The Ride

Chapter Twenty-Six

Max

Incoming Call: Raj

"Yo?" I managed to find my phone underneath the covers and answer it without opening my eyes.

"You still sleep nigga?"

I recognized it to be the voice of my best friend, Raj.

Yawning, I put him on speaker and turned on my other side,  "Bruh, it's still in the morning ain't it? The hell you calling me so early for?"

"Dude, it's 1:25 in the afternoon. The hell you talking bout," he laughed, "you must've been turnt up for real last night."

I looked at my phone screen to confirm that I had slept longer than expected. Shit, I didn't get in the bed until after four this morning. I had been up all night celebrating with Em, Drake and the rest of the house once they had made it back from Vegas. I remember posting a couple clips on my IG story of Drake and I, which was more than likely what Raj was referring to.

"Sum like that," I let out another yawn and stretched out my legs, "damn, I need to get my ass up."

"I be you love it over there, huh? In that big ass house, your own suite, women, liquor-"

"First of all, I'm in a guest room that Drake let me turn into my room-"

"Yeah, yeah but the shit has its own bathroom, a balcony my nigga. Come on," he laughed as I sat up and rested up against the headboard.

"And there's no women up in here. You know my sister don't go for that- and you know she aint letting me drink shit. Only thing I ever get is if Drake slides me something on the low."

"Speaking of your fine ass sister, he just posted a picture of her on his IG. She lookin' good. He's lucky that I had to basically let him have Em."

"You let him have her? Here you go wildin'."

"Come on now, you know that's my baby for life but imma let him do his thang cause I respect bro you feel me?"

"Shut the hell up man," I continued to laugh as I went to see what picture he was referring to.

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I went ahead and dropped a comment.

maxmikhail2: my sister is like that fr fr🔥🔥🔥

The good looks run in the family and Em most definitely embodied that effortlessly. I swear Madison gonna end up looking just like her. Aubrey was gonna have all kinds of hell, but I'll be right there with him keeping all boys away until she's 30.

I hung up with Raj so I could get my ass out of bed and get my day somewhat started. After brushing my teeth and washing my face, I threw on some sweats and headed downstairs.

As I approached the kitchen, I overheard voices that I recognized as Oliver, Niko and Aubrey.

"I think you just swab it bro. That's what the directions say."

"It says run swab firmly back and forth and up and down on the inside of your cheek for 30 seconds."

"Yeah do that with all four and make sure you drop them directly in here. We don't want no shit."

"Hey, what's up man?" I felt a hand rest firmly on my shoulder that caused me to jump. I instantly registered the voice as belonging to Chubbs, "my bad, didn't mean to scare you."

"Oh naw it's all good man. I just got up. Trying to see what everybody's up too. A lil hungry too," I patted my stomach.

"Well, shit we were just talking about firing up the grill and hanging out by the pool today," he said, rubbing his hands together, "I know Em is the the boss when it comes to cooking, but I can throw down on the grill."