ELEMENT (Kendrick's Kids)

Avoiding You

The next morning -

Daniel -

After showering I wrapped the towel around my waist and grabbing my deodorant. Putting it on I grabbed my tooth brush and brushed my teeth. I slid into my flip flops and walked down the hall to my bedroom. I was getting dressed when My phone went off indicating that I had a text message.

Grabbing my phone off my night stand, I saw it was a missed call and text from Kreesha, this chick I had been seeing for a couple weeks.

We met one night at the tattoo parlor, her and her friends came in and they all wanted matching tattoos. We both flirted for a while and we held an interesting conversation while I was doing her tattoo.

After that I got her number. We started talking but shorty got mad crazy, she would blow my line up all day and get mad whenever I told her I was handling business.

I had planned on bringing her to the crib so she could meet Ma and Pops but, Ma had some interview and pops had a show, I told her we had to cancel and come by another day and she thought I was lying and buzzed out calling me all types of names and going crazy saying and  doing wild shit.

She came by the tattoo parlor and keyed my damn car and busted my windows, she along with other crazy women needed to stop listening to ma. The money I was setting aside to get my own place with, had to go and pull out for my damn car.

"We need to talk ASAP it's important," seeing the text I deleted it and made a mental note to get my number changed today.

I was glad my boss Ray was letting me move to another location downtown the last time I worked I made way more money and gained more customers, the boss over there enjoyed me and loved my work and he called Ray and set it up for me to leave if I wanted too. It was time for me to start fresh, everybody thinks I'm not thinking about my future but I am.

"Daddy! Daddy!" I heard my sister Kendra yell crying though the house rolling my eyes I shook my head. She was so damn spoiled whatever she wanted Pops let have her. Him and mama got into fights damn near every other day over Kendra.

I saw Keith walking pass and I called him name. "Yo wassup?" He asked me.

"You on your way to work?" I asked.

"Yeah,"

"Aye let's dip,"

"Iight bro give me a minute," Normally me and Keith would ride to work together and his girlfriend would bring him home. After grabbing my jacket and book bag I went downstairs. Ma had cooked a big breakfast, Pops and the triplets were sitting down eating, Jamir and Blue were upstairs still getting ready for school.

"Good morning Ma, Pops," I said as I started fixing my plate.

"Morning son," Mama said as she kissed my cheek.

"Morning son, you got a ticket," Pops said handing me my opened mail. I looked at ma and she turned her head. All she did was open every body shit. Another thing I was getting tired of.

I opened the letter seeing I had a $100 ticket. I sighed stuffing it in my bag. I sat down me and Kenneth dapped. "Sup bro,"

"Sup," he said back.

Keith, Jamir, and Blue came downstairs and they fixed their plates. We all sat together and ate and talked, afterwards everybody said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. After dropping Keith off at the library, I went to the shop.

I had two jobs this morning, one was a simple rose cover up, the other was a scripture with prayer hands. After my clients left, I had one nose piercing. I had just gotten finished when I saw Kreesha coming inside.