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No Role Modelz - J. Cole

Just as I'm about to as where Niki is he throws himself into the back seat of Ally's car, "Let's go bitch's" He exclaims, I look over to Ally who rolls his eyes, "What the hell is going on with both of you?" I ask, my gut's telling me something's up

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Just as I'm about to as where Niki is he throws himself into the back seat of Ally's car, "Let's go bitch's" He exclaims, I look over to Ally who rolls his eyes, "What the hell is going on with both of you?" I ask, my gut's telling me something's up... "What? Nothing" Niki responds avoiding eye contact with me, "Fine, lie straight to my face then".

It doesn't take long to get to the shops, I get a trolly and begin to follow the boys around the store, noticing they are only getting junk food and nothing to make dinner with, I know Papa has a chef but when they said food shopping I assumed they meant like actual food.

We turn down the next aisle and Niki starts grabbing bottles of alcohol, "Are you an alcoholic or something?" I question as go grabs a bottle of Titos, "Uh, yeah sure" He smiles, so weird, so so weird. Ally grabs mixers for the alcohol, I know they're having some type of party but I just can't figure out why... shit.. maybe it's one of their birthdays.

"When's your birthday?" I ask Niki first, he seems to spill secrets easier than Ally does "January 5th" He smiles while looking over the different types of juice, okay, it's not for him, I move the trolly over to Ally who's looking at, well I'm not too sure what he's looking at "When's your birthday?" I ask, he's too focused on what item to buy that he doesn't question my question, "March 19th" He mumbles.

Alright, it's not either of their birthdays... fuck, is it Papa's?! "When is Papa's birthday?" I ask in a slight panic, "June 23rd" He sighs, grabbing a bottle of a bright green liquid, "What's with all the questions?" He asks, "Just curious" I shrug, alright, it's no one's birthday.

I stay silent as the boys talk to the man at the register, my brain trying to figure out what the hell they have planned, I stay silent in the car ride home too.

Once we pull up out the front of the house, both of the boys almost fall out of the car as they exit, I open the door and watch as they begin to fill their arms with the shopping bags before Niki pauses "Are you not going to help us?!" He asks, "No, that's a man's job" I reply in a duh tone of voice.

Ally chuckles as they begin to walk to the front door, I follow behind them unsure of what awaits me when I enter, once we're inside I'm taken back.

They've made a blanket fort in the loungeroom, pillows lay across the floor under the fort, there are dainty fairy lights hanging around giving the room, what the hell?

"WERE HAVING A SLEEEEEEEP OVERRRRRRRRRRR" Niki yells in excitement as he places the bags on the floor next to the makeshift fort, "A sleepover?" I question walking over to him.

"We uh, assumed that you never had one as a kid, so we thought we should do it now" Ally speaks this time rubbing the back of his neck nervously, this... who knew my two dumbasses would be so thoughtful, I stay silent as I take in everything in front of me "It was a stupid idea" Niki sighs but I shake my head with a smile "It's perfect".

Niki ordered us to get into pyjamas and to meet back downstairs, as I walked back into the loungeroom I saw him setting up all the snacks and drinks we had got at the shops.

After Ally joined Niki started making us drinks, when I tell you to never let this man behind a bar, I fucking mean it. Sniffing the liquid in the cup I'm holding I can tell it's at least 80% alcohol, "Go on try it" Niki smiles proudly, I take a small sip, the liquid burns my tongue and throat instantly, this is basically one big shot "It's delicious" I smile, Niki turns his head to Ally and I quickly add more juice to the cup.

"Go on" Niki smiles at Ally, Ally takes a mouthful and grimaces as he swallows "This is going to make me blackout" Ally groans, "That's the point, duh" Niki responds drinking his, we sit, drink and play games, currently were playing monopoly, I've never played before, and both of the boys are kicking my ass, what they don't know is each time they begin to argue with each other I 'borrow' some money from the bank.

"JUST LET ME BUT THE LAST TRAINSTATION YOU FUCK!" Niki yells at Ally trying to swipe the card in his hand, "LIKE FUCK! THEN YOU'LL HAVE THEM ALL AND WE WILL HAVE TO PAY FULL PRICE FOR LANDING ON THEM!" Ally yells back, "BUT YOU OWN ALL THE RED!", "AND YOU OWN ALL THE LIGHT BLUE AND ORANGE!".

Niki tries to swipe the card out of his hand again but manages to flip the table in doing so, sending Monopoly cards, money and pieces flying across the room "YOU DICKHEAD, I WAS ON THE WINNING PATH!" Ally yells tackling Niki to the ground, I roll my eyes and notice Papa watching us in amusement, I get up and leave the boys to fight it out.

"Hey Papa" I smile up at him, "You're drunk полевой цветок (wildflower)" He responds giving me a look, "The boys did it, well... Niki did it".

Papa chuckles, throwing an arm over my shoulders before leading me into the kitchen as the boys bitch slap each other, "Papa, why didn't you re-sign Reggie?" I ask, papa guides me to a stool in the kitchen, I sit on it and face him as he starts making a sandwich, "He's too risky to resign, every other week he's in the news for something stupid" Papa sighs shaking his head, "Why do you ask?".

I fidget with my fingers "Oh, he asked me at the party you had the other day, I told him I'd ask why", Papa stops his actions and looks at me shaking his head "Always getting other people to do his dirty work" he sighs, I want to ask what he means by that but I don't want to make it seem like I'm interested in Reggie and his life, because I'm not, I'm just... worried about what he had said to me.

"Did he say anything else?" Papa questions, yes, "No Papa" I smile, he smiles back nodding his head, "Good, you tell me if he does anything else alright?" Papa warns giving me a look, I nod my head "Wilowwwwwwwwwwwww" Niki slurs from the entrance to the kitchen "Stop hanging out with he old man and come back to our sleep over" He whines, "I'm not even old!" Papa scolds, "Yes you are, you're going grey!" Niki laughs, "That's because of you and your brother" Papa mumbles just loud enough for me to hear, I can't stop myself from giggling.

"I'll see you later Papa" I say getting up and kissing his cheek, "Have fun and keep them inline полевой цветок (wildflower)" Papa responds.

It's been three hours, I'm blind drunk, but the boys? Oh boy, they're worse, a whole lot worse. So bad that they haven't noticed ive been taking videos of their antics, these are going to make beautiful blackmail videos.

We're currently playing cards against humanity, niki hums along to the music in the background as he waits for Ally to pick one of our cards, he finally settles on mine "OH COME ON, MINE WAS BETTER!" He yells, one thing I've noticed is that they're competitive.

"it was shit" Ally smirks tossing Niki's card off to the side, "Well I don't want to play anymore" Niki huffs crossing his arms over his chest and pouting like a toddler, he suddenly stands up and looks down at me with a mischievous look on his face, "No" I instantly respond, "Whatever it is, nope" I shake my head.

"Fine, I'll just have to do it myself" He scoffs opening his phone and setting it up against the tv, he's... he's making a fucking Tiktok, I facepalm as I watch him dance offbeat to the song, not a rhythmic bone in his body this one. I can only cringe so much before I give in "Jesus, fine, let me help your uncoordinated ass".

I pick up my cup and walk, well, stumble over to him. He presses record and the music begins, he's in his own little world dancing as I stand behind him watching, I take a mouthful of the drink, as I'm about to swallow he slips and falls face-planting the floor, I spit the drink out over myself and him and run to his phone to stop recording it.

I quickly save it, post it and then send it to me in a text, I'm never going to let him live this down.

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