𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝐍.𝐎 | ᥫ᭡

15

01/12/24- 02/04/24

3:30 pm
today was the first day the friend group was going back to school since the day the news reported Melena going missing. that's all anybody could even talk about.

"kamari, there go notti, should i go up to him?" a girl named Laniyah said to her homeboy, pointing at notti from the back of the class as she walked in. "no, nigga, what the fuck. he goin through too much for you to start bothering him again." Micah responded to her, rolling his eyes.

"here you go wit that sappy shit, bro. dat girl been gone for almost two months, she is dead. and he don't look too sad about it, he talking to that girl. i'm goin over there, idc." she shrugged with a attitude, got off the table, and began walking towards ethan.

"i'm tryna go home, hold up, im finna text my mamma." notti told Safari and pulled his phone out of his pocket. Laniyah sat in the desk in front of Notti and leaned back on her arm, arching her back. ethan looked up, "the fuck?" he mugged her. "hey, ethan." she dragged out, scooting her butt closer to her.

notti scooted his chair all the was back to the wall, jerking his head back. "gov mad fed." safari mugged Laniyah as well. "girl shut up." she rolled her eyes, getting off the table and walking closer to notti.

"who da hell you talkin to?" safari walked up to laniyah. laniyah ignored her and put her hand on nottis shoulder. "fuck off me" he said, pushing her hand off. Safari turned laniyah around and made her look at her. "you know you heard me, who you was talkin to?"

laniyah put her hand in safari face. "girl, boo" safari looked under her nails and cringed. "getcha dirty nail havin ass hands out my face, fuck is wrong witchu?" she popped laniyah hand out the way.

the teacher came back into the room and noticed the altercation going on in the back. safari and laniyah were now jus arguing and notti was instigating.

"okay!! let's shut this down. laniyah, hush. safari, calm do-," safari cut her off. "ian calmin nothin down, this lil bop disrespectin df outta me, ion f- mess with that!"

"first df of all, i wasn't disrespectin ya dumb ass, i neva put my hand in ya face and ian no fuckin bop!" laniyah yelled back behind Dr. A.

"you gon sit there nd lie nd cuss dead in dat lady face. das mad wild." notti shook his head.

4:45 pm
notti walked inside his apartment door and threw his book bag on the floor and kicked off his shoes. he walked upstairs and went to his room, turned off his light and laid in his bed.

when he pulled his phone out to listen to music, he realized his headphones were no longer in his neck and he remembered they were in his bookbag.

he sighed, and frustratedly walked down the stairs for the headphones. when he was finally able to lay in his bed comfortably, he played his rnb playlist before closing his eyes and going to sleep.

as he tossed and turned, he began to think about melena again. he wondered if she'd ever be found or if she had passed. he hated the fact that he could've picked her up from practice that day instead of letting her walk.

9:35 pm
while he was asleep, everyone was blowing up his phone. notti woke up after someone yanked the covers off of him and smacked his back with full force.

"yo, what df is wrong with ya- mommy what's wrong witchu?" he shot up, noticing his mother sobbing and covering her face.

"bro, ethan. it's a body at inwood park by the lake. it might be lena, get the fuck up." justin said lowly, staring at his hands. notti jumped out the bed and ran out his room.

alina and justin followed him out the room and went outside to the car. ethan jumped in the backseat, saying nothing, just staring out the window, crying silently into his hoodie sleeve.

justin drove through the streets of new york like they were in the only car on the roads. he swerved in between cars, ran stop lights, went over the speed limit, all because he wanted to make sure this wasn't the girl he could call his little sister.

even thought notti was slightly worried about the chances of a car crash bound to happen, he also worried about the fact this could be the love of his life dead by a lake.

he felt barren. unsure if how he would feel if this was melena or not...

if it is melena, his first love that he would do anything for was dead and it was nothing he could do about it.

if it isn't, melena is still missing, regardless and it was still nothing they could do about it. for the past two months, they've been doing the best they could.

as he thought, the car came to a hard swerve into a parking spot. notti looked up and saw they were in the parking lot of the park. as soon as the car stopped, he jumped out the car and looked around for the lake.

he spotted melenas family talking to a police officer. "i don't care about none of that, take me to this girl now! this could be my daughter, i want to see her." renee shouted in the officers face.

the officer sighed and started leading the whole group to the crime scene tape, by the tall grass. as they walked, notti mumbled under his breath, hoping to find melena, whether she was dead or not. all he wanted was closure.

a separate officer lifted the tape for everyone to go under and view the body. the girl was in underwear only and decapitated, causing renee to turn and scream into matias' chest.

notti stared at the girl, trying to notice a small flaw that proved that it wasn't melena. his head started to throb from him trying to hold in the wail that wanted to rip out his throat and tears from his eyes.

he noticed the girl was on her back. he thought back to the time lena told him Kato dared her to get a tattoo on her lower back.

he pulled his sleeve over his wrist and nudged the girl over. he saw the girl had a tattoo of a snake on her lower back. notti never saw the tattoo to decipher who it was. it also made it harder since melena's favorite animal was a snake.

he thought thoroughly for another thing that could prove it it was her or not. lastly, he realized, melena had a long, deep cut on the side of her body from her wanting to see where her white meat was.

he carefully lifted the girls arm from her torso looking for the scar. when he saw no cuts, he stood up straight with a slight smile.

"it's not her" notti sniffled, wiping the tears that fell.

-

when notti got back in the car, his hopefulness wiped away completely as he realized, this only made melena harder to find.

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