Nina Mandi was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She leaves home to move to college in California with her best friend Kani. Nina is going to college to study cosmetology as well as veterinarian sciences. The day Nina arrives to where she will be...
Attention Passengers, we will reach Los Angeles in 30 minutes.
Kani and I looked at each other in our seats. We smiled as big as we could. We're in Cali.
It was about 6:30, but it was still daylight out.
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Attention, passengers, we have safely landed in Los Angeles Airport. Please clean your seats and proceed to take all of your belongings. Exit in a calm manner. Thank you and enjoy your stay.
Kani and I grabbed our stuff and headed to the plane exit. As we left, the brisk wind hit us and flew through our hair. We felt contentment. I looked around and smelled the California air. We then walked into the airport to get the rest of our bags. Afterwards we decided to get a bite before we went to our dormitory.
"Hi, can I have a roasted tomato and mozzarella panini , and just a bottle of watter?" I asked the cashier at the Starbucks.
"And I'll have a zesty chicken black bean salad, with a sweet tea," Kani said next to me.
"Alrighty, that will be a total of $17.84." the cashier said. I went into my bag to grab my purse and Kani grabbed my hand.
"Let me pay Ni," she said.
"it's fine girl, I got this. Just pay next time." I responded. She agreed and let me pay. I handed the cashier a 20 and she gave me my change back.
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Kani and I sat down at a nearby table and ate our food. It was 6:45.
"Are you ready to see all the sexy pieces when we get there?" she said to me. I chuckled with a bite of my panini in my mouth. Kani was a wild card. A very wild card. She had men on her mind pretty much every second of the day. She's had been in more relationships and scandals than I have bones in my body; crazy right?
"I should be asking you that K." I looked at her. She scoffed and giggled.
'Oh, shut up. C'mon let's hurry up so we can call a cab and leave. I just wanna get there. I'm so excited."
We finished our stuff and left.
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As we sat in our cab, we looked out our windows at the beautiful scenery California offered. The palm trees, the sunset, the musicians and entertainments on the sidewalks, the stores, the everything. It was utterly beautiful. I couldn't wait to start a life here. I want to make it big here. To make mama proud. To make papa proud too; as he looked down on me. I'm doing all of this for him.
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Kani grabbed my hand. I looked at her. She smiled at me, and I at her. We then looked back out the window, still holding our hands.
About 10 minutes later, we arrived. University of California, Los Angeles; UCLA. We could already see students chilling around, walking and cruising. Our cab stopped and Kani and I got out. We grabbed our bags and headed to the entrance to register ourselves in and receive our rooms. Kani did all the talking for us, I just looked around. The art on the walls, the music, the furniture, the smell, it was all beautiful. I looked around again when my eyes came in contact with a fine tan man. He had a beard and curly hair. He had on sunglasses but I could still see his eyes looking into mine. He licked his felt as though we were looking at each other forever, so I quickly looked back at the lady at the front desk who Kani was talking to. Whoever that man was he was fine.
