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“Toddrick, I don’t know! I’ Trip’s mom, and she won’t answer the phone forover here, and she didn’t write back either What did you want a, you knoell enough to know that I wasn’t about to leave no fuckin’ five-year-old little girl in a fuckin’ garage!

“Look, I’ for a da you to continue yelling atto ride around with o with or without you, and you knoill!” she snapped

I swear, the only reason I decided to go was that I didn’t want her riding around the whole fuckin’ Mia to find Trip’s baby mama

“Hold on, yo! Let me put on a shirt Also, let oing to the dinner anyhter with us, and we go and look for herdown at her

I knew my choice of words probably pissed her off, but I didn’t care She released a sigh and then pushed back a few loose strands of hair and put it behind her ear

“Miami, please! If you want to be technical here, realize that I had two options I could have chosen to not include you in any of this and went on o and find her da that I was doing the right thing by not sneaking around about it I don’t want to be in this situation ason in ht now as is, so I don’t need you ht when all of this is over too You seriously just pissed me off for the rest of the fuckin’ day!” She tried to walk away, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her close to me

I was so close to her that I could smell her breath, and her

“I look like I’ly let you sleep in a different space fro in the exact sa in for the past few et back in the car You done had her in there too long by herself” I said what I had to say, and then I let her go

She went back in the car while I jogged upstairs and went inside my drawer and threw on the first shirt that I could find We were supposed to have been on our way to dinner, yet here ere again, picking up thepieces for Trip and his bullshit! Once the alar was on in the house, and I un on my hip, I walked out the door I went over to the driver’s side of Jashae’s car and pulled it open She was already sitting doith her seatbelt on and everything, ready to pull out with or without me

“Get in the passenger, and I’ll drive,” I let her know

She sighed, and then she took the seat belt off I knew she was e alone Once she was out of the seat, she went over and got into the passenger seat while I was still standing and looking at the little girl in the backseat Her seatbelt was on, and she was lying with her head on theThere sat one of her bags on the floor while she had the other one in her lap, and she held onto it as she slept I didn’t kno to feel about this, and

at the end of the day, I had to keep in irl who didn’t have a say so in any of this shit So, it wasn’t her that I was mad at