"I know baby. Can you believe she's gone. I miss her so much," he softly said. There was a thick silence for a luh minute. "Aye... Umm...I-Imma call you back bih. See ya later," I said. We said our good byes and hung up the phone. Cen was with me and Ricardo since diapers. Not a day go by without me thinking about her. I turned to my night stand and picked up an old picture of all of us sleeping. My eyes started to water. I put the picture down and went down stairs. "I heard you and Ricardo on the phone", my mama said. "Yeah what about it?" I said feeling depressed. "We all miss her Averii, but someday you got to move on wit ya life," she said spreading jelly on her toast. I slowly turned to face her. "Ight listen mama...I get that your trying to make me feel better and shit, but I can't just move on from that. She was my best friend. No not even that my mutha fuckin' sista. I can't just move on," I said storming up stairs. "Averii mutha fuckin Harper. I don't give fuck what you think this is but you don't talk to me like that," she yelled from downstairs. I slammed my door and sat back on my bed. How could she say something like that? My sista is gon...
My fatha is already gone to...I didnt wanna here that bullshit.
I opened my door and went to Amina room.
"Amina do you miss daddy?" I asked. "Of course. Thats my pops. Why wouldn't I?"
I put my head down and sat on her bed. The silence in the room was so thick you could her a needle drop. "Listen Averii...I know you miss them both. I do too, but someday we have to move on. Now I'm not saying what mama said and forget them, but we do have to move on," she said putting her arm around me. "Ok, but we gotta go its 7:00 we need to get to the bus stop," I replied. We grabbed our things and walked out side. We got to the curve where our bus comes at 7:39. We waiter a luh minute for our bus when we saw it coming down the street. "Hey boo thang," said Ricardo. "Wsp baby," I said back as I sat next to him. "Bitch is you ready for this shit. Our first day of being bad asses," I said making me laugh a little. "Girl yes. I can't wait!!!," I yelled "plus I'm happy I get to restart and get my grades up," "Baby I told you to stay focused on yo grades from the beginning," he replied. "I mean at least I wasn't out trynna be a thot
And shit. It was just hard for me to balance all that work together with dance, and working with my mom, and baby sitting and all that," I said. "I feel you, but you know if you need any help with that I will be here," I mumbled. As we laughed and talked more we pulled up to the school. Girls were already gossiping. Boys already trynna jock. Bitches and hoes thinking they cute. Welcome to high school. We walked into the building. 'Aye wsp luh shawty' somebody yelled. Me and Ricardo laughed at all the boys calling us cute and shit. I walked to my locker and opened it. "Wsp shawty. What yo name is?" This boy said. He was cute. He had those cute luh juicy lips. Had that black boy mix with white boy style and a luh hint of southern in his voice. "Hey! My name Averii. What about you hun?" I asked. "My name Jason. I seen you coming in wit dat smile, and I wanted you to be the first person I met," he said. I couldn't help but blush a little. "Thank you, but you said first person I meet...are you new to dis school?"
"Yeah. Me and my mama came from Cassta, Georgia," he replied with that adorable accent. "Oh yeah I could hear that southern accent. My best friend Ricardo is From Atlanta," I said.
The first bell rang. "Well shawty imma see you later," he said walking away. I smiled at him and walked towards History. When I walked into the class I saw Ricardo saving me a seat.
