Blessed (gxg)✔️

10. Big Things

Shawnee's POV

Each passing day feels longer in the colder months. When it's cold, it's darker and cloudier. It makes me a lot more sluggish from the lack of sun, especially when I'm lifting boxes all day like I am right now, working a double shift. The artificial light gives me a headache as I drop the next box and get in the lift machine.

Mechanical whirring, buttons clicking, levers shifting- the sounds fill my ears for the next few hours. I work hard, packing and checking stuff off a list that the manager gave me before I take my second break and pull out my phone to check my messages. One catches my attention and tells me where I'm headed after work.

I call Trina letting her know I'll be late coming home. "Why?" she asks for the third time as I work my way around how I'll answer her.

"Uhhh visiting a friend." I struggle to say. I don't want to get specific but I don't want to say why I'm seeing Princess without knowing all the details since it seemed urgent.

"Mmcht. You got me fucked up." She hangs up. I sigh and put away my phone after texting her one more time.

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I knock on Princness' door with a heavy sigh. I'm nervous as shit right now. It's just weed, why she acting like it's an emergency? She takes a few minutes to open up but when she does, I feel bad for her.

"What happened?" I ask Princess who's crying hysterically.

She pulls me inside and I notice two other girls with her, eating snacks on her bed as she gets back in. Neither are crying but they're comforting her. My confusion isn't solved and I've never seen these women before in person, but I know they're her best friends or something.

"You saw." Princess mumbles, laying her head on the one in a pretty blonde wig.

"Uh yeah but shit if it makes sense. You didn't give me much to go on." I sit on the corner of the bed, not sure what to do while taking out the big ass bag of weed she asked for.

"Just stressing and I like you versus my other plug who's always in my damn business without my permission."

"Well damn Shawnee, sorry if her telling you she's pregnant is inconveniencing you." The dark haired, caramel skinned one to her right rolls her eyes, coming at me out of nowhere. My eyes pop open.

"Girl what?!" Princess laughs at my reaction for a second, shaking her head.

"She- what?"

"I didn't say all that Nix, chill. And you good on that by the way." she directs to me.

I mug her friend and slowly turn my head to Princess.

"Why she calling me like she know me?" I ask, looking the friend up and down. Princess lets out a soft laugh.

"Sorry, she's just mad for me cause the babydaddy was acting a fool. You good." She says and I nod but then pause.

"Wait, why you texting me like I'm involved in this shit? 'I need to talk to you and bring weed' headass. Had my heart thumping like I did something at work." I laugh and fall back, propping my head up on my arm, turning my head to the left to look at them. Princess laughs again.

"My bad, I just needed some weed cause I need to get out my feelings." She reaches out to take the bag and gives me money for it. After taking a big sniff of the bag she talks again, "the one mugging you is Nix, the one being soft is Kadijah." she introduces her friends then me to them.

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"So you okay?" I ask, now in the rotation as I snack a bit on their snacks. Princess takes a big sigh and nods.

"Yeah. I'm not keeping it but it definitely gave me a reality check on some things. I hope you understand if I'm not calling you for a sneaky link anymore. I need to focus on myself a bit more." She takes the blunt, pulling a few times.