"Dling Dling!!!!" My alarm had rang that morning as usual "not again". I stretched my hand to reach out for it while i turned to the other side of the bed to pickup my phone
"You don't give me a break, do you?" I'd said
"I'm tryna save your ass ... Its past 8 quen and mrs Dalson is so going to rip you off girl" I jerked out immediately
"Oh my God, I must have had too much to drink lastnight, I'm so dead " now I had my shoulder clinged to my phone as I rush my self into my jean
"You'd better get your ass down here"she said from the other end
" I'm tryna get dressed Emily and you ain't helping" I rushed out my room "you could have called long ago before now you know"
" you're not gonna blame me for your lazy ass and you'd better get down here as fast as you can ....bye" she ended the call .
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"Late again"a voice reached out to me from the other end
"you could have atleast woke me up" I said
"You're full grown and should take responsibility for your self qwen" she said as drank from her cup of wine
"Have been doing so, its not like you're ever here" I walked to the exist door
"Please be home tonight for dinner"she threw back at me
"Why is that, can't recall back ever since" now I was wondering what she needed me for
"There's someone I want you to meet quen...I just need you to be around, you could at least do this one favour"
"Yeah really " I turned to leave as I wasn't sure what to say
"Is that a yes then" she'd asked with a smile on her pretty winkled face
" I need you to not to go around with any expectations from me, secondly I'm not promising to be here at your soon to be lame dinner party" shut the door
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I'd rushed out from the taxi into the COFFCAFF coffee shop using the back door, hoping not to get caught as I changed into my uniform.
stood in front of the mirror as i turned to adjust my dress when Harry walked up to me
"Hello quen" he smiled while his eyes ran all over me.
"hi Harry, sorry I'm late today I...."
"Mrs Dalson searched all over for you, you could have lost your job" some how I wasn't surprise
"I got stucked ..... I could go see her now if she's still in" I said
"She's out already... I told her you went to pay up your cash "
"Oh thanks alot" I felt relieved
"I wanted to ask you something... Can I?" He asked
"Yeah sure" I leaned my back against the wall to listen up
"Are you on a date?"
"Uhmmm Yeah, Why is that ?" Now I was curious to know what he was trying to get at
"Oh nothing really, just that Emily won't stop saying " he turned to leave
"Guess we'd talk later then" I concluded immediately walking towards Emily who has been watching us from where she stood
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"What's with harry" I asked attending to a lady in front of me "thank you ma" I said to the customer
"I don't know, he keeps saving your ass lately" she smiled at me
"He really shouldn't stop ...he's been acting all weird you know, asking things about my personal life"
"I think he wants you to give a trial "
"You know my hate for black guys" I replied in detests
"How is it you destest your own skin colour quen. Its high time you start embracing who you are"
"brown sugar or white sugar mam"
"Brown please"
"Here you go mam"
"Thank you "
"I had a very hard time accepting me Emily and I'm not ready to go through that for someone else" I said to her
"Anyways ... There's a party down town tonight, I bet you don't wanna miss it" she tries changing the topic
" oh yeah , I heard so too...."
"Good morning sir "
"Good morning, I'd like to get two cups of black coffee over there"
"Okay sir , we'd attend to you shortly please " I said with a smile on my face
"Pick me up so we would leave together" Said Emily
"Yeah ....not sure I'd be attending the pary, my mum wants me over for dinner tonight" I said
"You guys are back together?" She asked
"Do we ever get along " I turned away picking up the tray of coffee, believing she'd get her answer from that
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My mum and i on the other hand never got along with each other, always out of town for some reasons and somehow this created distance between us.....My grand mum who was known as "Big Vee" would always come stay with me whenever she's never home and that was the year dad left home, I could remember too well that I was barely 10years old.
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عاطفيةQwennila bravah Lives in the southside Chicago with her single mum...and her step dad who she was having s*x with. She tries to open a new chapter of her love life by picking up her pieces, but then again things went all wrong as she made out with t...
