Roommates

Chapter 4

Ringing the last bit of items the customer I had in front of me had, I spotted Mia and her cousin Trey behind the family of four in front of me. Mia always seem to come to Walmart when I worked, she know she could get a discount on a few things is why.

"Here's your change, thanks for coming & have a great day!"

"Thanks sweetheart." what appears to be the dad in the family of four, said.

"Eriiiiin, hey bitchhhh!" Mia dragged her words.

"Hey honey!"I said with excitement while ringing her things up.

"You know my cousin Trey"

"yeah, hey trey."

"wassup" Trey replied with so much interest. "so you the one that needed a roommate?"

"yeaaah" I said with discouragement.

"hit my boy up, he go to NSU, he need a roommate you need a roommate, why not?" Trey had a New York accent, it was cute if you ask me. I believe Mia lived in New York for some time, but she wasn't from there.

"I might have to!"

"I'll let him know that you'll be hitting him up"

"alright" even though I didn't say I was going to hit him up, but whatever.

"What time you get off Erie?" Mia said.

"around 7."

"geesh girl, you work too much, it's a Saturday for crying out loud. come over my house later we--"

A lady in her forties from behind Mia & Trey sighed loudly looking at her wrist as if she had a watch on. We were talking a bit too much, holding up the line.

Mia snapped her head in the lady direction "Um, hold your shit! we're getting out your way in a few." Even though Mia was kind of boojie & prissy, she still turned up on anybody if she had to.

I never got into arguments & I didn't take confrontation too well, so when someone had a problem with me for whatever reason, Mia would step in and clear all the problems.

Mia handed me her money when I finished ringing up her items.

"aite girl, I'll see you later, call me when you get off" we said our goodbyes & I wondered what Mia was going to say before she was cut off. I'm just gonna go to her house after work anyway.

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Yas, I was finally off work.

Walking towards my car, I pull out my phone to text Mia and tell her I was on my way after I shower & put on clothes. All of a sudden, I hear two people arguing as I got closer to my car. Turns out, they were near a car beside mine. The car was a red impala with nice rims. They looked like a couple, I didn't hear exactly what they were arguing about but the volume of their voices lowered when I came. Mia texted me back.

Bad biddie sis.👭💅🎀

okay hun, just to let you know, Trey got a couple of his niggas here & they got drinks nshit.😜

Now I gotta get cute, I thought to myself.

I texted Quan asking if he wanted to come, he declined the offer, he said he wasn't feeling good.

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After showering, I put on one of my new outfits I got at the mall the other day: A boxy cropped striped shirt that had a little pocket on the upper right side of my chest, high waist vintage blue washed jeans, & my gladiator black sandals. I just wore my hair in a ponytail, I didn't feel like washing it. I still thought I looked cute though. I can't wait til my Brazilian 22' weave come in the mail.

Before I went to Mia's house, I decided to stop by Quan's house, well his sister house. Quan use to live with his mom during our high school days but moved with his sister because they didn't get along with eachother too well. Nobody answered so I jetted off to Mia's. When I got to Mia's house, I saw about 5 cars parked in her driveway. One car stood out, it looked familiar. It looked like the same car that was at Walmart, but I doubt it. Stepping into Mia's house, I saw more than just "a couple of Trey's niggas", I saw about three girls that looked like they were drunk sitting on the floor laughing about something, a few dudes on the couch smoking, & a few more dudes in the kitchen rolling dice, music was playing too. Rich Homie Quan was playing but I really didn't listen to which song was on. Walking through a cloud of smoke, I spotted Mia talking to some dude smiling. I decided not to cock-block & go in the kitchen to look for some food.

"wassup girl" Trey hugged me from behind while I was looking in the refrigerator. He smelled like liquor & he had a blunt in his hand. I can tell he was a lil too turnt for him to hug me like he did. Trey didn't know me like that, & I don't know him like that. I turned my nose up & said "hey trey."

"my boy with the room around here somewhere if you wanna meet him" he slurred his words.

"okay, cool, I'll probably run into him soon".

two seconds later, both Trey & I turned to face a tall guy, about 6'3, chocolate covered skin, with toned muscles. He wasn't muscular like some kind of body builder or someone who just got out of jail, he was just right. He had a nice taper look on the sides of his hairline while some came out just like the singer August Alsina. His hair was naturally coily/curly. He was so handsome & clean-looking. From the looks of how nicely he dressed, you'd think he was a drug dealer, but you can't judge a book by it's cover. It was only a few seconds later that I noticed he was the guy that I saw arguing with a girl, that appeared to be his girlfriend, in Walmart's parking lot.

"my nigga trey! wassup bruh." he spat out, giving Trey a dap. His nice southern accent made me quiver for some odd reason.

"how ya been son?" Trey replied in his New York accent. They literally talked for like a whole 5 minutes without noticing me there so I decided to run off to find Mia. Trey grabbed my arm pulling me back to where I was.

"aye, you know Mia, this ha friend Erin that need a roommate" I guess Trey called himself introducing me.

I was a little uncomfortable but I spoke shyly "Hey",

"wassup, so you goin' ta NSU too?"

"yeaaah, hopefully I'll be going considering the fact I haven't found a roommate yet"

"I mean, you more than welcome ta be my roommate since I need one, just lemme know"

"yeah...yeah, I'll let you know" I shook my head up & down. I tend to do that a lot when I'm talking. Trey's "nigga" slightly walked away.

"wait...I didn't get your name." I spoke loudly.

He licked his lips "my bad, it's Kj! Erin right?"

"yeah" I caught myself smirking for some reason.