Alone and Stone Cold

Chapter two

SD~ Nobody knows × August Alsina

The week had been long, I had had so much to catch up on. Mostly school,a little less time was spent on my social life. See my sister and I were being taken care of by my God mother,but the question was how long would she be able to do so? I needed to make sure that I graduated in high school and college so that I could at least get a decent job after that. That way I would also take away the burden of taking care of us from Alber, my God mother.

"Yoh! You coming through tonight right?" Kevin was shouting from the other side of the parking lot. It was Friday and he had kind of made it some sort of tradition to always go out on this day. "Nah man, I think imma stay in tonight." My words caused him to power walk to the side of the car park where I was standing, almost getting hit by three cars that were all being rushed out of school to go out of town or wherever the drivers wanted.

"Nigga what you mean you gone stay in?" He looked at me like I had been the biggest disappointment of his life. But unlike him some of us had responsibilities. "Just that, imma stay in." He continued giving me the look.

"Nah bruh,you can't do that, you want me to go out with Nate and his wife? Nah I don't wanna be no third wheel."

"Then don't go." As I said this I opened my car,putting my bag in and getting ready to go home and just chill. "Look Kev, it's been a long week for me ayt? I just wanna go to my crib and just get away from this craziness outside. Maybe next time yeah?"

"Oh so you turning your back on a brother now? Ayt,we cool. " His sentence didn't change my mind for a little bit. I was even starting the engine of my car now. He took hold of my arm as I was getting in. "Lanez,come on man, I mean what better things do you have to do tonight than dip to the club with your homies?"

"Taking care of my sister."
That shut him up, it always did. Not that I always used my sister as an excuse but my guys respected that sometimes I just wanted to be with my favorite girl and not be disturbed.

But surprisingly this time the line didn't keep him quite for long. "Why don't she spend the night at Alber's?"

"Bruh are you being for real right now? You know damn well how I hate asking that woman for favors, I don't wanna feel like I owe her or something."

"Well you do owe her,man she's been keeping your ass off the streets for this long."
At this moment I hated how Kevin could speak so freely about my problems. I mean I get that Alber had been my caregiver for so long but I never said I enjoyed it. A small part of me still wished that I had that typical family. You know the one that consists of your dad who you would find reading newspapers every morning. Your mom cooking breakfast and giving you a morning kiss as you came down the stairs to get to school. And your siblings and stuff. I didn't have that and nobody would ever come close to understanding what Aerin and I went through.

We watched movies and more often than not, they included such families. Aerin is eight now and she has faced the fact that her parents had just disappeared. Talk about someone being incompetent. But it wasn't so long ago when she would ask me whether they were ever going to come back. I had to lie to her then, telling her how they went to live with fairies so she could get wonderful gifts and how she would get to meet unicorns one day if our parents continued staying with the goddamn fairies.
I wasn't supposed to be going through such at my age, but if I was finding it hard think about my sister.