Their Journey.

T H I R T E E N.

                                                                                 Khya

Once we left Denny's I went to go drop my cousins off. I was honestly wore out but I decided I was going to go home and spend time with ny siblings. Mickey was coming home Tuesday so we had one more day of Kameron being over and we all wanted to make the best of it. On the way home mom texted and asked if I could stop by the grocery store and grab some things for dinner. She had already went but since she was rushing she forgot sone things. I decided to go to Krogers since it was close to our house. I arrived and searched for a parking spot when I seen someone pulling out somewhat near the front. I parked and shut the car off before checking my appearance because you never know who you'll see. Since it was still hot out I decided to leave my jacket in the car. I grabbed my purse and phone before getting out and locking the doors. Once inside I hurried around making sure to grab everything she would need and grab some snacks for me to munch on since I knew dinner wasn't going to be finished for a while. Heading to the register I bumped in JaMar's friend. I didn't want to stop and talk because honestly I was tired and the last thing I wanted was to hold conversation.
"So you weren't going to speak? I thought we had fun yesterday." I mentally rolled my eyes because I just wanted him to walk away. "Sorry I'm kind of in a rush. And yes we ALL had fun yesterday. Thanks for coming I guess." He still didn't get the memo because he came in line behind me and was still trying to make conversation. "Look I'm not trying to irritate you but I think we should hang out. I know Mar is hanging with your sister Wednesday and wanted to know if you wanted to grab some food." To get him to stop talking I agreed and gave him my number before I paid and grabbed my things. Once I got everything inside I made the short drive home. It was weird having my own car because usually I was used yo driving mom's car. I parked beside mom's car and got out to grab the bags. Kyndall was sitting on the porch with JaMar's two little cousins so I called them over to carry them. I made sure to carry my bags before we all walked inside and while they went to the kitchen I went to my room. I placed my bag from the weekend near my dirty clothes basket and sat my bag on the bed before I went into the kitchen to greet my mom. "Hey baby, thanks for grabbing the stuff. I was in such a rush to be that after church traffic." I laughed and asked her if she needed help, after assuring she didn't I went back into my rokm to relax. I was bored and tired so I turned my tv on and went to Netflix. I put on a movie and would watch it until I hopefully dozed off. Since it was already 4pm I set my alarm to 6pm and texted a few people until I dozed off.

I heard my alarm go off for what felt like the 5th time and decided to get up now. I knew Khyra would be on her way home and I wanted to hear about her first day. I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth and then went into the kitchen to sneak a bite while mom was gone. When I was halfway near I heard her laughing and paused for a quick second. "Isn't Khyra supposed to be off? How is she getting home?" She looked at me before turning back to the food, "Since you were sleep and I was cooking, I asked JaMar to do it since he was over playing the game with Kam. Plus she needs to bond with him." My mom wanted Khyra and JaMar to be an item so bad so I just kept my mouth closed.
"Is dinner almost ready? I'm starving." I decided I was going to save my snacks for tonight when I had the midnight munchies. She let me know it wad almost ready so instead of waiting in the kitchen teasing myself, I grabbed a poptart and went to sit on the porch. It was still nice outside so I didn't need any extra clothes. I was on my phone texting Faith about her coming to our school when my phone began to rang with an unknown number. I declined and figured they would leave a message if it was important. Soon after they hung up I received a message telling me to answer my phone before we fight. I was really confused on who this was. So when they called back I answered but didn't say anything.
"Hello.......I know you on the line. Stop playing." I recognized JaMar's friend voice.
"Boy, I usually don't answer unknown numbers."
"Lock me in then. What you doing?"
"Nothing sitting on the porch. You?"
"Tryna come see you." I rolled my eyes because this boy was moving entirely too fast. I didn't know him well enough to just be chilling with him but before I could say no he cut me off and said it's okay if I don't want him to.
"No it's cool. Don't try nothing either because this aint that." And with that I hung up. I figured why not. I was bored and clearly dinner wasn't going to be ready plus we had a house full if he wanted to try anything. I seen Khyra's car pulling up and they parked behind my car. She stepped out laughing and holding a bag in her hand. JaMar waved then went across the street.
"Hey sissy. What you doing out here?"
"Mom is still cooking and I was too hungry to sit there with the smell so I came to get fresh air." She nodded before she said she would be back out after she freshened up. I went back to texting Faith when I seen a car pull up across the street. I looked down until I heard steps coming closer on our stide. I looked up and say JaMar's friend. I have to get his name lol.
"Hey girlfriend." He greeted me with the biggest smile on his face.
"Boy my name is Khya not girlfriend. I'm single so nobody should be calling me that."
"For now I will call you Khya, 3 weeks and you'll be girlfriend." He was full of it but I let him have his moment.
"What's your name? I never asked."
He looked at me like he was offended.
"My own future girlfriend don't know my name. It's Raheem. But my people's call me Ra." I nodded and told him he could sit down. JaMar had came back outside and walked over and came on the porch.
"Whatsup my dawg."
"Chilling. Tryna get to know my future girlfriend." They both laughed when he said that and I mentally rolled my eyes. My mom had came out to tell me dinner was ready when she spoke to the boys before telling Raheem he could stay for dinner as well.

Mom told us to go wash our hands. I went to my room bathroom while JaMar and Raheem went to the half bath. Once I dried my hands I walked back to the kitchen and seen everyone was already making their plates. Mom had cooked roast, macaroni, corn on the cob and cornbread, along with a lemon pound cake. I was ready to eat and didn't care that Raheem or JaMar was there. I was going to pig out. We all went into the dining room. The dining set that we had consisted of 3 regular chairs and a sectional bench. Since mom was such a people person when she first moved here she was always having a get together or inviting family members over for dinner. I decided to sit in the middle of the sectional since mom, Khyler, and Kameron had gotten the regular chairs. Kyndall had sat on one side of me and Raheem sat on the other.

We began to make small talk when Khyler started to talk about school. Over the summer a family moved in the house a few doors down and one of the girls that was Khyler's age was starting school with her. It wasn't many girls on our block that was her age so she was excited to have a new friend. I was happy for her. I think all of us deserved to be happy especially mom. After dinner mom sent us all out in the back while she cleaned. We offered to help but she told us no so we went ahead and went to the back. We all decided to just have a game night since it was going to be the last night of us all in the same house while Mickey was gone. After 3 hours we finally decided to call it a night. I was honestly tired but I would never admit that to them and have them cracking more jokes on me. After I said bye to JaMar and hugged Raheem bye I went to my room and got my things together to take a shower.