Their Journey.

S E V E N T E E N.

                                                                                     Khya

To say I was drained would be a understatement. If Faith can't do nothing she can shop. We went to different malls and I was tired. I don't think anymore bags would even fit but she insisted that we tried a few more stores. Khyler being the fashionista that she was loved every minute of it, she even helped Faith put most of her items together. We went to a strip mall that had a few boutiques and a few clothing stores. I knew she was going to want to hit all of them up. Once I found a parking spot we got out and I locked the door. Store after store we went in and she bought something. I grabbed a few items but it seemed like Faith was shopping for the whole year. She said she liked to have options. I didn't blame her because I still had clothes with the tags from months before. I planned on finding a girl at my school who was less fortunate and giving her and whoever else my old clothes. I didn't want to sell them because that wouldn't help much and giving them to the shelter, they would only keep the items for themselves. 

I seen we were in the plaza where Khyra worked and decided to go inside there and mess with her. I did need some new shoes. We all walked inside and went to the grade school section. I seen Khyra near the clothes so I walked up to her to try to scare her since she looked so focused. I slapped her on the butt and seen her look up quick with a mean mug until she seen it was me. "Twin stop playing so much because I almost went ghetto on you." I started laughing and told her we needed help. She followed me to where Faith and Khyler was and spoke to them before we told her what we needed. I told Khyler to pick out some shoes that she wanted and I would pay for them. She picked out a pair of pink and white Prestos' and we headed to the register. When we got up there the cashier looked at me in amazement. I was so used to getting this I wasn't even surprised. We made small conversation before Faith walked away trying to get one of Khyra's co-workers number. After I paid for my things I walked over to Faith and told her to go pay for her stuff because I was ready. I then walked back to where Khyra was and asked if she needed me to come back and pick her up. "Girl yes because I got some tea for you. I mean scorchingggg baby. And you can't tell nobody." She held her pinky out and we did the pinky promise before we heard somebody awing behind us. I turned around and seen a guy who looked to be in his 20s. "Twin this is my manager, Caleb, this is my twin sister of course, Khya." I spoke to him before he tried to offer me a job. I told him I would have to think about it even though I probably wasn't going to. My focus was going to be on school and being president but I would still apply just in case. 

After we were done in the store I went to drop Faith off before calling to see where mom was. Once she said she was still at the office getting ready to leave I decided to go meet up with her so we could grab some food. I didn't really eat anything earlier besides some Taco Bell and that was just to pass me by. I wanted some real food. Me and Khyler made jokes about how people acted when they seen me and Khyra together and she said that people would always ask her how it felt having twins for sisters. After a while we were pulling up to a Friday's that was close to our house. I could've went for some soul food but since mom said she didn't want to drive downtown we settled for here. We got out the car before entering the restaurant and I texted mom and let her know we were here. She responded that she was pulling up. 

Once at the table we made small conversation about our day before mom leaned in and got our attention. "I wanted to have this conversation with all of you but I didn't know when but anyways.......I'm leaving Mickey soon. I started transferring money out of my account into a account made for you all. I won't go into much detail about anything else until I have you all together. It may be a couple months to get everything together but I just wanted y'all to know that it'll be over soon. I won't file divorce until I leave." I was honestly shocked to hear mom say that especially in front of Khyler. We ate, talked, and laughed, until it was time to go. I followed mom home and dropped Khyler off before I went back to go pick up Khyra. I was anxious to hear what she had to tell me because she always had the juicy gossip. I parked in the parking spot that was near the front and told her I was here. 10 minutes later she was walking out with a smirk. I knew this had to be good because it looked like she couldn't wait to share. I unlocked the doors and she climbed in. I waited until she was situated before I pulled off the road and headed home. Although I was driving, out the corner of my eye I could see her shift her body towards me a little. "So earlier after dropping mom's food off, I went home and grabbed my stuff for work. I was trying to see who house I was going to take a shower at since Mickey was home and I didn't want to be bothered with him so after thinking for a few minutes JaMar suggested I come to his house since his auntie nem was gone so I went with it because time was already ticking." I was hoping she didn't give it up to him that fast but if she did I wouldn't judge. 

"So anyways we goes to his room and I went to lay down. This nigga slapped my phone out my phone so I got up and slapped the back of his neck. So we started play fighting, I got tired so I stopped but this nigga keep playing so I kicked him out the bed and laid on my stomach. So he got up and laid on me but turned on his back so I was now on him. I can't even lie and say I wasn't feeling some type of way so we laid there for a minute before I decided it was time to get ready so I goes in the bathroom so after like 20 minutes in there I gets out but my stuff is gone. I started calling his name but he didn't come so I had no choice but to get out. I goes in the room and he sitting on the bed like nothing happened smiling in his phone. So I started going off on his ugly ass. I  was so mad I was pacing and then when I look at this nigga he staring at me with his dick on hard. Girl I wanted to beat his ass and he over there getting turned on so to tease him I threw my clothes on the floor and bent over to pick it up. I basically put a show on for him since he wanted to be childish. Then put my sexy walk on walking out. He been stuck since." I couldn't help but laugh because I knew right then and there Khyra was letting her guard down. 

"You feeling him sis. Bestfriend my ass." She rolled her eyes at me before telling me about the conversation they had at breakfast earlier. "Speaking of conversations, mom wants to have one with all of us. I can't say what because she told me not to but it's good news." "Only good news I wanna hear is that she's leaving Mickey ass." I didn't say anything and she gasped. "Sis are you serious? Like forreal?" I told her what mom had told me and Khyler and told her it had to be serious if she discussed it in front of Khyler. I then went on to tell her about Raheem asking for another date and how he asked me to be his girlfriend. I think he's moving too fast but she said when I felt the time was right it would be.