"You sure you wanna keep fucking around like this, I don't do little boy girl relationships," Spooky says starting the car and pulling out of the driveway. "Yeah, I'm sure," I say sitting quietly as he drives down the block towards my house. I didn't mean that I was okay with not having a real relationship. He pulls into my driveway parking the car. "It's just me here, my dad is gone if you want to come inside," I say leaning over and kissing spooky. "Not here, I don't want people knowing I'm here it's not safe for you." He says kissing me back before I get out of the car grabbing my things. I walk to the door going inside before Oscar leaves.
I lock the door behind me walking through the house into the bathroom throwing my dirty clothes into the laundry and sit my purse on the counter. I turn on the bathtub faucet letting the water warm up before plugging the tub and filling it with bubble bath and Epsom salt. I undress grabbing my phone off the counter sinking into the tub and playing some music off the phone. I lay back relaxing in the hot water. Looking through my missed calls, I click on a missed call from an unknown number put it on speakerphone laying it on the edge of the tub as it rings. The phone connects and I can't hear much. "Hello?" I say leaning towards the phone and glancing over the number. "Aly, what's up." His voice comes through the phone, sounding just like it used to. "What are you doing calling me!"I say frustrated snatching my phone and hearing him hush people in the background. "Just checking in on you, I heard you've been sleeping with the enemy." He says venomously. "That's none of your business, Da'vonte," I say biting back at the phone feeling rage rush over me hearing my older brother's voice. "See it is my business, you're my little sister and I find that shit disrespectful." He says his voice coming through the phone bitterly. "You're not my brother, you left me for that stupid ass little gang you're the reason I don't have out mom." I say yelling into my phone hoping I'd hit a nerve. "Watch your mouth you wouldn't speak to your bitch like that." He bites back disregarding what I had said about our mother I can hear the men around him talking shit. My older brother Da'vonte left us when he was 17 to run the streets with the prophet$, he's the reason our mother is dead and the reason he's been disowned by our family. "Leave me out of whatever twisted little game you think you're playing here." I say hanging up before giving him a chance to reply, tossing my phone away from me before submerging myself into the bath. I wash through my hair scrubbing my scalp and detangling my curls my conditioner. I empty the bath water washing the smell of spooky off my skin before rinsing my hair and getting out of the tub wrapping myself in a towel. I grab my phone and purse walking into my bedroom. I twist my hair up in a cotton wrap changing into a pair of pajamas and going to sleep.
