“Anyhow, this was supposed to have happened around the anniversary of Sol’s death and you know how Billy gets all sad and shit around that time of year. She was supposed to have been getting bent with Jean and this bitch from the Lenox Terrace. I can’t think of her name, but you know her when you see her. Real pretty bitch with long hair and—”

“Get on with the story, Rhonda!”

“Like I was saying, in the midst of all this drinking and smoking, the pretty bitch starts getting all touchy with Billy. It was supposedly on some old comfort shit, but you know how them bitches do. Well, this is just what I heard, but one thing was supposed to have led to another and they had a threesome.”

Reese looked at Rhonda wide-eyed. “You need to stop lying!”

“I’m dead-ass! You know my brother Kelvin is a faggot, so he runs in those circles. He was supposed to had got the story from a girl who goes to school with Jean’s little sister, who heard her telling someone on the phone.”

“I knew it!” Reese jumped up and down. She drew some funny looks, but ignored them. “Ain’t no way she was hanging with all them dyke hos and not getting down.”

“If you ask me, I think her and Yoshi are eating each other’s pussies,” Rhonda continued. “Them bitches seem a little tighter than they should be.”

“Nah, I don’t think Yoshi get down.”

“Baby, I don’t put nothing past nobody. You know Yoshi be at them clubs around all that pussy. All them stripper bitches be dyke’n.”

Rhonda and Reese continued walking down Third Avenue, window shopping and slowly making their way to the electronics store to meet their friends. Halfway down the hill, they spotted their counterparts coming across the busy street. Rhonda was the first one to smile and wave them to their location.

“Hey, bitches!” Rhonda said, hugging Yoshi, then Billy.

“What’s up, Rhonda? What took y’all so damn long?” Yoshi asked, looking at her watch.

“Shit, I had to stop and pick up a few things.”

“I thought the idea was that we were supposed to be shopping together?” Billy interjected.

“Y’all bitches shop at them skinny women stores. I gotta go where they cater to blessed women,” Rhonda said, cupping her breasts.

“Well, me and Billy already got what we needed,” Yoshi said, raising her multiple bags.

“Billy, what could you possibly need from a women’s clothing store?” Rhonda asked sarcastically.

Billy sucked her teeth and cut her eyes. “Don’t be funny, Rhonda.”

“Talk that shit now, but when y’all see my girl in her dress, you’re going to be all on her shit,” Yoshi cut in.

Reese and Rhonda exchanged suspicious glances.

“What the fuck is that all about?” Billy asked.