ZAILIE

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I went to go visit Aneika after school, because it was now my turn to take her assignments and homeworks to her, I found her laying on the bed like a lump. I went over and opened up the curtains in her bedroom. It was getting kind of stuffy so I pried open a window.

"Aneika get up, Khari told me you were doing so well yesterday." I said. Maybe not well but she was at least out of the bed. She shielded her eyes from the light coming in. She groaned. Finally she sat up. Girl was looking hit.

      "I'm fine everything is fine

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"I'm fine everything is fine." She said. I sat on the bed next to her.

She needed to get out of this funk of hers. She was too afraid to discuss it and the longer she didn't, the deeper into this depression she got. "Aneika your boyfriend was shot." She groaned in her pillow again. "And your in a depression."

She lifted her head. "Is this supposed to make me feel any better?"

"No its to bring up the topics you're too afraid to even think about." I found myself yelling, while pointing a finger at her. I was getting angry, I wanted my friend back. The crazy girl who once attempted to skateboard in heels. The girl who wore dressesbut was the least lady like girl I knew. The girl who was Aneika Ronbinson. I felt a tear on my cheek. I started yanking her pillows and comforter of the bed. She just kept groaning.

"Aneika!" I was yelling at her now. "How dare you have all these people around you who love you and you just wanna lie there. Your boyfriend was lucky enough to survive being shot in the fucking head! But Aneika Robinson just wants to sit in bed." A second tear rolled down.

She roared to life, and she started yelling too. "What am I supposed to do? Huh? Am I supposed to skip over to the hospital to go see my boyfriend whose in a coma." I nodded, now that I was full on crying and she was balling herself. "What am I supposed to do with that? He survived being shot but at what cost Z, he's very much alive yet he just lays there like a corpse. I can't be held by him, I can't talk with him, I can't even do anything outside of that damn hospital room with him and this is all my fa-ault." She was full on crying by the time she finished, her face was damp with tears. "If only I minded my o-own business." She wiped her face with a sleeve.
I went over and crawled next to her in the bed and we wept together, so long that we didn't even notice that her mother came in and placed a box of tissue down for us and walked out. I grabbed her by the shoulders. "Aneika this isn't your fault, whether we were there or not, Tootsie had plans to shoot Tyreik anyway that's why he brought along a gun. But I want you to get up and get out of this bed...... for Tyreik's sake." She wiped at the tears and smiled a little.
My phone in my pocket buzzed. It was a reminder. "Shoot, Aneika I gotta get home I have my tutoring today at my house. Look at what you did to me kid." I wiped my face with the tissue, and did what I could to fix my eyeliner.

"Ok, but if he tries to touch your ass again I will personally send an ass kicking his way via mial." She chuckled, kicking at the air. I laughed and got up to leave on my way out I yelled back to her.

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