Wanted

New life

I wanted a family and thought I had it at one point in my life, but now I'm living with my best friend and his family. I have been living with them since I was 13-So 5 years already. Woah.

There are a lot of pros to living with them, I get to go on vacation, multiple houses and cars, the main house is enormous and the best part is they take care of me. I'm 18 now and Marcello and I are both seniors.

We're best friends. I met him when my sister started dating his brother when we were younger at a dinner party but as we grew up we also grew apart.

A light knock on my door wakes me, I turn around facing the door as it opens. Kendi, my older sister with a big smile runs to jump on my bed to give me a hug.

I love it when she and Loreno come see me when they can they're out of college and traveling around for Lorenzo's basketball career.

"Hey, girl! I missed you so much." Kendi says squeezing me

"Kendi you're killing me," I said

She gets off of me and sat on me grabbing my hands and pulling them closer to her belly.

"You can't feel anything right now because they're sleeping right now but you are going to be an aunt again  girly." She says

I smiled, and gave her a hug.

"You, Marcello, Lorenzo and their mom are the only ones who know right now, so don't tell anybody, not even Renae." She says demanding

Ranae is the five years old they had in college. I don't even know why she would tell me that like I would tell a child or something

I nod

I look at the door it was Lorenzo and Mama were looking at us smiling, Lorenzo got on the bed and gave me a hug.

"Aren't you excited you're going to be an aunt again baby?' Mama says to me

"Yeah." I answered

Mama is Lorenzo and Marcello's mom but ever since I moved in permanently I started calling her Mama, Also that's when my own mother basically abandoned me for a man to be "happy" she signed all her rights to me to my sister and mama and left with him, though she still calls to check up on me and say she'll be back so we could spend time together like the old days but I don't answer half of the time because I left all that in the past when she decided to not want me anymore.
While my supposed dad is in Florida with his new wife and then my biological dad is back in my life it was weird at first but now I see him every two weeks.

"Buggy how you feel about being a senior now?" Lorenzo says messing with my morning hair

Buggy is my nickname that Lorenzo gave me a few years ago because he says I have bug eyes. I don't know if that is an insult or a compliment.

Before I could answer Marcelo comes in my doorway

"Get ready Imani or we're going to be late." He says to me, throwing a shirt at me.

"Take your time , I'll take you two to school." Lorenzo says getting up

"Um no." Marcelo's replies

"Relax Marcello, it's just one day." Lorenzo says going to Marcello then putting him in a headlock playfully.

While he tries to get out of Lorenzo's arms I go into my bathroom and get ready for the day.

It didn't take me long to get ready. I went downstairs and again Lorenzo and Marcello were in the living room wrestling. They always do this when he comes to visit. I went into the kitchen sitting down at the island table eating pancakes. The bacon was already prepared for me the way I like it.

Augusto and Raffaele were at the house to visit, I'm glad Augusto and Lorenzo are finally in a good place now. Augusto is my favorite since he lives in NYC and he took me there once before for my birthday and he sends me and Marcello gifts but do not tell Lorenzo I said that.

"Where's Rachel?" I asked

"She went back home for the week." He said staring at his phone

Rachel has been home lately. I'm starting to think he is lying and something else happened.

The boys walked into the kitchen as Marcello sits next to me to eat his waffles.

"I can't believe you let him get all those tattoos mom." Raffaele says crossing his arms shaking his head

"He wanted to express his creativity and relax, it's only a few." Mama says getting Kendi tea

A few is an understatement. Once Marcello turned 17 he decided to get tattoos and a lot of them he almost has a sleeve at his age.

"Half of them are Imani art dipshit." Marcello says, sticking his middle finger up.

Raffaele rolls his eyes

"Hurry up y'all let's take your guys first last day pictures." Mama says clapping grabbing the camera walking out the front door.

"Yeah I have to catch my own plane back to NY." Augusto says behind mama

We walked outside so they could take me and Marcello's pictures. He was not happy with taking pictures. He said it was childish but Lorenzo braided him and threatened him with money to take them behind mama.

I hugged my siblings and got into the car in the back with Marcello while Kendi and Lorenzo in the front to drive us to school.

Marcello has three cars but from Augusto rules he grounded because he crashed his old one.

We drove off and headed to school.

As we drove out the driveway I didn't know my life after this would be crazier than it has ever been...