Running Secrets

Chapter Three

Josephine

We stood stock still as we watched each other. I haven’tseen my little sister Anita in ages. She wore an XL T-shirt with gray leggings. She had cut her hair into a pixie cut and was rocking it well. I wanted to smile, but I was too scared at what she would say. I disappeared on them and didn’t even try to reconnect. Now here I was; here because I had officially ran out of options. She wasn’t going to like my answers and I wasn’t going to like her questions. But it is cool; I deserve it.

“What’s all the commotion?”

Crystal came to the door with a lazy smile. It disappeared as soon as she laid eyes on me. With a shift hand, Anita grasped my arm and pulled me inside. She locked the door after she shut it. I stood stock still as Anita looked out the window in the door. Once she was satifiy, she turned to face me. I gave her a tight smile. She took a step closer to me, before grabbing me into a tight hug. I hugged her back, pulling her closer. I had missed my sister despite our differences. She was one of the few people I had left. I felt Crystal on my back, trying to get in on the hug.

“You are a mess Crys,” I laughed, pulling my sister into the hug.

“Yay!! All we need is mo-“

“Woah. Relax. Mom and Justice are safe. Last thing we need to do, is put everyone in danger. Just relax.” Anita said, pulling out of the hug.

“Right.” I nodded.

Crys and I hugged a few more seconds longer. I really missed my younger sister. She had this glow, this youthful feel that never left no matter what. She was love and love was her. We separated and I took a good look at her. I haven’t seen her since the big event after Dad’s death. There was no denying it; little sister was all grown up. She had a slipknot bun on top of her head, while wearing a oversized t-shirt with pajama shorts on. Plus size runs in our family but Crys must have lost some weight, because her thighs were shapely and her face was thinner. I smiled seeing how good she looked.

“Looking good Crys, lost some weight?”

“Yup. Just a little. But chile, you are wearing them leggings. Big girls do it better you know,” she laughed doing the bankhead bounce.

“I’m mad you still doing that played out dance tho,” Anita shook her head.

“What chu meannnnnnnnnn homie?” Crys pouted with her hand on her hip, with a ghetto accent.

“Chu hearrrd me, I ain’t stutter.” Anita grinned.

“Aye aye, there’s enough of me to go around. Don’t be fighting.” I chipped in playfully.

“We know that. With them big ole hips. I bet you was giving some man hell.” Anita retorted, smacking my left hip.

“I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t.” I laughed slapping five with Crys.

“You already know. Mama ain’t raise no fools.”

“She raised pretty women.”

“Beautiful women of great shape.”

“Big girls do it best dooooooeeee.” Crys returned back to her dance.

“Do the stanky leg while you at it, loser.”

“Chu a hater. Get yo life. Come on Mi-, I mean Jo. Let me show you around the house.”

Crys turned on her heel, leading the way. Anita and I followed with a shared look at each other. Crys almost slipped up.

Vic

I finally got Jay to calm down so that we could go head out for dinner. Zach told us to take the rest of the day off. That got Jay’s attention real quick. I went to my locker to grab my shit before meeting Jay out front. Once we got everything, we hopped into his whip and was out. Jay wasn’t much for material possessions, but his ride was the flyest thing ever. He had a 1974 Chevy Impala that was jet black with a light gold trim. The rims were almost diamond like coated with specks of gold. He wasn’t a fan of spinners though. The interior on the inside was butter pecan brown with black on the head rest. He built this baby from the ground up after buying it from this guy named Robby Jenkins, who owned a little junk shop a few blocks from our apartment complex. It was a wreck. His mom told him not to waste the money, but Jay wasn’t hearing it. But after he fixed that bad boy up, his mom changed her mind. She wanted to drive it more than him. I grinned as I connected my phone to his stereo. Did I mention the sound in this baby? His speakers were bomb, turn them up to full volume and you can hear the music a few towns away.