Reaching for the stars

Chapter 1

Day 1

Aaliyah

Stepping out of the crowded airplane I look around trying to take everything in. The flight attendant greets me. 

"Welcome to Los Angeles, California."

 I smiled and grabbed my hand bags, I'm not the only one here though. I brought my closest cousin with me, Demetria but I call her Mesha.

"Mesha get my two pillows from the seat?"

"Okay."

Mesha and I are close. It's true, cousins are closest. When I asked her to come to California, she didn't hesitate. She packed her stuff after I got accepted to L.A. University where I'm majoring in music. My dreams are grand, my mother says. But if following my dream of being a singer is grand then I'm Reaching For The Stars. 

After grabbing all of our luggage we walk outside the airport. I see that Mesha's Pink G wagon pulls up. As the valet driver gets out of the car we thank him and put our luggage in the back seat. I guess my car is at the condo we bought furnished. My car is a white BMW. I don't know why but white cars turn me on.

The sound of August Alsina's new song "Would You Know" interrupts my train of thought. Looking down at my aqua colored iPhone 6s plus I see it's our best friend, Jose. Yes, he is gay and I love him so much. Jose has been close to us since elementary school, I still remember how we met. Mesha and I were coloring a rainbow for class and he came up to us and said: "I'm just like that rainbow, different colors inside and out." That was second grade and I still laugh about it to this day. I even wrote the quote on my wall at home and I'm going to do the same here. We load our stuff in the car and look at each other. Answering the phone I put him on speaker.

"Hey Jose what's up?"

"Is that Jose on the phone?" Mesha asked.

"Yeah, he's on speaker phone."

We both yell in the phone, "Hey Jose!"

"Hey bitches, how's it like over there?"

"Cooler," Mesha replied. "Much better than hot Florida I can tell you that much. There's also a lot of cute boys here Jose you'll probably be drooling right now if you were here."

"You know I would," Jose starts to chuckle.

"Man Jose we miss you so much."

"I miss ya'll too but I have to get back to work so I'll talk to later."

"Alright bye."

I hang up the phone.  New home new life

• • •

Demetria

We pull up at the condo we had bought and to be honest, it looks very nice on the outside but I'm more focused on what the inside will look like. I see Aaliyah's BMW in the drive way, thank God because I know she would've freaked if it wasn't here. Turning off my engine I grab my car keys, Micheal Kors purse, and my bubble gum pink colored iPhone 6s plus. Grabbing all my luggage I look at Aaliyah and she looks right back at me. We start to walk to the entrance of the house, opening the door I saw how beautiful the condo was on the inside. Just what we wanted.

"I call this room," I yell while in the biggest room I've seen so far.

"Ha, I made sure they were the same size so we can be even," Aaliyah yelled from her room.

"Man..." I said as I started unpacking all my luggage. Thank God for this furnished condo because I don't like seeing unfurnished rooms they make me feel uncomfortable in a type of way like you can see the rooms flaws. A couple of hours go by and I'm finished unpacking and putting my clothes up. Now it looks more like home. I see my phone is fully charged and it's only 7 o'clock.

"Not bad for a long day in California."

I take my phone off the charger and my pink beats pill from the desk and go into the bathroom to take a nice shower. That's another thing I like about this condo, we both have our own bathrooms. Placing my thumb on the home button to unlock it I quickly go to apple music and play Kehlani: You should be here.

Baby, you should be here, Right here
Don't know where you went but you lost now
Don't know where you went but you're gone now

All of a sudden I hear Aaliyah singing along to the song but I ain't mad at her she and Kehlani both have an amazing voice. I still just only want to hear Kehlani so I politely tell Aaliyah to be quiet.

"Aaliyah shut the fuck up and let Kehlani sing!"

"Man, what ever."

Fifteen minutes later pass by. I get out of the shower and go straight in my room. Hearing my phone vibrate on the desk I pick it up and read Aaliyah's message.

-Hurry up so we can go to Publix to get some groceries. I'm already outside.

Great. I hurry up and put on my Adidas joggers, Nike slides, and I don't feel like putting on a shirt so I just slipped on a sweater. Putting my hair in a messy bun I grab my phone and wallet and walked out the house locking the door behind me.

• • •

Aaliyah

Turning up the volume in the car August Alsina pumps through the speakers. I love him so much that I feel as if we talk to each other in his songs. Weird, I know but hey that's just me.

Pulling up at the Publix parking lot I park my car and turn off the engine. Taking my burgundy coach bag out the car along with my iPhone I lock my car and start walking to the entrance with Mesha. Entering the store Mesha and I separate to get our own separate groceries. I get the main groceries we need and Mesha gets all the snacks we both enjoy.

Thirty minutes later we both meet up at the cash register. Looking at the cashiers face I know we got a lot of food but it usually last a month.

"That will come up to $175.26."

I gave her $200 to pay for the groceries.

"Here's your change."

"Thanks." I grab the change and head out with all of our groceries. Walking in the house we start to put up the groceries. I few minutes later, like twenty minutes, we head to our rooms. I already showered when we came so I'm all good. I turn on the radio and my song comes on. Song cry by August fills the room. I start to take my shirt and pants off and climb in the bed. Looking at the time on my phone it's already 12:37 a.m and I'm worn out for the day. I put my phone on the charger and let the voice of August Alsina put me sound asleep.