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“Aight You good on gas This spot is a hot spot I’m not sure how much you know about this part of town, but if this shit ain’t safe in the daytiht I told you before how soes when they see a woman in a dress,” he told me

The dress that I wore today stopped right beforefit My hair had been pulled up into a ponytail all day, but I had taken the ponytail out when I was backing out of the church parking lot

“Thank you I just need to go over there and put air in both ofdown,” I told him

He looked at er side and examined the front tire

“You got a nail right here in this one Come here,” he said, and I walked over

I bent down a little bit, and I could see the nail

Billion walked in front of the car to exa out there with hiave off vibes of protection I personally knew that I was standing in one of the worst parts of Miami, but for whatever reason, I felt like I was okay because I ith him

“Youconstruction because you got a nail in this one too My nigga got his own car shop about two blocks from here You need new tires, erous as fuck to be riding around with tires like that Inood to drive the car down a couple of blocks,” he told me

I gave him a look like I wasn’t too sure I mean, I was comfortable around him, but not that comfortable

He saw the way I was looking and released a sigh

“I ain’t the you when you pulled up You’re best friends with Twink, and that’s my cousin, but I swear she’s like my little sister I know youtoto do is look out and, at the saood everywhere I go, so you ain’t gotta worry about nobody fuckin’ with you You going to follow me there or what?” he questioned

“Yeah, I’ll follow you,” I let him know

“What’s good, Dru?” I said once my homie, Dru, of over twenty years answered the phone for me

I was leaned back in h the Bluetooth in my car This was a dude who I ay back with, a dude who put money on my books when I was locked up and had even come down to the prison to see ated to do, but because he was a real nigga, he did the shit anyway

Dru was a couple years older than me, and I a, just hoas growing up, plus we lived in the same projects The brotherhood that we had over the years ste around the way He was in attendance the night I celebrated my welcome hoins, he’d always been fascinated with cars and shit, so I couldn’t even say that I was surprised when I learned that he’d opened his own shop