While the fellas shared their momentary laugh, Allen sat in a daze,
motionless.
"Yo Jones, what's on your mind?"
Gigolo asked in the midst of
laughing.
"Jones, Jones,"
Cupid called as he reached over to quickly shake him.
"Yo,"
Allen said as he was introduced into the conversation.
"What's on your mind Jones?"
Gigolo asked.
"What's on my mind?"
"Yeah nigga, what's on your mind?"
Gigolo asked again.
"I was just wondering."
"You were just wondering what?"
Cupid asked.
"I was just wondering how long we plan to do this same shit, week in
and week out? I was just wondering if there will ever come a time when
we will be in relationships and our girls will do this with us?"
"See, that's the kind of talk that will make a nigga be banned from the
group,"
Calorie stated.
"Hey, maybe that's what I need to have happen,"
Allen responded in
an acrimonious tone.
"Yo Jones, what's wrong with you?"
Walter asked with irritation in
his voice.
"What's wrong with me?"
Allen began with disbelief.
"Look at us,
niggas pushin' thirty and have no clue about love or what it takes to have
a relationship. Hell, one of you niggas might as well be my woman with
as much time as I spend with y'all."
"Jones, maybe we don't have a clue about love," Cupid said, "but you
do."
"Yeah, isn't that what matters most?"
Charles added.
"No, no,"
Allen began,
"I have no clue of what true love is. I know
what the surface of love is like, but I've never been given a hint or an
edge of what to love truly or be loved truly really is. I want to know what
coming home to true love is like. I want to experience the fullness of
love, and I want to know love intimately. I want to invite love into my
home and have it dwell there for the rest of its life. I don't want to spend
my life being with women that I can just live with, as opposed to being
with the one woman that I can't live without. Nor do I want to spend my
life worrying about the breaths I take, but rather the moment that takes
my breath away. I seek these things. They may be a bit much for you
niggas to understand, but I want to be a part of these things and I want
them to be a part of me."
"Nigga you trippin'," Gigolo said.
"I'm trippin'? Huh, for the first time I agree with you Gigolo. I am
trippin', 'cause I met a young lady last week at the grocery store, that I
wish I could find again 'cause I can't get her off my mind. Unfortunately,
I've never seen her before that moment, and I will probably never see her
again. But yet, I'm sittin' here with you self- lovin' niggas, who have no
interest in being in love. All of you are interested in getting a new piece
of ass every week. Fellas that shit has got to get old? Ask yourself this
question, when have I ever had a bad piece of pussy? Yeah some ass
may have been better than others, but when have you actually ever had
a bad piece of pussy? Yeah Gigolo, you're right, I am trippin'. Yo, no
love lost, but I'm out."
