Free Can't Be That Other Woman by Ambria Davis Page A

loved kids, but she took things to a whole new level. I’m like, how do you even know that you’ll be seeing her again? She was like, because your friend will bring her back whenever she comes. She told me to tell you if you don’t bring her back, then don’t even try to knock on her door. She even told me that if I didn’t get her to come to our house tonight, for me not to come home. Now ain’t that some shit? Tell Dallas she’s going to have me competing with her for my own mother,” she said, laughing.
                  I laughed too, because Mrs. Love most definitely was crazy. I can’t believe she fell in love with Dallas after just one visit. Then she had the nerve to go out shopping for her and stuff. That was crazy, but Tracy had one thing right though. Dallas wasn’t going nowhere without me, especially not with people I didn’t know. I mean I figured that they’re good people, but I still have to get a feel for them. Until then, the only way my little sister was going over there was if I was there with her.
                  “Girl, your mother is a trip, but we don’t have any plans. So yes, we’ll come over,” I told her.
                  “Good, now I can breathe easily. Meet me at my car once class is over. We need to go to the mall before we head home to get y’all stuff.”
                  “Why do we need to go to the mall, Tracy?” I asked, frustrated. I hated going to the store with her, because she didn’t know how to stop shopping. She would go into every store, sometimes more than one time. Lord knows I didn’t have time for that today.
                  “Because we have somewhere to be tomorrow and we have to be on point, because there’s going to be a lot of people there,” she said, walking off. She knew what she was doing, when she did that shit.
                  “Tracy, I’m not about to play with you in them people store, especially not on a Friday evening. I’m going home. You can pick me up when you’re through shopping.”
                  “Girl whatever. You better be at my car when the bell rings, or I’m telling my brother that you don’t want to see him,” she said, looking at me and laughing.
    “Girl, I’m not worrying about your brother,” I said, blushing so much that my cheeks began to hurt. “Besides, he has a girlfriend already.”
    “Girl, ain’t nobody worrying about Bianca’s stupid ass, but you’re right. We can’t have you being no nigga’s other woman, even if that nigga is my brother. So in that case, we’re going to have to find you a nigga tomorrow, which means that we have to go to the mall for the perfect outfit. Make sure you be at my car, okay?” She said poking her tongue at me. Before I could open my mouth to anything else, she took off running to her class.
    I couldn’t do shit, but laugh at her ass. She would do anything just to get me to go shopping with her. What she didn’t know was that she made my mind start twirling the minute she mentioned her brother. It was no secret that I had the biggest crush on him. Dude was too fine for any girl not too. Only thing was that he had a girlfriend, so my crush was going to remain just that, a childish crush.  With any luck, I’ll get over it soon and find someone in my league.
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    “Tracy, can you please slow down?” I gasped, sounding as if I was about to run out of breath. We were currently in the mall getting an outfit for her brother’s company barbeque tomorrow and I was beat. The minute she told me that’s where we were going tomorrow, I tried backing out, but she damn near threatened to cut me if I did. She made some noise about me being there, in case Bianca tried to start something, but I knew she didn’t need me. She only wanted me to be there for what, I don’t know. So here we are, running through the mall like two damn fools, looking for an outfit.