Admiration

Chapter 2

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I'm happy the few who read the first chapter enjoyed it ( I hoped) . Here is the second :) . Enjoy 🫶🏾.

LAX airport...

Dragging my suitcase out of the airport with one AirPod in listening to music. When I reached outside I look around for my cousin's car. I looked around for a black Mercedes Benz and heard a honk two cars down. My little cousin Renée stepped out of the car and opened her arms out to hug me as I rolled my way towards her. I hugged her tight, kissing her cheek repeatedly.

"I missed you KJ" she said once we let go. She opened her trunk and took my luggage while I put my book bag in the back seat. "I missed you more née (nay)" I said as we both got inside of the car.

I truly did miss my cousin. She was my everything aside from my grandmother. I was just coming back to our shared home in LA from working with a client out in Houston. Now I'm on a very long break to work on myself since I've been in an eternal struggle with myself for the past few weeks and I think I need one.

"How was this client, I hope they were better then the last one" she said while side eyeing me. I chuckled when she brought up my last client. He definitely was a dick and deserved the decision he got while I tried to represent his bitch ass in court. "No, this client was much better. The judge was on her side the whole trial since the beginning so there really wasn't much fighting on her part" I said as she hummed. "What do you wanna do for your first day back in town?" She asked when we stopped at a red light. I shrugged, "I don't know. I really just want to chill" I said leaning back. She nodded, "maybe we could have a girls day. We would need to go to the store for allat" she said making a face causing me to chuckle.

After going to the shop and getting some snacks, we made it to our penthouse. While I was putting away my clothes, I got a phone call interrupting the music I had playing. I looked to see it was my grandmother and answered it immediately knowing I was about to get cussed out for not calling her when I landed hours ago.

"Hello" I answered already bracing myself. "Little girl, do I need to catch a flight to you and beat your ass because I know I told yo little hardheaded ass to call me as soon as your god given legs touched down" my grandmother ranted. "I'm so sorry grandma. I got caught up with née and it completely slipped my mind to call you. My fault" I told her hoping she could forgive and forget. I heard her grunt, "don't let it happen again or I'm catching the very next flight to you and kicking both of y'all asses" she said and hung up on me before I can even tell her I loved her.

Rude.

I love my granny to pieces but she is also mean as shit. Thats could be where my sperm down got his anger but I don't care for that man.

I looked back to see Renée coming into my room. "Granny just called threatening to fly down here and beat our asses because I forgot to call her" I said chuckling and jumping on the bed next to her. She laughed out loud, "you know granny don't play that shit. She from the hood and it don't matter who you are, you can catch that smoke from her" she cackled. We sat and watched movies while munching on snacks the whole night until we passed out halfway through Friday.

The next morning...

"Kira...psttt Kiraaaa" I heard while my shoulder was being pushed repeatedly. I opened my eyes a little to see Renée standing over me. "What née damn" I said rolling over and hurrying my head into the pillow. "I have a client out in the hills in like 2 hours if you wanna come. I need to run to the hair store and grab a new rat tail comb" she said. I nodded, barley hearing what she said. "I'll come back in like an hour to come get you ight?" She asked walking out of my room and I made a noise signaling an okay.

I laid there for about 10 minutes more before I decided to get up and take a shower. After I was done I threw on some shorts and a crop top then taking my braids out from my bonnet and fixing my edges. I put on some light makeup and a pair of Yeezy's. By the time I was done, I got a text from née saying she was outside. I grabbed my purse then went to her car after locking the door.

"Heyyy" she said as soon as I got in. "Heyyy" I told her the same way as she started to pull off. "So who is this client that's living out in the hills Ms ma'am?" I asked her. "Girl it's a big artist. They have a family function tomorrow and wanted they hair to be done. It isn't nothing big, just some knotless braids" she said. I nodded knowing we were gonna be here for at least six hours.

We conversed a bit until we pulled up to this big ass house. "Damn I would have thought this bitch was a school" she said grabbing her bag from the back. She slung it over her shoulder as she texted the client saying we were outside. The gate in front opened and we walked in. "Whoever hair you doing must got big bank because this house big as hell" I said as we walked to the door. When we ranged the doorbell, a lightskin boy opened the door. He stared at me for a few seconds and I did the same until née spoke up breaking the staring contest. "Hey I'm here for Kelly Rowland?" She asked. "Yeah this my aunty house. She's in the living room" he said eyeing me again and titling his head signaling us to follow him.

When we made it to the living room, we saw thee Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé, Solange, and Ms. Tina sitting there chatting. Shit, that's why ole lightskin boy looked familiar. It's fuckin Jules. I haven't seen this family in years. I could hear my heart beating in my ears as everyone turned to stare at us. Kelly jumped up and hugged Renée while everyone else eyed me. When the two broke Renée turned to me, "this is my cousin Akira. I brought her with me I hope that's ok?" She asked and Kelly smiled and nodded, "that's fine, Renée. Nice to meet you Akira" she said shaking my hand as I smiled, "nice to meet you too" I said.

Renée started to set up her stuff while I helped her separate the hair. Bey and Solo were still eyeing me. I would have spoke up and said something but my anxiety was on 1000 so I kept my head down until a significant amount of hair was separated. I went to sit down and pulled out my computer until Jules sat next to me and eyed me again. I decide to speak up even though my anxiety was on a all time high.

"You still have a staring problem after all these years, huh Jules?" I asked after turning to him. He chuckled a bit, "Not really. I just wanted to see how long you think you could keep some kind of low profile coming into my aunty house and not speak up" he said looking smug. I smirked and opened my arms for a hug. He hugged me and chuckled again when I rubbed the back of his head. When we let go, everyone was staring at us. "I knew that was yo ass KJ" Solange said getting up and tackling me. I chuckled and hugged her back. Bey still eyed me until I got up and hugged her close while kissing her cheek.

"Hi BB" I said when she finally hugged me back. "You lucky I don't beat your ass KJ" she said once we let go. "I'm sorry. It's just, it's been a few years since I seen y'all and I didn't know what to say" I said after I hugged Ms. Tina. "Girl I don't care how long it's been, you speak when you see us you hear me?" She said. I nodded, "yes ma'am"

We all caught up after not seeing each other in years until Bey spoke up. "We having a family cookout tomorrow KJ, the girls should be there. You two should come" she said. Me and Née shared a look and nodded.

"We'll be there" I said.

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