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⚣ Chapter One 12 years ago
𝐀 young boy approaches a young girl peacefully playing in the sandbox "You are very prwtty!" he shouts causing the poor girl to jump she turns to see a short brown haired boy smiling wide with a missing front tooth.
"Tank you wanna play?" The young boy's eyes widened as he ran from around her and sat down on the sand in front of the young girl "I'm Niya I just turn 5!"
She hands her doll to the young boy "My names Conner Im 6!" he smiles.
"Niya?" A boys voice spoke from behind Connor "Where'd you go? momma's looking for you." the little girl pouts.
"Aww but I wanna play with my fwiend!" Connor turns to the person behind him and looks up the bright sun blinds him. He only sees the silhouette of the older boys face.
The older boy tilts his head "Who are you?" he questions. Connor swallows hard before letting out a quiver "My na-name is Conner..." The boy stares hard at the younger before reaching his arm out to his sister.
"Let's go." Niya lets out grumbles of protests but follows she grips his hand and stood from the sandbox. The boy helps her down the box and dusts her dress "Bye Connor!" the girl waves as she runs over to her mother.
The older boy looks back at Connor rolling his eyes as he followed his younger sister.
Connor sat alone and upset still holding on to Niya's doll he released a sigh. "Connor!" he looks up to see his mother waving him over "It's time to head home!"
"Okay Mom!" He stood up with the doll and ran over to his mother's side. He stood close to her side as they walked to the playground parking lot. A Black car is paralleled park beside the park the car door was open to Niya sitting comfortably in her booster seat.
Connor gasped immediately running to the car "Connor!" his mother calls out. Connor stood outside beside the open car door "Niya you forgot your dolly!" he hands the doll to her.
Niya smiles "Tank you." she reaches her arms over hugging Connor. He smiles softly his cheeks turning red "You're welcome!"
Connors mother catches up to Connor apologizing to the woman inside the car. The woman laughs not upset by the younger boy's action "Don't apologize honey, he only wants to play." his mother agreed smiling at the adorable interaction between her son and this young girl.
"I'm Beth Reed, Connor's mother." she introduces "Kisha Hall mother of Niya, my son should be near by..." the woman exchanged conversations. Ms. Hall recently moved to California from Texas with her 11 year old son and 5 year old brother.
Her snd Mrs. Reed shared many interests so much so when they decided to exchange phone numbers and set up a playdate between their young children. The women were too occupied to notice Kisha Hall older son "I bought the ice cream." the older boy chimes in.
"Oh Malik! meet Mrs. Reed and her little boy!" He smiled kindly at Beth "Hi ma'am nice to meet you!" she nods "How respectful, very nice to meet you Malik" he gives a cone of strawberry ice cream to his mother.
Malik walks over to the open back passenger seat to where his baby sister sat "NiNi you still want your ice cream?" Niya eagerly brought her hands up Malik smiles lovingly at her giving her the rocky road cone of ice cream. She licks the sweet dessert as their mothers wrapped up their conversation Niya holds out the ice cream to Connor.
"Taste?" Connor nods smiling wide but when he tried to grab the cone Malik stops her. "Just take mine." he gives the younger boy his cone. Connor hesitates but accepts his eyes darts back and forth from him to Niya he nervously ate the caramel drizzle vanilla ice cream.
"Connor sweetheart we're leaving." Connor waves goodbye to Niya avoiding the noticeable glare coming from her brother. He runs up to his mother holding her hand while still enjoying his dessert in the other. A car door closes as Niya's black car speed down the street disappearing with the upcoming vehicles.
There he stood wishing it wasn't the last time he met Niya...
8 years later
Connor sat on Niya's bed the two decided to walk home together to complete some school work that they failed to finish. "I'm officially going to fail eighth grade." she complained as she brought her head down.
Connor shook his head "It's really not that hard." before he could finish the door to her room creaked open a head sticks in "NiNi?" a low voice calls out causing her to stick her head up with a large smile on her face.
"Ali!" she stood from her chair and runs up to her older brother "You're staying!?" His smile slowly disappeared as he let out a small sigh "Actually no... I changed my ticket I'm leaving for basic training tonight." Connor sat in silence as he watched the Niya's grip around Maliks waist tightened.
"I'll be back I promise! don't start with the tears." A muffled sniffle is heard "You know how I feel about you crying..." Malik spook in a soft tone Connor watched their interaction with his mouth spread apart he isn't used to seeing him so kind and gentle.
Around Connor Malik is protective over his baby sister. He holds this tough persona as if no one should fuck with him. Sitting in between them, leaving her door wide open, death stares, snarky remarks, kicking him around. But right now he had that persona locked away not even paying Connor any sort of attention.
Niya pulls away and stood on the tips of her toes pecking Malik on the cheek. "You should go pack, I need to finish some school work with Connor." she smiles as her brother wiped a tear from her eye. Malik looks up at Connor with those familiar cold eyes that caused him to look away.
Her door closed followed by the sound of her bed creaking as Niya sat close to Connor placing her head on his shoulder. "Will you be okay?" he asks concerned for her wellbeing. Niya looks up at Connor and smiles pulling him into a small kiss "I still have you."
Connor blushed nervously running his hands down her back...
