Making Ends Meet

Chapter 29

Since they didn't have much stuff to take to the new house, they only had to make two trips back and forth with the uhaul, the first trip they took all the big stuff, furniture and what not, and the second trip, they got every thing that didn't fit the first time. It was only about eight o'clock when they finished.

Xita stood in the middle of her room and she just wanted to cry. The walls were a plain white, she had brown carpet. Over the course of the two weeks that she was waiting to move, she had bought a few accessories to go in her room.

Her lamp had a a pink, green, blue and orange shade, and her curtains and bedspread were pink with brown swirls. It was plain, but so much more than what she was used to. She was used to not having anything because her and her brothers room were always too packed for anything. Now, she even had a dresser in her room.

Xita couldn't believe how much had changed in such a short period of time. She was feeling extremely blessed and extremely emotional. She was in a house. No shooting. No crackheads. No sleeping on the floor. Things were finally looking up. Even though she wasn't making as much money, she wasn't the only one bringing in money. Even her brothers had gotten summer jobs down the street from their new house at Sonic.

Walking over to her bed, she sat down and couldn't help but smiling at the fact, that her bed didn't sit on the floor, and she could actually sit in her bed. Hell, she could jump in it if she wanted to! Just as a giggle escaped her lips, her phone began playing, Elle Varner's Refill.

"Hello?" She spoke, grinning into the phone.

"What you doing?" Dalane asked.

"Nothing, just laid down, what you doing?"

"Wondering when you wanted me and my daddy to come pick you up," she answered, making Xita look at the clock.

"Let me grab a change of clothes, and I'll be ready in about twenty minutes," she said, already standing to her feet and walking over, shuffling hangers until she found what she wanted and threw the cllothes into her back pack along with her change of underwear.

In fifteen minutes, Dalane was knocking on Xita's front door. When Xita opened it, she was already ready to go, pulling her down the steps. Her dad was in the front seat of their all black 2009 Escalade.

"Hey Mr. Clemans," Xita said, sliding into the backseat and Dalane followed right behind her.

"Hello, Miss Reynolds," he nodded and gave a polite smile pulling away from the house.

When Xita got to their house, she wasn't surprised to see how big the house was. She was expecting a big ass house, but that didn't stop her from gawking at the two story house in front of her.

When she walked in Dalane's room though, she wasn't expecting a king sized bed with a beige clothed canopy and a load of pillows laying in her bed with a single pink teddy bear sat on the biggest pillow right in the middle.

She had a flat screen tv mounted up in the corner of her wall that was connected to an xbox, and a wii that sat on top of her dresser. She had so much space in her room, Xita imagined fitting four of her rooms in Dalane's single room.

"Close your mouth please, it's not that fascinating," Dalane rolled her eyes and went and got in her bed. Xita looked at her like she was crazy, but closed her mouth still looking around.

"I had no idea you were rich," Xita said in awe, before climbing in the bed and grabbing a pillow, a yawn already leaving her mouth.

"I am not rich, my mama and daddy is rich. I just make them look good when we go places, you know that angel of a preacher's daughter with the perfect family that's always so quiet and polite. So well mannered," Dalane huffed, sitting her teddy bear in her lap and rubbing on its ears as if it were her actual pet.