Fallon
2012.
At the mere age of 14, there wasn't much you could tell me. I was practically grown. Living with my dad and brother, being the only female in the house was hard but I made it work.
"Daddy I'm about to head out." I said applying lip gloss. He looked over my outfit which consisted of a mini skirt, and crop top showing off my bellybutton ring and some high top chucks.
"Not like that, cover yourself." He said turning the pages in his newspaper. Rolling my eyes I said turning around walking down the hall past my brothers room.
"You heard the man, get your hot ass up them steps and put on a turtle neck!" My brother Fabian yelled from his room. He thought he was dad too, but he was only 4 years older than me.
"Shut up!" I yelled back.
Going into my room I fell out on my bed.
Pulling out my phone I called my two best friends, Sevyn and Jontavious on three way.
"Talk to me." Jon said into the phone. He was such a damn hand full. It took my brother and dad awhile to get used to the fact that I was hanging around a gay boy. But this year we'd be in high school, and I knew he would have my back cus one thing Jon doesn't do is play.
"Where are you Fal? The party is about to start!" Sevyn screamed in the phone over the loud music in her background. She was such a mom. She had to complain about everything, but she kept us both in line. I often had to remind her that mom was long gone and that I didn't need a female telling me what to do.
"My dad just made me change, so I'm running behind." I said pulling on a body suit instead of my crop top.
"Change for what?" Jon asked.
"Said I was showing too much." I mocked.
"Girl that's always, they just hating on you. Try and hurry, if it gets too dark your brother will have to walk you over here, and he really be blocking." Sevyn said. She was right, I needed to hurry.
"I'm hurrying." I said. "See y'all in a few." I said hanging up quickly.
After I was finished dressing I ran back down the stairs.
"Can I go now daddy?" I asked.
He looked at me over his glasses and nodded in approval.
"Yes you may. But the street lights are on, your brother will walk you over to Sevyn's." He said.
"No daddy, he'll embarrass me." I whined.
"Either he walks or you don't go." He said sternly.
"Fabian let's go, I'm ready!" I yelled to him.
Coming out of his room, he mugged me walking out the front door.
Walking down the street he kept looking around.
"Boy you looking more and more like your daddy everyday." I said pushing him.
"And you looking just like your damn momma." He argued and I mugged him. I couldn't even remember what she looked like. I couldn't remember anything about her except that she left us, and that was enough to make me not want to think about her ass again.
"Sorry Fal, but you know as your big brother I gotta look out for you. Summer is almost over and you'll be going to high school. You coming into yourself and then lil niggas gone be trying you left and right, I need you to stay the same little level headed sister you are." He said.
"You don't have to worry Fabe, I have a boyfriend and we gone be together forever." I said smiling thinking about Rome. Me and Rome were going on a year of dating, and I think I'm in love. We were going to different high schools but I'm sure I could make it work.
"Let that lil nigga go, he is one of my corner boys and I don't want you caught up in all that. Don't make me kill him Fallon." He warned, as we approached Sevyn's house and the music was bumping from outside.
"I won't get caught up, I love you and I'll see you and daddy tomorrow." I said kissing his cheek, as I ran up the front steps of the house. Going into the house, Walk Thru x Rich Homie Quan.
While I wasn't feeling like the man, I was feeling like that bitch.
"Hey Fal."
"Hi Fallon!"
"Ooh Fallon, you wearing that skirt." People were hyping me as I walked through.
"Don't let them give you the big head, you iight." Rome said approaching me with his friends. Wrapping my arms around his neck, I kissed him.
"You wish, you know I'm fine." I said twisting my neck.
"Uh uh, yall do that later, we gotta talk." Jon said as he and Sevyn pulled me away.
"Now whose blocking?" I asked them.
"Girl get this little miss Taylor was all up on your man, we just needed you to know the spill before you went to kissing his ass." Sevyn said.
"Me? Kiss ass. Do you know who you're talking to? If he thought for one second I was somebody to play with, I'll show him." I said pulling some boy we went to school with so we could dance. Dancing with him, my friends hyped me up.
We danced and enjoyed ourselves. Now everyone was leaving and it was three of us as we sat beside the pool letting our feet dangle in the water.
"Fallon I don't know how you do it." Jon said.
"Do what?" I asked.
"The whole relationship thing. We start school in just a few short weeks. And you gone let that man ruin freshman year for you." He said.
"No I'm not, he loves me and I love him. But we just gone do our thing, it's not like we gone be at school with each other."
"Just be careful. Because I'm gone have all the boyfriend's you hear me?" Jon added.
"Mr. Steal ya man on the loose." Sevyn said and we all laughed.
"But nah real shit, I'll break up with him before I let him ruin me or change me. I'm built different."
