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  Queen Weaver

  By:

  Ervy Jones

  Cadmus Publishing

  www.cadmuspublishing.com

  Copyright © 2022 Ervy Jones

  Published by Cadmus Publishing

  www.cadmuspublishing.com

  Port Angeles, WA

  ISBN: 978-1-63751-181-7

  All rights reserved. Copyright under Berne Copyright Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, and Pan-American Copyright Convention. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.

  This is a work of fiction; therefore, names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Contents

  Chapter 1 1

  Chapter 2 2

  Chapter 3 3

  Chapter 4 5

  Chapter 5 6

  Chapter 6 7

  Chapter 6-1/2 9

  Chapter 7 10

  Chapter 7-1/2 12

  Chapter 8 13

  Chapter 9 14

  Chapter 10 15

  Chapter 10-1/2 16

  Chapter 11 17

  Chapter 11-1/2 18

  Chapter 12 19

  Chapter 12-1/2 20

  Chapter 13 21

  Chapter 13-1/2 22

  Chapter 14 23

  Chapter 15 24

  Chapter 16 25

  Chapter 17 26

  Chapter 18 27

  Chapter 19 28

  Chapter 19-1/2 29

  Chapter 20 30

  Chapter 20-1/2 31

  Chapter 21 32

  Chapter 22 33

  Chapter 23 34

  Chapter 24 35

  Chapter 24-1/2 36

  Chapter 25 37

  Chapter 26 38

  Chapter 26-1/2 39

  Chapter 27 40

  Chapter 28 41

  Chapter 29 42

  Chapter 30 43

  Chapter 31 44

  Chapter 32 45

  Chapter 33 46

  Chapter 34 47

  Chapter 35 48

  Chapter 36 49

  Chapter 36-1/2 50

  Chapter 37 51

  Chapter 1

  Boosheka: You think you better than us because you got that good hair.

  Carmen: We are not in high school no more. You just need to get over it.

  Booshale: Do not get me wrong. Just because we are not in high school no more do not mean I still won’t wobble a chick. I still remember you pull my tracks anyway. Diva got better things to do than worry about your stuck-up self.

  Carmen: Thinks to herself, I’ll pull some more of your weave out.

  Carly: We cannot even get our beauty on without some conceited bxxxx carrying around that same old swag they had in high school—yeah.

  Chapter 2

  Cathy: What is the problem? You all are not going to bring that drama mess up in here. I am running a business. I am going to start charging double around here. Do not mess with my money.

  Boosheka: Come on grandma, sound like somebody auntie. You are not my auntie; Damn, I did not say nothing to you anyway.

  Dianne: That’s a damn shame, girl with a attitude like that, damn bxxxx.

  Carmen: Girl, let’s get out of here before I get in some trouble.

  Carly: Yeah.

  Chapter 3

  Kenny: What is going on cataracts?

  Cathy: Nothing much, just trying to make a dollar.

  Kenny: What you got back there to eat? I am not going to be checking up on you if you do not have me some chicken and hot sauce before I let them young boys rob you. Some of them might be girls. It’s a whole lot of them on Boulevard Avenue just waiting for something to get into. I know all their people, they better act like they got some sense.

  Dianne: You seen my nephew Budgy down there?

  Kenneth: How he look?

  Dianne: A fat little thang with a nappy afro and one little $25 gold chain I brought him from the flea market. He sleep in that chain. I been looking out for my sister. He stay with his dad, he just stop playing sports.

  Kenneth: Puffy cheeks?

  Dianne: Yeah.

  Kenneth: I got you, Cathy. You don’t have any tea in this joint, all this fried rice. Next time I come back you better have some chicken, mac and cheese too.

  Chapter 4

  Knock-E-knock-E-knock

  Boosheka: Who is it?

  Junebug.

  Boosheka: Man, what the hell you want? I’m doing Jes’ hair. I don’t have time to be fooling around.

  Junebug: I thought you was going to let me cut your grass.

  Boosheka: When did I say that? Stop playing; come back next week.

  Knock-E-knock-E-knock

  Junebug: What time?

  Boosheka: Next weekend morning.

  Junebug: Alright, now don’t’ have me come over here for nothing. Tell my daughter-in-law I said hey.

  Boosheka: You crazy.

  Chapter 5

  Boosheka: Rick now at the flea market.

  Rich: Just chillin’, what going on with you?

  Boosheka: Nothing. So, who you kickin’ it with these days?

  Rick: You know Carmen is my girl.

  Boosheka: You still hanging with that stank? All these years you been giving me the eye, you know you want some. I am the bomb.

  Rick: Atomic bomb. I’ll check you out later, I got to split.

  Boosheka: You remember Hood Spot? You mean to tell me I am not the bomb? You was not saying that then checking me out like a piece of eye candy.

  Rick: Yeah, you was playing hard to get.

  Boosheka: I am a high price bxxxx. It’s not like that anymore. You remember, though.

  Rick: Hell, yeah.

