to settle in and furniture to come. I want to celebrate in my own house with all my friends. I FINALLY have my own place and it's a house! There's literally a basement and the main floor. It's not big or anything but it's just me living here. I don't want a big, fancy place at the moment. It's mine and that's all that matters. That getting my own place ASAP took me a while but I did it.

I'm throwing a lingerie/pajama party. Elijah, Tia, and my sister, Jasmine, helped me decorate because we'll MOSTLY be in the basement. Tia also helped pay for everything but I didn't want her to pay for everything. She didn't mind it but that's not me. I like to do shit myself. Jasmine, Elijah, Tia, Chika, Thamar, Ryan (Destiny), and Jatavia are all here. No guys are allowed except Elijah. HELLO, it's a lingerie/pajama party!

"Y'all, I'm comin'!" I yelled down the stairs, making my entrance.

"We're ready!" They yelled up at me than the music cut on.

I walked down the stairs like it was my runway. I every once in a while od stop to pose. They cheered me on loudly as I did. My decorations are orange and liquor, so my lingerie is a silk and lace bralette and panty. I feel so sexy in this!

"Girl, you look good!" Jasmine yelled to me.

"Do yo thang, girl!" Elijah snapped his fingers.

"Fine as usual, sis!" Tia told me.

"Thanks," I told them, smiling. "I feel good."

"Period!" Jatavia yelled.

"I like it!" Normani yelled.

"You look nice. Let's start the game now." Chika told us.

"Alright, now!" I told her walking over to the table, then sitting in the chair.

We started a game of Uno: Blast Off and Tia was the first to lose the first round of the first hand of the game. She just sat back, vibing to the music and eating snacks.

"BAM!" JT slammed a draw four down on the table and I had to pick up your cards.

"Reverse!" Elijah threw out a reverse card.

I looked at JT. "Draw four," I told her putting out the card.

"That ain't fair! Girl, Jasmine already keeps getting me!" She said picking up her four cards.

Jasmine threw out a card, Chika, Thamar, then Ryan. I guess it's my lucky day because I won the whole game. We started playing karaoke.

"I feel weird," Tia said out of the blue.

"You are weird." Thamar laughed.

"No, I feel weird like different. Not myself. Not sick just hot and- I don't know how to explain it." Tia told us.

"Elijah, did you label the snacks?" I asked him.

"Ye-" He looked over to the snack area then chuckled nervously. "Hah, I guess it slipped my mind. Although, I do know what side the edibles are on!" I pointed. "Sis, what side did you take them from?"

"Lef- no, the right. I think..." Tia trailed off. "I don't know. I just was eating." She shrugged.

"I think she ate some of the edibles..." Elijah looked at us. "I'm sorry, sis."

"Yeah, she probably high..." Chika told us.

"No, she IS high," Jasmine emphasized.

"No... I can't be... Am I really?" Tia put her hand up to her mouth, scared. "Did I take too much?" She put her hand to her forehead. "Am I gonna die!?" She gasped loudly.

"Girl, chill!" I put my hands on her shoulders. "How much did you eat?"

"I don't know. I was- I was hungry so I kept eating." She told me.

"Oh, my God! You're going to die!" Elijah yelled.

I felt Tia jump. "No..." She said in a winey voice.

"Calm, down!" I laughed at Elijah's ignorance. "You're not gonna die but you might be high for a while on account of you not being sure on how many of the edibles you are," I told her.

"Her first time being high. She's growing up!" Elijah cooed.

"How do I be high? I've never been high? Show me?" She asked and we all burst out laughing.

"Hell, nahh!" Chika said laughing and shaking her head in disbelief.

"Baby, it's not something you learn, it just comes out naturally. You'll feel it even more after a while. Right now, it's just the beginning..." Elijah told Tia.

"Worse?" She asked.

"Unfortunately, yes. Unless you didn't eat as many as we think." Jasmine told her.

