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"Nami" was the first thing Namiko Amor Williams heard at 6:00 am. Her cousin Edot was calling her from his room.
"wassup gang"
Edot looked at her confused, his 9 year old little baby cousin surely was not calling him gang.
"Namiko amor, yo why u talking like that"Nami could admit living in detroit her whole life until now, she was going to have to pick up on the lingo.
"Chill Dotty, what do you want from me tho"
"Hit the deli on your way to school tell the ock i sent you" Edot hooked her up and paid for her to get a bacon egg and cheese cause he knew the girl would be leaving at the last second. He remembered her pops would always call and say she was running late.
Nami got sent to live with Edot in Harlem because of his terminal illness. She never really knew her mother, her father called her a "Domi wanch" She knew one day she was giving her father the business, got knocked up, dropped her off on her grandmothers porch, and disappeared. For all Nami knew this was her only family.
When Nami nodded indicating she heard her older cousin she began to start getting ready. After all it would take her the entire hour.
"yo Dotty lemme borrow your whip for the day. Please, baba said my car won't be here until thursday." Although Nami was young, she had been driving for years, she was the one who got her father to and from the hospital in Michigan.
"aight, you wreck my whip, i'm taking ya life. gangsta" Nami rolled her eyes at his dramatics, she checked the time one last time and left. She knew NYC traffic was crazy even if she had only been there for a couple months since her father was full time in the hospital bed.
With that she left the house and parked her car on the side street facing a stop sign to the "deli" as everyone called it in new york. she stopped in towards the counter "are you ock?" She heard little giggles and quickly turned around to see who was laughing at her. She saw a slightly taller light skin boy with his hair all down in a green varsity jacket and 2 other light skins with twists.
She turned back around to see the man she questioned in front of her now laughing at her too.
"you not from here are you, my heart?" Nami looked down in slight embarrassment and pushed up her thick brimmed square black glasses, she thought they was fire but right now they seemed to swallow her entire face. "i'm THE ock but i'm really mr. ramirez, in this area if they ever say go see the ock, look for me. Now what can i get you my heart."
"Dotty. I mean Edot sent me. He said go to the corner store and say that" Mr. Ramirez got her bacon egg and cheese that was freshly made and handed to her. "go get a bev, we got the calipso's on deck, dotty told me you like them."
Nami silently obliged grabbing her breakfast sandwich silently thanking him. When she turned around those 3 lights skins still looking at her. She didn't acknowledge them at all. She just walked past in a shy poster making sure she didn't forget the keys on the counter to get in the car.
Once she arrived back in the car she turned on summer walker and tried to tell herself to have a good day.
