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After grabbing our food, we decided to take it back to Fez's. "Are you Sure Ashtray won't mind?" I asked him once again to gain reassurance. Fez was focused on the road when he turned to look at me for a split second. "Whatchu' Mean Ashtray won't mind? You good, you stayin' over ." I chuckled. "'sides He gon' love that you brought him a burger." he motioned with his chin towards the In & Out bag that was sitting on my lap.
"No one can turn In & Out down." I said. He chuckled.
Fez then pulled up In front of his house.
He parked the car and turned off the ignition. We were still sitting in his car and noticed the lights on in his house. "You think he'll be pissed?" I asked him. "He probably is right now but once he knows I saved you and we got him food he'll forget about it." Fez said while getting off the car. He shut his door and came around to my side and opened the car door for me to hop out. I grabbed my heels, the bag of food and my drink. Fez closed the door for me and placed his hand on the back of my waist in a protective manner and guided me up the walk way. Once reaching it, he grabbed his keys from his pocket and opened the house door. "Well V make yo'self at home." he said while opening it further for me to walk in. I smiled. "Thank you once again I really appreciate it." I said to Fez. I then heard footsteps approaching us. I hid the Bag of food behind my back to surprise Ash.
"You told me you was makin' it quick- Oh shit V." Ashtray said while getting cut off due to him being surprised to see me. "That's on me, I got stranded at the party and Fez literally saved me." I told him. "yeah, she crashin' here for the night." Fez chimed in. "In return I know you stayed up counting the money and doing calculations and I felt bad for intruding so I brought you your favorite." I said while bringing the bag out from behind my back and giving it to him. I was sipping on my drink when Ashtray grabbed the bag and opened it up to see his favorite meal. He then turned to look at me up and down and then Fez. "Ya'll expect me to eat this shit when it was sitting in the car ya'll fucked in." Ashtray said. I got surprised that I started choking on my drink.
"Nah man what the fuck- sayin some dumbass shit like that, you should be grateful she even thought of yo ass." Fez slapped Ashtray's head and began walking to the kitchen. "I'm just sayin' the fact she looks like it." I flicked ashtrays head "Ow!" I looked at him and started walking to the kitchen. "Nah man, She took a couple falls tonight." I looked at them both. "You guys are making me feel insecure, Do I really look that bad?" "Yes." "No." they both answered at the same time. I laughed. "You're both very welcoming." I said. "I'm goin' to bed." ashtray said while grabbing his bag of food and walking off to his room. "Goodnight." Fez and I said in unison. I put my bag of food on the dinning table and pulled out a chair. Fez Did the same. We were both eating our meals together.
"How's your mom?" he asked me. "She's Good, She's still Working late nights at the hospital, She always asks about you, Ash and your grandma." I said while eating a spoonful of my animal fries. "Yeah? She's sweet, Last time I seen her she came to the store to get some snacks for work but that was a minute ago, she always tells me the vending machines at work ain't shit." I laughed. "She's not wrong, Last time I went to drop her lunch off cause she forgot it at home I passed by the machines and all they had was trail mix and almonds." Fez snickered. "That sounds like a boring ass vending machine." I laughed.
After catching up with Fez , we were soon done with our meals. I cleaned up the table and threw our trash away. "Ima lay some clothes out for you so you comfortable." Fez then lead me to his bedroom. "You mind if I shower also?" I asked him. "You good, In the bathroom first cabinet to the right there's loofas and toothbrushes." he said while handing me a black towel. "Here lemme get you some sweats and a T." he said while walking to his closet. Fez gave me grey sweats and a 40's and Shortie's T shirt that practically fit me like a dress. "I just want you to know , You're never getting any of these back." I said to him while walking to the bathroom. he was lighting a joint. "Don't worry my shit always looked better on you anyways." "and that's why I'm keeping them" I said back to him while walking to the bathroom. I shut the door and began taking my jewelry and clothes off. I started the shower. This shower was very much needed especially with alcohol spilling on me, falling on the grass, and overall sweating too. Luckily Fez's choice of shampoo and conditioner matched mine considering the fact that a few weeks ago we had a conversation about the importance of taking care of your hair including the products you're applying and even though Fez lacked hair he was really taking everything I said into consideration. I smiled knowing that Fez did listen to me.
I washed my hair and applied conditioner.
I scrubbed my face off from all the makeup I had on for the night.
Lastly, I scrubbed my body from top to bottom.
Afterwards I hopped out the shower and dried my hair and body. I changed into the clothes Fez gave me and brushed my teeth. After brushing my teeth I put my toothbrush in the toothbrush holder that was behind the mirror and gathered all my clothes and jewelry. I opened the bathroom door and turned off the light and made my way back to Fez's Room. "Do you have a bag where I could just store all this in?" I asked him. He got up from his bed. "yeah, you could put it in here." He handed me a black Stussy draw string bag. "You won't be getting this back either." I said while smiling at him. "You makin' me think you really just gon' come up on my stuff." I shrugged my shoulders. "I honestly can't make any promises that I won't."
Fez motioned for me to sit next to him on his bed. I crawled on his bed towards him and sat beside him. He handed me the Joint. He opened his bedroom window and grabbed his phone and started playing music through his speaker. White Ferrari by Frank Ocean was playing softly in the background. He set his phone down on his lap and looked at me. "How are you tho really?" he asked me. I turned to him. "What do you mean?" I asked him while inhaling the joint. "You act like I don't know you, I know that look you have when you thinkin' bout' hella shit and you be keeping that shit in." I exhaled. "Besides trying to figure out how to help my mom with keeping a roof over our heads, that's pretty much what's been on my mind 24/7." I ran my hand through my hair. "Bruh I've been telling you though that money ain't ever been an issue-" "Fez." I cut him off while grabbing his hand and looking into his diamond blue eyes. "I love that you care for us but I could never do that to you. I know you guys risk your lives every day to make ends meet and yes I understand with the store and selling you guys are stable but I can't let you do that for me. You take Care of everyone." He looked down at our hands that were intertwined and then back up at me. "But who takes care of you?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "I'm okay.. I know that I'm good and I'll always be. I need to be solid for my mom and Maddy. They need me." He grabbed my hand and pulled me in towards him. His chin on top of my head. "I got you kid. You know that. Ain't ever have to question it." I smiled. I pulled away and caressed his face. He grabbed onto my hand that was caressing him as if he didn't want me to let go. We stayed like this for a few seconds until I broke the silence.
"I'm thinking that We should get some sleep, We're still hanging out tomorrow." I said to him. "You right." I dropped my hand as He put out the joint in the ashtray that was sitting by his window.
"You take the bed Ima crash on the couch." I looked at him confusingly. "I don't mind sleeping on the couch, this is your bed." I said to him. "Nah its good, Ash be makin' hella noise in the morning and I don't want him to wake you up."
"You sure?" I asked him. "Yeah, you good don't even worry." He went to his closet to grab a blanket and then a pillow from his bed.
I got under the blankets.
"I forgot how comfy your bed is." I said to him. "It better fuckin' be shit was almost a thousand dollars." I laughed.
"I didn't believe Rue until we had a sleepover. That was the best high I've ever had and on top of that when Rue and I crashed on your bed and when we woke up we said how we hadn't slept that great in years." He chuckled. "I'm glad that ya'll making use of it." I felt my eyelids getting heavy. Fez noticed.
"Goodnight V." He was standing at his doorway with his hand on the doorknob slowly closing the bedroom door.