"But I'm not supposed to be high..." Tia trailed off.

"Nobody is supposed to be high in Georgia unless it's for medical reasons. We just do it anyway." JT said laughing.

"So I'm a criminal and a dope fiend!?" She said with widened eyes.

"Girl..." I stared at her because ain't that serious.

"I've never been to jail before. If the police ask, tell them I did it on accident. Really!" She nodded.

I laughed because this girl is tripping. "Calm down, ain't no police coming here!" Elijah told her.

"It'll all go downhill from here..." I told them.

"I hope not because she is tripping hard" Chika told us.

We played karaoke for a while until we got tired of sing and danced instead. Indeed, Tia DID get worse but in a fun kind of way. She went from cracking jokes to- Well, Tia does have a pole room in her house and... This woman is swinging, grinding, climbing, dancing, and sliding down the pole that came with this house. We have free entertainment right here! JT was up there with her shaking ass and dropping it down low too. It's definitely a sight to see. The edibles definitely highlighted Tia's boldness that only comes out around people she's close to.

"Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da! Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here! Mocha Chocolata, ya-ya, dada! Creole Lady Marmalade!" The stereo played loudly through the speakers.

The song ended. "Alright, I'm done. It's hot." Tia said walking into the other room then lied on the couch.

"Girl..." Elijah eyed me. "She got outta her damn she'll in front of all these people! I'm shocked!"

"Her shell?" Jasmine asked Elijah.

"That's right." Elijah nodded.

"So she acts like this comfortably around you?" Chika asked.

"Yes, but days like today where she's like THIS are rare but... I'm talking too much. I don't need my best friend's business out there like that." Elijah told her taking a sip of whatever he poured himself in his glass.

"Right, don't ask too many questions..." I told them.

"I'm your sister," Jasmine told me.

"I know that and I love you, big sister." I hugged her.

"I love you too." Jasmine hugged me.

"Twister anybody?" JT held up the game.

"I'm in!" I said getting back up.

"Me too," Thamar replied.

"Me three!" Ryan replied.

"I don't mind playing." Elijah shrugged. "You wanna play Twister, Tia?" Elijah yelled into the other room.

"No, thank you." She replied from the other room.

"Okay!" Elijah yelled in there.

JT lied the mat down on the floor. "Somebody get the other side and fix it." She said speaking to nobody in particular. Ryan went and helped her with it. "Alright, who's first?" She asked us all.

"I'm not playing." Chika three her hands up in the air. "That game ain't big girl friendly."

"Alright." JT nodded in understanding. "Who the fuck is first?"

"The birthday girl should go first." Elijah volunteered me to go.

"That's fine!" I walked to the mat then popped the spinner with my middle finger. "Left hand RED!" I yelled out letting everyone know.

Elijah popped the spinner and his landed on right foot, blue. Thamar got blue left hand. Ryan got right foot green. JT's landed on yellow for her left foot. It went on and on until we were all twister up. I'm going to be the first one to cave because I need to exercise. I'm not big but I'm not in the best shape. I fell to the floor.

"I'm done with this game. I'm too outta shape for this shett." I said out of breath.

"Bitch, who you tellin'?" JT said lying on the mat, rested her head on her hand.

"Let's play ten fingers," Ryan spoke up.

"Oh, shit!" I yelled out excitedly. "Hell yeah! You know I like to drink." I jumped up.

"Tia!?" Elijah called out.

Tia walked into the room with her eyes redder than before. "What the fuck do you want Elijah? I can hear you with the yelling..."

"Sis is really actin' up! I love it!" I yelled out loud. "We're playing ten fingers with shots. You playin'?"

"I don't drink," Tia replied.

"Drink some pop, you make the same damn face that people drinking liquor do when you drink it. Get the coke." Elijah told her.

"The what!?" She said surprised and shook her head in confusion. "I know y'all not in here putting shit up your noses?" She said in disbelief. "I should bea-"

"Coke as in pop! Coca-Cola! Girl, BYE! Ain't nobody doing that shit!" JT said laughing.

