Nobody's Business

Chapter One

"Hey Ma, I'm coming up there next week." Shyla told her mother.

"Oh so you know you got family?" Karen asked her daughter.

"Yeah Ma I know, I just didn't want to be running up there every chance I got because then I would have never gotten use to being on my own."

"So I guess you finally got the hang of it, after three years." Karen says to Shyla and she starts laughing.

"Yeah I finally got the hang of it."

"Well, what day you coming?" Karen wanted to know, so that she could get the family together for her baby girl's return.

"I don't know. I got finals this week, so I might come at the end of next week."

"Okay we'll be ready."

Shyla gets off the phone with her mother and starts thinking about everybody in the Chi. She came to Atlanta by herself, three years ago, at the young age of eighteen to go to college, and she hasn't went back since. This visit is long overdue and she can't wait to see everyone. Just as she comes out of her daydream her phone rings.

"Hello," she answers the phone.

"Hey Shy." Her boyfriends' best friend said.

"Wuz up Tray?"

"Nothing much just tryna get ready for this trip to the Chi."

"Why all ya'll going?" She asked, in an annoyed tone.

"Cuz we wanna go. What you ashamed of us?" He laughed.

"No."

"Yeah right, don't worry yo family ain't gone see us." Tray told her while chuckling.

"Yeah right you think everybody gotta know you."

"That's cuz I'm Tray."

"Yeah well Tray, D ain't here," Shyla reminded him.

"Don't you think I know that, I was calling to talk to you."

"Oh," Shyla said knowing that he wanted something.

"Oh, so you don't want to talk to me now?" Tray asked in a low tone like his feelings were hurt.

"Shut up boy." Shyla said laughing.

"You ready to go back home?" he said, trying to stall for time.

"Yeah, I ain't seen them in a while, I think two weeks will be enough to last me for another three years." Shyla said thinking about her friends and family at home.

"They that bad?" Tray asks while laughing.

"Not really, but every family has their bad ones."

"True that, cuz my family is horrible."

"I'm sure they act just like you." Shyla says sarcastically.

"Yeah a'ight." Tray laughed.

"Tray what the heck you want?" She asked him getting tired of beating around the bush.

"I can't call and talk to you?" He said still trying to play it off.

"Yeah, but I know that's not why you called, so tell me what you want."

"A'ight man. What's up with D, he's been tripping all week."

"What you mean he been tripping?" Shyla questioned him.

"Man he been going crazy, snapping on people out the blue." Tray said wanting to know what was going on.

"Tray what month is this?" Shyla asked him trying to get him to remember.