18
“I owe you, cuz,” I said to Niecy.
“Y’all got lucky,” Niecy said. “If Hattie hadn’t warned us, we wouldn’t have been able to get here on time.”
Darius wiped his eyes.
“What’d I miss?” he asked. “Where’s that car?”
“Welcome back to reality,” I said. “Thanks to your act of idiocy, I had to save your life.”
“Really?” he asked. “What’d I do?”
“You rolled down the window like I told you not to,” Terrance said.
“Aw, s**t,” Darius said. He rubbed his cornrows. “Sorry, guys.”
“It’s fine now,” Niecy said. “Since your cousin Niecy swooped in and saved your life, you can’t crack any jokes about me for a week, at LEAST.”
Darius yawned.
“Well, I just woke up, and I didn’t actually see you save anybody, so…”
Niecy punched him on the shoulder.
“‘Thanks, cousin’ is all you need to say,” sh