  Chapter 6

  Wild Hound Dog: This is your boy the Hound Dog, anybody out there on the strip? I am up top going down south, what it look like?

  Black Cat: This is Lady Black Cat, you might want to be careful coming down central turnpike. You have a few rollers on set.

  Wild Hound Dog: Where you at?

  Black Cat: Just 50 mile south of Carolina.

  Wild Hound Dog: I should be pulling in there about nine hours. Keep the light on and I will give you a honk.

  Nephew Charles Jr.: Pops, I need some money.

  Wild Hound Dog: How much money?

  Charles Jr.: A dub.

  Wild Hound Dog: What you need a dub for, boy? Money do not grow on trees, this better be something good.

  Charles Jr.: Me and Janet want to go to the movies.

  Wild Hound Dog: You better take Janet to one of those dollar movies. You need to get a job, you need to go pro. Look in my top drawer. I left some change in there. Whatever’s in there you can have.

  Chapter 6-1/2

  I probably will be gone a week. I meet this chick named Black Cat on the CB. Do not be making no babies, and if you do something, wear a plastic. By the way, you just like your momma.

  Charles Jr.: You tripping.

  Wild Hound Dog: Always wanting my money.

  Chapter 7

  Hood Spot is not a club no more but a scrip joint and guess who need some extra cash.

  Boosheka: Not ah, you need to gone over there to Tammy with those ones. I can’t make it rai
n with that, you can’t even get a smile with that. Gone to Tammy. $10 and better. You do not know who I am. I am the queen and my weave cost a lot. I buy the best weave around here. Bxxxxes call me Queen Weaver, so you better come correct.

  Lucky Boys: Calm down ma, I was just testing you, boo. I got the real money right here, baby. What you doing after this gig anyway? You trying to hook up?

  Boosheka: You nothing but a trick.

  Lucky Boys: Damn little momma, that all you, damn. I love you.

  Rick: Oh shit, Boosheka, what are you doing here?

  Boosheka: What are you doing here? Carmen let you out the house?

  Rick: Carmen is out of town, yo! Carmen do not run me anyway. I’m my own man. Alright, let me see what you working with. Can I get a sample?

  Chapter 7-1/2

  Boosheka: I want to give you some anyways.

  Rick: I did not know you had it going on like that.

  Boosheka: Rick, can I catch a ride? I was going to take a cab.

  Rick: You ready?

  Chapter 8

  Boosheka: My remote stop working, what wrong with it?

  Rick: I have no clue.

  Boosheka: Check it out.

  Rick: I am going to start charging your ass.

  Boosheka: I do not know what you see in Carmen. You probably little anyways.

  Rick: So now you playing games. You think you bad, don’t you? Guess what, you talking all that shit I am going to give you what you want. Take them clothes off.

  Chapter 9

  Rochelle: Ring-a-ring-ring.

  Carmen: What happening?

  Rochelle: You are not going to believe who I seen at the spot.

  Carmen: A celebrity.

  Rochelle: No, I seen Rick and guess who he gave a ride.

  Carmen: Who?

  Rochelle: Boosheka, out of all people.

  Carmen: Yeah, I will deal with it when I get home. Right now I am taking care of some photo ops out west. I probably be back in a week. It better not be what I think it is.

  Chapter 10

  Pearl: The cookout is this weekend.

  Oldie: Suzy Mae going to be there?

  Pearl: I got to check with her plans.

  Oldie: Man, if she come tell her I want some of that fat back and butter beans with a pinch of oil she brought last time.

  Pearl: How you know she going to make the same dish over again?

  Oldie: What you doing this time?

  Pearl: I’m going big. I’m going to wear my best wig for this, my beige wig. Melody is going to make some baked beans, beef neck bones, fries, fried fish, mac and cheese for the non-pork, non-meat eaters. And you know like always I will have chitterlings, grilled pork chop, barbecue, and this year I think I will do some barbecue ribs. My homegirl turn me on to a new sauce that will have you coming back for fourths.

  Oldie: Everybody that want a drink of that intoxicant I’m going to charge them 50 cents a shot, and if they bring their own, I am going to charge them dollars a shot.

  Chapter 10-1/2

  Pearl: you all are not going to be getting drunk and making all that noise over no basketball game.

  Oldie: Okay, you better tell Suzy Mae to bring them butter beans then.

  Chapter 11

  Eric: What up, Cuz? Man, you made it on your scholarship. Man, I knew you could make it, but you are a freshman though. Man, I got to break you in. Man, it’s rules around here. Man, me and my bros are going to break you off proper. But you family, man, I am going to look out for you.

  First thing, first, man, you got to go down this hall to the meeting room on the left. Man, they are talking about ethics in there. Bro, a bunch of rookies in there. You are going to bust up in there and say you looking for Sasu. She already stuck-up. Mr. Huddy is the pro, man, he is going to think you lost your mind, but being a rookie he will tell you that you in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Next, your errand, boy. You hungry?

  Cuz: Yeah, man, starving.

