The narrative centers on a young African American man named Max Knight who relocates to San Francisco with aspirations of pursuing a career in journalism. However, his circumstances take an unforeseen turn when he encounters his new cohabitant, Kati...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN - FAIRYTALE OF SAN FRANCISCO Katie POV
A whole week passed of having this massive regret from the accident that cost the relationship that I had with Max ever since he moved to San Francisco and very caring about my son. I wish can travel back in time when I made this stupid action of kissing Max without his consent before doing that but I know that I will have the same outcome either way. But this wasn't the first time that I did something with someone that I had a close relationship without their consent.
It was the day after my high school graduation and one of my niece's (let's call her, Raven) parents were having a party for their daughter's graduation. They decide to invent me to the graduation party so I stole my mother's car while she was sleeping with her tenth boyfriend and doing some weird kink stuff that I don't want to know. Anyways, when I went to the graduation party where a lot of high schoolers were at the party with their families and I saw Raven talking to a cute guy that I had a huge crush on back then (also Raven's boyfriend but I did not know at this moment).
After one hour of just partying all night, Raven decide to play Spin the Bottle with herself, my crush, and her four girlfriends, and no surprise she chose me. We were sitting on the floor in a closed circle with no gaps between us and Raven place the empty Pepsi glass bottle in the middle.
"Let the game begin, kiddos.", Raven said in a sinister and corny way. "Who wants to go first?"
In the eighth round of this spicy game of Spin the Bottle, it was Beth the mean one in Raven's friend group and everybody hated at high school so this will be great. "I will choose you, Katie. Ms. Popular." Beth was looking at me. "Then, I pick...Garth." Garth was the boy that I had a crush and a boyfriend to Raven.
This spicy game become even more spicier. Me and Garth were looking at each other with confusion in our eyes and these thoughts in our head that this will have dangerous consequences in our lives. "Time is ticking. If one of y'all ain't moving when the timer hit zero, the game will be over and no one wants that. Also, you have to do it in front of everyone."
We sat across from each other so there wasn't close enough and there were a huge number of people sitting around us, it meant that they will tell rumors about this night. Beth counted down by five with her fingers and mouthing the numbers so tension went off the roof and everybody waited for one of us to make a move. For no particular reason, I crawl across the circle to Garth that who sitting next to Raven on the right side but I wasn't thinking of how this will affect my relationship with Raven and her with Garth. The only thing that I am thinking about in my head, that thought was I want to go home and forget about this night.
And the rest is history. During my shallowing hours, I tried countless times of calling or sent a message to Max but he never hit me back so that me a little bit concerned about him. Because I have this mothering side that many mothers had, this side of me was imagining my world without Max and how my life would have changed if I never met my neighbor. But something that I didn't expect this person to call me again for all these years or even remember my phone number. When I saw the name of the person below their number.
