Plain sight

Graduation

Ja'Quan

After explaining everything that happened to Trey, the nurse came in and told me I could leave. I had a few stitches, but nothing serious.

"So what we gon' do now? Bust up in the trap and say we quit?" Trey asked a little frustrated. I guess he was a little angry because he didn't know where to start once we quit. But no one said he had to. If he wanna stay in the business then, by all means do you. But I'm leaving for good. Too many things be happening and I'm not willing to get into some stupid stuff and get my life involved. I need to settle the flip down.

"I mean, yeah." I shrugged.

"Then how we gon' make money?" He asked. This boy always worried bout some racks in his pockets. I rolled my eyes before responding.

"Get a regular job, a legal one." I answered.

"The pay not gon' be as good though." He mugged.

"If you wanna keep doing what we've been doing, do that. I'm not forcing anything upon you."

"Alright." He nodded. I nodded my head too as we pulled out of the hospital parking lot.

"I'm not working at McDonald's though."

This nigga.

"Let's hurry up and go home bro, we graduate tomorrow." I said, remembering that it was tomorrow.

"Forgot all about that." Trey shook his head.
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Mya

I woke up to some loud yelling and the smell of bacon. I picked up my phone to check the time and saw that it was 12 in the morning. I walked into the bathroom to do my hygiene thing and then walked downstairs to see a furious Arianna.

"What's up with you girl?" I asked. I know now probably wasn't a good time, but ya girl wasn't thinking that before the words came out. Before she could answer Armon came down the stairs.

"I'm going to go get yo lashes, calm down." He mugged her. This girl upset about some lashes.

"Really?" I chuckled and walked over to the pan of bacon.

"Good morning Miss. Bush." I smiled while greeting Arianna's mother.

"Morning babe. You excited?" She smiled. I nodded my head and proceeded to grab some pancakes and eggs, then poured myself a glass of orange juice. I sat my plate of food on the other side of the table across from Arianna so I could look her directly in her face. She just mugged me.

"Some lashes?" I smiled.

"I'm not about to go to my graduation looking like boo boo the fool. It's his fault he gotta go out to that store. He shouldn't have been pretending to wear them." She rolled her eyes. I laughed at the thought of Armon in lashes. I shook my head from the thought and started to eat.

After we finished eating, we started watching some Netflix to pass the time. I glanced at the clock and saw that it was 5. The graduation starts at 6:30.

"We have to start getting ready." I said. She nodded towards me and we both went to our rooms to shower. I played some music from my phone as I lathered up the soap and started washing my body. After that, I put on some lotion and sprayed some perfume. Then I sauntered down to Arianna's room so she could slay my face.

"Ready?" She asked, putting the finishing touches on her makeup.

"Yup." I replied. I don't like a lot of makeup on my face because I'm all for natural beauty and I feel like makeup masks who you really are when you do too much. So I just told Arianna to add a little bit of makeup. I'm not throwing shade towards the people who like to really beat their face though.