"Oh! Good!" Tia exhaled.

"Live a little!" Thamar told Tia, patting her back with her arm around her shoulder.

"No, I'm already high and shouldn't be." Tia shrugged Thamar's arms off her. "Girl, it's too hot to be all up on me."

Elijah grabbed the coke bottle then gave it to Tia. "You are very much tripping..." Elijah side-eyed her, amused at her concerns about us doing drugs. We all sat around the table.

"Have you ever had a threesome?" Elijah started.

I placed a hand on my chest. Well, what little I do have... "We jumping straight into it, huh?"

"Yeth bith!" Tia answered.

JT, Chika, and Thamar put a finger down and took a shot. "I see this nigga wanna call mothafuckas out, huh?" JT said all loud but in a playful manner.

"Hell, yeah! We gon' make this shit interesting!" Elijah moved his head from side to side as he spoke. Then he took a shot himself.

"Chika, was it all girls?" JT asked her and she nodded. Then she turned to Elijah. "Elijah?"

"Girl, you know it was all niggas! Shit was fun too!" He pursed his lips with an eyebrow up.

"Elijah had a threesome!?" Tia gasped.

"Right..." I looked at him.

"You asking a question that's going to make you lose..." Ryan said confused.

"Anal? Y'all ever did anal?" JT asked us.

I put a finger down then took a shot. Ryan and Jasmine took a shot as well.

"Ever did hard drugs?" Tia asked us with a squint.

"Girl, for the last time, we ain't NEVER did no coke!" Elijah laughed, throwing his head back.

"Hell nahh..." Chika shook her head.

"We don't do that!" JT yelled. "You still got all yo fingers up so imma hit you with somethin' slight. Somebody help me out!"

"If your body count is higher than five, take a shot!" Thamar yelled out.

Elijah and I looked at each other, laughing. That ain't going to do it for Tia! I heard the doorbell ring, upstairs.

"Hold that thought! Lemme see who at my damn door!" I stood up, put on my robe, and tied it tight, then walked up to my basement stairs. When I made it to my door, I yelled out, "Who is it?"

"Jermaine!" He yelled back. I looked through the peephole and sure enough, it was him

I opened it and there stood Jermaine, DeVanté, and Destin (JID). "I know you ain't  bring all these niggas to my house?" I put all my weight on one leg.

"It's a funny ass story." Jermaine started. "See, DeVanté here want to come to see Tia and knew there was food, and Destin just happened to be in the car- I mean he drove is here. It was all DeVanté's idea." Jermaine told me.

DeVanté gave him a confused ass look. "Wh-"

"But since I'm here... We might as well take advantage of it." Jermaine hinted. "I know I gave you a birthday gift on your birthday, but I have another." He held up a small gift bag. "You gon' let us in?" Lying ass. I know why he came here and it wouldn't hurt...

I crossed my arms, staring at him in disbelief, with lips pursed. "Come on in..." I stepped away from the door, still facing it. Jermaine cheesed at me, stepping inside with his boys behind him. "I gotta warn my girls and Elijah," I told them. I went down the basement stairs halfway and yelled at them. "Ladies there are guys here. Put on some clothes."

They came out from the other room with a questionable look. "Who here?" Chika asked.

"DeVanté, Destin, and Jacob." I replied. "They're coming down here so cover-up."

"Oh, wow," Tia said with a towel of ice on her forehead and a cup of iced water in her hand.

"Cole here too, huh?" Elijah asked me. I shot him a smirk then turned around to go back upstairs.

"I take that as a yes!" Elijah yelled up at me.

"You bell on us for a nigga?" Chika yelled up the stairs.

"I'll be back!" I told them. "I got food and refreshments down there, so help yourselves. Just don't eat all my shit up!"

