Their Journey.

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                                                                                          Khya

It was officially our 17th birthday and I couldn't be more excited. Another year wiser, our poppa would say. I got up and stretched, careful not to kick Khyler or Kameron. Since Khyra left early last night Khyler and Kyndall came in our room and watched movies. Kyndall slept in Khyra's bed with Faith and I woke up to these two in my bed. I went into our attached bathroom and did my morning routine. Once I was done I grabbed my phone and headed to the kitchen where I knew more would be. I seen Khyra sitting at the island so I walked up to her and side hugged her before mom came over and hugged us both. "Happy birthday my beautiful twins. I love you both sooooooo much and I never want you to give up on your dreams." We thanked her before she went back to making breakfast. She said after breakfast she was going to get the room and decorate and do some last minute pick up.  Khyler was going with her and Kyndall was going to the barbershop with Kameron and uncle Shawn. Me, Faith, and Khyra cleaned the kitchen before Khyra went to get her nail supplies. Since Kameron paid for her nails already all she had to do was design them. I wanted stiletto nails while she did coffin. They were going to be all white with a red trim and one nail stoned. We decided to just do a all white birthday dinner. Since our uncle Kareem wife was a photographer she was taking photos at our birthday weekend. Uncle Kareem didn't mind her being at the room with us since he said she needed a girls night and she was going to be with mom and our aunts. 

Once Khyra had finished my nails she moved on to faith nails. Faith wanted a french mani and since her natural nails were close to perfect it didn't take long. After our nails was done mom and Khyler was arriving back home. Mom told us that we would start getting ready because she wanted to take us somewhere. I knew we were probably stopping to go see daddy because like breakfast we made that a routine on all our birthdays. I put on some some high waist denim shorts with a white off the shoulder bodysuit with my clear jelly sandals. Khyra and mom were dressed similar in their strapless bodycon dresses but Khyra wore a white one and mom wore olive green. Faith had one a LOVE PINK short set and Khyler wore a denim romper. After I grabbed my phone we all headed to the car. 

We saw that we weren't going to daddy's grave site because mom said we were doing a lantern release at our grandparents house after dinner. We pulled up to what looked like a hair salon when mom told us she'd be right back. When she came back out she was with our uncle Shawn, our GG and our father's identical twin Anthony. We jumped out the car and ran to him. It's been years since we seen him. After our father was killed him and some of his friends rode out on the guys that did it. That's when they confessed that it was mistaken identity but not before our father bestfriend shot them all in the head. Unfortunately our uncle was charged. Since he had a good lawyer that said they had no evidence that our uncle was there he wasn't charge with life like our godfather Jeron was. Our uncle was only supposed to do 15 years but seeing now he only did 7. It was scary looking at someone who looked identical to our father. I know he was surprised to see us all grown up because the last time he seen us we were only 10. We stood there for a good ten minutes mom told us we had to go home to get ready and that we would see our uncle at the dinner. We were so excited that we talked about it the whole ride home. Mom dropped us off and told us to be almost ready when she came back. I went to take a quick shower in our room while Faith went to bathroom in the basement and Khyra went to the bathroom upstairs. I tried not to take to long because I didn't want my hair puffing up. Once I was done washing up I rinsed off and got out. I seen a box on the counter with my name on it. I took it to my room and went to my underwear drawer. I pulled out my undies that I was going to wear and went to my bed to lotion down. When I was done I went to open the gift and seen it was from Faith. We I opened it I seen the Pandora box and froze. I went ahead and opened it and seen a Pandora bracelet with 5 charms. One with the letter K, another with a cap, one with a butterfly, one with a pink flower, and the last was a custom charm with a picture of me, Faith, and Khyra. I was glad I didn't have my make up done yet because I would've cried it off. I slipped on my robe and went to find Faith when I saw her and Khyra coming down the hallway. I ran up to her and hugged her and then grabbed Khyra into the hug. I let them go and we all walked into the room. Kyrah had told me to get dressed while she did Faith's make up. I went to get my clothes out the closet and started getting dressed. When I was done I seen she was almost finished with Faith's make up. I sat on my bed and started responding to all the birthday texts when I seen I had another message request from JaMar asking me the time to meet. I replied and threw my phone on the bed while I went to sit at the vanity. 

It didn't take long for my make up to be finished because Khyra was quick with it. I got up and went to pack my overnight bag since I didn't do it the night before. Khyra told me about the Ethika set she was wearing so I grabbed mine and a NIKE shirt and some NIKE leggings. I grabbed everything else I needed when I heard cars honking outside. So I went to open the door when I seen 3  cars deep of our family. Mom pulled up shortly after so I told the girls to come on and we left out. Mom let us drive her car while she got in the car with her sisters and Marcia and JaMar's aunt. We followed them and the rest of the family to the restaurant. Kameron and Kyndall were riding with JaMar and his friend from the mall from what Kameron texted me.