Keeping Up With Ajaya

New Beginnings

Hey you guys!! The names Tantyana but call me Tant instead. This is my first story on Wattpad so thank you and hope you enjoy it.

Keeping Up With Ajaya.
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"Nineteen years old and still live with her aunt? What a lame." Asia snickered with her two brainless ass friends. The three of them sat on the steps taking up space that's needed to get into the apartments. She knew I heard her because she watched me roll my eyes after her remarks before walking up to the steps.

"Get out my way bird brains," I spoke eyeing them as they remained seated. If it wasn't one thing with my aunt's apartment it was the many people (the majority who don't even reside here) who sit on these steps with no lives, and that goes to these morons as well.

"Or wha--" Jade started to say before I made an example out of her and grabbed her by her shirt, throwing her on the patchy grass nearby the steps. In utter shock, Jade began pouting as the other follower, Brandy, bounced up from her seat to cater Jade on the ground. Asia was already on her feet looking to me with anger on her face but she kept her distance. I entered the building and walked to my auntie's door and up the steps.

"This isn't over," Asia shouted before the main door shut.

The names Ajaya Davis but the people who I converse with call me Jay for short. I'm a college student who's currently staying with the closest thing I have to a mother, and that's my aunt. She's shaped me into being a wise hard-working woman who wants nothing more than to see me succeed.

My mother passed away from natural causes when I was ten years old. My father left us behind when I was eight years old. When he found out my mother had passed he tried to get full custody of me, didn't work out too well because my aunt proved to the state that if anyone were to take in her sister's child it should be her. She won that battle against my father and since then he hasn't popped up in the past years. At my age, he can honestly stay where he at now...shit I don't need him.

"I'm home." I made my appearance where my nose led me. Auntie was in the kitchen whipping up a full course meal for the family. Did I mention she has two other kids? Twin boy and girl, Amir and Amouri, fifteen years old but act like they're older than me.  I love them to death though, like the siblings I never had.

I gave my auntie a side hug as she managed a whipping bowl in one hand, a whisk in the other, with her cellphone, pressed to her ear using her shoulder.

"Hold on Tris-- Hey Boop! How were classes?"

"Good. Finals next week I can't wait to be done." I saw she had cheese out for the baked macaroni. A smile spread across my face. My favorite dish of all time.

"That's great I'm very proud. I guarantee your mother is smiling from above at your hard-working self. " I grew a slight smile from that because I just knew she was.

I left the kitchen afterward letting her finish up cooking. Plopping down on my twin-sized bed I laid there at peace. Until a twin barged in.

"So I heard you threw Jade off the porch, she deserved it." Amouri plopped on the bean bag chair that sat in the corner. I sat up to look at her. She scrolled through her phone as if giving me the scoop I already knew, since I am the one who did it, was enough to chill in my room.

"This was your excuse to enter my room? And how did you find out." She began by telling me how she was on her way entering the building when they were brushing the dirt off Jade's backside. Then mean mugged her for being my little cousin. But said she busts out laughing in return because it was hilarious. Then went on to say that Asia had a message for me saying 'I will get mines'. We both bust out laughing after that. We know Asia is not capable of stepping up to me by herself, and it has been like that for the longest.