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𝐌𝐞𝐤𝐡𝐢 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 | 𝐊𝐡𝐢 | 𝟐𝟎

"You need to start pinning up your hair, got all that hair and let it cover your face." Vanessa complained about Mekhi's dreads covering his face.

"I'll do something to it soon enough." Mekhi stated, just to get his mom off his back, quickly.

"Okay, you coming here for Thanksgiving right? It's coming and it's coming fast." Vanessa snapped her fingers to implement it.

"Where else I'm going to go?" Mekhi raised an eyebrow at his mom who turned towards him.

"I don't know, probably with Nasir and Meech? Where are they anyways? They usually here too, eating all my fruit snacks." She shook her head.

"Probably with Dani nem'." Mekhi told her,  leaning back in his seat.

"Nem?" Vanessa repeated what he said with a confused tone, furrowing her eyebrows. "Yeah, why you say it like that?" Mekhi asked her.

"Who Dani nem? I thought it was just Dani?" Vanessa questioned.

"It was, until like a month or two ago. We met these new girls, Shae and Kenni." Mekhi explained to his mom who hummed in response.

"Oh, Kenni. Nasir told me about her, he said you admire her—he said other words but I'm not repeating that." Vanessa nudged her son as she walked past him to go in the pantry.

"Why you listening to him?" Mekhi asked, Nino and his mom were bad news together. Nino talked to Mekhi's mom like he was her best friend, that annoyed him.

"You didn't deny it either, baby." Vanessa pursed her lips.

"It ain't a lie, she different and I like her, not like that though. I just never met somebody like her before."

"Oh okay. Oh, I know. You could have all of them over here! Your family could meet them, and they can meet me, well Shae and Kenni, of course." Vanessa suggested with a smile on her face.

"Kenni not really an outgoing type of person, ma. She don't really like meeting new people. It's like she in a bubble."

"Oh, what about the other one."

"She annoying, you'll probably like her." He spoke freely about Shae, he was joking though. Shae was a cool person to be around.

"Don't say that, you know why she in a so called bubble?" Vanessa went back to the subject of Kenni.

"Nah, probably because of her past or something." Mekhi assumed and shrugged while Vanessa nodded her head with a hum,"Speaking of which, ma you know somebody named Alyssa?" Mekhi asked, it just had popped into his head, and once it was there he asked.

"Uh, no. I don't think I know no Alyssa's baby." Vanessa spoke in her usual tone, as she rubbed her hand with a towel.

"You sure? Red hair, caramel skin, kind of tall." Mekhi described Kenori's mom to her. Vanessa bit her lip before talking,"Well now that you describe her, yeah. Alyssa McCarroll? She was a really sweet woman."

"How you know her?" Mekhi asked more intrigued now.

"She was your uncle James' ex, he used to beat on her so bad back then, she used to wear so much makeup." Vanessa spoke in a solemn tone.