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Renee

“Why orange and chocolate?” I asked.

Kayla reached for the container of shrimp fried rice and dumped some on her plate before answering. “Because those are the colors I’ve always wanted to have at my wedding.”

“Whatever floats your boat,” I said with a frown, then picked up the pen and added her color selection to the list.

“Hopefully our dresses are going to be chocolate, because I don’t look good in orange,” Danielle replied between chews.

“Yes. There is going to be orange trim on the dresses. The flower girl and my maid of honor are going to wear orange dresses.”

“I still can’t believe you chose Carol over me to be your maid of honor. I thought we were girls?”

Kayla looked over at me wearing a sympathetic look. “We are, but I didn’t want to have to choose between the two of you so I decided it was safer to let my sister do it.”

I could understand that, because if she had chosen Danielle over me I would have been highly upset.

I wrote Carol’s name down. “Okay, how many bridesmaids, and I need all their names.”

“Four. You, Danielle, my coworker Crystal, and Nadine.”

“Who’s gonna walk Nadine down the aisle, Jordan?”

Danielle slapped my arm. “Nae-Nae, shut up.”

“What? I just asked.” Hell, her dyke ass might not want to be linked with a man.

“I’m pairing her with my cousin Timmy.”

Danielle’s brow rose. “Didn’t they used to mess around back in the day?”

“Oh shoot! I forgot about that. Never mind. Renee, scratch that. One of you will have to walk with him.”

“Uh-uh, I’m not walking with his little sawed-off ass!” Danielle cried.

I reached for an egg roll and agreed. “Me neither.”

Kayla pushed her plate away and sighed heavily. “Fine. He can walk with Crystal.”

“Okay, so who’s walking down the aisle with me?”

Kayla shrugged. “Probably one of Jermaine’s cousins.”

“And what about me?” Danielle asked.

“Another one of his cousins.”

I gave her a curious look. “What do they look like? ’Cause inquiring minds wanted to know.”

“What difference does it make?”

“It makes a lot of difference.” I snorted rudely.

Kayla pursed her lips and gave me a hard stare. It’s rare when my holier-than-thou friend gets mad. And right now she looked like she was seconds away from throwing both of us out of her house. “Renee, can’t you for once think about someone other than yourself? This is my wedding.”

“Girl, I know and I’m sorry, but can you do me one favor? Whatever mothafucka you have walking me down the aisle, just make sure he doesn’t pee in the bed.”

Danielle fell back onto the floor and started kicking her legs up in the air and I couldn’t help but laugh even though the shit would have been a lot more funny if it had happened to someone else.

Kayla looked at Danielle, then turned to me with a puzzled look. “Pee in the bed? Oh Lord, do I even want to ask. What in the world are you talking about?”

“Landon spent the night with Renee and peed in her bed!” Danielle shrieked.

Kayla’s eyes grew round. “What? Who’s Landon?”

“This stinky mothafucka I went to high school with.”

Danielle sucked her teeth. “You didn’t think he was stinky when you saw him stroll into the club.”

“Hell, how was I to know he peed in the bed.”

Kayla looked mortified. “Ugh! He came to your house and peed? Oh my God! What did you do?”

“I put his stanky ass out! That’s what I did.”

“Kayla, he thought he was in the bathroom,” Danielle added between chuckles.

“Yeah, he was holding his thang and had the nerve to shake it when he got done.” I used my hands to demonstrate.

Danielle screamed and Kayla started laughing. Hell, I even gave a few chuckles before I started getting angry again. “That shit ain’t funny. I haven’t heard from his pissing ass since. I’ve gone to his job and even his house and I can never catch him.”

“Kayla, you haven’t heard the best part. Nae-Nae, go ahead and tell her what you made me help you do.”

“Don’t try to act like I made you. You were more than happy to help.” Danielle always tries to make it seem like I’m the only one that does all the crazy shit.

She rolled her eyes. “Whatever, ho, just tell the story.”

I leaned forward against the coffee table. “Landon told me he would buy me a new mattress two weeks ago when he got paid. I waited all day for him to call me and then I started calling his ass but he refused to pick up. I called his cell phone, house phone, and even rode by his mama’s house looking for him. Anyway, I waited until Wednesday and blocked my number before I called and he answered. I asked him where the hell was my money and that mothafucka had the nerve to hang up on me. So you know a black bitch like me got mad!”

Kayla rolled her eyes as she reached for her orange soda. “Oh Lord, what did you do?”

Danielle jumped in. “Nae-Nae, let me finish telling it.” How could I say no when she looked like she was about to pee her damn self?

“Go ahead.”

Danielle crossed her legs and sat up straight on the floor. “Okay, this crazy girl gonna call me and tell me she’s on her way over to pick me up. So I go outside and she pulled up in her uncle’s raggedy-ass truck and told me to get in. I climb in and we go back to her house and pick up those mattresses she had lying in the garage. They reeked with pee.” She turned up her nose.