The Woes of a Wilted Flower

26 - Settling

"Its only 600 dollars a months, and you don't have to pay for water." The realtor showed me a paper of the apartment. I had Kimani in my hand and Hasan was walking around the rooms and kitchen checking everything out.

"So do you want this one? It's exactly what you said you were looking for."I took one more look around the room and looked down at Kimani.

"Yeah we'll take it."

"Perfect, I'll go get the paperwork, and you can be here in the next two days."

"Oh no can it be like ... tomorrow or something. I'm trying to move a soon as possible."

"Well I'm sorry, the deposit and paperwork don't go in until 48 hours from now.  I -"

"It's cool, Lotus y'all can stay with us. My moms wouldn't mind." I looked at Hasan with a look and then he smiled. I know he was my only option here, and knowing all the enemies around here he's my best bet. After I agreed to the apartment I filled out an application and have her a deposit of 850. It was good to be back home and have my own place. I really did miss it here. We got back in the truck and decided to drive back to the old house. I would stay here but I know Nathan has full access there. I don't want him to have the power over me in every aspect.  Hasan called over James and Xavier, whose name sounded familiar but I couldn't remember who he was. They were going to help me take our beds out the house, and the couches from the basement that I used to write in my journals all the time. We pulled up to the house and Me and Kimani just sat there staring at it. It was somewhere in me that didn't wanna leave, this was my home and Nathan pushing me out of it again.

We all got out and walked up to the door. I opened it and it was empty, a stack of mail sat in front of the door. All bills were paid through an automatic account that daddy has set up since I was 12 just in case he can't pay another one ever again.

"Damn, I drive pass here everyday. But forgot how it was in here."

"I know dude, I just wished I never went New York. " Kimani ran through the house looking around. Everything seemed to be the same except for some of the furniture we moved out before we left. I went into the kitchen and living room looking around, then I made my way upstairs to my bedroom. Hasan followed me there. I stood at the doorway of my old room. I still had a few pair of shoes, bags, and other things that I couldn't fit in my luggage. 

"So you here for good?" Hasan asked me from behind.

"I hope, shit I do not want to go back."

"You hate him as much as I hate him?"

"Why do you hate him so much?"

"Cause Nathan is ruthless." he said licking his lips. "He turned on my whole family after granddad died. He stepped over all us, and ain't give us nothing that he left us behind. He took all the money granddad left us 11 years ago. You remember in like 1st grade when I didn't come to school for like a whole month, that's cause we was poor and had no home. Not until my parents got back together and we moved back in with my dad. But he left his little sister and his 6 year old nephew out on the street, and still he ain't give no fucks about us since. But my moms and him 'made up' so now I have to tolerate his bum ass. "