West Side Highway (A$ap Rocky)

22• Always Strive And Prosper

   Grandma up dere ^^^

I spent the whole day thinking about what he said, what will happen. Going across the country, for what?! This man is basically kidnapping me! I'll bring Denzel along for protection.

"The hell wrong wit chu?" My grandma asked as she set my dinner down on the table.

"Nothin' I just have something to tell you." I starred off into space while filling my cup up with water.

"DENZEL COME GET YOUR DINNER! What's going on, Toni?"

Denzel came and we all sat at the table, and we began to eat.

"So um...Denzel and I have to go to California in like two weeks...can we go?" I said.

"California!? For what?!"

"It's a school trip. College...thingy..." I said.

"In the summer!?"

"Ye."

"Across the damn country?!"

"Ye..."

"Where's the permission slip?!" She cut her steak.

"There is no permission s-" She cut me off.

"No, y'all are not going. Wheres the paper, the school ain't call, and it's all the way in California!!! 2pac California!!! Kendrick Lamar Calif-"

"I get it, Grandma! Can we please goooo?! You know how responsible I am. Denzel been here and haven't done anything bad! He's a good kid, like me!"

"Mmm. I trust both of you but I don't trust y'all going all the way over there. Anything can happen. Denzel is the most respectful boy you've ever brought to this apartment."

"What about Rakim?" Denzel asked while chewing on his salad.

"Oh! Rakim is a sweetheart!!! I love that boy to death! He the grandbaby I never had."

"Well he's going on the trip." I said.

"Really?" She asked while lowering the volume on the TV.

"Yes, he knows alllllll about it..." Denzel and I both exchanged nervous looks.

"Well you gonna have to call him over here after dinner so he can tell me all about it. If I like what I hear of course you all can go."

"Ok, I'll text him." I pulled out my phone and texted him he answered immediately.

Me: Hey, can u come over?
Rakim: Why?
Me: Just come over!
Rakim: 😏 Omw bbygurl. See u soon 💜 u want anything?
Me: I don't want anything from u. Bye.

"He's on his way." I said.

   Denzel gave me a nervous look. He genuinely looked scared and I felt bad, I feel like I dragged him into this. Him coming here earlier than planned was a huge mistake.
   I'm not blaming him for what we saw and what I did but he was the one that brought me to that window. If he wasn't here I wouldn't have known about Rocky's actions.
   I wouldn't have that mans body engraved into my mind and the image of Rocky running away. It's not Denzel's fault, it's really mine.

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• 9:12 p.m •

Rakim just left and Grandma is letting us go to California. For the whole fucking summer. Great! I begged her that I only want to be there for a week and bring my ass back home but Rocky's sweet talking got to her.
Denzel and I are in my room, sitting on my bed talking about what just happened and a tear fell down my cheek.

"Can't believe she just went along with what he sai- Toni?"

I covered my face and sighed.

"What? Why are you crying!?" He asked in confusion. Fucking idiot.

"This is my fault." I tried to stop but the tears kept flowing. Fear and sadness flowed through my body.

"No it's not. You were just being...curious?" He held me.

"Did you hear what he said?!"

"No, what'd he say?"

"In the near future he's going to college right? And Grandma said that I have to go there too. She wants me to follow him, like what the fuck?! I can't even do my own thing!

"The hell? No you do not. You go to the college you wanna go to. Didn't you tell me that you wanted to go to an Ivy League school?"

"Yeah but she said its UCLA if those Ivy Leagues don't work."

"Don't make no damn sense. She don't need to be picking your shit out like you twelve.

I shrugged. "See what Rakim's sweet talking does? I'm done. I'm gonna be somewhere in sunny LA doing god knows what for this nigga, this nigga that I trusted. He turned SO QUICK!"

"I'll be there with you."

I chuckled and wiped a tear away. "Shit is crazy! My grandma! Grandma! Is forcing me into a school, that I don't wanna go to. Hell, I don't even wanna go to college if this nigga is gonna be right behind me! I'm waisting my fucking life already."

   This was when I realized that I was gonna get into some deep shit, selling and doing things I never saw myself doing.

A/N: Weeee!!!! This is the start of West Side Highway!!!! *gives everyone snacks and drinks* It's gonna be litty!!