“Okay, so um, me and Key are having a little disagreement, and she has a knife.”
“A knife?”
“A knife?” El repeated after me.
We looked at each other while I listened to Kerem.
“Why does she have a knife, Reem?”
“Vee, I fucked up. Key is trying to kill me…”
“I’mgoingto kill you filthy, disgusting…” I heard Key yelling in the background.
“Please come and get her. I don’t want anyone to get hurt. She won’t listen to me,” Kerem pleaded.
El stood from the chair and lowered me to the ground. He grabbed my shoes and brought them over to me. I put them on while I was still trying to decipher what was going on.
I could hear banging in the background. Then I heard, “Open this door, Kerem. Be a man now. I’m just a girl. You scared?”
“I really need you to get here,” Kerem’s voice cracked as he spoke into the phone.
El was helping me into my jacket and pulling me toward the door.
“I’m on my way.”
I disconnected the call.
I sat down in the car and adjusted my seat belt while El closed my door and jogged to the driver side.
“Where is Brick?”
“I gave him the evening off since I thought we wouldn’t be leaving back out,” Samuel explained.
We pulled out of the garage headed in the direction of my sister’s house. I dialed Keeva’s number.
She answered the phone yelling, “DO YOU REALLY THINK MY LITTLE SISTER CAN STOP ME FROM MURDERING YOUR ASS? WHAT DO YOU WANT AVERIE!?”
I put the call on speaker.
“Key, what’s going on?” I said in the most soothing voice I could muster.
“Nothing, I’m just trying to figure out a way to get into this bathroom to murder your brother in law.”
“Key, why would you want to do that?”
“Why not, Vee?”
She went from one hundred to two and scared the crap out of me.
“Sweetie, I mean what would make you want to kill your husband. You love him, remember?”
“You remember Buffalo?”
“The dog we had when we were little?”
The sudden switch of topics threw me off a little.
“Yeah, we loved Buffalo, too but guess what? When his ass got out of line and bit the neighbor guess what we did? We put his biting ass down. Same thing here.”