“Celess I’m sorry. I was feelin’ it,” O tried to explain.
“Well, you need to leave whatever that shit was alone, ’cause it had you lookin’ slow and shit.”
“Yeah, that E will do that to you. You forgive me, sweetheart?”
“You owe me for this one,” I said.
“Come through and I’ll make it up to you.”
It had been a week since the incident at the club, and this was the first time I was hearing from O. He was about to be cashed in. I was losing love for him. He had me at my point where I was ready to juice him dry and then cut him off. I had suspected he put another girl in my place and bumped me to number two or something. I couldn’t understand why he was frontin’ on me like that, but it was really making me not care anymore.
I told O I would come through, but instead, I went to get my hair done. The shop was empty, being as it was a Tuesday afternoon. My bull Steve did my hair for me. And when Steve did my hair it was an all-day affair because he would spend more time gossiping than actually doing my hair.
“Those shoes are cute,” Steve commented on my Chanel boots.
“You like ’em?” I asked for no reason at all.
“Yeah, they hot. My girl would look good in them.”
Steve was an ITCH-an in the closet homo. He always talked about a girl who nobody ever seen. But that particular afternoon he indirectly came out.
“Yo, how do you do it?” he whispered.
“What?” I asked.
“Walk in those heels.”
I thought Steve was going to ask how I got away with being a woman. I was sure he knew. But maybe he didn’t.
“I’m used to it,” I said.
“This guy I know, he’s gay and he’s gonna start dressing up like a chick and get a sex change, the whole nine, but he said he don’t know how the hell he gonna walk in heels,” Steve said, laughing.
Bingo, I thought. Steve had to be gay. Anytime a man uses the word gay instead of faggot to describe a gay man, that’s a sign that he himself is gay. Besides, he did hair. Damn, it’s a lot of us out here, I thought. But I didn’t say anything. I just listened to Steve tell all his business and everybody else’s business.