Sisters of Inglewood (completed)

Chapter 11

Rochelle

I hated having Blue's nasty sweaty ass on top of me. He pumped a few more times and was finally done. He was too young for him to take so long. It felt like forever. He sat on the edge of his bed wiping his back with a towel. I slid my sundress over my head. He got up and dug in his pants pocket pulling out a wad of cash rolled up in a rubber band. He threw it at me and I got my things and left.

I know what you're thinking. What a hoe. I got my reasons behind this though. I don't want my family to want for nothing, and I don't wanna have to depend on other people to support us, if I have to have sex with my boss to get a couple thousand dollars than so be it. Them lil 2 nights a week wasn't cutting it anyways. However I still left around 9 o'clock at night every night except Saturday and Sunday. I didn't want my sisters wondering where the money was coming from, and I damn sure didn't need Mikey questioning me. We got closer these past two weeks and he would come over a lot. I appreciate him though for real, I don't know what I would do without him.

I sat in my room with bills piled up. I couldn't believe this was crashing down on me like this. Rent, electricity, water, cable, internet, and groceries. It was too much and I was barely making it. I wanted my sisters and I to have the best. No matter where we lived, whoever walked in our apartment would think we were ballin.

I started crying. It was so stressful and I just needed a blunt. Bad! I sat my head in my hands and just let the tears flow.

"Chelle... I need to talk to you." Ronnie came busting in my room.

She knew better.

"Not now Ronnie!" I said annoyed wiping my face.

"Sorry... sorry." She said and left out.

I sighed. I needed a break.

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"I think something's going on with Ronnie Mike. I think that boy is fucking with her head." I said laying on the couch next to Mikey.

"Why you say that?" He asked looking at me.

"I don't know for sure Mikey, It's just the way she acts. Her life revolves around him. She's never around us anymore. Then with Seiko, she's been mia... I just don't know what's going on with my sisters." I said shrugging.

"Look Ro a smart girl, and she go do what she wanna do. Homeboy know better. Unless he trying to get fucked up. And as far as Seiko go... homie ain't never act like that, maybe something bothering her." He said.

"You think!" I looked at him.

Seiko walked in with her head low. She been working overtime a lot and I miss seeing my lil sister.

"Wassup Koko!" Mikey said beating me to speaking.

"Hey Ko." I said rolling my eyes at him.

"Wassup y'all." She said walking past not looking up.

She went in her room and closed the door. That wasn't like her at all, Seiko was always talking and loved Mikey. She would be done dapped him up and everything by then. She just walked passed though.

He looked at me weird. I raised my eyebrow up. I got up and went to her room. I knocked on her door and she didn't answer. I opened the door anyways. She was laying in the bed with the cover over her head.

"Ko you alright?" I asked walking in closing the door.

She didn't answer me. I walked over and lifted the cover up and she pulled it back to her face.

"Just leave me alone, alright!" She yelled from under the cover.

I was kind of caught off guard.

"I'm here Seiko." I said patting the cover and getting up to walk out.

Seiko never has done that to me. She never shut me out and to be honest I didn't know what to do. I was going through my own situation and trying to keep my sisters together, times like this I wish my parents were alive.

"What she say?" Mike asked as I walked into the living room.

"She won't talk to me." I sat back on the couch.

"Seiko tripping, she must be tired from work or something." He said shrugging.

"She has been working a lot, should I go talk to her boss or something? Maybe see if everything's okay?" I raised my eyebrows up at him.

"I don't know, that might fuck up her money flow you know. Just give her a lil time and if things don't shake, go see about her." He said looking at his phone.

"I gotta go." He kissed my forehead and  got off the couch. "Where lil munchkin at?"

"Somewhere with her boyfriend." I said shrugging and getting up to lock the door behind him.

"Aight tell her don't get homeboy fucked up!" He said throwing something on the couch. "I'll be back later."

I closed the door and walked to the couch to see what it was. Of course, a wad of money. I rolled my eyes and put it in the drawer where I always kept the money he gave us. I would always give it back but it would end up back here, and Ronnie's slick self think I didn't know she was taking money out the drawer.