February 2022 | Elmore residence
Kanari Alizae Brown
After getting Kanari to calm down and a quick 15 minute drive, the best friends finally arrived to Tank's home. Which was now Kanari's new home.
"Home sweet home!" He yelled, scaring Kanari out of her nap that she unexpectedly ended up taking.
"What be wrong with niggas? Like for real!" Rubbing her left eye, she took her seatbelt off and opened the car door.
Tank grabbed both of her suitcases and rolled them up to the front door.
He pulled his house key out the pocket of his Nike cargo joggers, and unlocked both the bottom and top lock.
He waited for Kanari to grab the rest of her things out of the car before actually walking in the house. As she was grabbing her things, he seen his brother's blacked out Audi A4 pull up into the driveway.
Not wanting to stand there and look dumb, Tank allowed Kanari to walk in front of him and into the house.
"Ugh it smells so good in here, per usual." Kanari said as she walked further into the house and sniffed the air.
"You know meeee, ain't nun' but sumn' mahogany teakwood wax melts." Tank said, popping his imaginary collar.
She stood there looking at her best friend with a slight head tilt, wondering if she should geek his head up for the one time, or keep him humbled.
Deciding against raining on his parade, she just smiled and shook her head.
"Are you sure your brother is ok with me staying here? Like what if he walk in and tell me to get the fuck out ASAP, imma' cry on the spot." Kanari said with a slight pout on her face.
He pulled out his phone going to his text messages.
"Girl look, I already texted him and told him you would be stayin' with us. Plus he out thea' right now. Want me to go talk to him?"
Hearing the "front door open" sound from the alarm system, they looked up to see Tank's brother, Sevyn, walking through the door.
"It's ok, I'll just talk to him myself." She obliged.
Taking off his Off-White Pine Green Dunks, Sevyn put them on the shoe rack in the entry closet.
Looking straight ahead, he seen his little brother and Kanari sitting at the island on the grey swivel barstools.
"Yooo!" Sevyn yelled out to the two.
"Yoooo wassup bloody!" Tank exclaimed as he dapped up his big bro.
"How you been shorty?" He asked, giving Kanari a side hug. He hadn't seen Kanari in a few months. Every time he seen her she was usually glowing, but something was off this time.
"Not the best, you?"
"I been decent, can't even complain. I heard you finna be staying with us now." He said lifting an eyebrow looking at Kanari.
"Is that ok? I promise I don't mean to intrude." Slightly panicking, she thought Sevyn wasn't going to approve, and actually tell her to get out ASAP.
"You coo', I barely be hea' anyways, and you neva' been a bother." Sevyn said with a slight smirk on his face.
Kanari felt some type of way about that smirk, but she didn't want to get delusional over such a small interaction.
Since freshman year, she always thought Sevyn was a handsome. She just didn't want to ruin her friendship with Tank by dating his older brother. Plus she figured that he would never go for a girl like her.
"Tank just said that, I had to make sure and confirm with you tho'." Moving her ash blonde inches behind her shoulder, out of the way.
"Fasho', you can stay as long as you want. Ain't no rush on movin' out or anything." He said truthfully, opening the right side door of the fridge to get a water bottle.
"Thank you Sev." Feeling her cheeks heat up, she looked off to her left, trying not to get caught staring.
I know like hell this nigga don't got me blushing right now. She thought to herself.
To her knowledge, Sevyn had already caught her staring. He chuckled and told the pair that he would be upstairs in his room.
"What you cheesing at Nari?" Tank asked, looking up from his phone.
Not realizing that she was smiling into space, she snapped out of it and tried to play dumb.
"Huh? Boy what is you talm' bout?" She tried to speak without cheesing, but that was practically impossible.
"Foe I know you ain't crushing on my brother!"
"Shut uppppp! You gone snitch on me and get my feelings hurt." She said trying to get Tank to quiet down, she didn't want Sevyn to hear their conversation.
"Ian' even mad at it gang, Iah' put you on right now. Y'all would lowkey be fye together." Getting up off of the barstool, he began to make his way to Sevyn's bedroom.
"Tank come here! Oh my gosh, I'm finna kill myself." She mumbled the last part more so to herself.
She was ready to grab her suitcases and walk to the women's shelter. Kanari hated being embarrassed or rejected, it knocked her confidence down times 10.
Figuring she was doing too much, she went up to Tank's room and laid at the end of the bed. Pressing play on her beats, 'Me U & Hennessy' by Dej Loaf and Lil Wayne started to blast through her ears.
She thought about the recent events that happened with her mother and Keith.
Pulling her weed pen out of her pocket, she hit it a good 6 times back to back. Over the past 2 years, Kanari picked up a habit in smoking. The feeling of being high made her feel like nothing on earth mattered. So, she got high every time something went left in her life.
Not wanting to deal with her feelings, she laid back and stared at the ceiling until the music took over.
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A/N: we gone spice up the next chapter a lil bit😏.
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