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FIFTEEN

Khadijah//Dijah P.O.V.
Location- Parents' House
Time- 6:18 pm
July 28th

"Hey momma," I kiss my mom's cheek as I take a lay down next to her.

"Hi, how was work?" She asks taking her attention away from the news broadcast.

I sigh, "It was ight, a kid threw up on me though," I grimace just remembering it.

She laughs, "Hahaha, it's not funny," I frown.

"That's the job you signed up for Didi," She says.

I hold my finger up, "No, I signed up to help children not get thrown up on," I say matter-of-factly. My mom looks at my wrist before doing a double take.

"Khadijah, what is this?" She grabs my wrist examining it.

"A bracelet?" I raise my eyebrow.

"Who bought you this? This is a tennis bracelet and this looks very expensive," She exclaims.

"It was very expensive but that's not the point. And what if I bought this for myself?" I question.

"Did you buy it for yourself?" She lets go of my wrist.

I fold my lips in, "Nope," I put simply and she smirks.

"Lemme find out you got yourself a lil boyfriend," She says.

"Big boyfriend not lil one," I laugh, and she straight-faced me.

"Khadijah," She squints her eyes at me making me stop.

"My fault, but yeah he bought me two actually," I show her my other arm. When Ja went to Atlanta to go to IceBox, he got me these bracelets.

She frowns, "Why am I just now finding out about this?" She questions making me shrug. In any given situation my mom is usually one of the first people I tell. I didn't wanna tell her anything about me and Ja yet though because it's still new.

"It's new, I wanted to wait a while before telling you and dad," I put simply

"Okay, well whenever you feel ready, have him meet us. I wanna see and know who has my daughter happy and glowing," She smiles.

"I will...eventually,"
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Location- Home
Time- 9:36 pm

"Can I just say that we need to go on a vacation before my school year starts?" Amina sighs. Once again Amina was over at place, sleeping over.

"You got money for said vacation?" I raise my eyebrow.

She makes a yikes face, "Not exactly, but that's why I have an amazing family that would be willing to pay," She says hopefully and I give her a blank stare.

I laugh, "Amina, you're such a funny person," I say sarcastically.

"We could have a girls' trip, you, me, Siloe, Kimani...," She trails off.

"I'll think about it miss brokey," I say making her suck her teeth.

"Why use my money when I could use someone else's," She comments before going on her phone. I get up and go into the kitchen to get a snack.

"Can you get me hot Cheetos?!" Amina yells from the living room.

"No!" I yell back but I get them for her anyway. I get myself hot fries and get both of us a Snapple. I make my way back to the living room and plop down onto the couch. I throw the bag of hot Cheetos at her making her throw a pillow at me.

I laugh to myself, "Ouu, Ari told me about this show, it's called P-Valley. You wanna watch it?" Amina asks and I shrug.

"Why not? Put it on," I tell her, and she reaches for the controller. I open my bag of chips just as my phone started ringing. I looked at my phone to see Ja was facetiming me.