bitch, and it won’t be on Twan’s lil dick!” We both cracked up laughing as we walked to the counter to pay for our items. We shopped for a few more hours before deciding to make our way back towards Georgetown. When we arrived home, Christa was milling around the family room and I was not particularly happy to see her tired ass. “Is that all you do? Spend money? Wait and see…he will cut you off the way he cut me off.” She mumbled; referring to the bags filled with all of the items I had just purchased. She was high as gas prices. I knew Christa was trying to cause a scene and I had been doing really well not falling for her shit. “He will not cut me off.” I simply stated. I wasn’t trying to get into an argument with her. I knew she was looking for anything to use as ammo to have Daddy on her side so she could post up a little longer. “I am in no mood for your shit today lady, so I advise you to get out of our way.” NiQue and I tried to get around her and up the staircase. Christa stepped in my path and grabbed me by my arm with a force I never knew she could have in that frail ass frame of hers. “Look here little girl, before all is said and done ‘round here, I will have all that you took from me. You owe me and I will get everything due to me.” She said coldly. I dropped my bags on the parquet floor and stepped up to Christa. I used one hand to back her into a wall and I grabbed her around her throat with the other hand. “Maybe you don’t understand, this is my house bitch, and if you think you are going to be here much longer you got me fucked up!” I was shaking Christa. She had long since let go of the hold she had on my arm. Instead she was gasping for air and clutching at my hand around her neck. “I see through this bullshit you trying to pull. Daddy may not see, it but I see it. Fuck it, I’ll kill you myself!” I took my other hand and placed it alongside the one that was cutting off her air supply. Christa started to turn red and I wanted her dead. I wanted to watch her fall to the floor lifeless. Just as I thought about snapping her neck like a chicken, NiQue stepped in and grabbed me. “Nooo…YaYa!” She cried. “Not here, not now, we got company.” I looked over my shoulder only to see my new-found brother, Neko, watching me throttle and shake his no-good-ass Momma like a dog in the street. I released my grip from her throat and wanted to say something to Neko. The words wouldn’t formulate. He just stood there looking from me to Christa and back again. “What cha’ got in the bag for me?” He chimed in trying to break up the bad scene. “I might have something in here for you.” I said hinting at the bags I had dropped in the confusion. I gathered my belongings, and Neko and NiQue followed me up the stairs as if nothing had even happened. “Awww, shit! YaYa your brother got it going on! Here try this.” NiQue said to him handing him a black fitted cap that matched the jeans and Jordan’s he was proudly sporting. Neko looked happy and I was grateful that I had the chance to spend time with him. Just when I thought my day was going better, there was a knock on my bedroom door. I swung open the door to find Christa on the other side of it with her bags behind her. “Neko, take off that silly shit and come on let’s go!” She said like she was talking to a child instead of a grown man. Her words cut through me like a knife. Where did she think she was going with my brother? “Christa, go ahead with all that. You know you ain’t going anywhere and neither is he.” I said pointing to Neko who stood off to the side looking for any reason to go with Christa. “That’s my son, not yours. Neko, I know you ain’t really considering staying here with all I have done for you. Hell, I took care of you by myself all your life.” Christa whimpered as she pushed her way into my room. Neko just stood there off in the corner not wanting to be taken from