One Day At A Time

|chapter 7|

Hazel

After Demi left, Javier stayed over for a while to talk about everything that's been going on since we couldn't get in touch over these past couple of days, which is still kind of strange to me since we're always talking.

I don't know if it's because we're twins, siblings, or just how long we've been in each other's lives, but his stories are not adding up. Like at all. I kept addressing everything I felt the need to address, but he kept changing the subject as if he didn't even hear me asking about them. I truly feel as if somethin is wrong and it's makin me mad that he won't just talk to me about it. We don't keep secrets in our sibling circle so this is a new feeling for me and I don't know how to feel about it.

Me, of all people. The understanding one. I guess whatever it is, he truly doesn't want me to know, but trust me I'm not gonna let it go. I'm gonna get the truth out of him even if its the last thing he has to tell me.

Y'all probably think I'm overreacting, which I probably am, but I don't care. This is my brother, my twin, literally my other half so if somethin really is wrong with him and he's upset about somethin and not tellin me ima be upset t-

"Wassup ma." Ava walks in my room, interrupting me from my thoughts.

"Hey baby, how was your day."

"It was aight, nothin serious."

After standing on the bottom of the bed, she leans over and places a kiss on my cheek. Takin her booksack off and standing in the bed, she got ready to sling it off the bed but I stop her before she can do so.

"No ma'am."

"What?"

"Go put your stuff in your room."

"Alright." She put the strap back over her shoulder. "Oh yea I got a project too."

"On what?" I ask, turnin the volume down on the tv.

"It's a project about me."

"Let me see the paper."

She sits down, taking her booksack off again, and pulls her folder out. After flipping through the many papers in her folder, she finally takes it out and hands it to me so that I can read it for myself.

It said she had to do a project with all facts about her from her life. She has to have all her favorites and what she likes to do on there as well as pictures of her, but as I kept reading, I noticed they said she had to have it on a poster board.

"You got your poster?" I ask, lookin up at her.

"No."

"Why you ain't ask your daddy to bring you to the store when he went to go get you?"

She shrugs her shoulders as she takes out her blow pop and unwraps it. She's so unbothered by everything until its somethin she actually cares or wants to talk about.

"I wanted to go with you."

August soon walks into the room not too long after with his controller and lies across the bottom of the bed.