"A'ight, calm down." DeVanté moved his hand's downs slowly.

I grabbed Jermaine and dragged him to my room. I sat down on my bed. "Hand me my gift," I told him. He handed me the bag and I looked inside it, excitedly. A pair of socks... Plain white socks... I looked up at him. "Thanks, but isn't this the bag you gave me my gift in the for time?" I asked him.

"Yeah, you left it at my house after opening it. Smart, right?" He smiled.

"Uh-uhhh nigga, you gon' have to do better than this!" I shook my head. "Socks? Socks? And you want some ass? No..." I stood up.

"Wait, there's something at the bottom of the bag!" He yelled out. "Dump it out." He told me.

I sat back down on my bed and dumped the remnants of the bag out onto my bed. There was a little box. "Awww..." I poked my bottom lips out. "I wonder what it is." I smiled then opened it. "Diamond earrings!" I jumped up. "They're cute!" I hugged him.

"I know. Look, I'm sorry about what I said last week. I shouldn't have said what I said. I wanted to come to see you." He exhaled.

"I know." I jumped up on him and he backs us up to the bed.

~DeVanté's P.O.V~

This nigga just stood here and lied on me like that. What really happened was we all went to go get something to eat from a fast-food joint, and Cole told me he needed to get something from somebody's house. So I drove where he needed to go just to find out this is Courtney's house. I should've known it was some shit when he told us to get out of the car. We questioned it and he said he wanted to show us some recorded music. This nigga ain't did shit BUT lie all damn day. It was just to be us fellas working and having a good time but I'm over here.

I stepped on the first step. "Y'all decent?" I yelled down the stairs.

"Yes!" I heard Elijah's loud ass voice echo up here.

I continued down these steep ass stairs of Courtney's. "Shit," I mumbled walking carefully. It's loud as hell down here too and they sounded like they were in the same room as me. "Tia?"

She lifted her head up. "Yes?"

The sound of someone tumbling down the stairs caught my attention. It was Destin's stupid ass lying there on the basement floor. He jumped up as nothing happened.

"I was pushed!" He told me.

I looked at him. "By who? Ain't nobody up there except Courtney and Cole and them in the room in their own lil world. You fell and just leave it at that."

"Yeah... I'm just going to... Go and get me some food..." Destin sped walked away from me and into the other room.

I shook my head at his clumsiness then turned back to Tia. "Damn, what's wrong with yo ass? Got an ice pack on yo head. Who you let beat yo ass?" I questioned.

She burst out laughing. "Boy, bye!"

I plopped down on the next cushion from where she was laying. She's on the long cushion. "What? You hot?" I asked her.

"Burning up." She replied with her eyes closed.

"Well, I'm freezing," I told her.

"You're tripping." She mocked, looking at me with one eye open.

"I'm dead ass but I can tell you hot. You got that ice pack on you. Damn, yo eyes red as fuck!" I said shocked. "You got pink eye? If so, let me know now so I won't catch that shit."

She sat up with a smirk on her face then touched me. "You right. I'm contagious, touch you BAYBEHHH, imma give you what I got!" She said touching my arm, now sitting on her knees.

I jumped up. "You for real?" I said getting upset.

"No, big head!" She rolled her red eyes at me. She then sat down in the position where she was leaning on one arm, with her legs turned to the side I was previously sitting. I slouched on the couch, holding myself up by one elbow.

I sat back down on the couch. "Tia, stop fuckin' wit' me," I told her.

"Chill..." She said lowly. "You know I love yo mama. That's not me callin' and hangin' up."

"I don't know what's up with yo ass today." I threw my head back laughing.

She switched positions again. Now she's sitting RIGHT beside me, sitting on one foot and one knee in the air. Tia then sat her chin on top of that one knee. "Hi."

"Hey," I replied.

"Yo, what is your problem?" I chuckled then moistened my lips with my tongue.

"You." She replied.

My head involuntarily jerked back. "Me?" I said confused.

