Host of Imperfections

Chapter 15

8:23pm

"SOLANGE!" I made an attempt to get my sister's attention but my voice was drowned out by the overbearing music in addition to her two very loud best friends. I stepped in front of her bedroom door and knocked like I was a cop or something.

I heard the volume on her stereo being turned down while she swung the door open, clearly in the process of trying to find something to wear tonight.

"What?"

"I'm leavin..."

"o....k." Her expression was so unfazed.

I know my mother said to keep an eye on her but I refuse. She's almost 18 and acts like she's 30+. Whatever I even tried to suggest to the girl went in one ear and right out of the other. "

"

"I've done this plenty of times before without Mama or Daddy finding out. Stop worryin'." She frowned and I left her alone.

"You ready?" Kelly asked standing by the front door with RJ.

We'd been talking all day about her situation and she finally decided with much of my input that it'd be best to stay with her mother for a little while. Hopefully that little while would turn into a long time or until she got back on her own feet and independent. Lorenzo wasn't exactly my favorite person in the world right now and I knew she could just do so much better. She didn't deserve to be treated like second best.

She buckled RJ in his car seat and I hopped in on the passenger's side before she got in and pulled off. I swear, every love song they played on the radio was reminding me of Jay. It freaked me out a little to be honest but I couldn't stop thinking about him and that damn tongue of his. Twenty- something minutes later we arrived in front of her building.

"He must not be here, I don't see his car." She exclaimed looking around while she parked.

"Good. Then we can just go in, get some of your stuff and leave without any distractions."

We got up to the door and she pulled out her keys and tried to open it.

"I know this is the key." She mumbled and I shifted RJ on my hip watching her persistent effort to turn the knob. It wouldn't budge. I had a feeling what his trifling ass had probably done and I know Kelly did too but she didn't want to believe it.

"How that muhfcuka gon get the locks changed on me?" She yelled and punched the door with her fist. RJ jumped in my arms and started whining, I'm sure he was beyond confused right now. I laid his head down on my shoulder and tried to calm him down but that was impossible with Kelly screaming all types of profanity and calling Lorenzo on her phone in the process.

It got so bad one of her neighbors even stuck his head out of his apartment and told her to 'shut the fcuk up'. The next thing I knew she was going at it with him.

I couldn't take it. I felt RJ latch onto my neck while I went back to the car leaving Kelly to rant on by her got damn self and dial Renzo's number over and over again on her cell. I could feel where she was coming from but all of that in front of RJ was unnecessary. There was no telling what he might've witnessed between them before, he seemed so shook by her yelling.

Kelly came down a little bit after me and frowned apologetically at him. "I'm sorry baby, come here." She reached for him but he turned his head and held onto me.

I caught the hurt look on her face and diverted her attention. " You gon wait for him to come back?"

She sighed and sat down on the hood of her car. "That's about the only option I have right now."