1995

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August.
I sat in my bed watching Why Do Fools Fall In Love as I ate frozen grapes next to Theo as he was playing subway surfers on the iPad. I caressed his forehead as I played his his hair while my other hand was placed in the grape bag. I kissed him on his forehead as he looked up at me. "How do you feel about your baby sister?" He smiled showing his missing front teeth.

"I'll have to wait and meet her mommy, I can't say anything until I see." I smiled as he was an exact replica of Sandino. He was everything from his eyes to his wide feet like him. Sandino was at work. Work was his second wife, he was gone at lot but he turned his location on for me so I wouldn't be feeling like he's creeping especially since I came from a cheating relationship.

Me and Sandino got married when I was twenty three. I'm currently twenty nine and the only bad thing about him is his attitude which he barely ever shows. He was always a do right man. We actually been friends our entire life but me and a few of my friends thought Sandino was gay.. He always hung around us he played basketball though but when it came to gossip he was all for it.. He still is but only with me. I didn't know I was going to marry him, seriously. I mean he was the first person I told when I lost my virginity at seventeen and when I was seventeen I wanted absolutely nothing to do with him sexually he was a great friend and he always fought my ex boyfriends and every time I would ask him why he'll respond with: "I'll never let any man disrespect you even myself" and he still lives by that motto today.

Anyway, I wasn't interested in Sandino until after I came back from college. He attended Sacramento community college where he majored in sports management. He was no longer that skinny little boy I used to gossip with. I remember on my flight we were landing and my phone buzzed five times and it was from an unknown number. I texted back and it was him. I guess my mother gave him my number and he told me he had the entire day planned for me.

I came off that plane and I completely missed him. I was looking for that scrawny kid I knew and he was standing right in my face with straight teeth , clear skin and was 6'0 and caramel. I wasn't cold but my nipples got hard and I was excited. I wasn't dressed accordingly. I had on a crop top t-shirt and some sweats and my hair was tied back into a tight ponytail. He grabbed my strongly and held me as we hugged. He smelled good. He took my book bag off my back and wheeled my luggage to his car.

He drove a black Nissan and instructed for me to get into the car as he placed my things in his truck. As he drove I noticed we weren't headed home we were going towards the interstate. "Where are we going?" He shrugged his shoulders and laughed.

I woke up to his big brown eyes staring at me as we sat in the malls parking lot. He chucked and unbuckled my seat belt as it damn near slapped me in my face. "Sorry." He laughed. He got out and so did I. I usually took the lead when we were kids but he grabbed me by my small fingers and walked into the mall.

He copped me with Dior, Chanel and Fendi as we left with bags we both were carrying that were specifically for me. After that he treated me to dinner and every since then we've been tight.

Hazel.

I dressed in my most expensive mini dress from chanel and out on my nude heels. Today is September 29th and I'm twenty five today and i'm extremely blessed to make it here.

I kissed Xavier on the cheek as we both headed to our cars and drove off in different directions. Tonight Kennedy, Jude and I were going to the club for drinks and fun. Even though it was my birthday I didn't feel any different. Thankfully, I lived life lavishly and could afford it. Every since I came back home I've been on go. I've received many blessings including the friend group I have.

We drove all the way to the west side to go party we seen the line trailing around the block. I sucked my teeth as I struggled to find somewhere to park. "This is so lame y'all." I looked in the back and seen Kennedy already drinking something out of a whiskey bottle. "Yo I thought you was going to be the DD?" I said looking at her in the rear view. She shot me a bitch please face and kept chugging. I looked over to Jude as she rolled her eyes. "It's straight, I'll be the designated driver. I guess she wanna take the load off. This doesn't give her an excuse though she could have told us."