Homecoming Pt. 1

Devin 23

I woke up in a big ass California King size bed that definitely wasn't mine, I looked around the room confused for a second then the events of the day came storming back to me. I was at Khalil's house, my parents had kicked me out. I took a second to let my eyes adjust to the darkness then looked around, I wondered if Khalil would let me change stuff around this room didn't represent me at all. I got out of bed and went to put some clothes on then realized I didn't have any, the only clothes I had were the same ones I left my parents house in. I found my clothes and put my boxers on and walked down to Khalil's massive ass kitchen, hell his kitchen was bigger than the whole first floor of my parents house. I opened the fridge and grabbed everything I needed out of it. I went to work making my favorite late night snack when I heard someone moving behind me. I turned and came face to face with Khalil walking in the kitchen, I had to turn my head because I guess he hated wearing clothes to bed like I did because all he had on were some boxers like me. Khalil didn't say anything as walked to the cabinets and started grabbing stuff out.

"I'm glad to see somethings haven't changed." Khalil said smiling at me.

"What are you talking about?" I asked. Damn I asked that question a lot in the last twenty four hours.

"When you were younger..... every night without fail you'd come and wake me up to make up a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It got so ingrained in who I was that I would always wake up at three just to make a sandwich..... my roommate in college hated." Khalil said laughing.

"Damn I didn't think you remember that...." I whispered.

"I remember a lot Dev.... hell I remember one time you almost walked in on me and Marcus, if I hadn't been so damn quick I would've been caught." Khalil said laughing.

"So you've always messed with dudes?" I asked taking a bite of my sandwich.

"I've only been with three dudes in my life. One was one of my teammates in college but that was a one time thing, one was this dude I used to bang out whenever my ex-girl was on her period or too busy. But Marcus was my only relationship with a dude. What about you? How many dudes you been with?" Khalil asked.

"Nico is the only one...." I said.

"Nico's cool little dude I like him." Khalil said.

"I think he's scared of you a little." I said laughing. Khalil smiled at me with a sneaky glint in his eyes, I was always jealous that Khalil got our mother's green eyes, which reminded me. "Khalil whatever happened to our mom?" I asked. Khalil was quiet for a long time.

"Last time I saw her was about three years ago she....... she was bad. I could tell she was still on drugs and I told her that I couldn't bare to see her like that, and I didn't want to see her until she got better. She checked into rehab and I haven't heard anything since." Khalil said sadly.

"Did she ever tried to find me?" I asked.

"Dev she wasn't in a place to take care of either one of us. I'm not saying she didn't love us but ever since Kadeem left she wasn't the same." Khalil said.

"And Kadeem is our dad?" I asked, Khalil nodded but didn't speak. "What happened to him?" I asked.

"Last I heard he was living in Miami with his new family. He hasn't reached out to me and I haven't reached out to him." Khalil said.

"So we could have siblings." I asked excited about the possibility.

"Devin as far as I'm concerned you and Enzo are my only brothers. Look it's late and you got school in the morning." Khalil said standing up.

"Khalil I don't have any clothes over here." I said.

"Damn that's right, I have a team meeting in the morning after that we can head to the mall and get you a few things. But why we're both up and talking about our feelings like females I need to lay down a few rules." Khalil said. "You can't be skipping school anymore, I don't care what you do in your free time but school comes first. You're welcome to anything in my house, there's a gym which you should probably start hitting because you're kinda skinny, game room and home theater in the basement, pools out back. The only thing you better not touch is my bar and I'm dead ass serious. I don't care if Nico or Staci comes over but they are only people I want in my house. Don't touch any of my cars and you can only drive with my permission. If you're going to smoke do it outside.... and before you even start to lie about I already know you smoke so just don't do it in the house. Other than that I'm not going to keep you on a leash. Now I'm going to bed, I'll see you in the morning." Khalil said walking away. I finished my sandwich and smiled, I think I'm going to like it here.

The next day Khalil kept his promise, we spent the whole day at the mall catching up and he pretty much let me get whatever I wanted so naturally we left with half the mall. I spent the rest of the day setting my room up to my liking. Khalil said he was driving to San Antonio to spend the weekend with Marcus so I pretty much had the house to myself, I started to call Staci but thought against it and decided to call Nico we hadn't spoken since the day we were caught and I missed having him around.

"What's up?" Nico said dryly.

"Nico I'm sorry for how I treated you at my parents house, I was just pissed. I know that's not really an excuse but I miss you..... and I want to see you." I said.

"Do you want to see me or do just want sex Devin?" Nico said with an attitude.

"I want to see you I miss having my best friend around and come Nico you know me better than that it's not all about sex, I really enjoy having you around. Just come over we can watch movies, swim, play around in the game room, whatever you want I just need to see you." I pleaded.

"Devin where are you?" Nico asked.

"Oh I forgot to tell you my parents kicked me out, I'm living with Khalil now." I said.

"I'm sorry Dev, I'll be there as soon as I can." Nico said. After we hung up I ran upstairs and shower real quick, and changed into some basketball shorts and a shirt. An hour later Nico was knocking at the door. I opened the door and instantly pulled him into a hug.

"So what do want to do?" I asked.

"Let's go see this game room you were talking about." Nico said. I led him to the game room and could tell he was in awe. Hell I was too, even though I had been here a few times I've only ever seen the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Nico walked over to the pool table and smiled at me. "Let's play a game."

"Aight." Me and Nico played every game in the room before deciding to watch a movie. We went into the theater and once again I was in awe, this place could seat at least twenty people, the was a concession stand fully stocked with a bunch of candy and a soda machine.

"Let's watch Thor." Nico said. Even though there was plenty of seats me and Nico and me decided to share a seat, him sitting on my lap. I was really enjoying being with Nico, when I was with him I felt whole. After the movie me and Nico just sat in the seat talking about everything including the party Staci wanted to throw. "Khalil is going to beat your ass if you throw a party in his house." Nico said laughing.

"Yeah I know, but you know how Staci gets once she puts her mind to something there's no stopping it." I said.

"Yeah but you don't want to lose Khalil's trust just to keep Staci happy." Nico said.

"I'll think of something to say to her to get her to cancel this party. She not going to be happy about it but I don't......." Before I could finish someone started banging on the door. They had to be banging hard as fuck if I could hear them all the way down here.

"Who's that?" Nico asked. I didn't answer I just walked upstairs to see who it was and was shocked to see Roseline standing on the porch looking pissed.......