Welcome to the Dark

THIRTY-SIX

Khadijah//Dijah P.O.V.
Location- Parents' House
Time- 1:25 pm
A Day Later

"Hey pops," I greet my dad as I walk into the living room. Kash who was laying at his feet instantly perked up upon seeing me.

"Hi, Kash!" I smile as he practically jumped on me.

"What y'all been feeding him? He's getting big," I say as I rub his head.

"We feed him the exact same things you feed him," My dad chuckles and I nod.

"How was Cleveland?" He asks as I take a seat next to him.

"It was fun, I met a lot of cool people there," I tell him. I tell him all the details of how our weekend went before I go over to my mom and Amina.

"Didi, can you convince your mother to let me have an air bnb for my birthday and to let me get a tattoo?" Amina asks as soon as I walk into the kitchen.

"Why can't she get a tattoo?" I ask while taking a seat on the barstool and placing my purse and phone down.

"The tattoo is a possible yes," My mom answers.

"It should be a definite yes because one you let Izzy get tattoos at seventeen and Dijah got her first at sixteen. And two I already had a plan with Di for my first tattoo to be matching," Amina explains.

"I didn't give permission for Dijah to get one at sixteen, she went with Issac behind our backs," My mom crossed her arms, giving me a hard look.

"Um this isn't about me and besides that's in the past. At least Mina is waiting till she's eighteen and is asking for your permission," I say and Amina nods agreeing with me.

"Just know Ima get one regardless of what you say, momma," Amina shrugs.

"Fine Amina, you can get a tattoo, but I wanna see whatever it is before you get it," My mom points at her sternly.

"Perfect, I can do that," Amina cheeses.

"Now about this air bnb," Mina says making mom roll her eyes.

"It's just for the night momma, you can trust her," I say.

"I do trust her, but I don't trust those other kids except Niya and Ari," Mom responds.

"Qir and his friends are cool, we gone be straight," Amina says causing me to give her a look. Qir? As in Shaqir O'Neal?

"I'll think about it, you better have all the details planned out when the topic gets brought up again little girl," My mom says.

"I gotchu," Amina smiles before my mom walks away.

"Qir? Y'all are on a nickname basis now?" I turn my body to Amina who waves me off.

"It's not even like that, we're friends. He's cute and all but we're strictly friends," She states.

"Who happens to go to your top choice school," I smirk.

"Okay, I didn't know that he went there, I wasn't worried about him and I didn't even know he existed when I was looking into TSU," She defends and I nod.

"Okay little girl," I squint my eyes at her.

"Khadijah, people can have male friends without there being any romantic feelings," She says matter-of-factly.

I put my hands up in surrender, "I know that, I never said anything about there being any romantic feelings," I tell her and she hums.
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Location- Home
Time- 8:17 pm

"That chicken alfredo was buss mama, you did ya thing wit that fasho," Ja walks into his bedroom where I was watching Power Book II.

"Thank you bubs, I'm glad you liked it," I smile as he lays on top of me with his head in my chest.