She nodded. "You got something you want to tell me?" She questioned,

"Uhh..." I looked side to side. "Do I?" I questioned.

"You do..." She nodded. "So, what's up?"

She then lied her head on her knee looking at me. No words whatsoever, just staring at me now with a soft smile and not the Chuck E. Cheese grin anymore. The others got loud in the other room down here. Us staring into each other eyes doesn't feel uncomfortable, in fact, it's very comfortable. We did this for a while. I'm going to add that we're mere inches apart. I honestly don't what's she's talking about...

I licked my lips again with my eyes traveling down her face. They landed on her glossy lips. "So, what's up?" I repeated, sliding my hand down my face, even though I'm confused but I'll just play along to see where this goes.

Her candy-scented breath caressed my lower face as we stared at one another with her lips slightly parted. Tia moved her face from her knee and closer to mines. I don't know if this is her getting bolder with the flirting we'd do all the time or if she's just joking. We HAVE been flirting a lot more lately. She cradled my chin and stroked my goatee with her thumb. I looked back up into her eyes with my bottom lips lodged between my bottomed row teeth and top lip.

I released my lip as she grabbed my hand and not in a forceful manner. "So you was just gon' leave that conversation in the living room that between all those people but the one you were talking about?" Tia asked me boldly, no longer beating around the bush. Her lips brushing against mines as she spoke. My breath hitched. She knows...

"I know..." She repeated what I thought was my inner voice. I guess I said that out loud. She chuckled.

Oh, no wonder she's been more flirty lately. "So, what's yo take?" I looked her in the eyes, then grabbed her hand in return, rubbing my thumb across the back of her hand.

Her eyes shifted to our hands as I did, then she returned her focus back on me, my lips then back into my eyes. "I say we feel the same way, so why don't we try this thing out with each other rather than others?"

I grabbed her chin and tilted her head up then she smashed her lips against mines. I quickly gave into the kiss. It got deeper and deeper but still slow as the seconds passed by. She then sat up on her knees so she wouldn't have to tilt her head so far back to kiss my tall ass. She pulled me closer by placing her forearms on my shoulders and gripping the back of my neck. Our lips remain locked together, even when she fell sideways onto my lap. Tia pulled away.

When she did, I took notice of her movements. Her back is hurting which is probably the only reason she pulled away. It's our position that's doing it to her. I held her back and she moved her right leg to the left side of my waist, straddling me. Oh, shit! She bold as fuck today! She sat down on me, I gripped her waist underneath her robe, pulling her closer if that's even possible.

She wiggled around on my lap trying to get more comfortable. Her waist is surprisingly bare. My hands traveled up her back to be sure. Oh, yeah, she's half-dressed just as I thought. My hands slid back down but this time gripping her ass and she began to roll back and forth on me ever so slightly. That friction is enough though.

"Let me go get my lotion for this live porno! Shit, this is good!" We both heard which made us stop.

Our foreheads are still touching and we both looked at each other out of breath. Tia growled in irritation, rolling her eyes, and flipped her head back to see who it was. We both knew who it was but just needed clarification. I looked down at her attire and she looks good in her neon green lingerie. I shifted my eyes to the side just to see Elijah sitting in front of us both in a chair with his chin rested on his palm.

"Keep going! Please don't stop on account of me!" Elijah waved his hand at us as a gesture for us to keep going.

Tia moved her legs to one side of my body then rolled her body off of me. She rolled into the couch then grabbed the ice pouch and sat it on top of her head. "I'm hot." She closed her robe but I got to see what she had on. I'm impressed.

I wiped my hands on my pants then leaned forward, my elbows rested on my knees. We were getting a little too carried away. "Elijah, you on that weird, creepy shit!" I told him seriously.

"Shit, I'm hot too because that was hot! If y'all came out with a tape today, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it." He told us fanning himself. "DeVanté, how am I the creep? Y'all are at a party with plenty of people. Y'all didn't think y'all would be in here a too long, did you?" He looked me up and down and did the same to Tia.

