Struggling to Survive

Chapter 14

Crystal

Nigel thought it'd be best if we stayed in his room until his father came home so I laid on his bed. I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw Linda had texted me.

Linda-  I don't care if you're 18 or 38. You do not leave my house without telling me where you're going. You're such an ungrateful child just like your mother. I want you out of my house in 2 weeks or I'm taking you to court.

Me- Linda idgaf I'll be out in two weeks sis don't worry. Now put your big girl wig on and leave me tf alone. I'll pay you for this months rent so don't stress me.

I threw my phone across the bed and sighed. Nigel went into Nyla's room to talk to her. I decided to get up and walk around. Nigel's room was pretty big. He had a king size bed, a big beautiful dresser with a mirror, and huge closet. In the corner of his closet he had like 20 hooks to hold all his chains and watches. I used to think I lived in a pretty nice size house but compared to this, my house was nothing.

I began to look at all the pictures on his dresser. He had a few with Trey. Some with his mom and sister. But it was mostly family portraits. I noticed that he had a few pictures of us hanging up and it made me smile. One of the pictures were from the beginning of freshman year and I cringed remembering those days.

Flashback
I walked into my last class of the day and couldn't wait to get it over with. High school was so annoying already I don't think I'm gonna make it. 
I sat in the back of the class and put my head down. I felt someone move near me, and thinking it was the teacher, I looked up.
There was this tall dark skin guy with braces and a faded high top on his head. He was checking me out and I gave him a stank look.

"Damn ma I just wanna be your friend. Don't gotta look at me like I stank." I began to laugh.
"My bad. I'm Crystal."
"I'm Nigel. I like ya name. You know it fits you. But I think imma call you Crys. Yea I like that better."
I began to chuckle."Okay and I think I'll call you Ni. I like that."
"You know we gonna be real good friends. Shit I might even make you wifey."
"Boy bye. I just met you. And I'm not getting married or having kids so you better find someone else."
"Aii. But can we take a picture so my dad thinks I got some girls today." I began to laugh and nodded my head. I could tell this boy was gonna be a handful.

Flashback Over

I felt hands wrap around my waist from behind me and a kiss on my cheek.  I turned around so that I was facing Nigel.
"Can you believe that's the first day we met. Damn you was rude."
"I wasn't rude I just wasn't with the BS. When you hang this up?"
"Well when I got a new phone I decided to print out some pictures so I could delete them off my iCloud. I decided to keep this because it was the first picture we ever took together. Come on my dad's downstairs."

I held his hand as I followed him downstairs. We walked into the kitchen where Nigel's dad was putting groceries away. He turned his attention on us when he noticed us walk in.

"Dad this is my..... this my -" Nigel looked over at me not knowing what to say.
"Hi. I'm his girlfriend Crystal. It's so nice to meet you Mr.Richards."

"Well hello Crystal. You can call me Don. It's wonderful to meet the girl who's stolen my son from home." He shook my hand and chuckled. Not gonna lie Don was pretty handsome so I see why he's such a player and where Nigel gets his looks from.

Nyla came into the kitchen and gave me a stank look. I just smiled back because I wasn't trying to make this worse.
"So dad. What are we doing on this family day that you've planned?"
"Well Nigel I thought it would be wonderful if I cooked dinner. I haven't cooked for you kids in forever and it's always nice to have a beautiful guest to eat with us. So Crystal how old are you?"
"Well actually I just turned 18 yesterday."
"Wow happy belated birthday. Consider this dinner my birthday gift to you.  So how long have you been seeing my son? Cause I feel like he's always at your house." We both chuckled.
"Well actually we've only been together for about a few weeks maybe almost a month. Before we were just really good friends and he was helping me through some hard times."