Apollo and Blade

Chapter fifteen

Sorry for any mistakes🖤

Apollo-

I'm seeing a different side of Blade, he's nervous and genuinely scared. He's been lost in thought for a minute and to bring him back I placed my hand on his back slowly rubbing it trying to calm him down. I was going to stay in the car, but he begged me to come to the door with him and since I hate saying no, I came along. Blade took a deep breath and knocked after our 10 minute stand here.

"Blade, that was a soft knock, they didn't hear that."

Blade sucked his teeth and knocked again. This time it was softer than the last. He be banging on my door like he got no sense, but now he don't know how. I brought my hand up and firmly knocked on the door. Blade panicked before straightening himself up when he heard foot steps. Just as the door opened he pushed my hand away and made some distance between us.

Well then.

The door fully opened revealing a little brown skin girl. I'm guessing she's his sister by the way his face lit up at the sight of her and not only that, she looks exactly like him. She slowly looked up and screamed in shock when she saw Blade standing there with the biggest smile I've ever seen him with. She opened the screen door and ran to Blade who swiftly picked her up into a hug.

"I missed you, I missed you, I missed you, Blade."

"I missed you too, Blair."

Their mom and dad rushed to the door alerted by their daughters scream. When they got to the door they stood in shock. Blade leaned over to the side a bit, because Blair was blocking his view, to see his parents at the door. His parents looked at each other, spoke with their eyes, then looked back at Blade which resulted in a stare down. It was like this for a minute before his father broke the silence, "We didn't know you were coming, Blade."

"It was a last minute decision."

Nothing else was said, they opened the door wider and invited us inside. "And who might you be?"

"Apollo, nice to meet you."

They looked me up and down then nodded their heads. It wasn't in a rude way, just as if they were trying to figure out what type of person I am. "Nice to meet you." They said simply before walking off into the kitchen. "All the food isn't done, but will you still like a plate?" His dad asked.

I politely declined. Blade did too.

"Don't be shy to ask for a plate if you get hungry." His mother smiled and his father nodded in agreement. Blair was just happily clanging onto him. "Are you Blades friend?"

"I am."

She looked over at Blade then looked back over at me. "We can be friends too!"
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"Why y'all so late?" Ram said. "Why are you minding our business?" Blade scrunched up his face and took a seat on the couch. They get a long a little bit now, they hold conversations, even if though most of them are just stupid arguments.

"I won't say nun smart. I feel like you'll shoot me." Ram held his hands up as if he was surrendering. Blade shrugged his shoulders and silently agreed with him. Everyone else has been here for about an hour, Blade and I just got here, they didn't start anything without us, surprisingly.

We sat with Blades family for a while. The second the house started to pile up with other people he wanted to leave. "Where my best friend Val at?" Ram said.

"She's at Cherry's house."

"Who the fuck is Cherry?" Xan looked around for an answer. Zyaire shyly raised his hand. "Your name not Zyaire?" Ram asked confused, "We just met and the lies already started."