Moonlight Page #4

Atlanta ain't but so big... seemin' me you

come see your mama from time to time.

Hope you gettin'

some rest, baby.

Hope you come by soon.

Ma, it's late.

I'll be there tomorrow,

I promise.

Hello?

Hey Black, I mean... Chiron.

What's up, man.

This... this Kevin.

You there?

Yeah...

Long time, no see, right?

Man, I had to ask Teresa

for your number, and...

Hold on, man.

You do-you do remember me, right?

Yeah, I do.

Been a while.

Yeah. Yeah, it has, man.

So, uh, where you at now, man?

Georgia.

Atlanta.

I've been up here ever since... Yeah.

Yeah, man, that's what I heard.

Yeah.

Hey, man, I'm sorry about all that... All

that... sh*t what went down... Chiron.

Real sh*t, dawg, I am.

So, uh...

what you doin' up there, man?

Not much. Just...

just trouble.

Chiron and trouble

always found a way.

Yeah... something like that.

What about you?

Me?

I'm a cook, man.

Y-y-you a cook?

Yeah, buddy.

Man, I got sent up

for some stupid sh*t-

the same stupid sh*t

we always get sent up for.

They put me on the kitchen line,

man, and I kinda took to it.

Anyway, man, I just... I just

thought about you, man. I...

We got this jukebox in here and, uh...

and folks come by and play they songs,

that's the music

we get in here...

This dude, man...

just reminded me of you.

So, uh...

Hey man, if you ever come to town, man,

you come holla at me.

I'll cook you somethin'.

Maybe...

Maybe play that song for you.

All right man, um...

You be easy, all right?

How you been?

I'm all right.

I ain't sleepin'.

Why not?

- Right. If you knew you'd...

- Bad dreamin'.

Still?

You ever thought about talking

about it with somebody?

Maybe not even a counsellor.

Maybe somebody like your mama?

Yeah... Yeah, it sound

funny to me too.

You talk to Teresa?

Yeah.

How she doing?

Good.

"Good."

When you go home, Ma?

Home?

This is home. You know... I mean,

they allowing me to stay and work

as long as I like. I figure...

might as well help other folks.

Keep myself out of trouble.

That's good, Mama.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it is too.

I really do.

So, you still in them streets?

Didn't come all the way

the hell to Georgia

to have you fallin' in the same sh*t, Chiron.

- Im'ma go. Im'ma go...

No, no, no, no, you gon' listen!

To who, Ma? Huh?

To you?

Really, though?

Please...

Please...

I messed up.

I f***ed it all the way up.

I know that.

But yo' heart ain't gotta be

black like mine, baby.

I love you, Chiron.

I do.

I love you, baby.

But you ain't gotta love me.

Lord knows I did not have love for

you when you needed it, I know that.

So you ain't gotta love me...

but you gon' know

that I love you.

You hear?

You hear me, Chiron?

I hear you, Mama.

Here.

I'm sorry, baby.

I'm so sorry.

Come here, Mama.

Be right with you.

How y'all doin'?

Good? All right.

I'll take these.

I'll be right back

with your check.

Be right with you, boss, just

let me get this out the way.

All right...

All right, man,

how you doing tonight?

What can I get you...

Chiron?

Damn man,

why you ain't say nothin'?

'Sup, Kev?

Damn, man, what...

What you doing down here?

I mean...

Hey, hey...

You here now, man,

that's all that matter.

There go that damn noddin' again, man, you

ain't-you ain't changed one damn bit.

You still can't say more than three words

at a time, huh?

Said you was gon' cook for

me, I know how to say that.

Yeah, I did say that, didn't I?

Don't look like your ass

been missing no meals.

Yeah.

But I got you, man.

Sit down.

Sit down, man.

What you want?

You can order off the menu

if you want to, or...

Hey... I could just hit you

with that chef's special.

Yeah.

We here, Chiron.

One chef's special...

coming right up.

Chef's special.

Oh, so you Cuban now?

Only in the kitchen, Papi.

Yo, sit down, man.

Or are you gon' eat standin' up?

You want a drink?

Nah, I don't drink.

Nigga I ain't seen you in like a

decade, you gon' drink with me.

Boom.

Nah, bruh, nah!

What you doing, man?

Welcome back, bruh.

Damn, bother, I thought

you said you didn't drink...

Can't really taste it

so I don't mess with it.

- I saw that. I saw that.

- What? What?

You don't wanna waste none of that, do you?

It tastes good.

Chill out, man.

It's straight.

- Say what?

- It's straight.

It's straight.

Man, please, it's better

than Chef Boyardee, ain't it?

Chill out, bruh.

My Spaghetti-O's go hard, man.

Hey, eat your dinner, man.

Eat your dinner.

Got it, Mr. George?

I'll be back.

Hey man, you...

you remember Samantha?

Fine-ass Samantha.

Yeah, I remember her.

Yeah?

Check this out.

Kevin Jr.

Me and Samantha, man.

We had him young, too young.

Man, when I got locked up,

man, that sh*t was hard.

Wasn't no way I could

go back the streets, man.

Not after this.

- Y'all still down?

- Me and Sam?

Nah. I mean... we cool.

We gotta be, you know, 'cause of li'l

man, but... nah, not like that, man.

What about you, bruh?

What about me?

Nigga... tell me somethin'.

I mean, what you doin'?

Who you doin'?

Man, come on now.

I've been back there

in that kitchen, man,

and cooked for your ass and everything,

man, hey, these grandma rules, man.

You know the deal.

Your ass eat, your ass speak.

All right, straight up?

Yeah, nigga, straight up.

I'm trappin'.

What?

Yeah.

When they sent me to Atlanta, put me

straight into juvie for beatin' the old boy.

Met this dude in there.

When I come out,

he put me on the block.

Did good at it and rose up.

It is what it is.

Bullshit, man.

That ain't what it is.

That ain't you, Chiron.

Nigga, you don't know me.

I don't know you?

There you are.

$24.50.

Why you got

them damn fronts, man?

Why'd you call me?

What?

Why did you call me?

I told you, man... dude came in...

- Yeah, yeah, yeah...

He played this song, man...

This you?

You wasn't playin'

'bout them traps, huh.

Ride dirty, huh?

Something like that.

So how you be in to work?

Bus.

Jitney.

Sometimes Samantha shoot me out

there when I got Li'l Kev.

I can't picture bein' in Miami

with no car.

- Man, it's real out here.

- Yeah, I bet.

Real hot, real slow,

and real busted.

Shot me like a duck

out here, man.

This nigga said "a duck."

- Yeah, you on one.

- You know what I'm doin'.

Nah, I'm just tired, bruh.

Hey man, bet on the ride,

though.

- Yeah.

- Appreciate it.

Yeah, man.

Can't have yo ass on no Jitney.

So Chiron...

What-what you looking at me

like that for?

What man, come on,

you just drove down here?

Yeah.

Like you was just... you was just on

one... and you hit the highway?

Yeah.

So where you gon' stay tonight,

man?

Watch that sh*t.

- I got you.

This the spot.

Come on in.

Get yourself at home.

- This is real, man.

- I'm just... get out of this real quick.

You a'ight?

Yeah, no, I just

got a little headache.

Man, you a lightweight.

Nah, you was pouring that mug.

You was pouring it.

- "I can't taste this".

- Chill out, man.

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