"Hello? I said answering the phone
"Wassup ma" a familiar voice said
"Oh hey dd, how'd you get my number?"
"Don't worry about it, I was wondering if you tryna hang tomorrow"
"Hang? Where"
"Ionk maybe the movies"
"Movies? How about we go to an arc...
"Yeah guys we've been in the car for three hours already" Leah said sitting in the passengers seat complaining to the camera.
"The drive from Chicago to New York is literally 12 hours" I complained while driving.
Me and Leah were on our way to our new apartment in New York. Me and Leah make music , I have 3 songs out and Leah has 2 and we both do YouTube. We've become pretty popular and felt like there weren't a lot of opportunities for us in Chicago.
We begged my dad for us to live somewhere else but he told us to wait til we're 18, but who knows if we'll still be relevant at that time. We have an aunt who lives in New York who were very close with and her and my dad agreed for us to get an apartment in the same complex as my aunt. Most kids parents wouldn't let them do that but ours was different.
When I was born my dad didn't know about me until my mom left me at his doorstep with a note reading "This is your daughter, I don't want her and didn't have enough money for an abortion so she's your problem now"
1 year later she came back and apologized and promised to be in my life, she left again and 9 months later dropped off Leah with the exact same letter. She never came back after that and it's always sort of hurts me. I try not to think about it a lot but sometimes I can't help it.
My dad did a good job with us growing up but he wasn't the perfect dad. He never planned on having kids so me and Leah being thrown on him was hard. He was there when we wanted to go have water fights and things, but when we needed emotional help, and real structure it wasn't his strong suit. I could never blame him for my pain though, because at least he stayed around, unlike my mom.
"Can we pull over and get some food please" Leah asked me, "Uhm yeah what do you want" I questioned back. "Hmm maybe McDonald's" I pulled over at the nearest exit and we ordered our food.
9 Hours Later | Sugarhill, NY 5:46 pm
We were about 10 minutes from our apartment and Leah was asleep. "Leah" I said trying to tap her awake "Wake up we're almost here."
"mm I'm up" she said fluttering her eyes open. As we are pulling up I saw there was a group of boys sitting in the stair infront of the apartment.
"Oh my gosh, look at those boys, they're kinda cute" Leah said "Yes bru, and I'm wearing comfort clothes, getting out is gonna be be embarrassing" I said
There were two lightskin boys and a brownskin with curly hair. There was also a brownskin girl who looked sort of familiar.
"Wait that's Naliea" I said parking infront of the building " Yeah that is"
Naliea was a friend we followed on Instagram who I texted every once in a while. We never met in person but we're pretty good friends.
We got out the car and grabbed out bags out the back seat. I had to pull out this tight ass wedgy I had from sitting in that car forever. please don't let these boys think I'm digging in my ass.
We had moved most of our stuff in the apartment during thanksgiving and Christmas break so we only had one bag to carry each.
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