Brea Newton, 20, has been heartbroken, lied to, and nothing ever seems to go right. She has her eye on one thing and one thing only, redeeming herself and focusing on the money.
"Ewwww how do you eat that?" I watch him eat sushi.
"Like this." He said with a mouth full of rice.
So far, I managed to cop a few new things for myself. I am having a fun time surprisingly. After we walked around and bought stuff we went to one of the Chinese restaurants in the mall. Tamia and Ken looked so cute so I took a picture of them on my snapchat.
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"Hey my friends over there by CHAMPS can I meet up with them?" Tamia asked.
"Yeah meet us in the lobby by Zales at 5:30" It was 5:00.
I was relieved that he let her go, so we can finally have time to get to know each other.
"So tell me about yourself ma. Why you so quiet?" I shyly looked down.
I let out a soft chuckle. "Sorry, I'm just shy." I tucked my hair behind my ear
"It's okay. So tell me why you don't have no nigga? You too beautiful to be single."
"How you know I'm single?" He looked at me with wide eyes.
"Just kidding," I laughed at his reaction. "I recently got out of one no too long ago," I looked down. "Yeah..."
"Damn. I'm sorry." I smiled a little bit.
After a long pause of awkward silence, he finally spoke up, "Well if you ready to go, we can go walk around until Mimi come on." I agreed. He paid the waitress and helped me out of my seat. He is such a gentleman, a fine one at that.
We walked around with his arms around my shoulders and my arm wrapped around his waist.
"Hey Kendrick." A girl yelled. I heard a low mumble coming from his lips.
"I see you done moved on. Baby girl, did he ask you for some head yet?" I looked at her confused.
"Yeah he normally take his hoes to the mall before he fuck." she grinned.
"I'm sorry who are you?" She extended her hand.
At first, I wanted to slap the shit out of her and him, but my mama raised me better.
"Nyriah, his ex." I left her hanging.
I looked at Kendrick, who looked pissed.
"Brea, this bitch is jealous as fuck. I know you see the envy in her ey-"
"Have you done this before?" His head hung low.
I scoffed. I shook my head and proceeded to the exit. As I walk away, I hear small parts of them arguing. At this point, I don't even know what to believe. I was hurt, I can't believe I was about to be fooled again.
I jumped in my car and hurried up out of there.
Kendrick: Brea.
Kendrick: Please. That wasn't my plan
Kendrick: I'm deadass.
Kendrick: Please hear me out! 😭
Me: And to think I actually thought we could be something. I am disgusted. ☹️😒👎🏼
Kendrick: That was way in the past. My intentions weren't to get you to fuck. I just wanted to get to know you. 🙏🏾
Me: yeah. k 😑
Kendrick: lemme come over your house. please. 😫
Me: idk.
Kendrick: brea im begging you 😭
Me: fine 62019 Polk St
Kendrick: ight ill come over at around 8
Passionfruit plays on the radio as I drive back home. I miss my parents and my 2 brothers. I haven't seen them in 3 months. I left the nest for my senior year and moved down here to Houston to stay next door to my bestfriend, Gerrod. I plan on going to University of Houston once I graduate high school. So moving down here over the summer would give me time to stack my coins up. I'm from Philadelphia and the weather there is nowhere near as crazy as it is down here. It takes some time to get used to but that's something I am willing to do.
I pull up at the house, killing the engine. I grab my bags out of the back seat and lock the car. I walk throught the door and head upstairs and place my phone on the charger. Not even 5 seconds after I put my phone on the charger, my phone begins to ring. I take a glance at the caller-ID and I see my mom's picture pop up.
"HEY MOMMY!" I said excited.
"Hey baby! We miss you sooo much!" I walk to the kitchen and grab an apple of the island.
"I miss y'all too! What y'all been up to? How are Justin and Payton?" I took a bite out of my apple.
"They are good. Your brothers are acting like they don't miss you but I know they do. How's Houston? Meet any new friends?" I thought of Kendrick.
"Nah, other than Gerrod and Shaena." I wasn't ready to tell my mama about him. I don't know how I feel about him yet.
"What about Jamal? Is he treating you right?"
"HEL- Me and Jamal are no longer in a relationship, mama."
"Whaaat? Why not baby?" I heard the sadness in her voice.
I hate to even bring up the situation again but I had to tell her.
"I'm glad you didn't blow up. Because knowing you, you would have lost it. I'm sorry baby." I wiped the sprouting tears that were about to fall down my cheeks. Jamal was my first love. I loved him more than anything. We did almost everything together, I would never wish the amount of pain I felt on my worst enemy. After the break-up, I became more care-free I didn't really pay any regard to anyone else's feelings but my own. I was torn.
"It's okay. I'm about to uh- get ready for movie night with Gerrod." I lied.
"Okay baby. I love you."
"Love you too." she hung up the phone. I placed my phone back on the charger and checked the time, 6:45pm. I grabbed some pajamas and got ready to take a shower. I just want to get the night over with. Hopefully, Kendrick was telling the truth and we can move past this.