"Elijah, shut the fuck up, will ye?" Tia told him, now sitting up.

"Damn, I know you high and shit but don't be comin' at me like that," Elijah replied. "Y'all was a lil too quiet in here and I HAD to see what's up..." His eyes kept shifting from me to Tia. "I'm glad I did because I caught y'all getting frisky. Girl, I hope you wasn't planning on losing it on our good friend's couch?" He asked Tia.

I turned to her. "Lose what?"

"Her mind," Elijah answered quickly with a tight smile.

"It's so hot..." Tia wined out. "Is the heat on or something?"

"Nahh, girl. The girls drunk too much which made their temperature rise much like how y'all's rose as y'all were moaning, groaning, and touching. So I turned it off." Elijah smiled widely.

I thought about what Elijah said before. "Tia are you really high?" I questioned.

She shot me a smile then lied down. Now with her head closer to me rather than her legs. She pointed at me with her arm straight. "I'm kinda high, and I don't give a fuck!" She said laughing.

"Yes. Tia is high as hell! You should've seen her before. She fuckin' it up." Elijah sat back laughing.

"You smoked somethin'?" I asked her.

"Nahh, I'm high on accident." She told me and she sounds like she's trying to be sarcastic. I looked to Elijah for answers.

"It's true! She didn't know what to do. This girl asked us how to be high!" He laughed harder bouncing his feet up and down.

"You was smokin'?" I repeated because I never got an answer for that.

"Donald is asking too many questions." Tia laughed out loud.

"She had one too many edibles. Now we don't know how many but we assume it's a lot." Elijah crossed his legs with his eyebrows risen.

"Oh, then that explains those red ass eyes of yours. I thought she just sleepy or her allergies acting up." I chuckled, finally being able to sit back on the couch.

"Hmmm, so what now?" Elijah asked us.

I looked at Tia. "So what now?" I asked her.

"What now, Donald?" Tia looked up at me.

"I say we try this thing out, and leave them other mothafuckas alone. We gon' see where it leads." I answered that question as well as the question she asked before we fell onto each other's lips.

"Then that's what we'll do..." She shrugged with a smile.

Elijah squealed loudly with his fist balled in excitement. "YAYYY! Finally! My dreams have come true! Now, y'all just need the tape..."

I shook my head at him because this nigga is irritating me. "One thing you ain't EVER gon' see is me naked, nigga. Stop playin' with me, Elijah. I don't like you playin' with with that way." I told him with my eyebrows furrowed. Makes me feel uncomfortable. Then I remembered what Elijah said before that. "Wait a minute, you high. How you gon' even remember this?" I asked Tia.

She looked me dead in the eyes. "Oh, I'm SURE I'll remember this. Can't forget it."

"Me either! If she does, I'll be SURE to remind my good sis! I got this added to my photographic memory, chile!" Elijah told me with his lips pursed. "Oh, my GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT FINALLY HAPPENED!" He squealed again.

Now that this has happened, I'm not so mad at Cole for tricking me to come here. "Damn, this dude is nosey!" Tia said laughing at Elijah.

"I'm not and to prove you wrong, imma leave y'all in here to talk BUT if y'all start back what I walk in on, call me first. I'll be SURE to grab the camera!" He stood up and walked out, grabbing his chair before doing so.

I looked down at Tia. "How to ass get high on accident? I ain't EVER heard of no shit like that!" I said laughing. "I was wondering why yo eyes was red and low as fuck."

She stuck up her middle finger at me. "Fuck you! Don't come for me, Donald." She slammed the ice pouch against her forehead again.

"He would've if I hadn't interrupted! Continue!" Elijah yelled from the other room.

"He's listening to us..." Tia whispered to me.

"Girl, talk louder!" Elijah peaked his head from around the corner.

