It was graduation night and I was the only virgin in the crowd. Bobby Mills, Martin, Jerome, and Sammy Yates, Eddy Jones, and Randy; All Cousins. They picked me up in a black Buick smelling of Alchohl and ladies in heat! We rambled from Canton, to Mount Holly, laughing at the afternoon speeches; Our tassles hangin from the rear view mirror, climbing different sorta project stairs. We went to a party and I got drunk and couldn’t figure out who’s hand was on my thigh, but it didn’t matter because these cousins Martin, Eddy, Sammy, Jerome, and Bobby was my sweethearts ultimatly since the 7th grade. So, me and my fellas we was dancing. Doing nasty ol’ tricks that i had been thinking about since May! It was graduation night so it had to be hot! So i had to make like my hips was givin some business, that way everybody thought whoever was gettin it was a older man who couldn’t run the streets with some youngsters. The party got crazy and me and Bobby left the party before the police came and we were in the backseat of his Buick and girl! he started looking at me. Yeah, he started looking at me real strange like i was a woman or something and he started talkin real soft in the backseat of that ol’ Buick and by the time the sun was coming up i just couldn’t stop grinning.
- Nyla (For Colored Girls)