  Chapter 11-1/2

  Eric: Yeah, remember my first year on campus? I was hungry too for checking out all locations on campus. Okay, you need to go pick us up 20 subs.

  Cuz: Man, why don’t you pick up your own sub?

  Heavy: A scholarship boy, yo! You just got here, where you think you at? You like the weight team?

  Cuz: Yeah.

  Heavy: All my bros are on the weight team. What position you play?

  Cuz: Receiver. Alright, I’ll go. Damn, who is that?

  Eric: Come on, man, your first day and you got puppy love. Come on, man, there plenty to see.

  Cuz: She’s fat.

  Eric: That’s Tissa, the head cheerleader. She is a senior, Cuz, SASU. She got her picks and you are not albino.

  Chapter 12

  Tyhomm: Boosheka, what going on, what you doing?

  Boosheka: What up, my love? Just put Jes to bed.

  Tyhomm: Why you acting like that? You just going to call me when you want a booty call.

  Boosheka: Where my earrings you promised me?

  Tyhomme: Something came up. I may have to wait until I get my income tax.

  Boosheka: Well, until you stop lying all the damn time, do not be looking for nothing from me.

  Tyhomm: That how you are going to act? What happened to that money I gave you for Jes?

  Boosheka: I spent it.

  Tyhomm: What you mean you spent it?

  Boosheka: You better be glad I did not take child support out on you.

  Tyhomm: You always threatening somebody with child support. I am coming over there tomorrow to see Jes.

  Boosheka: Nope, don’t come over here.

  Chapter 12-1/2

  Tyhomm: Next time you need something call one of those sugar daddies of yours.

  Click.

  Tyhome: Ring-a-ring-ring. Know she got her ringer on, trying to ignore me. Ring-a-ring-ring.

  LEAVE A MESSAGE AT THE BEEP!

  Chapter 13

  Rico: Booshale, you going to Pearl’s cookout this weekend?

  Booshale: I might. You going?

  Rico: You know I am going. You think I am going to turn down some free food?

  Booshale: I don’t know, I have to get my weave done, nails, toes.

  Rico: You do not need all that, it’s just a cookout. Nobody going to be sweating your tired behind anyway.

  Booshale: Shoot, it might be a basketball player out there I might catch.

  Rico: You’re not going to bring Earl?

  Booshale: I am not taking Earl everywhere I go.

  Rico: I thought that was your main squeeze.

  Booshale: Me and Earl are cool, but that do not mean we’re married. Shale cannot be tied down.

  Chapter 13-1/2

  Rico: I am going to be there early before all the leftovers is gone.

  Booshale: What John Boy been up to? I have not seen him in a while.

  Rico: John Boy been doing good since he came home from prison. He still drink a lot, but he working at the chicken plant.

  Booshale: How is his sister doing?

  Rico: I almost hit one time, she was scared.

  Booshale: Man, nobody thinking about you. She probably was scared you got a STD.

  Chapter 14

  Oldie: Uncle Joe, what you doing?

  Joe: Man, I am about to go down to the lake, man, and do some fishing.

  Oldie: Stop by here and pick me up.

  Joe: Man, you got a cold one, ‘cause I only got a gallon of gas in the ride. Just enough to make it to the lake and back.

  Oldie: I might can get us a cold one. I will see what I can do.

  Joe: You know Joe don’t get his disability check until Tuesday.

  Oldie: I am going to see if Pearl will loan me a couple of bucks until I can m
ake a hustle.

  Pearl: Let me check my safe. Do not look, I don’t want you to see my combination.

  Oldie: Why don’t you just give me a few dollars out that pocketbook of yours?

  Pearl: I do not keep no money in there. If somebody steal my pocketbook all they going to get is a can of dip and some bill stubs.

  Chapter 15

  Charles Jr.: What up, Mr. Kenny? I did not know you knew my aunt.

  Kenneth: Yeah, I know old chicken wing. She told me you stop playing sports.

  Charles Jr.: I thought you was looking for me.

  Kenneth: Me and your aunt go way back. How are your grades?

  Charles Jr.: They alright.

  Kenneth: Stay in school, stay focused. You’re going to make it. Make your mother proud and tell your pops I said hey.

  Chapter 16

  Earl: You was not going to tell me about the cookout? You trying to creep?

  Booshale: You can come if you want to, I am not tripping. You going to get my hair done?

  Earl: What I look like, your man? What is in it for me?

  Booshale: Now you going to play stupid.

  Earl: How much is it going to cost?

  Booshale: I am going to try to get Cathy to give me a discount, maybe half price. About $80.

  Earl: How long it’s going to take you? You take a long time. Are we going to do something?

  Booshale: Bye.

  Earl: Don’t you be telling me no bye.

  Chapter 17

  Junebug: Knock-E-knock-E-knock

  Boosheka: Who is it?

  Junebug: It’s me Junebug, baby, I got it all. If you act right, I give you two for one, if you spend right.

  Boosheka: What you want?

  Junebug: You told me to come by this weekend to cut the grass.