Page 126 of Certified To Handle You 2

“Renza! Get the fuck up!” I heard a voice call me out my sleep while somebody shoved at my shoulder hard enough to make my whole body move.

I opened my eyes slow and stared at the ceilin’ while my head pounded from all the liquor and weed I had put in my system the night before. For a second, I ain’t know where the hell I was. Then I felt the sheets under me, smelled Reni’s perfume in the room and remembered I was still at her condo.

I was supposed to drop her off and take my ass home last night. That was the whole plan when I picked her up from the club. I had already been drunk, high and deep in my feelin’s over Sha’Nelle, and I ain’t intend on makin’ the night more complicated than it already was.

Then Reni started rubbin’ on my dick in the truck, and one thing led to another. By the time everything was over, I was too fucked up and tired to drive anywhere, so I stayed.

Now she was standin’ beside the bed in a T-shirt with her hair all over her head, lookin’ like she had been up for a minute and got madder every second I stayed sleep.

“What’s wrong with you?” I asked while rubbin’ both hands down my face.

“What’s wrong with me?” Reni repeated, her voice risin’ while she held her phone tight in one hand. “You need to ask yourself what the fuck wrong with you.”

I pushed myself up against the headboard and squinted at her through the ache sittin’ behind my eyes. “Reni, what is you talkin’ about?”

She stared at me like she couldn’t believe I had the nerve to ask. Her face was already red, and tears was sittin’ in her eyes even though she looked like she was doin’ everything she could not to let ‘em fall.

“Sha’Nelle… the ghetto bitch you brought around me… she hit me up,” Reni said, throwin’ the name at me like she expected it to wake me up faster than the shovin’ did.

It worked…

My eyes cleared a lil’ while I looked at her. “Sha’Nelle did what?”

“She hit me up,” Reni repeated.

I stared at her for a second ‘cause the shit ain’t make no sense. Sha’Nelle had been givin’ me silence for a month. She was still dealin’ with that hoe ass nigga, still postin’ on social media like everything in her life was good and still actin’ like I was the one she needed distance from. Now she had found Reni and started sendin’ her shit?

“How the hell she even know you was with me?” I asked.

Reni’s face twisted in disbelief. “That’s what you worried about?”

“I’m tryna figure out what the fuck happened,” I replied while swingin’ my legs over the side of the bed. “You woke me up screamin’ about some shit I ain’t know was goin’ on.”

Reni held her phone up like she wanted to throw it at me. “She knew too damn much, Renza. She knew about me bein’ pregnant. She knew about the abortion, and she said you was laid up with her when I was callin’ you. Then this hoe sent me all types of pictures and videos of y’all!”

I looked down at the floor while everything started comin’ back to me. I had told Sha’Nelle what happened with Reni ‘cause that whole situation had fucked with me. I ain’t sit around givin’ her every detail, but I had spoke on it. At the time, I ain’t think she would ever take that shit and throw it in Reni’s face.

Reni watched me process it and let out a broken laugh. “So you did tell her.”

“I told her some shit that happened in my life,” I answered as I stood up. “I ain’t tell her so she could come back and use it against you.”

“You shouldn’t have been talkin’ about me to that bitch at all!” Reni snapped. “Especially not about somethin’ like that.”

I walked in the bathroom before I said somethin’ outta irritation. My head was still poundin’, my mouth felt dry and I needed a second to wake up enough to understand how the fuck my mornin’ had turned into this.

Reni kept goin’ from the bedroom while I used the bathroom.

“I was around that bitch, Renza!” She called out. “Me and you went out with her and that white dude, and the whole time y’all was messin’ around behind my fuckin’ back!”

“We wasn’t messin’ around behind yo’ back,” I said while flushin’ the toilet.

When I walked back in the room, she was in the same spot with tears finally runnin’ down her face. I grabbed my briefs from the floor and stepped in ‘em while rubbin’ my beard.

“I never cheated on you with Sha’Nelle,” I told her. “I ain’t start fuckin’ with her until after me and you was done.”

Reni wiped under her eyes with the back of her hand. “That don’t make this shit no better!”

“How it don’t?”