Strength And Stability

The Death Angel Comes

(Above) Jaden played by Jilly Anais

Kendall POV

We spent a few hours shopping, only stopping to eat at Popeye's. After it was nearing 4pm, we headed to drop off Ky and Nix at their houses.

"I'll text you later!," I yelled as we pulled away from the girls' block, watching them treck to their houses.

Desi and I walked in the door at around 4:20, and instantly smelled dinner cooking. I looked at Desi and grinned. "You smell what I smell?"

She smirked. "Shrimp Tacos?" I nodded. "Hell yeah."

Dad walked around the corner. "How was shopping?" I gave an internal sigh of relief that he didn't hear me for once.

"It was great, I bought a new backpack for school." I showed him my Gucci bag.

He raised an eyebrow when he noticed the brand, trying to hide a smile. "You found a Gucci backpack for $50?" He asked, sounding completely dubious.

"Well of course not, I've been saving for this for months. By the way Dudsy-Dear, we're going to have to talk about that allowance limit..." I noted mischeviously.

Flicking Kendall's arm, I said, "Don't you agree Kenny?"

She nodded. "For realz. It's a little...ahem..limiting. Pardon the pun."

Dad rolled his eyes, looking at our bags. "It's a limit for a reason, my darlings. You can't be too flashy. After all, there are starving children in Africa that have nothing."

"Isn't that why you constantly donate to charity?" I countered back. "So they're getting food?"

Dad sighed. "Whatever. We'll talk about upping your limits. I don't want you guys going too crazy and breaking the bank every month though."

I patted his shoulder as we walked to the stairs with our bags. "We have a private jet for Pete's sake. A few purses won't kill you."

"Oh, I'm not talking about breaking my bank, I'm talking about breaking yours." He called after us, chuckling dryly. "Mwahaha. Now get down here for dinner."

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We put our stuff away pretty quickly, and then went down for dinner. As we went to sit down, the doorbell rang. Dad looked at us, saying very sternly,  "Be. Good." Threat lingered in his tone. He was serious as a mf.

"Sir." I said meekly. He made no move to get the door so Kendall and I ran for it. Her getting there first, flung it open, and me being right behind her, got knocked backwards, falling right onto my derriere.

And then hit my head on the hardwood floor. "Ouch!" I screeched, squeezing my eyes shut. When I opened them, an angel stood in the doorway, her mouth agape. In her hand was a weekender bag.

"This is the end... And you are the death angel coming to take me to my eternal home? Probably hell?" I asked dramatically.

Kendall rolled her eyes, yanking me up. This flipping goddess laughed nervously. "Um, If I do look like a death angel... Well at least I'm an angel, right?"

"Um..Right." I replied, still staring, and I embarrassingly noticed I was still rubbing my head. My hand dropped to my side.

She raised her hand to shake ours, looking less shell shocked and more pleasant. "Sorry for waiting to introduce myself, your guy's method of...door getting.. Took me by suprise. I'm Jaden." She smiled kindly, displaying her rows of perfectly white teeth.

This womens entire being makes my self esteem drop. But she's sweet so you can't hate her. At least not yet.

Kendall broke through my thoughts, introducing us. "I'm Kendall, and this is Desi. Nice to meet-"

"Jaden!" Dad came to the foyer, giving her a hug. Annnnd a kiss.

Ohhhkayyyy.... I blinked. Yep. That was a kiss. That wasn't ending anytime soon.

"AHEM. LOOKS LIKE WE NEED TO EAT BEFORE THE FOOD GETS COLD."

I announced loudly. Spinning on my heel, I marched back to the dining room with Kendall in tow. Making sure Dad (nor the death angel) was in earshot, I looked at Kendall with my eyes wide, whisper screaming, "What the absolute fxck?!?!"

She threw her hands up. "Don't ask me. I'm as lost as a chicken in the KFC parking lot."

I snorted a laugh and grabbed my plate, setting it down on the table. Dad and Jaden walked in, sitting down. "Let's get started, shall we?" No one needed to tell me twice.

Jaden asked us about school, what things we like to do, about our backgrounds etc. And then, the real question comes.

"So," Jaden gracefully swiped her lip with a napkin (yes she even swipes napkins gracefully), "Do you guys have any boyfriends?" Her eyes twinkled as she spoke. Dad on the other hand grumbled quietly, shoving an entire taco in his mouth.

"Yes, I do have a boyfriend. His name is Denver." I smiled thinking of him. Pulling out my phone, I showed her pictures and added a few fun facts about him here and there.

"Ooh, he's a cute one." She nodded approvingly. "What do you think babe?" She turned to Dad.

"You don't want to know." He drank his coke with a dramatic slurp.

I rolled my eyes.

Jaden smiled knowingly and turned to Kendall. "What about you?"

Kenny blushed. "Um yes. His name's Lexington, or Lex for short. And he's 16, gonna be 17." She showed Jaden pictures.

We started to get finished up, taking our dishes to the dishwasher. Jaden was really nice and helped clear the table. I poked Dad and smiled, whispering, "Wifey."

He quietly chuckled. "I'm glad you like her."

We watched Riverdale til about 11, when Dad stood up at the end of the episode, shutting the TV off. "Time to go to bed." He kissed Kendall's forehead, then mine.

Jaden stood and smiled warmly, bidding us goodnight. We headed upstairs and parted ways, going to our respective rooms.

Once all was silent, obviously, I went to Kendall's room, going in and flopping on her bed. "So what did you think of her?"

Kendall immediately said "I like her. We could use an adult female in this house, couldn't we?"

I nodded. "And she could take us shopping, and do girly things with us, like getting our nails done. This doesn't sound so bad after all!" I started to get one idea after another.

Kenny fistbumped me. "Yasss. Now I'm going to shleep, I'm exausted."

I rolled my eyes jokingly. "Yeah, watching all those riverdale episodes get real tiring."

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