"Aye, we just gon' talk about this when you're sober," I replied. "Don't even worry about it."

The stairs began to creak and not too far after Courtney came into view with Cole behind her. She now has on real clothes and not the robe she had on.

"Well, hello there!" Courtney said in a chipper mood.

"Hello, again..." I trailed off.

Cole plopped down on the couch next to me with a satisfied smile on his face. "How's it going?" Cole asked me.

I turned to him. "Nigga, I'm good. I'm straight." I nodded.

"Nigga, is that glitter on yo lips?" Cole's head jerked back. "I know this is a woman's party but you-"

"You need to mind your business, Cole." Elijah came back into the room. "I got you, brother in law." He nodded at me.

I rubbed my lips together and felt a sticky substance on them. I looked down at Tia to see that her lip gloss is smeared. That's what's on my lips. I wiped the lip gloss off with my shirt.

"Who you let do yo makeup?" Cole slapped his knee, laughing. "Elijah?"

"The same people you let fix your teeth. How 'bout that?" Elijah shot back before I could say anything back. My eyes widened and I burst out laughing.

"My crooked smile is better than those beaver ass teeth yo ass got, nigga!" Cole said laughing.

Tia scooted up until her head rested on my lap. "Y'all are so... Unfunny..." She spoke monotonously. "What is funny is Cole complaining about Donald being at a woman's lingerie/pajama party but you're here too." She looked up at me then winked. "Flat booty ass mothafucka!" She laughed.

"Not the flat ass, sis!" Elijah yelled out laughing.

"When yo mama tried to whoop yo ass, she couldn't tell the difference between IT and your back. Told yo ass to bend over and she thought yo back went out. Took beating yo back in to another level." Tia told him. The other came into the room. Some are unfamiliar to me.

"Ion know why yo ass talkin', the reason yo ass laid down on De's lap is because those titties of yours was smothering yo ass!' Cole shot back laughing.

"That's why yo top lip only comes out for special occasions!" Tia shot back at him laughing. "At least Donald has lips to rub together! Yours are too shy! I'm just gon' tuck mines in, head ass!"

"Damn, Courtney how you kiss this nigga?" Elijah asked her in a serious tone.

"The same way you can kiss my ass," Courtney replied laughing.

Elijah couldn't hold it in anymore and started cracking the hell up. Cole stood up laughing too. "I'm done," Cole told us shaking his head. "What kinda food is here? I'm starving."

"Nigga, we just ate before we got here," I told him.

"Well, I worked up an appetite. Mind yo business skin and bones." Cole pointed to me.

"The new member of Bone Thugs and Harmony!" Courtney yelled out laughing.

"I look damn good, nigga." I told him.

"Right, you are the skinniest one. Donald may have been skin and bone at one point but he done buffed up on all of us." Tia spoke up.

"Wait a minute..." Cole looked between Tia and me with his finger out. "Glitter..." He pointed to Tia. "And YOU still got some of it on your lips. What'd I miss?"

Elijah smirked at him. "Everything..." Then he walked to the other room.

"None of yo damn business!" Tia told him, dropping the ice pouch on her forehead.

She really is bold today and ain't sugarcoating shit, just like me. I think I rubbed off on her ass. No pun intended! This shit seems so cliché but sometimes cliché is good, especially in this case. Damn, I can't believe she heard my ass talking to my parents the other day and she just now mentioning it. Truthfully, I think she was waiting on me to say something but she had CBD courage. That HAS to be a thing if there is such thing as liquor courage. I'm STILL tripping off the fact that she accidentally got high. That's the funniest shit I heard all day.

Author's Note: It FINALLY happened! Are they going to ACTUALLY try anthe whole dating thing out was was Tia just too high to know what she was saying? 👀👀 I KNOW y'all wasn't expecting things to happen THIS way which makes it even more surprising. 💃💃💃💃🕺🕺🕺🕺 We'll see how this goes...

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