Moving On Is Hard [Trilogy]

Soooooo We Meet Again...?

::Tallia::

Well it’s been about 2 months since I’ve decided to adopt my sister, and you’d think everything was gonna go easy. Wrong! Michelle signed the papers, but Tramell’s bitch ass, decided to say something, and now we’re in and out of court a lot, but the case is looking good on my behalf. Monique knows what’s going on, but she hasn’t been to any of the court appearances, we haven’t needed her, but she may have to come to the one next week. To top on the stress of going through all of this, Morgan has started to act a lot more strange. She never really cared where I was going before, but now it’s like she damn near has a panic attack if I go to pick up Monique, or if I’m going to school. I even caught her watching me sleep one day, it’s just weird as fuck. I’ve found an apartment for Monique and I, because I can’t take Morgan’s weird behavior anymore, I’m moving us out as soon as Morgan goes to work. Everything that we’ll need is already in the apartment, and everything has been turned on. As soon as I’ve moved us completely out, I’m changing mine and Monique’s phone numbers, just to be safe. “I’m going to work, I’ll be back around 6. I’m picking up Blake from my mom’s house later, so you don’t have to worry about that.” Morgan told me as she stepped her weird ass in the room. “Alright, well I have some stuff to do with my lawyer tonight, and Monique is staying at a friend’s house” I lied about what I was doing tonight, but since it is Friday, Monique is staying the weekend with Agyei. “Ok, see you later” she said walking out. Yeah, right. I waited 10 minutes and quickly packed our stuff and threw it in the car. I drove to our new apartment, and threw that stuff in there, then went back to Morgan’s house. It took me a total of 5 trips to get all of our stuff, once I was done I flopped on the couch, and sent Monique a text: “We moved, I’ll be picking you up whenever you’re ready to come home.” She didn’t know about me buying an apartment, I wanted to keep it on the low, couldn’t risk Morgan crazy ass finding out. “Away from Morg’s crazy ass??? Bout time!!!!!!! Who we stay wit???””Lol… it’s just me & you this time.” I’ve rested long enough, time to study for this last final, and then I’m done with school!!! I cannot wait until summer break even though I’ll be working a little harder to keep up with bills and everything, but whatever, it’s gonna be better than dealing with a drug addict and a creepy baby mama. I don’t even see how Brandon was able to deal with her, hell she probably had something to do with his death, his case went cold, so we don’t know anything, the stray bullet story came from an ‘anonymous’ tip, my guess is Morgan. I wonder if I can get the case reopened, maybe after all this stuff with this adoption is over with I’ll see if they can look further into his case. Damn, I’m one busy ass person, I guess my love for criminal justice is starting to pay off and show even more now. “Can Agyei stay over, her family is going out of town w/ her bro & she doesn’t wanna leave.” “Yeah, sure… am I picking yall up from school?” DTLR is pretty cool, they’ve allowed me the weekend off so I could study, and that way I’ll be able to keep my eye on two pre-teens. “Yes, please.” “Alright, see you at 3:45” I sent, I wasn’t expecting a reply back since she’s in school. After I pick her up, I’ll go get our numbers changed, I don’t need Morgan blowing our phones up. I did leave her a thank you note explaining how much I appreciated her allowing us to stay with us and everything, but I refuse to reveal my location to her.

3:45 came before I knew it, and as soon as I pulled up dozens of pre-teens poured from the building, so I sent a text to Monique telling her exactly where I’d parked. About 5 minutes later, her and Agyei hopped in the backseat continuing their previous conversation. “Hey Lia” they said in unison as I put the car in park and proceeded to exit the school grounds. “Hey, how was school?” “Boring” “Lame” they said overlapping each other, and laughing about it. I shook my head, remembering going through the exact same thing when I was in middle school. “Lia, you think we can stop by my house, I just need to pack for the weekend” Agyei asked. “Yeah, sure. Oh! Monique, we’re getting our numbers changed today too.” “Mines doesn’t need to be changed, I never gave my number to that crazy girl.” I laughed a little “That’s good, well I’m changing mine, I don’t need her blowing up my phone once she realizes we’ve moved.” “So she doesn’t know????” “No, what I look like telling her that info??? She’d probably hold us hostage for life” I told her half-jokingly, that girl is fucking insane. “True” she said and we laughed, and she went back to her conversation with Agyei. I dropped them off at Agyei’s house, while I went to change my number, by the time I finish, they should be ready.