Unconditionally Yours

chapter 24

Kiari Xavier Grey | Ki

Hearing my phone ring, I see it was the prison number so I pick it up.

"Kiari, what's up you ain't been picking up my calls lately." I hear my father's voice through the phone.

"My fault, I've been busy."

"It's alright. How you been?"

"Good." I shrug even though he couldn't see.

I didn't have a problem with my dad too much but I just always know how these calls go.

"That's good. How about Kam? I haven't spoken to her in months. She doesn't even pick up my calls anymore."

"She been good. Maybe it has something to do with school." I say lying. Kam already told me she was done with him.

"Oh ok. Your moms birthday is coming up, are yall going to see her?"

"Yeah we are. I was planning on staying over but I have an early game the next day."

"You still doing basketball? I thought you were trying to focus on making more plays." He said.

"I'm more focused on basketball but I still do it. I just try not to so much cause mom doesn't like it." I said.

"You can't be focused on basketball Kiari. There's no point in doing basketball if you on the streets. That just sound dumb and dumber." He says making me sigh.

My dad wants me to stay in the streets but my mom doesn't. I want to do basketball but byall the money I make by being in the streets makes me want to stay in them but my future is just telling me no. Everything is just frustrating and I wish I never found myself being in them at all.

"I'm trying to think about my future." I mumble.

"Future? I been doing that shit since I was young and made a good living out of it."

"Yeah, but you're now serving life in prison for it now. I'm not trying to be in prison for my whole life. I'm very good at basketball so I will focus on basketball for me, not you."

"Here you go. This why you should of stayed friends with Zeno because I bet he living a very good life but you over here whining about basketball. Only a extremely small amount of people actually make it to the nba and you think you are? Pathetic."

"I think are five minutes are up." I hang up the phone.

I don't have time for anyone's and everyone's opinion about my life and how I am living it.

"Your Dad still be bitching huh." I hear Amaris voice.

"He has to much input in my life when his been went downhill. I don't need any advice from him." I say.

"Just stop picking his calls up. Kam been stopped." Amari shrugs.

"I try but then it's like he's in life so there's no one for him to talk to? He already sounds sad about Kam not answering and I know he misses my mom but she moved on." I huffed.

"Kiari my man, you be being to nice to people who treat you like nothing. Your dad does the same thing every call, be happy when you answer than start to down play you like your nothing." Isaiah says and honestly he's right.

I be having too much faith in people thinking they're going to change but they never do.

"He do have a bipolar disorder so I be trying to give the benefit of the doubt but yall right." I shake my head.

"I'm never wrong. But aye I'm out." Amari daps us up then leaves out the door, and soon as it shut Isaiah was already giving me a look.

I been trying not to talk about what he saw yesterday when it really wasn't nothing forreal but I guess from the way he was standing it may have looked like I was doing something else to her.