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phone.
    â€œBoy, why are you bothering my stuff! Leave my phone alone.” I marched over to him and snatched it before he had an opportunity to punch more buttons.
    â€œWhy do you have your phone password protected?” Mike asked.
    â€œTo keep nosy people like you out of my business,” I snarled at him. “Why are you in my space?”
    â€œI was talking to Mom this morning and she told me your B.S. story about falling over the punch table. You couldn’t come up with a better story than that?” Mike laughed.
    â€œIt’s the truth,” I said, still holding on to the lie I’d told.
    â€œYeah, right, and I’m dating Miley Cyrus,” Mike fired back.
    â€œWhat do you want, Mike?” I was quickly getting irritated.
    â€œI told Mom the truth about what went down last night and she can’t wait to talk to you about it.” Mike had a cynical smile on his face.
    â€œYou have no idea what happened, so don’t even try it.” I wasn’t about to play his silly little game.
    â€œOh, I know about everything, Keysha. Remember, I have friends who were there,” he said, stretching out his body on the edge of my bed.
    â€œIf you don’t get off my bed wearing those dirty clothes you’ve been outside gardening in I’m going to make you regret it,” I said, jerking him up to his feet.
    â€œYou shouldn’t exert yourself, Mother, ” he said sarcastically as he glanced down at my stomach.
    â€œWhat are you talking about, fool?” I asked straight out.
    â€œI told you. I know everything that went down last night, and I told Mom that you’re pregnant.”
    â€œYou did what?” I snapped.
    â€œDon’t deny it, Keysha. I heard you went off on Antonio when you told him you were pregnant with his baby. My friends told me all about it,” Mike said with absolute certainty.
    â€œWell, your so-called friends have got the story all twisted!” I snarled at him for believing everything he’d heard through the grapevine.
    â€œSo what are you saying?” Mike asked.
    â€œI’m not pregnant, Mike. I’m one hundred percent positive about that,” I assured him.
    â€œWell, who is pregnant? My source told me that you were positively pregnant.”
    â€œPriscilla Grisby. She claims that the baby is Antonio’s, but when I asked him if it was true he denied it.”
    â€œOh, boy, that’s not good.” A distraught look formed on his face.
    â€œWhat’s wrong with you? Why do you suddenly look pale?”
    â€œI opened my big mouth and said something I shouldn’t have.” He looked at me nervously, as if a heavy weight had just been placed on his shoulders.
    â€œWait. You weren’t serious when you said you told Barbara I was pregnant, were you?” I asked, sensing that was the issue troubling him.
    Mike crunched his face. “Ooh, Mom just ran out to the drugstore. I think she’s going to buy a pregnancy test. She left the moment I dropped her the hint that you were pregnant.”
    â€œYou’re lying. Stop playing with me, Mike!” I said, horrified by his boneheaded prank.
    â€œI’m not playing. I honestly thought you were pregnant but were too afraid to say something about it. I thought you might be in the motherly way and…”
    â€œYou jackass! What the hell, Mike? Did you have a Kanye West mental meltdown or something? Why would you just go running off at the mouth like that?”
    â€œI thought I was doing the right thing,” he barked.
    â€œI can’t believe you’ve done something that stupid. Wait a minute, yes I can. You took Jordan’s car without his permission, left it someplace where thieves took it from you and then ended up in jail when you tried to get it back.”
    â€œWhy are you bringing up old stuff?” Mike asked.
    â€œBecause you seem to have forgotten that I was the one who helped when you got